cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hysterical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈstɛɹɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪkəl
Forms: form: more hysterical
form: most hysterical
Etymology: From hysteric + -al, from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the womb, hysterical”), from ῠ̔στέρᾱ (hŭstérā, “womb”).
Senses: examples: text: Henrietta gasped for breath; but she swallowed down the hysterical emotion, and signed with her hand for Walter to go on.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Letters Restored”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 221:
text: An event of this nature, a marriage, or a refusal, or a proposal, thrills through a whole household of women, and sets all their hysterical sympathies at work.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Of, or arising from hysteria.
glosses: Having, or prone to having hysterics.
examples: text: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: There is a certain irony in all of this because in their hysterical use of charge of “double standard” – that Israel is being “singled out for criticism”– it is Israel’s supporters who are themselves guilty of a “double standard”, since, if they were to have their way, it is Israel that would be singled out as the only country that cannot be criticised.
ref: 2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National:
glosses: Provoking uncontrollable laughter.
Derived terms: antihysterical
hysterical blindness
hysterical historical
hysterically
hystericalness
hysterical realism
nonhysterical
overhysterical
posthysterical
semihysterical
unhysterical
Related terms: hysteric
hysterics
hysteria
calypso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ku̇lĭpʹsō
ipa: /kəˈlɪp.səʊ/
enpr: kəlĭpʹsō
ipa: /kəˈlɪp.soʊ/
rhymes: -ɪpsəʊ
Forms: form: calypsos
form: calypsoes
Etymology: Originally Trinidad English, an alteration of kaiso, perhaps ultimately of African origin; Allsopp 1996 suggests Ibibio ka iso (“come on”), used to urge dancers on. The spelling reflects a later folk-etymological assimilation with the mythological name Calypso.
Senses: examples: text: 'How you does live, Mr. Wordsworth?' I asked him one day.
He said, 'You mean how I get money?'
When I nodded, he laughed in a crooked way.
He said, 'I sing calypsoes in the calypso season.'
'And that last you the rest of the year?'
'It is enough.'
ref: 1959, V. S. Naipaul, “B. Wordsworth”, in Miguel Street
glosses: A style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.
glosses: A song in this style of music.
Derived terms: buffalypso
cadence-lypso
calypso coffee
calypsolike
calypso-like
calypsonian
gospelypso
rapso
soca
Related terms: kaiso
calypso
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ku̇lĭpʹsō
ipa: /kəˈlɪp.səʊ/
enpr: kəlĭpʹsō
ipa: /kəˈlɪp.soʊ/
rhymes: -ɪpsəʊ
Forms: form: calypsos
form: calypsoing
form: calypsoed
form: calypsoed
Etymology: Originally Trinidad English, an alteration of kaiso, perhaps ultimately of African origin; Allsopp 1996 suggests Ibibio ka iso (“come on”), used to urge dancers on. The spelling reflects a later folk-etymological assimilation with the mythological name Calypso.
Senses: glosses: To perform calypso.
calypso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ku̇lĭpʹsō
ipa: /kəˈlɪp.səʊ/
enpr: kəlĭpʹsō
ipa: /kəˈlɪp.soʊ/
rhymes: -ɪpsəʊ
Forms: form: calypsos
form: calypsoes
Etymology: From Latin, itself from Ancient Greek Καλυψώ (Kalupsṓ, “name of a sea nymph”)
Senses: glosses: A bulbous bog orchid of the genus Calypso, Calypso bulbosa
glosses: A light blue color.
Derived terms: cadence-lypso
calypsolike
rapso
calyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.lɪks/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.lɪks/
rhymes: -ælɪks
Forms: form: calyces
form: calyxes
form: calix
Etymology: From Latin calyx, from Ancient Greek κάλυξ (kálux, “case of a bud, husk”). Doublet of chalice and kelch.
Senses: examples: text: Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.
ref: 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
meronyms: sepal
glosses: The outermost whorl of flower parts, comprising the sepals, which covers and protects the petals as they develop.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various cup-like structures.
A chamber in the mammalian kidney through which urine passes.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various cup-like structures.
The crown containing the viscera of crinoids and similar echinoderms, entoprocts, and the polyps of some cnidarians.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various cup-like structures.
A funnel-shaped expansion of the vas deferens or oviduct of insects.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of various cup-like structures.
A flattened cap of neuropil in the brain of insects.
Derived terms: brachycalyx
calyciferous
calycoid
calyxed
calyx eye
epicalyx
glycocalyx
nematocalyx
porocalyx
cardiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑː(ɹ)diˈɒlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: cardiologies
Etymology: From cardio- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart.
Derived terms: cardiological
echocardiology
electrocardiology
neurocardiology
telecardiology
Related terms: cardiologist
catharsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈθɑːsɪs/
ipa: /kəˈθɑɹˌsɪs/
Forms: form: catharses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάθαρσις (kátharsis, “cleansing, purging”), from καθαίρω (kathaírō, “I cleanse”). Coined in the dramatic-emotional sense by Aristotle.
Senses: examples: text: True, as the show has entered its later years, there have been more inspired moments of catharsis, but fewer unpredictable arcs and story beats, as a narrative nearing its conclusion is no longer attempting to shock.
ref: 2019 April 14, Alex McLevy, “Winter is Here on Game of Thrones’ Final Season Premiere (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2020:
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).
glosses: Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
glosses: A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by reestablishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Purging of the digestive system.
Derived terms: hemocatharsis
hypercatharsis
Related terms: cathartic
cauterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːtəɹaɪz/
ipa: [ˈkʰɔɾəɹaɪz]
ipa: [ˈkʰɑɾəɹaɪz]
Forms: form: cauterizes
form: cauterizing
form: cauterized
form: cauterized
form: cauterise
Etymology: From Middle French cauteriser, from Late Latin cauterizō (“to burn with a hot iron”), from Ancient Greek καυτηριάζω (kautēriázō, “to brand”), from καυτήρ (kautḗr, “branding iron”), from καίω (kaíō, “to burn”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."
ref: 1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, … To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, …, London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 254:
glosses: To burn and hence seal open tissue using a heated article or caustic agent so as to stop bleeding or minimise the risk of infection.
Derived terms: cauterization
cauterizer
electrocauterize
recauterize
uncauterized
charisma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɪzmə/
Forms: form: charismas
form: charismata
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χᾰ́ρῐσμᾰ (khắrĭsmă, “grace, favour, gift”), from χᾰρῐ́ζομαι (khărĭ́zomai, “I show favor”), from χᾰ́ρῐς (khắrĭs, “grace”), from χαίρω (khaírō, “I am happy”). Doublet of charism. First attested in 1875.
Outside of theology, as early as 1930, charisma was found in a translation of a book written by German sociologist Max Weber, which OED and Etymonline regards as a semantic loan from German Charisma, denoting the special ability of certain leaders to inspire devotion (sense 1). By the 1940s and more clearly in the 1950s, the term was used more loosely to refer to personal charm in general (sense 1.1).
Senses: examples: text: The leader has his charisma.
glosses: A gift or power of leadership or authority.
examples: text: the charisma of a popular actor
glosses: A gift or power of leadership or authority.
The capacity to inspire devotion or enthusiasm; personal charm.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: charism
glosses: A gift or power bestowed upon a person by the Holy Spirit; a grace.
Synonyms: charm
spell
Derived terms: charismaless
charismania
charismatic
Chloe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkloʊ.i/
rhymes: -əʊi
Forms: form: Chloes
form: Chloé
form: Chloë
form: Chlöe
form: Cloe
form: Khloe
form: Khloé
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek χλόη (khlóē, “young green shoot”), an epithet of goddess Demeter.
Senses: examples: text: For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
text: Of Chloe all the town has rung; / By ev'ry Size of Poets sung. / So beautiful a Nymph appears / But once in Twenty Thousand Years.
ref: 1731, Jonathan Swift, Strephon and Chloe:
text: Before he had met this one, Morgan had assumed that people called Chloe were either the neurotic brilliant daughters of Oxbridge dons or else silly screaming debutantes.
ref: 1981, William Boyd, A Good Man in Africa, H.Hamilton, →ISBN, page 24:
text: New Zealand registration officials apparently blocked other questionable names in the past, including Fish and Chips and Sex Fruit, but allowed others, such as Number 16 Bus Shelter and Violence. […] I’m fine with the Gavins and the Masons and the Chloes, but the Poppy Honeys and the Banjos and the Sex Fruits simply have to go.
ref: 2009 April 25, “Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter”, in Austin Daily Herald, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2025:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: drunk as Chloe
chlorophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɔː.ɹə.fɪl/
ipa: /ˈklɒɹ.ə.fɪl/
ipa: /ˈklɔɹ.ə.fɪl/
Forms: form: chlorophylls
form: chlorophyl
Etymology: Borrowed from French chlorophylle, from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “pale green”) and φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of green pigments that are found in the chloroplasts of plants and in other photosynthetic organisms such as cyanobacteria.
Hypernyms: chlorin
pigment
Coordinate terms: anthocyanin
carotenoid
xanthophyll
Meronyms: porphyrin ring
phytol chain
Derived terms: achlorophyllous
bacteriochlorophyll
chlorophyll a
chlorophyllase
chlorophyll b
chlorophyll c1
chlorophyll c2
chlorophyll c3
chlorophyll d
chlorophyllic
chlorophyllide
chlorophyllin
chlorophylloid
chlorophyllose
chlorophyllous
protochlorophyll
white chlorophyll
chyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: chymes
form: chymus
Etymology: From Late Latin chymus, from Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”).
Senses: glosses: The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.
Derived terms: chymase
chymiferous
chymification
chymify
chymotrypsin
chymous
chlamydia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləˈmɪd.i.ə/
rhymes: -ɪdiə
Forms: form: chlamydias
form: chlamydiae
Etymology: From New Latin chlamydia, from Ancient Greek χλαμύδιον (khlamúdion, “small cloak”), from χλαμύς (khlamús, “cloak”).
Senses: examples: text: That makes sense, because we’re all looking for flowery language from our physicians. “Like the sunlight shines upon the hidden grassy meadow, so does chlamydia cast a warm glow upon your private parts.”
ref: 2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 8, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: Any of several common, often asymptomatic, sexually transmitted diseases caused by the microorganism Chlamydia trachomatis.
glosses: Any of various coccoid microorganisms of the genus Chlamydia that are pathogenic to humans and other animals.
Derived terms: chlamydaemia
chlamydiacidal
chlamydial
chlamydiosis
cinema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/
ipa: /ˈsɪn.ɪ.mə/
ipa: /ˈsɪn.ɪ.mɑː/
Forms: form: cinemas
Etymology: Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.
Senses: examples: text: The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.
synonyms: word: pictures
word: moviehouse
word: movies
word: movie theater
word: movie theatre
glosses: A movie theatre, a movie house
examples: text: Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Films collectively.
examples: text: In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].
text: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The film and movie industry.
examples: text: Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].
text: The French and Italian cinemas can seem to persist autonomously—in the sense of being spaces of separate development and marked difference from Hollywood and other national cinemas.
ref: 2005, Tom O'Regan, Australian National Cinema, page 79:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: seventh art
glosses: The art of making films and movies; cinematography
synonyms: kino#Etymology 2
glosses: A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
examples: text: That game was absolute cinema.
synonyms: kino#Etymology 2
glosses: A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
Any media or event that is exemplary.
Derived terms: absolute cinema
anticinema
cinemaddict
cinema-goer
cinemagoer
cinemagoing
cinema hall
cinemaholic
cinemaic
cinemalike
cinemansion
cinemaphile
cinemaphobe
cinemaphotography
cinematherapy
cinematology
cinema verite
cinemology
cinemuck
cineplex
Cinerama
direct cinema
ecocinema
home cinema
hyperlink cinema
machinima
metacinema
microcinema
neurocinema
noncinema
precinema
prisoner's cinema
silent cinema
skinema
supercinema
Related terms: cine
cinematic
cinematographic
cinematography
kinema
Cleopatra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːoʊˈpætɹə/
Forms: form: Cleopatras
form: Kleopatra
Etymology: From Middle English Cleopatra, from Latin Cleopatra, from Ancient Greek Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopátra), meaning "glory of her father", from κλέος (kléos, “glory”) + πατήρ (patḗr, “father”).
Senses: glosses: A given name of women in the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt; notably Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (69–30 BCE); last of the Ptolemy line.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: Cleopatra mandarin
Cleopatra wig
Related terms: Cleopas
Cleopatra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kliːoʊˈpætɹə/
Forms: form: Cleopatras
form: Kleopatra
Etymology: From Middle English Cleopatra, from Latin Cleopatra, from Ancient Greek Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopátra), meaning "glory of her father", from κλέος (kléos, “glory”) + πατήρ (patḗr, “father”).
Senses: examples: text: Inanna becomes the archetype for all the Cleopatras to come; she is "the bitch goddess" who from her first appearance in Sumerian civilization will live on in all other civilizations - in myth and legend, novel and poem, Shakespearean play and Hollywood film.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 165:
glosses: A woman of great seductive beauty.
glosses: A variety of apple.
glosses: The Cleopatra butterfly (Gonepteryx cleopatra).
climax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: klīʹ-măks
ipa: /ˈklaɪ.mæks/
rhymes: -aɪmæks
Forms: form: climaxes
form: climaxing
form: climaxed
form: climaxed
Etymology: From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “I lean, slant”).
Senses: examples: text: Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.
ref: 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Snow White And The Huntsman”, in AV Club:
text: Frank had two bouts in October of 1954, losing them both, and then climaxed his career with a 6-round decision victory over Mickey Warner on December 1, 1954.
ref: 2018, Craig Snyder, The Boxers of Youngstown Ohio:
text: I have never been able to climax during sex. Is my masturbation style to blame? [title]
ref: 2023 May 30, Pamela Stephenson Connolly, “I have never been able to climax during sex. Is my masturbation style to blame?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
examples: text: A group of about 50 people, mostly young adults and teenagers, charged into a city park where gay people were having a swimming party on June 8. Gay people were attacked, climaxing a year in which this conservative Ohio city [Cincinnati] has become aware of its gay population.
ref: 1979 August 4, Walter Williams, “Swimmers Attacked”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: To form the climax to; to be the climax of.
Derived terms: climaxer
cosmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏz'mŏs
ipa: /ˈkɒzmɒs/
enpr: kŏz'mōs
ipa: /ˈkɑzməs/
ipa: /ˈkɑzˌmoʊs/
ipa: /ˈkɒzmɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑzmɔɪ/
Forms: form: cosmos
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cosmos (genus name), from New Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “decoration, ornament; order; universe; the earth, the world”) (referring to its elegant leaves); see further at etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: This beautiful plant was discovered in Mexico, before 1789; as seeds of it sent to Madrid produced plants, which blossomed in that year in the Royal Botanic Garden of Spain. It was first described and figured in 1797, by [Antonio José] Cavanilles, who called it Cosmos, from the Greek word Kosmos, beautiful; but this name was afterwards altered by [Carl Ludwig] Willdenow to Cosmea, as being more consistent with the rules of botanical nomenclature.
ref: 1840, [Jane] Loudon, “Compositæ”, in The Ladies’ Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals, London: William Smith, […], →OCLC, pages 184–185:
text: COSMOS DIVERSIFOLIUS; var. atro-sanguineus. Various-leaved Cosmos; deep blood-flowered var. […] Seeds of this plant were received by Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich, from Mexico. It is doubtless a handsome species of Cosmos. The question is if it can be safely referred to any described species.
ref: 1861, William Jackson Hooker, “Tab. 5227. COSMOS DIVERSIFOLIUS; var. atro-sanguineus.”, in Samuel Curtis, editor, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, Comprising the Plants of the Royal Gardens of Kew and of Other Botanical Establishments in Great Britain; […], volume XVII (3rd Series; volume LXXXVII overall), London: Lovell Reeve & Co., […], →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: People were attracted to him as bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia stalks.
ref: 1947, R[asipuram] K[rishnaswami Iyer] Narayan[aswami], “An Astrologer’s Day”, in An Astrologer’s Day and Other Stories, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC, page 1:
text: [P]atients with positive skin reactions to short ragweed pollen usually had positive skin reactions to cosmos.
ref: 1984 December 31, Frank E[dward] Young, Margaret Heckler, “Biological Products; Allergenic Extracts; Implementation of Efficacy Review [21 CFR Parts 600, 610, and 680; Docket No. 81N-0096]”, in Federal Register, volume 50, part II (Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration), number 15, Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, published 23 January 1985, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3136, column 3:
text: The cosmos gives a perennial-like performance by reseeding, although the resulting flower may be different than the parent.
ref: 2005, Norman Winter, “Annuals: Plants that Hustle”, in Tough-as-nails Flowers for the South, Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 24, column 2:
glosses: Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously coloured flowers and pinnate leaves.
cosmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏz'mŏs
ipa: /ˈkɒzmɒs/
enpr: kŏz'mōs
ipa: /ˈkɑzməs/
ipa: /ˈkɑzˌmoʊs/
ipa: /ˈkɒzmɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑzmɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɒzməʊz/
ipa: /ˈkɑzmoʊz/
enpr: kŏz'mŏs
ipa: /ˈkɒzmɒs/
enpr: kŏz'mōs
ipa: /ˈkɑzməs/
ipa: /ˈkɑzˌmoʊs/
ipa: /ˈkɒzmɔɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑzmɔɪ/
Etymology: From cosmo + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns).
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmo
cranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krā'nē-əm
ipa: /ˈkɹeɪ.ni.əm/
rhymes: -eɪniəm
Forms: form: craniums
form: crania
Etymology: From Medieval Latin crānium (“skull”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”).
Senses: examples: text: The Skull is divided into two parts, the Cranium and the Face. The Cranium is composed of eight bones; […]
ref: 1858, Henry Gray, “The Skull”, in Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, page 19:
text: ‘I always ask leave, in the interests of science, to measure the crania of those going out there,’ he said.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
text: The cranium of the fowl is composed of the same elements as are present in the mammalian cranium, save that there is no interparietal.
ref: 1908, J. McFadyean, “Part I: Osteology and Arthrology”, in The Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated Animals, page 165:
text: The cranial bones, or cranium (kra′ne-um), enclose and protect the fragile brain and furnish attachment sites for head and neck muscles.
ref: 2010, Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn, “Chapter 7 "The Skeleton"”, in Human Anatomy and Physiology, 8th edition, page 200:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: braincase
neurocranium
glosses: That part of the skull consisting of the bones enclosing the brain, but not including the bones of the face or jaw.
examples: text: In this study, the cranium recovered from the River Witham in Lincoln exhibited a black metallic staining on the surfaces of the teeth.
ref: 2014, Emma L. Brown, Ronald A. Dixon, Jason W. Birkett, “The Discolouration of Human Teeth from Archaeological Contexts: Elemental Analysis of a Black Tooth from a Roman Cranium Recovered from the River Witham, Lincoln, UK”, in Journal of Anthropology, volume 2014, →DOI:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The upper portion of the skull, including the neurocranium and facial bones, but not including the jawbone (mandible).
glosses: Synonym of skull.
synonyms: word: skull
Derived terms: basicranium
chondrocranium
cranial
craniate
cranio-
dermatocranium
desmocranium
ectocranium
endocranium
epicranium
hemicrania
intracranium
neurocranium
osteocranium
paracranium
postcranium
splanchnocranium
viscerocranium
crypt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Forms: form: crypts
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.
Senses: glosses: A cave or cavern.
glosses: An underground vault.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher
text: She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/2/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: On its arrival at Bank, incidentally, the City & South London's directors had threatened to demolish the church of St Mary Woolnoth, but after a public outcry the company built its station in the crypt of the church, the bodies being transferred [...]. Therefore St Mary Woolnoth doesn't have a crypt. Or you could say that its crypt is Bank station.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: An underground vault.
Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
hypernyms: grave
coordinate_terms: grave
;
charnel house
mausoleum
ossuary
deadhouse
;
catacomb
cuniculus
examples: text: Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa
text: Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections.
ref: 2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 25:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.
Derived terms: cryptal
cryptid
cryptitis
cryptlike
crypt of Lieberkühn
hemicrypt
intestinal crypt
Related terms: encrypt
cynic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪnɪk/
rhymes: -ɪnɪk
homophone: Sinic
Forms: form: cynics
form: cynick
Etymology: From Middle English cynike, cynicke, from Middle French cynique, from Latin cynicus, from Ancient Greek κυνικός (kunikós), originally derived from the portico in Athens called Κυνόσαργες (Kunósarges), the earliest home of the Cynic school, later reinterpreted as being derived from κύων (kúōn, “dog”), in a contemptuous allusion to the uncouth and aggressive manners adopted by the members of the school.
Senses: examples: text: Well, that's one in the eye for the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics and assorted tosspots what make up the media and that.
ref: 2000 June 13, Darren Tackle, The Guardian:
text: "Accept your limitations," I'd warn her. "A lot of these kids are damaged beyond repair." And you know what her response was? That I was cynical. Which hit a nerve, I had to admit. I wasn't a cynic; I was a banged-up realist. You live to middle age, you begin to reckon with life's limits, you know? You lace up your sneakers and run it out.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.29-30
text: The cynic surfaced, reminding him that she'd been accused of trying to spring the baby trap on Brad Comfort.
ref: 2010, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Family Lies:
glosses: A person whose outlook is scornfully negative.
glosses: A person who believes that all people are motivated by selfishness.
cynic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪnɪk/
rhymes: -ɪnɪk
homophone: Sinic
Forms: form: more cynic
form: most cynic
form: cynick
Etymology: From Middle English cynike, cynicke, from Middle French cynique, from Latin cynicus, from Ancient Greek κυνικός (kunikós), originally derived from the portico in Athens called Κυνόσαργες (Kunósarges), the earliest home of the Cynic school, later reinterpreted as being derived from κύων (kúōn, “dog”), in a contemptuous allusion to the uncouth and aggressive manners adopted by the members of the school.
Senses: glosses: cynical (in all senses)
examples: text: the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle
glosses: Relating to the Dog Star.
Related terms: cynical
cynicism
macron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măkʹrŏn
enpr: mākʹrŏn
ipa: /ˈmækɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈmeɪkɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈmeɪkɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈmækɹɑn/
Forms: form: macrons
form: macra
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón), neuter form of μακρός (makrós, “long”) (English macro-).
Senses: examples: text: We say such words belong to a Long family, because of the long macron hat the vowels wear. Like the other twin o's, one hat is enough for both, for these twins are always found together.
ref: 1889, Rebecca S[mith] Pollard, A Complete Manual: Pollard’s Synthetic Method of Reading and Spelling. Designed to Accompany Synthetic Readers and Spellers, New York, N.Y.: American Book Company, →OCLC, page 75:
text: A macron is a mark placed above a long vowel to mark its quantity.
ref: 1974, Floyd L. Moreland, Rita M. Fleischer, Latin: An Intensive Course, University of California Press, page 13:
text: All vowels are pronounced short unless marked with a ¯ (macron) over them. So observe different vowel length of ‘i ’ in, e.g., fīlia, etc. It may be helpful, but is not essential, to mark macra in your exercises.
ref: 1986, Peter V. Jones, Keith C. Sidwell, “Introduction”, in Reading Latin, volumes 1 (Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 2, general note 1:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
antonyms: breve
micron
hypernyms: bar
coordinate_terms: solidus
vinculum
long-vowel mark
overline
overbar
overscore
◌̅
glosses: A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.
Derived terms: macron below
macroned
macronized
macronless
Related terms: macro-
margarita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑː.ɡəˈɹiː.tə/
ipa: /ˌmɑɹ.ɡəˈɹi.tə/
rhymes: -iːtə
Forms: form: margaritas
form: Margarita
Etymology: From Spanish margarita. Doublet of Margaret (and various forms, q.v.), margarite, Margherita, and marguerite.
Senses: examples: text: In the summer, he’s posted on the corner with his BMX sipping margarita from a styrofoam cup and in the winter he’s indoors with his PlayStation and blunt.
ref: 2007 spring, Justine D., “Wanna Battle?”, in Mary H.K. Choi, editor, Missbehave, number 3, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Adrian Moeller, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21, column 1:
glosses: A cocktail made with tequila, an orange-flavoured liqueur, and lemon or lime juice, often served with salt encrusted on the rim of the glass.
Synonyms: word: marg
Derived terms: applerita
bananarita
becharita
beergarita
blackberrita
blueberrita
cinnamonrita
cranberrita
cucumberita
gingerita
graperita
habanerita
kiwirita
lagerita
lemonrita
limerita
mangorita
margatini
melonrita
orangerita
peacharita
pearita
pepperita
picklerita
pineapplerita
plumarita
plumrita
pomrita
pumpkinrita
raspberrita
salsarita
seltzerita
slusharita
strawberrita
watermelonrita
winearita
yardarita
Related terms: margarine
masticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæstɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: masticates
form: masticating
form: masticated
form: masticated
Etymology: From Latin masticātus, perfect passive participle of masticō (“to chew”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Alternatively, back-formation from mastication, either ultimately from Ancient Greek μαστιχάω (mastikháō, “to grind the teeth”). Compare French mastiquer.
Senses: examples: text: The cow stood, quietly masticating its cud.
text: The fat boy rose, opened his eyes, swallowed the huge piece of pie he had been in the act of masticating when he last fell asleep, and slowly obeyed his master’s orders.
ref: 1832, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in The Pickwick Papers:
text: "By tasting it, to be sure," said I, masticating a morsel that Kory-Kory had just put in my mouth.
ref: 1892, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Typee: A Romance of the South Seas:
text: He resumed his meal. "I had no idea of it," he said, and masticated.
ref: 1896, H. G. Wells, chapter 8, in The Island of Dr. Moreau:
text: The vegetables were not to be cooked but merely grated fine, if I could not masticate them.
ref: 1927-1929, Mahatma Gandhi, translated by Mahadev Desai, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, published 1940:
text: The friends watch the two make their way between other habitués masticating, drinking, crouched in a scrum of conversation[…]
ref: 2001, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup:
text: At the moment Carter snapped, a lunch break in J&M turned into a blood riot when half a dozen technicians dropped their snacks and began cannibalizing each other instead. In I&T, their opposite numbers began beating each other to death with keyboards, chairs, and even computer monitors while their Chief masticated her husband's digits.
ref: 2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 604:
glosses: To chew (usually food).
glosses: To grind or knead something into a pulp.
Derived terms: masticable
masticator
nonmasticating
premasticate
remasticate
unmasticated
Related terms: mastic
mastication
masticatory
megalith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɡəlɪθ/
ipa: /ˈmɛɡəˌlɪθ/
Forms: form: megaliths
Etymology: PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
From mega- (prefix meaning ‘very large, great’) + -lith (suffix meaning ‘stone’), a back-formation from megalithic probably modelled after monolith. from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”)
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A large stone slab making up a prehistoric monument, or part of such a monument.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A prehistoric monument made up of one or more large stones.
glosses: A large stone or block of stone used in the construction of a modern structure.
Hyponyms: orthostat
standing stone
talayot
Derived terms: megalithical
megalithically
megalithism
Related terms: english: first attested earlier than megalith
translation: first attested earlier than megalith
word: megalithic
word: menhir
word: microlith
word: monolith
word: polylith
word: Stonehenge
melanoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛləˈnoʊmə/
enpr: mĕlănōmä
rhymes: -əʊmə
Forms: form: melanomas
form: melanomata
Etymology: From melano- + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.
Synonyms: english: see A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary citation from 1880
translation: see A Comprehensive Medical Dictionary citation from 1880
word: black cancer
english: see The Washington Post citation from 1904
translation: see The Washington Post citation from 1904
word: Melanome
Derived terms: antimelanoma
melanomagenesis
melanomal
melanomatous
nonmelanoma
Related terms: carcinoma
Melanie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛləni/
homophone: melony
rhymes: -ɛləni
Etymology: From French Mélanie, from Latin Melania, the name of two Roman fifth century saints, from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”).
Senses: examples: text: 'I learn the craft. I'm your uncle's apprentice, Melanie.' - - - She did not quite like the way he kept calling her by her name; there was a humorous inlection on the three liquid syllables as though he found the name funny.
ref: 1967, Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop, Virago Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: Melanesia
melisma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɪzmə/
Forms: form: melismas
form: melismata
form: melism
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέλισμα (mélisma, “song”), from μελίζω (melízō, “(I) sing, modulate; (I) celebrate in song”), from μέλος (mélos, “song, tune, melody; limb, part; member”).
Senses: examples: text: A choir sang one of the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The mournful melisma accompanied the slow procession to the palace built by Herod the Great, at present untenanted.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
text: At the top of the hill in the archway of the main house, an eyeless old man sat on a bucket, scratching at a two-stringed gourd, warbling weird melismas on a madman's text.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 38:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage of several notes sung to one syllable of text.
examples: text: A subsequent generation of singers, including Ms. Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé, built their careers around melisma.
ref: 2010 December 24, David Browne, “Trilling Songbirds Clip Their Wings”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The use of such passages.
Derived terms: melismatic
mentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: men'tôr
enpr: men'tər
ipa: /ˈmɛn.tɔː/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈmɛn.toə/
ipa: /ˈmɛn.toɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɛn.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈmen.toː/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛɳʈəʳ/
note: Indic
ipa: /meɳˈʈoʳ/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛntɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: mentors
Etymology: From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, shares the same root as English mind. Cognate to Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”) and Latin monitor (“one who admonishes”), and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti (compare Latin moneō (“to warn”), causative form of *men- (“to think”).
Senses: examples: text: Many mentors claim that they would work with the vocationers for free because of the sense of satisfaction the interaction provides.
ref: 2006, Lisa Johnson, Mind Your X's and Y's:
text: I thought he was supposed to be my mentor. But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults?
ref: 2009, Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page 26:
glosses: A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
Derived terms: e-mentor
e-mentorship
mentoree
mentoress
mentress
mentorial
mentorish
mentorism
mentorless
mentorlike
mentorly
mentorship
mentrix
telementor
mentor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: men'tôr
enpr: men'tər
ipa: /ˈmɛn.tɔː/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈmɛn.toə/
ipa: /ˈmɛn.toɹ/
ipa: /ˈmɛn.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈmen.toː/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛɳʈəʳ/
note: Indic
ipa: /meɳˈʈoʳ/
rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛntɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: mentors
form: mentoring
form: mentored
form: mentored
Etymology: From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, shares the same root as English mind. Cognate to Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”) and Latin monitor (“one who admonishes”), and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti (compare Latin moneō (“to warn”), causative form of *men- (“to think”).
Senses: examples: text: After him came several deshi, or followers he had mentored.
ref: 2008 September 8, Richard Halloran, “Japan’s rapid succession of prime ministers belies its global role”, in Taipei Times, Taipai, page 9:
text: I want to get people motivated about mentoring students, to help them get excited about staying in school, finding their passion, and starting a career.
ref: 2016 September 16, Soledad O'Brien, “Soledad O'Brien: We Should Rethink What Mentoring Means”, in Time:
glosses: To act as someone's mentor.
Related terms: mentee
coach
nestor
sponsor
mia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Senses: topics: classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ancient bluffing game played with dice.
mia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Etymology: Clipping of bulimia; intentionally formed to resemble the given name Mia as form of personification and coded language. Compare ana.
Senses: glosses: Bulimia nervosa.
Derived terms: pro-mia
Related terms: word: ana
word: pro-ana
sense: etymologically unrelated terms contianing "mia"
word: mamma mia
sense: etymologically unrelated terms contianing "mia"
word: mia luang
sense: etymologically unrelated terms contianing "mia"
word: mia mia
sense: etymologically unrelated terms contianing "mia"
word: mia noi
mimesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭmē′səs
ipa: /mɪˈmiːsɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: mimeses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis), from μιμεῖσθαι (mimeîsthai, “to imitate”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “a mime”).
Senses: glosses: The representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Mimicry.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The appearance of symptoms of a disease not actually present.
glosses: The rhetorical pedagogy of imitation.
glosses: The imitation of another's gestures, pronunciation, or utterance.
Derived terms: andromimesis
biomimesis
ethnomimesis
gynemimesis
mimeography
mimetic
mimicry
neuromimesis
psychotomimesis
thanatomimesis
Related terms: meme
memetic
monody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnədi/
ipa: /ˈmɑnədi/
Forms: form: monodies
Etymology: From Latin monodia, from Ancient Greek μονῳδία (monōidía).
Senses: glosses: An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.
glosses: Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy.
examples: text: Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: A monotonous or mournful noise.
examples: text: All directions in life were blocked to him. He could not think, he could not sleep, his heart thudded to a deadening monody of fear. Fear that is itself the penalty of all things feared.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 203:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A composition having a single melodic line.
Derived terms: monodic
monodical
monodist
odyssey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒd.ɪ.si/
ipa: /ˈɒd.ə.si/
ipa: /ˈɑ.dɪ.si/
ipa: /ˈɑ.də.si/
ipa: /ˈɔd.ɪ.si/
Forms: form: odysseys
Etymology: From Odyssey, from Ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεία (Odusseía, “the story of Odysseus”).
Senses: examples: text: Many have been sharing cartoons praying for a successful conclusion to the Wild Boar team's odyssey, hoping that it will end in their safe rescue.
ref: 2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy, Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com, CNN, retrieved 08 Jul 2018:
glosses: An extended adventurous voyage, usually in search of home.
glosses: An intellectual or spiritual quest.
ophthalmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒfθə(l)ˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɒpθə(l)ˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɒfθælˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɒpθælˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɑfθə(l)ˈmɑləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: ophthalmologies
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: He will reproach himself for having been the victim of some of these liabilities, but for others, like his cataract or the bad illumination, he will express regret but not remorse. That is, some of the explanations that he will give for some of his mistakes and failures will be of the same sort as the explanations he would give for his mistakes and failures in counting or multiplying, but some will be of quite different sorts, like the explanations that he couches in the terms of elementary ophthalmology or optics.
ref: 1954, Gilbert Ryle, “dilemma vii: Perception”, in Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, page 97:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The anatomy, functions, pathology, and treatment of the eye.
Derived terms: teleophthalmology
Related terms: neuro-ophthalmology
neuro-ophthalmologist
ophthalmological
ophthalmologist
orchestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɹkəstɹə/
ipa: /ˈɔːkəstɹə/
Forms: form: orchestras
form: orchestrae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin orchēstra, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra) (a derivative of ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai, “to dance”)).
Senses: examples: text: The orchestra plays music for the dancers to dance to in the 19th century-styled dance hall.
text: It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.
ref: 1941 February, Voyageur, “The Railways of Greece”, in Railway Magazine, page 67:
text: Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.
ref: 2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender):
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.
glosses: The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.
Derived terms: word: miniorchestra
word: monkey orchestra
word: orchestra hit
word: orchestral
word: orchestraless
word: orchestra-pit
word: orchestra pit
word: orchestra stall
word: orchestra stalls
word: orchestrate
word: orchestration
sense: orchestra types
word: chamber orchestra
word: orchestra in residence
word: philharmonic orchestra
word: string orchestra
word: symphony orchestra
word: orchestrina
word: orchestrion
word: palm court orchestra
word: pops orchestra
word: steel pan orchestra
gallery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləɹi/
enpr: gălˈ -ə-rē
rhymes: -æləɹi
Forms: form: galleries
form: gallerying
form: galleried
form: galleried
Etymology: From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.
Senses: glosses: To show off.