cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: creme
form: creyme
Etymology: From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream).
Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
Senses: glosses: Cream-coloured; having a yellowish white colour.
Synonyms: crème
creme
cream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: creams
form: creaming
form: creamed
form: creamed
form: creme
form: creyme
Etymology: From Middle English creime, creme, from Old French creme, cresme, blend of Late Latin chrisma (“ointment”) (from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma, “unguent”)), and Late Latin crāmum (“cream”), from Gaulish *crama (compare Welsh cramen (“scab, skin”), Breton crammen), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krama- (compare Middle Irish screm (“surface, skin”), Dutch schram (“abrasion”), Lithuanian kramas (“scurf”)). Doublet of crema and crème. Displaced native Old English rēam (“cream”) (> modern ream).
Figurative sense of "most excellent element or part" appears from 1581. Verb meaning "to beat, thrash, wreck" is 1929, U.S. colloquial. The U.S. standard of identity is from 21 CFR 131.3(a).
Senses: examples: Cream the vegetables with the olive oil, flour, salt and water mixture.
glosses: To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
glosses: To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
examples: text: We creamed the opposing team!
glosses: To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
examples: text: Danny Zuko: You are supreme / The chicks’ll cream / For grease lightning.
ref: 1971, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, “Grease Lightnin’”, in Grease:
glosses: To ejaculate (used of either gender).
glosses: To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
glosses: To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
glosses: To take off the best or choicest part of.
examples: text: Please cream these two coffees and leave the others black.
text: creaming the fragrant cups
ref: 1871, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks:
text: A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain; a close approximation to it will answer, and much traveling is done in a well-enough fashion by its help, but we do not welcome it and applaud it and rejoice in it as we do when the right one blazes out on us. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt: it tingles exquisitely around through the walls of the mouth and tastes as tart and crisp and good as the autumn-butter that creams the sumac-berry.
ref: 1906, Mark Twain, “William Dean Howells”, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 113, number 674, page 221:
glosses: To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
glosses: To gather or form cream.
Derived terms: creamer
cream in one's jeans
cream off
cream one's jeans
cream the crop
cream up
Related terms: crème brûlée
crème caramel
crème de cacao
crème de la crème
crème de menthe
crème fraîche
espresso crème
ramekin
ras malai
ream
vichyssoise
cyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪˌæn/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ən/
ipa: /saɪˈæn/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ən/
ipa: /sʌɪˈæn/
ipa: [ˈsəjan]
ipa: [səjˈan]
rhymes: -aɪən
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: cyans
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), a shade of blue variously described as similar to cornflower, copper carbonate, and lapis lazuli, Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀷𐀜 (ku-wa-no), possibly from Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “a precious stone; copper; shade of blue”). Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan.
Senses: glosses: An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.
Derived terms: cyanean
cyanic
cyanin
cyanine
cyanise
cyanish
œnocyan
oocyan
cyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪˌæn/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ən/
ipa: /saɪˈæn/
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.ən/
ipa: /sʌɪˈæn/
ipa: [ˈsəjan]
ipa: [səjˈan]
rhymes: -aɪən
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: more cyan
form: most cyan
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos), a shade of blue variously described as similar to cornflower, copper carbonate, and lapis lazuli, Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀷𐀜 (ku-wa-no), possibly from Hittite [script needed] (kuwannan-, “a precious stone; copper; shade of blue”). Compare modern Greek κυανός (kyanós), also used for cyan.
Senses: glosses: Of the colour cyan.
Derived terms: haemocyanin
hemocyanin
Related terms: cyan-
cyano-
bombard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒmˌbɑːd/
ipa: /ˈbɑmˌbɑɹd/
ipa: /ˈbɒmˌbɑːd/
ipa: /ˈbɑmˌbɑɹd/
Forms: form: bombards
Etymology: From Middle English bombard, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”).
The modern pronunciation is from modern French bombarde.
Senses: examples: text: They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.
ref: 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.
glosses: A bassoon-like medieval musical instrument.
examples: text: […] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: A large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
examples: text: With mines and parallels contracts the space;
Then bids the battering floats his labors crown
And pour their bombard on the shuddering town
ref: 1807, Joel Barlow, The Columbiad:
glosses: A bombardment.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bombardon.
Derived terms: bombardman
bombard phrase
bombard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɒmˈbɑːd/
ipa: /ˌbɑmˈbɑɹd/
ipa: /bəmˈbɑɹd/
ipa: /ˌbɒmˈbɑːd/
ipa: /ˌbɑmˈbɑɹd/
ipa: /bəmˈbɑɹd/
Forms: form: bombards
form: bombarding
form: bombarded
form: bombarded
Etymology: From French bombarder, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard”).
Senses: examples: text: The enemy's stronghold was bombarded for 3 hours straight.
glosses: To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.
examples: text: My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!
ref: 1954 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 488:
glosses: To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
examples: text: I was bombarded with WhatsApp messages after appearing on the news.
text: Please don't bombard me with questions right now, I'll answer them at the end of the statement.
text: At this point she remembered, sitting there, surrounded by heavy breathing, the constellations flashing, cosmic rays bombarding marvelsome complex coils on the lecturer's dials, that she had forgotten to turn out the gas under the beets.
ref: 1945, Morton Thompson, Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player, page 88:
text: We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.
ref: 2002 December 11, Nick Bradshaw, “One day in September”, in Time Out, page 71:
glosses: To continuously send or direct (at someone)
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.
Synonyms: bomb
Derived terms: bombardable
bombardier
bombardment
microbombarded
unbombarded
pigment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡ.mənt/
Forms: form: pigments
Etymology: From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“I paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
Senses: examples: text: Chlorophyll is the pigment responsible for most plants' green colouring.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any color in plant or animal cells.
examples: text: Umber is a pigment made from clay containing iron and manganese oxide.
glosses: A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
examples: text: Oswald, broach the oldest wine-cask; place the best mead, the richest morat, the most sparkling cyder, the most odoriferous pigment, upon the board; […]
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter III, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
Derived terms: accessory pigment
azo pigment
bile pigment
biopigment
copigment
cytopigment
depigment
fugitive pigment
interpigment
lake pigment
lipopigment
nonpigment
phaeopigment
pheopigment
photopigment
phytopigment
pigmental
pigmentary
pigmentate
pigment dispersion syndrome
pigmentize
pigmentless
pigmentlike
pigmentocracy
pigmentous
pigmenturia
respiratory pigment
pigment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡ.mənt/
Forms: form: pigments
form: pigmenting
form: pigmented
form: pigmented
Etymology: From Middle English pigment, from Latin pigmentum (“pigment”), itself from pingō (“I paint”) + -mentum; variants of this word may have been known in Old English (e.g. 12th century pyhmentum). Doublet of pimiento, pimento, and piment.
Senses: glosses: To add color or pigment to something.
Derived terms: pigmentation
repigment
homonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒmənɪm/
ipa: /ˈhɑmənɪm/
rhymes: -ɒmənɪm
Forms: form: homonyms
Etymology: From Latin homōnymum, from Ancient Greek ὁμώνυμον (homṓnumon), nominalized from the neuter of ὁμώνῠμος (homṓnŭmos, “homonymous”). By surface analysis, homo- + -onym.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
hypernyms: word
term
word
term
glosses: A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.
coordinate_terms: polyseme
qualifier: strictly
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
hypernyms: word
term
glosses: A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
A name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another name that belongs to a different taxon.
Derived terms: hemihomonym
homonymic
homonymophobia
homonymous
homonymphobia
homonymy
Related terms: word: identical
word: same
word: homophone & homograph
english: category
translation: category
word: homophone
word: different
word: homophone & heterograph
word: alternative spelling
word: synonym
word: heterophone & heterograph
english: category
translation: category
word: heteronym
word: heterophone & homograph
word: alternative pronunciation
word: distinct
dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: die
homophone: Di
homophone: Dai
homophone: dy
Forms: form: dyes
form: die
Etymology: From Middle English deye, from Old English dēah, dēag (“color, hue, dye”), from Proto-West Germanic *daugu (“colour, shade”), from *daugan (“to conceal, be dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust, camouflage”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old High German tougan (“dark, secretive”), tougal (“dark, hidden, covert”), Old English dēagol, dīegle (“dark, hidden, secret”), Old English dohs, dox (“dusky, dark”). See dusk.
Senses: glosses: A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
glosses: Any hue or color.
Synonyms: colourant
tincture
Hyponyms: animal dye
azo dye
hair dye
indirect dye
lac dye
leuco dye
mordant dye
triarylmethane dye
vat dye
vegetable dye
xanthene dye
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyehouse
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dye-house
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dye job
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyeless
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyelike
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyeline
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dye pack
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyepot
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyery
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyestuff
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dye-sub
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dye tracer
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyewater
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyewood
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyework
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: dyeworks
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: of the deepest dye
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: purple dye murex
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: tie and dye
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (noun)
word: tie-dye
Related terms: diolistic
ink
dye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: die
homophone: Di
homophone: Dai
homophone: dy
Forms: form: dyes
form: dyeing
form: dying
form: dyed
form: dyed
Etymology: Fom Middle English deien, from Old English dēagian, from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?
text: But tho’ Black cannot be Dyed to the laſt perfection either in Wool or Hair without Woad, the Hatters have quite left off their accuſtomed uſe of it in the Dying of Hatts, and believe at the ſame time, that too ſtrong a Black makes the Hairs or Nap fall off, which is very neceſſary for the ſale and beauty of the Hatts, though this rather proceeds from the hand of the Workman that dreſſes them than in Dying them, or the Hairs not being ſufficiently fulled, or ſtrongly enough united to the felt; […]
ref: 1705, anonymous translator, “Part. XI. Of the Dying of Thread, and Cloth made of Hemp, Flax or Cotten, with whatever is necessary to the perfection of Silk Dying, and the making and Dying of Hats.”, in The Whole Art of Dying. […], London: […] William Pearson, and sold by J[ohn] Nutt, […], →OCLC, section CCXLIX, page 300:
text: If indeed sharks were inclined to eat people, the world's oceans would be dyed crimson with the blood of millions.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 164:
text: I found this 4-500 Mesh Nylon Strainer Flour Sieve handy and budget-friendly, especially for those who dye often and want to keep solids out of their pots effortlessly.
ref: 2025 August 12, Evelyn, “Creative Guide to Dyeing Clothes Naturally with Fruits and Vegetables at Home”, in DHgate.com, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2025:
glosses: To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
Synonyms: sense: to color
word: tint
sense: to color
word: stain
sense: to color
word: shade
sense: to color
word: streak
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: bedye
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: counterdye
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: deep-dye
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dyability
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dyeability
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dyeable
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dyebath
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dyed
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dyed-in-the-wool
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dyeing
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dye in the wool
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dyer
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: dying
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: overdye
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: predye
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: redye
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: undye
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: undyeable
sense: Terms derived from "dye" (verb)
word: undyed
dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: die
homophone: Di
homophone: Dai
homophone: dy
Forms: form: dyce
Senses: examples: text: The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 72:
text: If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 46:
glosses: Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”).
finale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɨˈnɑːli/
ipa: /fɨˈnɑːleɪ/
ipa: /fɨˈnɑli/
ipa: /fɨˈnæli/
note: Indic
ipa: /fiˈnaːleː/
rhymes: -ɑːli
rhymes: -ɑːleɪ
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: finales
Etymology: From Italian finale (“ending”), from Late Latin fīnālis, from Latin fīnis (“end; boundary, limit”). Doublet of final.
Senses: examples: text: Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The grand end of something, especially of a show or piece of music.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: The chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works.
Derived terms: grand finale
nonfinale
season finale
series finale
maul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
homophone: mall stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: moll (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: mauls
Etymology: From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus.
Senses: synonyms: club
mace
glosses: A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier.
Hyponyms: sense: long-handled hammer
word: post maul
sense: long-handled hammer
word: spike maul
sense: long-handled hammer
word: splitting maul
topics: rugby
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: rolling maul
Derived terms: driving maul
maul oak
Related terms: ruck
scrum
maul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
homophone: mall stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: moll (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: mauls
form: mauling
form: mauled
form: mauled
Etymology: From Middle English malle (“mace, maul”), from Anglo-Norman mail, from Old French mail, from Latin malleus (“hammer”). Doublet of malleus.
Senses: synonyms: abuse
mishandle
misuse
glosses: To handle someone or something in a rough way.
examples: text: The bear mauled him in a terrible way.
text: The embattled heavy cruiser is not in immediate danger of sinking, but is being badly mauled.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 26:02 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
text: A tiger handler who had acquired some of his tigers from the zoo owner known as Joe Exotic was fatally mauled on Saturday by a tiger at his family-run zoo in southeastern Oklahoma, the authorities said.
ref: 2025 September 22, Michael Levenson, “Tiger Handler Linked to Joe Exotic Is Fatally Mauled by Tiger”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: harm
word: wound
word: abuse
word: annoy
word: bewound
word: damage
word: damnify
word: dere
word: do damage to
word: do for
word: do ill
word: do violence to
word: forwork
word: grieve
word: harm
word: harrow
word: hurt
word: injure
word: maul
word: misdo
word: put someone in hospital
word: scaith
word: scathe
word: vulnerate
word: wet
word: wound
glosses: To savage; to cause serious physical wounds.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: The latest film by the Cohen brothers was mauled by the press, and was a box-office flop to boot.
synonyms: word: castigate
word: excoriate
word: animadvert
word: admonish
word: bash
word: bawl out
word: blast
word: derogate
word: berate
word: berisp
word: castigate
word: censure
word: chastise
word: chew out
word: chide
word: condemn
word: criticize
word: denounce
word: denunciate
word: drag
word: dress down
word: eat someone alive
word: excoriate
word: find fault
word: fulminate
word: get down
word: get up
word: give somebody a piece of one's mind
word: give somebody what-for
word: inveigh
word: lace into
word: lambaste
word: lay into
word: lecture
word: light into
word: objurgate
word: pooh-pooh
word: put someone on blast
word: rate
word: read somebody the riot act
word: rebuke
word: reprehend
word: reprimand
word: reproach
word: reprove
word: rip into
word: rubbish
word: savage
word: scold
word: slam
word: tear into
word: tell off
word: threap
word: tick off
word: tosh
word: keelhaul
word: upbraid
word: vilify
word: vituperate
glosses: To criticise harshly.
glosses: To beat with a maul.
examples: text: 28 year old big, burly, bearded grizzly looking for other bears to maul me! Facial/body hair, brains a plus!
ref: 1990 January 21, “Fuck Buddy/ies wanted”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 27, Personals, page 13:
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: To play rough, to fondle intensively.
Derived terms: bemaul
maulee
mauler
unmauled
Related terms: mall
mallet
skim milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skim milks
form: skimmilk
form: skimmed milk
Senses: examples: text: We like to drink skim milk instead so as to consume fewer calories.
glosses: Non-fat milk; milk that has had the cream removed.
Synonyms: non-fat milk
Coordinate terms: 2% milk
full cream milk
powdered milk
semi-skimmed milk
soy milk
whole milk
stock car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock cars
form: stockcar
Senses: examples: text: Stock cars can't have all the modifications of other racing cars.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A racing car, such as those sanctioned by NASCAR and ARCA, nominally or notionally based on one of the regular production models available for purchase by the public.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: livestock car
glosses: A railway car for carrying livestock.
kerosene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛɹəsiːn/
Forms: form: kerosenes
form: kerosine
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + -ene; a name trademarked in 1854.
Senses: examples: text: The kerosene lasted all winter, so the furnace kept us always warm.
text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
synonyms: paraffin
;
kero
lamp oil
coal oil
glosses: A thin, often colorless or blue or straw-colored petroleum-based fuel, heavier than gasoline/petrol or naphtha but lighter than diesel, used primarily as jet fuel but also for heating and lighting in some remote or impoverished areas.
wikipedia: Moscow
Derived terms: biokerosene
kerolox
kerosenelike
kerosene-like
[Term?]
kerosenish
power kerosene
candidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪdət/
ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪ.dɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.ɪ.dɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.ɪ.deɪt/
Forms: form: candidates
Etymology: From Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”, noun), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -ātus, -āta, -ātum (participial adjective-forming suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum. By surface analysis, candid + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Smith announced he was the party's candidate for the next election.
text: All candidates who miss the deadline or make a spelling mistake in their applications are automatically rejected.
text: Artiles, a Republican operative with a reputation for a foul mouth and sharp elbows, is accused of financing a sham candidate whose candidacy was intended to siphon votes from a legitimate Democratic candidate in a state Senate race in South Florida’s 37th District. The candidate has the same last name as then-Democratic incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez but did not actively campaign for the seat and has since admitted being recruited as a spoiler.
ref: 2021 March 18, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Audrey Ash, “Former Florida state senator charged in spoiler candidate scheme”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who seeks to be elected or appointed to a position or privilege.
glosses: A person who is thought likely or worthy to gain a position or privilege.
examples: text: Candidates must remain silent for the entirety of the exam.
glosses: A participant in an examination.
examples: text: After being presented with various suitors, she decided none of the candidates were the kind of man she was looking for.
text: In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
ref: 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2013, page 184:
glosses: Someone or something likely or suited to undergo or be chosen for a purpose.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
Derived terms: candidacy
candidate key
candidateship
candidature
captive candidate
darkhorse candidate
excandidate
Klandidate
Manchurian candidate
multicandidate
noncandidate
nuisance candidate
paper candidate
precandidate
private candidate
release candidate
Related terms: candela
candelabrum
candid
candle
candlepower
candlestick
chandler
chandlery
candidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪdət/
ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪ.dɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.ɪ.dɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.ɪ.deɪt/
Forms: form: candidates
form: candidating
form: candidated
form: candidated
Etymology: From Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”, noun), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -ātus, -āta, -ātum (participial adjective-forming suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum. By surface analysis, candid + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.
ref: 1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196:
text: Furthermore, the fact that a school principal has only been in a large school six weeks does not prevent his candidating for principal of a larger school with larger salary.
ref: 1917, William Harvey Allen, Universal Training for Citizenship and Public Service, page 154:
text: The report Shaping the Future also gives a set of learning outcomes for those people candidating for ordained ministry. These were also agreed by the Methodist Conference.
ref: 2014, Susan H. Jones, Listening for God's Call, SCM Press, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: To stand as a candidate for an office, typically for a religious one.
examples: text: Performance comparison of solar energy conversion candidated for SPS. (From NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston 1977.)
ref: 1982, Brian O'Leary, Space industrialization, CRC:
text: In this program if a processor becomes idle, then all feasible activities requiring that kind of processor will be candidated for scheduling. If the number of candidates is more than the number of available processors, activities with higher priority ...
ref: 1989, Institution of Electrical Engineers. Electronics Division, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, 5-8 September 1989, Peter Peregrinus Limited, →ISBN:
text: Evaluate the maintenance costs of the software system in order to candidate it for evolution AA14. Evaluate the hardware platform used and the possibility of migrating the software system toward more economical platforms ...
ref: 2005, Khaled M. Khan, Yan Zhang, Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 308:
qualifier: chiefly jargon and non-native speakers' English
glosses: To make or name (something) as a candidate (to be chosen or deemed suitable for a purpose).
candidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪdət/
ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪ.deɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.dɪ.dɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.ɪ.dɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæn.ɪ.deɪt/
Forms: form: candidates
form: candidating
form: candidated
form: candidated
Etymology: From Latin candidātus (“dressed in white”, adjective); see Etymology 1 for further derivations. By surface analysis, candid + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To make white; to whitewash.
martyr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɐːtə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈmɐːtə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈmɐːɾə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈmɑːtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈmɑɹ.ɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: martyrs
Etymology: From Middle English martir, from Old English martyr, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Senses: examples: text: Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
text: Fr. Felipe Císcar Puig was a Valencian priest who is also also considered a martyr of the sacramental seal because he was martyred after keeping confessions secret during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War.
ref: 2017 December 16, “These priests were martyred for refusing to violate the seal of confession”, in Catholic News Agency:
glosses: One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
glosses: One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
examples: text: Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris a martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it.
text: He'd been a martyr to asthma all his life.
ref: 1937, AJ Cronin, The Citadel:
text: J.Q. Murder wears sandpaper suits
Broken glass in pocket, barbed wire boots
Not because he's mean, but because he's a martyr
He makes Jackie Collins look like Jean-Paul Sartre
ref: 1982, J. G. Thirlwell, “J.Q. Murder”, in Ache, performed by You've Got Foetus on Your Breath:
glosses: One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
raw_tags: with a prepositional phrase of cause
examples: text: You have a great life! Stop trying to play the martyr!
glosses: Someone who exaggerate their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
Hyponyms: word: shaheed
english: witness; martyr in Arabic, carrying the same etymological root of
translation: witness; martyr in Arabic, carrying the same etymological root of
word: shahid
Derived terms: antimartyr
cybermartyr
great martyr
hieromartyr
martyr complex
martyrdom
martyress
martyrial
martyrisation
martyrish
martyrism
martyrizate
martyrization
martyrize
martyrizer
martyrless
martyrlike
martyrly
martyrolatry
martyrship
martyrsome
megalomartyr
metric martyr
pro-martyr
protomartyr
pseudomartyr
Related terms: martyrion
martyrium
martyrologe
martyrologue
martyrology
martyry
martyr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɐːtə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈmɐːtə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈmɐːɾə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ˈmɑːtə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈmɑɹ.ɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: martyrs
form: martyring
form: martyred
form: martyred
Etymology: From Middle English martir, from Old English martyr, itself a borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin martyr, from Ancient Greek μάρτυρ (mártur), later form of μάρτυς (mártus, “witness”).
Senses: examples: text: Fr. Felipe Císcar Puig was a Valencian priest who is also also considered a martyr of the sacramental seal because he was martyred after keeping confessions secret during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War.
ref: 2017 December 16, “These priests were martyred for refusing to violate the seal of confession”, in Catholic News Agency:
glosses: To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
examples: text: Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.
glosses: To persecute.
examples: text: Hark, wretches, how I mean to martyr you.
This one hand yet is left to cut your throats,
Whiles that Lavinia ’tween her stumps doth hold
The basin that receives your guilty blood.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: […]The louely Amoret, whoſe gentle hart
Thou martyreſt with ſorow and with ſmart,[…]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 2, page 94:
glosses: To torment; to torture.
Synonyms: martyrize
Derived terms: martyrer
unmartyred
fuchsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fyū'shə
ipa: /ˈfjuːʃə/
enpr: fū'ksēə
ipa: /ˈfuːksi.ə/
rhymes: -uːʃə
Forms: form: fuchsias
Etymology: From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
Senses: examples: text: Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves
ref: 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 281)
glosses: A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers.
examples: text: She tilted a hand topped with long rectangular nails in furious fuchsia towards her cheeks and fluttered the fingers, fanning.
ref: 2006, Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Book of Not, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 258:
synonyms: magenta
glosses: A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.
Derived terms: California fuchsia
fuchsialike
fuchsine
native fuchsia
fuchsia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fyū'shə
ipa: /ˈfjuːʃə/
enpr: fū'ksēə
ipa: /ˈfuːksi.ə/
rhymes: -uːʃə
Etymology: From New Latin, after the genus Fuchsia, itself named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566).
Senses: glosses: Having a purplish-red colour.
update
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭp'dāt
enpr: ŭp-dāt'
ipa: /ˈʌp.deɪt/
ipa: /ʌpˈdeɪt/
enpr: ŭp-dāt'
ipa: /ʌpˈdeɪt/
ipa: /ˈʌp.deɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: updates
Etymology: From up- + date. Earliest usages from 1940s (see Citations).
Senses: examples: text: He gave me an update on the situation in New York.
glosses: An advisement providing more up-to-date information than currently known.
examples: text: I just made an update to the Wikipedia article on guerrillas.
glosses: A change in information, a modification of existing or known data.
examples: text: I just made an update to my blog about my trip to Rome.
glosses: An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information.
examples: text: Our database receives an update every morning at 3 AM.
text: I have a couple of updates to install on your laptop.
glosses: A modification of something to a more recent, up-to-date version; (in software) a minor upgrade.
examples: text: You should try the update: it rocks.
text: The mid-season update for MW3 is here, introducing quite a bit of content across all three of CoD’s modes.
ref: 2024 March 6, John Esposito, “MW3 Zombies Season 2 Reloaded patch notes: New Schematics, Containment Levels, more”, in Dexerto:
glosses: A version of something which is newer than other versions.
Derived terms: core update
forced update
update
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭp'dāt
enpr: ŭp-dāt'
ipa: /ˈʌp.deɪt/
ipa: /ʌpˈdeɪt/
enpr: ŭp-dāt'
ipa: /ʌpˈdeɪt/
ipa: /ˈʌp.deɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: updates
form: updating
form: updated
form: updated
Etymology: From up- + date. Earliest usages from 1940s (see Citations).
Senses: examples: text: I need to update my records to take account of the most recent transaction.
glosses: To bring (a thing) up to date.
examples: text: Update me on what happened while I was away.
glosses: To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments.
Derived terms: update one's priors
homophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒməfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈhɑməfoʊn/
ipa: /ˈhɔməfəʉn/
note: Indic
ipa: /homofon/
ipa: [ˈhɒ(ː)məfoːn]
Forms: form: homophones
Etymology: From French homophone; equivalent to homo- (“same”) + -phone (“sound”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
hypernyms: homonym
;
soundalike
coordinate_terms: homograph
;
oronym#Etymology_2
holorhyme
glosses: A word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or meaning or origin.
glosses: A letter or group of letters which are pronounced the same as another letter or group of letters.
Derived terms: homophonic
pseudohomophone
Related terms: word: homophonous
word: homophony
word: near-homophone
word: identical
word: same
word: homophone & homograph
word: different
word: homophone & heterograph
word: alternative spelling
word: homonym
word: synonym
word: heterophone & heterograph
english: category
translation: category
word: heteronym
word: heterophone & homograph
word: alternative pronunciation
word: distinct
bergamot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝɡəˌmɑt/
ipa: /ˈbɜːɡəˌmɒt/
Forms: form: bergamots
Etymology: From French bergamote, from Italian bergamotta, from Ottoman Turkish بك آرمودی (beg armudu, literally “a lord's pear”), denoting a fattish kind of pear. The European word developed the sense of a fruit of a certain citrus cultivar in the late 17th century.
Senses: glosses: A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume.
glosses: The fruit from the bergamot tree.
glosses: The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
examples: text: The better hand […] gives the nose its bergamot.
ref: 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
glosses: Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent:
Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more commonly known as bergamot mint
glosses: Either of two plants of the mint family noted for their bergamot-like scent:
Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.
examples: text: One of my Neighbours has a Bergamot Pear Tree, that was brought from England in a Box , about the Year 1643
ref: a. 1724, Philosophical Transactions:
glosses: A variety of pear.
Derived terms: bergamot mint
bergamottin
wild bergamot
Related terms: english: tea flavored with bergamot
translation: tea flavored with bergamot
word: Earl Grey
bergamot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝɡəˌmɑt/
ipa: /ˈbɜːɡəˌmɒt/
Forms: form: bergamots
Etymology: From Bergamo.
Senses: glosses: A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.
handcuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: 1775, from hand + cuff (“end of shirtsleeve”).
Possibly influenced by Old English handcops, from hand + cops (“fetter, chains”), but due to lack of continuity (centuries between Old English and modern term), generally analyzed as a re-invention.
Senses: examples: text: It was the sergeant who had spoken to me, and he was now looking round at the company, with his handcuffs invitingly extended towards them in his right hand, and his left on my shoulder.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 61:
text: Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes. Relatives watch as prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons shuffle past.
ref: 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: shackles#Noun
straitjacket#Noun
glosses: A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's wrists, and connected by a chain or hinge.
examples: text: They complained that their rules of engagement were handcuffs that guaranteed counterproductivity.
coordinate_terms: shackles#Noun
straitjacket#Noun
glosses: Any abstract constraint, such as rules, regulations, or lack of resources.
Synonyms: manacles
shackles
Derived terms: Chinese handcuffs
digital handcuffs
golden handcuffs
velvet handcuffs
Related terms: handcuff
handcuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handcuff
handcuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of handcuff
rat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: răt
ipa: /ɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: rats
form: ratting
form: ratted
form: ratted
Etymology: From Middle English ratte, rat, rotte, from Old English rætt, from Proto-West Germanic *ratt, from Proto-Germanic *rattaz, *rattō (compare West Frisian rôt, Dutch rat), of uncertain origin, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”). However, the rat may have been unknown in Northern Europe in antiquity, and the Proto-Germanic word may have referred to a different animal; see *rattaz for more. Attestation of this family of words begins in the 12th century.
Some of the Germanic cognates show considerable consonant variation, e.g. Middle Low German ratte, radde; Middle High German rate, ratte, ratze. The irregularity may be symptomatic of a late dispersal of the word, although Kroonen accounts for it with a Proto-Germanic stem *raþō nom., *ruttaz gen., showing both ablaut and a Kluge's law alternation, with the variation arising from varying remodellings in the descendants. Kroonen states that this requires a Proto-Indo-European etymon in final *t and is incompatible with the usual derivation from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₃d- (“to scrape, scratch, gnaw”).
Senses: glosses: To hunt or kill rats.
raw_tags: of a dog
glosses: To betray a political party, cause or principle; to betray someone, to desert a person or thing.
glosses: To work as a scab, going against trade union policies.
examples: text: In 1962, the higher a girl's hair was ratted the more available she was, it was simply understood.
ref: 2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 31:
glosses: To backcomb (hair).
examples: text: He ratted on his coworker.
text: He is going to rat us out!
qualifier: with on or out
glosses: To inform on someone; to betray someone to the police or authorities.
Synonyms: sense: to betray someone to an authority
word: tell on
sense: to betray someone to an authority
word: to finger
sense: to betray someone to an authority
word: put the finger on
sense: to betray someone to an authority
word: bewray
rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: răt
ipa: /ɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: rats
Etymology: From Middle English ratten, further etymology unknown. Compare Middle Low German retten (“to tear, tear up”), Middle High German ratzen (“to scratch; rasp; tear”). Could be related to write. See also rit.
Senses: glosses: A scratch or a score.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.
rat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: răt
ipa: /ɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: rats
form: ratting
form: ratted
form: ratted
Etymology: From Middle English ratten, further etymology unknown. Compare Middle Low German retten (“to tear, tear up”), Middle High German ratzen (“to scratch; rasp; tear”). Could be related to write. See also rit.
Senses: examples: text: He ratted a vertical line on his face with a pocket knife.
glosses: To scratch or score.
examples: text: Ratted to shreds.
glosses: To tear, rip, rend.
examples: text: “But, rat me, sir,” cried Foster in bewilderment, “tis too generous—'pon honour it is. I can't consent to it. No, rat me, I can't.”
ref: 1904, Rafael Sabatini, chapter XXVI, in The Tavern Knight:
glosses: Damn, drat, blast; used in oaths.
rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: răt
ipa: /ɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: rats
Senses: examples: text: With regards to the testing of his product, the initial blood analysis had come back confirming huge, distinctive nutritional superiority for Stewart's military ration pack. Given that the policy of the British Army is to be fully ready for war at the drop of a hat, he was sitting on the potential of supplying new rats for the entire army […]
ref: 2014, John, Buffoon, page 243:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A ration.
Derived terms: C-rat
unvariable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + variable.
Senses: glosses: Invariable.