cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstækɚ/
rhymes: -ækə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stackers
Etymology: From stack + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As behavioral scientists we are not good block stackers — we don't replicate enough or build systematically across knowledge bases.
ref: 1991, Joan H. Cantor, Charles C. Spiker, Lewis Paeff Lipsitt, Child Behavior and Development: Training for Diversity, page 168:
glosses: Any person or thing that stacks.
glosses: Any person or thing that stacks.
A worker who stacks the shelves in a supermarket.
glosses: Any person or thing that stacks.
A participant in sport stacking.
examples: text: a spring-loaded plate stacker in a cafeteria
glosses: Any device allowing items to be stacked.
glosses: Any device allowing items to be stacked.
An output bin in a document feeding or punch card machine (contrast with hopper).
glosses: A person who collects precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
Derived terms: diaper stacker
four-stacker
full-stacker
nappy stacker
reach stacker
shelf stacker
speed stacker
stacker crane
dead reckoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead reckonings
form: ded reckoning
Etymology: Uncertain. Not short for deduced or deductive, but this belief explains the alternative spelling ded reckoning (which actually originated centuries later).
Senses: glosses: A method of estimating the position of a ship or aircraft by applying estimates of the distance and direction travelled from a previously known position. In respect to ships/boats, it excludes the effect of wind and current on the vessel. Compare with estimated position. Abbreviation: DR
traveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹævl̩d/
Forms: form: more traveled
form: most traveled
form: travelled
Senses: examples: text: We climbed up a well traveled path.
text: Here moss engreens the travelled stone; […]
ref: 1953, Chicago Review, volume 7, University of Chicago Press:
glosses: Frequented by travelers.
examples: text: Our guide was a much traveled young man.
text: Thou bringest the sailor to his wife,
⁠And travell’d men from foreign lands;
⁠And letters unto trembling hands;
And, thy dark freight, a vanish’d life.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto X”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Experienced in travel.
traveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹævl̩d/
Forms: form: travelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of travel
bête noir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bête noire.
avoided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɔɪdɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avoid
whimper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪmpə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʍɪmpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: whimpers
Etymology: From dialectal whimp (“to whine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare German wimmern (“to whimper, whine”).
Senses: glosses: A low intermittent sob.
whimper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪmpə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʍɪmpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: whimpers
form: whimpering
form: whimpered
form: whimpered
Etymology: From dialectal whimp (“to whine”) + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare German wimmern (“to whimper, whine”).
Senses: examples: text: The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room.
text: At the sight of Mr. Utterson, the housemaid broke into hysterical whimpering; and the cook, crying out "Bless God! it's Mr. Utterson," ran forward as if to take him in her arms.
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To cry or sob softly and intermittently.
examples: text: Was ther euer yet prechers, but ther wer gainſayers? that ſpurned? that winſt? that whimpered againſt him?
ref: 1549 April 1 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Thyrde Sermon of Maister Hughe Latymer whyche He Preached before the Kynge [Edward VI], wythin Hys Graces Palayce at Westminster, the XXII. Daye of Marche.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 39, verso:
glosses: To cry with a low, whining, broken voice; to whine; to complain.
examples: text: “Master, please don’t punish me!” he whimpered.
text: Stripped of all bravado, Cersei breaks, and shows the very scared, vulnerable woman who has kept her emotions at bay. “I don’t want to die,” she whimpers, “Not like this.” It’s all the more moving for coming from a character who built her identity on steely resolve and contempt for such hoary conceits as fear.
ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
glosses: To say something in a whimpering manner.
Synonyms: mewl
Derived terms: whimperative
ergative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergative cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: word: ergative
glosses: A grammatical case used to indicate the agent of a transitive verb in ergative-absolutive languages.
Related terms: absolutive case
whinny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪni/
homophone: Winnie
rhymes: -ɪni
Forms: form: whinnies
form: whinney
Etymology: From Middle English whynyen, whinien, akin to Middle English whinen (“to whine”).
Senses: examples: text: And moving out they found the stately horse, / Who now no more a vassal to the thief, / But free to stretch his limbs in lawful fight, / Neigh'd with all gladness as they came, and stoop'd / With a low whinny toward the pair: […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 85–86:
hypernyms: neigh#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: nicker
english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
glosses: A gentle neigh.
whinny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪni/
homophone: Winnie
rhymes: -ɪni
Forms: form: whinnies
form: whinnying
form: whinnied
form: whinnied
form: whinney
Etymology: From Middle English whynyen, whinien, akin to Middle English whinen (“to whine”).
Senses: examples: text: Cattle lowed here and there, and horses whinnied to be fed.
ref: 1904 May, Winston Churchill, The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book I (The Borderland), page 240:
text: A pony whinnied a short distance from the hut.
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XIII, in The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
text: [John Gray] whinnies like a donnish Houyhnhnm[.]
ref: 2014 January 28, Will Self, “John Gray: Forget everything you know”, in Independent, retrieved 03 Mar 2021:
hypernyms: neigh#Verb
coordinate_terms: word: nicker
english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
glosses: To make a gentle neigh.
raw_tags: of a horse
whiplash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪpˌlæʃ/
ipa: /ˈʍɪpˌlæʃ/
rhymes: -ɪplæʃ
Forms: form: whiplashes
Etymology: Univerbation of whip + lash.
Senses: glosses: The lash of a whip.
synonyms: whiplash injury
whiplash-associated disorder
glosses: An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip.
examples: text: Some parents, feeling too hurt by the push-off or taking their teenager’s rejections too personally, choose to make themselves unavailable. In some ways it does feel better to avoid episodes of emotional whiplash.
ref: 2014, Lisa Damour, “The Emotional Whiplash of Parenting a Teenager”, in Motherlode: Adventures In Parenting:
text: A week of public health reversals from the White House and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has left Americans with pandemic whiplash, sowing confusion about coronavirus vaccines and mask-wearing as the Delta variant upends what people thought they knew about how to stay safe.
ref: 2021, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Michael D. Shear, “Americans Suffer Pandemic Whiplash as Leaders Struggle With Changing Virus”, in The New York Times:
text: And he talked about the “whiplash” he often feels when it comes to A.I. these days, as some people urge companies like Google to move faster on A.I., release more products and take bigger risks, while others urge them to slow down and be more cautious.
ref: 2023 March 31, Kevin Roose, “Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on the A.I. Moment: ‘You Will See Us Be Bold’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: switchback
zigzag course
glosses: An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock.
whiplash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪpˌlæʃ/
ipa: /ˈʍɪpˌlæʃ/
rhymes: -ɪplæʃ
Forms: form: whiplashes
form: whiplashing
form: whiplashed
form: whiplashed
Etymology: Univerbation of whip + lash.
Senses: examples: text: […] Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.
ref: 2008 December 23, Nicholas Confessore, “Resistance to Kennedy Grows among Democrats”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To jerk back and forth; to buffet.
examples: text: After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.
ref: 1990, V.C. Andrews, My Sweet Audrina, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: To lash as if with a whip.
whipped cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipped creams
Etymology: The standard of identity comes from 21 CFR 131.25.
Senses: synonyms: whip cream
whip
glosses: Thick cream that has had air incorporated into it by rapid beating.
synonyms: whip cream
whip
glosses: Thick cream that has had air incorporated into it by rapid beating.
Cream, at least 30% of which is milkfat, possibly also containing emulsifiers and/or stabilizers but nothing else, which is then whipped.
qualifier: US standards of identity
Derived terms: whipped-creamed
whipped-creamy
Related terms: whipping cream
squirty cream
whippoorwill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʍɪp.ɚˌwɪl/
ipa: /ˈwɪp.ɚˌwɪl/
ipa: /ˈwɪp.əˌwɪl/
Forms: form: whippoorwills
form: whip-poor-will
form: whippowill
form: whip-o-will
form: whip-o'-will
Etymology: Imitative of its note.
Senses: examples: text: “Seems like I heard a whippoorwill callinʼ, and I thought to myself, Go on away from here, weʼll whip ole Will when we find him.”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 55:
glosses: A nocturnal insectivorous bird of North America (Antrostomus vociferus, syn. Caprimulgus vociferus), a type of nightjar, named after its characteristic call.
examples: text: The bird sang his whippoorwills all night.
text: From across the road a bird sang 'Whippoorwill, whippoorwill!'
ref: 2023 December 12, Timothy C. Baker, Reading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal Stories, MIT Press, →ISBN:
text: Somewhere in the darkness a few cold-sounding frogs lamented the lost summer, and the bird which the Chippewa called muck-a-wiss sang whippoorwill.
ref: 1959, Thomas William Duncan, Big River, Big Man:
text: For I'm sure 'tis a bird that now sings 'Whippoorwill, Whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill!'
ref: 1857, Grace Greenwood, The Little Pilgrim, page 91:
glosses: The distinctive call of the above bird.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Antrostomus vociferus
word: eastern whippoorwill
taxonomic: Antrostomus arizonae
word: Mexican whippoorwill
Related terms: taxonomic: Antrostomus carolinensis
word: chuck-will's-widow
taxonomic: Antrostomus spp.
word: nightjar
whipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʍɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: whippings
Senses: glosses: The punishment of being whipped.
glosses: A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
glosses: A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream to produce whipped cream.
glosses: A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
examples: text: Never cut a line or leave the end of a line dangling loose without a whipping to prevent it from unlaying. A line without a whipping will unlay of its own accord. A frayed line is a painful sight to a good seaman. Whenever a line or hawser has to be cut, whippings should be put on first. Put one whipping on each side of the cut. To prevent fraying, a temporary or plain whipping can be put on with any type of cordage, even with rope yarn.
ref: 1999, Marine Crewman's Handbook: Field Manual 55-501, US Dept of the Army:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The lashing of the end of a rope.
topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
synonyms: whipstitching
glosses: The sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread.
Derived terms: whipping boy
whipping cream
whipping frog
whipping girl
whipping post
whipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʍɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whip
whirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːl/
note: without the wine–whine merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ʍɜːl/
note: h
enpr: wûrl
ipa: /(h)wɝl/
ipa: /ˈʍɪɾ(ə̯)l/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: whorl
Forms: form: whirls
form: whirling
form: whirled
form: whirled
Etymology: From Middle English whirlen, contracted from earlier *whirvelen, *whervelen, possibly from Old English *hwyrflian, *hweorflian (attested in hwirflung, hwerflung (“change, vicissitude”)), frequentative form of Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), itself from Proto-West Germanic *hwerban, from Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”); or perhaps from Old Norse hvirfla (“to go round, spin”). Cognate with Dutch wervelen (“to whirl, swirl”), German wirbeln (“to whirl, swirl”), Danish hvirvle (“to whirl”), Swedish virvla (older spelling hvirfla), Albanian vorbull (“a whirl”). Related to whirr and wharve.
Senses: examples: text: The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
text: The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
examples: text: My head is whirling after all that drink.
text: My brained ^([sic]) whirled as he went on, but yet there was a fearful impression that the worst was not told.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 13:
synonyms: swim
reel
glosses: To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
examples: text: The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.
text: He whirls his sword around without delay.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make something or someone whirl.
examples: text: See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.
ref: c. 1630, John Milton, “The Passion”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
text: To-night the winds begin to rise
⁠And roar from yonder dropping day:
⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
The rooks are blown about the skies; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24:
text: The passionate heart of the poet is whirl’d into folly.
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
whirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜːl/
note: without the wine–whine merger, non-rhotic
ipa: /ʍɜːl/
note: h
enpr: wûrl
ipa: /(h)wɝl/
ipa: /ˈʍɪɾ(ə̯)l/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: whorl
Forms: form: whirls
Etymology: From Middle English whirl, wherwille, whorwhil, wervel, from Old English hwirfel, hwyrfel (“whirlpool”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwirbil, from Proto-Germanic *hwirbilaz, *hwarbilaz (“swirl, whirl, whirlpool”), equivalent to wharve + -el; and also Old Norse hvirfill (“ring, circle, crown”), whence Danish hvirvel (“cowlick”), Dutch werveling (“whirling, vortex”), German Low German Warvel (“whirl, whirlpool”), German Wirbel (“whirl, whirlpool”).
Senses: examples: text: She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.
glosses: An act of whirling.
glosses: Something that whirls, such as a whirlwind.
glosses: A confused tumult.
examples: text: My life is one social whirl.
glosses: A rapid series of events.
examples: text: My mind was in a whirl.
glosses: Dizziness or giddiness.
examples: text: OK, let's give it a whirl.
glosses: (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.
Derived terms: awhirl
fire whirl
give something a whirl
merry-go-whirl
whirl-bone
whirligig
whirlpool
whirly
whirlpool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝlpul/
ipa: /ˈhwɝlpul/
ipa: /ˈwɜːlpuːl/
Forms: form: whirlpools
Etymology: From earlier whirlpoole, whirlpole, apparently from Middle English *whirlpole, potentially coalescing Old English hwierfel (“whirlpool”) and Old English hwierfepōl (“whirlpool”). Equivalent to whirl + pool. Cognate with Scots quhirlepole, whirle-pule (“whirlpool”). Compare also English whirlpit.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English gurges (“whirlpool”), borrowed from Latin gurges (“whirlpool”).
Senses: examples: text: A whirlpool is an instance of a vortex produced by ocean tides, or by a hole underneath where the water would drain out, such as in a bathtub.
glosses: A swirling body of water.
examples: text: The meatloaf has been cooking in the oven for the last hour and should be ready just about the time George climbs out of the whirlpool.
ref: 1995, Orange Coast Magazine, volume 21, number 6, page 56:
glosses: A hot tub, jacuzzi.
glosses: A state of turmoil, or agitated excitement.
Derived terms: whirlpool galaxy
whirlpool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝlpul/
ipa: /ˈhwɝlpul/
ipa: /ˈwɜːlpuːl/
Forms: form: whirlpools
form: whirlpooling
form: whirlpooled
form: whirlpooled
Etymology: From earlier whirlpoole, whirlpole, apparently from Middle English *whirlpole, potentially coalescing Old English hwierfel (“whirlpool”) and Old English hwierfepōl (“whirlpool”). Equivalent to whirl + pool. Cognate with Scots quhirlepole, whirle-pule (“whirlpool”). Compare also English whirlpit.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English gurges (“whirlpool”), borrowed from Latin gurges (“whirlpool”).
Senses: glosses: To spin or swirl like the water in a whirlpool.
Derived terms: whirlpooling
whirling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɜːlɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwɝlɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwɜːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whirl
whirling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɜːlɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwɝlɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwɜːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Forms: form: whirlings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to whirl.
Derived terms: whirling disease
whirling pits
whirling table
whirling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɜːlɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwɝlɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwɜːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: a whirling carousel; whirling dancers
text: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid:
glosses: That whirls or whirl.
Derived terms: whirlingly
whirlingness
whirr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜː/
ipa: /wɝ/
ipa: /ʍɪr/
ipa: /wøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /weː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: were (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: where (fair–fur merger)
homophone: ware (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whirrs
form: whirring
form: whirred
form: whirred
form: whir
Etymology: From Middle English whirren, probably from Old Norse: compare Danish hvirre, virre, Norwegian kvirre, Old Norse hvirfla (“to whirl, spread”).
Senses: glosses: To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
examples: text: In a city where media companies and hospitals have armed guards, this accessibility is unusual. Inside, drivers sit and chat in between shifts, the overhead fan whirring and causing the dim electric light to flicker over their faces.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound.
glosses: To cause (something) to make such a sound.
glosses: (of a panther) To make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented, much like the domestic cat’s purr.
Synonyms: sense: make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound
word: buzz
sense: make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound
word: drone
sense: make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound
word: hum
sense: make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound
word: purr
sense: make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound
word: whine
sense: make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound
word: whistle
sense: make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound
word: whizz
whirr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɜː/
ipa: /wɝ/
ipa: /ʍɪr/
ipa: /wøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /weː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: were (fern–fir–fur merger)
homophone: where (fair–fur merger)
homophone: ware (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whirrs
form: whir
Etymology: From Middle English whirren, probably from Old Norse: compare Danish hvirre, virre, Norwegian kvirre, Old Norse hvirfla (“to whirl, spread”).
Senses: examples: text: At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, “Lord Galen’s Farewell”, in Livia: Or Buried Alive […] (The Avignon Quintet; 2), London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 239:
text: Then the exploding whirr of wings in the wind — a mixed covey of bobwhites and scalies.
ref: 2007, Jeffrey Engel, Sherol Engel, & James A. Swan, Chasing The Hunter's Dream: 1,001 of the World's Best Duck Marshes, Deer Runs, Elk Meadows, Pheasant Fields, Bear Woods, Safaris, and Extraordinary Hunts, HarperCollins, published 2007, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: A sibilant buzz or vibration; the sound of something in rapid motion.
glosses: A bustle of noise and excitement.
glosses: The vibrating sound made by a panther in its throat when contented.
Synonyms: sense: sibilant buzz or vibration
word: buzz
sense: sibilant buzz or vibration
word: drone
sense: sibilant buzz or vibration
word: hum
sense: sibilant buzz or vibration
word: purr
sense: sibilant buzz or vibration
word: whine
sense: sibilant buzz or vibration
word: whistle
sense: sibilant buzz or vibration
word: whizz
sense: bustle of noise and excitement
word: bustle
sense: bustle of noise and excitement
word: hustle
bustling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌs(ə)lɪŋ/
Forms: form: more bustling
form: most bustling
Senses: examples: text: bustling marketplace
text: bustling square
text: bustling streets
text: bustling town
glosses: Busy; full of energy and noisy activity.
Synonyms: lively
Derived terms: bustlingly
unbustling
bustling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌs(ə)lɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bustle
bustling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌs(ə)lɪŋ/
Forms: form: bustlings
Senses: examples: text: the bustlings of waiters in the crowded restaurant
glosses: A bustle; a busy stir.
conjugal rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The rights and privileges arising from the marital relationship; especially those of love, affection, companionship, comfort and sexual relations.
bustle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌsəl/
rhymes: -ʌsəl
Forms: form: bustles
Etymology: From Middle English bustlen, bustelen, bostlen, perhaps an alteration of *busklen (> Modern English buskle), a frequentative of Middle English busken (“to prepare; make ready”), from Old Norse búask (“to prepare oneself”); or alternatively from a frequentative form of Middle English busten, bisten (“to buffet; pummel; dash; beat”) + -le. Compare also Icelandic bustla (“to splash; bustle”).
Senses: examples: text: we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence.
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 34:
text: In the midſt of all this buſtle, I was ſtruck with the appearance of a large bevy of beauties and women of the firſt fashion, who with all the perfect confidence of good breeding, inſhrined themſelves in the ſeveral temples dedicated to the Cyprian Venus[.]
ref: 1755, Adam Fitz-Adam, The World, number CXXI, London, page 789:
synonyms: ado
hustle
glosses: An excited activity; a stir.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
examples: text: All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.
ref: 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:
glosses: A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
Derived terms: bustlesome
bustly
hustle and bustle
hustle-bustle
bustle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌsəl/
rhymes: -ʌsəl
Forms: form: bustles
form: bustling
form: bustled
form: bustled
Etymology: From Middle English bustlen, bustelen, bostlen, perhaps an alteration of *busklen (> Modern English buskle), a frequentative of Middle English busken (“to prepare; make ready”), from Old Norse búask (“to prepare oneself”); or alternatively from a frequentative form of Middle English busten, bisten (“to buffet; pummel; dash; beat”) + -le. Compare also Icelandic bustla (“to splash; bustle”).
Senses: examples: text: The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
text: I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 6:
glosses: To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
examples: text: The train station was bustling with commuters.
glosses: To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
examples: text: Don’t bustle her or fuss or snatch: / A suitor looking at his watch / Is not a posture that persuades / Willing, much less reluctant maids.
ref: 1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers:
glosses: To push around, to importune.
Synonyms: sense: to move busily
word: flit
sense: to move busily
word: hustle
sense: to move busily
word: scamper
sense: to move busily
word: scurry
sense: to exhibit an energetic abundance
word: abound
sense: to exhibit an energetic abundance
word: brim
sense: to exhibit an energetic abundance
word: bristle
sense: to exhibit an energetic abundance
word: burst
sense: to exhibit an energetic abundance
word: crawl
sense: to exhibit an energetic abundance
word: swell
sense: to exhibit an energetic abundance
word: teem
Derived terms: abustle
bustler
outbustle
lek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: leks
form: laike
form: laike
Etymology: From Germanic roots meaning "play". In the biology sense, it comes specifically from Swedish lek (“child's play”), by means of Swedish leka (“to play”). The verb is first attested in English in 1871 and the noun at least as early as 1867.
Senses: examples: text: 1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, figure caption, 2000, page 333,
Each of the three displaying cocks occupies a small territory at the mating center of the lek.
text: Given that a combination of factors have "released" males from attending nests, why have some species organized their courtship bouts in leks, especially the tightly clumped leks that are typical of manakins and cocks-of-the-rock?
ref: 1997, John Kricher, A Neotropical Companion, →ISBN, page 278:
text: Nevertheless, it does appear that many of the processes of mate choice and sexual selection described for bird and mammal leks also apply to anuran choruses.
ref: 2007, Kentwood D. Wells, The Ecology and Behavior of Amphibians, page 352:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display.
Derived terms: lek paradox
lek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: leks
form: lekking
form: lekked
form: lekked
form: laike
form: laike
Etymology: From Germanic roots meaning "play". In the biology sense, it comes specifically from Swedish lek (“child's play”), by means of Swedish leka (“to play”). The verb is first attested in English in 1871 and the noun at least as early as 1867.
Senses: examples: text: Males in many lekking species have conspicuous morphological ornaments that may be targets of female choice, but male contest competition may also be involved.
ref: 1994, M. B. Andersson, Sexual Selection, page 164:
text: The second reason lekking is so fascinating is because the males aggregate.
ref: 2000, George Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution, page 79:
text: 2010, Boaz Yuval, Jorge Hendrichs 17: Behavior of Fruit Fly in the Genus Ceratitis (Dacinae: Ceratitidini), Martin Aluja, Allen Norrbom (editors), Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior, page 437,
In a recent study (Yuval et al. 1998), the size and weight of males captured either lekking or resting at the same time in the vicinity of leks were measured.
text: Half a dozen of the thumbnail-size males lekked in a sunny glade.
ref: 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, unnumbered page:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek.
examples: text: T’lads is lekkin i t’park.
glosses: To play.
lek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: leks
form: lek
form: leku
form: lekë
form: laike
form: laike
Etymology: From Albanian lek, named after Alexander the Great, whose name is often shortened to Leka in Albanian.
Senses: examples: text: With the loss of control by the Government over foreign exchange surrender requirements and the almost complete depletion of foreign exchange reserves, in early 1992 the official rate was further devalued to leks 50 = $1.
ref: 1992, Mario I. Bléjer, Albania: From Isolation Toward Reform, page 56:
text: 1997, Igor Artimiev, Gary J. Fine, Country Studies: Albania, Ira W. Lieberman, Stilpon S. Nestor, Raj M. Desai, Between State and Market: Mass Privatization in Transition Economies, page 178,
Enterprise shares are sold at voucher auctions in exchange for either immaterial privatization leks (through a bank transfer from the bidder's privatization lek account) or through privatization vouchers, which are submitted at the time of bidding.
text: Value Added Tax is another tax imposed on all enterprises with a yearly turnover of more than 2 million Leks. VAT was introduced in the Albanian tax system in 1995 replacing the old turnover tax.
ref: 2003, Iraj Hoshi, Ewa Balcerowicz, Leszek Balcerowicz, Barriers to Entry and Growth of New Firms in Early Transition, page 253:
glosses: The currency unit of Albania, divided into 100 qindarka.
white chocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white chocolates
Senses: glosses: A food made from cocoa butter, milk, and sugar, having no cocoa solids.
glosses: A piece of confectionery consisting of this.
glosses: An attractive white person or people, especially male.
Coordinate terms: word: dark chocolate
word: plain chocolate
word: milk chocolate
gank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: ganks
form: ganking
form: ganked
form: ganked
Etymology: 1980s, of uncertain origin; possibly imitative or a derivation from gangster.
Senses: examples: text: Then I met this girl she tried to gank me / So I smacked her in the booty with M.C. Plank Bee
ref: 1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:
text: Jay was ganked (mugged) for $55 by some Noongar boys when Brad told them he had a lot of money on him.
ref: 2001, Delphine Jamet, Street Kid in the City:
text: Just as Eazy had robbed Lonzo at Crew Cut Records, Suge and Dre had now ganked Eazy. This time, however, there was a slight problem.
ref: 2004, Mike Sager, Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll and Murder, page 135:
text: And in the old days, you know, if you ganked a drug dealer, they would beat you senseless.
ref: 2004, U.S. Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Combating Gang Violence in America, page 28:
glosses: To swindle.
examples: text: “I ganked these from the Major's house last night,” I explained, reaching into the backpack to withdraw the two books.
ref: 2002, A. K. Stanfield, Zen Smoking: A Mock Epic with Stock Characters, page 261:
text: It was one of the syringes Splinter ganked from the hospital the other day when he was in there for chest pains.
ref: 2006, N. Frank Daniels, Futureproof, page 206:
glosses: To steal.
gank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: ganks
form: ganking
form: ganked
form: ganked
Etymology: From gang and kill.
Senses: examples: text: Our group totally ganked this guy.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: To kill much weaker players in an online video game in such a way that they cannot defend themselves.
Derived terms: ganker
white lie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white lies
form: little white lie
Senses: examples: text: The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.
ref: 1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 239:
text: An occasional little white lie such as Weston's probably won't cause any lasting damage. And at times, telling the truth—particularly the whole truth to a child who's not at an age to handle it—may do more harm than good, they say.
ref: 2008 July 15, Jacqueline Stenson, “The Whole Truth: When is it okay to lie to your kids?”, in Newsweek, retrieved 14 Sep 2017:
text: Too many joy rides in daddy's Jaguar / Too many white lies and white lines
ref: 2012, “Super Rich Kids”, in channel Orange, performed by Frank Ocean ft. Earl Sweatshirt:
text: What the next man knows, where the next man goes / Telling white lies ‘bout black folks
ref: 2021, “Hard To Find”, in Parallel World, performed by Cadence Weapon:
synonyms: fib
glosses: A deliberately untrue statement which is intended to produce a favorable result; especially, one which is judged to be better than an overhonest alternative, as for example to remain polite in a superficial social exchange, or to choose one's battles.
albumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælbjʊmən/
ipa: /ælˈbjuːmən/
ipa: /ˈalbjʊmɪn/
rhymes: -uːmən
Forms: form: albumens
form: albumina
Etymology: From Latin albūmen (“white of an egg”), from albus (“white”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élbʰos (“white”).
Senses: examples: text: The various elements found in food are the following: Starch, sugar, fats, albumen, mineral substances, indigestible substances.
ref: 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Foods”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 25:
synonyms: egg white
glair
coordinate_terms: yolk
glosses: The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.
glosses: The endosperm of flowering plants.
Derived terms: albumenise
albumenization
albumenize
albumenoid
vegetable albumen
Related terms: albumin
albumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăl byōō' mən
ipa: /ælˈbjuː.mən/
ipa: /ˈalbjʊmɪn/
Forms: form: albumins
Etymology: Borrowed from French albumine, from Latin albumen. Compare albumen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and play a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume.
Derived terms: albinterferon
albuminaceous
albuminate
albuminemia
albuminise
albuminome
albuminosis
albuminous
albuminuria
alloalbumin
analbuminaemia
azoalbumin
hemialbumin
lactalbumin
metalbumin
microalbumin
nonalbumin
nucleoalbumin
paralbumin
parvalbumin
prealbumin
seralbumin
seroalbumin
vegetable albumin
Related terms: albumen
glycoalbumin
egg white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg whites
form: eggwhite
form: egg-white
Etymology: Probably a remodelled form of Middle English whit of an egge (“white of an egg”). Compare Old Norse eggja-hvíta (“egg-white”) (whence Icelandic eggjahvíta, Swedish äggvita, Danish æggehvide), Saterland Frisian Oaiwiet (“egg-white”), West Frisian aaiwyt (“egg-white”), Dutch eiwit (“egg-white”), German Low German Witt vun't Ei (“white of an egg”) beside Eiwitt (“egg-white”), German Eiweiß (“egg-white”).
Senses: synonyms: albumen
glair
glosses: The clear part of an egg surrounding the yolk, which turns white when cooked or beaten.
Related terms: word: egg-white
white-collar worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-collar workers
head_nr: 2
Senses: head_nr: 2
hypernyms: worker
<
person
coordinate_terms: blue-collar worker
pink-collar worker
;
tradesperson
tradesman
tradeswoman
;
laborer
glosses: A salaried professional or clerical worker.
white-hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒt
Forms: form: white hot
Senses: examples: text: The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
glosses: Hot enough to glow with a bright white light.
examples: text: a white-hot rage
text: Swift’s catalog of generation-defining hits and canny marketing sense have helped her achieve a level of white-hot demand and media saturation not seen since the 1980s heyday of Michael Jackson and Madonna[…]
ref: 2023 August 5, Ben Sisario, “How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World”, in New York Times:
text: French protests are always lively, but as the journalist John Lichfield observed, “the white-hot anger” of the gilets jaunes was “something new and different”.
ref: 2023 November 17, Oliver Haynes, “Five years on, the world is failing to learn the gilets jaunes’ lesson about class and climate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Extremely fervid or zealous.
examples: text: Flames raced up the rows, blistering and charring and igniting ancient wood that erupted in a white-hot flare of heat.
ref: 2017, Brad Abraham, Magicians Impossible: A Novel, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 352:
glosses: Blazing.
whiten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(h)waɪ̯.tən/
ipa: [ˈ(h)waɪ̯tn̩]
ipa: [ˈ(h)waɪ̯ʔn̩]
rhymes: -aɪtən
Forms: form: whitens
form: whitening
form: whitened
form: whitened
Etymology: From Middle English whitenen, whitnen, from Old Norse hvítna (“to whiten”), from Proto-Germanic *hwītnōną (“to whiten, become white”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwind-, *kwint- (“bright”), equivalent to white + -en. Cognate with Icelandic hvítna (“to whiten”), Swedish vitna, hvitna (“to whiten”), Danish hvidne (“to whiten”). Compare Old English hwītian (“to whiten, become white, be white, make white”).
Senses: examples: text: Age had whitened his hair.
text: The trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
text: Whenever black people are furious with me, I walk over to them and whiten their face, and scream and scream and scream 'daddy’s the boss.'
ref: 2024 February 12, very tall bart, 1:34 from the start, in [YTP] Dennis Prager is crazy (YouTube poop; video), spoken by Penis Prager (Dennis Prager):
glosses: (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.
Derived terms: prewhiten
whitening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪtn̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwaɪtnɪŋ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwaɪtn̩ɪŋ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwaɪtnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whiten
whitening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪtn̩ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwaɪtnɪŋ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwaɪtn̩ɪŋ/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhwaɪtnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ
Forms: form: whitenings
Senses: glosses: A substance, such as a bleach, used to make something white or whiter.
glosses: A substance, such as a bleach, used to make something white or whiter.
Whiting, a kind of fine white chalk.
glosses: The process of making something white or whiter.
litany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəni/
Forms: form: litanies
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French letanie, from Latin litania, from Ancient Greek λιτανεία (litaneía, “prayer”), from λιτή (litḗ, “prayer, entreaty”).
Senses: synonyms: call and response
glosses: A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation.
examples: text: The litany of packaging innovations introduced to or popularized in the U.S. food market over the last generation seems endless: flexible aseptic packaging, barrier plastics, squeezables, lightweight glass, the retort pouch, […]
ref: 1988, Prepared Foods, volume 157, numbers 11-13, page 9:
text: To that end he had sent his men among the common folk of the town, from whom came a litany of tales that led Hawk to a stunningly wrong conclusion. "It seems I may not be good enough at listening," he said regretfully.
ref: 2009 July 22, Josie Litton, Come Back to Me: A Novel (Viking & Saxon), Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 102:
text: There are, to be sure, some differences in how the candidates propose addressing this litany of concerns.
ref: 2016 January 30, “America deserves more from presidential hopefuls”, in The National, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2016, retrieved 31 Jan 2016:
text: [Sam Bankman-Fried] is charged with a litany of fraud and campaign finance law violations, in what US prosecutors are calling “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”.
ref: 2022 December 15, David A Banks, “Crypto was supposed to solve financial corruption. The FTX scandal shows it’s got worse”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2023:
synonyms: laundry list
glosses: A prolonged or tedious list.
Derived terms: Lesser Litany
litanic
litany desk
litany stool
litanywise
Williams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪli.əmz/
ipa: /ˈwɪljəmz/
Etymology: From William + -s (plural suffix).
Senses: glosses: plural of William
successfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/
Forms: form: more successfully
form: most successfully
Etymology: From successful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He successfully climbed the mountain.
text: They successfully completed their project together.
text: Traders have been successfully indoctrinated with the necessity of quick unloading - or else seeing their coal hauled away again - […]
ref: 1964 March, “Coal concentration in Birmingham”, in Modern Railways, page 152:
text: A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully de-extincted animal,” according to Dallas-based biotech company Colossal Biosciences.
ref: 2025 April 7, Katie Hunt, “Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf”, in CNN:
glosses: In a successful manner; with success; without failing.
Synonyms: efficaciously
efficiently
favorably
satisfyingly
satisfactorily
adequately
agreeably
competently
capably
proficiently
properly
Derived terms: task failed successfully
defugalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defugalties
Senses: glosses: an inconsistency, especially with regard to forms of communication (i.e. text documents, radio or video transmissions).
Related terms: fugal
Midway Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small group of islands in the central Pacific; a US territory.
neoteny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niˈɒtəni/
ipa: /niˈɑːtəni/
Forms: form: neotenies
Etymology: From German Neotenie, coined in 1884 by anatomist Julius Kollmann from Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “young”) + τείνειν (teínein, “to tense”).
Senses: examples: text: Most amphibians are aquatic only while young, but some amphibians with neoteny remain aquatic even as adults.
text: Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usually tames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood, a process called pedomorphy or neoteny.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 744:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage.
Synonyms: pedomorphism
Derived terms: neotenic
neotenin
neotenist
neotenous
neotenously
Related terms: agerasia