cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
romaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈmɔːnt/
ipa: /ɹəʊˈmɔːnt/
rhymes: -ɔːnt
Forms: form: romaunts
Etymology: From Old French romaunt (modern roman), variant of romanz.
Senses: examples: text: They are forbidden to read, save what their Superior permitted[…]; but lo! their ears are at the command of idle minstrels, and their eyes study empty romaunts.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, “Ivanhoe”, in The Waverley Novels, Volume IV, published 1844, page 612:
text: 1844, Caroline de Crespigny (translator), Ernst Schulze, The Enchanted Rose: A Romaunt in Three Cantos, [1818, Ernst Schulze, Die Bezauberte Rose: Romantisches Gedicht in drei Gesängen], W. Hoffmeister.
text: Those who are acquainted with my former writings must be aware that I use the word 'romantic' always in a noble sense; meaning the habit of regarding the external and real world as a singer of Romaunts would have regarded it in the Middle Ages[…].
ref: 1884, John Ruskin, “The Art of England”, in The Complete Works of John Ruskin, volume 21, published 1910, page 3:
glosses: A romantic story told in verse; a romance.
roughly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌf.li/
rhymes: -ʌfli
Forms: form: roughlier
form: more roughly
form: roughliest
form: most roughly
Etymology: From rough + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 60:
synonyms: harshly
rudely
severely
austerely
glosses: In a rough manner; without kindness, softness, or gentleness.
glosses: Unevenly or irregularly.
examples: text: Satanism can be divided, roughly, into two branches: the Luciferians and the Palladists.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 259:
text: Of the roughly 400 emerging infectious diseases that have been identified since 1940, more than 60% are zoonotic: ie they came from animals. Throughout history this has been common.
ref: 2013 December 6, Alok Jha, “A deadly disease could travel at jet speed around the world. How do we stop it in time?”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 26, page 27:
synonyms: word: -ish
word: about
word: all but
word: almost
word: approaching
word: around
word: by and large
word: circa
word: close
word: close to
word: essentially
word: for all practical purposes
word: fornigh
word: give or take
word: imprecisely
word: just about
word: kind of
word: loosely
word: more or less
word: nearly
word: near
word: nearabout
word: nigh on
word: odd
word: or so
word: plus or minus
word: roundly
word: roughly
word: say
word: some
word: -some
word: sort of
word: thereabout
word: virtually
word: well-nigh
word: ±
glosses: Without precision or exactness; imprecisely but close to in quantity or amount; approximately.
Derived terms: roughly speaking
roughsetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roughsetters
Senses: glosses: A mason who builds rough stonework.
romanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more romanesque
form: most romanesque
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Romanesque.
quim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪm/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪm]
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: quims
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps an alteration of queme. The English Dialect Dictionary has a citation of "quim and cosh" from 1723 which it glosses as "intimate and familiar". Compare also quaint, cunt. Derivation from Welsh cwm (“hollow”) is sometimes suggested, but the OED notes that this is "unlikely on both semantic and phonological grounds".
Senses: examples: text: For one day, when amusing herself with this whim
The carrot it snapped, and part stuck in her quim.
ref: 1879, anonymous author, “The Wanton Lass”, in The Pearl, number 1:
text: Ho! What do I here behold? Were you brushing the cobwebs off a few quims?
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18: Penelope]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], page 938:
text: As for whores—they are sometimes daughters of fine homes peddling their quim and quiff for a thumbnail of cocaine or a tot of rot-gut whiskey.
ref: 1970, Stephen Longstreet, Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 145:
text: When she's done he licks the last few drops from his lips. More cling, golden clear, to the glossy hairs of her quim.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 2: Une Perm au Casino Hermann Goering, page 235:
text: Her quim grew wet, ready to welcome it.
ref: 2005, Margaret Carter, Maiden Flights, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: The female genitalia; the vulva.
examples: text: (to Black Widow) In every way, [ Clint Barton ] knows your fear! And then he'll wake…to see his good work…When he screams, I'll split his skull! This is my bargain, you mewling quim!
ref: 2012, Joss Whedon, The Avengers, spoken by Loki (Tom Hiddleston):
synonyms: cunt
glosses: An extremely unpleasant or objectionable person.
quim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪm/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪm]
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: more quim
form: most quim
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots queem. Compare English queem.
Senses: glosses: Affectedly nice, prim.
glosses: Moving with ease and precision.
Related terms: queem
op shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: op shops
form: op-shop
Etymology: From contraction of opportunity + shop.
Senses: examples: text: The Lutherans, who have an Op Shop not far from ours, made friendly comparisons with the kind and quality of the goods. They had to get in through our Op Shop to the lower vestry and as they passed looked at our shelves and said ‘Amazing what people bring in’ and ‘We get quite a few of them too’.
ref: 2001, Gwen Harwood, John Harwood, G. C. Kratzmann, editors, A Steady Storm of Correspondence: Selected Letters of Gwen Harwood, 1943-1995, page 446:
text: The Red Cross Op-Shop was the best. It didn′t have that op shop smell, even, and for once there were young people working there. Not that I′m against old ladies in op shops, but I think it′s pretty cool to walk into an op shop where the radio is tuned to FM and there′s an essential-oil burner on the counter.
ref: 2005, Catherine Bateson, Millie And the Night Heron, page 21:
text: I was in the op shop with Dad because we needed something to make me look like a pineapple for the school concert, which was about the five food groups. Dad was looking for green clothes that could be the top of the pineapple.
ref: 2006, Sofie Laguna, Bird and Sugar Boy, unnumbered page:
text: 2007, Cate Kennedy, Everything $2 on this Rack, Lindy Cameron (editor), Scarlet Stiletto: The First Cut, unnumbered page,
Op-shops always have a rack like this - it′s where they put unusual stuff. Once, in a small country op-shop in New South Wales, I found a fabulous red ballgown made in 1952... but I digress.
glosses: A shop, usually operated by a charity, to which new or used goods are donated, for sale at a low price.
Synonyms: word: charity shop
word: thrift shop
word: thrift store
word: opportunity shop
sense: shop where donated goods are sold cheaply
word: oppie
Related terms: Oxfam
Durex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəɹɛks/
ipa: /ˈdʲʊɹɛks/
Etymology: Condom brand name: 1929, from durability, reliability, excellence.
Senses: glosses: A brand of condom.
glosses: A brand of adhesive tape.
Durex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəɹɛks/
ipa: /ˈdʲʊɹɛks/
Forms: form: Durexes
Etymology: Condom brand name: 1929, from durability, reliability, excellence.
Senses: examples: text: All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Durex.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Pocket full of Durex, body full of Mandrex / Are we gonna have sex? Will you wear your knee socks?
ref: 2006, “Rudebox”, in Rudebox, performed by Robbie Williams:
glosses: A condom.
glosses: Adhesive tape.
Related terms: adhesive tape
Scotch tape
sellotape
Sellotape
sticky tape
tape
greedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːdi/
rhymes: -iːdi
Forms: form: greedier
form: greediest
Etymology: From Middle English gredy, from Anglian Old English grēdiġ (“greedy, hungry, eager”) (cognate West Saxon form grǣdiġ), from Proto-Germanic *grēdagaz (“hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *grēdaz, *grēduz, *grēdô (“hunger”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-. Equivalent to greed + -y.
Cognate with Old Saxon grādag (“greedy”), Dutch graag (“gladly, willingly”), Old High German grātag (“greedy”), Danish grådig (“greedy”), Norwegian Bokmål grådig (“greedy”) (from Old Norse gráðigr (“greedy”), gráði (“greed, hunger”)), Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (grēdags, “hungry”). Sanskrit गृद्धि (gṛddhi, “greed”) is a false cognate.
Senses: examples: text: For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:
text: “[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
glosses: Prone to overeat.
examples: text: This regular expression performs a greedy match.
antonyms: lazy
nongreedy
reluctant
qualifier: regular expressions
glosses: Tending to match as much text as possible.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
antonyms: nongreedy
glosses: That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
raw_tags: of an algorithm
examples: text: Suppoſe they be in number infinit,
Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline,
All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: […]
Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats
And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
glosses: Greedily sought or pursued.
Synonyms: sense: prone to overeat
word: gluttonous
word: acquisitive
word: avaricious
word: cormorant
word: covetous
word: edacious
word: esurient
word: grasping
word: greedy
word: miserable
word: piggish
word: miserly
word: rapacious
word: selfish
word: sordid
word: sharp-set
word: voracious
Derived terms: english: by back-formation
translation: by back-formation
word: greed
word: greedily
word: greediness
word: greedy algorithm
word: greedyguts
word: greedy property
word: overgreedy
word: ungreedy
douce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːs/
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: doucer
form: doucest
Etymology: From Middle English douce, from Old French dolz, dous, Middle French doux, douce, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). Doublet of dolce, doux, and dulce.
Senses: glosses: Sweet; nice; pleasant.
examples: text: The bookseller, douce man, had seen too many eccentric customers to be shocked by the vehemence of his questioner.
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 242:
text: what would you say of a man with plenty of silver that bided all by his lone and made his own bed and did his own baking when he might have had a wife to make him douce and brave?
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 27:
text: If Fabre, for example, were elected to the Academy tomorrow, you would see his lust for social revolution turning overnight into the most douce and debonair conformity.
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 145:
text: So what strong lord of misrule can preside in this douce, commercially respectable, late 19th century city where even religious fanaticism reinforces un adventurous mediocrity?
ref: 1996, Alasdair Gray, “The Story of a Recluse”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 271:
glosses: Serious and quiet; steady, not flighty or casual; sober.
Derived terms: doucely
douceness
Related terms: flute-douce
powder-douce
ansible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.sɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ˈɑːn.sɪ.bəl/
Forms: form: ansibles
Etymology: Coined by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin in 1966 in her novella Rocannon's World; Le Guin states that she derived it from answerable. The word was further spread by its adoption into other science fiction worlds, including by Orson Scott Card in Ender's Game (1986), Vernor Vinge in The Blabber (1988) and Dan Simmons in Hyperion (1989).
Senses: examples: text: “You remember the ansible, the machine I showed you in the ship, which can speak instantly to other worlds, with no loss of years– […] ”
“An ansible would theoretically be powered by subatomic particles that have undergone quantum entanglement, which utilizes Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance', allowing the alteration of one particle to instantaneously alter the state of its paired particle. […] ”
ref: 1966, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon's World, reprinted in Worlds of Exile and Illusion, Macmillan (1996), page 25
text: “[…] The master ansible is there, in contact with all our invasion fleet; the ships are all working, ready to fight. […]”
ref: 1985, Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, reprinted by Macmillan, published 2002, →ISBN, page 251:
text: Ky had allotted two hours here, time to strip the news from the ansible, share it, even discuss it, but she didn’t plan to have everyone clustered and vulnerable.
ref: 2008, Elizabeth Moon, Victory Conditions, reprint by Random House, published 2009, →ISBN, page 39:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical device that enables users to communicate instantaneously across great distances; that is, a faster-than-light communication device.
wikipedia: Dan Simmons
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Rocannon's World
Vernor Vinge
instantaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From instantaneous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!
ref: 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman:
text: Under the guise of being “online” and capable of disseminating news instantaneously (known colloquially as “retweeting”), being active on Twitter, for media workers, gives the effect of fulfilling one’s occupational duty as well as all the parts of professional upkeep that, in the physical world, involve being in the right rooms, overhearing the right things, and more or less maintaining appearances.
ref: 2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: Without any delay; in an instantaneous manner.
Synonyms: sense: without delay
word: immediately
sense: without delay
word: in a flash
sense: without delay
word: instantly
sense: without delay
word: outright
sense: without delay
word: right now
instantaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnstənˈteɪni.əs/
rhymes: -eɪniəs
Etymology: From New Latin īnstāntāneus, from Latin īnstantem.
Senses: examples: text: This instantaneous motion is supposed by you, to be infinitely swift.
ref: 1631, William Twisse, chapter VI, in A Discovery of D. Iacksons vanitie, page 223:
text: However, no lovers in romance ever cemented a more inſtantaneous friendſhip.
ref: 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “Fresh Mortifications, or a Demonstration that Seeming Calamities may be Real Blessings”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume I, Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 137:
text: The colour now rushed into Elizabeth's cheeks in the instantaneous conviction of its being a letter from the nephew, instead of the aunt; [...]
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 262:
text: I walk always with my right hand closed round the india-rubber ball which I have in my trouser pocket. The pressing of this ball actuates a detonator inside the flask I carry in my pocket. It's the principle of the pneumatic instantaneous shutter for a camera lens.
ref: 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, pages 68–69:
text: The penis is the perfectly obvious and natural symbol of instantaneous time.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:
text: He said that the bullet went through her head, severed her spine and death would have been almost instantaneous.
ref: 2007 May 30, “Spector jury given graphic account of actress ‘murder’”, in The Times, London, retrieved 13 Jul 2007:
synonyms: immediate
instant
glosses: Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.
Synonyms: word: flash
word: immediate
word: instant
word: insta-
word: instantaneous
word: present
Hyponyms: word: fast-acting
word: presentaneous
word: sudden
Derived terms: coinstantaneous
instantaneity
instantaneously
instantaneousness
instantaneous velocity
noninstantaneous
super-instantaneous
superinstantaneous
Related terms: word: immediately
word: urgent
naan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑːn/
ipa: /nɑn/
ipa: /næn/
Forms: form: naan
form: naans
form: nan
Etymology: From Hindi नान (nān) / Urdu نان (nān), from Classical Persian نان (nān), from Middle Persian LHMA (nān, “bread, food”).
Senses: glosses: A type of round, flat bread baked in a tandoor popular in South and Central Asian cuisine.
Derived terms: naanwich
Peshwari naan
pizza naan
willy nilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more willy nilly
form: most willy nilly
Senses: examples: text: Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.
ref: 1868, [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, translated by Arthur Duke Coleridge, Egmont. A Tragedy. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, act II, page 40:
text: And, while he sleeps, the indwelling Compassion preserves him, willy nilly, from the suicide which, in his waking hours, he has tried so frantically hard to commit.
ref: 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, “The Script”, in Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 154:
glosses: Alternative form of willy-nilly.
at the best of times
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /æt‿ðə ˈbɛst‿əv ˈtaɪmz/
rhymes: -aɪmz
Senses: examples: text: When that gentleman came from the city, and was welcomed in the drawing-room by his daughters and the elegant Miss Wirt, they saw at once by his face—which was puffy, solemn, and yellow at the best of times—and by the scowl and twitching of his black eye-brows, that the heart within his large white waistcoat was disturbed and uneasy.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Sentimental and Otherwise”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 109:
text: Monsieur Defarge sold a very thin wine at the best of times, but it would seem to have been an unusually thin wine that he sold at this time.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “Knitting”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 108:
text: She could only reply that I was welcome to any thing she could tell me in return for the kindness I had shown to Anne. But as she was not very quick and ready, at the best of times, in talking to strangers, she would beg me to put her in the right way, and to say where I wished her to begin.
ref: 1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Hartright’s Narrative”, in The Woman in White. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, […], published 1860, →OCLC, part II, section VI, page 191:
text: In the case of the Cusack-Bremmils, this reaction did not set in till the third year after the wedding. Bremmil was hard to hold at the best of times; but he was a beautiful husband until the baby died, and Mrs. Bremmil wore black, and grew thin, and mourned as if the bottom of the Universe had fallen out.
ref: 1886 November 17, Rudyard Kipling, “Three and—an Extra”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 8:
text: His shoes were covered with mud, and he was looking very rough and touzled; but then he had never been a very smart man, the Badger, at the best of times.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “‘Like Summer Tempests Came His Tears’”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 261:
text: This is not unsatisfactory, but the change at Ballybrophy (a dismal station at the best of times) is not one that meets with the approval of the citizens of Clonmel.
ref: 1957 May 24, Walter McGrath, “The Thurles-Clonmel Line, C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 320:
text: Opening a new railway is no mean feat at the best of times, but the Elizabeth Line had its own challenges.
ref: 2023 October 4, Richard Foster, “New operator enters at number one”, in RAIL, number 993, page 33:
glosses: Even under the most favourable conditions.
Related terms: at best
ceteris paribus
Bosnia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒz.ni.ə/
ipa: /ˈbɑz.ni.ə/
Etymology: From the name of the river Bosna.
Senses: glosses: A geographic region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, consisting of the northern three fourths of the country.
examples: text: On behalf of many Bosnian war victims’ and survivors’ organizations in Bosnia and North America we urge you to end all contact and co-operation with Mr. Parenti without delay or hesitation.
ref: 2015, Various Authors, “Responses to David N. Gibbs Article by John Theis, Scott Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha V Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha Varadarajan, K ajan, Kees van der Pijl, an der Pijl, and John Feffer”, in Class, Race and Corporate Power, volume 3, number 2, page 14:
glosses: A country in southeast Europe; in full, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Coordinate terms: Albania
Balkans
Croatia
Greater Albania
Greater Croatia
Greater Serbia
Greater Yugoslavia
Herzegovina
Serbia
Yugoslavia
Derived terms: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosniak
Bosnian
Related terms: Bosnia and Herzegovina
borra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] continuously discharging borra from said zone as a solid, removing the water from said slurry and mechanically recovering solid wax.
ref: 1950, Robert W. Pressing and Bradley J. Pettibone, US Patent 2531785, page 4
glosses: leafy matter found in wax
gat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: gats
Etymology: Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.
Senses: glosses: A Gatling gun.
examples: text: You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
text: Goin' off on a motherfucker like that
With a gat that's pointed at yo ass
ref: 1988, N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton:
text: It'll make you drop to your knees 'cause you realize, that a gat'll make any nigga civilized.
ref: 1992, “A Nigga Witta Gun”, in The Chronic, performed by Dr. Dre, Death Row Records:
text: I never thought it could happen, this rappin' stuff
I was too used to packin' gats and stuff
ref: 1994, 1:45 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:
text: Pimp pulled out his gat and let it hang in his hand. His message was clear.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 115:
synonyms: word: piece
word: firearm
word: gat
word: gun
word: iron
word: piece
glosses: Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
gat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: gats
form: gatting
form: gatted
form: gatted
Etymology: Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.
Senses: examples: text: He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western.
ref: 2000, George Nelson, One Woman Short, page 27:
text: Vance's death scene would have a racy romantic glamour, sort of like Dillinger gatted at the Biograph, Pretty Boy slain in the cornfield, Bonnie and Clyde ambushed in their Ford Roadster.
ref: 2002, Brian A. Massey, Shadow Clock, page 293:
text: Fact I was chillin' with Notorious BIG when he got gatted. It was a^([sic]) accident. Biggie got in front of my Glock when I was bustin' slugs at some mothaf***a.
ref: 2005, Lewis Grossberger, Turn that down!, page 198:
glosses: To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
gat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: gats
Etymology: From guitar, by shortening.
Senses: glosses: A guitar.
gat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Senses: examples: text: And Abraham gat up early in the morning
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 19:27:
glosses: Simple past of get.
gat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: gats
Etymology: From Icelandic gat.
Senses: glosses: An opening between sandbanks; a strait.
gat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: gats
form: kat
Etymology: From Korean 갓 (gat).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.
gat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of khat.
gat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: Gat
Senses: examples: text: Ruairí can tell you who goes to what bill, and I can spare a few minutes to show you how to pour a proper pint of gat.
ref: 2021, T. M. Cromer, Pints & Potions:
glosses: Guinness (type of beer).
jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊks/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊks/
rhymes: -əʊks
Senses: glosses: plural of joke
jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊks/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊks/
rhymes: -əʊks
Forms: form: more jokes
form: most jokes
Senses: examples: text: this thing is so jokes...i think it would be wack if someone responded to this.. but plz do cause that would be, like, some cool shit.
ref: 1998 October 14, Spon842187, “MMMMMM...I taste yummy =:-)”, in alt.personals.teen (Usenet), message-ID <NA>:
text: Andrew VS Neil and Mike is totally jokes! I love it when Andrew gets pissed, lol. It's so cool!
ref: 2008, Zetsu, “Floaters and gravity”, in sci.med.vision (Usenet):
text: “Nah, fuck it. I've got a condom. It'll be jokes.”
ref: 2010, Richard Hoffman, It Always Rains in November, page 199:
text: Dappy's new tune is jokes, in a good way. Thoroughly entertaining and insightful which is more than I can say for most things on the radio.
ref: July 2012, Lily Allen, quoted in the Huffington Post https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/04/dappy-im-coming-tarzan-part-2-lily-allen_n_1649006.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJTphaA95sJ3mdKJg0FHprdh2dnbMVQsBqdYpDk4hA5db6QobrAXThkb4fhquN777xDkfned_F5LHlhgQMK9Hhdq_Ojp8bb-VrhMtxdJC4Sk5x9DXGTxezZ_Q1vBbo5alW74kFddDoKJDqdYP1zm9ditq7yjV6LUKxVpVdpRw4B1
glosses: Really good.
examples: text: Man, that video is bare jokes!
glosses: funny or entertaining.
jokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊks/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊks/
rhymes: -əʊks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of joke
call on the carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls on the carpet
form: calling on the carpet
form: called on the carpet
form: called on the carpet
Senses: examples: text: Randal calls onto the carpet Heath and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler for her department's negligence in responding to the AIDS crisis.
ref: 1984 August 4, Sue Hyde, “Too Little, Too Late”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
glosses: To reprimand; to censure severely or angrily.
Synonyms: sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: bawl out
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: berate
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: call down
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: carpet
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: chew out
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: chew up
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: chide
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: dress down
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: have words
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: jaw
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: lambaste
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: lecture
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: rag
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: rebuke
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: remonstrate
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: reprimand
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: reproof
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: scold
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: tell off
sense: Synonyms for "call on the carpet"
word: trounce
Related terms: on the carpet
trip to the woodshed
on the carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: upon the carpet
Senses: examples: text: That same evening the treaty of marriage was brought upon the carpet, and by means of Mr. Pickle and the lieutenant settled to the satisfaction of all parties, without the intervention of lawyers […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 7, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Nor is this tribute to the reclaimed animals in question so wide a digression into the realms of Natural History as it may, at first sight, appear to be; for the present business of these pages in with the dragon who had his retreat in Mr Pecksniff’s neighbourhood, and that courteous animal being already on the carpet, there is nothing in the way of its immediate transaction.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
glosses: Under consideration; subject to discussion or deliberation.
examples: text: Whenever a policeman made a mistake he was either brought on the carpet before the Mayor or rebuked by the Magistrate.
ref: 1915 January 4, “Ellison Must Go, Police Now Think”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Sep 2008, page 18:
text: But long, long ago an enthusiastic reporter called it a "fairy palace," and the office building on the west side was once a church. Hence, in North British phraseology, to "gang tae the Kirk" meant to be had up on the carpet.
ref: 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
text: Policewoman Mitchell was on the carpet only three weeks ago for appearing as a character witness for three burglary suspects.
ref: 1950 March 28, “Policewoman Suspended Over Delay”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, retrieved 12 Sep 2008, page 1:
glosses: Being reprimanded or carpeted.
Related terms: call on the carpet
on the table
upon the tapis
whomp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍɒmp/
ipa: /wɒmp/
ipa: /ʍɑmp/
ipa: /wɑmp/
rhymes: -ɒmp
Forms: form: whomps
form: whomping
form: whomped
form: whomped
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of whip, similar to whup.
Senses: examples: text: If you don’t cut that out, I’m going to whomp you so hard your head will spin!
text: Other sources are less committal, saying only that Celts were (a) the ancient warrior people who whomped the Picts, etc., […]
ref: 1998 March 17, “[The Editorial Page] All Celts now”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont.: Southam Inc., page A14, column 2:
glosses: To hit extremely hard.
Derived terms: whompage
whomp on
whomp up
Related terms: sense: hit extremely hard
word: whip
sense: hit extremely hard
word: whup
Ivan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.vən/
ipa: /ɪˈvɑːn/
ipa: /ˈivɑːn/
rhymes: -aɪvən
Etymology: From Russian Ива́н (Iván), and from Ivan in several Slavic languages. Doublet of John and its relatives Evan, Giovanni, Ian, Johann, and Sean, etc.
Senses: examples: text: Amy's husband was called Ivan. Ivan the Terrible, Barry always called him, naturally. 'Ivan? What kind of name is that?' he said to Tracy after Amy's engagement was announced. 'Bloody Russian.'
'Actually, I think it's because he had a Norwegian grandfather', Tracy said.
'Norwegian?' Barry said incredulously, as if she'd just announced that Ivan's family came from the moon.
ref: 2010, Kate Atkinson, Started Early, took My Dog, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: A male given name from Russian of English speakers.
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ива́н (Iván).
glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Іва́н (Iván).
glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name Іва́н (Iván)
glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Иван (Ivan).
examples: text: Ivan is yelling curses at his friends.
glosses: A Russian.
examples: text: Ivan is planning an attack on our flank.
glosses: Russians (collectively, personified).
glosses: A Soviet.
examples: text: I’m sure whoever was in charge must have been one of the last of the Fulda Fucktards, you know, those generals who spent their nard-drop years training to defend West Germany from Ivan.
ref: 2006, Max Brooks, World War Z:
glosses: Soviets (collectively, personified).
examples: text: Ivan, stop repeating Kremlin propaganda.
glosses: An online troll who promotes views supportive of Russian nationalism or the 2022 invasion of Ukraine; a vatnik.
Synonyms: word: Vanya
raw_tags: of Ivan
Derived terms: Ivan Ivanovich
Ivan Ivanovitch
Ivan the Terrible
Related terms: Evan
Ian
Ivanović
Ivanovich
Ivanovitch
Ivanovna
Sean
Ivan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.vən/
ipa: /ɪˈvɑːn/
ipa: /ˈivɑːn/
rhymes: -aɪvən
Etymology: Rare variant of Evan, from Welsh Ifan, the Welsh equivalent of John.
Senses: examples: text: Dafydd ap Ivan ap Einion, an adherent to the house of Lancaster held out, in Harlech Castle, for nine years after the accession of Edward the Fourth to the throne of England.
ref: 1833, George Newenham Wright, Scenes in North Wales, T. T. and J. Tegg, page 137:
glosses: A male given name from Welsh of Welsh origin.
jumping jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumping jacks
form: jumping-jack
Senses: synonyms: side-straddle hop
star jump
glosses: A physical exercise performed by jumping to a position with the legs spread wide and the hands touching overhead and then returning to a position with the feet together and the arms at the sides.
coordinate_terms: tamper#Noun
tamping machine
glosses: A machine, roughly the size of a three-year-old child, the foot of which vibrates forcefully, causing it to "jump" rapidly, pounding the ground to compact it.
synonyms: quockerwodger
glosses: A toy figure of a person with jointed limbs that can be made to appear to dance or jump by pulling an attached string.
Southeast Asia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: South-East Asia
form: South East Asia
Senses: examples: text: Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers.
For example, the Malay plural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
synonyms: Nanyang
Southeastern Asia
Farther India
glosses: A geographic region of Asia, comprising the territories of Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Coordinate terms: Central Asia
East Asia
North Asia
South Asia
West Asia
Derived terms: Island Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian
Related terms: SEA
rosewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹoʊzˌwʊd/
Forms: form: rosewoods
Etymology: A compound of rose + wood, originally so named because of the rose-scented aromatic oil derived from it; applied in later senses on account of these woods’ predominantly reddish-brown colour.
Senses: glosses: The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell.
glosses: Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect.
glosses: The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled.
glosses: Wood and plant of Pterocarpus spp., for example African rosewood or mukula or Burmese rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus, syn. Pterocarpus santalinus).
Synonyms: sense: Dalbergia nigra
word: Brazilian rosewood
sense: Dalbergia nigra
word: Rio rosewood
sense: Dalbergia nigra
word: Bahia rosewood
sense: Dalbergia nigra
word: pianowood
Derived terms: alt: Lingoum erinaceum
word: African rosewood
taxonomic: Synoum glandulosum
word: Australian rosewood
taxonomic: Synoum glandulosum
word: bastard rosewood
taxonomic: Dalbergia spp. etc.
word: Burmese rosewood
taxonomic: Dalbergia odorifera
word: Chinese rosewood
taxonomic: Cordia alliodora
word: Dominica rosewood
word: East India rosewood
taxonomic: Dalbergia latifolia
word: East Indian rosewood
taxonomic: Dalbergia odorifera
word: fragrant rosewood
taxonomic: Dalbergia cubilquitzensis
word: Honduras rosewood
alt: Dahlbergia latifolia, Acaccia melanoxylon, Dalbergia sissoo
word: India rosewood
taxonomic: Amyris balsamifera
alt: Linocieria ligustrina
word: Jamaica rosewood
taxonomic: Pterocarpus indicus
word: New Guinea rosewood
alt: Triculiia glandulosa
word: New South Wales rosewood
taxonomic: Dalbergia sissoo
word: north Indian rosewood
intrinsicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrinsicalities
Etymology: From intrinsical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: the state of being intrinsic; inherence
Synonyms: word: intrinsicness
word: intrinsicity
word: inbeing
word: indwelling
word: inexistence
word: inherence
word: inhesion
word: intrinsicality
Related terms: word: intrinsic
word: essence
word: gist
impeach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: impeaches
form: impeaching
form: impeached
form: impeached
form: empeach
Etymology: From Middle English empechen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman empecher, from Old French empeechier (“to hinder”), from Latin impedicāre (“to fetter”). Cognate with French empêcher (“to prevent”).
Senses: examples: text: These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.
ref: 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:
text: I was afraid the same defluxion of Salt Rheum which fell from my Temples into my Throat in Oxford, and distilling upon the Uvula, impeached my Utterance a little to this Day
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To my Father”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To hinder, impede, or prevent.
examples: text: President Clinton was impeached by the House in November 1998, but since the Senate acquitted him, he was not removed from office.
glosses: To bring a legal proceeding against a public official.
glosses: To charge with impropriety; to discredit; to call into question.
topics: law
glosses: To demonstrate in court that a testimony under oath contradicts another testimony from the same person, usually one taken during deposition.
Derived terms: disimpeach
impeachable
impeacher
impeachment
impeachy
Mohammedan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈhæm.ɪ.dən/
ipa: /moʊˈhæm.ə.dən/
ipa: /-n̩/
Forms: form: Mohammedans
form: Muhammadan
form: Mahometan
form: Mahomedan
form: Mahommedan
form: Muhammedan
form: Mohamedan
form: Muhamedan
form: Mohametan
form: Mahommetan
form: Mohammetan
form: Moohummudan
Etymology: From Mohammed + -an, from the earlier form Mahometan, coined in the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: MOSQUE (Fr. mosquée, from Sp. mezquita, from Ar. masjid, temple, from sajada, to prostrate one's self, to pray). A Mohammedan house of prayer and worship. Examples of these buildings are found wherever the Mohammedan faith has prevailed, from Spain to India and Turkestan.
ref: 1905, “Mosque”, in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Company:
text: Mohammedan prisoners shall be allowed to observe the fast of Ramadan and during the fast shall be required to labour at such reduced task as the Medical Officer considers proper.
ref: Rule 45, Prison Rules (Cap. 234, sub. leg. A)
qualifier: now largely obsolete and offensive
glosses: Muslim.
Mohammedan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈhæm.ɪ.dən/
ipa: /moʊˈhæm.ə.dən/
ipa: /-n̩/
Forms: form: Muhammadan
form: Mahometan
form: Mahomedan
form: Mahommedan
form: Muhammedan
form: Mohamedan
form: Muhamedan
form: Mohametan
form: Mahommetan
form: Mohammetan
form: Moohummudan
Etymology: From Mohammed + -an, from the earlier form Mahometan, coined in the 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: At the principal stations there are also separate Hindu and Mohemmedan refreshment rooms, and some mail trains have compartments reserved for Indian tea and sweetmeat vendors.
ref: 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 119:
qualifier: now largely obsolete and offensive
glosses: Muslim, Islamic.
glosses: Relating to Mohammed.
Derived terms: Mohammedan blue
Mohammedanism
i18n
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntəˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪntɚˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: I18N
form: I18n
Etymology: A numeronym representation of internationalization as i followed by 18 more letters, followed by n.
Senses: examples: text: Don't convert between Unicode and other code pages/character sets. If you follow these two rules, you'll run into few I18N-related security issues; in fact, you can jump to the next chapter if these two rules hold true for your application!
ref: 2002, David LeBlanc, Michael Howard, Writing Secure Code, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 440:
text: After our tour through the translation components we can now make our Python code “i18n-aware”. A typical task is identifying all the places where a (Unicode) string needs to be turned into an i18n message or where the appropriate TAL […]
ref: 2008, Philipp Weitershausen, Web Component Development with Zope 3, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 145:
text: AngularJS comes with support for I18n and L10n for date, number, and currency. No surprises here!
ref: 2015, Chandermani, AngularJS by Example, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 389:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Abbreviation of internationalization.
Related terms: a11y
c14n
g11n
L10n
p13n
k8s
internationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntəˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪntɚˌnæʃ(ə)n(ə)ləˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: internationalizations
form: internationalisation
form: i18n
Etymology: From international + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Before the union of the Scottish Crown with that of England, it had for a brief period been united with that of France. On this occasion, a complete legal internationalization was effected.
ref: 1860, The North British Review, volume 33:
text: I must say that the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce looks upon this step towards international coinage as part of an internationalization of the weights, measures, and coins.
ref: 1869, Reports from Commissioners, volume 27:
antonyms: de-internationalization
glosses: The conversion of something in order to make it international.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The act or process of making a product suitable for international markets, typically by making text messages easily translatable and ensuring support of non-Latin character sets, languages, and regions.
Related terms: globalization
localization
-pedia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -paedia
form: -pædia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía, “upbringing, education”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to learning.
glosses: A specialized encyclopedia about the prefixed subject (e.g., "Unicornopedia").
raw_tags: from a back-formation of encyclopedia
glosses: A general encyclopedia in the structure described by the prefix (e.g. Kidpedia for young children).
Derived terms: Wikipedia
Related terms: encyclopedia
paideia
Paidia
fragile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæd͡ʒaɪl/
ipa: /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/
rhymes: -ædʒaɪl
rhymes: -ædʒəl
Forms: form: fragiler
form: more fragile
form: fragilest
form: most fragile
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, formed on frag-, the root of frangere (“to break”). Cognate with fraction, fracture and doublet of frail.
Senses: examples: text: She caught the fragile vase before it could shatter on the floor.
text: The chemist synthesizes a fragile molecule.
glosses: Easily broken, not sturdy; of delicate material.
examples: text: The UN tries to maintain the fragile peace process in the region.
glosses: Readily disrupted or destroyed.
glosses: Feeling weak or easily disturbed as a result of illness.
examples: text: He is a very fragile person and gets easily depressed.
glosses: Thin-skinned or oversensitive.
Synonyms: word: breakable
word: delicate
word: destructible
word: flimsy
word: fragile
word: frail
word: frailsome
word: frangible
word: tenuous
Hyponyms: word: brittle
word: crackable
word: friable
word: gossamer
word: scissile
word: shattery
Derived terms: fragilely
fragile masculinity
fragileness
fragile X syndrome
fragilization
fragilize
hyperfragile
nonfragile
superfragile
ultrafragile
unfragile
warmblood fragile foal syndrome
Related terms: word: fractal
word: fraction
word: fractional
word: fracture
word: fragility
word: frail
word: frailty
word: frangible
word: rickety
word: vulnerable
word: docile
word: obstinate
word: weak
fragile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæd͡ʒaɪl/
ipa: /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/
rhymes: -ædʒaɪl
rhymes: -ædʒəl
Forms: form: fragiles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French fragile, from Latin fragilis, formed on frag-, the root of frangere (“to break”). Cognate with fraction, fracture and doublet of frail.
Senses: glosses: Something that is fragile.
I18N
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of i18n.
cerebral localization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebral localizations
form: cerebral localisation
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The localization of the control of special functions, as of sight or of the various movements of the body, in special regions of the brain.
oak tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊk ˌtɹiː/
ipa: /ˈoʊk ˌtɹi/
Forms: form: oak trees
form: oaktree
Senses: glosses: A tree of the genus Quercus, bearing acorns and having lobed leaves.
Synonyms: oak
Hypernyms: tree