cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gonorrhea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɒn.əˈɹiː.ə/
ipa: /ˌɡɑn.əˈɹi.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: gonorrheas
form: gonorrhoea
form: gonorrhœa
Etymology: From New Latin, from Late Latin gonorrhoea, from Ancient Greek γονόρροια (gonórrhoia), from γόνος (gónos, “sperm, seed, offspring”) + ῥοία (rhoía, “flow”) (ca. 1526). By surface analysis, gono- + -rrhea.
Senses: glosses: A sexually transmitted infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.
Synonyms: the clap
Derived terms: gonorrheal
gonorrheic
super gonorrhea
Related terms: diarrhea
diarrhoea
galactorrhea
galactorrhoea
logorrhea
logorrhoea
pyorrhea
pyorrhoea
urethritis
trichomoniasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichomoniases
Etymology: From translingual Trichomonas + -iasis.
Senses: examples: text: Similar changes occur later after the menopause that, if not ideal for colonization by T. vaginalis they are clearly not impossible, since both prepubertal and post-menopausal trichomoniases in females are well described.
ref: 2003, J. P. Ackers, “11: Trichomonads”, in Stephen Gillespie, Richard D. Pearson, editors, Principles and Practice of Clinical Parasitology, page 246:
text: Trichomoniasis is the most prevalent nonviral sexually transmitted infection in humans worldwide.
ref: 2006, Linh Khanh Vuong, “Chapter 17: Gynecologic Disorders”, in Richard A. Helms, David J. Quan, editors, Textbook of Therapeutics: Drug and Disease Management, page 391:
text: 2009, Sarah L. Cudmore, Gary E. Garber, Chapter 74: Diagnosis and Treatment of Metronidazole-Resistant Trichomonas vaginalis Infection, Douglas Mayers (editor), Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Volume 2: Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects, page 1092,
Trichomoniasis has long been considered a disease of women, but the disease can also cause significant morbidity in men.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A common sexually transmitted disease caused by the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis and infecting the urinary tract or vagina.
Synonyms: sense: infection by Trichomonas vaginalis
word: ping pong disease
sense: infection by Trichomonas vaginalis
word: trich
human papillomavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: human papillomaviruses
Senses: glosses: Any of a large number of virus species in the family Papillomaviridae that affect humans, sometimes causing cervical or other cancer; it is sometimes classified as a sexually transmitted disease.
Synonyms: HPV
Related terms: Pap smear
verruca
genital wart
sister-wife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sister-wives
form: sister wife
Etymology: Compound of sister + wife.
Senses: examples: text: My Grecians shall victorious prove, By me led on to War, the Sister-Wife of Jove.
ref: 1743, trans. Philip Francis, “Odes”, in Horace, volume III, iii, page 64:
text: Ptolemy VII […] married Cleopatra, the sister-wife of his predecessor.
ref: 1853, Henry N. Humphreys, The coin collector's manual, page 118:
text: Anat as sister-wife of Baal, Isis as mother of Horos and sister-wife of Osiris, Hera as sister-wife of Zeus
ref: 1974, Joseph Fontenrose, Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins, page 257:
coordinate_terms: brother-husband
glosses: A woman who is simultaneously sister and wife to her spouse.
examples: text: Enmities between sister-wives will [be,] from their having known each other too intimately all their lives, more unmannerly than where they are strangers to each other
ref: 1853, quoted in Robert Cox, Sabbath Laws and Sabbath Duties, page 194:
glosses: In a polygamous marriage, a woman who is simultaneously the sister and co-wife of another.
examples: text: Yüeh-niang and her sister-wives, all dressed in formal gowns, came out from inside to greet them and ushered them into the rear reception hall
ref: 2006, Xiaoxiaosheng, trans. David Tod Roy, The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin P'ing Mei, page 21:
text: The concept of 'sisterhood' was popularly applied to the official organizations for Mormon women, and Mormon co-wives were and are still known as 'sister-wives'
ref: 2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, page 97:
glosses: A co-wife in general.
HPV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HPVs
Senses: examples: text: Vaccination against some HPV strains can drastically decrease cervical cancer risk.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 280:
text: Men who lost out on the HPV vaccine while in school will now be able to avail of it free up to the age of 22 years under an expanded roll out from next Tuesday.
ref: 2023 August 23, “HPV vaccine catch-up programme extended to men up to age 22 who lost out on school jab”, in Independent.ie:
glosses: Initialism of human papillomavirus.
glosses: Initialism of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction.
glosses: Initialism of human-powered vehicle.
glosses: Abbreviation of hydrogen peroxide vapor.
Synonyms: sense: hydrogen peroxide vapor
english: vaporous hydrogen peroxide
translation: vaporous hydrogen peroxide
word: VHP
Related terms: sense: hydrogen peroxide vapor
english: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
translation: hydrogen peroxide gas plasma
word: HPGP
sense: hydrogen peroxide vapor
english: liquid hydrogen peroxide
translation: liquid hydrogen peroxide
word: LHP
sense: hydrogen peroxide vapor
english: hydrogen peroxide
translation: hydrogen peroxide
word: HP
box the compass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒks ðə ˈkʌmpəs/
Forms: form: boxes the compass
form: boxing the compass
form: boxed the compass
form: boxed the compass
Senses: examples: text: While in the school-ships the boys would be instructed in the elements of an ordinary education, in addition to being taught to row, heave the lead, box the compass, go aloft, reef, steer, and work the guns.
ref: 1859 September 30, The Times, page 10:
text: I say it is south, for the country is more deserted there." "And I say east," said my patient. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. […] "And I am for north," said I […] "Come," cried the Inspector, laughing, "it's a very pretty diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us."
ref: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To know, and demonstrate by reciting, the 32 points and quarter points of the magnetic compass from North or East, both clockwise and anticlockwise.
glosses: To make a complete reversal in stance or opinion.
hong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte,
From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: past of hang
hong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒŋ/
ipa: /hɔŋ/
ipa: /hɑŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: hongs
Etymology: From Cantonese 行 (hong4, “trade, business”).
Senses: examples: text: "You and your son are about to visit China," said a Chinese agent of an old and established hong in Canton. […] The speaker was Ah Hue, or Ah Hue-Ling. He had made a reputation for honorable dealing as an agent of the tea trade.
ref: 1901, Hezekiah Butterworth, “1.Strange Things to Be Seen in China – Jataka Tales – the Boxers – American Tea-farms”, in Traveller Tales of China or the Story-Telling Hongs, Boston: Dana Estes & Company, page 11:
text: In this partly manufactured state they are sold to collectors, who re-sell them to tea hongs, or factories, and these hongs in turn resell to middlemen, who supply the foreign exporter.
ref: 1935, William Ukers, All About Tea:
text: Even though China's red flag now flutters above them, some 40% of the offices are still owned by Hongkong Land, an immensely wealthy company that is part of the Jardine Matheson group, the biggest of the British-owned “hongs” and the one that did most to establish the British territory.
ref: 1997 August 7, “Superman versus the hong”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
glosses: A foreign trading company in China.
Related terms: sense: etymologicaly unrelated terms
word: hongbao
sense: etymologicaly unrelated terms
word: hong boat
brace aback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: braces aback
form: bracing aback
form: braced aback
form: braced aback
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to bring the wind onto the forward side of the sails to slow the ship
brace about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: braces about
form: bracing about
form: braced about
form: braced about
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to brace the ship's yards on the opposite tack when going about
brace abox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: braces abox
form: bracing abox
form: braced abox
form: braced abox
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To bring the foreyards flat aback to stop the ship.
brace by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: braces by
form: bracing by
form: braced by
form: braced by
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to bring the yards in opposite directions on different masts when doing certain maneuvers
salve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sălv
enpr: säv
ipa: /sɑːv/
ipa: /sælv/
enpr: sălv
enpr: săv
ipa: /sæ(l)v/
rhymes: -ɑːv
rhymes: -ælv
rhymes: -æv
Forms: form: salves
Etymology: From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh₂, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”).
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís), Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos).
Senses: glosses: An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
examples: text: Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.
text: [Title:] Tame March PCE inflation no salve after downbeat Q1 US GDP report
ref: 2025 April 30, “Tame March PCE inflation no salve after downbeat Q1 US GDP report”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 01 May 2025:
glosses: Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.
Derived terms: black salve
lip salve
salve bug
salve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sălv
enpr: säv
ipa: /sɑːv/
ipa: /sælv/
enpr: sălv
enpr: săv
ipa: /sæ(l)v/
rhymes: -ɑːv
rhymes: -ælv
rhymes: -æv
Forms: form: salves
form: salving
form: salved
form: salved
Etymology: From Old English sealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn, from Proto-Germanic *salbōną, from *salbō (whence salve (noun)).
Senses: examples: text: She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]
ref: 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 26:
glosses: To calm or assuage.
examples: text: I do beseech your majesty […] salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
examples: text: But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deedes.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:
text: What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
examples: text: The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats.
ref: 1942 March, “Notes and News: Repairing Blitzed Underground Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
glosses: To salvage.
Derived terms: salvability
salvable
salvage
salvee
salver
salvor
weapon-salve
salve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sălv
enpr: säv
ipa: /sɑːv/
ipa: /sælv/
enpr: sălv
enpr: săv
ipa: /sæ(l)v/
rhymes: -ɑːv
rhymes: -ælv
rhymes: -æv
Forms: form: salves
form: salving
form: salved
form: salved
Etymology: From Latin salvō (“to save”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
examples: text: He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
ref: 1661, Thomas Salusbury, transl., Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems:
glosses: To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
glosses: To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.
salve
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: sălv
enpr: säv
ipa: /sɑːv/
ipa: /sælv/
enpr: sălv
enpr: săv
ipa: /sæ(l)v/
rhymes: -ɑːv
rhymes: -ælv
rhymes: -æv
Etymology: From Latin salvē. The verb is from the interjection.
Senses: glosses: Hail; a greeting.
salve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sălv
enpr: säv
ipa: /sɑːv/
ipa: /sælv/
enpr: sălv
enpr: săv
ipa: /sæ(l)v/
rhymes: -ɑːv
rhymes: -ælv
rhymes: -æv
Forms: form: salves
form: salving
form: salved
form: salved
Etymology: From Latin salvē. The verb is from the interjection.
Senses: examples: text: By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297:
glosses: To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.
brace in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: braces in
form: bracing in
form: braced in
form: braced in
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to bring the yards more square to the fore and aft line
brace sharp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: braces sharp
form: bracing sharp
form: braced sharp
form: braced sharp
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to bring the yards around to make the smallest possible angle with the fore and aft line when sailing close-hauled
close-hauled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: closehauled
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: with the sails trimmed as close to the wind as possible with all sails full and not shivering
Synonyms: on a bowline
close-hauled
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: closehauled
Senses: glosses: with the sails close-hauled
brace of shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braces of shakes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The time taken for a sail to shake or shiver twice as a ship comes into the wind.
glosses: A very short time.
bedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
homophone: betting
Forms: form: beddings
Etymology: From Middle English bedding, beddyng, from Old English bedding (“bedding”), equivalent to bed + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Hire of bedding, and food in the restaurant cars is cheap, and passengers are officially encouraged not to tip company's servants—but they do.
ref: 1950 April 24, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
text: Similarly, the biotech giant Cargill has begun manufacturing a polymer from vegetable oils that is used in polyurethane foams, which is found in beddings, furniture and car-seat headrests.
ref: 2008 April 9, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, “Harnessing Biology, and Avoiding Oil, for Chemical Goods”, in New York Times:
synonyms: bedclothes
bedlinen
bedsheet
glosses: The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc.
glosses: The textiles associated with the bed, as well as the mattress, bedframe, or bed base (such as box spring).
synonyms: litter
glosses: Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter.
Derived terms: topics: geology
geography
natural-sciences
word: bedding plane
topics: geology
geography
natural-sciences
word: crossbedding
topics: textiles
manufacturing
business
word: bedding set
topics: textiles
manufacturing
business
word: carpet bedding
sense: others
word: bedding plant
word: bedding surface
bedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈbɛɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
homophone: betting
Etymology: From bed + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bed
bedclothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-clothes
Etymology: From Middle English bedclothys, plural of Middle English bedcloth, bedclothe, bedde clothe (“bed-cloth, bedding”), from Old English bedclāþ, beddclāþ (“coverlet, blanket, bedding, bedclothes”), equivalent to bed + clothes.
Senses: examples: text: She pulled the bedclothes over her neck to stay warm.
text: When she was little and I went to see her in bed, I often thought she wasn't there. She lay so neatly and so straight, without a ruckle and with her head just under the top of the bedclothes.
ref: 2013, Candida Lycett Green, Over The Hills And Far Away, →ISBN:
glosses: Sheets, blankets, quilts or other coverings used on a bed.
examples: text: Tom put his bedclothes on and went to sleep.
glosses: Clothing worn to bed.
Synonyms: sense: sheets
word: bedclothing
sense: sheets
word: bedding
sense: sheets
word: covers
sense: sheets
word: bedlinen
sense: clothes
word: pajamas
sense: clothes
word: nightwear
effing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛfɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: The effing car's broken down again!
glosses: Bowdlerization of fucking.
Synonyms: flaming
flipping
freaking
fricking
funking
effing
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛfɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: She is effing hot!
text: I effing hate snow!
text: “I will say, though, it felt effing fantastic.”
ref: 2024 November 18, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “March Madness” (16:46 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 7, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: bowdlerization of fucking
effing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛfɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: I wish he'd stop effing and blinding.
glosses: present participle and gerund of eff
Related terms: eff and blind
effing and blinding
eff and blind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: effs and blinds
form: effing and blinding
form: effed and blinded
form: effed and blinded
Etymology: From eff and blimey (for "God blind me").
Senses: examples: text: I can't stand the way he's always effing and blinding.
glosses: To swear; to use swear words.
Synonyms: eff and jeff
Derived terms: effing and blinding
effing and blinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Effing is for "f'ing", a euphemism for fucking; blinding is related to blimey, i.e. "God blind me!".
Senses: examples: text: Much effing and blinding could be heard from the fans when they discovered that their team had lost.
glosses: swearing, cursing.
effing and blinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Effing is for "f'ing", a euphemism for fucking; blinding is related to blimey, i.e. "God blind me!".
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eff and blind
spud gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spud guns
Senses: glosses: A toy gun that fires a plug of potato by compressing the air in the barrel, forcing the potato projectile out at speed.
glosses: A larger version of the same, powered by compressed air, butane or other propellant, which fires a complete potato.
Related terms: potato cannon
pop gun
pop gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop guns
Senses: glosses: A toy gun that emits a loud pop by firing a cork from a barrel in which a piston slides, compressing the air and forcing the cork out. The cork is traditionally attached to the toy by a piece of string.
glosses: A firearm of unimpressive appearance.
pettifogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛtɪˌfɒɡə/
ipa: /ˈpɛtɪˌfɑːɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɛtɪˌfɔːɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pettifoggers
Etymology: petty + fogger
Senses: examples: text: Hence the cunning measure of appointing as ambassador some political pettifogger skilled in delays, sophisms, and misapprehensions, and dexterous in the art of baffling argument.
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, chapter 39, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:
glosses: Someone who quibbles over trivia, and raises petty, annoying objections and sophistry.
examples: text: "An inn, or a tavern . . . these are places where greasy citizens take pipe and pot, where the knavish pettifoggers of the law spunge on their most unhappy victims.
ref: 1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 11, in The Fortunes of Nigel:
text: This gentleman (for such he was, however strange ladies who class country attorneys with vulgar pettifoggers in fashionable novels may deem the assertion) was the son of a brave officer,...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 257:
text: . . .yet he has never sought by browbeating and other arts of the pettifogger, to confuse, baffle, and bewilder a witness. . . .
ref: 1885, The Bay State Monthly, volume 3, number 6:
text: "Donald Hughes, well known in Minneapolis as a conscienceless shyster, was placed in charge of the case. . . . Mr. Edgerton, a high class, reputable lawyer, was called in of counsel from another city to lend respectability to the crooked, unprincipled, blackmailing pettifogger, Hughes."
ref: 1926 June 28, “National Affairs: Blind Mans Huff”, in Time:
synonyms: shyster
glosses: An unscrupulous or unethical lawyer, especially one of lesser skill.
Synonyms: sense: someone who quibbles
word: nitpicker
Related terms: pettifog
pettifoggery
mutiny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmju.tə.ni/
ipa: /ˈmjut.ni/
enpr: myo͞oʹtə-nē
enpr: myo͞otʹnē
Forms: form: mutinies
Etymology: From Middle French mutiner.
Senses: examples: text: In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader.
ref: 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
glosses: An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.
examples: text: Raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
Derived terms: antimutiny
countermutiny
mutinize
premutiny
Related terms: mutineer
mutinous
mutiny
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmju.tə.ni/
ipa: /ˈmjut.ni/
enpr: myo͞oʹtə-nē
enpr: myo͞otʹnē
Forms: form: mutinies
form: mutinying
form: mutinied
form: mutinied
Etymology: From Middle French mutiner.
Senses: examples: text: The crew of the Bounty mutinied because of the harsh discipline of Captain Bligh.
text: In the long run, the High Seas Fleet would rarely emerge looking for a fleet action, and, indeed, would be withdrawn if it seemed that the Grand Fleet was out. In 1918, when faced with an order to sail against the British, who had now been augmented by the Sixth Battle Squadron, made up of American warships, the sailors of the High Seas Fleet mutinied instead.
ref: 2020 August 12, Drachinifel, 34:12 from the start, in The Battle of Jutland - Clash of the Titans - Part 3 (Aftermath, Outcome and Lessons), archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022:
glosses: To commit a mutiny.
post office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊst ˌɒfɪs/
ipa: /ˈpoʊst ˌɔfɪs/
ipa: /ˈpoʊst ˌɑfɪs/
Forms: form: post offices
form: postoffice
form: post-office
Senses: examples: text: We were over the border here, into Northern Ireland, and the post office had a very English atmosphere. It was pleasant, too, much as we enjoyed the hospitality of the Republic, to be buying stamps with the Queen's head on them, and to be posting our cards in a red pillar-box, instead of a green one.
ref: 1955 June, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 393:
synonyms: postal outlet
postal station
glosses: A place (building, office, shop, or counter) concerned with the business of delivering letters, post or mail and selling stamps, etc.
examples: text: “The post-office is a wonderful establishment!” said she.—“The regularity and despatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!”
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 16:
glosses: An organization that delivers letters.
synonyms: postman's knock
glosses: A party game involving the exchange of kisses.
Derived terms: post office box
post-office order
post office telephone system
sub-post office
travelling post office
break ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks ground
form: breaking ground
form: broke ground
form: broken ground
form: break land
Senses: examples: text: They broke ground on the new library last month.
text: Try to break a little more land every year; sod corn is good for fodder. Keep turning the land, and always put up more hay than you need.
ref: 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, chapter 2:
text: Just over a year on from Notice-to-Proceed, HS2 Ltd launched the first of ten tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will dig 64 miles of tunnels on Phase 1. Florence broke ground on May 13, and was joined by Cecilia in the week commencing June 29 [...] to bore a pair of ten-mile-long tunnels beneath the Chilterns.
ref: 2021 July 14, Paul Stephen, “A portal into the future”, in RAIL, number 935, page 52:
text: Then there's the archaeology. As mentioned, the new station sits on part of what used to be Metchley Roman Fort, dating back to c.48AD. Those working on the project had to stay in close contact with Historic England to gain consent whenever they broke ground.
ref: 2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University challenge”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 61:
glosses: To begin digging in the earth at the start of a new construction, or, originally, for cultivation.
examples: text: The invention breaks ground in its programming and its structure.
text: Remedy Place, which calls itself “the world’s first social wellness club,” broke ground in the West Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles before opening its first location in New York last year.
ref: 2023 November 6, Eliza Shapiro, “Inside the Private World the Richest New Yorkers Built for Themselves”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To initiate a new venture, or to advance beyond previous achievements.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To lift off the sea bottom when being weighed.
raw_tags: of an anchor
glosses: To separate from the ground on takeoff; to become airborne.
raw_tags: of an aircraft
Related terms: blaze a trail
break new ground
ground-breaking
prefect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːfɛkt/
Forms: form: prefects
form: præfect
form: praefect
Etymology: From Middle English prefect and prefecte, from Old French prefect (Mod. French préfet), from Latin praefectus (“one placed in charge, overseer, director, prefect”), from praeficere (“to place in charge”).
Senses: examples: text: the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, or of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person
text: Or think of a decent young citizen in a toga - perhaps too much dice, you know - coming out here in the train of some prefect, or tax-gatherer, or trader even, to mend his fortunes.
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 196:
text: It seems that in the autumn of 803 he went on leave. His uncle Po Chi-chên, had recently been moved from his post at Hsü-chou and promoted to be Prefect of Hsü-chʻang in Central Honan.
ref: 1951, Arthur Waley, The Life and Times of Po Chü-i, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: An official of Ancient Rome who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.
glosses: The head of a department in France.
glosses: The head of a county in Albania or Romania.
glosses: The head of a prefecture in Japan.
glosses: A school pupil in a position of power over other pupils.
glosses: A commander.
Synonyms: sense: Roman office
word: provost
Related terms: prefecture
paramour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmʊə/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmɔː/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmɔɹ/
Forms: form: paramours
form: paramours
Etymology: From Middle English paramour, paramoure, peramour, paramur, from Old French par amor (“for love's sake”). The modern pronunciation is apparently an Early Modern English readaptation of the French.
Senses: examples: text: to run away with a paramour
text: The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour.
ref: 1848, Thomas Maucalay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second:
text: They should be chaste, not lustful, nor taking paramours:
ref: 1934, Yusuf Ali, transl., The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary, surah 4, verse 25:
text: The action scenes are deafening and punchily staged by director Louis Letterier (The Transporter), though I wish he’d set more time aside to spend with Nobby, his paramour Dawn (Rebel Wilson), their shaven-headed brood, and friends
ref: 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
synonyms: word: leman
word: mistress
word: bit on the side
word: concubine
word: doxy
word: dulcinea
word: goomah
word: leman
word: loon
word: minx
word: mistress
word: number two
word: side bitch
word: side chick
word: side piece
word: side ting
word: sprunk
word: strumpet
word: wench
word: wifelet
glosses: An illicit lover, either male or female.
glosses: The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex).
Derived terms: out-paramour the Turk
paramour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmʊə/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmɔː/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmɔɹ/
Forms: form: paramours
form: paramouring
form: paramoured
form: paramoured
form: paramours
Etymology: From Middle English paramour, paramoure, peramour, paramur, from Old French par amor (“for love's sake”). The modern pronunciation is apparently an Early Modern English readaptation of the French.
Senses: examples: text: The paramouring matron left / A babe and husband both bereft;
ref: 1842, John de Jean Fraser, The Stranger in His Native Place:
text: This meant it could even call in "third party 'paramours'" and tell them to quit their paramouring.
ref: 2011, Joanna L. Grossman, Lawrence M. Friedman, Inside the Castle, Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To go with a paramour; to have an affair.
Derived terms: out-paramour
paramour
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmʊə/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmɔː/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈpæɹ.əˌmɔɹ/
Forms: form: paramours
Etymology: From Middle English paramour, paramoure, peramour, paramur, from Old French par amor (“for love's sake”). The modern pronunciation is apparently an Early Modern English readaptation of the French.
Senses: synonyms: devotedly
passionately
glosses: Passionately, out of sexual desire.
raw_tags: of loving
breakwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkˌwɔːtə/
Forms: form: breakwaters
Etymology: From break + water. Compare Dutch breekwater (“breakwater”). Compare firebreak.
Senses: examples: text: […]there is a channel, some three miles wide between the city and the mainland, and some mile and a half wide between it and the sandy breakwater called the Lido, which divides the lagoon from the Adriatic,
ref: 1853, John Ruskin, “The Throne”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § VI, page 8:
text: But there's a pier or breakwater runs out into the sea just here, which we could defend longer than anything else, like Horatius and his bridge.
ref: 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 259:
text: Using the countless tons of rock from the cliff-face, supplemented by much more from inland, they threw out a huge breakwater, 2,000 ft. long and 80 ft. high, roughly at right angles to the quay, so forming an almost completely sheltered corner. Fifty years later, this massive mole is still standing up to the worst that the Irish Sea can do.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:
text: They sailed around a breakwater that hadn't existed on Peregrine's last trip and tied in at the moorage.
ref: 1992, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: A construction in or around a harbour designed to break the force of the sea and to provide shelter for vessels lying inside.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A low bulkhead across the forecastle deck of a ship which diverts water breaking over the bows into the scuppers.
qualifier: on beaches
glosses: A wooden or concrete barrier, usually perpendicular to the shore, intended to prevent the movement of sand along a coast.
breeches buoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breeches buoys
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ring lifebuoy, fitted with canvas breeches, rigged between ship and shore, for rescuing seamen when a ship is in danger of breaking up; also used for transferring people from ship to ship at sea.
methodology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌmɛθ.əˈdɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌmɛθ.ɪˈdɑ.lɪ.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: methodologies
Etymology: From French méthodologie. By surface analysis, method + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: research methodology
text: In doing so it will describe two metatheories of scientific thought regarding the nature of methodology and epistemology in social science.
ref: 1988, Donald T. Campbell, Methodology and Epistemology for Social Sciences: Selected Papers, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
text: This volume is an addition to the rapidly growing area of interest in research methodology: the study of mixed method and mixed model studies.
ref: 1998, Abbas Tashakkori, Charles Teddlie, Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, SAGE, →ISBN:
text: To explore effective pedagogies to motivate these bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually, this paper draws upon methodologies about translingualism and intercultural doctoral education to dispel the recurrent doubts raised by these bilingual doctoral researchers.
ref: 2023 October 24, Haibo Shen, “JIĀO/JIÀO 教 Chinese bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually: A pedagogy for intercultural doctoral education”, in Linguistics and Education, volume 77, →DOI:
coordinate_terms: epistemology
glosses: The study of methods used in a field.
examples: text: agile methodology
text: For example, an agile methodology should promote the frequent delivery of working systems rather than a single big bang delivery.
ref: 2006, John Hunt, Agile Software Construction, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Design Methodology is understood as a concrete course of action for the design of technical systems that derives its knowledge from design science and cognitive psychology, and from practical experience in different domains.
ref: 2011, Herbert Birkhofer, The Future of Design Methodology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 2:
synonyms: technique
means
procedure
glosses: A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.
glosses: The implementation of such methods etc.
Derived terms: antimethodology
ethnomethodology
methodological
methodologically
methodologist
multimethodology
scientific methodology
Related terms: english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: metamethod
sir-reverence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sir-reverences
Etymology: An alteration of save-reverence or "save your reverence" (seen e.g. in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, act 1 scene 4), an apology for alluding to anything likely to shock one's sense of decency.
Senses: glosses: excrement
sir-reverence
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: An alteration of save-reverence or "save your reverence" (seen e.g. in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, act 1 scene 4), an apology for alluding to anything likely to shock one's sense of decency.
Senses: glosses: Used apologetically when something offensive is mentioned.
Related terms: saving your reverence
retain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈteɪn/
ipa: /ɹəˈteɪn/
ipa: /ɹi-/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: retains
Etymology: Partly:
* from Middle English retein, retain (“possession of a sum of money”) […]; and
* from the verb (see etymology 1).
Senses: synonyms: word: retainal
word: retaining
word: retainment
glosses: An act of holding or keeping something; a possession, a retention.
glosses: Synonym of retinue (“a group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important”).
synonyms: word: retinue
extra: a group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important
rete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːti/
rhymes: -iːti
Forms: form: retes
form: retia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rete.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A network of blood vessels or nerves.
glosses: An anatomical part resembling or including a network.
glosses: A rotating cutaway plate or overlay on an astrolabe or starmap which represents the horizon; used to locate stars and other astronomical features.
Derived terms: rete mirabile
rete testis
brig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: brigs
Etymology: Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
glosses: A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
Derived terms: brig rat
Related terms: hermaphrodite brig
gun-brig
brig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: brigs
form: brigging
form: brigged
form: brigged
Etymology: Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
Related terms: goldbrick
brig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: brigs
Etymology: From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge.
Senses: examples: text: Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, / And win the key-stane of the brig;
ref: 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter:
glosses: Bridge.
Derived terms: Brig o' Turk
brig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: brigs
Etymology: Clipping of brigadier
Senses: glosses: Brigadier.
brigantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌtin/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌtaɪn/
Forms: form: brigantines
Etymology: Attested 1525, for a small rowing vessel, from earlier brigandyns, from Middle French brigandin, probably from Italian brigante (“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”), from Latin brigō (“to fight”).
Senses: examples: text: The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines,
That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe,
And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke,
Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.
Synonyms: english: the synonymy is controversial
translation: the synonymy is controversial
word: hermaphrodite brig
brigantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌtin/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌtaɪn/
Forms: form: brigantines
Etymology: Variant form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brigandine.
larboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːbɔːd/
ipa: /ˈlabəd/
ipa: /ˈlɑɹbɔɹd/
ipa: /ˈlæbɚd/
Forms: form: larboards
Etymology: From Middle English ladde-bord, latebord, most likely referring to the side of the ship on which cargo was loaded. Changed to larboard in the 1500s by association with starboard. (Texts from the 1500s have spellings like lerbord, leereboord, larboord, corresponding to how they spell sterbord, steereboord, starboord.)
Senses: examples: text: […] harder beset
And more endangered than when Argo passed
Through Bosporus betwixt the justling rocks,
Or when Ulysses on the larboard shunned
Charybdis, and by th’ other whirlpool steered.
ref: 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 2:
text: The boat made a sharp half-turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt.
ref: 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Descent into the Maelström:
text: Suddenly the foremost Martian lowered his tube, and discharged a canister of the black gas at the ironclad. It hit her larboard side, and glanced off in an inky jet, that rolled away to seaward, an unfolding torrent of black smoke, from which the ironclad drove clear.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter 17:
text: "It means to turn to larboard."
ref: 2001, Dudley Pope, Ramage & the Rebels:
text: The schooner ploughed on Northerly for a minute longer, before tacking again to lay herself half a mile in advance of the nearer corvette, now up on their larboard quarter.
ref: 2004, Dewey Lambdin, Havoc's Sword:
text: The Java, placing herself under the same canvas as her opponent, stood directly for her; and at 2 h. 10 m. P. M., when within half a mile, the Constitution opened a fire from her larboard guns, and a second broadside was discharged before the Java returned the fire from a position close upon the larboard-bow of her antagonist.
ref: 2012, Paul Harris Nicolas, Historical Record of the Royal Marine Forces:
text: This time an almost defeated sigh was heard from both the larboard and starboard gun crews. Even though the larboard gun crew was up first, the starboard crew had seen what was eventually to be their next target as well.
ref: 2014, Barry D. Boothe, INFIDEL: Don’t Tread On Me:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: port
backboard
leeboard
left
antonyms: starboard
glosses: The left side of a ship, looking from the stern forward to the bow; port side.
zoysia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoysias
Etymology: After Karl von Zois zu Laubach, Austrian botanist.
Senses: examples: text: In areas farther north, zoysias will live but will not spread. Zoysias need bright, hot sunlight.
ref: 1957 August 24, Popular Mechanics, volume 108, number 2, page 220:
glosses: Any of a genus (Zoysia) of creeping perennial grasses of southern Asia and New Zealand having fine wiry leaves and including some suitable for lawn grasses, especially in warm regions.
wikipedia: Karl von Zois
Synonyms: zoysiagrass
zwieback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zwiebacks
Etymology: From German Zwieback, from zwie- (“twi-, two-”) + backen (“to bake”) (i.e. “twice-baked”), a calque of Italian biscotto (but not to be confused with it).
Senses: examples: Ogden Nash, Adventures Of Isabel
She nibbled the zwieback that she always fed off,
And when it was gone, she cut the giant's head off.
glosses: A form of rusk, usually sweetened bread enriched with eggs that is baked and then sliced and toasted until dry and crisp; considered easy to digest and therefore given to the ill and used as a teething food for toddlers.
angina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.d͡ʒɪ.nə/
ipa: /ænˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/
rhymes: -aɪnə
Forms: form: anginas
Etymology: From Latin angina (“quinsy; strangling, choking”), from angō (“to press together, to choke, to hurt (cause pain)”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various kinds of pain, especially pain that is suffocative, spasmodic, and/or acute and severe (fulminant).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various kinds of pain, especially pain that is suffocative, spasmodic, and/or acute and severe (fulminant).
Ellipsis of angina pectoris (“chest pain of cardiac origin”).
qualifier: usually strictly
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inflammatory infection of the throat, especially quinsy; any sore throat, with or without tooth and gum involvement.
Derived terms: anginal
anginalike
angina Ludovici
angina pectoris
angina rheumatica
angina tonsillaris
anginiform
anginoid
anginous
antiangina
antianginal
atenolol
herpes angina
Ludwig's angina
nonanginal
pectoral angina
Plaut-Vincent angina
postanginal
Prinzmetal's angina
Vincent's angina
angina pectoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈændʒɪnə ˈpɛktəˌɹɪs/
ipa: /ænˈdʒaɪnə ˈpɛktəˌɹɪs/
Forms: form: angina
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin angina pectoris (1700s).
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Intermittent crushing chest pain caused by reversible myocardial ischemia.
Synonyms: english: short
translation: short
word: angina
word: pectoral angina
word: stenocardia
Phillips head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phillips heads
form: phillips head
form: phillips-head
form: Phillips-head
Etymology: From Phillips head screwdriver and Phillips head screw, by shortening; eponymous of Henry F. Phillips of Portland, OR, the inventor of the '+' shaped socket for screws.
Senses: glosses: A screwdriver with a '+' shaped head for turning screws so socketed.
glosses: A screw turned by such a screwdriver.
Hypernyms: screwdriver
screw
Coordinate terms: flathead
flathead screw
flathead screwdriver
hex head
Robertson head
square head
TORX head
Related terms: Phillips head screwdriver
Phillips head screw
septicemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: septicemias
form: septicaemia
form: septicæmia
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sēpticaemia, from Latin sēpticus + -aemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: blood poisoning
septic fever
glosses: A disease caused by the presence of pathogenic organisms, especially bacteria, or their toxins, in the bloodstream, characterized by chills and fever.
Derived terms: septicemic
Related terms: sepsis
bacteraemia
pyemia