cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sonant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sōnʹənt
ipa: /ˈsoʊ̯n.ənt/
rhymes: -əʊnənt
Forms: form: sonants
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sonāns, sonantis.
Senses: examples: Indo-Germanic sonants and consonants
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: surd
glosses: A voiced speech sound.
sop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒp/
ipa: /sɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: sops
form: sopping
form: sopped
form: sopped
Etymology: From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.
Senses: examples: text: A messe of milke sopt with white bread.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 29:
text: When I die, don't bury me deep, / Put a jug of 'lasses at my feet, / And a piece of corn bread in my hand, / Gwine to sop my way to the promised land.
ref: 1928, Newman Ivey White, American Negro Folk-Songs, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, page 227:
text: So again let me say that sopping bread into gravy can be done properly merely by putting a piece down on the gravy and then soaking it with the help of a knife and fork as though it were any other food. But taking a soft piece of bread and pushing it under the sauce with your fingers, submerging them as well as the bread, or even wiping the plate with it would be very bad manners indeed.
ref: 1945 December 27, Emily Post, “Sopping Bread May Be Done”, in The Spokesman-Review:
glosses: To steep or dip in any liquid.
glosses: To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
Derived terms: sop up
sop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒp/
ipa: /sɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: sops
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Clipping of soprano.
Related terms: sop kambing
sora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soras
Etymology: Early 19th-century sources observe that this term was in use in Virginia; presumably it is from an Indigenous American language of that area.
Senses: glosses: A rail (Porzana carolina) bird of North, Central, and northern South America.
sorb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔːb/
ipa: /sɔɹb/
ipa: /soːb/
Forms: form: sorbs
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.
Senses: glosses: The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
glosses: Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
glosses: The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.
Derived terms: sorb apple
sorbite
sorbitol
sorb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔːb/
ipa: /sɔɹb/
ipa: /soːb/
Forms: form: sorbs
form: sorbing
form: sorbed
form: sorbed
Etymology: Back-formation from absorb and adsorb; ultimately from Latin sorbeō.
Senses: examples: text: 1971, E. K. Duursma, M. G. Gross, Chapter Six: Marine Sediments and Radioactivity, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Oceanography Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment, Radioactivity in the marine environment, page 148,
In sediments with large cation exchange capacities, as calculated from the mineral composition (Duursma and Eisma, unpublished), the radionuclides were somewhat more strongly sorbed (Figure 2).
text: The exchange of pesticide compounds between aqueous solution and the sorbed phase in soils is not instantaneous.
ref: 2005, J. E. Barbash, “The Geochemistry of Pesticides”, in Barbara Sherwood Lollar, editor, Treatise on Geochemistry 9: Environmental Geochemistry, Second Edition, page 548:
text: The quantity sorbed is often found to be well represented by the combination of a compartment exhibiting linear, reversible sorption and a compartment that exhibits nonlinear and thermodynamic irreversib[l]e sorption.
ref: 2007, Danny D. Reible, “Chapter 21: Contaminant Processes in Sediments”, in Marcelo H. García, editor, Sedimentation Engineering: Processes, Management, Modeling, and Practice, page 966:
text: As contaminated water or air flows through GAC, contaminants sorb (stick) to the GAC surface and are removed. […] It also sorbs low levels of some types of metals. […] The “spent” GAC may be replaced with fresh GAC or regenerated to remove the sorbed contaminants.
ref: 2021, “Community Guide to Granular Activated Carbon Treatment”, in United States Environmental Protection Agency, page 1, columns 1, 2:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To absorb or adsorb.
Derived terms: biosorb
desorb
presorb
sorbability
sorbable
sorbed phase
Related terms: absorb
absorption
adsorb
adsorption
sorption
sou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suː/
homophone: sue
Forms: form: sous
Etymology: Borrowed from French sou. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, solidus, and xu.
Senses: examples: text: He is grey, flat-footed and withered, with long, brittle nails that set your nerves on edge while he scrapes up your two sous.
ref: 1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 73:
glosses: An old French copper coin equal to one twentieth of a livre or twelve deniers; one sou is to the livre as one shilling is to the pound.
glosses: Cent; pocket money.
examples: text: I do not care a sou for your excuses.
glosses: A thing of the smallest value; a whit; a jot.
sough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊ/
ipa: /sʌf/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: sow (noun, with /aʊ/)
Forms: form: soughs
form: soughing
form: soughed
form: soughed
Etymology: From Middle English *sough, swough, swogh, from Middle English swoȝen, swowen, from Old English swōgan (“to make a sound; move with noise; rush; roar”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōgan, from Proto-Germanic *swōganą from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-, same source as English echo (via Ancient Greek). Cognate with Scots souch (“sough”), Icelandic súgur (“a rushing sound, rustle”). Noun replaced Middle English swei, sweȝ from Old English swēg. More at swoon.
Senses: examples: text: I lay awake for a while that evening, listening to the soughing of the wind high in the pines, realizing sadly that we must now return to civilization.
ref: 1963, Sterling North, Rascal, Avon Books, page 101:
glosses: To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound.
Synonyms: word: breathe
word: moan
word: murmur
word: purl
word: rustle
word: sigh
word: susurrate
word: sough
word: swish
word: swough
word: whisper
word: whoosh
Hypernyms: word: blow
word: make sound
Related terms: word: babble
word: buzz
word: drone
word: hum
word: purr
word: whine
word: whirr
word: whistle
word: whizz
sough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊ/
ipa: /sʌf/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: sow (noun, with /aʊ/)
Forms: form: soughs
Etymology: From Middle English *sough, swough, swogh, from Middle English swoȝen, swowen, from Old English swōgan (“to make a sound; move with noise; rush; roar”), from Proto-West Germanic *swōgan, from Proto-Germanic *swōganą from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-, same source as English echo (via Ancient Greek). Cognate with Scots souch (“sough”), Icelandic súgur (“a rushing sound, rustle”). Noun replaced Middle English swei, sweȝ from Old English swēg. More at swoon.
Senses: examples: text: [...] Arthur; a fearful night it was: there was a sough in the air, a sound drawing nigh like that of a host marching:- — but you're looking pale and forwrought, man; is any thing ailing ye?
ref: 1829, John Carne, Stratton Hill: A Tale of the Civil Wars, volume 1, page 131:
text: The whispering leaves or solemn sough of the forest.
ref: 1838, William Howitt, The Rural Life of England:
text: Syenite hears the distant sough of waves rolling against rocks, somewhere below the slope on which they lie.
ref: 2015, N. K. Jemisin, chapter 16, in The Fifth Season:
glosses: A murmuring sound; rushing, rustling, or whistling sound.
glosses: A gentle breeze; a waft; a breath.
glosses: A (deep) sigh.
glosses: A vague rumour.
glosses: A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying.
Derived terms: death-sough
Related terms: swow
susurrus
sough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊ/
ipa: /sʌf/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: sow (noun, with /aʊ/)
rhymes: -ʌf
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: sow (noun, with /aʊ/)
ipa: /saʊ/
ipa: /sʌf/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: sow (noun, with /aʊ/)
Forms: form: soughs
Etymology: From Middle English sough (whence also Scots sheuch (“ditch”)), from Old English *sōh, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīk (“watercourse”); compare dialectal Dutch zoeg (“ditch”), and English sitch.
Senses: glosses: A small drain; an adit.
sough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saʊ/
ipa: /sʌf/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: sow (noun, with /aʊ/)
rhymes: -ʌf
rhymes: -aʊ
homophone: sow (noun, with /aʊ/)
ipa: /saʊ/
ipa: /sʌf/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: sow (noun, with /aʊ/)
Forms: form: soughs
form: soughing
form: soughed
form: soughed
Etymology: From Middle English sough (whence also Scots sheuch (“ditch”)), from Old English *sōh, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *sīk (“watercourse”); compare dialectal Dutch zoeg (“ditch”), and English sitch.
Senses: glosses: To drain.
Synonyms: word: breathe
word: moan
word: murmur
word: purl
word: rustle
word: sigh
word: susurrate
word: sough
word: swish
word: swough
word: whisper
word: whoosh
Hypernyms: word: blow
word: make sound
Derived terms: soughing-tile
Related terms: word: babble
word: buzz
word: drone
word: hum
word: purr
word: whine
word: whirr
word: whistle
word: whizz
souled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more souled
form: most souled
Etymology: From soul + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Furnished with a soul
glosses: Possessing soul and feeling.
Derived terms: full-souled
large-souled
narrow-souled
whole-souled
souled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From soul + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soul
soy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: soys
form: soya
Etymology: Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油 /酱油obor.
Japanese 醤油
Japanese そやbor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
1670s; borrowed from Dutch soja, from Satsuma Japanese 醤油 (そい, soi), variant of the standard Japanese 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu). Doublet of shoyu.
Senses: examples: text: I like a little soy with my rice.
text: Pour in four tablespoonfuls of sherry and four tablespoonfuls of soy, as much vinegar as the jar will hold, and cover closely until wanted.
ref: 1902, Annie R. Gregory, Woman's Favorite Cookbook, page 381:
synonyms: word: soy sauce
glosses: A common East Asian liquid sauce, made by subjecting boiled beans to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
examples: text: These candles are made from soy.
text: The soy crop is looking good this year.
text: This diet doesn't let me eat soy.
glosses: Soybeans, or the protein derived from them.
Derived terms: soy banter
soy bean
soy boy
soyburger
soycheese
soycuck
soy face
soyfood
soyhull
soyjak
soylent
soymeal
soymeat
soy milk
soy nut
soysage
soy sauce
soy yogurt
trypticase soy agar
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: khao soy
soy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: more soy
form: soyer
form: most soy
form: soyest
Etymology: Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油 /酱油obor.
Japanese 醤油
Japanese そやbor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
1670s; borrowed from Dutch soja, from Satsuma Japanese 醤油 (そい, soi), variant of the standard Japanese 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu). Doublet of shoyu.
Senses: examples: text: This whole drama is the soyest thing I've ever seen.
text: His voice sounded kinda soy-ish but damn he has a god-like jawline.
ref: 2021 February 5, u/GameBoy09, “Daily Dose does a face reveal on Dr. K”, in Reddit, r/LivestreamFail, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023:
text: Happy Monday to everyone except those who support vax mandates, aka soy people.
ref: 2021 August 16, @HodlingCarla, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023:
text: I read this while drinking a Soylent protein shake for breakfast and I couldn't help but think to myself, mid sip, that this tweet really is the absolute soyest thing I have ever seen or consumed in any form in my entire life.
ref: 2022 April 14, @EverydayWarren, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: It's always hard to tell if it's the reality or if you're just misremembering, but yeah to me it feels like the quality has gone down since the red-pill arc for sure. Both in terms of the quality of some of the comments and the number of reactionary style right-leaning/centristy comments/posts. Plus people are generally more concerned with not appearing soy than anything else.
ref: 2023 January 28, u/TabNone, “Is anybody else both happy for Destiny's rising success, but also sad about what it's doing to the quality of the DGG community?”, in Reddit, r/Destiny, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023:
text: Even Reddit, the most soy place on the internet, is giving up on female Space Marines ever happening.
ref: 2023 February 7, @HMBohemond, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023:
text: Noah Samson is just Hasan but even soyer (idk how that's even possible)
ref: 2023 June 6, u/potatoloafer, “New Noah Samson redpill shorts content features Destiny briefly and actually misses the point entirely”, in Reddit, r/Destiny, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: threads soy asf ngl
ref: 2023 July 5, @blvckledge, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2023:
text: "I want a bad bitch bpd art hoe to RUIN MY LIFE" typed by the soyest man alive
ref: 2023 July 7, u/rpthrowah, “1/4 of the posts here are 18-25 year olds with hot takes about life experiences they've never had”, in Reddit, r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: Seething about beer and football is objectively far soyer than enjoying yourself like a normal person. If they stop following their team they're not going to automatically manifest as the Anglo Atatürk, they're just going to waste their time some other way
ref: 2024 April 22, @bharattaxoffice, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
glosses: Characteristic of a soy boy; weak, unmasculine, etc.
soy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: soys
form: soying
form: soyed
form: soyed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油 /酱油obor.
Japanese 醤油
Japanese そやbor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
1670s; borrowed from Dutch soja, from Satsuma Japanese 醤油 (そい, soi), variant of the standard Japanese 醤油 (しょうゆ, shōyu). Doublet of shoyu.
Senses: examples: text: Soying over a video game.
ref: 2021 May 24, u/Cro_Core, “I'm so fucking disappointed”, in Reddit, r/DotA2, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023:
text: Oh I know the geeks are soying about their made up little war
ref: 2022 September 21, @NeoWokio, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023:
text: I'm soying so badly frfr
ref: 2022 November 5, @doejens, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023:
text: This guy makes surface level, boring videos for baby leftists to soy over. ¶ Zero depth
ref: 2023 July 2, @Kulesh0vEffect, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023:
text: I make women cum by soying over this tedious cringey wine-mom humor movie
ref: 2023 July 26, u/notsofucked7, “No wonder conservatives hate it lol , it's coo bro, your girl already in my dms.”, in Reddit, r/VaushV, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2023:
glosses: Synonym of soy out (“to act in the manner of a soy boy”).
synonyms: word: soy out
extra: to act in the manner of a soy boy
soy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Etymology: Borrowed from French soie (“silk”), soye, from Middle French soye, from Old French soie, earlier seie, from Latin sēta, saeta, from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ito-, *sh₂éyto-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”). Doublet of seta.
Senses: examples: text: GILDEROY was a bonnie boy, / Had roſes tull his ſhoone, / His ſtockings were of ſilken ſoy, / Wi' garters hanging doune: […]
ref: 1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “Gilderoy”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book III, page 300:
text: Our tents are spread with gossamer thread, / More delicate far than silken soy.
ref: 1840, Walter Prideaux, Poems of Chivalry, Faery, and the Olden Time, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 126:
text: Now two and two the host comes by; / And first the pikemen, stout and slow; / Next, under pennons flaunting high, / Barons in cloaks of silken soy / And caps of velvet go.
ref: 1850 April, “The Cymbalier's Bride”, in Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, volume VI, number 4, Philadelphia, P.A.: John Sartain & Co., →OCLC, page 267, column 2:
glosses: Silk.
spader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪdɚ/
rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: spaders
Etymology: From spade + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.
spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɑː/
ipa: /spɑɹ/
ipa: [spɑɹ]
ipa: [spɑ˞]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
homophone: spa (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: spars
Etymology: From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.
Senses: glosses: A rafter of a roof.
glosses: A thick pole or piece of wood.
examples: text: The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
Derived terms: monkey spar
short spar
spar buoy
spar deck
spar torpedo
spar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɑː/
ipa: /spɑɹ/
ipa: [spɑɹ]
ipa: [spɑ˞]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
homophone: spa (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: spars
form: sparring
form: sparred
form: sparred
Etymology: From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.
Senses: examples: text: The church dores were sparred,
Fast boltyd and barryd,
Yet wyth a prety gyn
I fortuned to come in, […]
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 91–94:
glosses: To bolt, bar.
glosses: To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
Derived terms: oversparred
undersparred
spar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɑː/
ipa: /spɑɹ/
ipa: [spɑɹ]
ipa: [spɑ˞]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
homophone: spa (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: spars
form: sparring
form: sparred
form: sparred
Etymology: From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrast (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”). The slang sense of friend is probably from the phrase sparring partner under the influence of the similar slang words par and star.
Senses: examples: text: After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
glosses: To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
glosses: To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
glosses: To contest in words; to wrangle.
spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɑː/
ipa: /spɑɹ/
ipa: [spɑɹ]
ipa: [spɑ˞]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
homophone: spa (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: spars
Etymology: From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrast (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”). The slang sense of friend is probably from the phrase sparring partner under the influence of the similar slang words par and star.
Senses: glosses: A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
examples: text: KLASHNEKOFF: I take two glass then pass the spliff to my spars.
ref: 2002, “No Escape” (track 23), in It's All Happening Now, performed by Lewis Parker (musician), Klashnekoff, and Skriblah Dan Gogh:
text: 'Ello clart! How are you doin' spar? Let's have a look at your mobile phone there, that's fuckin' posh, innit?[…]that's fuckin' safe, spar!
ref: 2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto, performed by Goldie Looking Chain:
text: I don't care if you got friends in your car. Light up your whip and all of your spars.
ref: 2009 March 17, “Next Hype” (track 3), in All-Star Pars, performed by Tempa T:
text: Trying to explain to my spars how it is over a spliff. Arguing, cause the media got 'em locked under their lids.
ref: 2014 September 12, “September 12th”performed by S.Kalibre:
glosses: A friend, a mate, a pal.
spar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɑː/
ipa: /spɑɹ/
ipa: [spɑɹ]
ipa: [spɑ˞]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
homophone: spa (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: spars
Etymology: From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from Old English spærstān (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), Old English spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
Derived terms: bitter spar
brown spar
Derbyshire spar
feldspar
fluor spar
Greenland spar
heavy spar
hog-tooth spar
Iceland spar
ice spar
K-spar
Labrador spar
needle spar
pearl spar
satin spar
schiller-spar
tabular spar
sparge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɑɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑɹdʒ
Forms: form: sparges
form: sparging
form: sparged
form: sparged
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French espargier, from Latin spargō (whence English sparse), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pregʰ- (“to scatter, to jerk”).
Senses: glosses: To sprinkle or spray.
examples: text: Bubble machines sparge water for platform diving competitions to lessen the impact.
glosses: To introduce bubbles into (a liquid).
sparge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɑɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑɹdʒ
Forms: form: sparges
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French espargier, from Latin spargō (whence English sparse), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pregʰ- (“to scatter, to jerk”).
Senses: topics: beverages
brewing
business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
glosses: Synonym of lautering.
synonyms: word: lautering
sparge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɑɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑɹdʒ
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French espargier, from Latin spargō (whence English sparse), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pregʰ- (“to scatter, to jerk”).
Senses: examples: sparge pipe
glosses: That sparges.
spavin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspævɪn/
rhymes: -ævɪn
Forms: form: spavins
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: The stratum of earth underneath a coal deposit.
spica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spicas
form: spicae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin spica.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A spike (kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A spur.
glosses: A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.
spigot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪ.ɡət/
ipa: /ˈspɪ.kət/
homophone: spicket stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪɡət
rhymes: -ɪkɪt
Forms: form: spigots
form: spicket
Etymology: From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and one or more dialects of Middle French [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
glosses: The plug of a faucet, tap or cock.
examples: text: I went to the sink and turned the spigot, feeling the cold rush of water upon my hand.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 323:
glosses: A water tap: a faucet or sillcock.
Derived terms: knight of the spigot
lick-spigot
spigot algorithm
spigot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪ.ɡət/
ipa: /ˈspɪ.kət/
homophone: spicket stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪɡət
rhymes: -ɪkɪt
Forms: form: spigots
form: spigoting
form: spigotting
form: spigoted
form: spigoted
form: spigotted
form: spigotted
form: spicket
Etymology: From Middle English spigot (“wooden stopper”). Probably ultimately from Latin spīca via Old Occitan espiga and one or more dialects of Middle French [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: Once a beach has been formed, spigoting would focus on directing the reclaim water pool toward the reclaim barge pumps.
ref: 2002, Phoenix Project: Environmental Impact Statement, pages 2–31:
glosses: To block with a spigot.
examples: text: Location of the cylinders is, of course, effected by spigoting their lower ends into the holes in the crankcase. Similarly, the cylinder heads are located by spigoting the upper ends of the cylinders into them.
ref: 1956, The Automobile Engineer, volume 46, page 118:
glosses: To insert (a spigot).
spitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
homophone: spits
Forms: form: spitzes
Etymology: From German Spitz, from spitz (“pointed”); so called from the tapering shape of its muzzle.
Senses: glosses: Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed.
Derived terms: Japanese spitz
Pomeranian spitz
reindeer spitz
spline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /splaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: splines
Etymology: Mid-1700s East Anglian dialect. Origin uncertain but perhaps from Old Danish splind or North Frisian splinj and ultimately related to the root of splinter.
Senses: glosses: A long, thin piece of metal or wood.
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
coordinate_terms: biscuit#Noun
dowel#Noun
glue strip#Noun
finger joint#Noun
glosses: A strip of wood or other material inserted into grooves in each of two pieces of wood to provide additional surface for gluing.
glosses: A flexible strip of metal or other material, that may be bent into a curve and used in a similar manner to a ruler to draw smooth curves between points.
examples: text: However, it should be possible to give more sophisticated spherical spline curves based on the de Castaljau method that are computed using multiple slerps between pairs of points and which work well for arbitrary knot positions (indeed, knot insertion methods for spline curves should suffice for this, cf Farin [1993])
ref: 2001 April, Samuel R. Buss, Jay P Fillmore, “Spherical averages and applications to spherical splines and interpolation”, in ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), volume 20, number 2:
text: These conditions provide a framework which encompasses some notable approximation kernels including splines, so-called cardinal functions, and many radial basis functions such as the Gaussians and general multiquadrics.
ref: 2016, Keaton Hamm, Jeff Ledford, “Regular Families of Kernels for Nonlinear Approximation”, in arXiv:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a number of smooth curves used to join points.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ridge or tooth on a drive shaft that meshes with a corresponding groove in a mating piece and transfers torque to it, maintaining the angular correspondence between the pieces; either the ridge or the groove, as part of a set of both (splines); the whole set of ridges and grooves.
examples: Near-synonym: feather
coordinate_terms: key
glosses: A rectangular piece that fits grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together.
Derived terms: basis spline
B-spline
Catmull-Rom spline
cubic spline
Kochanek-Bartels spline
splinal
splined
splineway
spline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /splaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: splines
form: splining
form: splined
form: splined
Etymology: Mid-1700s East Anglian dialect. Origin uncertain but perhaps from Old Danish splind or North Frisian splinj and ultimately related to the root of splinter.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline.
examples: text: Machining a straight spline with a lathe. Sometimes the task of splining a shaft comes up during a repair. Instead of sending out the job, use this setup to mill the splines on a lathe.
ref: 1965 August, Popular Science, volume 187, number 2, page 133:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To fit with a spline.
examples: text: Engineers did not think two crankshafts could be synchronized. Wood, by splining the shafts in each gear box, proved it could be done.
ref: 1935 September, Popular Mechanics, volume 64, number 3, page 408:
text: These packs can be holding or driving devices, depending on what they are splined to.
ref: 2004, Jack Erjavec, TechOne automatic transmissions, page 311:
text: Splined bars are a big recent trend. Originally used in racing, the idea is to have a straight torsion bar with the ends splined like an axle and separate arms that fit on each end to mount the end links
ref: 2011, Mark Savitske, How to Make Your Muscle Car Handle, page 85:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To fasten to or together with a spline.
Related terms: French curve
sprue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: sprues
Etymology: From Dutch spruw, sprouw. First described by William Hillary.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tropical disease causing a sore throat and tongue, and disturbed digestion; psilosis.
Synonyms: tropical sprue
Derived terms: celiac sprue
non-tropical sprue
sprue asparagus
sprue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: sprues
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: downsprue
glosses: A channel through which molten metal is poured into the mold during the casting process.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Material that cools in the feed channels to a mold.
Related terms: flash
sprue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: sprues
form: sprueing
form: spruing
form: sprued
form: sprued
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: In the brass spruing room is what is known as a Todd water tumbler, used for brass castings.
ref: 1882 August 15, “Details of a brass and iron foundry”, in American Machinist, page 3:
text: The method adopted for sprueing the wax pattern is much more important to the success of the inlay than is generally realized.
ref: 1947, The Ney Inlay Book, J. M. Ney Company, page 17:
text: The pattern is completed in its final contour, is then sprued, invested and burned out of the investment, and the gold alloy is cast in the same manner as when the indirect technique is utilized
ref: 1976, Hazel Torres, Ann Beard Ehrlich, Modern Dental Assisting, page 662:
text: If we are to cast a simple pattern like a small ball we have at least three methods of sprueing the wax pattern (Fig. 6).
ref: 1985, Edward R. Dootz, “Technology of Casting and Soldering Alloys for Metal-Ceramic Applications”, in Conference on Recent Developments in Dental Ceramics, volume 6, numbers 1–2, page 86:
text: To provide for constructing and sprueing the wax sculpture, as described in Chapters 1 and 2, we must obviously have a wax working area, which in a foundry may also be referred to as the patternmaking area.
ref: 1985, Howard Hitchcock, Out of the Fiery Furnace: Casting Sculpture from Ceramic Shell Molds, Los Altos, Calif.: William Kaufmann, Inc., →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: To remove the sprues (material left in feed channels) from a cast piece.
squill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: squills
Etymology: From French scille, from Latin scilla. Doublet of scilla.
Senses: glosses: A European bulbous liliaceous plant, of the genus Scilla, used in medicine for its acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties
glosses: A sea onion (Drimia maritima)
glosses: A mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis, from the Mediterranean
Synonyms: squilla
Derived terms: Portuguese squill
red squill
sea squill
Related terms: squill-gee
staph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæf/
rhymes: -æf
homophone: staff
Forms: form: staphs
Etymology: Shortening of staphylococcus.
Senses: glosses: Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes.
Derived terms: golden staph
stasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪsɪs/
ipa: /ˈstæ-/
ipa: /ˈsteɪsɪs/
rhymes: -eɪsɪs
Forms: form: stases
Etymology: From New Latin stasis, from Ancient Greek στάσις (stásis). See the doublet stead.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
examples: text: His company was sized for growth, not stasis.
text: Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 194:
text: Or will Americans remain hunkered forever—as confused and anxious and paralyzed as we were before 2020—descend into digital feudalism, and retreat back into our cocoons of nostalgia and cultural stasis, providing the illusion that nothing much is changing or ever can change?
ref: 2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: stability
staticity
antonyms: movement
flux
glosses: Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
examples: text: I was in stasis for forty years before I woke up orbiting this poxy planet!
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
glosses: One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
Hyponyms: sense: inactivity
word: equilibrium
Derived terms: adipostasis
angiostasis
bacteriostasis
bilirubinostasis
biostasis
chemostasis
ciliostasis
cryostasis
cytostasis
enterostasis
glucostasis
hemostasis
leukostasis
mesostasis
metallostasis
morphostasis
mucostasis
oostasis
orthostasis
photostasis
stasimorphy
stasis lock
stasis papillomatosis
venous stasis
Related terms: static
stater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪtə/
ipa: /ˈsteɪtɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: staters
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στατήρ (statḗr).
Senses: glosses: A gold, silver or electrum coin of ancient Greece.
Derived terms: silver stater with a turtle
stater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪtə/
ipa: /ˈsteɪtɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: staters
Etymology: From state + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (inhabitant suffix).
Senses: examples: a stater of truths or opinions
glosses: One who states.
glosses: A citizen of the United States of America who is a confirmed or lifelong resident of one single state.
Related terms: out-of-stater
deep stater
steady stater
welfare stater
trite
hekte
stator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stators
Etymology: From stationary or static by analogy with rotor; alternatively from a hypothetical Latin stātor (literally “stander”); all ultimately from stāre (“to stand”).
Senses: glosses: The stationary part of a motor or other machine.
Related terms: rotor
steeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: Steve
Forms: form: steeves
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The angle that a bowsprit makes with the horizon, or with the line of the vessel's keel.
glosses: A spar, with a block at one end, used in stowing cotton bales and similar cargo needing to be packed tightly.
steeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
homophone: Steve
Forms: form: steeves
form: steeving
form: steeved
form: steeved
Senses: glosses: To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc.
examples: text: "They are all alike to me." And indeed to a landsman, the nodding schooners around seemed run from the same mold.
"They ain't, though. That yaller, dirty packet with her bowsprit steeved that way, she's the Hope of Prague. Nick Brady's her skipper, the meanest man on the Banks. […]"
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
glosses: To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve.
stoled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stole + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having or wearing a stole.
stoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From stole + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of steal
stooge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stuːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ
Forms: form: stooges
Etymology: Perhaps an abbreviation of Russian студе́нт (studént) [stʊˈdʲent]; the original meaning was “stage assistant, actor who assists a comedian”. It may have been a Yiddish vaudeville term.
Senses: examples: text: I'd like to show you what a wipeout looks like from the board. I'm pretty good at getting wiped out, so I'll be the stooge.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
synonyms: word: acolyte
word: adjutant
word: aide
word: bootlicker
word: disciple
word: flunkey
word: footman
word: follower
word: henchman
word: hireling
word: inferior
word: lackey
word: lap dog
word: lickspittle
word: man Friday
word: minion
word: myrmidon
word: poodle
word: retainer
word: right-hand man
word: right-hand woman
word: servant
word: stooge
word: subordinate
word: sycophant
word: toady
word: underling
word: vassal
word: yes man
glosses: One who knowingly allows himself or herself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
qualifier: magic
glosses: A magician's assistant who pretends to be a member of the audience.
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A straight man.
glosses: A secret informant for police.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: confederate
glosses: A confederate; a person who is secretly working for the researcher, unknown to the study participant.
stooge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stuːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -uːd͡ʒ
Forms: form: stooges
form: stooging
form: stooged
form: stooged
Etymology: Perhaps an abbreviation of Russian студе́нт (studént) [stʊˈdʲent]; the original meaning was “stage assistant, actor who assists a comedian”. It may have been a Yiddish vaudeville term.
Senses: glosses: To act as a straight man.
Related terms: claque
stover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊ.və/
ipa: /ˈstoʊ.vɚ/
Forms: form: stovers
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman estovers (“necessities”) via Middle English estover (“allowance”), ultimately from Latin est opus (“there is need”). Compare estover.
Senses: examples: text: Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep; […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Fodder for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay.
examples: text: Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.
ref: 2012 August 24, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, page 20:
coordinate_terms: straw
shaw
trash
glosses: Stalks and leaves, not including grain, of certain forages
strop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɒp/
ipa: /stɹɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: strops
Etymology: Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.
Senses: synonyms: razor strop
glosses: A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.
Derived terms: razor strop
strop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɒp/
ipa: /stɹɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: strops
form: stropping
form: stropped
form: stropped
Etymology: Same as strap (which see); recorded in English since 1702. The verb sense referring to honing a sharp edge is recorded since 1842.
Senses: examples: text: One should strop the razor before each shave.
text: The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip.
ref: 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 1, in The Blue Pavilions:
coordinate_terms: lap#English:_polish with fine abrasive
glosses: To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.
glosses: To strap.
strop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɒp/
ipa: /stɹɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: strops
Etymology: Back-formation from stroppy
Senses: glosses: A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.
Synonyms: huff
strop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɒp/
ipa: /stɹɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: strops
form: stropping
form: stropped
form: stropped
Etymology: From apostrophe, due to use of apostrophes as single quotation marks to indicate boldface in ALGOL 60. Other methods were used, especially in ALGOL 68, where the earlier matched apostrophes were no longer common, and the term became used more generally for any such method.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.
strop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɒp/
ipa: /stɹɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: strops
Senses: examples: text: […] he almost fell out of the phone booth laughing and said to her, 'Boy, did my son buy a strop! Did he get stuck!'
ref: 2005, Renée Rose Shield, Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street, page 156:
glosses: A poor-quality or unsaleable diamond.
stymie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪmi/
rhymes: -aɪmi
Forms: form: stymies
form: stimie
form: stimy
form: stymy
Etymology: From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a doublet of stime.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
examples: text: Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert:
glosses: An obstacle or obstruction.
stymie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstaɪmi/
rhymes: -aɪmi
Forms: form: stymies
form: stymieing
form: stymying
form: stymied
form: stymied
form: stimie
form: stimy
form: stymy
Etymology: From the meaning in golf (where the stymie ball blocks the other ball from "seeing" the hole), perhaps from Scots stymie, stimie (“person with poor eyesight”), from Scots stime (“the least bit”). Or from Scots styme (“tiny bit, glimmer”) as in se nocht ane styme (“not to see a glimmer (of something)”). If so, it is a doublet of stime.
Senses: examples: text: They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.
text: If writing dates has you stymied at times, it is probably for one of two reasons. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-write-dates/
text: It constrained governments, businesses and labour unions to collaborate in planning increased rates of output and the conditions likely to facilitate them. And above all, it blocked any return to the temptations that had so stymied the inter-war economy: under-production, mutually destructive protectionism, and a collapse of trade.
ref: 2005, Tony Judt, “The Rehabilitation of Europe”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
text: I was making such a drama in my head it was stymieing me.
ref: 2007 January 21, Joyce Cohen, “Beauty in the Eye of the Renter”, in New York Times:
text: In populations that have “burst” and “path” structures, for example, individuals can never occupy positions in the graph that their ancestors held. Those structures stymie evolution by denying advantageous mutations any chance to take over a population.
ref: 2018 July 1, John Rennie, “This Mutation Math Shows How Life Keeps on Evolving”, in Wired:
text: For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.
ref: 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:
text: Since Israel’s ground war began in Gaza over a year and a half ago, it has followed a consistent pattern of raiding key militant strongholds and then withdrawing forces, alongside periodic stymieing of food aid.
ref: 2025 May 20, Dina Kraft, “Goals of Israel’s renewed Gaza offensive are unclear, even to Israelis”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: block
thwart
glosses: To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.