cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: finks
Etymology: Unknown; first attested in 1894. A connection to Yiddish as some propose is unlikely.
Suggested origins include:
* German Fink (“finch; frivolous or dissolute person; informer”) as finches are notoriously chatty birds in groups. If so, then Doublet of finch. Compare canary (“informer”).
* Partly from the German theory, a fanciful association by students with the freedom of wild birds as opposed to caged ones.
* The slang name pink for Pinkerton agents and their use as strikebreakers in the 1892 Homestead strike. If the term is from the corporate name, then it is of Scots origin, Pinkerton being from a place near Dunbar, which is from an unrecognized first element (possibly ultimately pre-Celtic substrate) and Old English tūn (“enclosure, homestead, etc.”).
Senses: glosses: A contemptible person.
glosses: An informer.
glosses: A strikebreaker.
Synonyms: sense: informer
word: informant
Derived terms: ratfink
fink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: finks
form: finking
form: finked
form: finked
Etymology: Unknown; first attested in 1894. A connection to Yiddish as some propose is unlikely.
Suggested origins include:
* German Fink (“finch; frivolous or dissolute person; informer”) as finches are notoriously chatty birds in groups. If so, then Doublet of finch. Compare canary (“informer”).
* Partly from the German theory, a fanciful association by students with the freedom of wild birds as opposed to caged ones.
* The slang name pink for Pinkerton agents and their use as strikebreakers in the 1892 Homestead strike. If the term is from the corporate name, then it is of Scots origin, Pinkerton being from a place near Dunbar, which is from an unrecognized first element (possibly ultimately pre-Celtic substrate) and Old English tūn (“enclosure, homestead, etc.”).
Senses: examples: text: “I move that we determine through a thorough investigation whether the new worker is a fink or no; and if he is a fink, let us discover who heʼs finking for!”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 222:
glosses: To betray a trust; to inform on.
Synonyms: inform
grass up
snitch
Derived terms: fink out
fink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: finks
form: finking
form: fought
form: fought
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of think.
fink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: finks
Etymology: From Afrikaans vink.
Senses: glosses: Any of several birds in the family Ploceidae native to southern Africa.
Derived terms: kaffir fink
moonraker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːn.ɹeɪ.kə/
ipa: /ˈmuːn.ɹeɪ.kɚ/
Forms: form: moonrakers
Etymology: From moon + raker.
(someone from Wiltshire): After a story in which some Wiltshire peasants, seeing the reflection of the moon in a shallow pool, tried to rake it out.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Wiltshire.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small, light sail located high on a mast (above the skysail) and used for speed.
Synonyms: sense: small, light sail
word: moonsail
Related terms: moonraking
lich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪtʃ/
ipa: /litʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
ipa: /laɪx/
Forms: form: liches
form: lichs
raw_tags: with Scots pronunciation
form: lych
form: lytch
form: litch
form: lyke
Etymology: From Middle English lich, from Old English līċ, from Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-. Cognate with Dutch lijk, German Leiche, Norwegian lik, Swedish lik, Danish lig.
Senses: examples: text: […] and that, as the chronicle states, a lich-way would be made through then, assembled his servants, and attempted to stop its progress as it was carried over a bridge. A scuffle ensued, and the body was thrown into the water. The lich-way as not made ; but the Bishop of Exeter amply revenged himself for the proceedings.
ref: 1845, Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, page 35:
text: She saw him again that eventide, but then he was a reddened lich.
ref: 1983, Poul Anderson, Time Patrolman (Sci-Fi), →ISBN:
glosses: A corpse or dead body.
examples: text: It was a lich’s face – desiccated flesh tight over its skull.
ref: 1974, Karl Edward Wagner, Sticks:
topics: fantasy
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A reanimated corpse or undead being; particularly an intelligent, undead spellcaster.
Derived terms: demilich
lichfield
lich-field
lich field
lichgate
lich-gate
lich gate
lich-house
lich king
lich-king
lich lord
lich-lord
lichlord
lich-wake
lichway
lich-way
lich way
lichwort
lichyard
lych-gate
lich
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪtʃ/
ipa: /litʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
ipa: /laɪx/
Forms: form: more lich
form: most lich
Etymology: From Middle English līke, līch (“like”); see like and -like for more. Compare -ly and -lich.
Senses: examples: text: 1386-90, John Gower, Confessio Amantis.
Anon he let two cofres make / Of one semblance, and of one make, / So lich, that no lif thilke throwe, / That one may fro that other knowe.
text: [He] rather joy'd to be than seemen sich, For both to be and seeme to him was labour lich.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: Like; resembling; equal.
lycée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lycées
Etymology: From French lycée. Doublet of lyceum.
Senses: glosses: A public secondary school in France.
Lycian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪ.sɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.si.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃi.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪsiən
rhymes: -ɪʃɪən
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Etymology: From Lycia + -an.
Senses: glosses: An extinct Indo-European language in the Anatolian group.
Lycian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪ.sɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.si.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃi.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪsiən
rhymes: -ɪʃɪən
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: Lycians
Etymology: From Lycia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: From the 4th Century BCE onwards, the Lycians built rock-hewn "house" tombs – often funeral chambers carved into cliffs, with the rock face around the doorway cut to imitate the façade of a wooden Lycian house, complete with "timbers" and protruding "joists".
ref: 2023 September 7, Alastair Gill, “The ancient civilisation that inspired US democracy”, in BBC Travel, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2023:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of ancient Lycia.
Lycian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪ.sɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.si.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃi.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪsiən
rhymes: -ɪʃɪən
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Etymology: From Lycia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Formed in the 2nd Century BCE and composed of 23 city-states, the Lycian League was the world's first democratic union, a model of a strong confederacy based on popular and proportional representation.
ref: 2023 September 7, Alastair Gill, “The ancient civilisation that inspired US democracy”, in BBC Travel, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2023:
glosses: Of, or relating to Lycia, or its people, language or culture.
leitmotif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪt.məʊˌtiːf/
ipa: /ˈlaɪt.moʊˌtif/
ipa: /ˈleɪt.moʊˌtif/
ipa: /ˈlaɪt.moʊˌtɪv/
Forms: form: leitmotifs
form: leitmotiv
form: leit-motif
Etymology: From German Leitmotiv (“leading motif”), from leiten (“to lead”) + Motiv (“motif”), originally used to describe Wagnerian opera.
Senses: examples: text: In Wagner's operas, especially his cycle of four operas known collectively as the Ring cycle, the leitmotif did not simply label or point to one particular character or object but rather conjured up a realm of ideas.
ref: 2014, Michael Slowik, After the Silents, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 14:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.
examples: text: People have pointed out the influence of Wagner’s music on my work. Certainly I do not disclaim this influence. In particular, I followed Wagner in the use of the leitmotif, which I carried over into the work of language.
ref: 1953 January, Thomas E. Mann, “The Making of "The Magic Mountain"”, in The Atlantic:
text: If one looks for a pattern in the political life of John Connally, one finds a leitmotif of scandals which threatened but never destroyed his career.
ref: 1975 October 27, Aaron Latham, “John Connally on the Comeback Road”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, page 48:
text: Mann's adaptation of Wagner's technique and its development throughout his writing is analysed, including how Mann uses the leitmotif in a naturalistic, characterising and mechanical sense in Buddenbrooks, attaching it to persons and situations as etiquettes.
ref: 2009, David Gallagher, Metamorphosis, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 183:
text: Such language about an American president from a European ally would have been unthinkable before Mr. Trump made outrage the leitmotif of his presidency, along with an assault on truth.
ref: 2021 January 19, Roger Cohen, “Trump Bequeaths Biden an Upended World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: common thread
glosses: A recurring theme.
Lett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
homophone: let
Forms: form: Letts
Etymology: From German Lette.
Senses: examples: text: The Strange Case of Peter the Lett
glosses: Synonym of Latvian.
synonyms: word: Latvian
Lett
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
homophone: let
Etymology: From German Lette.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Latvian.
synonyms: word: Latvian
leitmotiv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leitmotivs
form: leitmotive
Senses: examples: text: In the domain of purely instrumental music, to which leitmotive are perfectly adapted in the realization of ‘programme music’, the earliest examples are to be found in the Symphonie Fantastique of Berlioz, where what he terms idée fixe is used in the manner of a ‘leitmotiv’.
ref: 1925, Cyril Winn, “The Music”, in The Master-Singers of Wagner (The Musical Pilgrim), London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, page 10:
text: A further application of the rhymes and repetitions is to be seen in Queneau’s use of leitmotive, whereby his texts are pervaded by objects which, again, serve to indicate the deliberate organisation underlying the surface of the narrative.
ref: 1985, Christopher Shorley, “Theory, practice and beyond”, in Queneau’s Fiction: An Introductory Study, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Form), pages 66–67:
text: While Pentecostalism differs both in doctrine and pneumatology from the Afro-Christian sects, its indigenisation in Jamaica has meant that the leitmotive of black folk belief reinvigorated the movement, which had been largely "de-Africanised" by white Pentecostals, and thus restored many of the perceptions and themes which had been present at the birth of the Pentecostalism in Los Angeles.
ref: 1989, Iain MacRobert, “The New Black-led Churches in Britain”, in Paul Badham, editor, Religion, State, and Society in Modern Britain (Texts and Studies in Religion; 43), Lewiston, N.Y.; […]: Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, pages 126–127:
glosses: Alternative form of leitmotif.
liliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more liliaceous
form: most liliaceous
Etymology: Liliaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: of the Liliaceae family, which contains the lily, and tulip, but which formerly contained a great number of plants now in other families.
limned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From limn + -ed.
Senses: glosses: described or represented in a lifelike manner
Derived terms: unlimned
limned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From limn + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of limn
longitudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɒŋɡɪˈtjuːdɪnəl/
ipa: /ˌlɔŋɡɪˈt͡ʃʉwdɪnəl/
ipa: /ˌlɔnd͡ʒɪˈtudɪnəl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌlɑnd͡ʒɪˈtudɪnəl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌlɑnd͡ʒəˈtudənəl/
note: weak vowel merger, in the US
ipa: /ˌlɑnd͡ʒəˈtudənəl/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌlɒŋd͡ʒəˈtudənəl/
ipa: /ˌlɔŋɡəˈt͡ʃʉːdənəl/
ipa: /ˌlɒŋɡəˈt͡ʃʉːdənəl/
ipa: [ˌlɔ̟ŋɡəˈt͡ʃʉːdənəl]
Etymology: From Middle English longitudinal, from Latin longitūdin-, oblique stem of longitūdō (“length, longitude”). By surface analysis, longitude + -in- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The motion about the longitudinal axis of an airplane is called roll.
antonyms: transverse
glosses: Relating to length.
examples: text: The longitudinal position of a ship refers to its angular distance east or west from the prime meridian.
glosses: Relating to the geographical longitude.
examples: text: The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.
ref: 1960 November, “New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Glasgow Suburban”, in Trains Illustrated, page 660:
text: The third rotation is about the longitudinal axis of the thigh.
ref: 2008, Youlian Hong, Roger Bartlett, editors, Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science, Routledge, →ISBN, page 165:
text: Unlike the older trains, the new units have walk-through carriages and longitudinal rather than transverse seating.
ref: 2023 February 22, Paul Stephen, “TfL reveals first of new B23s for Docklands Light Railway”, in RAIL, number 977, page 12:
glosses: Running in the direction of the long axis of a body.
glosses: Forward and/or backward, relative to some defined direction.
examples: text: longitudinal studies
text: Examining national longitudinal data, Mossakowski has found that people who were unemployed for long periods in their teens or early 20s are far more likely to develop a habit of heavy drinking (five or more drinks in one sitting) by the time they approach middle age.
ref: 2010 March 1, Don Peck, “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America”, in The Atlantic:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
antonyms: cross-sectional
glosses: Sampling data over time rather than merely once.
raw_tags: of a study
Derived terms: dorsolongitudinal
heliolongitudinal
longitudinal aberration
longitudinal fissure
longitudinally
longitudinal recording
longitudinal relaxation time
longitudinal system
longitudinal wave
medial longitudinal fasciculus
nonlongitudinal
palaeolongitudinal
paleolongitudinal
pseudolongitudinal
longitudinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɒŋɡɪˈtjuːdɪnəl/
ipa: /ˌlɔŋɡɪˈt͡ʃʉwdɪnəl/
ipa: /ˌlɔnd͡ʒɪˈtudɪnəl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌlɑnd͡ʒɪˈtudɪnəl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌlɑnd͡ʒəˈtudənəl/
note: weak vowel merger, in the US
ipa: /ˌlɑnd͡ʒəˈtudənəl/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌlɒŋd͡ʒəˈtudənəl/
ipa: /ˌlɔŋɡəˈt͡ʃʉːdənəl/
ipa: /ˌlɒŋɡəˈt͡ʃʉːdənəl/
ipa: [ˌlɔ̟ŋɡəˈt͡ʃʉːdənəl]
Forms: form: longitudinals
Etymology: From Middle English longitudinal, from Latin longitūdin-, oblique stem of longitūdō (“length, longitude”). By surface analysis, longitude + -in- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Any longitudinal piece, as in shipbuilding etc.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway sleeper lying parallel with the rail.
look at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks at
form: looking at
form: looked at
form: looked at
Senses: examples: text: The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
ref: 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
text: Oh my good gracious me, look at that. Whoa! Quick!
What is it?
I can't explain it. You're just going to have to come over here and look out this window for a while.
Whatever it is, we're not interested.
Well. I have to say you're missing out.
ref: 2006 Feb. 17, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 4
glosses: To observe or watch.
examples: text: The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To study visually.
examples: text: I looked at the possibility of buying a new car, but my current one still runs great and it's paid off.
text: The rest of the topic we’ll look at next week.
text: This first article looked at the present situation and asks if lessons can be learned from the past, when the railways were the prime mover in the development of tourism and leisure travel.
ref: 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:
glosses: To consider.
examples: text: He is looking at jail time.
glosses: To face; to be presented or confronted with; to have in prospect.
Related terms: examine
inspect
look into
lookit
fossilise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fossilises
form: fossilising
form: fossilised
form: fossilised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fossilize.
fossilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒs.ɪl.aɪz/
ipa: /ˈfɒsl̩aɪz/
Forms: form: fossilizes
form: fossilizing
form: fossilized
form: fossilized
form: fossilise
Etymology: From fossil + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the booths had been scooped clean by the scalpel-sharp corner of the glacier in the crash. Three remained. Two of them were punctured and, inside, the once-human occupants had been fossilized into the walls by centuries upon centuries of patient ice.
ref: 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers:
glosses: to make into a fossil
glosses: to become a fossil
examples: text: I was getting fossilised myself, but of late my stock of ideas has been very much enlarged.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To become inflexible or outmoded.
examples: text: Ten layers of birthdays on a woman's head / Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.
ref: 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Eighth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
text: I'll meet you again
Blanketed in soil
Fossilized in photographs
ref: 2013, Days N' Daze, “Blue Jays”, in Rogue Taxidermy:
glosses: To make antiquated, rigid, or fixed; to deaden.
Synonyms: sense: To become a fossil
word: fossilate
sense: To become a fossil
word: fossilify
Derived terms: fossilizable
fossilizer
Related terms: fossilization
kwik
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: kwikker
form: kwikkest
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of quick.
Derived terms: kwik cricket
Nostradamus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Michel de Nostredame's surname is one that honors Saint Mary (Our Lady). More details (if desired) are available at Nostradamus § Childhood.
Senses: glosses: A French astrologer and author of prophecies who lived in the early 1500s.
examples: text: The so-called "Nostradamus" of U.S. elections has admitted he was wrong after former—and now future—president Donald Trump won the 2024 contest despite his prediction that Vice President Kamala Harris would emerge victorious.
ref: 2024 November 8, Joe Edwards, “Allan Lichtman Admits He Was Wrong About Harris Election Win, Explains Why”, in Newsweek:
glosses: Someone who makes accurate prophecies.
Nostradamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nostradamuses
Etymology: Since before 1908. Most likely from wordplay among physicians, as a playful agent noun for quacks who give nostrums to their patients, playing on wide familiarity with a cultural reference to the famous (and dubiously effective) Nostradamus.
Senses: glosses: Any quack doctor or charlatan.
Related terms: nostrums
neuronal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuron + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Nicotine, a stimulant found in tobacco, long used by Native Americans, taught scientists about the existence of our own nicotinic receptors, which influence neuronal excitement.
ref: 2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
synonyms: neural
glosses: Of, or relating to a neuron.
Derived terms: antineuronal
corticoneuronal
extraneuronal
glioneuronal
intraneuronal
isoneuronal
microneuronal
multineuronal
neuronally
nonneuronal
oligoneuronal
onconeuronal
panneuronal
paraneuronal
perineuronal
polyneuronal
premotorneuronal
proneuronal
subneuronal
sympathoneuronal
transneuronal
Nisei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nisei
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 二世 (“second generation”).
Senses: glosses: a person born outside of Japan of parents who were born in Japan
nisei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈniseɪ/
Forms: form: niseis
form: nisei
Etymology: From Japanese 二世 (にせい, nisei), from 二 (ni-, “second”) + 世 (sei, “generation”).
Senses: examples: text: Born and brought tip mostly in South America, the United States (particularly Hawaii) and Canada, the nisei and sansei have Japanese features but often speak the language imperfectly, if at all.
ref: 1973 October 4, Robert Trumbull, “Offspring of Japanese Settlers in U.S. Find Japan Frustrating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The Nisei, on the other hand, are more inclined to view the hyphenated Japanese Canadian identity with positive implications.
ref: 1978, Gordon Hirabayashi, “Japanese Heritage, Canadian Experience”, in Harold Coward, Leslie S. Kawamura, editors, Religion and Ethnicity, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, page 66:
text: Decrypts fly out of a line printer on the other end and are taken off to another hut where American nisei, and some white men trained in Nipponese, translate them.
ref: 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:
coordinate_terms: issei
sansei
yonsei
glosses: One whose parents were Japanese immigrants, especially to North or South America.
nighttime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtˌtaɪm/
ipa: [ˈnaɪʔtaɪm]
Forms: form: nighttimes
form: night time
form: night-time
Etymology: From Middle English nyght tyme, nyȝttyme, equivalent to night + time. Compare Dutch nachttijd, German Nachtzeit, Danish nattetid, Swedish nattetid. Compare also Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), from Old Norse náttartími, nætrtími (“nighttime”).
Senses: examples: text: Nighttime fell like the opening / In the final act of the beginning of time
ref: 1986, R.E.M., “Hyena”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:
text: Smith Barney, for example, goes so far as to shift the hours during which taxi rides home are expensable as nighttime lengthens and shortens, says Moszkowski.
ref: 1996, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 50, number 7, page 52:
glosses: The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
Synonyms: word: nightertale
word: nighttide
word: night
word: nighttime
word: scotoperiod
topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: skotoperiod
topics: biology
natural-sciences
Hyponyms: word: early morning
word: evening
word: midnight
Meronyms: word: compline
topics: Christianity
word: vigil
topics: Christianity
word: matins
topics: Christianity
Derived terms: nighttime diaper
nighttime nappy
night-times
Related terms: word: twilight
nighttime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪtˌtaɪm/
ipa: [ˈnaɪʔtaɪm]
Forms: form: night time
form: night-time
Etymology: From Middle English nyght tyme, nyȝttyme, equivalent to night + time. Compare Dutch nachttijd, German Nachtzeit, Danish nattetid, Swedish nattetid. Compare also Middle English nyȝter tyme (“nighttime”), from Old Norse náttartími, nætrtími (“nighttime”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night.
examples: text: Discourage nighttime prowlers by installing motion-sensitive lights.
ref: 2008 January 11, “What to put between you and burglars”, in CNN:
glosses: Happening during the night.
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to nighttime
word: night
sense: happening during the night
word: night
sense: happening during the night
word: nocturnal
novelty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑvəlti/
ipa: /ˈnɒvəlti/
Forms: form: novelties
Etymology: From Middle English novelte, from Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the adjective novel, ultimately from Latin novellus.
Senses: examples: text: Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.
ref: 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: The state of being new or novel; newness.
examples: text: Reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty.
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 10:
glosses: A new product; an innovation.
glosses: A small mass-produced trinket.
glosses: In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
examples: text: Topalov has unveiled some interesting novelties lately, but there was nothing unusual in his opening here. Sasikiran played the Nimzo-Indian, and Topalov replied with probably the most classical continuation.
ref: 2007 May 27, Dylan Loeb Mcclain, “What Defines the Very Best? For Topalov, It's Fearlessness”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: It's not often a novelty comes as early as move seven nowadays, but in the latest round of the German Bundesliga, a recently discovered seventh move was employed to win a lovely game.
ref: 2012 December 18, Malcolm Pein, “Bundesliga chess revelation”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2023:
text: The Russian champion still did very well. Nepomniachtchi was only a wildcard, yet played with full force including an interesting novelty in the much analysed Berlin Wall Ruy Lopez.
ref: 2021 June 25, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Carlsen takes on No 1 junior, No 1 woman and No 1 rival on same afternoon”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2022:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: An opening move played for the first time ever (in high-level chess).
novelty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑvəlti/
ipa: /ˈnɒvəlti/
Etymology: From Middle English novelte, from Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the adjective novel, ultimately from Latin novellus.
Senses: examples: text: My novelty calculator works fine but it hurts my hands to press the keys.
glosses: In the design of a common household item, often impractically large, and meant primarily for display rather than functional use.
Derived terms: novelty act
novelty song
novelty theory
Nidhogg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old Norse Níðhǫggr (“Malice Striker”)
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: a dragon who lives in Niflheim (world of ice and the dead), feeding upon the roots of Yggdrasil and bodies of the damned.
Related terms: Veðrfölnir
Ratatoskr
Jörmungandr
neuro-linguistic programming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
pseudoscience
psychology
sciences
glosses: A field of study that attempts to build a set of transferable skills by programming the unconscious mind.
Synonyms: NLP
norms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of norm
moan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mōn
ipa: /məʊn/
enpr: mōn
ipa: /moʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: mown
Forms: form: moans
Etymology: From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō (“opinion; mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mēne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *mān, *mǣn is inferred from Old English mǣnan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.
Senses: examples: text: let out a deep moan
text: We heard the distant moan of a stag in pain.
glosses: A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.
examples: text: to make one's moan
translation: to grieve, complain
english: to grieve, complain
text: it shall be my daily grief and moan, that I am so dull, & do so little[…]But if when all is done that we can do, you will leave us nothing but our tears and moans for self-destroyers, the sin is yours, and the suffering shall be yours.
ref: 1662, Richard Baxter, Now or never the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, encouraged, excited and directed, and the opposers and neglecters convinced by the light of Scripture and reason, pages 131 and 239:
text: to thee therefore oh Lord do I make my moan, to thee I render my humble petition, and pour out my soul which hath sinned against thee: Oh Lord, I beseech thee for thy infinite mercy in Jesus Christ, to take pity upon mee[…]
ref: 1660, John Ball, A treatise of divine meditation, page 255:
glosses: A lament or sorrow.
Derived terms: moanful
moanless
moansome
cardinal virtue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal virtues
Etymology: See virtue and cardinal, from Latin cardinālis (“pertaining to a hinge (hence applied to that on which something turns or depends), important, principal, chief”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: four virtues
hypernyms: heavenly virtues
glosses: One of the four foundational virtues identified by Greek and Christian philosophers, on which other virtues depend: justice, temperance, prudence, or fortitude.
goûter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goûters
Etymology: Borrowed from French goûter
Senses: examples: text: We thought best to have a lottery of toys, school furniture, books, etc... […] accompanied by the "goûter" which is a necessary part of every entertainment. This had the great advantage that the buying of toys and cakes for the goûter did not exhaust the whole amount of the draft.
ref: 1921 4, Marguerite Fishbacher, “Bellevue Had A Party”, in The Key, volume 38, number 2:
glosses: A light meal in the afternoon; tea.
chanson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shäɴ-sôɴ′
ipa: /ʃɑ̃ːˈsɔ̃ː/
ipa: /ʃɑ̃ˈsɔ̃/
ipa: /ʃɑ̃ˈsɑ̃/
ipa: /ʃɒ̃ˈsɒ̃/
ipa: /ʃɑ̃ˈsɒ̃/
ipa: /ʃɒ̃ˈsɑ̃/
ipa: /ʃɑ̃ˈsɑ̃/
ipa: /ʃɐ̃ːˈsõː/
ipa: /ʃãˈsɔ̃/
ipa: /ʃãːˈsɔ̃/
homophone: chansons
Forms: form: chansons
Etymology: From French chanson f (“song”), from Latin cantio f. Doublet of cantion and canzone.
Senses: glosses: Any song with French words, but more specifically a classic, lyric-driven French song.
glosses: A religious song.
sticktion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of stick + friction
Senses: glosses: the temporary adhesion between a tribometer and a test surface that causes unrealistically high slip resistance readings
robinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robinets
Etymology: From robin.
Senses: glosses: The chaffinch, or roberd.
glosses: The European robin.
robinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robinets
Senses: glosses: A military engine formerly used for throwing darts and stones.
robinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robinets
Etymology: From French robinet.
Senses: glosses: A tap; a faucet.
wets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wet
wets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wet
cosmo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: cosm-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”).
Senses: glosses: universe, world
glosses: cosmic rays
Derived terms: cosmopolitan
cosmopolite
-crat
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-kɹæt/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “power, might”), modelled after words of Ancient Greek origin such as democrat and aristocrat. From Proto-Indo-European *kret- (English hard).
Senses: glosses: A participant in a specified form of government.
glosses: An advocate of a specified form of government.
Derived terms: sense: Participant
word: aristocrat
sense: Participant
word: autocrat
sense: Participant
word: bureaucrat
sense: Participant
word: cosmocrat
sense: Participant
word: gerontocrat
sense: Participant
word: meritocrat
sense: Participant
word: monocrat
sense: Participant
word: plutocrat
sense: Participant
word: technocrat
sense: Participant
word: thalassocrat
sense: Advocate
word: aristocrat
sense: Advocate
word: autocrat
sense: Advocate
word: bureaucrat
sense: Advocate
word: democrat
sense: Advocate
word: gerontocrat
sense: Advocate
word: meritocrat
sense: Advocate
word: mobocrat
sense: Advocate
word: monocrat
sense: Advocate
word: ochlocrat
sense: Advocate
word: physiocrat
sense: Advocate
word: plutocrat
sense: Advocate
word: technocrat
sense: Advocate
word: theocrat
Related terms: -cracy
-cratic
satanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satanists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Satanist.
catamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkætəmaɪt/
Forms: form: catamites
Etymology: From Latin catamītus (“boy kept as a sexual partner”), from Catamītus, from Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌕𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌄 (catmite), from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης (Ganumḗdēs, “Ganymede”), an attractive Trojan boy supposedly abducted to Mount Olympus by the god Zeus to become his cupbearer and lover. Doublet of Ganymede.
Senses: examples: text: It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 7:
text: And what about your brother? – Is he to be a catamite?
ref: 2007 July 4, Mere Smith, “Heroes of the Republic”, in Rome, season 2, episode 5, spoken by Lyde:
synonyms: Ganymede
punk
gunsel
glosses: A boy or younger man in a homoerotic relationship with an older man.
Derived terms: catamitism
catamite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkætəmaɪt/
Forms: form: catamites
form: catamiting
form: catamited
form: catamited
Etymology: From Latin catamītus (“boy kept as a sexual partner”), from Catamītus, from Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌕𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌄 (catmite), from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης (Ganumḗdēs, “Ganymede”), an attractive Trojan boy supposedly abducted to Mount Olympus by the god Zeus to become his cupbearer and lover. Doublet of Ganymede.
Senses: glosses: To engage in a homoerotic relationship involving a boy and an older man.
Related terms: pathic
downe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of down.
downe
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of down.
colds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold
noontide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noontides
Etymology: From Middle English non-tyde, from Old English nōntīd (“noontide”), equivalent to noon + tide.
Senses: examples: text: […] I haue bedymn'd / The Noone tide Sun, call'd forth the mutenous windes, / And twixt the greene Sea, and the azur'd vault / Set roaring warre: […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 16:
text: The favorite noontide mess of the Andalusian peasantry; consisting of cucumbers shred fine, bread-crumbs, oil, vinegar, and water fresh from the spring.
ref: 1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter LIII, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, footnote 1, page 369:
text: Around them all, Negroes carried gunboats of mashed potatoes, spinach, shrimp, zucchini, pot roast, to the long, glittering steam tables, preparing to feed a noontide invasion of Yoyodyne workers.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 59:
synonyms: word: meridian
word: nones
word: sext
word: 12 o'clock
word: 12 noon
word: 12 p.m.
word: high noon
word: meridian
word: meridiem
word: midday
word: nones
word: noon
word: noonday
word: noontime
word: noon-time
word: noontide
word: sext
word: twelve
word: undern
word: undermeal
word: undertide
hypernyms: tide#Noun
time#Noun
coordinate_terms: morningtide#Noun
eventide#Noun
eve#Noun
even#Noun
forenight#Noun
glosses: Midday, noon.
examples: text: Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 28:
synonyms: word: peak
word: pinnacle
word: zenith
word: acme
word: apex
word: zenith
word: apogee
word: apotheosis
word: ascendance
word: capstone
word: climax
word: coronation
word: crown
word: culmination
word: Everest
word: extreme
word: fastigium
word: high note
word: high point
word: high tide
word: high-water mark
word: midday
word: outblossom
word: paroxysm
word: perihelion
word: pinnacle
word: summa
word: summit
glosses: Climax; high point.
skyclad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪ.klæd/
Forms: form: sky-clad
Etymology: From sky + clad, indicating that the person in question is clad only in the sky. Attested from early 20th century England, it is partially a calque of Sanskrit दिगम्बर (digambara, “having all (=ten) quarters of the globe as one's only clothing, i.e., naked”).
Senses: glosses: Belonging to the Digambara school of Jainism.
examples: text: There he stood, sky-clad, smearing witch's ointment all over.
ref: 1989, Ken Radford, Fire Burn, page 135:
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: Nude, naked, especially when outdoors.
clods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clod
sheng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌŋ/
note: anglicized
ipa: /ʃɛŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
rhymes: -ɛŋ
Forms: form: shengs
Etymology: From Mandarin 笙 (shēng).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).
Related terms: english: also derived from Chinese, though not necessarily related
translation: also derived from Chinese, though not necessarily related
word: sheng nu
maple syrup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maple syrups
form: maple sirup
Senses: glosses: Syrup made from the sap of the sugar maple, Acer saccharum.
glosses: Syrup flavored with artificial maple flavoring; though legally in the United States cannot be labelled as such when for sale.
Synonyms: maple honey
maple molasses
pancake syrup
Derived terms: Canadian as maple syrup
maple-syruped
maple syrup urine disease
maple-syrupy
property porn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A genre of television programme or glossy magazine article showing desirable properties with luxurious interiors and idyllic locations.
point-blank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French point blanc (“white point”), originally referring to the white spot to be aimed at on a target (see blank's "bull's eye") or alternatively into empty space being fired horizontally.
Senses: qualifier: forensics
glosses: Very close; not touching but not more than a few metres (yards).
examples: text: Now, here's a useful tool—.470, telescopic sight, double ejector, point-blank up to three-fifty. That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘I was the Flail of the Lord’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Heavily armed militants launched a series of coordinated attacks in rural Assam on Tuesday, pulling villagers from their homes and shooting them at point-blank range, witnesses said.
ref: 2014 December 24, “Assam rebels kill scores on night of brutal attacks in Indian state”, in The Guardian:
text: Fifteen of those people had died of natural causes, the rest from gunshot wounds, including point-blank shots, or from shrapnel.
ref: 2022 April 3, Carlotta Gall, Andrew E. Kramer, “In a Kyiv Suburb,‘They Shot Everyone They Saw’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.
examples: text: a point-blank assertion
text: At this point-blank denial, Stephen turned his face away decisively, and preserved an ominous silence; […]
ref: 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘VII’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC:
text: Yes, but surliness might have provoked a point-blank question.
ref: 1910 August-September, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Sharer, Harper's Magazine:
text: In recent years, the attitude of the railway authorities towards large-scale visits to works and sheds on the whole, has, happily, veered round from suspicion, and even point-blank opposition, to one of co-operation and ready welcome.
ref: 1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:
glosses: Disconcertingly straightforward or blunt; outright.
point-blank
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From French point blanc (“white point”), originally referring to the white spot to be aimed at on a target (see blank's "bull's eye") or alternatively into empty space being fired horizontally.
Senses: examples: text: One day, when he was doing some valuation for me, he told me point-blank that clergymen seldom understood anything about business, and did mischief when they meddled; […]
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
text: About a week afterwards she said to him, point-blank, “Are you seriously making love to your little cousin?”
ref: 1878, Henry James, chapter VIII, in The Europeans, Macmillan and Co.:
text: My father addressed himself to the gentleman point-blank, and there was quite a disturbance.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXVII, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: He was getting on well, so I understood, and had secured a fairly substantial position, and I had therefore ventured to ask him point-blank for the loan of fifty pounds.
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 12:
text: Montgomery fired and missed, bowed his head, threw up his arm, and turned to run. I fired, and the Thing still came on; fired again, point-blank, into its ugly face.
ref: 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:
text: For answer the girl raised her revolver and fired point-blank at him. Without a sound he sank to the earth, dead.
ref: 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., September 1918, →OCLC:
text: In fact in 2017, former Facebook president Sean Parker told news media company Axios point-blank that the central question driving Facebook in its early days was ‘How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’
ref: 2020, Noreena Hertz, chapter 6, in The Lonely Century, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: In a direct manner, without hesitation.
politic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒlətɪk/
ipa: /ˈpɑlətɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɔlɨtɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɵlɨˈtɪk/
Forms: form: politics
form: politick
Etymology: From Middle French politique, from Latin politicus, from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós), from πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”). Cognate with German politisch (“political”). Doublet of politico.
Senses: examples: text: to speake truly of politikes & Statesmen
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: Swiftly the politic goes; is it dark? he borrows a lantern; / Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his feet by the stars.
ref: 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, Epigrams, 3:
text: And therefore our politic Asclepius may be supposed to have exhibited the power of his art only to persons who... had a definite ailment.
ref: 1871, Benjamin Jowett, chapter III, in Plato: The Republic:
glosses: A politician.
examples: text: While the stories and lives on the screen are alternately moving and funny, an unspoken question arises: does similar experience always lead to a coherent politic?
ref: 1978 April 29, Michael Bronski, “Notes on a Necessary Gay Film”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
glosses: A politics; a set of political beliefs.
politic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒlətɪk/
ipa: /ˈpɑlətɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɔlɨtɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɵlɨˈtɪk/
Forms: form: politics
form: politicking
form: politicked
form: politicked
form: politick
Etymology: Back-formation from politicking.
Senses: examples: text: That why you turned the Kanuyaq Land Trust into the IRS for using donations to politic instead of to buy land?
ref: 2002, Dana Stabenow, A Fine and Bitter Snow, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Residents of New York, Illinois and now New Hampshire have watched as their governors waffled, politicked and, in the case of Illinois, possibly broke the law carrying out their duties to appoint a new senator.
ref: 2009 February 4, “How to Fill a Senate Seat”, in New York Times:
text: His brother [Anthony], he politicked him so well, that even his [Jason's] attitude, all the scouts got away from [forgot about] his [bad] attitude because he was a good player.
ref: 2009, Scott N. Brooks, Black Men Can't Shoot, →ISBN, page 169:
text: He made errors, and they should have reversed him, but he politicked the thing through.
ref: 2017, John Hayman, Bitter Harvest: Richmond Flowers and the Civil Rights Revolution, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of politick.
polyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑlɪp/
ipa: /ˈpɒlɪp/
rhymes: -ɒlɪp
Forms: form: polyps
Etymology: From Latin polypus (“a polyp, a polypus in the nose”), from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous, from πολύς (polús, “many”) + πούς (poús, “foot”)). Doublet of polypus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.
The sessile life stage of many cnidarians, whose free-swimming stage, if present, is the medusa.
Derived terms: fibroepithelial polyp
hydropolyp
nasal polyp
polypectomy
polyped
polyperythrin
polypifer
polypiferous
polypiform
polypigerous
polypine
polypite
polypoid
polypous
pseudopolyp
stauropolyp
Related terms: polypian
polyposis