cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wēld
ipa: /wiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
homophone: wealed
homophone: Weald
homophone: weald
homophone: wheeled (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wields
form: wielding
form: wielded
form: wielded
Etymology: From Middle English weelden, welden, from the merger of Old English wealdan (“to control, rule”) (strong class 7) and Old English wieldan (“to control, subdue”) (weak). Both verbs derive from Proto-West Germanic *waldan and *waldijan, respectively; and are ultimately from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to rule”).
The reason for the merger was that in Middle English the -d in the stem made it hard to distinguish between strong and weak forms in the past tense.
Senses: examples: text: There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum 7”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
glosses: To command, rule over; to possess or own.
examples: text: With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends[…].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To control, to guide or manage.
examples: text: All is weill done, God wate, weild he hys will.
ref: a. 1513, Virgil, “VIII, prologue”, in Gawin Douglas [i.e., Gavin Douglas], transl., edited by [George Dundas], The Æneid of Virgil: Translated into Scottish Verse (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 64, no. 1), volume I, Edinburgh: T. Constable, printer, published 1839, →OCLC, page 448, line 1:
glosses: To carry out, to bring about.
glosses: To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
examples: text: The question isn't whether AI will reshape human society—it's whether its engineers will wield that power thoughtfully.
ref: 2025 August 27, Dana Suskind, “AI Engineers Need Their Own Hippocratic Oath. Here’s What It Should Say”, in TIME:
glosses: To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
Derived terms: bewield
wieldsome
wieldy
wield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wēld
ipa: /wiːld/
rhymes: -iːld
homophone: wealed
homophone: Weald
homophone: weald
homophone: wheeled (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wields
form: welde
form: weild
form: weelde
Etymology: From Middle English welde, from Old English *wield, ġewield (“power, control, dominion”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldi, from Proto-Germanic *waldiz (“power, might, control”).
Senses: examples: text: What boots it if I beat the heathen home,
And fold the mountains in my wield, and fire […]
ref: 1872, George Francis Savage-Armstrong, The tragedy of Israel, volume 2, page 64:
text: […] telling him of the treasures concealed in the cave, of the mysterious ring and tarnhelmet, possessing which he can hold the wield of the world.
ref: 1887, Richard Wagner, Siegfried:
text: All wealth in my wield is, I know by my wit […]
ref: 1968, John Allen, Masters of British Drama, page 32:
text: “Trust me, I will make them listen,” he hissed and for the first time, he used his wield fallaciously, because instead of giving life, he absorbed it from the tree.
ref: 2019, Lele Iturrioz, Summer:
glosses: Rule, command; power, control, wielding.
falls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːlz/
ipa: /faːlz/
ipa: /fɔlz/
ipa: /fɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Forms: form: falls
head_nr: 1
Senses: examples: text: Niagara Falls
text: And climbed up through the woods, past the lake island where the white gazebo stood up to its knees in mist, up to where a falls fell melodiously into a deep dark pool.
ref: 1983 [1981], John Crowley, “The Art of Memory”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 475:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A waterfall.
Derived terms: American Falls
Bishop's Falls
Black River Falls
Boyoma Falls
Chippewa Falls
Clam Falls
Cottonwood Falls
Crystal Falls
Cuyahoga Falls
Fallsburg
Falls Church
Falls City
Falls County
Falls of Cruachan
Fergus Falls
Granite Falls
Great Falls
Idaho Falls
International Falls
Little Falls
Livingstone Falls
Niagara Falls
Owen Falls
Red Lake Falls
Redwood Falls
Rock Falls
Russell Falls
Shivanasamudra Falls
Sioux Falls
Sivasamudram Falls
Smiths Falls
Stanley Falls
St. Croix Falls
Sutherland Falls
Thief River Falls
Thompson Falls
Twin Falls
Valley Falls
Victoria Falls
Wichita Falls
falls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːlz/
ipa: /faːlz/
ipa: /fɔlz/
ipa: /fɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of fall
falls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːlz/
ipa: /faːlz/
ipa: /fɔlz/
ipa: /fɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fall
aristocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.ɹɪˈstɒk.ɹə.si/
ipa: /ˌɛɹ.ɪˈstɑk.ɹə.si/
rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: aristocracies
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French aristocratie, from Medieval Latin aristocratia, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατίᾱ (aristokratíā, “the rule of the best“, that is, “the best-born”, “nobility”), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best, noblest”) + -κρατίᾱ (-kratíā), from κράτος (krátos, “power, rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: But when Nietzsche has the incredible lack of humour and lack of imagination to ask us to believe that his aristocracy is an aristocracy of strong muscles or an aristocracy of strong wills, it is necessary to point out the truth. It is an aristocracy of weak nerves.
ref: 1905, G.K. Chesterton, Heretics:
text: That, then, which is called aristocracy in some countries and nobility in others arose out of the governments founded upon conquest.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man:
glosses: The nobility, or the hereditary ruling class.
examples: text: How many false principles have been laid down, how much delusion supported, by reference to the glories of Athens and of Rome! It remained for a later time to observe that those so-called republics were but aristocracy in its most oppressive form; and what are now the people were then positive slaves;...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 255:
glosses: Government by such a class, or a state with such a government.
glosses: A class of people considered (not normally universally) superior to others.
Derived terms: antiaristocracy
aristocracy of labor
aristocracy of labour
black aristocracy
bunyip aristocracy
codfish aristocracy
labor aristocracy
labour aristocracy
Related terms: aristocrat
aristocratic
prehistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prehistories
form: pre-history
Etymology: From pre- (“before”) + history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.
Senses: examples: text: “We don’t find evidence for that sort of thing anywhere in prehistory.”
ref: 2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: prehistoric age
glosses: The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
glosses: The study of those times.
examples: text: I was a town boy through and through. The country belonged to a vague pre-history.
ref: 1984, Shiva Naipaul, Beyond the Dragon's Mouth, page 25:
glosses: Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
examples: text: Psychologists... are mostly bad historians, inventing—as Freud has done—their pre-history to suit their theories.
ref: 1931 July 25, Time & Tide, page 893:
text: One of the challenges of studying any Jewish custom is that we tend to view it in an anachronistic fashion; we think that what we do today is what was always done. Therefore, in this article we shall describe the pre-history of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony, the four basic components of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony before the year 1800 as suggested by Michael Hilton, and six major changes that occurred in modern times.
ref: 2021, David Golinkin, “What is the Origin and History of the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony”, in Anat Helman, editor, No Small Matter Features of Jewish Childhood:
glosses: The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
raw_tags: as pre-history
Related terms: prehistorian
prehistoric
renaissance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈneɪs(ə)ns/
ipa: /ɹəˈneɪsɑːns/
ipa: /ɹəˈneɪsɒ̃(n)s/
ipa: /ˌɹɛnəˈsɒ̃(n)s/
ipa: /ˈɹɛnəˌsɑns/
ipa: /ˌɹɛnəˈsɑns/
Forms: form: renaissances
Etymology: From French renaissance.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
ref: 1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13:
glosses: A rebirth or revival.
glosses: Alternative form of Renaissance.
Derived terms: renaissance man
liberalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberalisms
Etymology: Circa 1819, from French libéralisme circa 1818. Equivalent to liberal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being liberal.
examples: text: Whether some distant cousin really belongs to the extended family of liberalisms is a matter of healthy dispute.
ref: 2009 January 25, Timothy Garton Ash, “A Liberal Translation”, in The New York Times:
text: This poses obvious problems for statistical inference in that what may appear as ‘declines’ in non-white racial liberalism may actually be due to increases in representation of non-black racial/ethnic minorities whose racial attitudes are more conservative.
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 142:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.
examples: text: But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption.
ref: 2018, Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
Derived terms: antiliberalism
classical liberalism
economic liberalism
neoclassical liberalism
neoliberalism
palaeoliberalism
paleoliberalism
social liberalism
ultraliberalism
Related terms: free market
imperialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əˌlɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: imperialisms
Etymology: From imperial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
ref: 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:
glosses: The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
examples: text: The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.
ref: 1990, Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, →ISBN, page 101:
text: By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.
ref: 1998, Michio Morishima, “Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883–1950) and Yasuma Takata (1883–1972)”, in Joseph Schumpeter, Yasuma Takata, Power or Pure Economics?, →ISBN, page xxxvi:
text: […] her analysis of the discourse on private belief […] “reduced” and thus “explained away” my intuitions as being something other than what I experience them to be for myself. It was therefore the imperialism of her method that I claimed to be particularly offensive.
ref: 2015, Russell T. McCutcheon, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Any undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority.
Derived terms: anti-imperialism
counter-imperialism
cultural imperialism
cyberimperialism
disimperialism
eco-imperialism
Euroimperialism
hyperimperialism
neoimperialism
neo-imperialism
proto-imperialism
social imperialism
subimperialism
sub-imperialism
ultraimperialism
Related terms: imperialist
imperialistic
diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpləʊməsi/
ipa: /dɪˈploʊməsi/
ipa: /dɪˈpləʉməsi/
ipa: /dəˈplɐʉməsi/
Forms: form: diplomacies
Etymology: From French diplomatie, a back-formation from diplomatique, ultimately from Latin diploma (“letter of recommendation or authority”); see diploma.
Senses: examples: text: National diplomacy typically deploys its dexterity to secure advantage for one's nation.
text: Admiral Hackett: Hell of a thing you just pulled off, Commander. Curing the genophage? I never thought I'd see the day.
Shepard: Wrex has agreed to help the turians, Admiral. We should get their full support.
Admiral Hackett: And the salarians? How did you manage to get them on board?
Shepard: Careful diplomacy.
Admiral Hackett: Uh-huh… I don’t think I want to know what that means. Doesn't matter. You're starting to put together a real alliance out there.
Admiral Hackett: Good work, Commander. Hackett, out.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
synonyms: statesmanship
statecraft
glosses: The art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiating alliances, treaties, agreements etc., bilaterally or multilaterally, between states and sometimes international organizations, or even between polities with varying status, such as those of monarchs and their princely vassals.
examples: text: As I was talking with many relatives I have in this town I got assaulted with intense probing of whom I was married to, then who is your girlfriend, then it was what do you do for a job? Most of these relatives don't know I'm gay and deflecting these questions put to the test the art of diplomacy.
ref: 1983 August 13, Ray Thomas, “Rural Canada”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 5:
glosses: Tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility.
Derived terms: bamboo diplomacy
checkbook diplomacy
chequebook diplomacy
citizen diplomacy
commodity diplomacy
debt trap diplomacy
defence diplomacy
dollar diplomacy
gastrodiplomacy
gastro-diplomacy
guerrilla diplomacy
gunboat diplomacy
hostage diplomacy
panda diplomacy
ping-pong diplomacy
public diplomacy
shuttlecock diplomacy
shuttle diplomacy
vaccine diplomacy
Related terms: diploma
diplomat
diplomatic
diplomatist
human rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhjuːmən ˈɹaɪtz/
ipa: /ˌhjumən ˈɹaɪtz/
Etymology: From human right + -s (suffix forming plural nouns and pluralia tantum).
Senses: examples: text: This trampler upon human rights is — Fashion.
Strange that mankind should love a despotism,
And while they kick against one kind of rule,
Should uncomplainingly endure another,[…]
ref: 1871, James Hurnard, The setting sun, a poem, page 86:
text: We should not facilely judge China by the American standard of democracy, but its current human rights violations are beyond the pale. At the same time, we should not suspend our relationship because of the human rights issue. If we had always refused to deal with leaders who violated human rights, there would have been no opening to China in 1972.
ref: 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 178:
text: Another issue important to my district is human rights, specifically what is happening in China. My district includes San Francisco's famous Chinatown, and many of my constituents were deeply concerned—as was I—when the Chinese government began to crack down on protesters who were demonstrating peacefully in Beijing and throughout China. Huge demonstrations led to the Tiananmen Square massacre, where more than two thousand people who had dared to speak out against the government were killed and many more injured. The massacre was followed by even more suppression and imprisonment of protesters.
ref: 2008, Nancy Pelosi, “A Voice That Will Be Heard”, in Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters, Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 92:
text: A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law.
ref: 2011 June 3, David Kravets, “U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right”, in Wired, →ISSN:
qualifier: international law
glosses: The set of basic rights and freedoms that all humans should be guaranteed, including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
Coordinate terms: civil liberties
civil rights
Derived terms: human-rightism
human-rightist
human rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhjuːmən ˈɹaɪtz/
ipa: /ˌhjumən ˈɹaɪtz/
Etymology: From human right + -s (suffix forming plural nouns and pluralia tantum).
Senses: glosses: plural of human right
birth control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Margaret Sanger coined the term "birth control" in 1914, using it in the July 1914 issue of The Woman Rebel, and was criminally indicted for it in August 1914, under the Comstock Law for obscenity in print.
Senses: examples: text: The latest research, published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA, analyzed years of health records for thousands of Danish women ages 15 to 49, with an even split between those who started using intrauterine devices that release the hormone levonorgestrel for birth control and those who hadn’t used any type of hormonal contraceptive.
ref: 2024 October 17, Deidre McPhillips, “Some IUDs linked to higher rates of breast cancer, but overall risk remains low”, in CNN:
glosses: Voluntary control of the number of children conceived, especially by the planned use of contraception.
glosses: Any technique used to prevent the birth of a child (such as abortion or preventing conception).
Synonyms: oligogenics
Derived terms: word: birth control glasses
word: BCG
word: BCGs
english: BC; birth control; US Navy standard issue eyeglass frames euphemistically referred to as or due to their unattractiveness
translation: BC; birth control; US Navy standard issue eyeglass frames euphemistically referred to as or due to their unattractiveness
word: BC
word: birth control pill
Related terms: family limitation
family planning
the pill
prophylactic
voluntary motherhood
Hinduism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪnduɪzəm/
Forms: form: Hinduisms
form: Hindooism
form: Hindouism
Etymology: From Hindu + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Mordin: Wheel of life. Popular salarian concept. Similar to human Hinduism in focus on reincarnation.
Mordin: Appealing to see life as endless. Fix mistakes in next life. Learn, adapt, improve.
Mordin: Refuse to believe life ends here. Too wasteful. Have much more to offer. Mistakes to fix. Cannot end here. Could do so much more.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:
glosses: A religion, philosophy and culture native to India, characterized by the belief in reincarnation and a supreme oneness personified in many forms and natures.
Synonyms: Sanatana Dharma
Hypernyms: religion
Coordinate terms: sense: subdivisions
word: Vaishnavism
sense: subdivisions
word: Shaivism
sense: subdivisions
word: Shaktism
sense: subdivisions
word: Smartism
word: Hindutva
Sikhism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːkɪzm̩/
/ˈsɪk-/
Etymology: From Sikh + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A revealed, monotheistic religion originating in northern India, in the 15th century, through Guru Nanak and his successors.
Hypernyms: religion
mollydooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mollydookers
form: mollydook
form: molly-dooker
form: mollyduker
Etymology: Probably from molly (“(dialect) fussy man who does women's work”) + dook (variant of duke (“fist”)) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: ‘G′day,’ Martin says. ‘So who′s who?’ They don′t answer him. Maybe they can′t talk. ‘I reckon you′re Alan, the mollydooker, and you′re Eddy. Am I right?’ They cringe, don′t know what a ‘mollydooker’ is.
ref: 2003, Joy Dettman, Henry′s Daughter, page 45:
text: I thought to myself how remarkably young Emma looked to be twice Penny′s age, which would make her 35 years of age, and a Mollydooker, Emma was (left handed).
ref: 2004, John Leonard Spencer, Waving Goodbye To A Thousand Flies, page 90:
text: In addition to those duels favouring Australia, Michael Kasprowicz was dynamite against left-handers in 2004 (forty-two per cent of his victims) and England's top three are all mollydukers.
ref: 2005 January 10, Ian Chappell, Inside Cricket, reprinted 2006, A Golden Age, unnumbered page
text: There is no doubt he was one of the best shearers I′d ever picked up for when I used to rouseabout. But he was a bloody mollydooker—a left-hander—and it was difficult to pick up his fleece when he finished shearing his sheep.
ref: 2007, Barry Heard, The View from Connor's Hill: A Memoir, Large print (16 point) edition, page xi
text: The fish shed needed drones to do the feeding, kids like Scrubber Higgins – mollydook surfer, fair to average half-forward flanker, Xbox champion, unemployed before becoming an instant aquaculture expert.
ref: 2009, Bruce Pascoe, Bloke, unnumbered page:
text: “Is it harder for a pilot, being left-handed?” she asked, as if adding to an existing conversation.
He glanced down at his left arm, flexed his fingers, now free of plaster. “Been a mollydooker all my life. Reckon I don′t know any different.”
ref: 2011, Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home, page 278:
glosses: A left-handed person.
Synonyms: southpaw
Errol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹəl
Etymology: Transferred from a rare Scottish surname derived from a place name, of unknown meaning. Later interpreted as a variant of Earl in the U.S.
Senses: examples: text: Bridey says if she had a son which please God she will some day she'll call him Ronald because she's mad about Ronald Colman that you see in the Coliseum Cinema. Or Errol, that's another lovely name, Errol Flynn.
Mam says, will you go way outa that, Bridey. I'd never be able to stick my head out the door and say, Errol, Errol, come in for your tea. Sure the poor child would be a laughingstock.
ref: 1996, Frank McCourt, chapter VII, in Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins, →ISBN, pages 203–204:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, popularized by American Actor Errol Flynn.
glosses: A village in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2522).
glosses: A town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States.
Meryl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛɹəl
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Scottish Gaelic, variant of Muriel.
imperil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɛɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹəl
Forms: form: imperils
form: imperiling
form: imperilling
form: imperiled
form: imperiled
form: imperilled
form: imperilled
form: emperil
Etymology: From im- + peril.
Senses: examples: text: […]they occupied the country, expelled the inhabitants, and terminated for ever the rivalry which had so long imperilled their own naval supremacy in Greece.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 10, page 169:
text: Boating and fishing groups contend that the 130 [wind energy] towers would be a navigation hazard and offshore construction would imperil the fisheries.
ref: 2006 June, Jeffrey Winters, “Wind Out of Their Sails”, in Mechanical Engineering, page 31:
glosses: To put into peril; to place in danger.
glosses: To risk or hazard.
Synonyms: sense: put into peril
word: endanger
Related terms: imperilment
Cheryl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛɹəl/
ipa: /ˈʃɛɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɛɹəl
Forms: form: Sheryl
Etymology: Coined in the early 20th century, possibly a blend of Cherie or Cherry and Beryl. (See cher for the etymology of Cherie.)
Senses: examples: text: Cheryl is a woman of few interests: she will be watching TV or she'll be out shopping.
"Cheryl" is a soft, round, pleasant name. "Cheryl" sounds like a person who listens to classic rock, irons aprons and plays bunko. In fact, she's not an aunt at all. She's a glorified housekeeper.
ref: 2009, Caroline B. Cooney, If the Witness Lied, Random House LLC, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Related terms: Cher
Cherilyn
Cara
secret police
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1979, Jello Biafra & John Greenway, "California Über Alles", Dead Kennedys, California Über Alles.
Now it is nineteen eighty-four / Knock-knock at your front door / It's the suede denim secret police / They have come for your uncool niece
text: Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police.
ref: 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of a totalitarian government's political policies to suppress political dissent through the use of methods including intimidation, violence, and surveillance.
boomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbymɑ/
ipa: /ˈbuːmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbuːmə/
ipa: /ˈbumɚ/
ipa: /ˈbʉːmə/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: boomers
Etymology: From boom + -er.
Senses: examples: text: That's when the Rev let loose one of those great big boomers of a laugh. It was so loud in the closed space, the effect was what Wes imagined it felt like to hear a bullet fired in a car.
ref: 2010, Pearl Cleage, Till You Hear from Me, page 151:
glosses: Something that makes a booming sound.
glosses: A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
synonyms: chain binder
glosses: A device used to bind or tighten chain.
examples: text: Distant contact, probably submerged. It's a wild guess, but I'd say we hit a boomer coming out of the barn. Could be a missile boat out of Polijarny.
ref: 1990, The Hunt For Red October:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
glosses: A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae).
glosses: An adult male kangaroo.
glosses: A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
synonyms: sewellel beaver
sewellel
glosses: A mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
examples: text: you and i both know that there are some boomers out there who'll consistently hit bronze @ 16ish and assuming they have protected themselves correctly, are some tough players.
ref: 1999 August 19, polo@zTech, “Keep on getting beaten!”, in microsoft.public.ageofempires (Usenet):
text: Economically speaking, the attacker loses every time. So it's a war of the boomers.
ref: 2000 August 28, Ghost, “Request for opinion: curious about the massive villager concept”, in alt.games.microsoft.age-of-kings (Usenet):
text: 2008 June 12, Kresten Toftgaard Andersen, Anders Buch, Dennis Dahl Christensen & Dung Tran, "Reinforcement Learning in RTS games" (master thesis), page 51.
The strategy of the rusher is to build a small army very fast in order to destroy the enemy early in the game, whereas the aggressive/boomer builds a larger army, which is not necessarily an advanced army, to attack the enemy.
text: 2008 July 13-15, Jin Park, Du Zhang & Meiliu Lu, "An intelligent agent for the game of Age of Mythology: the Titans", 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, page 93.
Once the Heroic Age is reached, the boomer is able to generate a superior army at an explosive rate due to the advanced economy.
qualifier: realtime strategy games
glosses: A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).
Derived terms: thunderboomer
boomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbymɑ/
ipa: /ˈbuːmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbuːmə/
ipa: /ˈbumɚ/
ipa: /ˈbʉːmə/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: boomers
Senses: examples: text: Boomers came of age in the era of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin.
text: To the many Boomers who sensed that something had gone awry in Greatest Generation America, Mad was a glimmer of truth, a benign but trenchant voice against hypocrisy and pretense, a way to laugh at parents who fretted over status symbols and authorities who talked one way but acted another.
ref: 2007, Leonard Steinhorn, The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy, New York: Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: These fears have been exacerbated by the recession, which forced many boomers to turn to Social Security earlier than anticipated because of long-term unemployment and financial crises (Johnson and Wilson, 2010a, b).
ref: 2015, Melvin Delgado, Baby Boomers of Color […] , →ISBN, page 4:
related: word: Boomer
coordinate_terms: zoomer
glosses: Ellipsis of baby boomer.
examples: text: I'm going to be a boomer by the time this thing is over.
glosses: An elderly person, regardless of generation.
examples: text: I'm such a boomer; I have no idea how to use this phone.
glosses: A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.
Derived terms: boomercide
boomerish
boomerism
boomeritis
boomer remover
boomer shooter
boomersplain
echo boomer
grandboomer
OK, boomer
postboomer
licence to crenellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licences to crenellate
Senses: glosses: In medieval Britain, a licence, granted by the king, giving permission to fortify a manor house (with crenellations and other fortifying features).
Related terms: battlement
fortification
mediaeval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛd.iˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /ˌmiː.diˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛdiˈi.vəl/
rhymes: -iːvəl
Forms: form: more mediaeval
form: most mediaeval
form: mediæval
Senses: examples: text: Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 165:
text: The earliest known example of a partial rider is the Talia (meaning scout) which occurs in the Great Chess of Timur. It is a transition piece between the mediaeval alfil and the modern bishop, able to move like the bishop without being blocked by a pawn standing in front of it.
ref: 2010 August 21, G. P. Jelliss, “Simple Chess Variants”, in Mayhematics, pages 9, 10:
glosses: Alternative spelling of medieval.
Derived terms: mediaevaldom
mediaevalism
mediaevalist
mediaevally
postmediaeval
premediaeval
mediaeval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛd.iˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /ˌmiː.diˈiː.vəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛdiˈi.vəl/
rhymes: -iːvəl
Forms: form: mediaevals
form: mediæval
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of medieval.
shiralee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiralees
Etymology: First attested in print 1892. Later popularised through its use in the title of D'Arcy Niland′s 1955 novel The Shiralee (and two film adaptations, in 1957 and 1987)). Its meaning is no longer well known.
Sometimes claimed to be from an (unidentified) Australian Aboriginal language.
Alternatively, an anglicisation of Irish tiarálaí (“itinerant roustabout”) which came to be applied to his swag or matilda, and later (inspired by Niland's novel) to mean not only a physical burden but also a psychological one.
Senses: glosses: Burden; load.
examples: text: The bag of food like a shiralee across his shoulders, the water container stuffed into the looseness of his shirt, the compass, not required for awhile^([sic]) yet, in his side pocket, and the rifle balanced in his hand.
ref: 2001, Filton Hebbard, Memories of Kalgoorlie: Tales from the Australian Outback, page 183:
text: 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 8,
“Nothin′. A prickly gecko, mate. He dropped off your shiralee.”
glosses: Burden; load.
A type of swag that when rolled up resembles a leg of mutton, carried over the shoulder, usually with another load on the chest to balance it.
raw_tags: in particular
Synonyms: sense: swag
word: matilda
crenellate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛnɛleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛnəˌleɪt/
Forms: form: crenellates
form: crenellating
form: crenellated
form: crenellated
form: crenelate
Etymology: From French créneler (“to defend with crenels, make crenelated, crenelate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Créneler is derived from Old French crenel (“crenel, embrasure (modern French créneau)”) + -er (forms verbs of the first conjugation)), further from crene (“notch”) + -el (diminutive-forming sufix), perhaps related to Latin crēna (“incision; notch”) or of gaulish origin. Equivalent to crenel + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To furnish with crenelles.
glosses: To indent; to notch.
Derived terms: word: crenellated
word: crenellated moulding
word: crenellation
word: licence to crenellate
crenelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crenelates
form: crenelating
form: crenelated
form: crenelated
form: crenellate
Etymology: From Old French crenel.
Senses: glosses: To furnish with crenelles.
examples: a crenelated leaf
glosses: To indent; to notch.
Derived terms: crenelated molding
crenelation
FARC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Farc
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish FARC, from Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (“Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia”).
Senses: examples: text: The US State Department has removed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by the acronym the FARC, from its terrorism blacklist, and listed two dissident groups led by former FARC militants.
ref: 2021 November 30, Jennifer Hansler, “US removes Colombia’s FARC from terrorism blacklist”, in CNN:
glosses: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict starting in 1964.
RSVP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSVPs
form: R.S.V.P.
form: R. S. V. P.
form: rsvp
form: r.s.v.p.
form: r. s. v. p.
Etymology: Borrowed from French RSVP, initialism of répondez s'il vous plaît, meaning “please reply”.
Senses: glosses: A reply to an invitation.
Coordinate terms: regrets only
RSVP
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: RSVPs
form: RSVPing
form: RSVPed
form: RSVPed
form: RSVP'd
form: RSVP'd
form: R.S.V.P.
form: R. S. V. P.
form: rsvp
form: r.s.v.p.
form: r. s. v. p.
Etymology: Borrowed from French RSVP, initialism of répondez s'il vous plaît, meaning “please reply”.
Senses: glosses: To reply to an invitation.
Related terms: RVSVP
RSVP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: R.S.V.P.
form: R. S. V. P.
form: rsvp
form: r.s.v.p.
form: r. s. v. p.
Etymology: Initialisms; see below.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Resource Reservation Protocol.
RSVP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSVPs
form: R.S.V.P.
form: R. S. V. P.
form: rsvp
form: r.s.v.p.
form: r. s. v. p.
Etymology: Initialisms; see below.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of rapid serial visual presentation.
RSVP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: R.S.V.P.
form: R. S. V. P.
form: rsvp
form: r.s.v.p.
form: r. s. v. p.
Etymology: Initialisms; see below.
Senses: qualifier: restaurants; events; restaurants; events
glosses: Initialism of reserve seating via phone.
RSVP
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: RSVPs
form: RSVPing
form: RSVPed
form: RSVPed
form: RSVP'd
form: RSVP'd
form: R.S.V.P.
form: R. S. V. P.
form: rsvp
form: r.s.v.p.
form: r. s. v. p.
Etymology: Initialisms; see below.
Senses: qualifier: restaurants; events; restaurants; events
glosses: To reserve a place
crenelated molding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crenelated moldings
form: crenellated moulding
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings.
crenellated moulding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crenellated mouldings
form: crenelated molding
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A kind of indented moulding used in Norman buildings.
bandicoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɪˌkuːt/
ipa: /ˈbændiˌkut/
Forms: form: bandicoots
Etymology: Ultimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) + కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of Asian murids, now called bandicoot rats, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.
glosses: A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Austrodanthonia bipartita
word: bandicoot grass
taxonomic: Nesokia spp.
word: bandicoot rat
taxonomic: Perameles eremiana
word: desert bandicoot
taxonomic: Perameles gunnii
word: eastern barred bandicoot
taxonomic: Microperoryctes ornata
word: eastern striped bandicoot
taxonomic: Echymipera echinista
word: Fly River bandicoot
taxonomic: Peroryctes broadbenti
word: giant bandicoot
taxonomic: Isodon auratus
word: golden bandicoot
taxonomic: Perameles nasuta
word: long-nosed bandicoot
taxonomic: Echymipera echinista
word: Menzies' spiny bandicoot
taxonomic: Microperoryctes murina
word: mouse bandicoot
taxonomic: Peroryctes spp.
word: New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot
taxonomic: Microperoryctes spp.
word: New Guinean mouse bandicoot
taxonomic: Echymipera spp.
word: New Guinean spiny bandicoot
taxonomic: Isoodon macrourus
word: northern brown bandicoot
taxonomic: Microperoryctes papuensis
word: Papuan bandicoot
taxonomic: Chaeropus app.
word: pig-footed bandicoot
word: rabbit bandicoot
taxonomic: Macrotis spp.
word: rabbit-eared bandicoot
word: rat bandicoot
taxonomic: Perameles bougainville
word: Shark Bay bandicoot
taxonomic: Isoodon spp.
word: short-nosed bandicoot
taxonomic: Isoodon obesulus
word: southern brown bandicoot
alt: †Chaeropus ecaudatus
word: southern pig-footed bandicoot
taxonomic: Echymipera spp.
word: spiny bandicoot
taxonomic: Microperoryctes spp.
word: striped bandicoot
word: typical bandicoot
taxonomic: Perameles bougainville
word: western barred bandicoot
bandicoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɪˌkuːt/
ipa: /ˈbændiˌkut/
Forms: form: bandicoots
form: bandicooting
form: bandicooted
form: bandicooted
Etymology: Ultimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) + కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of Asian murids, now called bandicoot rats, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance.
Senses: glosses: To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.
bindii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bindiis
form: bindi-eye
form: bindy-eye
Etymology: Borrowed from Gamilaraay bindayaa.
Senses: glosses: Any of several weeds with unpleasant burrs:
three-cornered jack, Emex australis
glosses: Any of several weeds with unpleasant burrs:
puncture vine, Tribulus terrestris
glosses: Any of several weeds with unpleasant burrs:
Soliva sessilis
glosses: A burr from one of these weeds.
Synonyms: bindi
bindy
bindie
bindies
allo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'allo (“hello”).
allo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈæ.loʊ/
homophone: aloe
Forms: form: more allo
form: most allo
Etymology: Clipping of allosexual or alloromantic.
Senses: examples: text: Asking a person to work on themself to have more sex seems natural and intuitive, but imagine asking the allo partner to be celibate.
ref: 2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, page 83:
text: However, being aro adds another layer of urgency. As we get older, a lot of our monogamous allo friends will find their life partner, get married, and have kids.
ref: 2021, Izzy, "Live While We're Young: Aromantic Frienships, Youth and Futures", CAMP Magazine (University of Melbourne), Volume 4 (2021), page 20
text: I would say that it'd help so much if the ace characters would be explicitly acknowledged by the creators, but this doesn't always fix things. In the case of Jughead Jones, his asexuality and aromanticism were explicitly stated, but that didn't stop people from completely disregarding it, to the point where most fanart and fanfiction of him makes him allo.
ref: 2021, anonymous, quoted in "Questions Of The Month", AVENues Newsletters, July-September 2021, pages 14-15
glosses: Allosexual and/or alloromantic; experiencing sexual and/or romantic attraction.
Derived terms: aro-allo
allocishet
allo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈæ.loʊ/
homophone: aloe
Forms: form: allos
Etymology: Clipping of allosexual or alloromantic.
Senses: examples: text: Allos might feel infatuated with a new acquaintance or be more attached to their best friend than to any romantic partner, yet they can deny the possibility of romantic feeling because of the lack of sexual attraction. Allos can wave their hand and say, "There are people I want to sleep with, and I don't want to sleep with you, so it's only platonic."
ref: 2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, page 108:
text: Then maybe asexuals wouldn't face negative responses ("You're a late bloomer" or You haven't met the right person" etc.) when they come out to allos.
ref: 2021, "Will", quoted in "Member Highlight: Multi-Member Question And Answer", AVENues Newsletter, January-March 2021, page 19
text: Part of why I’m writing this essay is to tell allos we exist, to make them aware of our struggle and our pain.
ref: 2021, Adam Key, "The Silent A: A Critical Soundtrack of Asexuality", Journal of Autoethnography, Volume 2, Issue 4, Fall 2021
glosses: One who is allosexual and/or alloromantic.
interline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌlaɪn/
ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈlaɪn/
Etymology: From inter- + line.
Senses: examples: text: Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.
ref: 1986, Second International Conference on Simulators: 7-11 September 1986, IEEE, page 145:
glosses: Between lines.
examples: text: American Airlines and British Airways have an interline agreement to handle each other's baggage and to accept each other's tickets.
text: I had an interline connection from Delta to AA in Dallas/Ft. Worth.
topics: transport
glosses: Between (or with) two airlines.
Related terms: offline
interline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntə(ɹ)ˌlaɪn/
ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈlaɪn/
Forms: form: interlines
form: interlining
form: interlined
form: interlined
Etymology: From inter- + line.
Senses: examples: text: to interline a page or a book
text: Then riſing with Aurora’s Light, / The Muse invok’d, ſit down to write; / Blot out, correct, inſert, refine, / Enlarge, diminiſh, interline; / Be mindful, when Invention fails, / To ſcratch your Head, and bite your Nails.
ref: 1733, [Jonathan Swift], On Poetry: A Rapsody, Dublin; London: […] [R. Fleming] [a]nd sold by J. Huggonson, […], →OCLC, pages 7–8, lines 85–90:
glosses: To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for addition or correction.
examples: text: When by this way of interlining Latin and Englisſh one with another, he has got a moderate Knowledge of the Latin Tongue, he may then be advanc'd a little farther to the reading of ſome other eaſie Latin Book, […]
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§159”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC, page 199:
glosses: To arrange in alternate lines.
examples: text: For each contracted frown, / A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow: / Spend but one hour in frowns, and I shall look / Like to a beldam of one hundred years.
ref: c. 1600 (date written; first published 1657), attributed to Thomas Dekker, John Day, William Houghton, Lust’s Dominion: Or, The Lascivious Queen. A Tragedie, London: […] J. Chappell, Jun. […], published 1818, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 3:
glosses: To imprint or mark with lines.
Gitmo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: gĭtʹmō
ipa: /ˈɡɪt.məʊ/
enpr: gĭtʹmō
ipa: /ˈɡɪt.moʊ/
Etymology: From GTMO (Guantanamo), pronounced as if it were a word rather than letter by letter.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Guantanamo Bay, the US naval base at the eponymous location, on the island of Cuba.
glosses: The detention center for officially undisclosed persons without charge, process, or recourse; located at the U.S. naval base.
IATA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈɑːtə/
ipa: /iːˈɑːtə/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of International Air Transport Association, an airline trade organisation with headquarters in Switzerland and Montreal, Canada.
Coordinate terms: ICAO
fam trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fam trips
Etymology: From fam (“familiarisation”) + trip.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A free (or low cost) trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a travel operator or airline as a means of promoting their service.
Synonyms: word: educational
word: jolly
word: perk
word: famil
ARNK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ARNKs
Etymology: ARNK: short for Arrival Not Known (a.k.a. arrival unknown):
It is a four-letter code sometimes shown as a flight segment on a reservation with multi-flight segments: where the traveler(s) depart from an airport, which they did not fly into with that specific airline (e.g. traveled there by car or used different airline etc.)
- For example: if the flights are from IAH>FLL & MIA>IAH (return):
-- The ARNK indicator (flight segment placeholder/indicator) is used by the airline to indicate, as confirmation, that the customer has other transport arrangements between the 2 flight segments that are not known to the airline (In essence a confirmation that the flight(s) were not changed/updated incorrectly or deleted by accident by for example user/customer/system etc. but intentional booking by customer).
--- For example: IAH>FLL, ARNK, MIA>IAH
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel-industry
glosses: An unknown or empty sector of an itinerary.