cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lasagna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈzɑː.njə/
ipa: /ləˈzæn.jə/
ipa: /ləˈsɑː.njə/
ipa: /ləˈzæn.jə/
ipa: /ləˈzɑ.njə/
ipa: /ləˈzɑ.njə/
ipa: /lɘˈsɐː.njɘ/
ipa: /lɘˈzɐː.njɘ/
Forms: form: lasagnas
form: lasagne
form: lasagne
Etymology: From Italian lasagna (and its plural lasagne), possibly from Vulgar Latin *lasania, from Latin lasanum (“cooking pot”), from Ancient Greek λάσανον (lásanon, “trivet or stand for a pot”). Others argue the Italian lasagna originally derived from the Arabic لَوْزِينَج (lawzīnaj, “almond cake”).
Senses: glosses: A flat sheet of pasta.
examples: text: I’m going to fix you a cup of coffee and a plate of lasagna.
ref: 2013, James Lee Burke, Light of the World, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 299:
glosses: An Italian baked dish comprising layers of such pasta with various ingredients (usually a meat ragù (chiefly Bolognese), a fish ragù or a vegetarian/vegetable ragù with bechamel sauce).
examples: text: Kristofer'd gotten it through his head shortly after their arrival to swim naked in the lake, such as it was, and his skin blemished into a lasagna of red hives, white welts, and disarming yellowish spots.
ref: 1996, Lance Olsen, Time Famine: A Novel:
text: Unfortunately, typical mattresses are often a lasagna of nonbiodegradable synthetics, pesticides, and potentially carcinogenic toxins.
ref: 2008, Body & Soul:
text: It's sort of a lasagna of ideas about time and dreams.
ref: 2011, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die for, Open Court Publishing, →ISBN, page 280:
text: “Everything about us is just one layer of lies after another. We're a lasagna of lies. This is a terrible basis for a relationship.”
ref: 2013, Molly Harper, How to Run with a Naked Werewolf, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: CHOCOLATE LASAGNA / Who says lasagna is only a main dish? Serve this easy, no-bake lasagna for dessert. / Ingredients / 2 3.9-ounce packages (110 g) instant chocolate pudding mix / 2 cups (473 mL) milk / 8 ounces (227g) whipped topping / 16 graham crackers, chocolate or plan / 1 1/2 cups (75g) mini marshmallows / chocolate syrup
ref: 2020, Rebecca E. Hirsch, Garfield's Guide to Lasagna: Cooking Nature's Perfect Food, Lerner Publications, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: A combination or layering of things.
Derived terms: lasagna code
lasagna lizard
Mexican lasagna
nutellasagna
Lyssa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪsə/
rhymes: -ɪsə
homophone: lyssa
Etymology: Shortened form of Alyssa.
Senses: examples: text: It was mornings like this when Lyssa really appreciated the indoor arena.
ref: 2002, Karle Dickerson, Joanna Campbell, Hoofprints in the snow:
text: Anaisse sank down to the carpet in order to look her in her eye. She smiled. "My name is Anaisse. Where is your mother, Lyssa?"
ref: 2005, Anya Bast, Seasons of Pleasure: Summer and Autumn:
text: Lyssa, that's what I want to find out. Will you think about it?
ref: 2007, Vesta F Spicer, Alyssa:
glosses: A female given name.
luft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lufts
Etymology: From German Luft (“air”). Doublet of lift and loft.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A piece moved in front of a king to prevent a back-rank mate.
accounting cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accounting costs
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The total amount of money or goods expended in an endeavor, in which it is paid out at some time and recorded in journal entries and ledgers.
Synonyms: historical cost
business cost
Related terms: opportunity cost
glean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːn/
ipa: /ɡlin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: gleans
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English glenen (“to gather (heads of grain left by reapers), glean; to gather (things) together, collect”), from Old French glener, glainer (modern French glaner (“to gather, glean”)), from Late Latin glen(n)are, the present active infinitive of glen(n)ō (“to make a collection”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *glanos (“clean; clear”, adjective), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleh₁- (“to glow, shine; to be glowing or shining”).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English glene (“collection of heads of grain gathered by gleaning; head of grain”), from Old French glene, glane (“act of gleaning; legal right to glean”) (modern French glane (“act of gleaning”)), from glener, glainer (verb): see above.
cognates
* Medieval Latin glana, glena (“bundle of ears of grain”)
Senses: examples: text: Even the greateſt, in reſpect of God, is but a gleaner. God, he is the Maſter of the Harveſt; all Gifts and Graces they are his, in an infinite meaſure; and every godly man, more or leſſe, gleanes from him. Abraham gleaned a great gleane of Faith; Moſes, of Meekneſſe; […]
ref: 1654, Thomas Fuller, “A Comment on Ruth. Motive.”, in Two Sermons: […], London: […] G. and H. Eversden, […], →OCLC, page 153:
text: But late at Night, vvith vveary Pinions come / The lab'ring Youth, and heavy laden home. / Plains, Meads, and Orchards all the day he plies, / The gleans of yellovv Thime diſtend his Thighs: […]
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 130, lines 264–267:
qualifier: obsolete except UK
glosses: A collection of something made by gleaning.
glean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːn/
ipa: /ɡlin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: gleans
Etymology: Possibly a variant of clean (“(UK, dialectal; noun) the afterbirth of a cow or sheep; (verb) of a cow or sheep: to bring forth the afterbirth”), possibly from clean (“to remove dirt from an object or place”), referring to an animal’s uterus being cleaned out by the delivery of the afterbirth.
Senses: examples: text: The gleane of a covv hauing nevvly calved, taken vvhiles it is moiſt and ſo applied, is good for any ulcers of the viſage.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXVIII.] Remedies Observed out of the Bodies of Beasts, for the Accidents that Befall to the Visage, Necke, and Breast.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 327:
text: [O]ur midvvives doe vvarrant, that if a vvoman drinke goats urine, it vvill ſtrip all fluxes of bloud be they never ſo immoderat, ſo that ſhe apply alſo outvvardly the dung of the ſaid beaſt. The pellicle or gleane vvherein a kid vvas enfolded vvithin the dams vvombe, kept untill it bee drie and drunke in vvine, putteth foorth the after-birth in vvomen.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXVIII.] Receits Appropriat to the Maladies of Women, and the Diseases of Suckling Babes: Also Remedies for Them that are Unable to Perfourme the Act of Generation.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 341:
text: This Method of giving VVater to a nevv-calved Covv, vvherein Aſhes are thus put, is conſtantly practiſed by ſome to cleanſe her, and bring avvay her Glean.
ref: 1744, William Ellis, “Of Cows and Calves”, in The Modern Husbandman, or, The Practice of Farming, volume II (Containing, the Months of April, May, and June), London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […], and M[ary] Cooper […], →OCLC, page 150:
synonyms: clean
cleaning
glosses: The afterbirth or placenta of an animal, especially a cow or sheep.
glean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːn/
ipa: /ɡlin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: gleans
form: gleaning
form: gleaned
form: gleaned
Etymology: Possibly a variant of clean (“(UK, dialectal; noun) the afterbirth of a cow or sheep; (verb) of a cow or sheep: to bring forth the afterbirth”), possibly from clean (“to remove dirt from an object or place”), referring to an animal’s uterus being cleaned out by the delivery of the afterbirth.
Senses: examples: text: To make a Covv glean vvell, and keep her in Health aftervvards.— […] And as it is a Cuſtom vvith ſome to give all their Covvs a cleanſing Drink after Calving, I recommend this to be a good one for that Purpoſe.— […] A fourth is, to boil a Quart of ground Malt in tvvo Quarts of Ale, and give all vvarm. A certain Perſon gave this laſt to a Covv, vvhich, on the third Day after Calving, had not gleaned; but in five Days after it came avvay vvhole.
ref: 1744, William Ellis, “Of Bulls, Cows, and Calves”, in The Modern Husbandman, or, The Practice of Farming, volume II (Containing, the Months of April, May, and June), London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […], and M[ary] Cooper […], →OCLC, page 150:
synonyms: clean
glosses: Of an animal, especially a cow or sheep: to deliver its afterbirth or placenta.
trucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌkə/
ipa: /ˈtɹʌkɚ/
rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: truckers
form: truker
form: trukker
form: trucour
form: truiker
form: treukour
Etymology: From Middle English *trukere (“one who disappoints, a deceiver”), from Middle English trukien (“to fail, run out, disappoint”), equivalent to truck (“to fail”) + -er (agent noun suffix). Compare trooker.
Senses: glosses: One who has done something offensive; a deceitful, dishonest, or disreputable person; a deceiver; a cheat.
glosses: A rogue; rascal; miscreant; a ne'er-do-well.
Related terms: trucky
trucker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌkə/
ipa: /ˈtɹʌkɚ/
rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more trucker
form: most trucker
form: truker
form: trukker
form: trucour
form: truiker
form: treukour
Etymology: From Middle English *trukere (“one who disappoints, a deceiver”), from Middle English trukien (“to fail, run out, disappoint”), equivalent to truck (“to fail”) + -er (agent noun suffix). Compare trooker.
Senses: glosses: Dishonest; resulting from or inspired by dishonesty.
trucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌkə/
ipa: /ˈtɹʌkɚ/
rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: truckers
Etymology: From truck (“a vehicle”) + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I says, "Pig Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a-gonna pay no toll."
So we crashed the gate doing ninety-eight.
I says "Let them truckers roll, 10-4!"
ref: 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
text: Because of deregulation and the drive to lower costs, Mr. Lorr said, truckers are now regarded by many companies as just another replaceable part. Some can barely eke out a living.
ref: 2020 September 24, Alex Williams, “The Ugly (and Glorious) Truth About American Supermarkets”, in New York Times:
glosses: A truck driver.
Synonyms: english: truck driver
translation: truck driver
word: truckie
Derived terms: trucker bomb
trucker hat
trucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌkə/
ipa: /ˈtɹʌkɚ/
rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: truckers
Etymology: From truck (“to barter, trade”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: No man having ever yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker for souls.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: One who trucks or trafficks, by trade of goods; a trafficker.
criterion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən/
ipa: /kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪɹiən
Forms: form: criteria
form: criterions
form: criteria
form: criterium
Etymology: From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see critic.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: benchmark
text: criterion of choice, of decision, of selection
text: Knowledge has come to her too soon—knowledge of evil, unqualified by the general charities which longer experience infallibly brings; but her age has lent its own freshness to this first great emotion; it becomes unconsciously a criterion, and the judgment is harsh, because the remembrance is bitter.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 310:
text: The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.
ref: 1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories, Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:
text: Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
ref: 2013 November 30, Paul Davis, “Letters: Say it as simply as possible”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8864:
glosses: A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
Derived terms: Akaike information criterion
bicriterion
Bradford Hill criteria
Conway criterion
criteriology
criterionless
criterion of embarrassment
criterion of verifiability
criterion of verification
Euler's criterion
Feighner criterion
Kaldor-Hicks criterion
Kelly criterion
Lawson comfort criterion
Lawson criterion
Li's criterion
metacriterion
multicriterion
noncriterion
subcriterion
Sylvester's criterion
tricriterion
verifiability criterion
verification criterion
Related terms: criterial
crisis
critic
criticize
critical
curriculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɪkjələm/
ipa: /kɚˈɪkjələm/
ipa: /kəˈɹɪk.jə.ləm/
ipa: /kɜːɹˈɪk.juː.ləm/
Forms: form: curricula
form: curriculums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin curriculum (“course”), derived from currō (“run, move quickly”). Doublet of curricle.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps someday my old US history teacher, and men like him, will use The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression in their courses to balance the many explicitly pro–New Deal and prointerventionist texts and presentations that dominate public-school curricula today.
ref: 2009 November 25, Gennady Stolyarov II, “Murphy on the Great Confusion”, in Mises Institute:
text: But as the effects of climate change have become more visible in recent years, and the breadth of the transformation needed to fight it has become clear, law schools, med schools, literature programs, economics departments and more are incorporating climate into their undergraduate curriculums, grappling with how climate will transform their fields and attempting to prepare students to face those transformations in the labor market.
ref: 2021 April 16, Ciara Nugent, “The Unexpected Ways Climate Change Is Reshaping College Education”, in Time:
text: Bluebonnet Learning materials will be part of a menu of curriculums available for school districts to use. […] Staci Childs, a member of the board who voted against Bluebonnet, told CNN Friday that although the curriculum is optional, she expects most districts will adopt it given the “huge financial implications” of the incentive.
ref: 2024 November 22, Amanda Musa and Zoe Sottile, “Texas education officials approve optional school curriculum that incorporates Bible lessons. Some say it’s unconstitutional”, in CNN:
glosses: The set of courses, coursework, and content offered at a school or university.
examples: text: Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 108:
glosses: The set of standards schools are required to teach all students.
glosses: A racecourse; a place for running.
Derived terms: cocurriculum
core curriculum
covert curriculum
curricular
curriculum vitae
extracurricular
extracurriculum
hidden curriculum
subcurriculum
ecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ɪˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: ecologists
form: œcologist
Etymology: From eco- + -logist. The less common sense “environmentalist” might be from association with deep ecology, or influenced by Romance-language equivalents such as Spanish ecologista (“environmentalist”).
Senses: examples: text: Planting trees to combat climate change is a waste of time, according to a study by ecologists who say that most forests do not have any overall effect on global temperature, while those furthest from the equator could actually be making global warming worse.
ref: 2006 December 15, Alok Jha, “Planting trees to save planet is pointless, say ecologists”, in The Guardian:
text: Once ecologists have more thoroughly identified indoor species, they hope to come up with strategies to scientifically manage homes, by eliminating harmful taxa and fostering species beneficial to our health.
ref: 2013 May 27, Peter Andrey Smith, “Mapping the Great Indoors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Ecologists say the months of intense and unprecedented fires will almost certainly push several species to extinction.
ref: 2020 January 3, Graham Readfearn, “‘Silent death’: Australia's bushfires push countless species to extinction”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A scholar of ecology.
examples: text: Protest actions of this type served to take debate, and the Basque ecologists, onto the street and to encourage people to carry out principled actions such as the eco-sabotage at Itoiz.
ref: 2003, Christopher Rootes, Environmental Protest in Western Europe, OUP, →ISBN, page 210:
text: Despite the accomplishments and the vision of radical ecologists, however, most of the world's power is presently concentrated in economic systems and political institutions that bring about environmental deterioration.
ref: 2005, Carolyn Merchant, Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 254:
text: Second, throughout the 1970s, the party Executive guaranteed its support to numerous ecologists’ protest actions, and formed a number of broader umbrella organizations with ecology groups and smaller parties on the Left in order to facilitate communication, share ideas and strategies, and organize and promote common social initiatives on environmental matters.
ref: 2016, Lorenzo Bosi, Marco Giugni, Katrin Uba, editors, The Consequences of Social Movements, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: An environmentalist (one who advocates for the protection of the environment).
Derived terms: agroecologist
astroecologist
bioecologist
chemoecologist
deep ecologist
dendroecologist
ethnoecologist
geoecologist
macroecologist
palaeoecologist
paleoecologist
Related terms: ecological
ecologism
ecology
datum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪtəm/
ipa: /ˈdætəm/
ipa: /ˈdɑːtəm/
rhymes: -eɪtəm
rhymes: -ætəm
rhymes: -ɑːtəm
Forms: form: data
form: datums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin datum (“a given”). Doublet of die.
Senses: examples: text: a datum of experience
text: given this datum it follows that
glosses: Something known or assumed as fact, and is made the basis of reasoning or inference which an intellectual system of any sort (such as knowledge or theoretical framework) is constructed.
examples: Holonym: data set
synonyms: data point
glosses: Singular of data: A single recorded material, especially obtained by scientific work.
examples: text: A geodetic datum is sometimes also called a benchmark.
text: In a strict sense, a tidal datum can be understood as the reference plane (or surface) to which the height of a predicted tide is referred.[…]Sounding and chart datums are low water datums, that is, they refer to the level of the water surface at low tide. Nonetheless, there are also datums based on high water levels.[…]These two different datums may be included in the broader category of vertical datums, which comprises any plane or surface used as a reference to measure vertical distances (such as depths, drying features, heights on shore, etc.).
ref: 2000, Nuno Sergio Marques Antunes, “The Importance of the Tidal Datum in the Definition of Maritime Limits and Boundaries”, in Maritime Briefing, volume 2, number 7, International Boundaries Research Unit, University of Durham, page 5:
text: Datums are another important map aspect related to projection. A datum provides a base reference for measuring locations on Earth's surface.
ref: 2007, Roger F Tomlinson, Thinking about GIS: geographic information system planning for managers:
text: For horizontal measurements [on the Earth], we fix a mathematical body of Earth in space using a Cartesian coordinate system. After that, a separate coordinate system is created over the surface of this body to generate horizontal coordinates. A mathematical earth body fixed in space makes up the horizontal datum.
ref: 2012, Yong-Qi Chen, Yuk-Cheung Lee, chapter 2.3, in Geographical Data Acquisition:
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A point, line, or surface with reference to which positions (such as elevations) are measured or indicated (such as a permanent benchmark in leveling or mean sea level in a topographical survey).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A floating reference point, or SLDMB, used to evaluate surface currents in a body of water, and often employed by coastal search and rescue.
Derived terms: chart datum
datum circle
datum line
datum plane
datum point
datum surface
metadatum
sense datum
datum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪtəm/
ipa: /ˈdætəm/
ipa: /ˈdɑːtəm/
rhymes: -eɪtəm
rhymes: -ætəm
rhymes: -ɑːtəm
Forms: form: datums
form: datuming
form: datumed
form: datumed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin datum (“a given”). Doublet of die.
Senses: examples: text: Removing the effects of any period of deformation by datuming or flattening selective reflection horizons should restore the structure prior to the datumed horizon, or the amount of deformation above the datumed horizon.
ref: 1982, Paul M. Tucker, Pitfalls Revisited - Issue 3, →ISBN, page 6:
text: On the left the stacking velocity functions are datumed to sea level and show great disparity.
ref: 1998, Stuart Fagin, Model-based Depth Imaging, →ISBN, page 164:
text: On the other hand, if we have a sufficiently accurate near-surface velocity model, we may apply wavefield datuming to convert the raw data into new data as if they were recorded along a datum below the near surface (Box 2.3).
ref: 2014, Hua-Wei Zhou -, Practical Seismic Data Analysis, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: To provide missing data points by using a mathematical model to extrapolate values that are outside the range of a measuring device.
Related terms: data
information
die
dice
knocking shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knocking shops
form: knocking-shop
form: knock shop
form: knock-shop
Senses: examples: text: [A]lways reminds me of one of the costlier knocking-shops, you know—'Maison Japonaise' …
ref: 1945, Evelyn Waugh, “Epilogue”, in Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, published 1952, →OCLC, page 300:
text: Bloody nonsense, "All come together"... Sounds like the motto of a knocking shop in Marrakesh.
ref: 1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 1:
text: Mr Clark, an unrepentant philanderer now gone to the knocking shop in the sky, recorded for posterity his liaisons with Valerie, Josephine and Alison Harkess.
ref: 2004 June 12, Vikram Dodd, “Coven's footnote to Clark diaries”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: [It] had made Mick's heart soar, if only briefly, at the thought that he and Alma might outlive the monster breeze blocks that were used to smash their home ground into crack dens, knocking shops and a despairing dust that settled everywhere on people's heartstrings.
ref: 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 30:
glosses: A brothel.
ee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: een
Senses: examples: text: Each turn'd his face with a ghastly pang / And curs'd me with his ee.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere":
text: […] and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word […]
ref: 1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering:
glosses: An eye.
Derived terms: eesome
ee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: examples: text: Father advanced with outstretched hand and announced in a loud, very hearty voice: "Ee, I'm pleased to meet ye, lad. […]
ref: 1975, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, The Werewolf and the Vampire:
text: 'Ee by gum lass we've seen nought of thee this many a long year, thou's a sight for sore eyes,' he said planting a kiss firmly on Mum's cheek...
ref: 2008, Mavis Crawley, The Rolling Stone: Based on the True Story of My Life:
glosses: eh
ee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: ees
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Enantiomeric excess.
ee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Forms: form: ees
Senses: examples: text: The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.
ref: 1773 October, The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged:
text: I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
ref: 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
text: ETA [is spoken] as "ee-tee-ay" instead of "I SPELL Echo Tango Alfa".
ref: 2016 CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), p. 3-5
glosses: Alternative form of e: the name of the Latin-script letter E/e.
Derived terms: aitch ee double hockey sticks
ee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iː
ipa: /iː/
ipa: [iː˧˦˧]
ipa: [iː˦˦˧]
ipa: [iːː˨˦˧]
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From Cantonese 噫 (ji², interjection).
Senses: examples: text: Eee, so commercial some might say.
ref: 2000 December 29, Samuel Lee, The Straits Times, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page L8:
glosses: Ew, yuck; expression of disgust.
ee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iː
ipa: /iː/
ipa: [iː˧˦˧]
ipa: [iː˦˦˧]
ipa: [iːː˨˦˧]
ipa: /ˈiː/
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /iː/
ipa: [iː˧˦˧]
ipa: [iː˦˦˧]
ipa: [iːː˨˦˧]
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of e (“The second semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat”).
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: ark at ee
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: day-ee
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: ee aye addio
eelpout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eelpouts
Etymology: From Old English ǣleputa, equivalent to eel + pout.
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the family Zoarcidae.
glosses: A yellow flower of uncertain type, possibly the eel-ware, Ranunculus fluitans.
Synonyms: dogfish
fish doctor
slipskin
Derived terms: viviparous eelpout
diagnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Etymology: From Latin diagnōsis, from Ancient Greek διάγνωσις (diágnōsis), from διαγιγνώσκω (diagignṓskō, “to discern”), from διά (diá, “through”) + γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō, “to know”).
Senses: examples: text: Experienced mechanics can diagnosis the condition of machinery just by listening.
ref: 2013, Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things:
glosses: Synonym of diagnose.
synonyms: word: diagnose
ellipsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪp.sɪs/
Forms: form: ellipses
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis, “omission”). Doublet of ellipse.
Senses: examples: text: The ellipsis in 1, 2, 3, ..., 8, 9 means that the numbers 4, 5, 6, and 7 are not explicitly included, but are considered to be part of the pattern.
text: The ellipsis in 0.333... means that the number is a repeating decimal, having threes that go on forever.
text: CARD: Hey Baby. Thanks for the … last night. Love you!
HAZEL: Wow. I've never despised an ellipsis so much in my life.
ref: 2006, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots: 114:
topics: mathematics
media
publishing
sciences
typography
synonyms: word: dot dot dot
word: suspension dots
word: suspension points
glosses: A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in mathematics) that a pattern continues.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The omission of a word or phrase that can be inferred from the context.
examples: text: It was now possible for writers and directors to cut scenes that did not further the plot; called "ellipses" by filmmakers.
ref: 2002, David Blanke, The 1910s: 219:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The omission of scenes in a film that do not advance the plot.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An ellipse.
Derived terms: ellipsism
ellipsization
vertical ellipsis
Related terms: word: elliptical
word: elliptically
word: eclipsis
word: ecthlipsis
alt: '; ’
word: apostrophe
word: curly brackets
word: brace
word: square bracket
word: bracket
alt: :
word: colon
alt: ,
word: comma
alt: ‒; –; —; ―
word: dash
alt: !
word: exclamation mark
alt: ⁄
word: fraction slash
alt: « »; ‹ ›
word: guillemet
alt: -; ‐
word: hyphen
alt: ·
word: interpunct
alt: ‽
word: interrobang
word: bracket
word: parentheses (US
alt: ( )
word: Canada)
word: full stop
alt: .
word: period
alt: ?
word: question mark
alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „
word: quotation marks
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: "; '
word: quotation marks
alt: ;
word: semicolon
word: slash
alt: /
word: stroke
alt: ] [
word: space
fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌŋ.ɡəs/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡəs
Forms: form: fungi
form: funguses
form: fungusses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fungus (“mushroom”).
Senses: examples: text: Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2020:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.
Synonyms: word: fungus
Hypernyms: word: organism
Hyponyms: sense: organism
word: ascomycete
sense: organism
word: basidiomycete
sense: organism
word: mold
sense: organism
word: mushroom
sense: organism
word: toadstool
sense: organism
word: yeast
word: bracket fungus
word: dry rot
word: jelly fungus
word: mildew
word: morel
word: polypore
word: rust
word: wood ear
Derived terms: word: ambrosia fungus
word: antifungus
word: artillery fungus
word: artist's fungus
word: bird's nest fungus
word: black fungus
word: bleeding tooth fungus
word: bootlace fungus
word: bracket fungus
word: cannonball fungus
word: caterpillar fungus
word: cauliflower fungus
word: cinnamon fungus
word: clavarioid fungus
word: club fungus
taxonomic: Daldinia concentrica
word: coal fungus
word: coral fungus
word: cup fungus
word: dark fungus
word: endofungus
word: face fungus
word: fairy ring fungus
word: fly fungus
word: fungal
word: fungicidal
word: fungicide
word: fungoid
word: fungology
word: fungus beetle
word: fungus comb
word: fungused
word: fungus gamboge
word: fungus garden
word: fungus gnat
word: fungus-growing ant
word: funguslike
word: fungus moth
word: fungusproof
word: fungus weevil
word: fungusy
word: ghost fungus
word: golden jelly fungus
word: honey fungus
word: hoof fungus
word: jelly fungus
word: macrofungus
word: microfungus
word: nail fungus
word: orange-peel fungus
word: panfungus
word: phytofungus
word: pleasing fungus beetle
word: pseudofungus
word: rust fungus
word: sac fungus
word: sewage fungus
word: shelf fungus
word: shotgun fungus
word: smellfungus
word: snow fungus
word: sulfur fungus
word: sulphur fungus
word: tinder fungus
word: toothed jelly fungus
word: tooth fungus
word: whiskey fungus
word: white fungus
word: yellow brain fungus
word: zombie fungus
Related terms: word: fungous
word: :Category:Fungi
medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mē'diəm
ipa: /ˈmiː.di.əm/
rhymes: -iːdiəm
Forms: form: mediums
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: M
qualifier: food or drink
glosses: One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
qualifier: food or drink
glosses: An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
glosses: One who fits an item of that size.
raw_tags: with respect to clothing
glosses: A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
medium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mē'diəm
ipa: /ˈmiː.di.əm/
rhymes: -iːdiəm
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.
Senses: glosses: Arithmetically average.
glosses: Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
glosses: Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
qualifier: food or drink
glosses: That is medium (the manufactured size).
Derived terms: lower-medium
medium-brow
medium-chain
medium dead
medium drink
medium dry
medium format
medium icebreaker
medium long shot
medium machine gun
medium pace
medium pacer
medium-quality
medium scale integration
medium shot
medium spiny neuron
medium wave
mediumwave
military medium
over medium
small and medium-sized enterprise
upper-medium
Related terms: mean
median
mediate
mediation
mediator
mediocre
mediocrity
medium
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: mē'diəm
ipa: /ˈmiː.di.əm/
rhymes: -iːdiəm
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and meson.
Senses: glosses: To a medium extent.
Synonyms: mediumly
oasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊˈeɪsɪs/
ipa: /əʊˈeɪsəs/
enpr: ō-ā'sĭs
enpr: ō-ā'səs
ipa: /oʊˈeɪsɪs/
ipa: /oʊˈeɪsəs/
rhymes: -eɪsɪs
rhymes: -eɪsəs
Forms: form: oases
form: oasises
Etymology: From Late Latin Oasis, from Ancient Greek Ὄασις (Óasis), from Demotic wḥj, from Egyptian wḥꜣt (“oasis, cauldron”), G43-V28-G1-X1:N25 Compare Sahidic Coptic ⲟⲩⲁϩⲉ (ouahe) and Arabic وَاحَة (wāḥa).
Senses: examples: text: It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!
ref: 1892, James Yoxall, chapter 7, in The Lonely Pyramid:
text: It was now a beautiful, moonlit night. The air was crisp and invigorating. Behind them lay the interminable vista of the desert, dotted here and there with an occasional oasis.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 137:
text: On the edge of the dunes lies the oasis town of Dunhuang, a key strategic crossroads on the Silk Road as the routes divided to the west to skirt the Taklamakan to the north and south.
ref: 2015, Michael Welland, “Barriers and Corridors, Imports and Exports”, in The Desert: Lands of Lost Borders, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:
synonyms: island
refuge
glosses: A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.
examples: text: The park was an oasis in the middle of the busy city.
glosses: A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.
examples: text: [T]here is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
ref: 1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, pages 11–12:
text: I have tried to find friends like me […] but have failed to form even one prolonged relationship. Only a few of them could understand how I felt and a couple of them allowed me to express my love as intimately and vigorously as I wanted to. But for these two oases, I have lived all these years in an emotional void.
ref: 1980 August 9, anonymous author, “Inside Burning”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: A place or situation of fruitfulness or abundance separated from surrounding barrenness or scarcity.
Derived terms: food oasis
Kharga Oasis
oasification
Oasisamerica
oasisless
oasislike
Related terms: oasal
oasitic
stimulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
Forms: form: stimuluses
form: stimuli
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stimulus (“goad, prick”).
Senses: examples: text: an economic stimulus
text: From the beginning of the show to the end, vanity is the sole stimulus and reward of action—vanity, that never looks beyond the present.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 174:
text: Democrats, meanwhile, point out that Republicans seem to have made a conscious decision, beginning with the stimulus, to oppose anything the president put forward, dooming any chance of renewed cooperation between the parties.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
text: respond to a stimulus
glosses: An external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon; for example, a spur or incentive that drives a person to take action or change behaviour.
examples: text: Even light nonpainful stimuli can provoke or exacerbate spontaneous pain; this is not limited to tactile, thermal, or vibratory stimuli, because auditory, visual, olfactory, and visceral stimuli also may be problematic.
ref: 2002, Kim Burchiel, Surgical Management of Pain, Thieme, →ISBN, page 44:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
physiology
psychology
sciences
glosses: Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response, or that affects any of the sensory apparatuses.
examples: text: Many plants, like many animals, are furnished with arms for their protection; these are either aculei, prickles […]; or stimuli, stings, as in the nettles, which are armed with a venomous fluid for the annoyance of naked animals.
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 15:
topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stinging part on the body of a plant or insect.
Synonyms: sense: anything that may have an impact or influence
word: influence
sense: anything that may have an impact or influence
word: impetus
sense: anything that may have an impact or influence
word: impulse
sense: anything that may have an impact or influence
word: spur
Derived terms: antistimulus
chemostimulus
contrastimulus
costimulus
counterstimulus
discriminative stimulus
external stimulus
extrastimulus
gravistimulus
hyperstimulus
interstimulus
mechanostimulus
microstimulus
noxious stimulus
peristimulus
photostimulus
Porkulus
poststimulus
poverty of the stimulus
prestimulus
stimulon
stimulus check
stimulus delta
stimulus-response time
superstimulus
tristimulus
synthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪnθəsɪs/
Forms: form: syntheses
Etymology: From Latin synthesis, from Ancient Greek σύνθεσις (súnthesis, “a putting together; composition”), from συντίθημι (suntíthēmi, “put together, combine”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “set, place”). Doublet of sandhi.
Senses: examples: text: In its synthesis of different art forms and various techniques, Tongues Untied actually represented a departure for Riggs, whose previous work […] had been in a relatively traditional documentary format.
ref: 1990 December 16, Phil Harper, “Affirmed”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 9:
glosses: The formation of something complex or coherent by combining simpler things.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: Creation of a complex waveform by summation of simpler waveforms.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reaction of elements or compounds to form more complex compounds.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A deduction from the general to the particular, by applying the rules of logic to a premise.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The combination of thesis and antithesis.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In intelligence usage, the examining and combining of processed information with other information and intelligence for final interpretation.
glosses: An apt arrangement of elements of a text, especially for euphony.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The uniting of ideas into a sentence.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The reunion of parts that have been divided.
examples: text: The Saturnalia was apparently the only occasion, however, when the synthesis could be worn in public with decorum.
ref: 1918, American Philological Association, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, page 132:
glosses: An Ancient Roman dining-garment.
Derived terms: amorphosynthesis
Arndt-Eistert synthesis
asymmetric synthesis
autosynthesis
Auwers synthesis
baryosynthesis
biosynthesis
chemosynthesis
cosynthesis
electrosynthesis
Fischer indole synthesis
Friedländer synthesis
Gabriel synthesis
glycosynthesis
hemisynthesis
heterosynthesis
hyposynthesis
liposynthesis
mechanosynthesis
medieval synthesis
modern synthesis
mutasynthesis
narcosynthesis
neosynthesis
nucleosynthesis
oligosynthesis
one-pot synthesis
osteosynthesis
oversynthesis
Paal-Knorr synthesis
parasynthesis
photobiosynthesis
photoelectrosynthesis
photosynthesis
phytosynthesis
polysynthesis
prebiotic organic synthesis
proteosynthesis
psychosynthesis
pyrosynthesis
radiosynthesis
resynthesis
retrobiosynthesis
retrosynthesis
semisynthesis
stereospecific synthesis
synthesis gas
synthesis gases
synthesis phase
thermosynthesis
tomosynthesis
total synthesis
voice synthesis
wave field synthesis
Wenker synthesis
Wöhler synthesis
Related terms: synthesize
synthetic
synopsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnɒpsɪs/
ipa: /sɪˈnɑpsɪs/
Forms: form: synopses
Etymology: From Late Latin synopsis, itself from Ancient Greek σύνοψις (súnopsis), from σύν (sún, “with or whole”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view”) meaning whole view.
Senses: examples: text: The following Synopsis is intended as a monograph of those species of the order hitherto discovered…
ref: 1869, Edward Drinker Cope, Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia of North America. Part I.:
text: In the following synopsis of the history of the United States the principal events are briefly mentioned…
ref: 1914, Chandler B. Beach, Frank Morton McMurry (eds.), The New Student’s Reference Work:
text: A Synopsis, on the other hand, should be short enough and general enough so that a person who has not yet begun to study the language can follow it…
ref: 1971, Earl W. Stevick, Adapting and Writing Language Lessons/Appendix M:
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
glosses: A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
qualifier: Orthodoxy
glosses: A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.
Synonyms: sense: brief summary
word: abridgment
sense: brief summary
word: abstract
sense: brief summary
word: conspectus
sense: brief summary
word: outline
sense: brief summary
word: overview
sense: brief summary
word: summary
Related terms: synoptic
synoptical
synoptically
synoptist
bird's-eye view