cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
consumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsjuːmə/
ipa: /kənˈʃuːmə/
ipa: /kənˈsumɚ/
ipa: /kənˈsjʉːmə/
rhymes: -uːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: consumers
Etymology: From consume + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: One who, or that which, consumes.
examples: text: This new system favours the consumer over the producer.
text: Almost two-thirds of American consumers have at least one unspent gift card tucked away in a drawer, pocket, wallet or purse.
ref: 2023 February 23, Parija Kavilanz, “Americans have a collective $21 billion in unspent gift cards”, in CNN:
text: A second estimate of gross domestic product, released Thursday, showed that consumer spending was weaker in the first three months of the year than initially reported.
ref: 2024 May 30, Bryan Mena and Nathaniel Meyersohn, “The American shopping spree is losing steam”, in CNN:
topics: economics
sciences
antonyms: producer
glosses: Someone who trades money for goods or services as an individual.
examples: text: Our consumers are upwardly mobile and middle-class.
glosses: The consumer base of a product, service or business.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
antonyms: producer
glosses: An organism (heterotroph) that uses other organisms for food in order to gain energy.
Derived terms: anticonsumer
anti-consumer
business-to-business-to-consumer
business-to-consumer
consoomer
conspicuous consumer
consumer brand
consumer credit
consumerdom
consumer good
consumer-grade
consumerish
consumerism
consumerist
consumerization
consumerize
consumerlike
consumer price index
consumer research
consumer resistance
consumer rights
consumership
consumer society
consumer surplus
consumer unit
consumer whore
cyberconsumer
direct-to-consumer
end-consumer
end consumer
macroconsumer
mesoconsumer
metaconsumer
microconsumer
multiconsumer
mystery consumer
nonconsumer
postconsumer
preconsumer
prosumer
secondary consumer
smoke consumer
transumer
Related terms: consumption
demand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɑːnd/
ipa: /dɪˈmænd/
ipa: /dəˈmænd/
rhymes: -ɑːnd
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: demands
form: demaund
form: demaunde
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.
Proto-Italic *-ðō
Proto-Italic *manuðō
Latin mandō
Latin dēmandō
Old French demanderbor.
Middle English demaunden
English demand
From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandāre.
Senses: examples: text: Prices usually go up when demand exceeds supply.
text: Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
ref: 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:
glosses: The desire to purchase goods and services.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
examples: text: Modern society is responding to women's demands for equality.
text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A forceful claim for something.
examples: text: His job makes many demands on his time.
text: There is a demand for voluntary health workers in the poorer parts of Africa and Asia.
glosses: A requirement.
examples: text: She couldn't ignore the newborn baby's demands for attention.
glosses: An urgent request.
glosses: An order.
qualifier: electricity supply
glosses: More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
Synonyms: sense: a requirement
word: imposition
Derived terms: biochemical oxygen demand
biological oxygen demand
composite demand
counterdemand
cross elasticity of demand
cross-price elasticity of demand
demand account
demand characteristic
demand curve
demand deposit
demand destruction
demand draft
demand-driven
demand letter
demand note
demand partner
demand planning
demand-pull inflation
demand side
demand valve
income elasticity of demand
in demand
nondemand
on-demand
on demand
overdemand
oxygen demand
price elasticity of demand
print-on-demand
print on demand
redemand
supply and demand
theoretical oxygen demand
demand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɑːnd/
ipa: /dɪˈmænd/
ipa: /dəˈmænd/
rhymes: -ɑːnd
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: demands
form: demanding
form: demanded
form: demanded
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: demand
form: demand
form: demanded
form: demand
form: demandest
form: demanded
form: demandedst
form: demands
form: demandeth
form: demanded
form: demand
form: demanded
form: demand
form: demanded
form: demand
form: -
form: demanding
form: demanded
form: demaund
form: demaunde
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.
Proto-Italic *-ðō
Proto-Italic *manuðō
Latin mandō
Latin dēmandō
Old French demanderbor.
Middle English demaunden
English demand
From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin dēmandō, dēmandāre.
Senses: examples: text: I demand to see the manager.
glosses: To request forcefully.
examples: text: The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.
text: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
glosses: To claim a right to something.
examples: text: I demand an immediate explanation.
text: When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
⁠And home to Mary’s house return’d,
⁠Was this demanded—if he yearn’d
To hear her weeping by his grave?
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: To ask forcefully for information.
examples: text: This job demands a lot of patience.
glosses: To require of someone.
topics: law
glosses: To issue a summons to court.
Synonyms: word: call for
word: insist
word: stipulate
sense: ask strongly
word: frain
Derived terms: demandable
demandee
redemand
undemanded
market share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market shares
form: marketshare
form: market-share
Etymology: From market + share.
Senses: examples: text: They continued to lose market share.
text: They have increased their market share.
text: The expectations for the shuttle service that carried lorries and cars did prove more robust, but ferries have maintained a greater-than-expected market share because the sea crossing allows rest time for drivers.
ref: 2020 November 18, “Industry Insider: Improving rail connectivity”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: The percentage of some market held by a company, country, (sub)sector or any other actor or aggregate.
Synonyms: usage share
dinky-di
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪŋkiˈdɑi/
ipa: /dɪŋkiˈdʌɪ/
ipa: /dɪŋkiˈdaɪ/
Forms: form: dinky-die
Etymology: Fanciful diminutive form of dinkum.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Is that dinky-die?’ he asked. ‘You came on to Australia because of me?’
ref: 1950, Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: Since Miss McKendry is a dinky-die Aussie with an accent thick as a kangaroo′s tail, she was hexed from the start.
ref: 1962, Show: The Magazine of the Arts, volume 2, page 74:
text: ‘I was nearly a doctor,’ she said.
‘Fair dinkum?’
‘Dinky-di.’
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 282:
text: For real value for money there are a couple of dinky-die Australian eating places you should certainly try, though.
ref: 1986, Tony Wheeler, Australia, A Travel Survival Kit, volume 4, page 43:
glosses: Genuine, true.
examples: text: “Wonderful! By the time we′re old I'll be able to speak like an Australian.”
“No way. You′ll never be dinky die. Your English is much too cultured. Just like you.”
ref: 2009, Harry Blackley, Korean Rose, page 99:
text: ‘Come and meet Sandor and Eva, and here is their son Miklos, all right, Michael he insists on being now, he is dinky-die as they say, a proper Australian, he even forgets how to speak Hungarian, he has just left school like you—[…].’
ref: 2009, Madeleine St. John, The Women in Black, page 155:
glosses: Authentically Australian.
examples: text: And if you want my dinky-die advice, you′ll let me take you to the cops.
ref: 1959, Helen Marjorie Fowler, Hold a Bright Mirror, page 98:
glosses: Honest, on the level.
examples: text: These men to whom I am referring are “dinky-die” diggers and patriots.
ref: 1939, Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 162, page 1254:
glosses: True blue, steadfastly loyal.
Synonyms: dinkum
guarantee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌɡɛɹ.ənˈtiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: guarantees
Etymology: From Old French guarantie (perhaps via a later Spanish garante), from the verb guarantir (“to protect, assure, vouch for”), ultimately from Old Frankish *warjand, *warand (“a warrant”), or from guaranty. Doublet of guaranty and warranty.
Senses: examples: text: Can you give me a guarantee that he will be fit for the match?
text: After his actions were challenged by foreign governments and Parliament initially tried to put a stop to his action, Denman returned home and argued his case with enough force that, by 1848, the Royal Navy was handed active permission and encouragement to raze every last slave factory they could find to the ground, and full authority to stop any ship, of any flag, that was thought to be a slaver, with a guarantee with^([sic]) no censure from the government.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 9:45 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: Anything that assures a certain outcome.
glosses: A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
examples: text: The cooker comes with a five-year guarantee.
glosses: A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty.
glosses: The person to whom a guarantee is made.
examples: text: But God who is the great Guarantee for the Peace , Order , and good behaviour of Mankind
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
Synonyms: warranty
Derived terms: guarantee association
guarantee letter
interest rate guarantee
letter of guarantee
nonguarantee
reguarantee
guarantee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌɡɛɹ.ənˈtiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: guarantees
form: guaranteeing
form: guaranteed
form: guaranteed
Etymology: From Old French guarantie (perhaps via a later Spanish garante), from the verb guarantir (“to protect, assure, vouch for”), ultimately from Old Frankish *warjand, *warand (“a warrant”), or from guaranty. Doublet of guaranty and warranty.
Senses: glosses: To give an assurance that something will be done right.
glosses: To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
examples: text: The long sunny days guarantee a good crop.
glosses: To make something certain.
Synonyms: assure
warrant
Derived terms: guaranteeable
guaranteer
overguarantee
Related terms: guaranty
guarantor
ultra-high
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ultrahigh
Etymology: From ultra- + high.
Senses: examples: ultra-high frequency
ultra-high definition video
2003, We could have ultra-high-resolution space telescopes capable of detecting Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. — The New Yorker, 17 & 24 Feb 2003
glosses: Very, extremely, or exceedingly high.
ointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɪntm(ə)nt/
ipa: [ˈɔ̃ɪ̃(n)ʔ.mɪ̃(n)ʔ]
ipa: /ˈɔɪn(t)m(ə)nt/
Forms: form: ointments
form: oyntment
Etymology: A later form (as if oint + -ment) of Middle English oinement, borrowed from Old French oignement (“an anointing”), from oigner, oindre, ongier (“to anoint”), from Latin ung(u)ō (“I anoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to smear, anoint”). Partly displaced native Old English sealf, whence modern salve.
Senses: examples: text: The doctor prescribed an antibiotic ointment for the wound.
text: She applied a soothing herbal ointment to her dry skin.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
glosses: A substance used to anoint, as in religious rituals.
Synonyms: topics: medicine
sciences
word: salve
topics: medicine
sciences
word: unguent
topics: medicine
sciences
word: pomatum
topics: medicine
sciences
word: pomade
topics: medicine
sciences
word: pomate
Derived terms: blue ointment
citrine ointment
flying ointment
fly in the ointment
ointmentlike
saracenic ointment
Whitfield's ointment
Related terms: cream
inunction
liniment
unction
unctuous
unguent
whole number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole numbers
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integer.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A positive integer or zero.
Related terms: integer
counting number
number-theoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more number-theoretical
form: most number-theoretical
Senses: examples: text: The simple question of which numbers are divisible by others leads directly into many deep number-theoretical questions.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to number theory.
Synonyms: number-theoretic
Related terms: number theory
identity element
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identity elements
Senses: examples: text: Therefore the number 0 is not considered an identity element for subtraction, even though x-0#61;x for all x, since 0-x#92;nex.
ref: 1990, Daniel M. Fendel, Diane Resek, Foundations of Higher Mathematics, Volume 1, Addison-Wesley, page 269:
text: Proof. If e and e' are both identity elements, then we have ee'=e since e' is an identity element, and ee'=e' since e is an identity element. Thus
e=ee'=e'.
ref: 2003, Houshang H. Sohrab, Basic Real Analysis, Birkhäuser, page 17, Let (G,·) be a group. Then the identity element e∈G is unique. […]
text: Sometimes, to avoid ambiguity, we may use the notation e#95;M for the identity element of M.
If multiplicative notation is used then we use the term identity element, and often use the notation 1, or 1#95;M, for the neutral element e.
ref: 2015, Martyn R. Dixon, Leonid A. Kurdachenko, Igor Ya. Subbotin, An Introduction to Essential Algebraic Structures, Wiley, page 41:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An element of an algebraic structure which when applied, in either order, to any other element via a binary operation yields the other element.
Synonyms: sense: element that when applied with a binary operation leaves any other element unchanged
word: identity
sense: element that when applied with a binary operation leaves any other element unchanged
word: neutral element
Hyponyms: sense: element that when applied with a binary operation leaves any other element unchanged
word: additive identity
sense: element that when applied with a binary operation leaves any other element unchanged
word: multiplicative identity
sense: element that when applied with a binary operation leaves any other element unchanged
word: zero
sense: element that when applied with a binary operation leaves any other element unchanged
word: zero element
Related terms: left identity
right identity
unity
left identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left identities
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An element of a structure that produces an identity mapping when applied on the left.
Related terms: identity element
right identity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right identities
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An element of a structure that produces an identity mapping when applied on the right.
Related terms: identity element
prime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prīm
ipa: /pɹaɪ̯m/
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -aɪm
enpr: prīm
ipa: /pɹaɪ̯m/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: primes
form: priming
form: primed
form: primed
Etymology: Related to primage and Latin prīmus.
Senses: examples: text: You'll have to press this button twice to prime the fuel pump.
glosses: To fill or prepare the chamber of a mechanism for its main work.
examples: text: I need to prime these handrails before we can apply the finish coat.
glosses: To apply a coat of primer paint to.
examples: text: Nights baſhfull Empreſſe, though ſhe often wayne, / As oft repents her darkneſſe ; primes againe ; / And with her circling Hornes does re-embrace / Her brothers wealth, and orbs her ſilver face.
ref: 1634, Francis Quarles, “My Soule Hath Desired Thee in the Night”, in Emblemes, London: G. M., published 1635, book III, page 129:
glosses: To be renewed.
glosses: To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.
examples: text: Although we took our eight bogies along to Whitstable at 60 m.p.h., and made a clean start from there, after Herne Bay the engine primed badly on Blacksole Bank and nearly stopped before we got over the top. Then we ran like the wind across the marshes with half-regulator, 30 per cent cut-off, and the engine blowing off.
ref: 1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed.
raw_tags: of a steam boiler
glosses: To apply priming to (a musket or cannon); to apply a primer to (a metallic cartridge).
examples: text: The boys are primed for mischief.
text: “He’s priming himself,” Osborne whispered to Dobbin, and at length the hour and the carriage arrived for Vauxhall.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Dobbin of Ours”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: To prepare; to make ready.
examples: text: to prime a witness
glosses: To instruct beforehand, as for an examination; to coach.
examples: text: to prime trees
glosses: To trim or prune.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To mark with a prime mark.
Synonyms: sense: to apply a coat of primer paint to
word: ground
sense: to apply a coat of primer paint to
word: undercoat
Derived terms: prime the pump
prime up
prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prīm
ipa: /pɹaɪ̯m/
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -aɪm
ipa: /pɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
enpr: prīm
ipa: /pɹaɪ̯m/
rhymes: -aɪm
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: primes
Etymology: From French prime (“reward, prize, bonus”).
Senses: examples: text: Most primes are won with gaps on the field; most sprints are in bunches.
ref: 1997, Arnie Baker, Smart Cycling: Successful Training and Racing for Riders of All Levels:
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An intermediate sprint within a race, usually offering a prize and/or points.
Derived terms: primer
Related terms: primal
primary
primate
Primates
primy
contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏn'trăkt
ipa: /ˈkɒntɹækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɹækt/
Forms: form: contracts
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractus (noun), from contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”) [from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”)] + -tus (suffix forming nouns from verbs).
Senses: examples: text: sign a contract
text: write up a contract
text: read a contract
text: countersign a contract
text: legally-binding contract
text: unwritten contract
text: Marriage is a contract.
text: British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
ref: 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
synonyms: compact
pact
glosses: An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
topics: law
glosses: An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
topics: law
glosses: The document containing such an agreement.
topics: law
glosses: A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
examples: text: The mafia boss put a contract out on the man who betrayed him.
glosses: An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
Synonyms: sense: part of legal studies
word: contract law
Hypernyms: sense: agreement that is legally binding
word: agreement
Hyponyms: sense: agreement that is legally binding
word: bailment
Derived terms: adhesion contract
breach of contract
contract agent
contractarianism
contract awarding
contract bridge
contract cheating
contract curve
contractee
contract killer
contract killing
contractless
contractocracy
contract of employment
contract of sale
contract out
contract packing
contract period
contract programming
contract system
contract time
contractual
contraktnik
deposit contract
design by contract
e-contract
employment contract
fixed-term contract
forward contract
freedom of contract
future contract
futures contract
hypercontract
insurance contract
nominate contract
noncontract
open-book contract
open-ended contract
permanent contract
pink contract
precontract
prime contract
programming by contract
quasi-contract
requirements contract
retirement annuity contract
smart contract
social contract
specific contract
subcontract
supercontract
sweetheart contract
unilateral contract
will contract
yellow dog contract
zero-hour contract
zero-hours contract
contract
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏn'trăkt
ipa: /ˈkɒntɹækt/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɹækt/
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractus (noun), from contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”) [from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”)] + -tus (suffix forming nouns from verbs).
Senses: examples: text: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 1:
glosses: Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
examples: text: But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Abſtracte: and other called nombers Contracte.
ref: 1557, Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte:
glosses: Not abstract; concrete.
relatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv.li/
note: enunciated
ipa: [ˈɹɛl.ə.tʰɪv.li]
note: flapped
ipa: [ˈɹɛl.ə.ɾɪv.li]
Forms: form: relative
Etymology: From relative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the present position of Europe, it is obvious, that France domineers. She has gained positively, by adding territory to her dominions [...]; she has gained relatively, by removing Austria to a distance, and by weakening that ancient rival to such a degree, as to secure her inaction for an age.
ref: 1802 March 24, Fisher Ames, “Balance of Europe”, in Works of Fisher Ames. Compiled by a number of his friends. To which are prefixed, Notices of his life and character., Boston: T. B. Wait & Co., published 1809, →OCLC, page 257:
text: [T]he Sundanese [...] have better preserved their primitive usages than the other inhabitants of the island. They are as a rule taller, more robust, and healthier; but they are regarded as relatively barbarous, and in the company of Malays or Javanese, they are themselves ashamed of their dialect, which is looked on as a sort of rude patois.
ref: 1890, [Jacques] Élisée Reclus, “Java”, in A. H. Keane, editor, Oceanica (The Earth and Its Inhabitants; 14), New York: D. Appleton and Company, Inhabitants:
text: Some organs may grow faster than the rest of the body so that their size increases not only in absolute terms, but also relatively to the rest of the body, which is positive allometry; […]
ref: 1983 May 5, Paul Harvey, Tim Clutton-Brock, “The Survival of the Theory”, in New Scientist, volume 98, number 1356, London: New Science Publications, →ISSN, page 313:
glosses: In a relative manner; with reference to environment or competition; contextually or comparatively.
examples: text: Additionally, the F never lets you forget it's one big and very heavy motorcycle. The wide bars give you the leverage to bend it into a corner relatively quickly, but you feel its mass resisting. […] On the freeway, the seat–relatively thin to keep ride height down–offers a pleasant site for your rear through a tank of gas.
ref: 2005 January 24, “Honda VTX1800F”, in Cycle World, volume 44, number 1, →ISSN:
text: There are at least 1,000 DOE staff working in relatively new offices in the department created after Biden’s infrastructure and climate laws passed a few years ago, including the Grid Deployment Office – which works on modernizing and securing the nation’s electrical grid.
ref: 2025 February 6, Ella Nilsen and Sean Lyngaas, “Trump energy secretary allowed 23-year-old DOGE rep to access IT systems over objections from general counsel”, in CNN:
glosses: Somewhat; fairly.
Derived terms: relatively prime
hardworking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardworking
form: most hardworking
form: hard-working
Etymology: From hard + working.
Senses: examples: text: “My team and manager are exceptional; they are hardworking, talented, and supportive,” noted one respondent. “The company as a whole really focuses on their employees and that is very important to me.”
ref: 2022 June 21, Erin Cooper, “The Washington Post Names MIL a 2022 Top Workplace in the D.C. Area”, in MIL, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2022:
text: It exacerbates homelessness, slows family formation, prevents workers from moving to opportunity and puts an enormous strain on the budgets of hardworking people.
ref: 2024 August 20, Megan McArdle, “Why Harris’s housing plan won’t work”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2024:
synonyms: word: industrious
word: studious
word: assiduous
word: diligent
word: sedulous
word: notable
word: painstaking
word: hard-working
word: worksome
glosses: Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.
Derived terms: hardworkingly
hardworkingness
cultivate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌltɪveɪt/
Forms: form: cultivates
form: cultivating
form: cultivated
form: cultivated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cultivātus, perfect passive participle of cultivō (“till, cultivate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from cultīvus (“tilled”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate”), which comes from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō) and Sanskrit चरति (cárati). The same Proto-Indo-European root also gave Latin in-quil-īnus (“inhabitant”) and anculus (“servant”).
Senses: examples: text: Most farmers in this region cultivate maize.
text: So unhealthy is this valley, which is the home of large game, that whole kraals full of people who have tried to cultivate the rich land, have died in it of fever, or fled away leaving their crops unreaped.
ref: 1917, H. Rider Haggard, Finished:
text: My hobby is gathering the spores of some of the most delicious of the wild varieties of mushrooms, such as morels, giant puffballs and woods oysters, then cultivating them.
ref: 1958, Journal of Lifetime Living, volume 24, page 15:
glosses: To grow plants, notably crops.
examples: text: They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.
text: Left also to himself by guardians[…] he cultivated more his imagination than his judgment
ref: 1819, John William Polidori, The Vampyre:
text: The mix of ballet vocabulary, modern techniques and African steps is familiar, but the extent to which Mr. Rhoden packs — and overpacks — phrases, cultivates warp-speed delivery and hyperextends every possible hip jut and arabesque is, thank goodness, something special to Complexions.
ref: 2007 November 23, Claudia La Rocco, “Ballet and African Steps, Delivered at Warp Speed”, in The New York Times:
text: […] after four years in which President Donald J. Trump had cultivated Mr. Johnson and expressed sympathy for Britain in its bitter divorce with the European Union.
ref: 2021 June 7, Mark Landler, “As a Tense Summer Looms, Northern Ireland Braces”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To nurture; to foster; to tend.
glosses: To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting or as a method of weed control between growing crop plants.
Derived terms: cocultivate
cultivable
cultivar
cultivatable
cultivated
cultivation
cultivator
miscultivate
overcultivate
recultivate
subcultivate
uncultivate
uncultivated
export
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin exportare.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to exportation or exports.
export
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕksʹpôt
ipa: /ˈɛks.pɔːt/
enpr: ĕksʹpôrt
ipa: /ˈɛks.pɔɹt/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ĕksʹpōrt
ipa: /ˈɛks.po(ː)ɹt/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈɛks.poət/
Forms: form: exports
Etymology: From Latin exportare.
Senses: examples: text: Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.
glosses: Something that is exported.
examples: text: The export of fish is forbidden in this country.
glosses: The act of exporting.
Synonyms: sense: the act of exporting
word: exportation
Derived terms: antiexport
co-export
coexport
export subsidy
invisible export
nonexport
reexport
export
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭkspôtʹ
ipa: /ɪksˈpɔːt/
enpr: ĭkspôrtʹ
ipa: /ɪksˈpɔɹt/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: ĭkspōrtʹ
ipa: /ɪksˈpo(ː)ɹt/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɪksˈpoət/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: exports
form: exporting
form: exported
form: exported
Etymology: From Latin exportare.
Senses: examples: text: [They] export honour from a man, and make him a return in envy.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Followers and Friends”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
synonyms: remove
glosses: To carry away.
examples: text: Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.
text: Jim is a nurseryman, specialising in clematis, and he has built up a business exporting 150 varieties to countries all over the world.
ref: 1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:
antonyms: import
glosses: To sell (goods) to a foreign country.
glosses: To cause to spread in another part of the world.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: import
glosses: To send (data) from one program to another.
glosses: To put up (a child) for international adoption.
Derived terms: antiexporting
co-export
coexport
exportability
exportable
exportation
exporter
exportin
exportome
nonexported
nonexporting
reexport
re-export
unexport
unexported
competitive advantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: competitive advantages
Senses: topics: business
economics
sciences
antonyms: competitive disadvantage
glosses: An attribute that allows a company or a person to outperform competitors.
Related terms: comparative advantage
mazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪzə/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mazers
form: maser
Etymology: From Middle English maser, mazer, masere, from Anglo-Norman mazer, Old French mazre (“a kind of maple wood”), from Frankish *masur, from Proto-Germanic *masuraz, cognate with Old High German masar (German Maser (“spot”)), Icelandic mösurr (“maple”).
It has been suggested that the English word might instead come from Old English *mæser, *maser (suggested by a putative derivative mæseren), but the evidence for this is slight and disputed.
Senses: glosses: The maple tree, or maple wood.
examples: text: Presently he rose up and set before each young man some meat in a charger and drink in a large mazer, treating me in like manner; and after that they sat questioning me concerning my adventures and what had betided me
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 16”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: Then, in great wooden cups and bowls and mazers, wreathed with ivy, came the wines […]
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
glosses: A large drinking bowl made from such wood; a mazer bowl.
Derived terms: mazer bowl
mazer wood
effectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effectivities
Etymology: From effective + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The ability or power to be effective.
glosses: A measure of the effectiveness of something.
glosses: [Technical documentation] An indication of the product, procedure, or timescale for which an item of information is applicable or effective.
Related terms: effect
effective
effectiveness
effector
effectual
effectuate
efficacious
efficacity
efficacy
efficiency
efficient
effectively
solution
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈl(j)uːʃən/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: solutions
form: solutioning
form: solutioned
form: solutioned
Etymology: From Middle English solucioun, from Old French solucion (French solution), from Latin solūtiōnem, accusative singular of solūtiō, from the verb solvō. Compare solve, -tion.
Senses: examples: text: The reason for having the rubber so thick is that the cuts one is bound to get do not penetrate right through the rubber to the canvas or fabric, as I found it was really throught htis latter rotting that the trouble with the tyres occurred, whereas, when I had thick rubber, and particularly, be it noted, not one piece of rubber, but two pieces, namely, the rubber, cover proper and then a thick rubber band solutioned on top of this, I found from experience that, say, the rubber was half an inch thick, the cuts seemed to go much more easily through one piece of rubber than they did through two pieces of rubber, each a quarter of an inch thick, solutioned together.
ref: 1898 August 6, Tavistock Chambers, “Correspondence: Some Interesting Tyre Experiences”, in The Autocar, volume 3, number 114, page 508:
text: The end of the casing 1 is flanged to receive a rubber tube 21 having and extension 22 to which the air chamber is solutioned or similarly fixed.
ref: 1903, Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications, page 23:
text: During the solutioning process, nucleation and growth of secondary phase γ' precipitates occur, in which the embryos are initially of spherical and then cubic shapes.
ref: 2014, Peter Rudolph, Handbook of Crystal Growth: Bulk Crystal Growth, →ISBN, page 423:
glosses: To treat with a solution.
qualified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪd/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪd/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.lə.faɪd/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪd/
ipa: /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑed/
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ə.faɪd/
ipa: [ˈkwɔ̟l.ə.fɑe̯d]
Forms: form: more qualified
form: most qualified
Senses: examples: text: The classification is for graduates of a class A teleman school with no significant experience and for other personnel who are not qualified for a specialized classification.
ref: 1949, Manual of Navy Enlisted Manpower and Personnel Classifications and Occupational Standards, United States Bureau of Naval Personnel:
glosses: Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
examples: text: Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work.
text: Gatwick has been given a qualified green light to operate a second runway after the government “set out a path to expansion” for London’s second biggest airport.
ref: 2025 February 27, Gwyn Topham, “Minister ‘sets path’ to allow Gatwick to open second runway”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian (UK section), London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Restricted or limited by conditions.
Derived terms: fully qualified domain name
fully qualified hostname
ill-qualified
non-qualified
post-qualified
qualified fee
qualified immunity
qualified majority
qualified property
self-qualified
well-qualified
Related terms: disqualified
qualifier
requalified
unqualified
qualified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪd/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪd/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.lə.faɪd/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪd/
ipa: /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑed/
ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ə.faɪd/
ipa: [ˈkwɔ̟l.ə.fɑe̯d]
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of qualify
clientele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [klaɪ.n̩ˈtɛl]
ipa: /kliː.ɒnˈtɛl/
ipa: /ˌklaɪ.ənˈtɛl/
ipa: [ˌklaɪ.n̩ˈtɛl]
ipa: [klɑe.n̩ˈtel]
ipa: [kliː.n̩ˈtel]
ipa: [klaɪ.n̩ˈtel]
ipa: [kliː.n̩ˈtel]
Forms: form: clienteles
form: clientèle
Etymology: Borrowed from French clientèle, ultimately from Latin cliēns (English client).
Senses: examples: text: Helen's clientele encompasses a broad range of different ages, races and social statuses.
text: The bars’ clientèle called Foucault “Herr Doktor”.
ref: 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 34 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN)
text: Due to its mixed clientele over the years, the Record Rack has a varied product array.
ref: 1998 March 14, Patricia Bates, “Parks' Record Rack: Serving Southeast Texas Flavor For 39 Years”, in Billboard, volume 110, number 11, page 112:
text: Most of his clientele (95 percent are women, he estimates) were familiar with cupcakes from living or studying abroad.
ref: 2009 September 23, Anna Louie Sussman, “Yes, We Speak Cupcake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
glosses: The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits.
Derived terms: clientele effect
clienteling
clientelism
clientelist
clientelistic
Related terms: client
clientdom
customer base
KERA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Acronym of Kentucky Education Reform Act (1990).
sure
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ʃɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ʃʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ʃoː/
note: cure–fir merger
ipa: /ʃɜː/
ipa: /ʃoː/
ipa: /ʃʊɹ/
note: cure–fir merger
ipa: /ʃɝ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ʃoɹ/
ipa: /ʃɔɹ/
note: cure–fir merger
ipa: /ʃɝ/
ipa: /ʃuɚ/
note: non-rhotic, show–sure merger, African-American Vernacular
ipa: /ʃoʊ/
ipa: /ʃʉːɹ/
ipa: /ˈʃuːɹ/
ipa: /sjʊəɹ/
ipa: /sjuːɹ/
ipa: /sɪʊ̯ɹ/
homophone: shore (pour–poor merger)
homophone: shaw
homophone: Shaw (both paw–poor merger)
homophone: show (show–sure merger)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: more sure
form: most sure
form: sho
form: sho'
Etymology: From Middle English sure, seur, sur, from Middle French sur or Old French seür, from Latin sēcūrus (“secure”, literally “carefree”), from sē- (“apart”) + cūra (“care”) (compare Old English orsorg (“carefree”), from or- (“without”) + sorg (“care”)). See cure. Doublet of secure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).
Displaced native Middle English wis, iwis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewis, ġewiss (“certain, sure”)), as well as Middle English siker (“sure, secure”) (from Old English sicor (“secure, sure”)) with which it was cognate.
Senses: examples: text: Sure he's coming! Why wouldn't he?
text: "Did you kill that bear yourself?" ―"I sure did!"
text: It sure is cold out
text: These high and gusty relishes of life, sure,
Have no allayings of mortality in them.
ref: 1802, Charles Lamb, John Woodvil:
glosses: Without doubt, certainly.
examples: text: Theſe are the wings ſhall make it flie as ſwift,
As dooth the lightening: or the breath of heauen,
And kill as ſure as it ſwiftly flies.
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 iii:
glosses: Without fail, surely.
sure
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ʃɔː(ɹ)/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /ʃʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ʃoː/
note: cure–fir merger
ipa: /ʃɜː/
ipa: /ʃoː/
ipa: /ʃʊɹ/
note: cure–fir merger
ipa: /ʃɝ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /ʃoɹ/
ipa: /ʃɔɹ/
note: cure–fir merger
ipa: /ʃɝ/
ipa: /ʃuɚ/
note: non-rhotic, show–sure merger, African-American Vernacular
ipa: /ʃoʊ/
ipa: /ʃʉːɹ/
ipa: /ˈʃuːɹ/
ipa: /sjʊəɹ/
ipa: /sjuːɹ/
ipa: /sɪʊ̯ɹ/
homophone: shore (pour–poor merger)
homophone: shaw
homophone: Shaw (both paw–poor merger)
homophone: show (show–sure merger)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: sho
form: sho'
Etymology: From Middle English sure, seur, sur, from Middle French sur or Old French seür, from Latin sēcūrus (“secure”, literally “carefree”), from sē- (“apart”) + cūra (“care”) (compare Old English orsorg (“carefree”), from or- (“without”) + sorg (“care”)). See cure. Doublet of secure and the now obsolete or dialectal sicker (“certain, safe”).
Displaced native Middle English wis, iwis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewis, ġewiss (“certain, sure”)), as well as Middle English siker (“sure, secure”) (from Old English sicor (“secure, sure”)) with which it was cognate.
Senses: examples: text: "Could you tell me where the washrooms are?" "Sure, they're in the corner over there."
glosses: Yes; of course.
raw_tags: in response to a request for help or a favour
examples: text: "Do you like cats?" "Sure."
text: "Do you want me to put this in the garage?" "Sure, go ahead."
glosses: Yes; I guess; you could say that; a weak or noncommittal positive response.
raw_tags: in response to other questions
examples: text: "Thanks for helping me with that electrical fault." "Sure. Any time."
glosses: You're welcome; polite response to being thanked.
Synonyms: sense: noncommittal yes
english: partial
translation: partial
word: OK
sense: noncommittal yes
word: yes
sense: response to being thanked
word: of course
shortcoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shôrt
ipa: /ˈʃɔːtˌkʌmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈʃɔɹtˌkʌmɪŋ/
note: St. Louis
ipa: [ˈʃɑɹtˌkʌmɪŋ]
ipa: /ˈʃoːtˌkɐmɪŋ/
Forms: form: shortcomings
Etymology: From short + coming.
Senses: examples: text: They were behind twice, first to James Morrison's 11th-minute strike and then Kenny Miller's effort early in the second half. England responded with goals of their own from Theo Walcott and Daniel Welbeck and, on the balance of play, probably deserved the victory. On the flip-side, they could conceivably have lost because of their various shortcomings in defence. They also have a goalkeeper, Joe Hart, who is a danger to his own team on nights like these.
ref: 14 August 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Rickie Lambert's debut goal gives England victory over Scotland”, in The Guardian:
text: In truth, I suspect it will take more than the first term of a Labour government to address the shortcomings of the railway system in the North.
ref: 2023 March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, in RAIL, page 34:
glosses: A deficiency or falling short; failure to attain a goal or ideal.
Synonyms: failing
Related terms: come up short
fall short
shortcomer
shortfall
conflict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.flɪkt/
enpr: kŏn'flĭkt
ipa: /ˈkɑn.flɪkt/
Forms: form: conflicts
Etymology: From Latin conflictus, past participle of confligere (“to strike together”), from com- (“together”) (a form of con-) + fligere (“to strike”).
Senses: examples: text: The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago.
text: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref: 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
glosses: A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
examples: text: I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day.
glosses: An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
Derived terms: anticonflict
armed conflict
A-type conflict
conflictarian
conflict diamond
conflicted
conflict-free
conflictful
conflictional
conflictive
conflictless
conflict of interest
conflictory
conflict out
conflict resolution
conflict-ridden
conflict thesis
conflict training
conflictual
C-type conflict
cyberconflict
deconflict
edit conflict
external conflict
internal conflict
metaconflict
nonconflict
postconflict
preconflict
role conflict
social conflict paradigm
unconflict
conflict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈflɪkt/
enpr: kənflĭkt'
enpr: kŏn'flĭkt
ipa: /kənˈflɪkt/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.flɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: conflicts
form: conflicting
form: conflicted
form: conflicted
Etymology: From Latin conflictus, past participle of confligere (“to strike together”), from com- (“together”) (a form of con-) + fligere (“to strike”).
Senses: examples: text: [T. E.] Lawrence said that in the end he felt himself to be fighting not for the imperial British but for the rebellious Arabs. All too often he conflicted with British bureaucratic fustiness.
ref: 2014 March 2, Jan Morris, “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson, review: A skilful account of T. E. Lawrence and his role in the painful birth of an emerging Middle East [print version: A rock in Arabia's shifting sands, 1 March 2014, p. R26]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
examples: text: Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
text: It appears that our schedules conflict.
glosses: To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
Derived terms: conflicted