cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
probe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊb/
ipa: /pɹoʊb/
rhymes: -əʊb
Forms: form: probes
Etymology: For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove.
For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
examples: text: You know, XR178.9, we haven't done any anal probes in a while.
ref: 2004 August 2, Bayard Russell, nonemorecomic:
text: You listen here! We don't do anal probes like other aliens, but I'm about to make an exception!
ref: 2009 September 14, Ryan Hudson, “Can I Abduct You?”, in ChannelATE:
topics: comedy
entertainment
fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
medicine
publishing
sciences
surgery
glosses: Any of various medical instruments used to explore wounds, organs, etc.
An anal probe, a fictional instrument commonly used by aliens on abducted humans.
examples: text: Silverberg also gives the reader reader some excellent character insight; deep probes into the minds of all the principals bring the reader closer to the persons involved than might be thought possible with the plot so far removed from the realm of normality.
ref: 1973 August 4, J. Ralf Green, “The Hossenpfepper Column”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Something which penetrates something else, as though to explore; something which obtains information.
glosses: An act of probing; a prod, a poke.
examples: text: They launched a probe into the cause of the accident.
glosses: An investigation or inquiry.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tube attached to an aircraft which can be fitted into the drogue from a tanker aircraft to allow for aerial refuelling.
examples: text: Insert the probe into the soil and read the temperature.
topics: sciences
glosses: A small device, especially an electrode, used to explore, investigate or measure something by penetrating or being placed in it.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small, usually uncrewed, spacecraft used to acquire information or measurements about its surroundings.
qualifier: go
glosses: A move with multiple possible answers, seeking to make the opponent choose and commit to a strategy.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any group of atoms or molecules radioactively labeled in order to study a given molecule or other structure
Synonyms: sense: game of go
word: yosu-miru
Derived terms: armed probe
bioprobe
Bracewell probe
cryoprobe
endoprobe
fluoroprobe
geoprobe
immunoprobe
lambda probe
light probe
microprobe
milliprobe
miniprobe
misprobe
multiprobe
nanoprobe
oligoprobe
photoprobe
probeable
probe-and-drogue
probelike
prober
probe-scissors
probeset
pyroprobe
radioprobe
reflection probe
reprobe
riboprobe
space probe
thermoprobe
thetaprobe
von Neumann probe
probe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊb/
ipa: /pɹoʊb/
rhymes: -əʊb
Forms: form: probes
form: probing
form: probed
form: probed
Etymology: For verb: borrowed from Latin probare (“to test, examine, prove”), from probus (“good”). Doublet of prove.
For noun: borrowed from Late Latin proba (“a proof”), from probare (“to test, examine, prove”); Doublet of proof. Compare Spanish tienta (“a surgeon's probe”), from tentar (“try, test”); see tempt.
Senses: examples: text: If you probe further, you may discover different reasons.
text: the growing disposition to probe the legality of all acts of the crown
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: It was exhilarating to watch him share a meal and then probe deeper into the cultures, the politics, and the heartbeat of the people of the city or country he was in. He seemed so learned, but not in any pretentious way.
ref: 2019, Chris Meyer, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 116:
glosses: To explore, investigate, question, test, or prove.
glosses: To insert a probe into.
Related terms: probable
proband
probation
probeable
probesome
probity
proof
prove
erstwhile
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜː(ɹ)st.waɪl/
ipa: /ˈɝst.waɪl/
Etymology: From erst (“first, formerly”) + while.
Senses: glosses: Formerly; in the past.
Synonyms: erewhile
erstwhile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜː(ɹ)st.waɪl/
ipa: /ˈɝst.waɪl/
Etymology: From erst (“first, formerly”) + while.
Senses: examples: text: “Scarcely had Alice reached her twentieth birthday, than she gave her erstwhile fiancée^([sic]) his formal congé.[…]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Disappearance of Count Collini”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
text: As an aftermath of the erstwhile competition between companies, 41 goods depots served the Liverpool and Birkenhead docks in 1923.
ref: 1964 November, P. F. Winding, “Re-shaping the LMR's North Western Line - 2”, in Modern Railways, page 343:
text: Other erstwhile stalwarts are also wavering. Southampton had two of the best full-backs in the league last season but Ryan Bertrand has been below par this season and Cédric Soares made an uncharacteristic lapse that led to Stoke’s winning goal in Southampton’s last outing.
ref: 2017 October 14, Paul Doyle, “Mauricio Pellegrino yet to find attacking solution for stuttering Southampton”, in the Guardian:
topics: law
synonyms: word: former
word: once
word: previous
word: quondam
word: onetime
word: antecedent
word: anterior
word: earlier
word: erstwhile
word: ex
word: foregone
word: former
word: hitherto
word: old
word: olden
word: past
word: preceding
word: precedent
word: previous
word: prior
word: quondam
word: sometime
word: used-to-be
word: whilom
glosses: Former, previous.
examples: text: If you're for one of my erstwhile opponents, that's O.K. Just don't work too hard.
ref: 1999 November 1, Frank Bruni, quoting George W. Bush, “For Bush, an Adjustable Speech Of Tested Themes and Phrases”, in New York Times:
glosses: Respected, honourable.
protuberant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protuberant
form: most protuberant
Etymology: Latin protuberans, protuberantis, present participle of protuberare. See protuberate.
Senses: glosses: Swelling or bulging outward.
Related terms: protuberance
protuberantly
wideness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪdnəs/
Forms: form: widenesses
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wydnesse, from Old English wīdnes (“width, wideness”), equivalent to wide + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being wide.
glosses: Large extent or expanse; breadth, broadness.
Synonyms: english: the usual term in contemporary English
translation: the usual term in contemporary English
word: width
Related terms: wide
widely
widen
widow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪd.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈwɪd.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɪdəʊ
Forms: form: widows
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .
Senses: glosses: A person whose spouse is absent:
A person who has lost a spouse and not remarried:
A woman whose spouse (traditionally husband) has died (and who has not remarried); a woman in relation to her late spouse; feminine of widower.
examples: text: Now that he is a widow, he tries to win Olivia back through the songs and the music that brought them together all those years ago, leaving Olivia torn between moving forward with Josh or falling into the arms of the man she truly loves.
ref: 2016 June 23, Traciy Reyes, “‘The Wedding March’: Hallmark Movie — June Bride Unwittingly Hires Wedding Singer Who Is Her Ex, Starring Josie Bissett, Jack Wagner”, in The Inquisitr News:
glosses: A person whose spouse is absent:
A person who has lost a spouse and not remarried:
Any person whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried).
examples: text: My aunt is a football widow in the fall and a basketball widow in the winter and early spring.
text: I had been feeling like a bowling-alley widow, but knew he loved the game, so I suggested we join a mixed league.
ref: 1988 November 27, Emily Parry, “For a Bowling Widow, a Split Isn't Just Two Lonely Pins”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person whose spouse is absent:
A woman whose husband is often away pursuing a hobby, career, etc.
topics: card-games
games
synonyms: kitty
glosses: An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
topics: media
publishing
typography
antonyms: orphan
hyponyms: runt
glosses: A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
glosses: Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).
Synonyms: sense: woman whose spouse has died
word: widowess
sense: man whose spouse has died
word: widower
Derived terms: alpha widow
black widow
chuck-will's-widow
Dutch widow
false widow
golf widow
grass widow
half-widow
hempen widow
hemp-widow
merry widow
military widow
trans widow
war widow
widow bewitched
widow bird
widow cleansing
widow finch
widow foreclosure
widow-hunter
widow inheritance
widow maker
widow-maker
widow monkey
widow's mite
widow-wail
Related terms: vidual
widowed
widower
widowhood
widow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪd.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈwɪd.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɪdəʊ
Forms: form: widows
form: widowing
form: widowed
form: widowed
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .
Senses: glosses: To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
examples: text: Sleep, gentle winds, as he sleeps now,
My friend, the brother of my love.
My Arthur! whom I shall not see
⁠Till all my widow’d race be run;
⁠Dear as the mother to the son,
More than my brothers are to me.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To strip of anything valued.
glosses: To endow with a widow's right.
glosses: To be widow to.
widower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪdoʊɚ/
Forms: form: widowers
Etymology: From Middle English widwer, equivalent to widow + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Tears of the widower, when he sees
⁠A late-lost form that sleep reveals,
⁠And moves his doubtful arms, and feels
Her place is empty, fall like these; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 20:
text: What happens to the lovers of people with AIDS? How do they experience the passage from lover to caregiver to "widower"?
ref: 1988 April 2, Lori Kenschaft, “Film on lovers of PWAs in works”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a man in relation to his late spouse; masculine of widow.
Derived terms: grass widower
Related terms: widow
widowerhood
widowhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: widowhoods
Etymology: From Middle English wydowhood, widewehad, equivalent to widow + -hood. Compare widowerhood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a widow or widower.
Derived terms: grass widowhood
Related terms: widow
widowed
widower
widowerhood
wilco
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪl.koʊ/
ipa: /ˈwɪl.kəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪlkəʊ
Etymology: Blend of will + comply.
Senses: examples: text: Wilco, Bravo Six Three will take the north road. Bravo Six Four will take the south road, out.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
radio-communications
glosses: Indicates agreement and compliance.
wilco
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪl.koʊ/
ipa: /ˈwɪl.kəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪlkəʊ
Forms: form: wilcos
form: wilcoing
form: wilcoed
form: wilcoed
Etymology: Blend of will + comply.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
radio-communications
glosses: To give the "wilco" indication.
Related terms: ack
roger
wilco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪl.koʊ/
ipa: /ˈwɪl.kəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪlkəʊ
Forms: form: wilcos
Etymology: Borrowed from Quechua willka (“sacred”).
Senses: glosses: A species of South American tree, Anadenanthera colubrina.
wild goose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild geese
Etymology: From Middle English wilde gos.
Senses: glosses: any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly.
Derived terms: a wild goose never laid a tame egg
wild-goose chase
wild goose chase
Related terms: swan
duck
Buenos Aires
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bwā′nəs âr′ēz
enpr: -ī′rĭz
enpr: bwĕ′nōs ī′rĕs
ipa: /ˈbweɪ.nəs ˈɛə.ɹiːz/
ipa: /-ˈaɪ.ɹɪz/
ipa: /ˈbwɛ.nəʊs ˈaɪ.ɹɛs/
ipa: /ˈbweɪ.nəs ˈɛɹ.iz/
ipa: /-ˈaɪ.ɹɪz/
ipa: /ˈbwɛ.noʊs ˈaɪ.ɹɛs/
ipa: /ˈbwæɪ.nəs ˈeː.iːz/
ipa: /-ˈɑe.ɹɪz/
ipa: /ˈbwe.nəʉs ˈɑe.ɹes/
ipa: /ˈbwæɪ.nəs ˈeə̯.iːz/
ipa: /-ˈaɪ.ɹəz/
ipa: /ˈbwe.nɐʉs ˈaɪ.ɹes/
ipa: /ˈbwe.nəs ˈer.iz/
ipa: /-ˈaɪ.ɹɪz/
ipa: /ˈbwɛ.nos ˈaɪ.ɹɛs/
ipa: /ˈbweː.nos ˈeːʳ.iːz/
ipa: /-ˈaj.ɾiz/
ipa: /ˈbwe.noːs ˈaj.ɾes/
Forms: form: Buenos Ayres
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Buenos Aires, named after an epithet of the Virgin Mary, itself ultimately derived from Aragonese buen ayre (literally “good air”) or derived from Sardinian bonaria. The first English attestation dates to 1764.
Senses: examples: text: Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.
ref: 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN:
glosses: The capital city of Argentina.
glosses: The largest and most populous province in Argentina, part of the Pampas region. Capital city: La Plata.
Derived terms: Little Buenos Aires
stile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /staɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: style
homophone: Styal
Forms: form: stiles
form: style
Etymology: From Middle English stile, style, stiȝele, from Old English stiġel (“stile, set of steps for getting over a fence”), from Proto-West Germanic *stigilu, from Proto-Germanic *stigilō (“entry, entrance, overpass, device for climbing, stile”), equivalent to sty (“to ascend, climb”) + -le. Cognate with Dutch stegel (“stirrup”), Low German Stegel (“stile”), German Stiegel (“stile”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas very true what Greening said; for of a summer evening I would take the path that led up Weatherbeech Hill, behind the Manor; both because 'twas a walk that had a good prospect in itself, and also a sweet charm for me, namely, the hope of seeing Grace Maskew. And there I often sat upon the stile that ends the path and opens on the down, and watched the old half-ruined house below; and sometimes saw white-frocked Gracie walking on the terrace in the evening sun, and sometimes in returning passed her window near enough to wave a greeting.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.
synonyms: rail
stringer
glosses: A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder.
Hyponyms: sense: types of "stile"
word: bridle stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: clapper stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: Cornish stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: Essex stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: falling stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: grid stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: hanging stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: ladder stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: pulpit stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: squeeze stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: step stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: tumbling stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: turnstile
sense: types of "stile"
word: vee stile
sense: types of "stile"
word: wedge stile
Derived terms: help a lame dog over a stile
rail and stile
Related terms: stair
sty
kissing gate
stile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /staɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: style
homophone: Styal
Forms: form: stiles
Etymology: See the etymology at style.
Senses: examples: text: May I not write in such a ſtile as this? / In ſuch a method too, and yet not miſs / Mine end, thy good? why may it not be done?
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
text: Every Printing-houſe is by the Cuſtom of Time out of mind, called a Chappel; and all the Workmen that belong to it are Members of the Chappel: and the Oldeſt Freeman is the Father of the Chappel. I ſuppoſe the ſtile was originally conferred upon it by the courteſie of ſome great Churchman, or men, (doubtleſs when Chappels were in more veneration than of late years they have been here in England) who for the Books of Divinity that proceeded from a Printing-houſe, gave it the Reverend Title of Chappel.
ref: 1683, Joseph Moxon, “§ 25. The Office of the Warehouse-keeper. [(As an Appendix.) Ancient Customs Used in a Printing-house.]”, in Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-books. Applied to the Art of Printing, volume II, London: Printed for Joseph Moxon […], →OCLC, number XXII, page 356:
text: Laſt of all fit a Triangular Iron, whoſe angular point being laid to the Center of the Dyal Plane, one ſide muſt agree with the Subſtilar Line, and its other ſide with the Stilar Line; ſo is the Stile made. And this Stile you muſt erect perpendicularly over the Subſtilar Line on the Dyal Plane, and there fix it. Then is your Dyal finiſhed.
ref: 1697, Joseph Moxon, “Operat[ioni] II. To Describe a Dyal upon a Horizontal Plane.”, in Mechanick Dyalling: Teaching any Man, though of an Ordinary Capacity and Unlearned in Mathematicks, to Draw a True Sun-dial on any Given Plane, […], 3rd edition, London: Printed for James Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Obsolete form of style.
stile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /staɪl/
rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: style
homophone: Styal
Forms: form: stiles
form: stiling
form: stiled
form: stiled
Etymology: See the etymology at style.
Senses: examples: text: They are graciously and lovingly received, the Mayor hath thanks for his late bloody Act, which was stiled and excellent piece of Justice
ref: c. 1620s, Elizabeth Cary [misattributed to Henry Cary], The History Of the most unfortunate Prince King Edward II. […] , London: A.G. and F. P., published 1680, page 56:
text: This Fellow, I ſay, ſtiled himſelf a Lawyer, but was indeed a moſt vile Petty-fogger, without Senſe or Knowledge of any Kind; one of thoſe who may be termed Train-bearers to the Law; [...]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Jones Arrives at Gloucester, and Goes to the Bell; the Character of that House, and of a Petty-fogger, which He there Meets with”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, page 200:
text: Marianne's preserver, as Margaret, with more elegance than precision, stiled Willoughby, called at the cottage early the next morning to make his personal inquiries.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: Obsolete form of style.
contrivance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹaɪ.vəns/
Forms: form: contrivances
Etymology: From contrive + -ance.
Senses: synonyms: contraption
glosses: A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task.
examples: text: I mean to give something as slight and inexpensive as possible; but I have been so long out of the way of these things, that I am really quite at a loss, and must throw myself on your kindness, as I hope you will be with me, and also Mr. and Mrs. Gooch. You must arrange in such a manner as not to blush for your own contrivances.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 208:
text: And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 266b:
glosses: A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective.
examples: text: When the stamens of a flower suddenly spring towards the pistil, or slowly move one after the other towards it, the contrivance seems adapted solely to ensure self-fertilisation; and no doubt it is useful for this end: but, the agency of insects is often required to cause the stamens to spring forward, as Kölreuter has shown to be the case with the barberry; and curiously in this very genus, which seems to have a special contrivance for self-fertilisation, it is well known that if very closely-allied forms or varieties are planted near each other, it is hardly possible to raise pure seedlings, so largely do they naturally cross.
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: The Harry Hamlin character is a bit of a hypochondriac, a contrivance that exists for the sole purpose of bringing him into contact with the confused young doctor at the clinic.
ref: 1982 February 13, Walta Borawski, “A Moonlight Walk in a Crimeless Park”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 7:
text: The retrospective emphasis on these two specific stories—even their mention here, in the previous paragraph—has become a contrivance.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Something overly artful or artificial.
Derived terms: noncontrivance
Related terms: contrive
surmount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmaʊnt/
ipa: /sɚˈmaʊnt/
rhymes: -aʊnt
Forms: form: surmounts
form: surmounting
form: surmounted
form: surmounted
Etymology: From Middle English surmounten, from Old French surmonter (“to rise above, surmount”), from sur- (“above”) + monter (“to mount”), equivalent to sur- + mount.
Senses: examples: text: this difficulty may perhaps be surmounted by care and art
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 10:
text: There are two realms: that of divine powers, another of the metadivine.¹ Even the gods are depicted as calling upon metadivine forces to surmount their own predestined limitations.
ref: 1960, Yehezkel Kaufmann, “Chapter II: Pagan Religion”, in Moshe Greenberg, transl., The Religion of Israel, University of Chicago, →OCLC, page 23:
text: Burkina Fasoan legislation surmounts one more step which sees in the organ created in this country and designated as the Superior Council of Information (S.C.I.), " an administrative authority".
ref: 1995, Study on Legislation Related to Regulations Organs in the Field of Broadcasting in West Africa:
glosses: To get or be over without touching or resting on; to overcome.
examples: text: The boiler had a large dome over the firebox, inside the cab, surmounted by Ramsbottom safety valves.
ref: 1951 April, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: London Midland Region”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 283:
text: The ovolo surmounting the dentil course generally turns the corner by means of a carved acanthus leaf, the decorated cyma and cyma reversa being similarly treated at the corner.
ref: 2007, Robert Chitham, The Classical Orders of Architecture, →ISBN:
glosses: To cap; to sit on top of.
Related terms: surmountable
insurmountable
implement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭmʹplə-mənt
ipa: /ˈɪmpləmənt/
enpr: ĭmʹplə-mĕnt
ipa: /ˈɪmpləmɛnt/
Forms: form: implements
form: implementing
form: implemented
form: implemented
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin implēmentum (“a filling up”), from Latin impleō (“I fill up”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: realize, actualize, materialize; embody; accomplish
text: It’s a good thought, but it will be a difficult thing to implement.
text: A considerable amount of beet comes from the Clonakilty and Courtmacsherry growing areas to Mallow and if the closure proposals mentioned are implemented this traffic will in future years be thrown on roads ill-suited to such heavy haulage.
ref: 1960 December, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 715:
text: Guardiola, who last won the Champions League in 2011, started with no defensive midfielder and no recognised striker and watched his midfielder-heavy lineup struggle to implement a complicated gameplan.
ref: 2021 May 29, David Hytner, “Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: execute
antonyms: disrealize
glosses: To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: execute
antonyms: disrealize
glosses: To bring about; to put into practice; to carry out.
To realize a technical specification, e.g. of an algorithm, interface, or protocol.
Derived terms: implementability
implementable
implemental
implementation
implementer
implementiferous
implementor
misimplement
nonimplement
nonimplemented
reimplement
unimplementability
unimplemented
implement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭmʹplə-mənt
ipa: /ˈɪmpləmənt/
enpr: ĭmʹplə-mĕnt
ipa: /ˈɪmpləmɛnt/
Forms: form: implements
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin implēmentum (“a filling up”), from Latin impleō (“I fill up”).
Senses: examples: text: farming implements
text: agricultural implements
text: They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.
text: A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.
ref: 1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 234:
glosses: A tool or instrument for working with.
stew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʃʉː/
ipa: /stjuː/
ipa: /stʃuː/
enpr: sto͞o
ipa: /stu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: stu
homophone: Stew
homophone: Stu
Forms: form: stews
form: stewing
form: stewed
form: stewed
Etymology: From Middle English stewen, stuwen, from the noun above; and also from Middle English stiven, styven (“to bathe, cook, stew”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.
text: The meat is stewing nicely.
glosses: To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
glosses: To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
examples: text: It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 50:
glosses: To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
glosses: To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
Synonyms: sense: suffer under hot conditions
word: bake
sense: suffer under hot conditions
word: boil
sense: suffer under hot conditions
word: sweat
sense: suffer under hot conditions
word: swelter
sense: be in a state of elevated anxiety
word: brood
sense: be in a state of elevated anxiety
word: fret
sense: be in a state of elevated anxiety
word: sweat
sense: be in a state of elevated anxiety
word: worry
Derived terms: stew in one's juices
stew in one's own broth
stew in one's own gravy
stew in one's own grease
stew in one's own juice
stew in one's own juices
stew up
stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʃʉː/
ipa: /stjuː/
ipa: /stʃuː/
enpr: sto͞o
ipa: /stu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: stu
homophone: Stew
homophone: Stu
Etymology: Probably related to Middle Dutch stuven (“be dusty”) and English stive. Perhaps the same word as stew (“steam-room; dish cooked by stewing”) above.
Senses: examples: text: The Verna swerved close, her stern kicking up a stew as she started to back up.
ref: 1994, Leftare P. Delis, The Inside Passage, page 166:
text: 'Johnston,' Ron shouted, 'couldn't knock the stew off a bap.'
ref: 2000, Alasdair K. D. Campbell, The Nessman, page 217:
glosses: A cloud of fine particles or droplets; dust, smoke, vapor, mist, or sea-spray.
stew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stʃʉː/
ipa: /stjuː/
ipa: /stʃuː/
enpr: sto͞o
ipa: /stu/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: stu
homophone: Stew
homophone: Stu
Forms: form: stews
Etymology: Clipping of steward or stewardess.
Senses: examples: text: It is our considered and combined judgement that Germans and actors share honors for being the cheapest dates a stew can accept.
ref: 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 243:
text: And then, working as a stew for American Airlines, Mo met another older man[…].
ref: 1975 November 3, Mordecai Richler, “The Perils of Maureen”, in New York, volume 8, number 44, page 8:
text: "[…]We want to know what he's going to be saying on his airplane."
"I don't have the legs to dress up as a stew, doc. Besides, I never learned to do the tea ceremony, either."
ref: 1991, Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears, published 1992, →ISBN, page 480:
text: Dallas was also becoming known as a "stew zoo" because so many flight attendants were relocating there to work for Southwest, Braniff, and American Airlines.
ref: 1992 January, Skip Hollandsworth, “Doing the Hustle”, in Texas Monthly, volume 20, number 1, →ISSN, page 52:
glosses: A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.
PICOW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PICOWs
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of person in charge of work.
yuppers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yeppers.
sphere of knowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheres of knowledge
Senses: glosses: A unified body or collection of knowledge regarding a specific subject.
exclusivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclusivisms
Etymology: From exclusive + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of being exclusive; a mentality or policy that excludes others.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The doctrine that one religion is the only true religion, or that one religious sect is the only true version of a larger religion.
Great Rite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: In Wicca, ritualistic sexual intercourse symbolizing creation. The Great Rite can also be performed symbolically: the high priest plunges the athame, or ritual knife (the male symbol), into a cup or chalice (the female symbol) that is filled with wine and is held by the high priestess.
patience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪʃəns/
Forms: form: patiences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”). Displaced native Old English ġeþyld.
Senses: examples: text: Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.
text: I appreciate the patience with which you've explained it.
text: The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
synonyms: word: forbearance
word: restraint
word: thild
word: thole
antonyms: impatience
glosses: The quality of being patient.
glosses: Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US and Canada.
Derived terms: lose patience
patience dock
patience is a virtue
patience of an angel
patience of a saint
patience of Job
patience of Mother Teresa
test someone's patience
try someone's patience
unpatience
Related terms: passion
passionate
passive
passivity
patient
clock patience
garden patience
target cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: target cells
Senses: glosses: any cell having a specific receptor for an antibody, antigen or hormone
glosses: an abnormal red blood cell with a ringed appearance, associated with some anemias
Synonyms: sense: abnormal cell with ringed appearance
word: codocyte
sense: abnormal cell with ringed appearance
word: Mexican hat cell
red blood cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛd blʌd sɛl/
Forms: form: red blood cells
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: RBC
word: red cell
word: erythrocyte
word: haematid
word: red corpuscle
coordinate_terms: platelet
white blood cell
glosses: A type of cell in the blood of vertebrates that contains hemoglobin and transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues; an erythrocyte.
wikipedia: red blood cell
anemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnimi.ə/
Forms: form: anemias
form: anemiae
form: anemiæ
form: anaemia
form: anæmia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναιμία (anaimía), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + -ia; those roots are the basis of the English combining forms an- + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue.
examples: text: Pernicious anemia and sickle-cell anemia are two anemias.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom.
glosses: Ischemia.
Derived terms: achlorhydric anemia
acquired hemolytic anemia
Addison's anemia
anemial
anemic
anemious
antianemia
aplastic anemia
autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Biermer's anemia
Diamond-Blackfan anemia
Fanconi anemia
hemolytic anemia
hyperchromic anemia
hypochromic anemia
Mediterranean anemia
miner's anemia
pernicious anemia
pseudoanemia
sickle-cell anemia
Related terms: ischemia
constrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: constrains
form: constraining
form: constrained
form: constrained
Etymology: From Middle English constreinen, from Old French constreindre, from Latin cōnstringō, from cōn- (“with, together”) + stringō (“to draw, bind or tie tight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, to shear, stiff”).
Senses: glosses: To force physically, by strong persuasion or pressuring; to compel; to oblige.
examples: text: But it's not just Castlefield Corridor capacity that constrains services. All the junctions on the lines feeding into the corridor are flat, so they create conflict points as trains pass.
ref: 2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Is there relief to congestion along Castlefield Corridor?”, in Rail, page 23:
glosses: To keep within close bounds; to confine.
glosses: To reduce a result in response to limited resources.
Derived terms: coconstrain
constrainable
constrainer
constrainingly
constrainment
constraintive
overconstrain
unconstrain
unconstraining
Related terms: constraint
constrict
restrain
strain
lucrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lucrative
form: most lucrative
Etymology: Borrowed from French lucratif, from Latin lucrativus (“profitable”), from lucratus, past participle of lucror (“I gain”), from lucrum (“gain”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂w- (“profit, gain”). Compare Spanish lucrar. By surface analysis, lucre + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
text: In a given recent year, Celine has earned $40-$50 million from her various endeavors, though the majority of that income was thanks to a lucrative Las Vegas residency deal.
ref: 2024 March 6, “Celine Dion Net Worth $800 Million”, in celebritynetworth.com:
glosses: Producing a surplus; profitable.
examples: text: Command and Control centers and headquarters are strategically important and lucrative targets.
ref: 2001, Eric R. Taylor, Lethal Mists, page 196:
text: Its troops can be widely dispersed as light infantry, using light anti-ship, anti-air and anti-land missiles and weapons to defenda given area or facility without presenting lucrative targets for air, missile, and artillery fire.
ref: 1999, Anthony H. Cordesman, Iran's Military Forces in Transition, page 208:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Of a target: worth attacking; whose destruction is militarily useful.
Derived terms: lucratively
lucrativeness
unlucrative
Related terms: lucre
Lucretia
Lucretius
lucriferous
lucrific
profitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒf.ɪ.tə.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.fɪ.tə.bl̩/
Forms: form: more profitable
form: most profitable
Etymology: From Old French profitable, equivalent to profit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Profitable operation is being made possible by the widespread introduction of capacious diesel railcars, which for their comfort and speed are very popular with the travelling public.
ref: 1953 April, “Reviving U.S.A. Passenger Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 218:
text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
text: California state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson told The Wall Street Journal last month when the legislation passed that “one-fourth of California’s publicly traded companies still do not have a single woman on their board, despite numerous independent studies that show companies with women on their board are more profitable and productive.”
ref: 2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Producing a profit.
examples: text: I wylbe ferme and ſtabyll
And to yow ſeruyceabyll
And also prophytabyll
Yf ye be agreabyll
My propyr Beſſe
To turne a gayne to me
ref: c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
text: Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company.
ref: 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 2:
text: It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
ref: 1953, Richmond Lattimore, Aeschylus, “Prometheus Bound”, in Greek Tragedies:
glosses: Beneficial, serviceable, of use.
Synonyms: beneficial
lucrative
Derived terms: disprofitable
hyperprofitable
improfitable
nonprofitable
profitableness
profitably
ramen profitable
superprofitable
unprofitable
kinesitherapist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinesitherapists
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of kinesitherapy.
field work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field works
form: fieldwork
form: field-work
Senses: examples: text: If any person, without lawful authority, makes or attempts to make any sketch, drawing, photograph, picture, painting, model or note of any fort, battery, field work, fortification or any military work of defence, aerodrome, barracks, post, magazine, munition factory, stores depot or any other Government property occupied or partly occupied by the Defence Forces or any portion thereof, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or, at the discretion of the court, imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months, and all sketches, drawings, photographs, pictures, paintings, models and notes and all tools and all materials or apparatus for sketching, drawing, photographing, painting or modelling found in his possession shall be forfeited and may be destroyed, sold or otherwise disposed of as a Minister of State directs.
ref: 1954 - Irish Defense Act, 1954; Section 268
glosses: A temporary fortification in the field
examples: text: They must gain access, engage in field-work, and finally leave the field to carry out analysis.
ref: 1993, Dick Hobbs, Tim May, Interpreting the field: accounts of ethnography, page 45:
glosses: The collection of raw data, in the field
raw_tags: in scientific research
numerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /n(j)uːˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [n(j)uːˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /n(j)uˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [n(j)uˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /n(j)ʉːˈmeɹ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [n(j)ʉːˈmeɹ.ɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /n(j)ʉːˈmeɹ.ə.kəl/
ipa: [n(j)ʉːˈmeɹ.ə.kl̩]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈnjumərɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪkəl
Forms: form: more numerical
form: most numerical
Etymology: From numeric + -al.
Senses: examples: text: They propose that the brain manages numerical systems with circuitry that is equipped for action related to "more than-less than", "faster-slower", "nearer-farther", "bigger-smaller", computations of "any kind of stuff in the external world". This neural activity allows us to successfully reach, grasp, throw or point. Bueti and Walsh argue further that, "it is on these abilities that discrete numerical abilities hitched an evolutionary ride," given the primitive need to make these kinds of judgments of space and time. Number then, as a measure, is not primary — what comes first is our need to move accurately.
ref: 2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 08 Sep 2013:
text: Harry Kane broke the deadlock from the spot eight minutes after half-time, the captain's superb pass releasing Jude Bellingham, who was fouled by Liam Scales, earning the defender a second yellow card and a dismissal.
England capitalised on the numerical advantage ruthlessly, Anthony Gordon scoring his first England goal two minutes later, pouncing at the far post after the Republic defence failed to clear debutant Tino Livramento's cross.
ref: 2024 November 17, Phil McNulty, “England 5-0 Republic of Ireland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Of or pertaining to numbers.
examples: text: But would to God that all my fellow-brethren, which with me bemoan the loss of their books, with me might rejoice for the recovery thereof, though not the same numerical volumes!
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Dedication”, in The Church History of Britain, volume 2, London: Thomas Tegg and Son, published 1837, page 3:
text: For who ever was yet seen by them, after a total consumption into dust and ashes, to rise again, and to resume the same numerical body?
ref: 1694 April 29, Robert South, “Christianity Mysterious, and the Wisdom of God in Making it So: Proved in a Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey”, in Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1842, page 189:
glosses: The same in number; hence, identically the same; identical.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to numbers
word: numeric
sense: the same in number
word: numeric
word: numeral
word: numerical
Hyponyms: word: arithmetic
word: arithmetical
word: alphameric
word: alphamerical
word: alphanumeric
word: alphanumerical
Derived terms: alphamerical
alphanumerical
anumerical
bionumerical
numerical adjective
numerical analysis
numerical control
numerical derivative
numerical differentiation
numerical grid
numerical integration
numericalize
numerical linear algebra
numerically
numericalness
numerical noun
numerical stability
numerical taxonomist
numerical taxonomy
pseudonumerical
quasinumerical
seminumerical
Related terms: number
numeric
coprophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coprophiliacs
Etymology: From copro- + -philiac.
Senses: glosses: someone with a marked interest in excrement, especially the use of feces or filth for sexual excitement.
coprophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coprophiliac
form: most coprophiliac
Etymology: From copro- + -philiac.
Senses: glosses: having to do with a marked interest in excrement, especially the use of feces or filth for sexual excitement.
Related terms: coprophilia
remedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmiː.dɪəl/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmi.di.əl/
note: without stress shift from remedy
ipa: /ˈrɛməɖɪjəl/
ipa: /rɪˈmiɖ(ɪ)jəl/
ipa: /-ˈme-/
rhymes: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: more remedial
form: most remedial
Etymology: From Latin remediālis. By surface analysis, remedy + -al.
Senses: glosses: curative; providing a remedy
glosses: intended to remediate (i.e., correct or improve) deficient skills in some subject
Derived terms: remedially
remedialness
Related terms: remediable
remediation
remedy
remedial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmiː.dɪəl/
ipa: /ɹɪˈmi.di.əl/
note: without stress shift from remedy
ipa: /ˈrɛməɖɪjəl/
ipa: /rɪˈmiɖ(ɪ)jəl/
ipa: /-ˈme-/
rhymes: -iːdiəl
Forms: form: remedials
Etymology: From Latin remediālis. By surface analysis, remedy + -al.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A pupil enrolled in special classes to improve deficient skills.