cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕnt
ipa: /ɹɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: rents
Etymology: See rend.
Senses: examples: text: [O]ne streak of copper-coloured light made a narrow rent between sea and sky.
ref: 1876, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “The Cruel Crawling Foam”, in Joshua Haggard’s Daughter […], volume I, London: John Maxwell and Co. […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter X, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: The oscillations were getting so severe that painters on the bridge learned to tie down their tins before a train passed. They found holes and rents in the iron but never reported them as they were never asked, and it wasn't their job. These were deferential times, and few wanted to talk out of turn.
ref: 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81:
glosses: A tear or rip in some surface.
examples: text: [T]he White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.
ref: 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:
glosses: A division or schism.
rent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕnt
ipa: /ɹɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology: See rend.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rend
rent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕnt
ipa: /ɹɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: more rent
form: most rent
Etymology: See rend.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, we could clearly make out the arch and stony banks of this second cave, and, from their rent and jagged appearance, discovered that, like the first long passage down which we had passed through the cliff before we reached the quivering spur, it had to all appearance been torn in the bowels of the rock by the terrific force of some explosive gas.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 286:
text: Cleopatra is rent by a struggle between her newly-acquired dignity as a queen, and a strong impulse to put out her tongue at him.
ref: 1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:
glosses: That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
pinko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɪŋkoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ
Forms: form: pinkos
form: pinkoes
Etymology: From pink + -o, a variation of red (“Communist”, noun), as pink is a lighter, more diluted form.
Senses: examples: text: At Princeton a lone townsman cried "Down with Mussolini!" in the midst of a reception, was jostled by students, escorted off the campus. At Harvard the pinko National Students League protested to President Conant, but allowed the visitors to tour Cambridge in peace.
ref: 1934 October 22, “Gentlemen & Guttersnipes”, in Time Magazine, number 17, page 45:
text: “I agree with the decision one hundred per cent,” he said. “And if I find any pinkos that I don't know about on my lot I'll get rid of them if I can. They don't even have to be Communists. I'll try to clean out any leftists.”
ref: 1947 November 30, Thomas F. Brady, quoting Bryan Foy, “Hollywood Divided”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: He'd be on her ass in a microsecond, revoke her letters testamentary, they'd call her names, proclaim her through all Orange County as a redistributionist and pinko, slip the old man from Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus in as administrator de bonis non and so much baby for code, constellations, shadow-legatees.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 136:
text: Until society collectively starts using terminology like this effectively, all you'll end up with is a bunch of Commie Pinkos Stinking^([sic]) up parks around the country "Occupying" without a clear goal or message.
ref: 2011 October 24, Archangel Michael, “The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy”, in Slashdot:
text: Kelly reassures his readers that the people who run this emerging economy are not left-wing in any traditional sense. They are “more likely to be libertarians than commie pinkos,” he explains.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, quoting Kevin Kelly, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
text: Almost 10 years ago I made a documentary called Inside Child Poverty. Some people (largely members of John Key’s government) got very angry with me. I was a left wing pinko journo making this stuff up in an election year.
ref: 2020 December 14, Bryan Bruce, “10 years since the Child Poverty documentary, what’s changed?”, in The Daily Blog:
glosses: A socialist, particularly one who is not completely communist.
Related terms: pink
pinko-grey
communist
red
socialist
approx.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: approx
Senses: synonyms: approxly.
glosses: Abbreviation of approximately.
approx.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: approx
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of approximate.
approx
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of approx..
approx
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: […] place the pan into a hot oven 175 degrees approx 5 minutes until the top has been cooked.
ref: 2009 January 23, Achim Herterich, “Cooking tips, recipes with eggs”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Alternative spelling of approx..
prox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒks/
rhymes: -ɒks
Forms: form: proxes
Etymology: Compare proxy.
Senses: examples: text: on the election day at Newport , the ticket containing the names of the general officers has been called “ the prox” of general officers
ref: 1841, Report of the select committee [on] the memorial of the democratic members of the Legislature of Rhode Island:
qualifier: Rhode Island
glosses: The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes.
prox.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒks
Forms: form: more prox.
form: most prox.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of proximate.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: word: dist.
english: distal
translation: distal
glosses: Abbreviation of proximal.
prox.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒks
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of proximity.
prox.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɒks
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of proximo (“next month”).
discovery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌ.və.ɹi/
ipa: /-ˈkʌv.ɹi/
rhymes: -ʌvəɹi
Forms: form: discoveries
form: discoverie
Etymology: from discover + -ery, on the pattern of the pair recover, recovery. Displaced native Old English onfundennes.
Senses: examples: text: This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
glosses: Something discovered.
examples: text: The purpose of the voyage was discovery.
text: Automatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser.
text: The letters patents of king Henry the ſeuenth granted vnto Iohn Cabot and his three ſonnes, Lewis, Sebastian, and Sancius, for the discouerie of new and vnknowen lands.
ref: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, “Iohn Cabots Patent”, in The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC, page 509:
glosses: The discovering of new things.
examples: text: Don Huberto actually fell in love with his kinswoman, and had presumption enough to declare his passion […] The lady being a woman of discretion, instead of making a discovery, which might have been attended with melancholy consequences, reprimanded her relation with gentleness […]
ref: 1822, Alain René Le Sage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane:
glosses: An act of uncovering or revealing something; a revelation.
examples: text: The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery.
topics: law
glosses: A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
examples: text: The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.
topics: law
glosses: Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
examples: text: 1700: "If I play f4, he can check me with ...Qd4, but then he has to move his Queen because he can easily lose it to a Bishop discovery on b5. He could also check me on c5 when his Queen might be safer. I could just move out of the way, though, and continue my attack."
ref: 1999, Jeremy Silman, The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, C.A.: Siles Press, →ISBN, page 189:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A discovered attack.
Derived terms: autodiscovery
biodiscovery
codiscovery
discovery informatics
discovery request
e-discovery
indiscovery
nondiscovery
prediscovery
rediscovery
self-discovery
undiscovery
Related terms: discover
discoverer
interregnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəɹˈɹɛɡnəm/
Forms: form: interregnums
form: interregna
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin interrēgnum.
Senses: examples: text: The Sasanian Interregnum of 628–632
text: It was not till the kings had been shorn of power and the interregnum of sham democracy had set in, leaving no virile force in the state or the world to resist the money power, that the opportunity for a world-wide plutocratic despotism arrived.
ref: 1897, Edward Bellamy, Equality, Chapter 15:
text: Darker questions still emerge in these dusky final weeks of our interregnum.
ref: 2025 January 10, Peter Thiel, “A time for truth and reconciliation”, in Financial Times:
text: Another element leading to the quick-out-of-the-gate second Trump term took place during the four-year interregnum of President Joe Biden.
ref: 2025 January 30, Linda Feldmann, “Understanding the Trump chaos: It’s about wielding executive power”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: The period of time between the end of a sovereign or political leader's reign and the accession of another.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted.
examples: text: Is it not Pelham who wonders what becomes of servants when they are not wanted;—whether, like the tones of an instrument, they exist but when called for? About servants we will not decide; but that some such interregnum certainly occurs in female existence on rising from table, no one can doubt who ever noted the sound of the dining and the silence of the drawing-room.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 224:
text: This was in that strange pause of the storm which is its most remarkable feature in the South—that singular interregnum of the winds, when, after giving repeated notice of their most terrific action, they seem almost to forget their purpose, and for a few moments appear to slumber in their inactivity.
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 179:
text: Between the end of the Fowler régime in 1931 and the advent of Stanier in 1932, there was a short interregnum during which Ernest Lemon was in charge, with Ernest Beames as his principal aide-de-camp.
ref: 1946 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 146:
text: All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Durex.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: An intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence.
topics: Christianity
glosses: the period of time between when a minister or pastor leaves a church and when a new one is installed
Synonyms: sense: breach of continuity in action
word: hiatus
word: moratorium
word: recess
word: pause
Derived terms: interregnal
Related terms: regency
portcullis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːtˈkʌl.ɪs/
ipa: /pɔɹtˈkʌl.ɪs/
Forms: form: portcullises
form: portcullisses
form: portculli
form: portscullis
form: percullice
form: portclose
form: portcluse
form: portculis
form: portculleis
form: portculles
form: port cullis
form: port-cullis
form: portecullis
form: porte-cullis
Etymology: From Middle English portcolyse, from Old French porte colëice, from porte (“door”) + feminine of colëiz (“sliding”), ultimately from Latin colāre.
Senses: synonyms: cataract
glosses: A gate in the form of a grating which is lowered into place at the gateway of a castle, a fort, etc.
glosses: An old English coin from the reign of Elizabeth I, minted for the use of the East India Company, and bearing the picture of a portcullis on the reverse.
portcullis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːtˈkʌl.ɪs/
ipa: /pɔɹtˈkʌl.ɪs/
Forms: form: portcullises
form: portcullisses
form: portcullising
form: portcullissing
form: portcullised
form: portcullised
form: portcullissed
form: portcullissed
form: percullice
form: portclose
form: portcluse
form: portculis
form: portculleis
form: portculles
form: port cullis
form: port-cullis
form: portecullis
form: porte-cullis
Etymology: From Middle English portcolyse, from Old French porte colëice, from porte (“door”) + feminine of colëiz (“sliding”), ultimately from Latin colāre.
Senses: examples: text: […]Within my mouth you haue engaold my tongue, / Doubly portculliſt with my teeth and lippes[…]
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.
drawbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɔːbɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈdɹɑbɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: drawbridges
Etymology: From draw + bridge.
Senses: examples: text: I might jump an open drawbridge, or Tarzan from a vine / 'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that makes Eastwood look so fine
ref: 1981, “The Fall Guy”, performed by The Sonora's Tucson Band:
glosses: A hinged bridge which can be raised (to prevent its being crossed, as across a moat, or to allow watercraft to travel beneath it).
examples: text: drawbridge mentality
text: I looked at her with wide eyes, and the drawbridge of her reserve fell instantly.
ref: 1873 March, Ella Williams, “My Stepdaughter”, in William Conant Church, editor, The Galaxy, volume 15, number 3, page 386:
text: "Yeah, some people have a drawbridge mentality,” remarks Barry.“They move to an island and then they think that nobody else should be let in after them. […]
ref: 2012, Phillip Vannini, Ferry Tales: Mobility, Place, and Time on Canada's West Coast:
text: And He gave me the steps I needed to take to let down the drawbridge of my heart again.
ref: 2016, Gladys Famoriyo, Quit Hiding, Start Living!:
text: They push against the drawbridge of my mind, shaking me to the core.
ref: 2019, Christie Rich, Charles Nottingham, Weaver of Dreams:
glosses: A tendency to provide only limited access.
Synonyms: sense: bridge that allows watercraft to travel
word: bascule bridge
Hypernyms: movable bridge
Derived terms: drawbridged
drawbridge mentality
pull up the drawbridge
obsession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɛʃən/
rhymes: -ɛʃən
Forms: form: obsessions
Etymology: From Latin obsessio (“a besieging”), from obsidere (“to besiege”); see obsess. Equivalent to obsess + -ion.
Senses: synonyms: obsessedness
glosses: The quality of being obsessed.
synonyms: idée fixe
glosses: An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered.
examples: text: Editing Wikipedia started as a hobby, but it's turned into a complete obsession of mine.
glosses: An activity or entity that inspires a compulsive and potentially unhealthy fixation, or the fixation thereby inspired.
examples: text: if an evil spirit counterfeits the presence of God, and comes upon the man as an influence only, it may be described as obsession; but when a footing is gained in him, it is "possession," because the obsessing spirits have gained access, and possess the ground they hold, up to the extent of the ground given.
ref: 1973, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Evan Roberts, War on the Saints, →ISBN:
text: They should see that a perception of their identification with the Victor of Calvary is absolutely necessary if they are to constantly and victoriously resist the obsession of evil spirits.
ref: 1999, Mary E. McDonough, God's Plan of Redemption^([ISBN-0736307184]), page 85:
text: It is true, that by the workings of the law of attraction, and the susceptibility of mortals to the influence of spirit powers, mortals may become obsessed by the spirits of evil—that is evil spirits of men who once lived on earth—and this obsession may become so complete and powerful that the living mortal may lose all power to resist this influence of the evil spirits...
ref: 2007, James E. Padgett, The Teachings of Jesus^([ISBN-1430303913]), page 100:
glosses: Influence or control by evil spirits without possession.
Derived terms: celebrity obsession disorder
obsessionism
obsessionist
self-obsession
Related terms: obsess
obsessed
obsessional
obsessive
obsessively
bacalhau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Portuguese bacalhau.
Senses: glosses: Dried salted cod.
Oxbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒks.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɑks.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology: Blend of Oxford + Cambridge.
Senses: examples: text: On the previous night he had taken the manuscript out of a long neglected chest, containing old shooting jackets, old Oxbridge scribbling books, his old surplice, and battered cap and gown, and other memorials of youth, school, and home.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter III, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: "Of course she is clever," said Mrs. Pope. "Or we shouldn't have sent her to Oxbridge. There she's doing quite well—quite well. Everyone says so. I don't know, of course, if Mr. Magnet will let her finish there."
ref: 1912, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, Marriage, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited […], →OCLC, book the first (Marjorie Marries), page 152:
text: In another, he says: “Why has the BBC allowed the format of this programme to treat all other universities in the UK apart from Oxbridge as second class?”
ref: 2023 March 26, Matthew Weaver, “BBC rejects charge of elitist Oxbridge bias in University Challenge”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: education
synonyms: word: Camford
glosses: The University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge collectively.
Coordinate terms: sense: universities
word: HYP
sense: universities
word: HYPS
sense: universities
word: HYPSM
sense: universities
word: HYPSMC
sense: universities
word: red brick universities
Derived terms: Doxbridge
Loxbridge
Oxbridger
Oxbridgey
Oxbridgian
Oxbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒks.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɑks.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: more Oxbridge
head_nr: 1
form: most Oxbridge
head_nr: 1
Etymology: Blend of Oxford + Cambridge.
Senses: examples: text: The applicants are mostly Oxbridge, so you'd better watch out.
head_nr: 2
glosses: Of or related to Oxbridge.
examples: text: We ate a formal dinner at high table after the service. It all felt very Oxbridge.
head_nr: 2
glosses: Evoking the idea of Oxbridge.
Oxbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒks.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɑks.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Netherbury parish, west Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY4797).
glosses: A suburb of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4318).
Cambridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: kāmʹbrĭj
ipa: /ˈkeɪm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈkɛm.bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: Cambrige
Etymology: From Middle English Cantebrigge, Grentebrige, from Old English Grante bryċġ, Granta-briċġ, Grantanbryċġ (“Granta bridge”). The river name Granta is probably of Celtic origin.
By Middle English when the name of the settlement had changed to "Cantebrigge" and eventually "Cambridge", the lower stretches of the River Granta were renamed Cam by back-formation from Cambridge.
Senses: glosses: A city and local government district with borough status of Cambridgeshire, England, famous for its university.
examples: text: He went to Cambridge, you know.
glosses: Ellipsis of University of Cambridge.
glosses: A village in Slimbridge parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England, situated on the local River Cam (OS grid ref SO7403).
glosses: A city in Washington County, Idaho, United States.
glosses: A village, the county seat of Henry County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Dorchester County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, famous for being the location of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was formerly one of the county seats.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Isanti County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Guernsey County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A town and village in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States.
glosses: A city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A local government area (the Town of Cambridge) in Perth, Western Australia.
glosses: A town in Waikato, New Zealand.
glosses: A royal dukedom.
Derived terms: Cambridge roller
Cambridgeshire
Oxbridge
Related terms: Oxford
vendor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛn.də/
ipa: /ˈvɛn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
homophone: Venda (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: vendors
form: vender
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Queen Pomaree”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 309:
text: Travel is enlivened not only by the mixed company of French, Berbers, Arabs, and descendants of the Mediterranean-Corsairs who sit together indiscriminately, but also by itinerant vendors of macaroons, sweetmeats and the like, who, as long as they have a travel ticket, ply their wares unhindered by the [ticket] collectors.
ref: 1950 May, “A Tunisian Electric Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 335:
glosses: A person or a company that vends or sells.
examples: text: She left her duties guarding the cola vendor and brushed past Earl to the aisle with the creamed corn.
ref: 2015, Jennifer Ott, Rays of Civilization, page 64:
glosses: A vending machine.
Synonyms: merchant
seller
Derived terms: ice cream vendor
vendor-agnostic
vendor bid
vendor locator
Related terms: vend
vending machine
vendue
vendor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛn.də/
ipa: /ˈvɛn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
homophone: Venda (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: vendors
form: vendoring
form: vendored
form: vendored
form: vender
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman vendor (Old French vendeor), from Latin venditor (“seller”), from vendere (“to sell, cry up for sale, praise”), contraction of venundare, venumdare, also, as originally, two words venum dare (“to sell”), from venum (“sale, price”) + dare (“to give”).
Senses: examples: text: I distributed my application with a vendored copy of Perl so that it wouldn't use the system copies of Perl where it is installed.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: To bundle third-party dependencies with the source code for one's own program.
examples: text: Strawberry Perl contains vendored copies of some CPAN modules, designed to allow them to run on Windows.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: As the software vendor, to bundle one's own, possibly modified version of dependencies with a standard program.
nymphes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nymphe
nymphae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪmfiː/
Senses: glosses: plural of nymph
glosses: plural of nympha
glosses: plural of nymphe
nympha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪmfə/
rhymes: -ɪmfə
Forms: form: nymphae
Etymology: From Latin nympha, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, nymph”). Doublet of nymph.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A nymph.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Each of the labia minora.
glosses: Each of a pair of processes in certain bivalves, to which the ends of the external ligament are attached.
Derived terms: nymphitis
nymph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪmf/
rhymes: -ɪmf
Forms: form: nymphs
form: nymphae
form: nymphe
Etymology: From Middle English nimphe, from Old English nymphē and Old French nimphe, both from Latin nympha (“nymph, bride”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride”). Doublet of nympha.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
hyponyms: dryad
naiad
Oceanid
oread
glosses: Any female nature spirit associated with water, forests, grotto, wind, etc.
synonyms: lolita
nymphet
nymphette
glosses: A young girl, especially one who is attractive, beautiful or graceful.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: instar
naiad
glosses: The larva of certain insects.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various butterflies of the family Nymphalidae.
Derived terms: deutonymph
flymph
jungle nymph
nymphal
nymphet
nymphette
nymphic
nymphicidal
nymphicide
nymphine
nymphiparous
nymphish
nymphlike
nymphly
nymph of darkness
nymph of the pavé
nymph of the pavement
nymphoid
nymphology
nymphosis
pronymph
protonymph
seminymph
tree nymph
tritonymph
water nymph
woodnymph
wood-nymph
Related terms: lymph
nymphaeum
nympho
nymphomania
nymphomaniac
sylph
nymph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪmf/
rhymes: -ɪmf
Forms: form: nymphs
form: nymphing
form: nymphed
form: nymphed
form: nymphe
Etymology: From Middle English nimphe, from Old English nymphē and Old French nimphe, both from Latin nympha (“nymph, bride”), from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride”). Doublet of nympha.
Senses: examples: text: Kuster meanwhile nymphed the middle of the Snag. When I joined him, I threw my streamer between the main channel's flow and the skinnier side-channel flow, […]
ref: 2019, James W. White, Fly-fishing the Arctic Circle to Tasmania, page 253:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish using a nymph larva as bait.
Related terms: alseid
auloniad
crinaeae
limnade
meliae
napaeae
oceanid
oread
pegaeae
dryads
hamadryad
naiad
nereid
Hesperides
snare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /snɛə/
ipa: /sneː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /sneə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /sniə/
ipa: /sneɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /snɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: sneer (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snares
Etymology: From Middle English snare, from Old English snearu (“snare, noose”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.
Senses: examples: text: He […] watched Beavis’s long-toothed mouth open and clap to like a rabbit snare.
ref: 1943, Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, London: Heinemann, published 1960, Book Three, Chapter One, pp. 196-197:
text: He felt a snare tightening around his throat; he gasped and threw a leg out of the bed, where it jerked for a second or two, thumping the steel frame, and died.
ref: 2013, Richard Flanagan, chapter 18, in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, New York: Knopf, published 2014, page 332:
glosses: A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
examples: text: If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,
Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: […] if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 23:33:
text: […] and I had now liv’d two Years under these Uneasinesses, which indeed made my Life much less comfortable than it was before; as may well be imagin’d by any who know what it is to live in the constant Snare of the Fear of Man […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 193:
text: “[…] riches are a great snare.”
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
text: They were devious war aims, and Allenby’s campaign was fought with a maximum of snare and subterfuge.
ref: 1978, Jan Morris, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Part One, Chapter 9, p. 173:
glosses: A mental or psychological trap.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A set of stiff wires held under tension against the bottom head of a drum to create a rattling sound.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A snare drum.
snare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɛ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: /snɛə/
ipa: /sneː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /sneə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /sniə/
ipa: /sneɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /snɜː(ɹ)/
homophone: sneer (cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: snares
form: snaring
form: snared
form: snared
Etymology: From Middle English snare, from Old English snearu (“snare, noose”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarhā, from Proto-Germanic *snarhǭ (“a sling; loop; noose”). Cognate with Old Norse snara. Also related to German Schnur and Dutch snaar, snoer.
Senses: examples: text: The mournful crocodile / With sorrow snares relenting passengers.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Lest that too heavenly form […] snare them.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Instead, it aimed for a more important assurance: that if A.I. raises writers’ productivity or the quality of their output, guild members should snare an equitable share of the performance gains. And the W.G.A. got it.
ref: 2023 September 29, Adam Seth Litwin, “Want to Save Your Job From A.I.? Hollywood Screenwriters Just Showed You How.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To catch or hold, especially with a loop.
glosses: To ensnare.
examples: text: […] the slightest recollection of hearing the wind whistling through the cracks in the old house or the rain snaring its tat-a-tat on the rusty tin roof.
ref: 2007 April 11, M. J. Eberhart, Ten Million Steps: Nimblewill Nomad's Epic 10-Month Trek from the Florida Keys to Québec, Menasha Ridge Press, →ISBN, page 123:
text: […] T-Ray snared the drum in the background.
ref: 2010 December 31, Laura Quimby, The Carnival of Lost Souls: A Handcuff Kid Novel, Abrams, →ISBN:
text: […] drummer snaring away on his little drum, tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! tur-r-r-rump! r-r-rump, r-r-rump, r-r-rump! I love drums.
ref: 2021 November 9, Annie Pike Greenwood, We Sagebrush Folks, Rare Treasure Editions, →ISBN:
glosses: To play (a snare drum, or a beat on or as if on a snare drum).
Related terms: ensnare
snare drum
snare-picture
snarl
kleptomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌklɛptəˈmeɪniæk/
rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: kleptomaniacs
form: cleptomaniac
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”) (from Proto-Hellenic *klépťō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klep-) + -maniac.
Senses: examples: text: “A kleptomaniac,” I said. “Which means, if the term is not familiar to you, a chap who flits hither and thither pinching everything he can lay his hands on. [...] And if ever a man needed to be constantly under an eye, it's the above kleptomaniac. [...] He pinches things. Everything that isn't nailed down is grist to his mill.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VI and XII:
text: The dear old room was just as I'd left it, nothing changed, and my first move, of course, was to procure another chair and give the top of the armoire the once-over. It was a set-back to find that the cow-creamer wasn't there. I suppose these kleptomaniacs know a thing or two and don't hide the loot in the obvious place.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
glosses: One who steals compulsively.
Derived terms: kleptomaniacal
Related terms: klepto
kleptomania
maniac
-maniac
maniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪniˌæk/
rhymes: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: maniacs
form: maniack
Etymology: From mania + -ac. Borrowed from French maniaque, from Late Latin maniacus, from Ancient Greek μανιακός (maniakós), adjectival form of μανία (manía, “madness”). Compare manic.
Senses: examples: text: She was driving like a maniac.
text: In these early days of silent pictures, the accent was chiefly on thrills and danger as provided by supposedly unstoppable locomotives with crooks or maniacs on the footplate.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
text: Hey kids, the word of the week is "pupaphobia"! Others may enjoy being frightened by chainsaw-wielding maniacs and cannibal clowns, but my Halloween is never complete without a murderous Muppet or two. Thankfully, a pair of events last Friday the 13th provided a perfect double feature of puppet perversity.
ref: 2017 October 18, Seth Kubersky, “A weekend full of puppetry-themed entertainment is just the ticket, unless you’re pupaphobic”, in Orlando Weekly:
text: “It gives me the dithers, thinking of the damage that maniac could do if he ever took the headship. He could reinstate the cycle of chosen births, or enact any of a hundred other terrible laws.”
ref: 2017, J. C. Staudt, Children of the Wastes:
glosses: An insane person, especially one who suffers from a mania.
examples: text: He's a manga maniac.
text: She's a maniac, maniac on the floor / And she's dancing like she's never danced before
ref: 1983, Michael Sembello, Dennis Matkosky, “Maniac”:
glosses: A fanatic, a person with an obsession.
glosses: Ellipsis of sex maniac.
Synonyms: madling
Derived terms: anthomaniac
brainiac
Cobainiac
ecumaniac
greeniac
humaniac
insaniac
Maine-iac
Mainiac
Mayniac
McCainiac
miniac
Muslimaniac
narcomaniac
orchidomaniac
Pokémaniac
railwayac
Remainiac
Tasmaniac
technomaniac
trainiac
trichomaniac
typomaniac
Whitmaniac
Yakimaniac
Related terms: -maniac
mania
maniacal
long for
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I asked the doctor if I was long for this world
text: But it doesn't matter, because Roxie's not long for this town. As soon as her mother's better, she'll be on her way to Paris.
ref: 2009, Karen Hawkins, Talk of the Town, page 126:
glosses: likely to remain for a long time
long for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: longs for
form: longing for
form: longed for
form: longed for
Senses: examples: text: He was the object of my affection; I longed for him to notice me.
text: Oh how I long for this pandemic to end so we can go dancing again.
synonyms: yearn for
crave for
hanker for
glosses: To have a desire for (a thing or an event).
examples: text: “I will stay now, if you bid me,” she replied, as low. “See, I am going to my mother, who longs for me as I for her. I will not go unless you let me.”
ref: 1888, Tighe Hopkins, For Freedom, volume 2, page 104:
text: For some time he had not heard from his consort[…]His heart longed for her and his child.
ref: 1982, Luise Mühlbach, chapter LIV, in F. Jordan, transl., Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel, page 297:
text: He remembered those long years before his marriage, when he had longed for her and she had resisted him[…]
ref: 2011, Edith Sitwell, Fanfare for Elizabeth:
glosses: To miss (someone).
Related terms: longing
not long for
connect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kə-nĕktʹ
ipa: /kəˈnɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: connects
Etymology: From Latin connectere (“fasten together”), from con- (“together”) + nectere (“bind”), which is cognate with English knot and English knit.
Senses: examples: text: My connects in Chicago are telling me all kinds of things. Nobody knows anything for sure except that Griffith is missing and money is missing.
ref: 2013, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Victoria Christopher Murray, Friends & Foes, page 100:
text: The affidavit says the source wore a recording device during one conversation with the drug dealer, who said the officer "was doing this for big money and does runs for several connects in Bmore. Not just weed, but heroin as well, a few times coke."
ref: 2018 November 20, Justin Fenton, “Documents show FBI was investigating Baltimore officer, who has since resigned, for alleged drug trafficking”, in The Baltimore Sun, archived from the original on 23 May 2022:
text: I called all my connects, but they were completely dry too.
ref: 2021, Mike Majlak, Riley J. Ford, The Fifth Vital:
glosses: Clipping of connection.
A drug dealer.
examples: text: Even though I did not have a lot of connects in Silicon Valley, I was not concerned because I knew that Silicon Valley was not going to solve this problem.
ref: 2019 August 3, Lauren Floyd, quoting Melissa Hanna, “People 'Took One Look at Me' and Doubted 'I could build a Million-Dollar' Company, Says Founder of Mahmee App That Attracted $3M From Mark Cuban, Serena Williams”, in Atlanta Black Star, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2020:
text: Now that you look the part, hopefully, you have some connects because nothing looks worse than paying to get into a club!
ref: 2019 August 28, Chris Black, “Ask Chris Black: How Do You Keep Your Clothes Looking (and Smelling) Fresh?”, in New York Magazine, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
text: My agent has a lot of connects so he's always in talks with people.
ref: 2020 May 27, Catherine Healey, quoting Bryce Cotton, “Perth Wildcats star Bryce Cotton won't be caged if NBA offer comes”, in The West Australian, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022:
text: We wanted to try something new, that's when we started a lot of our influencing on social media. It was a lot of connects but we realized when we came home, we had more resources. More of our close friends.
ref: 2020 November 3, Shirley Ju, quoting Cyrus Dobre, “Cyrus Dobre On Positive Energy, "Bye Bye" & Making People Smile”, in Flaunt, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:
glosses: Clipping of connection.
A useful friend or associate.
seize the day
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: sees the day
Forms: form: seizes the day
form: seizing the day
form: seized the day
form: seized the day
Etymology: Calque of Latin carpe diem, originally meaning "enjoy the day", literally "pluck (or harvest) the day", from a poem by the ancient poet Horace. In Latin, it was common to use carpo (“I pluck something, pick off”) metaphorically to express enjoying a period of time. The use of seize is a traditional mistranslation originating from a confusion with cape, singular imperative of capio (“I seize something, grab”).
Senses: glosses: To enjoy the present and not worry about the future; to live for the moment.
glosses: To make the most of today by achieving fulfillment in a philosophical or spiritual sense.
examples: text: IN toasting the beginning of a new relationship between China and the United States in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing twenty years ago, I quoted from a poem in which Mao Zedong exhorted his followers to work for the victory of communism: "So many deeds cry out to be done always urgently. The world rolls on. Time passes. Seize the day. Seize the hour." Today, as we celebrate the defeat of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and the defeat of aggression in the Persian Gulf, many deeds remain to be done abroad and at home. We must seize the moment to win victory for peace and freedom in the world.
ref: 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Real World”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 13–14:
glosses: To attack the day's efforts with vigor and purpose.
Synonyms: sense: live for the moment
word: carpe diem
sense: live for the moment
word: gather rosebuds
Related terms: stop and smell the roses
yesterday is gone
calque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælk/
rhymes: -ælk
homophone: calc
homophone: calk
Forms: form: calques
Etymology: From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.
Senses: examples: text: David S. Powers, professor of Islamic history and law at Cornell, says he thinks that the word as used today is in the nature of what linguists call a calque, a borrowing from another language in literal translation […]
ref: 2005 March 27, William Safire, “Kifaya!”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: Those phrases, translated from Spanish, are known as calques.
ref: 2023 July 26, Patricia Mazzei, “‘Get Down’ From the Car. ‘Make’ the Line. Is Miami English a Dialect?”, in The New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
synonyms: loan translation
calquing
hypernyms: loan formation
coordinate_terms: word: partial calque, loanblend
english: a term that is partially a calque and partially formally contains a foreign element
translation: a term that is partially a calque and partially formally contains a foreign element
glosses: A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.
Hyponyms: partial calque
Coordinate terms: Hobson-Jobson
loanword
Derived terms: semantic calque
semi-calque
Related terms: metaphrase
calque
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælk/
rhymes: -ælk
homophone: calc
homophone: calk
Forms: form: calques
form: calquing
form: calqued
form: calqued
Etymology: From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.
Senses: examples: text: Terms like "cloud computing" have been calqued into multiple languages, making it easier for global audiences to grasp complex technological concepts. […] For example, translating Shakespeare's works into other languages often involves calquing phrases to maintain the rhythm and metaphorical richness of the original.
ref: 2024 July 6, Soumaya Amine Al Salti, “Calque Examples in Translating: Impacts on Linguistic Diversity”, in Soumaya Salti:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.
Isle of Man
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪl ə(v)ˈmæn/
Forms: form: the Isle of Man
Etymology: From Isle + of + Man.
Senses: synonyms: Man
Mann
Mannin
Ellan Vannin
Manxland
glosses: An island and crown dependency of the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea, part of the British Isles but not of the United Kingdom.
glosses: A rural locality east of Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland, historically in Dumfriesshire (OS grid ref NY0075).
Hypernyms: island
isle
Related terms: Manks
Manx
Manx cat
Manxie
Manxman
Manxwoman
bd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bds
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of boulevard.
examples: text: 1 bd, 1 ba
glosses: Abbreviation of bed (“bedroom”), used in apartment listings.
Synonyms: blvd
zloty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zlɒti/
ipa: /zlɑti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: zloty
form: zlotys
form: zlote
form: zlotych
form: zloties
form: złoty
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish złoty.
Senses: glosses: The currency unit of Poland, divided into 100 groszy.
Gotland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒt.lənd/
ipa: /ˈɡɑt.lənd/
Etymology: From Swedish Gotland.
Senses: glosses: The largest island of Sweden, situated in the Baltic Sea.
glosses: A municipality and county on the island of Gotland, Sweden; the only municipality there, so it, the county and island all have the same area.
Derived terms: Gotlander
Related terms: english: older spelling
translation: older spelling
word: Gothland
word: Gutnish
Öland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Öland. Doublet of Åland and island.
Senses: glosses: The second-largest island of Sweden.
glosses: a province (landskap) in Sweden
Wahhabite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wahhabites
form: Wahabit
form: Wahabite
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A follower of Wahhabism, a fundamentalist movement of Islam.