cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Wolof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɒlɒf/
/ˈwəʊlɒf/
Forms: form: Wolofs
form: Wolof
form: Wollof
form: Woloff
form: Jolof
form: Jollof
form: Djolof
form: Ouolof
form: Olof
form: Volof
Etymology: From Wolof Wolof.
Senses: glosses: An individual member of the Wolof people.
capable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.pə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈkʰeɪ̯.pə.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: more capable
form: most capable
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French capable, from Late Latin capābilis.
Senses: examples: text: She is capable and efficient.
text: He does not need help; he is capable of eating on his own.
text: As everyone knew, he was capable of violence when roused.
text: That fact is not capable of proof.
glosses: Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
examples: text: The place chosen was the cathedral church, capable of about 400 persons.
ref: 1672, Lord Herbert, The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, page 594:
text: He has begun a road capable of a wheel-carriage.
ref: 1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (Works 10.479), page 304:
glosses: Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.
Synonyms: word: capable
Hyponyms: word: airworthy
word: roadworthy
word: seaworthy
word: spaceworthy
Derived terms: word: capability
word: capableness
word: capably
word: dual-capable aircraft
word: handicapable
word: noncapable
word: overcapable
word: supercapable
word: ultracapable
word: uncapable
Related terms: word: healthy
word: skillful
scholar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɒlə/
ipa: /ˈskɑlɚ/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scholars
Etymology: From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school + -ar. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Doublet of escolar.
Senses: synonyms: student
pupil
glosses: A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
synonyms: expert
specialist
glosses: A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
examples: text: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
synonyms: academic
learned person
savant
scholarly person
erudite
glosses: A learned person; a bookman.
glosses: Someone who received a prestigious scholarship.
Derived terms: choral scholar
day-scholar
gentleman and scholar
independent scholar
King's Scholar
nonscholar
organ scholar
Oxford scholar
Queen's Scholar
scholar and gentleman
scholaress
Scholar Green
scholarism
scholarless
scholarlike
scholarly
scholar's gown
scholarship
scholar's mate
visiting scholar
Related terms: scholiast
savant
scholarch
humanities scholar
chill pill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chill pills
Senses: examples: text: Take a chill pill, and calm down.
glosses: An imaginary medicine taken when excessively anxious or upset about a trivial matter.
Related terms: chill
chill out
chillax
relax
calm down
poseur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊˈzʊəɹ/
rhymes: -ʊəɹ
Forms: form: poseurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French poseur.
Senses: examples: text: He pretends he's an artist, but he's just a poseur.
text: She only dresses like that because she thinks she is getting the boys' attention; she's such a poseur.
text: But he was also, what seems almost incompatible with this ferocious truthfulness, excessively self-conscious and morally attitudinising, a thin-skinned poseur.
ref: 1884, Vernon Lee (pseudonym; Violet Paget), The Countess of Albany, published 1910, page 67:
text: I am a poseur and I don't care / I like to make people stare
ref: 1978, Poly Styrene, “I Am a Poseur”, in Germ Free Adolescents, performed by X-Ray Spex:
synonyms: poser
attitudinizer
glosses: One who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
Derived terms: poseurish
Related terms: pretentious
wannabe
fox terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox terriers
Senses: examples: text: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 46–47:
text: After our fox-terrier had killed several of the Stationmaster's chickens and a peace offering had been made by my father in the form of cigars, I found that the way had been made clear for me to visit the junction box, and what a thrill it was.
ref: 1948 March and April, 'Aella', “First Steps in a Railway Career”, in Railway Magazine, page 91:
synonyms: foxie
glosses: Either of two breeds of dog (the smooth fox terrier and the wire fox terrier) bred for fox hunting.
Derived terms: miniature fox terrier
smooth fox terrier
toy fox terrier
wire fox terrier
Reynard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛnə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈɹɛnɑː(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From Old French Renart (Modern renard (“fox”)), influenced by Middle Dutch Reynaerd, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“decision, advice, counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”). Compare German Reinhard, Old High German Reginhart (“strong in counsel”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
examples: text: Reynard, in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared.
ref: 1852 May, “Latitat” [pseudonym], “Anecdotes of Foxes”, in The Sportsman, London: Rogerson & Tuxford, →OCLC, page 347:
glosses: A name in European folklore for the red fox.
Derived terms: Reynardian
Related terms: reynard
Renard
Reinhart
folklore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊk.lɔː/
ipa: /ˈfoʊk.lɔːɹ/
Forms: form: folklores
form: folk-lore
Etymology: From folk + lore, coined by British writer William Thoms in 1846 to replace terms such as "popular antiquities". Thoms imitated German terms such as Volklehre (“people's customs”) and Volksüberlieferung (“popular tradition”). Compare also Old English folclar (“popular instruction; homily”) and West Frisian folkloare (“folklore”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]here is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
ref: 1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, pages 11–12:
text: Why has not England a great mythology? Our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the greater melodies about our country-side have all issued through the pipes of Greece.
ref: 1908–1910, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter 33, in Howards End, New York, N.Y.; London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], published 1910, →OCLC:
text: “Lisieux is a little town in Normandy,” she said. “I was there a few days with your father, one summer, long ago. It’s a country full of old stories, folklore, and traditions; and the people still believe in the Old Scratch pretty literally. […]”
ref: 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC:
text: Crossing the ridge she stood at last upon the brink of Kor-ul-GRYF—the horror place of the folklore of her race.
ref: 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 5, in Tarzan the Terrible, A. C. McClurg:
glosses: The tales, legends, superstitions, and traditions of a particular ethnic population.
examples: text: A selection of longer items of hacker folklore and humor is included in Appendix A, Hacker Folklore.
ref: 1996, Eric S. Raymond, The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd edition, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Foxes boss Rodgers had a smile that illuminated Wembley as he joined Leicester's players in joyous scenes of celebration after the manager and his players had written their name into the club's folklore.
ref: 2021 May 24, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0 – 1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The tales, superstitions etc. of any particular group or community.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The collective of proofs or techniques which are widely known among mathematicians, but have never been formally published.
Derived terms: computerlore
fakelore
folkloric
folklorish
folklorism
folklorist
folkloristic
folkloristically
folkloristics
nonfolklore
non-folklore
pseudofolklore
Related terms: folk
lore
myth
oral tradition
intangible cultural heritage
superstition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uː.pə(ɹ)ˈstɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌs(j)u.pə(ɹ)ˈstɪ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌs(j)u.pɚˈstɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌs(j)u.pɚˈstɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: superstitions
Etymology: From Middle French superstition, from Latin superstitio.
Senses: examples: text: What children we are in trifles! what slight things exercise an influence over us! to how much that our reason would be ashamed to acknowledge! nevertheless does it submit. Our whole nature must change; we must be less susceptible, less dependent on "blind accident," before we can shake off hopes and fears, which are almost superstitions.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 229:
glosses: A belief or beliefs, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that events may be influenced by one's behavior in some magical or mystical way.
glosses: Excessive nicety; overscrupulousness.
Derived terms: sub-superstition
superstitionist
superstitionless
Superstition Mountains
Related terms: superstitious
anatine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈa.nə.tʌɪn/
Forms: form: more anatine
form: most anatine
Etymology: From Latin anatīnus, from anas, anatis (“a duck”) + -inus (“-ine”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Being of the family Anatinae.
glosses: Pertaining to or resembling a duck; ducklike.
Related terms: anserine
cygnine
athletic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: athletics
form: athletick
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.
Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētĭkós)bor.
Latin āthlēticuslbor.
Middle French athletiquebor.
English athletic
Borrowed from Middle French athletique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete.
The Super Mario sense is effectively a reborrowing of Japanese アスレチック (asurechikku, “obstacle course”), originally borrowed from English athletic; this sense was itself originally a clipping of the genericized wasei eigo trademark フィールドアスレチック (fīrudo asurechikku, “Field Athletic”).
Senses: glosses: A muscular, large–boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer.
decillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈsɪl.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: decillions
Etymology: From dec- (“ten”) + -illion.
Senses: examples: text: Google has racked up some 2 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) worth of fines in Russia after years of refusing to restore the accounts of pro-Kremlin and state-run media outlets, the RBC news website reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous source familiar with court rulings against the tech company.
ref: 2024 October 29, “Russia Fines Google $2.5 Decillion Over YouTube Bans – RBC”, in The Moscow Times:
qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10³³.
qualifier: dated British & Australian; long scale; dated British & Australian; long scale
glosses: 10⁶⁰.
Synonyms: sense: a (long scale) quintilliard
word: 1033
sense: a short scale novemdecillion
word: 1060
Derived terms: decillionaire
decillionfold
decillionth
duodecillion
novemdecillion
octodecillion
quattuordecillion
quindecillion
septendecillion
sexdecillion
tredecillion
undecillion
Related terms: sense: short and long scale
word: Previous: nonillion. Next: undecillion.
mutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːtənt/
ipa: /ˈmju(t)n̩(t)/
rhymes: -uːtənt
Forms: form: mutants
Etymology: From Latin mūtāns, present participle of mūtō. By surface analysis, muta- + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, it is possible that there occasionally arises what may be called a mutant of very desirable character from a eugenic point of view.
ref: 1918, Paul Popenoe, Roswell Hill Johnson, Applied Eugenics:
text: There does seem to have been some mutation among plants[…]but in animal life where are the mutants? When or where has a new species originated in this way?
ref: 1922, John Burroughs, The Last Harvest:
text: "How did I ever get such ability?" he wondered. "No one else in our family has it. Am I some sort of a mutant? But if so, how or why? I never heard Dad or Mother mention it."
ref: 1953, E. Everett Evans, Man of Many Minds:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That which has mutated, with one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
examples: text: Your neighbor seems to be a mutant; he’s so cringy!
text: She could really get to like this relationship with Raven, if it weren't for the fact that he's a homicidal mutant.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 364:
glosses: Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of mutex.
synonyms: word: mutex
mutant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːtənt/
ipa: /ˈmju(t)n̩(t)/
rhymes: -uːtənt
Etymology: From Latin mūtāns, present participle of mūtō. By surface analysis, muta- + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: mutant DNA
text: Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles—by accident.
ref: 2018 April 16, Damian Carrington, “Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles”, in The Guardian:
text: Researchers at the SSI found that antibodies from people who recovered from coronavirus were less effective at neutralising the mutant strain, but have not made details of their experiments public.
ref: 2020 November 8, Ian Sample, “UK scientists seek mutant Covid samples from Danish mink farms”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, undergoing (i.e. mutating), or resulting from change or mutation; that has undergone mutation.
examples: text: Your mutant brother just growled at me again!
text: Boris Johnson got an angry response after telling school pupils that the exam results crisis was caused by a “mutant algorithm” and he was glad it had been “sorted out”.
ref: 2020 August 26, Heather Stewart, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson blames ‘mutant algorithm’ for exams fiasco”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
Derived terms: antimutant
epimutant
glycomutant
heptamutant
hexamutant
hypermutant
mutant disco
mutantkind
mutantlike
mutant protein
nonmutant
paramutant
phosphomutant
pseudomutant
sesquimutant
tetramutant
triplomutant
Related terms: mutate
mutation
wtf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of WTF.
vacant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪkənt/
Forms: form: more vacant
form: most vacant
Etymology: From Old French vacant, from Latin vacāns.
Senses: examples: text: a vacant room
text: a vacant consulate
text: Below and to rearward circles the Tweed, silver grey on a dark brown field. Beside its low banks no tourists linger, vacant hangs the quivering bridge; down the narrow lanes no carriages come pressing over a succession of waving hills[…]
ref: 1892, E.K. Pearce, “Tweed Side”, in The Gentleman's magazine, page 171:
synonyms: word: available
word: empty
word: free
word: uninhabited
word: unoccupied
word: beingless
word: desert
word: deserted
word: desolate
word: disinhabited
word: inhabitantless
word: inhabited
word: lifeless
word: peopleless
word: solitary
word: tenantless
word: unhabited
word: uninhabited
word: unoccupied
word: unpeopled
word: unpopulated
word: untenanted
word: vacant
word: wasteful
word: empty
word: empty as a pauper's purse
word: empty as the tomb on Easter
word: clean
word: leer
word: toom
word: unfilled
word: vacant
word: vacuumlike
word: vacuous
word: void
glosses: Not occupied; empty.
examples: text: And Pierre felt that never, never would he be able to embrace Isabel with the mere brotherly embrace; while the thought of any other caress, which took hold of any domesticness, was entirely vacant from his uncontaminated soul, for it had never consciously intruded there.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: Not present; absent.
examples: text: a vacant page
synonyms: empty
featureless
glosses: Blank.
examples: text: a vacant stare
text: a vacant look in her eyes
synonyms: vacuous
glosses: Showing no intelligence or interest.
Derived terms: word: situations vacant
word: vacancy
word: vacant lot
word: vacantly
Related terms: vacate
vacuous
vacuum
vacancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪkənsi/
ipa: /ˈvæɪkənsi/
Forms: form: vacancies
Etymology: From Late Latin vacantia. Doublet of vacance.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
ref: 1965, Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution:
glosses: An unoccupied position or job.
glosses: An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
examples: text: Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy ….
ref: 1993, James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love, Book II
glosses: Empty space.
examples: text: ...—who has not looked back to the past with that passion of hopelessness, which deems that life can never more be what it has been,—with a consciousness that the dearer emotions are exhausted, while in their place have arisen but vacancy and weariness?
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: A blank mind, unoccupied with thought.
glosses: Lack of intelligence or understanding.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
Related terms: word: vacant
word: vacate
vacate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /veɪˈkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈveɪ.keɪt/
ipa: /vəˈkeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: vacates
form: vacating
form: vacated
form: vacated
Etymology: Originally used in the legal sense "to annul", a denominal from Early Modern English vacat (“legal annulment”), a development from Middle English vacat (“absence or cancellation noted in a register”), from Latin vacat, third-person singular present active indicative of vacō (“to be idle; to be unoccupied”, literally “to be empty”).
The primary modern sense "to move out" likely developed under the influence of older borrowing vacant (“unoccupied”), in combination with the Early Modern use of vacate to refer to the termination of official appointments to office, which would leave those position vacant.
Senses: examples: text: I have to vacate my house by midday, as the new owner is moving in.
text: You are hereby ordered to vacate the premises within 14 days.
text: The dynamic tests at Wildenrath use continuous test tracks built on the site of a former Royal Air Force station that was vacated after the end of the Cold War.
ref: 2023 November 29, Philip Haigh, “New Piccadilly Line trains put to the test”, in RAIL, number 997, page 26:
glosses: To move out of a dwelling or other property, either by choice or by eviction.
examples: text: He vacated his coaching position because of the corruption scandal.
glosses: To leave an office or position.
examples: text: The judge vacated the earlier decision when new evidence was presented.
text: On Thursday, the New York court of appeals vacated his conviction after concluding that a trial judge permitted jurors to see and hear too much evidence not directly related to the charges he faced. It also erased his 23-year prison sentence and ordered a retrial.
ref: 2024 April 27, Maya Yang, “Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein hospitalized”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: To have a court judgement set aside; to annul.
examples: text: If you do not immediately vacate the area, we will make you leave with tear gas!
glosses: To leave an area, usually as a result of orders from public authorities in the event of a riot or natural disaster.
Related terms: vacant
vacation
evacuate
diligent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪlɪdʒənt/
Forms: form: more diligent
form: most diligent
form: deligent
Etymology: From Middle English diligent, from Old French diligent, from Latin dīligēns (“careful, attentive, diligent”), present participle of dīligō (“to love, esteem much”, literally “to choose, select”), from dī-, dis- (“apart”) + legō (“to choose”); see elect and select.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists are very diligent in their work.
glosses: Performing with industrious concentration; hard-working and focused.
Derived terms: diligently
diligentness
overdiligent
undiligent
Related terms: diligence
mens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of men (“plural of man”).
examples: text: Mens hearts failing them for feare, and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth; For the powers of heauen shall be shaken.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 21:26:
text: A thousand fantasies
Begin to throng into my memory
Of calling shapes, and beckning shadows dire,
And airy tongues, that syllable mens names
On Sands, and Shoars, and desert Wildernesses.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: Bring candid Eyes unto the peruſal of mens works, and let not Zoiliſm or Detraction blaſt well intended labours.
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “Sect[ion] II”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC, part II, pages 46–47:
glosses: Obsolete form of men's.
glosses: Misspelling of men's.
Related terms: womens
peoples
menz
mens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Clipping of menstruation.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: mens rea
flyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flyers
form: flier
Etymology: From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).
With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.
Senses: glosses: That which flies, as a bird or insect.
glosses: A machine that flies.
synonyms: aviator
aviatrix
glosses: An airplane pilot.
glosses: A person who travels by airplane.
synonyms: circular
leaflet
coordinate_terms: booklet
brochure
catalogue
pamphlet
glosses: A leaflet, often for advertising.
glosses: The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
topics: architecture
glosses: An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
topics: acrobatics
arts
cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
coordinate_terms: base
qualifier: synchronized swimming
glosses: A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A stray shot away from the group on a target.
glosses: A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
glosses: A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
glosses: A leap or jump.
examples: text: It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They were speechless for joy. Also speechless for another reason: after much watching of the market, Aleck had lately, with fear and trembling, made her first flyer on a “margin,” using the remaining twenty thousand of the bequest in this risk.
ref: 1903, Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest:
glosses: A risky investment or other venture.
examples: text: An amusing incident on the first of these journeys was the checking by signal of the flyer about 3 miles out of Paris, with the result that it was overhauled by the 6.25 p.m. semi-fast from Paris to Montargis, to the unconcealed delight of passengers in the latter.
ref: 1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 808-809:
text: The new Waterloo–Exeter times of the S.R. flyer are 2hr 58min down and 1min more up, in less than 3hr, that is to say, in both directions, with the help of four runs timed at over a mile a minute.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 593:
glosses: A fast-moving person or thing.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A false start
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of flying cymbal.
synonyms: word: flying cymbal
Derived terms: Baltimore flyer
blue flyer
blue pigeon flyer
cave flyer
flyerer
frequent flyer
high flyer
high-flyer
microflyer
paper flyer
take a flyer
flyer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flyers
form: flyering
form: flyered
form: flyered
form: flier
Etymology: From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).
With regard to the sense "female kangaroo": because of the high speed at which they move.
Senses: examples: text: Neil McKinnon, the Fringe's head of external affairs, asks: Are you flyering in the right place at the right time? How are you flyering? Good flyering is about more than standing there handing out flyers to as many people as you can.
ref: 2012, Mark Fisher, quoting Neil McKinnon, The Edinburgh Fringe Survival Guide, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: To distribute flyers (leaflets).
glosses: To distribute flyers in (a location) or to (recipients).
flyer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flier
Etymology: From fly + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fly: more fly
flier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From fly + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of fly: more fly
flier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fliers
Etymology: From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Most graphiums have a speckled pattern, and they are fast fliers.
ref: 1993, John Feltwell, The Encyclopedia of Butterflies, page 41:
text: Just a few days before McNamara died, Politico uncovered a particularly graphic example involving The Post: an invitation to lobbyists to shell out $25,000 to $250,000 to sponsor off-the-record, nonconfrontational "salons" where they could mix with what a promotional flier called "the right people" and "alter the debate."
ref: 2009 July 25, Frank Rich, “And That's Not the Way It Is”, in The New York Times:
text: From rail's perspective, the faster journey times that HS2 will bring should encourage fliers to switch to rail.
ref: 2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of flyer (more common in US, except in the sense of "leaflet")
Derived terms: blue flier
cave flier
nonflier
flier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fliers
form: fliering
form: fliered
form: fliered
Etymology: From fly + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flyer.
pectus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pectora
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pectus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: The breast, especially of a bird.
Related terms: pectoral
pectus excavatum
pectus carinatum
forum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːɹəm/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹəm/
ipa: /ˈfoːɹəm/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəm
Forms: form: forums
form: fora
form: 4m
form: 4rum
Etymology: From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero and door.
Senses: glosses: A place for discussion.
glosses: A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium.
glosses: A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience.
examples: text: Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.
glosses: An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.
glosses: A square or marketplace in a Roman town, used for public business and commerce.
Derived terms: choice of forum agreement
choice of forum clause
cyberforum
e-forum
forum clause
forumgoer
foruming
forumite
forum non conveniens
forum selection agreement
forum selection clause
forum shopping
forum weapon
subforum
teleforum
Related terms: word: conforaneous
admin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd'mĭn"
enpr: ədmĭn'
ipa: /ˈædˌmɪn/
ipa: /ədˈmɪn/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖˈmɪn/
Forms: form: admins
form: admin.
form: Admin.
Etymology: Clipping of administrator or administration.
Senses: examples: text: There's a lot of admin involved in the birth of a child.
synonyms: red tape
glosses: Administration, or administrative work.
examples: text: Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted after the announcement, “I will not stop fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stop the Trump admin’s plan for drilling.”
ref: 2020 August 17, Juliet Eilperin, “Trump finalizes drilling plan for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government).
examples: text: Barren dirt plots behind knee-high metal fences indicated admin must have cut the flower budget.
ref: 2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck:
glosses: The administrative or managerial body of a company or other organization.
examples: text: Georgia’s election administrators are fighting bizarre conspiracy theories, ballooning costs and coronavirus-related staffing problems as they prepare for the state’s contentious, nationally watched Senate runoffs next week.
ref: 2020 December 28, Zach Montellaro, “Georgia election admins battle Covid and conspiracies ahead of Senate runoffs”, in Politico:
glosses: An administrator (one who administers affairs).
examples: text: Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).
examples: text: The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.
glosses: A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.
Derived terms: adminhood
adminship
admin vortex
badmin
life admin
modmin
superadmin
wedmin
admin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd'mĭn"
enpr: ədmĭn'
ipa: /ˈædˌmɪn/
ipa: /ədˈmɪn/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɖˈmɪn/
Forms: form: admins
form: admining
form: adminning
form: admined
form: admined
form: adminned
form: adminned
form: admin.
form: Admin.
Etymology: Clipping of administrator or administration.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To serve as an administrator for or of.
numen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuː.mən/
ipa: /ˈnuː.mən/
rhymes: -uːmən
Forms: form: numina
Etymology: From Latin nūmen.
Senses: examples: text: The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]
ref: 1671, Ralph Cudworth, chapter 4, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe:
text: Where were Secretaries James and Foster and Senator Joseph, those dear daft numina who’d mothered over Oedipa’s so temperate youth?
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 76:
text: It was the solid and immovable tabernacle of the living numen whose son he had known, though but briefly and not intimately, in the flesh, and whose message he accepted with all his heart.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
examples: text: […]but never did the places or the persons turn into idols for my irrational worship. It was only the numen in them that I loved, who, as I passed by abstracted, whispered some immortal word in my ear.
ref: 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendent.
Related terms: numinous
numinal
katzenjammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætsənd͡ʒæmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: katzenjammers
form: Katzenjammer
Etymology: Borrowed from German Katzenjammer (“hangover”, literally “the wailing of cats”); a determinative compound formed from Katze (“cat”) + -n- + Jammer (“wailing; lamentation”).
Senses: examples: text: Also, I had found my way into the realm of the mind, and I was intellectually intoxicated. (Alas! as I was to learn at a later period, intellectual intoxication too, has its katzenjammer.)
ref: 1913 August, Jack London, John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC:
text: In those days a still-birth brought as high as ten dollars and after riding the shoot-the-chutes we always left a little stale beer for the morning because the finest thing in the world for Katzenjammer is a glass of stale beer.
ref: 1936, Henry Miller, “Burlesk”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1963, →ISBN, page 229:
glosses: A hangover.
examples: text: Tell you the truth, I've had an intimation from the State Department—unofficially, of course—that whenever a soldier of fortune demands a fleet of gunboats in a case of revolutionary katzenjammer, I should cut the cable, give him all the tobacco he wants, and after he's shot take his clothes, if they fit me, for part payment of my salary.
ref: 1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Two Renegades”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 356:
glosses: Jitters; discord; confusion.
glosses: Depression.
sportsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportsmanships
Etymology: From sportsman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The good attitude/behaviour displayed by players of a game; fairness, determination, magnanimity, courtesy towards opponents, and winning or losing gracefully.
examples: text: James showed good sportsmanship in consoling Shankar after his wicket fell.
glosses: The behaviour exhibited in playing sports, either good or bad.
Related terms: good sport
poor sport
cricket
poor sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poor sports
Senses: glosses: Someone who exhibits ungracious behaviour during a game, whether winning or losing.
glosses: Someone who cannot take a joke.
Synonyms: bad sport
Related terms: sore loser
unsporting
grudge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: grudges
Etymology: A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative.
Akin to Middle High German grogezen (“to howl, wail”), German grocken (“to croak”). Compare also Old Norse krytja (“to murmur”), Old High German grunzen (“to grunt”).
Senses: examples: text: to have, hold, or bear a grudge against someone
text: Bag. And if I do not my good Lord damme me for it
I haue an old grudge at him cole black curre,
ref: 1607, Barnabe Barnes, THE DIVILS CHARTER: A TRAGÆDIE Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the ſixt, ACTVS. 5, SCÆ. 1
roman: He ſhall haue two ſteele bullets ſtrongly charg’d
text: I have never mentioned it to a human creature; I have kept my grudge to myself. I daresay I have been wicked, but my grudge has grown old with me.
ref: 1877 March, Henry James, Jr., chapter XXII, in The American, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published 5 May 1877, →OCLC, page 389:
text: It is towards Saduko that he bears a grudge, for you know, my father, one should never pull a drowning man out of the stream — which is what Saduko did, for had it not been for his treachery, Cetewayo would have sunk beneath the water of Death — especially if it is only to spite a woman who hates him.
ref: 1913, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XV, in Child of Storm:
glosses: Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.
Synonyms: rancor
spite
resentment
Derived terms: bear a grudge
grudgeful
grudgeholder
grudgeless
grudgesome
grudging
grudgy
hold a grudge
Related terms: grudge match
grudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: grudges
form: grudging
form: grudged
form: grudged
Etymology: A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative.
Akin to Middle High German grogezen (“to howl, wail”), German grocken (“to croak”). Compare also Old Norse krytja (“to murmur”), Old High German grunzen (“to grunt”).
Senses: examples: text: Wee shall finde our whole life so necessarily ioyned with sorrow, that we ought rather delight (and take pleasure) in Gods louing chastisements, and admonitions, then any way murmure and grudge at our crosses, or tribulations :
ref: 1608, Henrie Gosson, The Woefull and Lamentable wast and spoile done by a suddaine Fire in S. Edmonds-bury in Suffolke, on Munday the tenth of Aprill. 1608., reprinted by F. Pawsey, Old Butter Market, Ipswich, 1845, page 6
text: If we of the central land were to grudge you what is beneficial, and not to compassionate your wants, then wherewithal could you foreigners manage to exist?
ref: 1841, Edmund Burke, The Annual Register, Rivingtons, page 430:
text: Of course, his interest in the war and in the regiment was unbounded; he did not take to drill with especial readiness, but he was insatiable of it, and grudged every moment of relaxation.
ref: 1869, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Fields, Osgood, & Co., page 62:
text: Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: I've never seen such people for borrowing and lending; there was dough changing hands in all directions, and nobody grudged anyone.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter III, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
examples: text: And the pharises, and scribes grudged sainge: He receaveth to his company synners [...].
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:
glosses: To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
examples: text: Perish they / That grudge one thought against your majesty!
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 III, scene i]:
glosses: To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.
Derived terms: begrudge
grudgement
grudger
grudgery
grudgingly
misgrudge
grudge match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grudge matches
Senses: glosses: a bout between two teams or competitors who have a history of competitiveness between them
Coordinate terms: rematch
swiftly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪftli/
Forms: form: swiftlier
form: more swiftly
form: swiftliest
form: most swiftly
Etymology: From Middle English swiftly, swyftely, swiftliche, from Old English swiftlīċe (“swiftly”), equivalent to swift + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Piper cut short these piracies by swiftly removing his spoon.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 21:
text: The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.
ref: 1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 594:
text: Strategic sites in even the remotest regions of the kingdom were swiftly fortified using forced labour.
ref: 1999, Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell, “1066[:] The Normans Begin to Erect Castles”, in dictionary of english down through the ages[:] words & phrases born out of historical events great & small, 2005 edition, London: Kyle Cathie Limited, →ISBN, page 17:
text: [T]he early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
glosses: In a swift manner; quickly; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
promotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈməʊʃn̩/
ipa: /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈmoʃən/
rhymes: -əʊʃən
Forms: form: promotions
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Old French promocion, from Late Latin promotio, from Latin promoveo (“I move forward”). Equivalent to promote + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: I'll have to give myself a promotion!
antonyms: demotion
glosses: An advancement in rank or position.
examples: the promotion of the idea of global warming in schools
glosses: Dissemination of information in order to increase its popularity.
examples: text: The price cut is serving as a promotion of the manufacturer's new beverage varieties.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: An event intended to increase the reach or image of a product or brand.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank).
examples: text: By simple promotion and remotion, assisted by some flexure and extension, the distal spines of each would reach and scratch the substratum and, on remotion, sweep coarse particles posteriorly and dorsally.
ref: 1995, Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology, →ISBN, page 63:
text: In other arthropods, promotion-remotion of the leg is accomplished at other joints. For example, in spiders promotion-remotion occurs at the coxa-trochanter joint, insects utilize the body-coxa joint, and […]
ref: 2008, John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, volume 4, →ISBN, page 3326:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.)
Derived terms: antipromotion
copromotion
cross-promotion
mispromotion
nonpromotion
numeric promotion
overpromotion
phytopromotion
postpromotion
prepromotion
promotional
repromotion
self-promotion
social promotion
jealousy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛləsi/
Forms: form: jealousies
Etymology: From Middle English jalousie, from Old French jalousie, equivalent to jealous + -y. Doublet of jalousie. Related also to zeal, zealous.
Senses: examples: text: Jealousy was, however, aroused among the English nobility at the favouritism shown the Dutch newcomer.
ref: 1907, Charles J. Archard, The Portland Peerage Romance:
text: […]the jealousy of his foes of each other's share in the booty[…].
ref: 1891, Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne, R. W. Phipps, transl., Memoirs Of Napoleon Bonaparte:
text: He knew what it was like to feel jealousy over the possessions of others... he'd never thought he could make someone feel the same. He didn't want to make someone feel the same. [...] "I want one for myself." Quentin's smile faded.
ref: 2010 September 10, Scott Sigler, THE STARTER: Space Opera Adventure, Empty Set Entertainment, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: envy
glosses: A state of being jealous; a jealous attitude.
examples: text: For euer I supoosed that he had ben to yonge and to tendyr to take vpon hym these aduentures / And therfore by my wille I wold haue dryuen hym aweye for Ialousy that I had of his lyf / for it maye be no yong knyghtes dede that shal enchyeue this aduenture to the ende
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “vij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:
coordinate_terms: envy
glosses: A state of being jealous; a jealous attitude.
A close concern for someone or something, solicitude, vigilance.
Synonyms: jealousness
Derived terms: interjealousy
Related terms: word: jealous
word: jealously
word: jalousie
word: zealous