cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
exemplary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/
ipa: /ɛɡ-/
Forms: form: exemplaries
form: examplary
Etymology: From Middle French exemplaire (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile; an example; a sample, specimen”), from Latin exemplāris (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile”), from exemplum (“an example; a sample; a copy or transcript”). By surface analysis, example + -ary. Doublet of exemplar. First use as a noun appears c. 1425, as an adjective, c. 1507.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n the place by M. Hesk. alledged, denyeth that Baſill calleth breade & wine ἀντίτυπα, or exemplaria, exemplaries of the bodie and bloud of Chriſt after the conſecration, which is an impudent lye; for before the conſecration there are no ſacraments, and ſo no exemplars of the bodie and bloud of Chriſte: therefore if he called them exemplars, it muſt needs be when they are ſacraments, & yᵗ is after conſecration: [...]
ref: 1579, [William] Fulke, “The Third Booke of Maister Heskins Parleament Repealed by W. Fulke”, in D. Heskins, D. Sanders, and M. Rastel, Accounted (among Their Faction) Three Pillers and Archpatriarches of the Popish Synagogue, (Utter Enemies to the Truth of Christes Gospell, and All that Sincerely Professe the Same) Ouerthrowne, and Detected of the Seuerall Blasphemous Heresies, London: […] Henrie Middleton for George Bishop, →OCLC, page 374:
glosses: An example, or typical instance.
examples: text: Farther, more part of the exemplaries, curiouſly ſought by me, and fortunately found in ſundry places of this your dominion, hath bene emprinted in Germany, and now be in the preſſes chefley of Frobenus, [...]
ref: 1631, John Weever, “The Loboryouse Iourney and Serche of Iohan Leylande, for Englandes Antiquitees, Given of Him as a New Yeares Gift to Kynge Henry the Eyghte in the Thirty Seuenth Yeere of His Reygne”, in Ancient Fvnerall Monvments within the Vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands adiacent, with the Dissolued Monasteries therein Contained: Their Founders, and what Eminent Persons Haue Beene in the Same Interred. …, London: […] Thomas Harper. […], →OCLC, page 689:
glosses: A copy of a book or a piece of writing.
Synonyms: exemplar
paradigm
Related terms: example
exemplar
exemplative
exemplifiable
exemplification
exemplificative
exemplify
countless
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntləs/
Etymology: From count + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There are countless stars in the sky.
text: He endured countless insults hurled at him before people finally respected him for his courage and his great ability as a baseball player.
ref: 2020, Pat Mann, 100 Life-Challenging Devotionals:
antonyms: a couple of
a few#Determiner
a handful of
several#Determiner
;
one#Determiner
;
zero#Determiner
no#Determiner
hypernyms: many#Determiner
numerous#Determiner
;
multiple#Determiner
various#Determiner
glosses: A huge and uncountable number of; too many to count; innumerable.
raw_tags: of a count noun
countless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntləs/
Etymology: From count + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The stars in the sky are countless.
glosses: Synonym of uncountable.
synonyms: word: uncountable
examples: text: Just stop and think deeply for a moment and realize the countless number of the grains of sand of the seashore; the countless number of drops of water that go to make up the waters of the earth; […]
ref: 2021, Baird T. Spalding, The Journey:
glosses: Too large to be counted to.
raw_tags: of a number
Synonyms: numberless
innumerable
incalculable
Derived terms: countlessly
countlessness
dismember
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪsˈmɛmbə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dismembers
form: dismembering
form: dismembered
form: dismembered
form: dismembre
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French desmembrer, from des- (“de-”) + membre (“limb”) + -er (“verbal suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Death by drawing and quartering usually dismembered the condemned person.
glosses: To remove the limbs of.
examples: text: The killer methodically dismembered the bodies of his victims.
text: The American Civil War nearly dismembered the Union.
glosses: To cut or otherwise divide something into pieces.
Derived terms: dismemberment
dismemberer
difficile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪ.fɪ.saɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɪ.fə.səl/
Forms: form: more difficile
form: most difficile
Etymology: From late Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis, from dis- + facilis (“easy”).
Senses: glosses: Hard to work with; stubborn.
examples: text: […] forasmuch as he was to judge of an internall beauty, of a difficile knowledge, and abstruse discovery.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.185
glosses: Difficult.
Derived terms: difficileness
sommelier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɒmˈmɛli.ə/
ipa: /ˌsɔːməlˈjeɪ/
ipa: /ˌsɔməlˈjeɪ/
ipa: /soʊˈmɑːliˌeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: sommeliers
Etymology: Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme (“pack”) + -ier (suffix forming the names of jobs). somme is from Vulgar Latin *sauma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).
Senses: examples: text: The sommelier recommended the perfect wine, opened the bottle with panache, and served it into glasses.
text: A Sommelier or wine steward organizes a restaurant's entire wine program, from tasting to pairing of wines with foods the chef might prepare according to seasonal meat, seafood, and produce availability, to ordering and keeping inventory, staying on top of local, domestic, and foreign releases, and educating waitstaff about wines and their nuances. […] A Sommelier must make novice wine drinkers comfortable and explain wine complexities simply, while knowing wines well enough to satisfy the most demanding customer.
ref: 2010, Kathleen Thompson Hill, “Sommelier”, in Career Opportunities in the Food and Beverage Industry, New York, N.Y.: Ferguson, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 44, column 1:
text: There's a new kid on the block: the tea sommelier. […] In the Western world, the first acting tea sommelier on the scene was Helen Gustafson, although the title was never bestowed her. […] She stayed at the restaurant for twenty years, and although she did not have the formal title of tea sommelier—no one did at the time—many in the industry credit her with leading the charge that has resulted in fine-dining establishments improving their tea service.
ref: 2014, Lisa Boalt Richardson, “Beyond the Cup: Pairing, Cooking, Cocktails, and More”, in Modern Tea: A Fresh Look at an Ancient Beverage, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 115:
text: The fMRI [functional magnetic resonance imaging] brain images of sommeliers show that their brains act very differently from ordinary brains when they taste wine. An Italian radiology research group (Castriota-Scanderbeg et al., 2005) showed activation of the cerebral network in the left insula and adjoining orbito-frontal cortex in sommeliers.
ref: 2015, Nak-Eon Choi, Jung H. Han, “Technological Advancements Brought by the Love of Flavors”, in How Flavor Works: The Science of Taste and Aroma, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: The member of staff at a restaurant who keeps the wine cellar and advises the guests on a choice of wines; a wine steward / stewardess, a wine waiter / waitress / server.
Synonyms: somm
wine server
wine steward
wine stewardess
wine waiter
wine waitress
Coordinate terms: word: sommeliere
english: female sommelier
translation: female sommelier
word: sommelière
sommelier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɒmˈmɛli.ə/
ipa: /ˌsɔːməlˈjeɪ/
ipa: /ˌsɔməlˈjeɪ/
ipa: /soʊˈmɑːliˌeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: sommeliers
form: sommeliering
form: sommeliered
form: sommeliered
Etymology: Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme (“pack”) + -ier (suffix forming the names of jobs). somme is from Vulgar Latin *sauma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).
Senses: examples: text: The final nerve-wracking task involved “sommeliering” throughout a gourmet lunch for judges and wine writers – and answering the tricky questions which were inevitably thrown their way.
ref: 1993, Hotel & Catering Review, volume 23, page 6:
glosses: To act as a sommelier.
deconsecration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkɒnsəˈkɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: deconsecrations
Etymology: From de- + consecration.
Senses: glosses: The undoing of consecration; a desecration or defilement.
glosses: A ritual observing the removal from service of a sacred place, such as the closing of a church.
Prakash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रकाश (prakāśa, “light”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit. It is a common name among Indic races, mostly Hindus, with some usage among Jains, Sikhs and recently Indic Christians.
electrical resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrical resistances
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The opposition offered by an electrical conductor to the flow of a current through itself, resulting in a conversion of electrical energy into heat and radiation. The SI derived unit of resistance is the ohm (Ω). Symbol: R.
Related terms: ohm
Ω
resistor
alpha male
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha males
Etymology: Originally used in scientific research of hierarchies in social animals, the term is now often applied to men with dominating characteristics. Already in some use during the 1990s, it was further popularized by Neil Strauss in The Game (2005).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
qualifier: ethology
glosses: The dominant male in a group of animals.
examples: text: Alpha male investing Aggressive stock-picker on the prowl for less risky financial plan Stanley Richards may have been a latecomer to investing, but he's made up for lost time by aggressively buying
ref: 2000 Feb, Black Enterprise, Alpha Male Investing, volume 30, number 7, page 54:
text: This alpha-male status gives him the highest opportunity to mate with many of the best genetic examples of the females in his liking
ref: 2007, Paul Dobransky, L. A. Stamford, The Secret Psychology of How We Fall in Love, link:
text: The alpha male, is lucky in this regard, since he has a gang and while he must protect them all
ref: year unknown, Wings Of Success, How to Attract Anything You want in Life, page 32
text: Nadal is supposedly the alpha male in any slugfest. But Rosol's forehand shots were being sent towards the Majorcan at 93mph plus, and his was the fastest serve at 134mph.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
text: Fàbregas is having a lapse in form and Costa seems so preoccupied with alpha-male aggro it possibly distracts him from the rather more important task of beating the opposition goalkeeper.
ref: 2015 March 12, Daniel Taylor, “Chelsea out of Champions League after Thiago Silva sends 10-man PSG through on away goals”, in The Guardian (London):
text: Maybe the supposed human alpha male is a combination of disgruntled male wish fulfilment and borderline-pseudoscientific justification for resorting to bullying, intimidation and generally all-round unpleasant behaviour by men hoping to impose their will on a world they find too complex and unnerving so revert to their baser instincts to get what they want, despite knowing deep down they don’t deserve it and shouldn’t have it?
ref: 2016 October 10, Dean Burnett, “Do alpha males even exist?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: alpha
male alpha
antonyms: omega male
glosses: A dominant, assertive, protective, oftentimes successful, leadership-type man or male.
Coordinate terms: alpha female
beta male
gamma male
delta male
sigma male
omega male
alpha male
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alpha male
form: most alpha male
Etymology: Originally used in scientific research of hierarchies in social animals, the term is now often applied to men with dominating characteristics. Already in some use during the 1990s, it was further popularized by Neil Strauss in The Game (2005).
Senses: examples: text: You don't get more alpha male than this, I thought.
ref: 2012, Ben Evans, Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit, page 78:
glosses: Exhibiting the characteristics of a dominant male; dominant, assertive, and protective.
Related terms: alpha pair
order of precedence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orders of precedence
Senses: glosses: A ranking of items by a chosen attribute, especially a sequential hierarchy of nominal importance of people in royal courts and in governments.
α-naphthol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A substituted naphthalene with a hydroxyl group in the α position.
implicitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more implicitly
form: most implicitly
Etymology: From implicit + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: tell someone implicitly
text: He was punished for asking for answers implicitly during the exam.
glosses: In an implicit or implied manner.
glosses: Without doubting or questioning.
menpo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menpo
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 面頬 (menpō).
Senses: glosses: The face mask of a Samurai warrior.
herbaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hə(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.ʃəs/
ipa: /(h)ɝˈbeɪ.ʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more herbaceous
form: most herbaceous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin herbāceus (“grassy”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and it contains a very good selection of shrubs and herbaceous plants, which, having good soil and plentiful drenchings of water from a garden-engine all the summer, thrive to admiration.
ref: 1859, Shirley Hibberd, The Town Garden, page 53:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Not woody, lacking lignified tissues.
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
glosses: Not woody in flavor.
examples: text: The hippopotamus is an herbaceous animal.
ref: 1861, Charles John Andersson, Lake Ngami, chapter XL, page 490:
glosses: Feeding on herbs and soft plants.
Derived terms: herbaceously
herbaceousness
nonherbaceous
subherbaceous
orchidomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From orchid + -o- + -mania.
Senses: synonyms: orchidelirium
glosses: An obsession with orchids; enthusiasm for raising or collecting orchids, especially in the Victorian era.
blaeberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbleɪb(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: blaeberries
form: bleaberry
Etymology: From Middle English bloberi; equivalent to blae (“bluish gray”) + berry.
Senses: glosses: The bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus.
cantaloupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.tə.luːp/
ipa: /ˈkæn.tə.loʊp/
Forms: form: cantaloupes
form: cantaloup
form: canteloupe
form: cantelope
Etymology: From French cantaloup, from Italian Cantalupo (a place name), from Italian canto + lupo, literally "howl of the wolf".
Named after a former Papal summer estate near Rome, where the melons were first grown after being introduced to Europe.
Senses: glosses: Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:
Cantalupensis Group sensu stricto, with non- or slightly netted rind, also known as true cantaloupe or European cantaloupe, found in the Middle East and Europe.
examples: text: Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon.
ref: 2010, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Peter Carey: A Literary Companion, page 100:
glosses: Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group, a cultivar group melon with sweet aromatic orange flesh, including two main types:
Reticulatus Group (now merged into Cantalupensis Group), with strongly netted rind, also known as American cantaloupe, muskmelon or rockmelon.
glosses: An orange colour, like that of cantaloupe flesh.
examples: text: Distracted by the way that the sudden gust of wind exposed the girl's bare thighs, he tripped on the uneven sidewalk and faceplanted straight into her soft cantaloupes.
text: "I tell you I kept crossing my legs and lighting cigarettes, just hoping he'd notice me. But no. Instead he notices something sitting at a table. He sees a great big pair of cantaloupes sticking out from under a blouse."
ref: 2022 [1951], David Goodis, “Cassidy's Girl”, in Black Cat Weekly, number 52, Wildside Press, LLC, page 324:
text: In the water, Lenox got a little frisky and Farah ended up losing her bikini top. Lenox was glad that she was definitely blessed. The peaches and grapes walking around were no comparison to her cantaloupes.
ref: 2007, Maryann Reid, Use Me or Lose Me: A Novel of Love, Sex, and Drama, Macmillan, page 130:
text: "Suzie that one with the pair of cantaloupes?" Freddy holds his palms out from chest.
ref: 2019, Louella Bryant, Cowboy Code, Black Rose Writing, page 110:
text: Stepping back to avoid him, I knocked into Xander, who wrapped his arms around me. "Me, too," he cooed. "I love a good pair of cantaloupes."
ref: 2020, Nicole Kronzer, “Eleven”, in Unscripted, Abrams:
glosses: A woman's breasts, particularly large breasts.
Synonyms: sense: breasts
word: breasts
Derived terms: canadew
cantaloupey
dewberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuː.b(ə.)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuː.b(ə.)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈduˌbɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʉː.b(ə.)ɹi/
Forms: form: dewberries
Etymology: From dew + berry.
Senses: glosses: Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.
European dewberry, Rubus caesius.
glosses: Small brambles of the genus Rubus which have stems that trail along the ground.
American dewberry, species of Rubus sect. Flagellares
glosses: The purple to black berries of these plants.
Derived terms: California dewberry
Enslen's dewberry
Pacific dewberry
Young dewberry
mantelpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæntlpiːs/
Forms: form: mantelpieces
form: mantel piece
form: mantle piece
form: mantel-piece
form: mantle-piece
form: mantlepiece
Etymology: From mantel + piece.
Senses: examples: text: The medium was leaning with her elbow on the mantel piece, austere and aloof.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A shelf that is affixed to the wall above a fireplace.
Derived terms: you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire
you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
Related terms: mantelshelf
backroom boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backroom boys
Senses: examples: Holonym: backroom staff
glosses: Someone who has an anonymous support role in an organization, especially a technician or scientist; a boffin.
scarpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarpes
Senses: examples: text: […] Argent, three bendlets engrailed sable; over all a scarpe gules - BLAGE, Kent.
ref: 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 55:
text: Bonfiglioli : Bendy sinister of eight or and gules. Later on this is surmounted of a bend of France ancient, an augmentation, no doubt. Another representation gives : Or, three scarps gules, with the same bend of France ancient surmounting.
ref: 1901, Howel Wills, Florentine Heraldry: A Supplement to the Guide-books, page 130:
text: […] in bend an arrow, its shaft debruised by two scarpes couped Or; […]
ref: 1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco Pub:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of scrape (“diminutive bend”).
Dhivehi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Divehi
Etymology: From Dhivehi ދިވެހި (divehi).
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan language, the official language of the Republic of Maldives.
Synonyms: Maldivian
anaphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anaphoric
form: most anaphoric
Etymology: From anaphora + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, an anaphora.
Derived terms: anaphorical
anaphorically
anaphoricity
anaphoric macro
anaphoric pronoun
anaphoric reference
nonanaphoric
allseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allseeds
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, not closely related, that produce many seeds, such as
allseed flax (Radiola linoides)
glosses: Any of several plants, not closely related, that produce many seeds, such as
fourleaf allseed (Polycarpon tetraphyllum)
glosses: Any of several plants, not closely related, that produce many seeds, such as
knotweed (Polygonum spp.)
glosses: Any of several plants, not closely related, that produce many seeds, such as
many-seeded goosefoot (Lipandra polysperma, syn. Chenopodium polyspermum)
albaspine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albaspines
Etymology: From Latin albus (“white”) + spine. Cognate with French aubépine.
Senses: glosses: The hawthorn.
albata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin albata (“whitened”), the past participle of albāre (“to whiten”), from albus (“white”) + -āre (suffix forming verbs).
Senses: synonyms: German silver
glosses: A white alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, once used to make cheap cutlery etc
alpha and omega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphas and omegas
form: the alpha and the omega
form: Alpha and Omega
Etymology: From alpha and omega, first and final letters of the Greek Alphabet, from Revelation 1:8, see quotations. Translation of Ancient Greek τὸ ἄλφα καὶ τὸ ὦ (tò álpha kaì tò ô).
Senses: examples: text: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 1:8:
text: the alpha and omega of science
ref: 1831, John Herschel, A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy:
text: That I merited all I endured, I acknowledged—that I could scarcely endure more, I pleaded; and the alpha and omega of my heart’s wishes broke involuntarily from my lips in the words—‘Jane! Jane! Jane!’
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: We spoke once of vital lungs for Society: and in fact this question always rises as the alpha and omega of social questions, […]
ref: 1850 May 1, Thomas Carlyle, “No. V. Stump-Orator.”, in Latter-Day Pamphlets, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 155–156:
glosses: The first and last; the beginning and end.
Related terms: A to Z
completely
alpha and omega
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: the alpha and the omega
form: Alpha and Omega
Etymology: From alpha and omega, first and final letters of the Greek Alphabet, from Revelation 1:8, see quotations. Translation of Ancient Greek τὸ ἄλφα καὶ τὸ ὦ (tò álpha kaì tò ô).
Senses: examples: text: "Alpha and Omega, will you look at that!"
ref: 1994, Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons, page 14:
glosses: An exclamation denoting surprise.
weeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weed
weeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: weedings
Senses: examples: text: My garden requires regular weedings.
glosses: The removal of weeds; the process by which something is weeded.
albugo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albugos
form: albugoes
Etymology: From Latin albūgō, from albus (“white”).
Senses: glosses: A leucoma.
archiepiscopate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archiepiscopates
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: an archbishopric
archbishopric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːt͡ʃˈbɪʃəpɹɪk/
ipa: /ɑɹt͡ʃˈbɪʃəpɹɪk/
Forms: form: archbishoprics
Etymology: From Middle English erchebischopriche, from Old English arċebisċeoprīce, arċebisċoprīċe, equivalent to archbishop + -ric.
Senses: examples: text: A bishop of Bath […] was considered after due reflection to be an unsuitable man for the Archbishopric, because he had too many illegitimate children—not some, but too many.
ref: 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, New York: Putnam, Book 4, Chapter 3, p. 563:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: archiepiscopacy
glosses: The rank or office of an archbishop.
examples: text: St. Salvadore in the Bahia los todos Santos, is an Archbishoprick and Seat of the Viceroy, the chief Port of Trade for Importation […]
ref: 1724, Daniel Defoe, chapter 11, in A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, page 213:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: archbishopdom
archdiocese
glosses: The jurisdiction of an archbishop.
Related terms: bishopric
ascertained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăs'-ər-tāndʹ
ipa: /ˌæsəˈteɪnd/
ipa: /ˌæsɚˈteɪnd/
ipa: /ˌæsəˈtæɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ascertain
alpha wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha waves
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: An electrical signal produced by the brain while the subject is relaxed.
Related terms: alpha rhythm
beta wave
electroencephalography
alpha emitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha emitters
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a radioactive substance that decays by emitting alpha particles
Related terms: alpha emission
alpha ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha rays
Senses: examples: Holonyms: alpha radiation < electromagnetic radiation, EMR < radiation
hypernyms: ray#Noun
coordinate_terms: beta ray
gamma ray
delta ray
glosses: A stream of alpha particles: a single ray of alpha radiation.
instanciating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of instantiating.
instantiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of instantiate
instantiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstænʃieɪt/
Forms: form: instantiates
form: instantiating
form: instantiated
form: instantiated
form: instanciate
Etymology: From Latin instāntia + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, instance + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document.
text: In the eighteenth century, this was instantiated in writings which developed the view that ‘savages’ exhibited more virtue and moral nobility than their conquerors.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 195:
glosses: To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.
examples: text: To instantiate a class, we call its constructor.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: To create an object (an instance) of a specific class.
Synonyms: sense: represent by a concrete instance
word: exemplify
sense: represent by a concrete instance
word: embody
sense: represent by a concrete instance
word: realize
sense: represent by a concrete instance
word: channel
Derived terms: coinstantiate
coinstantiated
coinstantiation
instantiable
instantiatable
instantiation
instantiator
reinstantiate
reinstantiation
uninstantiate
uninstantiated
Related terms: coinstantial
instantial
instanciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instanciates
form: instanciating
form: instanciated
form: instanciated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of instantiate.
interminably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interminable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an interminable manner; (seemingly) endlessly
instantiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˌstænʃiˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: instantiations
Etymology: A coinage of the twentieth century, from instantiate + -ion, itself coined in 1946 from instance + -ate. The latter, in the sense "a case, an example", from Middle English instance, from Medieval Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence; also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from Latin īnstāns (“urgent”); see English instant.
Senses: glosses: The production of an instance, example, or specific application of a general classification, principle, theory, etc.
examples: text: I can name numerous instantiations of this gift of luck at work in my hostʼs life.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 150:
glosses: Something resulting from the act of instantiating; an instance.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A creation of an instance of some class or template.
Coordinate terms: avatar
embodiment
incarnation
realization
Derived terms: coinstantiation
existential instantiation
polyinstantiation
reinstantiation
uninstantiation
Related terms: coinstantial
coinstantiate
instance
instancy
instant
instantaneous
instantial
instantiate
reinstantiate
pudge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒ
Forms: form: pudges
Senses: glosses: Something short and fat.
examples: text: 2002, extract from Christine Lincoln, Sap Rising, in Marita Golden, E. Lynn Harris (editors), Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing, Random House (Broadway Books), page 676,
The smell of her skin and hair after I have given her a bath, me nibbling at the layers of pudge on her legs and arms, around her neck—I drown in the scent of all that innocence.
text: Their faces are long and graceful and missing the pudge of the others.
ref: 2008, Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye, Simon & Schuster (Simon Pulse), page 41:
text: He is high-booted (over rather skinny legs), with a tiny bit of a paunch showing, an intimation of genital endowment, and a sort of nice half smile (a tidge of pudge in the cheeks and jowls), his left hand leaning against and rather caressing a very bold phallic cannon's spout.
ref: 2015, Larry Kramer, The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 151:
glosses: Excess body fat.
Related terms: pudgy
podge
palmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːmi/
ipa: /ˈpɑːmi/
ipa: /ˈpɑːl.mi/
rhymes: -ɑːmi
Forms: form: palmier
form: palmiest
Etymology: From palm + -y.
Senses: examples: text: From Greenland’s icy mountains,
From India’s coral strand,
Where Afric’s sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error’s chain.
ref: 1819, Reginald Heber, The Missionary Hymn:
glosses: Of, related to, or abounding in palm trees.
examples: text: Elliston was, in his day, the Napoleon of Drury Lane; but, like the conqueror at Austerlitz, he suffered his declensions, and the Surrey became to him a Saint Helena. However, once an eagle always an eagle; and Robert William was no less aquiline in the day of adversity than in his palmy time of patent prosperity.
ref: 1832, The London Spy, volume 2, page 292:
text: “It must have been just like the palmy days of the British Drama.”
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 73:
text: So, all things being equal, from the beginning of my stay with Travis, I was in as palmy and benign a state as I could remember in many years.
ref: 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 48:
text: Not many people would argue with his opening insight—that in 1939 people attending the World's Fair gobbled up the optimistic view of the future offered in Flushing Meadows, while people now, in much palmier times than in the late Depression, with World War II looming, are generally pessimistic.
ref: 1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving.
glosses: Made out of palm leaves or palm sap.
Derived terms: palminess
quadripartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quadrapartite
form: quadrupartite
Etymology: From Latin quadripartītus (“divided into four parts”).
Senses: examples: text: The walk down to the Underground station is equally easy, as you pass through the restored undercroft along an arcade of two-way spanning 'quadripartite' arches.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
glosses: Divided into four parts.
glosses: Involving four parties or participants.
Derived terms: quadripartitely
Related terms: quadripartition
quadripartite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadripartites
form: quadrapartite
form: quadrupartite
Etymology: From Latin quadripartītus (“divided into four parts”).
Senses: glosses: A treatise divided into four parts.
creepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːpi/
enpr: krīʹpī
ipa: /ˈkɹipi/
rhymes: -iːpi
Forms: form: creepier
form: creepiest
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English creepy
From creep + -y.
Senses: examples: text: creepy-crawlies
text: The Beaver brought paper, portfolio, pens, / And ink in unfailing supplies: / While strange creepy creatures came out of their dens, / And watched them with wondering eyes.
ref: 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Fifth.⁠ The Beaver’s Lesson.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:
glosses: Moving by creeping along.
examples: text: creepy ghosts
glosses: Producing an uneasy fearful sensation, as of things crawling over one's skin.
glosses: Causing discomfort or repulsion due to strange or eccentric behavior.
examples: text: That creepy old man keeps leering at me!
text: "He doesn't look creepy," I said. "Kind of nerdy, in a harmless way.
"Looks can be deceiving. See that camera? He was always going around with that camera, snapping pictures. Some girls caught him trying to get 'up skirt' shots while they sat at their desks.[…]"
ref: 2022, Scott Bell, Pest Cemetery, page 235:
glosses: Causing discomfort through exhibiting sexually inappropriate behavior.
examples: text: “I felt creepy and afraid,” continued the other, with conviction. “I had the sensation of being seen by someone—as if someone, I mean, was watching me. […]
ref: 1920, Algernon Blackwood, First Hate:
glosses: Feeling an uneasy fearful sensation; creeped out.
Derived terms: creepify
creepily
creepiness
creepy-ass
creepy crawler
creepy-crawly
creepypasta
creepy-peepy
creepy weepy
uncreepy
Related terms: creeper
creep out
creepy-peepy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creepy-peepies
form: creepie-peepie
Senses: glosses: A small, portable television camera used for taking candid, close-up shots outside of a studio environment
compound interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound interests
Senses: examples: text: […] tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: Arithmetic books published during the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth centuries have little to say about interest although the practice of calculating compound interest was old at that time.
ref: 2014 [1967], C. Attwood, Compound Interest Functions: Practical Tables Series, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 210:
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: Interest, as on a loan or a bank account, that is calculated on the total on the principal plus accumulated unpaid interest.
Related terms: simple interest
super-compound interest
fanboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: fanboys
form: fanboi
Etymology: From fan + boy.
Senses: examples: text: (It's in the nature of comic book fanboy obsessiveness that all of these Eras and Ages and such have been religiously chronicled; it's equally in their nature that no two fanboys can ever agree about anything about any of these Ages and Eras; everything is up for debate, eternally and in microscopic detail.)
ref: 1988 August, Bart Bull, “Comics”, in Spin, volume 4, number 5, →ISSN, page 41:
text: Six years and seven titles later, their company, Top Cow, is the third-biggest-grossing comic line, thanks mainly to a pair of blood-soaked, modern-day Gothics that have been a hit both with fanboys and a growing number of women.
ref: 1998 September, Brian Doherty, “Exposure: Tales From the Dark Side”, in Spin, volume 14, number 9, →ISSN, page 108:
text: Apple fanboys have always devoted equal parts of their mind to genuine reasons to praise their chosen corporation, and to blindly ignoring its faults.
ref: 2008 December 10, Tim Barribeau, “What's so great about Macs?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2014:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).
Coordinate terms: fangirl
Derived terms: fanboyish
fanboyism
fanboy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: fanboys
form: fanboying
form: fanboyed
form: fanboyed
form: fanboi
Etymology: From fan + boy.
Senses: examples: text: James has a tendency to fanboy when something he likes is done wrong.
ref: 2013, Rowan Lake Jr, Heaven Fighter Angelon:
text: 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, [Acknowledgements],
To Yusef Komunyakaa, thank you for […] tolerating my fanboying when, by luck, I sat down beside you one rainy night in a West Village theater […] and kept yapping about everything and nothing at all.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To worship, support, drool over the object of affection; to be a fanboy.
Related terms: geek
nerd
otaku
overdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdogs
Etymology: From over- + dog, modelled on earlier underdog.
Senses: examples: text: Yet Truman, facing the resistance of his own State Department, was frequently irritated by Zionist lobbying and was wary of any sign of the Jewish underdogs becoming the bullying overdogs:
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 556:
glosses: someone who is dominant or has a significant advantage in their field
Synonyms: word: top dog
word: upperdog
bindaas
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bindaas
form: most bindaas
form: bindass
Etymology: Transliteration of Bombay Hindi बिंदास (bindās), from Marathi बिनधास्त (bindhāsta, literally “without fear”).
Senses: examples: text: 'So … how come you aren't scared?'
 Sheila laughed, 'Who me? Forget it. I'm far too bindaas. […]
ref: 2005, Shobhaa De, Strange Obsession, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, page 72:
text: Well, I play Sonia, extremely modern, hip, bindaas, tough and can take care of herself. My look suits the character.
ref: 2008 October 6, Minissha Lamba, quotee, Outlook, volume 48, number 40, →OCLC, page 80:
glosses: Independent and carefree; admirable, cool.
clueful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkluː.fəl/
Forms: form: more clueful
form: most clueful
Etymology: From clue + -ful, by analogy with clueless.
Senses: examples: text: While the mentorship opportunities in recent startup hubs like Berlin and Stockholm have increased dramatically in recent years, the mentors in Silicon Valley are still some of the most experienced and clueful in the world (let's call that factor "X").
ref: 2016 February 26, Emil Eifrem, “Lessons In Moving Your Startup Overseas To Silicon Valley”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2022:
text: It's rare for a television series about technology to get anything right about how computers work, let alone how hackers do their jobs. But in a pop culture landscape flooded with shows like CSI: Cyber and Scorpion, the CBS show Person of Interest stood out as smart, relevant, and mostly clueful about how networked devices actually function.
ref: 2016 June 22, Annalee Newitz, “Farewell to Person of Interest, one of the best shows about spy tech ever made”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2022:
text: These kinds of things — the political, social, and institutional changes — are more difficult than the technological challenge. And unfortunately, there is no model, no simulation, and no supercomputer that can show us how to induce today's socioeconomic institutions and their leaders to behave in a more clueful fashion.
ref: 2016 August 31, David Roberts, “The Eastern US could get a third of its power from renewables within 10 years. Theoretically.”, in Vox, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2022:
text: As a children's book critic and a fairly clueful Jew, I've been asked several times to read non-Jewish and non-Jewishly-observant friends' book manuscripts to make sure they've gotten the Jewish stuff right before they're published.
ref: 2019 March 8, Marjorie Ingall, “Confessions of a Sensitivity Reader”, in Tablet, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2022:
glosses: Knowledgeable and well-informed.
Derived terms: cluefulness
cluefully
Related terms: pointful
clueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkluː.ləs/
homophone: clewless
rhymes: -uːləs
Forms: form: more clueless
form: most clueless
Etymology: From clue + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.
examples: text: The shifting shapes mimicked the dilemma of the nearly clueless mystery of the Higgins Grove murders. As soon as the picture formed into something recognizable, it morphed into something else.
ref: 2010, Kathleen Newberg, Faux Finish, page 97:
glosses: Without any clues or hints.
Derived terms: cluelessly
cluelessness
greige
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: grāzh
ipa: /ɡɹeɪʒ/
ipa: /ɡɹɛʒ/
ipa: /ɡɹeɪʒ/
ipa: /ɡɹɛʒ/
ipa: /ɡɹeɪ/
homophone: gray
homophone: grey (one GA pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪʒ
rhymes: -ɛʒ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: grege
form: grège
form: griege
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from French grège and Middle French grège (“of silk: raw, unfinished; of the colour of such silk, greyish-beige”, adjective), from Italian greggio (“raw, unrefined; unbleached”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *gregius (as in lana *gregia (“untreated wool as obtained from the flock”)), from grex (“flock (of sheep, etc.)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“flock, herd; to gather”).
The noun is borrowed from French grège and Middle French grège (“raw or unfinished silk; the colour of such silk, greyish-beige”, noun), from Italian greggio: see above.
The spelling of the word is probably influenced by beige, likely because it was thought to be a blend of grey and beige.
Senses: examples: text: The rolls of greige cloth sat on the factory floor waiting to be printed.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Of clothing, textiles, etc.: neither bleached nor dyed, nor otherwise fully processed; unfinished.
examples: text: To those who still deludedly think they prefer Star Wars over Ghostbusters, all I need to ask you is this: you don't really want to be a Jedi, do you? In a greige cowl, getting off with your sister, without a single gag across three films?
ref: 2009 June 29, Caitlin Moran, “Sorry Star Wars fans, but Ghostbusters is the best film ever made”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021:
text: “There he was … juiceless, on a greige banquette, staring up at my perfect terrace.[…]”
ref: 2025 June 7, Rana Foroohar, quoting Evan Osnos, “The rich are very different”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 8:
glosses: Of a colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric, between grey and beige.
Derived terms: greige goods
greige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grāzh
ipa: /ɡɹeɪʒ/
ipa: /ɡɹɛʒ/
ipa: /ɡɹeɪʒ/
ipa: /ɡɹɛʒ/
ipa: /ɡɹeɪ/
homophone: gray
homophone: grey (one GA pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪʒ
rhymes: -ɛʒ
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: greiges
form: grege
form: grège
Etymology: The adjective is borrowed from French grège and Middle French grège (“of silk: raw, unfinished; of the colour of such silk, greyish-beige”, adjective), from Italian greggio (“raw, unrefined; unbleached”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *gregius (as in lana *gregia (“untreated wool as obtained from the flock”)), from grex (“flock (of sheep, etc.)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“flock, herd; to gather”).
The noun is borrowed from French grège and Middle French grège (“raw or unfinished silk; the colour of such silk, greyish-beige”, noun), from Italian greggio: see above.
The spelling of the word is probably influenced by beige, likely because it was thought to be a blend of grey and beige.
Senses: examples: text: Brilliant, sparkling reds will complement the bright, new beauty of Fall fashions and accent the subtle reserve of pale Priority beiges and greiges.
ref: 1943, S[idney] J[oseph] Perelman, “Bend Down, Sister”, in The Dream Department, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, page 74:
text: The rise of the neutral family of greige colors has put the decorating emphasis squarely on accents. The August issue of Better Homes & Gardens, for example, features an article showing which accents look best with greiges and other popular colors.
ref: 1959, Paint, Oil and Chemical Review, volume 122, Chicago, Ill.: Trade Review Co., →OCLC, page 12, column 2:
text: To accessorize the server, we arranged a grouping of mahogany candlesticks in a variety of interesting shapes, a small greige-colored vase, and a platter that incorporates the colors of the candlesticks as well as the greige of the vase.
ref: 2005 September, Lauri Ward, “Views on Retirement: Moving from Coast to Coast”, in Home Therapy: Fast, Easy, Affordable Makeovers (A Perigee Book), Perigee trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Group, published September 2006, →ISBN, page 256:
text: Canadian colour consultants The Paint People recently reached the same conclusion, declaring on YouTube “the death of greige: a paint colour category that has absolutely dominated interior design for well over a decade”.
ref: 2022 May 25, Elle Hunt, “It’s not beige, it’s not grey: it’s greige – and it’s why all our houses look the same”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2023:
glosses: A colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: gray goods
grey goods
glosses: Clothing, textiles, etc., which have neither been bleached nor dyed, nor otherwise fully processed; greige goods.