cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
quotationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwəʊˈteɪʃənɪst/
Forms: form: quotationists
Etymology: From quotation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Let the ſtatutes of God be turned over, be ſcann'd a new, and conſider'd not altogether by the narrow intellectuals of quotationiſts and common places[.]
ref: 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine & Disciple of Divorce:
text: As a quotationist he exceeds Old Burton. Quoting is with him a ‘sine qua nonniness’, a happy term[.]
ref: 1859, pub. Carlton & Porter, The Christian Lawyer
text: [W]e conclude that being able to rattle other men's words from the pen's point or tongue's tip, may make a clever quotationist[.]
ref: 1880, Jennie Willing, Diamond Dust:
text: By-the-by, you great Quotationist, you did not quote Terence rightly.
ref: 1902, Friedrich Max Müller, Georgina Adelaide Müller, The Life and Letters of the Right Honourable Friedrich Max Müller:
text: This chapter is becoming quite quotationist, which is one of Milton's words that didn't catch on.
ref: 2012, Mark Forsyth, The Etymologicon:
glosses: One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.
quotha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From quoth + a (“he”) (dialectal, obsolete).
Senses: examples: text: Here[ticus]. Then I praie you tell me, when we shall mete agayne:
Cath[olicus]. Mete againe? why art thou not well yet?
Here[ticus]. Well yet quotha? Mary sir all this is nothynge to that I looke for.
ref: 1554, John Gwynneth, chapter 30, in A Manifeste Detection of the Notable Falshed of That Part of John Frithes Boke Whiche He Calleth His Foundacion, London:
text: 1678, Thomas d’Urfey, The Fool Turn’d Critick, London: James Magnes and Richard Bentley, Act II, Scene 2, p. 15,
1st. Fid[dler]. Will it please you Gentlemen to hear a new Lesson, or a Song A-la-mode.
Sir For[mal]. S’bud you impertinent Raskal get you gone, / Or I’le so batter that Musical sconce of yours. / Song A-la-mode Quotha, I had as lieve hear a / Gibb Catt howl, and as much pleasure I take in’t.
text: Mrs. Hardcastle. […] My son is not to live by his learning. I don’t think a boy wants much learning to spend fifteen hundred a year.
Hardcastle. Learning, quotha! A mere composition of tricks and mischief.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, London: F. Newbery, act I, pages 2–3:
text: A pretty way to conciliate 'little tempers' indeed, to add to the offence of spoiling the fish the crime of bringing an unexpected friend to eat it. Pot luck, quotha, when the pot's boiled over this half hour!
ref: 1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 30:
text: The four boys pumped up their hate to hissing steam. Harmless, quotha. Innocent, forsooth.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 596:
glosses: Forsooth; indeed.
quotient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwəʊʃənt/
enpr: kwōʹshənt
ipa: /ˈkwoʊʃənt/
rhymes: -oʊʃənt
Forms: form: quotients
Etymology: From Latin quotiēns, from quotiēs.
Senses: examples: text: Dividing 12 by 4 yields a quotient of 3.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: The number (either a fraction or an integer) resulting from the division of one number by another.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other than numbers.
glosses: A quotum or quota.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: net run rate
glosses: The number of runs scored per wicket lost when batting, divided by the number of runs conceded per wicket taken when bowling — used as a league table tiebreaker in some first-class tournaments.
Derived terms: accomplishment quotient
achievement quotient
artificial intelligence quotient
difference quotient
encephalization quotient
Horowitz quotient
intelligence quotient
Q quotient
quotient group
quotient map
quotient ring
quotient set
quotient space
Rayleigh quotient
truth quotient
Related terms: word: quotientive
word: quotiety
word: successor
sense: addition, summation
english: addend; total
translation: addend; total
alt: augend
word: + =
sense: addition, summation
english: sum
translation: sum
alt: summand
word: + +... =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
translation: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication, factorization; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: product
translation: product
word: × =
sense: multiplication, factorization; factor
english: factor; factor; product
translation: factor; factor; product
word: × ×... =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient
english: with remaining
translation: with remaining
alt: quotient
word: Or sometimes
sense: exponentiation; base
english: power
translation: power
alt: exponent
word: =
sense: root extraction; degree
roman: radicand
word: √ =
sense: logarithmization
english: logarithm
translation: logarithm
alt: antilogarithm
word: log(base) =
quotiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin quotus (“of what number, how many”).
Senses: glosses: The relation of an object to number.
Related terms: quotient
quotum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: kwō′təm
Forms: form: quota
form: quotums
Etymology: From the neuter of Latin quotus (“of what number”).
Senses: glosses: A part or proportion; a fraction; quota.
quota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwəʊtə/
ipa: /ˈkwoʊtə/
ipa: [ˈkwoʊɾə]
ipa: /ˈkwəʉtə/
ipa: [ˈkwəʉɾə]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈk(w)oʈɑ/
rhymes: -əʊtə
rhymes: -oʊtə
Forms: form: quotas
Etymology: From Latin quota pars; see Latin quota.
Senses: glosses: A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
examples: text: The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: Captain Olimar: 'We have to work harder on finding some truly valuable treasures. The sooner we hit our quota, the sooner I can get back to my wife and kids on Hocotate.'
ref: 2020 October 30, "Olimar's Assignment", in Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, day 3: River
glosses: A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
Synonyms: sense: proportional part
word: allocation
sense: proportional part
word: allotment
sense: proportional part
word: apportionment
sense: proportional part
word: quotum
Derived terms: quota-hopping
quota quickie
quota refugee
Related terms: numerus clausus
quotable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwəʊtəbəl/
Forms: form: more quotable
form: most quotable
Etymology: From quote + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a quotable writer
text: a quotable sentence
glosses: Capable or worthy of being quoted
Related terms: quotability
quotation
quote
quo warranto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quo warrantos
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin quō warrantō (“by what warrant”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts, or exercises certain powers.
quoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒl/
ipa: /ˈkwəʊl/
ipa: /ˈkwɒl/
ipa: /ˈkwoʊl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: quolls
Etymology: From the earlier form je-quoll, from Guugu Yimidhirr dhigul. Recorded by Banks but then virtually forgotten for 150 years, with the term native cat used instead. Today readopted and gaining in popularity.
Senses: glosses: Any of the various carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus found in Australia and New Guinea, roughly the size of a cat.
wikipedia: Joseph Banks
R. M. W. Dixon
Synonyms: native cat
Derived terms: taxonomic: Dasyurus spartacus
word: bronze quoll
taxonomic: Dasyurus viverrinus
word: eastern quoll
taxonomic: Dasyurus albopunctatus
word: New Guinea quoll
taxonomic: Dasyurus hallucatus
word: northern quoll
word: spot-tailed quoll
taxonomic: Dasyurus maculatus
word: spotted-tailed quoll
taxonomic: Dasyurus maculatus
word: tiger quoll
taxonomic: Dasyurus geoffroii
word: western quoll
Related terms: bilby
quittor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪt.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkwɪt.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈkwɪɾ.ɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: quitter
Forms: form: quittors
form: quitter
Etymology: From Middle English quiter, quitere, quitoure, quiture, quytur, whitour, from Old French cuiture, quiture, probably from Latin coctura. Cognate with Low German kwater, kwader (“rottenness”).
Senses: glosses: A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.
quitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪ.tə/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: quittor
Forms: form: quittor
form: quitture
Etymology: From Middle English quitter, from Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (“burn mark, burning”), from the participle stem of cuire (“to cook”), or from Latin coctura (“cooking”).
Senses: examples: text: Therfor Sathan [...] smoot Joob with a ful wickid botche fro the sole of the foot til to his top; which Joob schauyde the quytere with a schelle, and sat in the dunghil.
ref: 1395, John Wycliffe, Bible, Job II:
glosses: Matter flowing from a wound or sore; pus.
topics: farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: Alternative spelling of quittor (“fistulous wound at the top of a horse's foot”).
glosses: Scoria of tin.
quitter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪ.tə/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: quittor
Forms: form: quitters
form: quittering
form: quittered
form: quittered
form: quittor
form: quitture
Etymology: From Middle English quitter, from Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (“burn mark, burning”), from the participle stem of cuire (“to cook”), or from Latin coctura (“cooking”).
Senses: glosses: To suppurate; ooze with pus.
quitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪ.tə/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: quittor
Forms: form: quitters
Etymology: From quit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Winners never quit and quitters never win.
text: Don't be a quitter — hang in there!
text: I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first.
ref: 1974 August 8, Richard Nixon, 2:00 from the start, in Richard Nixon's resignation speech, CBSN:
text: Well, they underestimated Hartlepool, and they underestimated me because I am a fighter and not a quitter!
ref: 2001, Peter Mandelson, 4:14 from the start, in 2001 victory speech, ITV:
glosses: One who quits, as:
One who gives in.
synonyms: giver-upper
examples: text: Quitters are winners! If you can't quit on the first try, hang in there and try to quit again!
glosses: One who quits, as:
One who succeeds in desisting from a vice, especially smoking, drinking, or drugging.
hypernyms: ever-smoker
coordinate_terms: never-smoker
glosses: A leaver.
glosses: A deliverer.
Derived terms: ragequitter
spitters are quitters
quitely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quite + -ly. Probably unconnected with Middle English quitly.
Senses: glosses: Quite.
quitely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Misspelling.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of quietly.
impossible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɒs.ɪ.bəl/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɒs.ə.bəl/
ipa: /ɪmˈpɑ.sə.bl̩/
Forms: form: impossibles
form: inpossible
Etymology: From Middle English impossible, equivalent to im- + possible.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, to most people, the real impossibles do not seem impossible, or wonderful, or even difficult at all.
ref: 1888 November, Joseph Le Conte, “The Problem of a Flying-Machine”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume 34, page 70:
text: “Ye can't expect impossibles, and Jim hadn't no idee o' takin' yer trunk along of him in ther buggy when he kem hyar this mornin'.
ref: 1890, Jean Kate Ludlum, At Brown's: An Adirondack Story, page 15:
text: For one thing, the Gospel's moral impossibles appear, in this light, not as an objection to Christianity, but as one of its most striking evidences.
ref: 1903, Jonathan Brierley, Problems of Living, page 16:
text: Yes, the church lives for impossibles, and she lives by impossibles, and if she shrinks from impossibles her own vigor will shrink and die.
ref: 1911, J. H. Jowett, “Turning Back”, in Homiletic Review, volume 61, page 392:
text: Aristotle (1952), in his Nicomachean Ethics, described the relation between will and choice: a Choice cannot relate to impossibles, and if anyone said he chose them he would be thought silly;
ref: 2000, Kenneth D. Keith, Robert L. Schalock, Cross-cultural Perspectives on Quality of Life, page 292:
text: Dreams are made out of impossibles. We cannot reach the impossibles by using the analytical minds which are trained to deal with hard information which is currently available.
ref: 2010, The Journal of Parliamentary Information - Volume 56, page 20:
glosses: An impossibility.
glosses: A skateboard trick consisting of a backflip performed in midair.
joyous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪəs/
rhymes: -ɔɪəs
Forms: form: more joyous
form: most joyous
Etymology: From Middle English joyous, joious, from Old French joieus, from joie + -eus.
Senses: examples: text: I want to go on a mountain top / With a radio and good batteries / To play a joyous tune and / Free the human race / From suffering
ref: 1998 November 30, Björk, “Alarm Call”, in Homogenic, One Little Indian Records, →OCLC:
text: Southgate and his England players repeated the scenes from the dramatic penalty shootout win over Colombia as they celebrated in front of joyous supporters at the final whistle[…]
ref: 2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: blissome
word: blissy
word: blithe
word: gladsome
word: berserk
word: blissed out
word: blithe
word: buoyant
word: blithesome
word: bonnie
word: bright
word: cheerful
word: cheerly
word: cheery
word: chuffed
word: cock-a-hoop
word: content
word: contented
word: convivial
word: delighted
word: ebullient
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: excited
word: exhilarated
word: exuberant
word: exultant
word: fat and happy
word: gassed
word: gay
word: gayful
word: glad
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: gleesome
word: happy
word: hearty
word: high on life
word: jovial
word: joyful
word: merry
word: merry as a cricket
word: merry as a grig
word: mirthsome
word: on cloud nine
word: overjoyed
word: overjoyous
word: over the moon
word: pacific
word: perky
word: placated
word: pleased
word: satisfied
word: thrilled
word: tickled pink
word: triumphant
word: vivacious
word: wealful
word: happy as a clam
word: happy as a clam at high water
word: happy as a lark
word: happy as a pig in mud
word: happy as a pig in shit
word: happy as a prince
word: happy as Larry
word: happy as the day is long
word: air-headed
word: blissed out
word: blissful
word: cock-a-hoop
word: delighted
word: ecstatic
word: elated
word: euphoric
word: exultant
word: filled with happiness
word: giddy
word: gladsome
word: gleeful
word: greatly pleased
word: joyful
word: joyous
word: lighthearted
word: orgasmic
word: on cloud nine
word: over the moon
word: overjoyed
word: thrilled
word: walking on air
glosses: Full of joy; happy.
Derived terms: joyously
joyousness
overjoyous
unjoyous
Related terms: joy
joyful
joyfully
joyfulness
LAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læn/
ipa: /ˌɛl ˌeɪ ˈɛn/
text: Audio (US)
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: LANs
Senses: examples: text: A LAN connects all of the computers in our office.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of local area network.
Derived terms: LAN adapter
LAN house
LAN party
wake-on-LAN
originally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪnəli/
ipa: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒənəli/
ipa: /əˈɹɪd͡ʒnəli/
Forms: form: more originally
form: most originally
Etymology: From Middle English originali; equivalent to original + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Originally, this paper was white, but over the years it has yellowed with age.
text: There are 36 known praenomina, though there may originally have been more.
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
text: The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
ref: 2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for International Security and Cooperation:
glosses: As it was in the beginning; at first.
examples: text: They had to think originally to come up with those creative ideas.
glosses: In an original manner.
Synonyms: sense: in the beginning
word: at first
word: initially
word: at the start
sense: in an original manner
word: innovatively
sense: in an original manner
word: outside the box
Related terms: origin
original
square dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of dance in which eight dancers are arranged in a square as four couples, with a caller calling or singing out the movements that the dancers are to perform.
Synonyms: square dance
Hypernyms: barn dance
Related terms: allemande left
circle left
contradancing
cuadrilla
dance
dos a dos
dosado
Ladies' Chain
Morris dance
quadrille
square dance
Swing Your Partner
dos-à-dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dos a dos.
top secret
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: top-secret
Senses: examples: text: NSA's report on the Liberty incident was originally classified top secret.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Information classified at one of the highest levels of sensitivity by a government, based on an assessment that it would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed.
glosses: A level of security clearance needed to access such information.
examples: text: Steve Jobs set up a top secret team to design the Macintosh.
glosses: Pertaining to any especially sensitive closed-room activities.
Coordinate terms: classified
confidential
restricted
SCI
secret
sensitive
TSSCI
top secret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top secrets
Senses: glosses: A secret that is classed as "top secret"; top-secret information.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see top, secret.
mes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If I travelled back in time to witness my own birth, would there be two mes?
glosses: plural of me
kitchenette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪt͡ʃəˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: kitchenettes
Etymology: From kitchen + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: It is a kind of large cellar with a kitchenette and a bathroomette adjoining.
ref: 1943, Punch, volume 205, page 274:
text: Rona disappeared into the little kitchenette and Nicol made a recce of the room.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279:
glosses: A small kitchen or area for preparing food, often just a part of a room.
Derived terms: kitchenetted
Related terms: pantry
knackered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæk.əd/
ipa: /ˈnæk.ɚd/
Forms: form: more knackered
form: most knackered
Etymology: From the verb knacker.
Senses: examples: text: I've got this job in a warehouse just now and it finishes quite early but I'm dead knackered at the end of the day so I don't know about going out and like studying every night.
ref: 2002, Robert Edenborough, Effective Interviewing: A Handbook of Skills and Techniques, pages 97–98:
text: 2003, Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare (editors), The Tour de France, 1903-2003: A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values, Frank Cass Publishers, London, 2005, page 225,
Then, it all just gets worse and worse, you don't sleep so much, so you don't recover as well from the day's racing, so you go into your reserves, you get more knackered, so you sleep less... It's simply a vicious circle.
text: So my joy at hearing his voice quickly turns to a paroxysm of anxiety as he manages by exhausted gesture and sound to let us know how knackered he feels, how desperate to get horizontal, almost from the first moment he lands in the chair.
ref: 2009, Grace Maxwell, Falling & Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins, page 84:
text: In the course of this discussion, the (male) presenter, when uttering the word 'knackered', felt obliged to preface his animation of this word with “excuse my language”.
ref: 2020 November 12, Jim O’Driscoll, Offensive Language: Taboo, Offence and Social Control, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: Tired or exhausted.
Synonyms: sense: tired, exhausted
word: cream crackered
Derived terms: word: cream crackered
word: Kerry Packered
knackered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæk.əd/
ipa: /ˈnæk.ɚd/
Etymology: From the verb knacker.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of knacker
knackered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæk.əd/
ipa: /ˈnæk.ɚd/
Forms: form: more knackered
form: most knackered
Etymology: From "ready for the knacker's yard" or "fit to be knackered", meaning "worn-out livestock, fit to be slaughtered and rendered".
Senses: examples: text: In the end though he had to admit that the car was knackered...
ref: 2003, Simon Murphy, The Murders of Mutchrose Village, page 28:
text: We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.
ref: 2009, John Newton, Vance Miller - Kitchen Gangster?, page 82:
glosses: Broken, inoperative.
Synonyms: sense: broken, inoperative
word: broken
word: worn-out
Related terms: knacker
knacker's yard
allemande left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allemande lefts
Etymology: From French allemande (“German”) + left. Contrary to some folk etymologies, this term does not come from the phrase a la main (“by the hand”).
Senses: qualifier: square dancing
glosses: Move in which two facing dancers take left hands or forearms, turn halfway around to the left, let go, and step forward.
Related terms: square dance
posse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.si/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.si/
rhymes: -ɒsi
Forms: form: posses
Etymology: Ellipsis of posse comitatus.
Senses: examples: text: It is traditional in America to criticize the schools; for more than a century, parents, self-styled experts, and educators themselves have attacked and indicted the educational system. No aspect of schooling has been more severely criticized than reading instruction. The current books have a long ancestry, and every innovation carries in its train a posse of suspicious and, one feels, unpersuadable observers.
ref: 1972, Mortimer J. Adler with Charles Van Doren, chapter 3, in How to Read a Book, Touchstone September 2014 edition, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
examples: text: He […] no sooner set his nose within the room to which he was directed, than the constable and his posse sprung upon him, before he had the least intimation of his design, or any opportunity of acting in his own defence.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Mathews then appointed Morton as a deputy sheriff and after a posse had been selected, they went in pursuit of the criminals. Within a few hours, the posse overtook the thieves.
ref: 1986, Donald R. Lavash, Sheriff William Brady, Tragic Hero of the Lincoln County War, Sunstone Press, →ISBN, page 77:
text: While Wyatt dismounted and aimed his shotgun at Brocius, the rest of his posse retreated.
ref: 2013, Andrew C. Isenberg, Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, Hill and Wang, →ISBN, page 165:
coordinate_terms: vigilante
glosses: A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
raw_tags: in later use chiefly US
glosses: A search party.
examples: text: Jamaican posses can be traced back to the Jamaican neighborhoods, and posse names correspond to the names of each neighborhood in which the gangs operate.
ref: 1997, Michael D. Lyman, Organized Crime, Prentice Hall, page 287:
glosses: A criminal gang.
examples: text: Hey, sir? Sir, excuse me?” The blonde was calling out to him, in imperious tones that insisted on a reply. […] She was breaking a rule of big-city life, breaking it brazenly, sure of her power, confident of her turf and posse, fearing nothing.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4:
text: But the few friends that I DO have are my “ride or die” chicks—my posse.
ref: 2014, April Boyd-Noronha, The Soul of a Single Parent: How to Snapback and Get Your SWAG On, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.
Derived terms: posseman
pussy posse
Related terms: in posse
Tajiki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The dialect of the Persian language spoken in Central Asia, especially in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
Tajiki-Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Tajik language.
Tamilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tamilians
form: Tamilan
form: Thamilan
form: Thamizhan
form: Tamizhan
Etymology: From Tamil + -ian.
Senses: glosses: a person of Tamil ethnicity
Synonyms: Tamil
Tamilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Tamilan
form: Thamilan
form: Thamizhan
form: Tamizhan
Etymology: From Tamil + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Tamil
mililiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of milliliter.
spite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spīt
ipa: /spaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: spites
form: spight
Etymology: From Middle English spit, a shortening of despit (whence despite), from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from Latin dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”). Compare also Dutch spijt and German Spiet.
Senses: examples: text: He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.
text: They did it just for spite.
text: This is the deadly spite that angers.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: sex with older men was a way to both internalize my spite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.
ref: 2014, Emivita, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil:
synonyms: grudge
rancor
glosses: Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice
examples: text: "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite."
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
glosses: Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
Derived terms: Hamiltonian spite
in spite of
in spite of oneself
in spite of someone's teeth
spite fence
spiteful
spite house
spite wall
spite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spīt
ipa: /spaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: spites
form: spiting
form: spited
form: spited
form: spight
Etymology: From Middle English spit, a shortening of despit (whence despite), from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from Latin dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”). Compare also Dutch spijt and German Spiet.
Senses: examples: text: She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
glosses: To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
examples: text: The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To be angry at; to hate.
examples: text: But the laſt and fatal Blow, given to that antient Learning, was in the time of Darius, Father of Xerxes, who with the reſt of the Perſians, ſpighted at the Magi, upon the Uſurpation of the Crown by one of their Number, (that counterfeited a younger Son of Cyrus after the Death of Cambyſes,) when he came to be ſetled in that Throne, endeavour'd to aboliſh, not only their Learning and Credit, but their Language too, by changing the old Aſſyrian Characters, and introducing thoſe of Perſia, which grew to be the common Uſe of that whole Empire.
ref: a. 1700 (date written), William Temple, “Some Thoughts upon Reviewing the Essay of Antient and Modern Learning”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. […], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published 1701, →OCLC, pages 240–241:
glosses: To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
Derived terms: cut off one's nose to spite one's face
spiter
Related terms: malignant
malicious
spite
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: spīt
ipa: /spaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: spight
Senses: glosses: Notwithstanding; despite.
dos a dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdəʊsəˈdəʊ/
ipa: /ˌdəʊsiˈdəʊ/
Forms: form: do-sa-do
form: dosado
form: dos-à-dos
form: do-se-do
form: do-si-do
form: dosido
form: dos-a-dos
form: dosey doe
Etymology: From French dos à dos (“back to back”), from dos (“back”) (from Latin dorsum (“back”)) and à (from Latin ad (“to”).
Senses: glosses: A move in square dancing in which two dancers face each other, then step forward and left until they have right shoulders adjacent, then move to a position where they are back to back, then move to have left shoulders adjacent, then return to facing each other.
glosses: A sofa, open carriage, etc. constructed so that the occupants sit back to back.
dos a dos
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdəʊsəˈdəʊ/
ipa: /ˌdəʊsiˈdəʊ/
Forms: form: do-sa-do
form: dosado
form: dos-à-dos
form: do-se-do
form: do-si-do
form: dosido
form: dos-a-dos
form: dosey doe
Etymology: From French dos à dos (“back to back”), from dos (“back”) (from Latin dorsum (“back”)) and à (from Latin ad (“to”).
Senses: examples: text: to sit dos a dos on a camel
text: to dance dos a dos, so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back
glosses: Back to back.
Related terms: do paso
square dance
Channel Island fox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Channel Island foxes
Senses: glosses: A fox of species Urocyon littoralis, native to the Channel Islands off the coast of California. Each of the six largest islands in the chain has its own native subspecies of fox.
GBA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of God bless America.
GBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GBAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gender-based analysis.
glosses: Initialism of gut-brain axis.
GBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: GBAs
Senses: examples: text: Up to four players can link up their GBAs and Fire Emblem Game Paks and vie for gladiatorial dominance in the Multiplayer Link Arena.
ref: 2003 December 24, “Fire Emblem”, in Nintendo Power, volume 174, Multiplayer Link Arena, page 33:
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Game Boy Advance.
Related terms: topics: video-games
word: GB
topics: video-games
word: GBC
topics: video-games
word: NDS
genuflect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.jʊ.flɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: genuflects
form: genuflecting
form: genuflected
form: genuflected
Etymology: PIE word
 *ǵónu
From around 1620–1630 from Medieval Latin genūflectō (“I bend the knee”) equivalent to the Latin genū (“knee”) + flectō (“to bend”).
Senses: glosses: To bend the knee, as in servitude.
examples: text: At high Mass the deacon and subdeacon stand on either side, genuflect too, and answer.
ref: 1913, Adrian Fortescue, Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Gospel in the Liturgy:
text: First you get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries, / Bow your head with great respect, and / genuflect, genuflect, genuflect.
ref: 1965, Tom Lehrer, The Vatican Rag:
text: She took the holy water on her fingertips and made the sign of the cross, fleetingly touched her wet fingertips to her parched lips. Candles flickered redly before the saints, the Christ on his cross. Kay genuflected before entering her row and then knelt on the hard wooden rail of the pew to wait for her call to Communion.
ref: circ. 1965, Mario Puzo, The Godfather:
glosses: To briefly enter a position that touches one knee to the ground in a manner that is typically associated with formal homage or religious worship.
examples: text: Certainly, the megalomaniacs who aim to populate municipal fixtures with registered-trademark logos will expect cities to genuflect at every turn.
ref: 2017 September 27, Julianne Tveten, “Zucktown, USA”, in The Baffler:
glosses: To behave in a servile manner; to grovel.
Derived terms: genuflective
Related terms: genuflection
genuflector
unit interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unit intervals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the interval [0,1], that is the set of all real numbers x such that zero is less than or equal to x and x is less than or equal to one
examples: text: The unit interval of a signal with a baud rate of 1,000 Bd is 1 millisecond.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: symbol duration time.
xyster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪs.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈzɪs.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: xysters
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξυστήρ (xustḗr, “scraper”), from ξύω (xúō, “scrape”).
Senses: glosses: A surgical instrument used to scrape bones.
jaghirdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaghirdars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jagirdar.
jaghir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaghirs
Senses: examples: text: He figured why pay your generals hefty salaries and award them vast jagirs if you were going to end up doing all the work anyway?
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 82:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jagir.
haaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑf/
rhymes: -ɑf
Forms: form: haave
Etymology: From Old Norse haf (“the sea”). Cognate with Danish hav, Old English hæf (Etymology 2).
Senses: examples: text: The banks to which they repair for the haaf fishing, are often many miles distant from the station where the fish is dried; so that they are always twenty or thirty hours absent, frequently longer; and under unfavourable circumstances of wind and tide, they remain at sea, with a very small stock of provisions, and in a boat of a construction which seems extremely slender, for two or three days, and are sometimes heard of no more.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: The haaf-boat was as well maintained as any vessel in the islands; her master had a reputation for thoroughness, for all he was barely twenty years of age.
ref: 2003, Juliet Marillier, Foxmask (Saga of the Light Isles; 2), page 28:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: the open sea, especially as a place to fish
examples: text: Although men concentrated at the main haaf stations during the summer fishing season, they reverted to their homes in crofting townships for the remainder of the year.
ref: 2005, James Coull, “7: The development of fishing communities with special reference to Scotland”, in Jonathan Potts, Hance D. Smith, editors, Managing Britain's Marine and Coastal Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future, page 145:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: the practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk
Derived terms: haaf net
haaf netting
Aesopian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈsəʊpɪən/
ipa: /iːˈsoʊpi.ən/
Forms: form: more Aesopian
form: most Aesopian
form: Aesopean
form: Æsopean
form: Æsopian
form: Esopean
form: Esopian
Etymology: From Latin Aesopius (“Aesopian”), from Ancient Greek Αἴσωπος (Aísōpos, “the famous Greek fabulist Aesop”).
Senses: glosses: Related to or concerning the Greek fabulist Aesop.
glosses: Characteristic of Aesop's animal fables.
glosses: Employing or having an ambiguous or allegorical meaning, especially a political meaning.
Synonyms: Aesopic
Aesopish
Esopic
Aesopical
Derived terms: Aesopianism
waag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɑɡ
Forms: form: waags
Etymology: Ultimately from Tigrinya ወዓግ (wäʿag).
Senses: glosses: The grivet (an African monkey) - Chlorocebus aethiops
Synonyms: grivet
tota
uncipher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsaɪfə/
rhymes: -aɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: unciphers
form: unciphering
form: unciphered
form: unciphered
form: uncypher
Etymology: From un- + cipher.
Senses: glosses: To decode or decipher.
Synonyms: construe
crack
decipher
decode
disentangle
do
explain
figure out
interpret
read
riddle
solve
translate
unfold
unravel
unscramble
untangle
Related terms: decipher
y-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ɪ/
Forms: form: a-
Etymology: From Middle English y-, from Old English ġe- (perfective and associative prefix); see those entries for more. Cognate with German ge-, Yiddish גע־ (ge-).
Senses: examples: ybarred, yclept, yclad, ybaptized, yslain, yronne
glosses: Used with past participle conjugations to form past participles (this prefix does not occur independently and is no longer productive).
drier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪɚ/
ipa: [ˈdɹaɪɚ]
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɹaɪɚ]
ipa: /ˈdɹaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: driers
form: dryer
Etymology: From Middle English driere, dreyere (“one who dries”), equivalent to dry + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dryer.
drier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪɚ/
ipa: [ˈdɹaɪɚ]
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɹaɪɚ]
ipa: /ˈdɹaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dryer
Etymology: From dry + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dry: more dry
mad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd/
ipa: /ˈmæːd/
note: New York City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore
ipa: /ˈmɛəd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: mads
form: madding
form: madded
form: madded
Etymology: From Middle English madden, from the adjective; compare Old English ġemǣdan.
Senses: examples: text: The imperial Elizabetta gazed with surprise at the youthful and unpretending appearance of the little being that had set the world madding.
ref: 1832, Tales of the Alhambra, Washington Irving:
glosses: To be or become mad.
examples: text: This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene 5]:
text: He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:
text: Carolina! Whine your body gyal! Make Dem know say you have it fi mad dem
ref: 1993 March 22, “Oh Carolina”, in Pure Pleasure, performed by Shaggy (musician):
glosses: To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
dryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪɚ/
ipa: [ˈdɹaɪɚ]
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɹaɪɚ]
ipa: /ˈdɹaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dryers
form: drier
Etymology: From Middle English driere, dreyere (“one who dries”), equivalent to dry + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
text: At that time, father, brother and I worked as night watchmen at the grain dryer. It was a large and complicated structure built out in the steppe. It consisted of a wooden tower with swinging shelves attached to the inside walls,[…]
ref: 2004 December 17, Evgenii D. Moniushko, From Leningrad to Hungary: Notes of a Red Army Soldier, 1941-1946, Routledge, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: One who, or that which, dries; any device or facility employed to remove water or humidity, e.g. a desiccative
qualifier: most often
glosses: Short for clothes dryer, tumble dryer
glosses: Short for hair dryer
glosses: A catalyst used to promote the drying of paints and varnishes by oxidative crosslinking.
Hyponyms: sense: other drying device
word: dehumidifier
Derived terms: blow-dryer
blow dryer
dryer ball
dryerless
dryer sheet
hair-dryer
hand dryer
jet dryer
spin dryer
tumbler dryer
washer-dryer
dryer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪɚ/
ipa: [ˈdɹaɪɚ]
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒɹaɪɚ]
ipa: /ˈdɹaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drier
Etymology: From dry + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dry: more dry
Yamato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːmətəʊ/
Etymology: From Japanese 大和 (Yamato), itself of uncertain derivation, but likely related to 山 (yama, “mountains”). See Proto-Japonic *yamatə.
Senses: examples: text: The museum curator said that the sword originated from the Yamato period in Japan.
glosses: Ancient Japan.
glosses: Any of several towns in Japan; see Wikipedia.
examples: text: In Japanese society, Koreans are viewed as being of a lower rung on the social ladder compared to Yamato people.
glosses: The imperial house which formerly ruled Japan from the province of Yamato; by extension, the dominant native ethnic group in Japan.
glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Yamato.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Yamato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːmətəʊ/
Forms: form: Yamatos
form: Yamato
Etymology: From Japanese 大和 (Yamato), itself of uncertain derivation, but likely related to 山 (yama, “mountains”). See Proto-Japonic *yamatə.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Yamato court which formerly ruled Japan.
examples: text: When the Guptas were ruling in India and the Tang were ruling in China and the Yamatos were ruling in Japan, no one was ruling in Australia! The people of Australia were nomads.
ref: 2007, S. Wise Bauer, The Story of the World, History for the Classical Child, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: A member of an ethnic group of Japan, the predominant ethnic group of the islands.
glosses: One of a class of battleships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War.
trireme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ.ɹiːm/
Forms: form: triremes
Etymology: From Latin trirēmis, from tri- + rēmus (“oar”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A galley with three banks of oars, one above the other, used mainly as a warship.
Related terms: unireme
monoreme
penteconter
bireme
quadrireme
quinquereme
pentere
polyreme
arbalest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbalests
form: arbelest
form: arbalet
form: arbalist
form: arblast
Etymology: From Middle English arblast, from Old French arbaleste (modern arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus + ballista.
Senses: examples: text: He excelled with the arbalest steel crossbow, winning the nickname the Arbalestier and joined Bahriyya regiment, the crack soldiers who defeated the Crusaders and became known as the Turkish Lions and the Islamic Templars.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 329:
glosses: A steel crossbow.
glosses: A crossbowman who uses an arbalest.
Derived terms: arbalester
einherjar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪnˈhɛɹ.jɑɹ/
Etymology: From Old Norse einherjar (plural, literally “lone fighters”) (rarely attested singular einheri).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The warriors who died fighting bravely and were brought by valkyries to Valhalla, where they feast and prepare for Ragnarok.
jarl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑɹl̩/
ipa: /jɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: jarls
Etymology: From Old Norse jarl, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaʀ). Cognates include Old English eorl. Doublet of earl and eorl.
Senses: examples: text: There were three kinds of Viking: thralls, karls and jarls. Thralls were the slaves. They were owned by karls and jarls.
ref: 2016, Louise Spilsbury, “Powerful Kings and Suffering Slaves”, in The Vikings: Dig Up the Secrets of the Dead (History Hunters), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Raintree, →ISBN, page 18:
coordinate_terms: karl
thrall
glosses: A medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark.
Derived terms: jarldom
jarlship
paladin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpælədɪn/
Forms: form: paladins
Etymology: Borrowed from French paladin, from Italian paladino, from Late Latin palātīnus (“palace officer”), derived from palātium (“palace”). Doublet of palatine.
Senses: examples: text: For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code.
ref: 2014 July 15, Theck, “TC101: Intro to Theorycrafting”, in Sacred Duty:
text: Below are the results of a multi-actor simulation containing a bunch of paladins with slightly different L75 and L100 talents.
ref: 2014 November 12, Theck, “Paladinning in Warlords of Draenor”, in Sacred Duty:
glosses: A heroic champion, especially a knight.
glosses: A defender or advocate of a noble cause.
glosses: Any of the twelve Companions of the court of Emperor Charlemagne.
Derived terms: archpaladin
trike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: trikes
Etymology: Shortening of tricycle, modelled on bike.
Senses: glosses: A tricycle, typically that of a child.
examples: text: As a trike, his motorbike gave him more stability at the price of some speed.
ref: 2002, Sports 'n Spokes, volumes 28-29, page 36:
glosses: A three-wheeled motorbike.
glosses: A kind of railroad maintenance vehicle: a speeder or jigger.
Derived terms: e-trike
Related terms: bike
trike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: trikes
form: triking
form: triked
form: triked
Etymology: Shortening of tricycle, modelled on bike.
Senses: glosses: To tricycle; to travel by tricycle.