cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
adrenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈdɹiːnəl/
rhymes: -iːnəl
Forms: form: more adrenal
form: most adrenal
Etymology: From ad- (“near”) + renal (“pertaining to the kidneys”), from Latin rēn (“kidney”).
Senses: examples: text: She seems to inhabit some fluid, crystalline medium. Pure adrenal dream.
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 155:
synonyms: suprarenal
glosses: Pertaining to the adrenal glands (suprarenal glands), their secretions, or the function derived therefrom.
examples: Near-synonym: perirenal
antonyms: intrarenal
hypernyms: extrarenal
glosses: Abutting or near the kidneys.
examples: text: [a single outstanding act of violence][…]took place inside the stadium, and in front of the watching millions, as Liam Roberts launched an adrenal, wildly dangerous flying challenge into the head of Jean-Philippe Mateta with five minutes gone.
ref: 2025 January 3, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Full of excitement or adrenaline.
Derived terms: adrenal artery
adrenal cortex
adrenalectomy
adrenal gland
adrenalin
adrenaline
adrenalism
adrenalitis
adrenally
extraadrenal
hyperadrenalism
hypoadrenal
hypoadrenalism
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
intraadrenal
nonadrenal
periadrenal
sympathoadrenal
Related terms: postrenal
prerenal
adrenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈdɹiːnəl/
rhymes: -iːnəl
Forms: form: adrenals
Etymology: From ad- (“near”) + renal (“pertaining to the kidneys”), from Latin rēn (“kidney”).
Senses: glosses: An adrenal gland.
adulteration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: adulterations
Etymology: From Middle French adulteration and its etymon Latin adulterātĭō. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The process of adulterating.
glosses: The condition of being adulterated.
Derived terms: antiadulteration
economically motivated adulteration
cast iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cast irons
form: castiron
form: cast-iron
Etymology: Derived from the casting of this form of iron. See wrought iron for comparison.
Senses: examples: text: Cast iron is popular for cookware where an even heating temperature is important.
text: The history of cast iron in railway bridges is much more grimly chequered. Brunel's misgivings were proved prudent, tragically, in the 1879 failure of Thomas Bouch's Tay bridge (once a monument to cast iron, now a memorial to many lives lost).
ref: 2025 March 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Remembering Brunel's timber viaducts”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 60:
hypernyms: iron
<
metal
coordinate_terms: pig iron
wrought iron
glosses: A hard and brittle, but strong, alloy of iron, carbon, and silicon, formed by casting in a mould.
Derived terms: cast-iron plant
cast iron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cast iron
form: most cast iron
form: castiron
form: cast-iron
Etymology: Derived from the casting of this form of iron. See wrought iron for comparison.
Senses: examples: text: I use a cast iron skillet for frying pancakes.
text: Various forms of conductors have been invented, such as wooden and iron pipes, of a round, square, and polygonal section; but at present, scarcely any other than sheet or cast iron pipes are employed.
ref: 1851, Frederick Overman, “Blast Pipes”, in The Manufacture of Iron, in All its Various Branches. […] , 2nd edition, Philadelphia: Henry C. Baird, page 413:
text: The old black cast iron skillet is an important part of the batterie de cuisine.
ref: 1979 May 24, Ernest Gueymard, “Louisiana's Creole-Acadian Cuisine”, in Renaud S. Albert, editor, A Franco-American Overview, volume 1, →ISBN, page 295:
text: Three small gelignite bombs, with pocket watch timing devices, were concealed in packets small enough to fit through the slot of the standard cast-iron post box, the cylindrical bright red colored boxes so common throughout London.
ref: 2008, Steven P. Moysey, The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London, Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Made of cast iron.
examples: text: Ernest has a cast iron constitution and never gets sick.
text: Just because a pilot passes a pretty severe medical test every so often, it doesn't mean that he has a Cast Iron constitution and can fly indefinitely.
ref: 1932 January 24, Charles W. Purcell, “Stop Telling the Pilot What to Do”, in Popular Aviation, volume 10, number 1, →ISSN, page 62:
glosses: Durable; tough; resilient.
examples: text: The school's cast iron policy on admissions fees left no leeway for needy students.
text: As far as her own theories are concerned, she is limitlessly credulous, to a degree which makes me suspect that she is a cast-iron idiot.
ref: 2016 March 19, Rod Liddle, “What makes the white working class angry? Twits like Hsiao-Hung Pai”, in The Spectator:
glosses: Inflexible or without exception.
Synonyms: sense: durable, tough, resilient
word: bulletproof
sense: durable, tough, resilient
word: impervious
sense: durable, tough, resilient
word: iron
sense: durable, tough, resilient
word: robust
sense: durable, tough, resilient
word: unshakable
sense: inflexible or without exception
word: iron-clad
sense: inflexible or without exception
word: stern
sense: inflexible or without exception
word: unrelenting
sense: inflexible or without exception
word: unwavering
Derived terms: cast-iron stomach
wrought iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrought irons
Senses: examples: text: Wrought iron is essentially iron that has been worked so that its carbon content is radically reduced. For the purposes of rail bridge-building in the 19th century, this proved revolutionary, and highly advantageous over the dangerously brittle properties of cast iron.
ref: 2021 March 24, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Metallic marvels from rail's Iron Age”, in RAIL, number 927, page 57:
hypernyms: iron
<
metal
coordinate_terms: cast iron
pig iron
glosses: A tough, malleable, ductile form of iron that is forged rather than cast, suitable for welding.
quicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪk(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪkən
Forms: form: quickens
form: quickening
form: quickened
form: quickened
Etymology: From quick(silver) (“mercury”) + -en (suffix forming verbs from adjectives and nouns).
Senses: glosses: To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver.
quicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪk(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪkən
Forms: form: quickens
Etymology: From Middle English quiken (“(chiefly in place names) probably the European rowan or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia), and possibly also the aspen (Populus tremula), juniper (genus Juniperus, specifically the common juniper (Juniperus communis)), or service tree (Sorbus domestica)”), possibly from Old English cwician (“to bring to life, vivify; to come to life, become living; to quicken”) (see etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: […] Miss Wannop moved off down the path: it was only suited for Indian file, and had on the left hand a ten-foot, untrimmed quicken hedge, the hawthorn blossoms just beginning to blacken at the edges and small green haws to show.
ref: 1924 April, Ford Madox Ford, chapter V, in Some Do Not … […] (Parade’s End; 1), 2nd edition, London: Duckworth and Company […], published June 1924, →OCLC, part 1, page 132:
synonyms: quickbeam
quick tree
glosses: In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia).
quicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪk(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪkən
Forms: form: quickens
Etymology: From Middle English quiken (“couch grass (Elymus repens); a leguminous plant, vetch”) [and other forms], a variant of quich, quik (“couch grass (Elymus repens); a leguminous plant, vetch”) [and other forms] (whence modern English quick, quitch (“couch grass, quitchgrass”); the -en element remains unexplained), from Old English cwiċe (“couch grass”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“alive; lively; quick”); see further at etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Quickens-bog may at first seem to derive its name from the plant Quicken, by which, Scotticé, we understand couch-grass, dog-grass, or the Triticum repens of [Carl] Linnæus, and the common English monosyllable Bog, by which we mean, in popular language, a marsh or morass; in Latin, Palus.
ref: 1816, [Walter Scott], chapter VI, in The Antiquary. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 139:
synonyms: word: dog grass
word: quackgrass
word: quickens
word: quick grass
word: quitch
word: quitch grass
word: scutch grass
word: twitch
word: witchgrass
word: couch grass
extra: (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses
qualifier: chiefly Midlands (northern)
glosses: Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
Derived terms: word: quickens
quicksand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪkˌsænd/
Forms: form: quicksands
Etymology: From Middle English quyksande, from Old English cwecesand (“quicksand”), equivalent to quick (“living”) + sand. Cognate with Swedish kvicksand (“quicksand”), Icelandic kviksandur, kviksyndi (“quicksand”). More at quick, sand.
Senses: examples: text: My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand, and the more I struggled the more I sank into it.
glosses: Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.
examples: text: the quicksands of youth
glosses: Anything that metaphorically pulls one down or buries one; a treacherous, risky danger
Synonyms: word: syrtis
word: syrt
quicksilver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭk'sĭlvər
ipa: /ˈkwɪkˌsɪlvɚ/
Etymology: From Middle English quyk silver, quyksilver, quikselver, from Old English cwicseolfor (“quicksilver”, literally “living silver”) (see Latin argentum vivum) from its ability to move. See quick in the sense of "living". Cognate with Dutch kwikzilver, German Low German Quicksülver, German Quecksilber, Danish kviksølv, Norwegian Bokmål kvikksølv, Swedish kvicksilver. By surface analysis, quick (“living”) + silver.
Senses: glosses: The metal mercury.
glosses: An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering.
Synonyms: sense: the metal
word: mercury
sense: the metal
word: hydrargyrum
Derived terms: quicksilvered
quicksilver horizon
quicksilvering
quicksilverish
quicksilver plaster
quicksilver soap
quicksilver water
quicksilver weed
quicksilvery
quicksilver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭk'sĭlvər
ipa: /ˈkwɪkˌsɪlvɚ/
Etymology: From Middle English quyk silver, quyksilver, quikselver, from Old English cwicseolfor (“quicksilver”, literally “living silver”) (see Latin argentum vivum) from its ability to move. See quick in the sense of "living". Cognate with Dutch kwikzilver, German Low German Quicksülver, German Quecksilber, Danish kviksølv, Norwegian Bokmål kvikksølv, Swedish kvicksilver. By surface analysis, quick (“living”) + silver.
Senses: examples: text: Summer is not the most auspicious season for theater in New York. Aside from a few certifiable Broadway hits, it is, in fact, a rather quicksilver commodity.
ref: 1978 August 19, Kevin Warren, “A Flawless Production”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 15:
text: The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial.
quicksilver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭk'sĭlvər
ipa: /ˈkwɪkˌsɪlvɚ/
Forms: form: quicksilvers
form: quicksilvering
form: quicksilvered
form: quicksilvered
Etymology: From Middle English quyk silver, quyksilver, quikselver, from Old English cwicseolfor (“quicksilver”, literally “living silver”) (see Latin argentum vivum) from its ability to move. See quick in the sense of "living". Cognate with Dutch kwikzilver, German Low German Quicksülver, German Quecksilber, Danish kviksølv, Norwegian Bokmål kvikksølv, Swedish kvicksilver. By surface analysis, quick (“living”) + silver.
Senses: glosses: To overlay with quicksilver.
glosses: To treat with quicksilver.
quickstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quicksteps
Etymology: From quick + step.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Esler and Mr. McMorrow went to Kalgoorlie to adjudicate at the goldfields waltz and quickstep championships, and found the standard of dancing surprisingly high.
ref: 1938 October 26, The Daily News, Perth, page 11, column 5:
glosses: A fast foxtrot noted for its complex and intricate footwork.
quickstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quicksteps
form: quickstepping
form: quickstepped
form: quickstepped
Etymology: From quick + step.
Senses: glosses: To dance the quickstep.
examples: text: "Nice to see you, too, Vidar" , Kate said, and she and Mutt quickstepped inside.
ref: 2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: To move with a hurried step.
Wasser
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wassers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
ferrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrums
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ferrum.
Senses: topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various remedies made from iron-containing compounds.
cattlewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattlewomen
Etymology: From cattle + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who raises or tends cattle.
Related terms: cattlegirl
super
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsypɑ/
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːpə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsu.pɚ/
ipa: [ˈsʉu̯.pɚ]
ipa: /ˈsʉː.pə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈsïɯ.pə(ɹ)]
homophone: souper stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Etymology: From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper.
Senses: glosses: Of excellent quality, superfine.
glosses: Better than average, better than usual; wonderful.
Synonyms: sense: better
word: awesome
sense: better
word: excellent
Derived terms: chief super
minisuper
super-app
super ASBO
superbackground
Super Bowl
super combined
supercomposite
supercup
super cup
super deformed
superdick
superdodger
super-duper
superego
superfecta
superfight
superforecaster
superforecasting
superfox
super gonorrhea
super greenhouse gas
Super League
super light
superly
Supermarionation
superminority
superneutral
Super Orange
super outbreak
super over
super PAC
superpenis
superplex
super power
superprimate
superpussy
super recogniser
super shoe
super smelter
super spiral
super stall
super star cluster
super straight
super trouper
super video CD
super weakly interacting massive particle
super X-ray
supreme
Related terms: super-
super
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsypɑ/
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːpə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsu.pɚ/
ipa: [ˈsʉu̯.pɚ]
ipa: /ˈsʉː.pə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈsïɯ.pə(ɹ)]
homophone: souper stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Etymology: From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper.
Senses: examples: text: The party was super awesome.
text: The job is super interesting for a person who enjoys a hardware environment and communicating with people.
ref: 1992 March 14, The Canberra Times, page 9, column 2:
text: “The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried,” he tweeted.
ref: 2022 November 18, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, Kellen Browning, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).
examples: text: I super don't care about that.
glosses: Absolutely; utterly.
super
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsypɑ/
ipa: /ˈs(j)uːpə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈsu.pɚ/
ipa: [ˈsʉu̯.pɚ]
ipa: /ˈsʉː.pə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈsïɯ.pə(ɹ)]
homophone: souper stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: supers
form: supering
form: supered
form: supered
Etymology: Abbreviation by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: The question is: when is the best time to super?
ref: 1917 Dadant, C. P., First Lessons in Beekeeping; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: Clipping of superhive.
examples: text: Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […]
ref: 1987, Television Quarterly, volumes 23-24:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Clipping of superimpose.
shut up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌt ˈʌp/
ipa: [ʃʌʔ ˈʌp]
ipa: [ʃʌt̚ ˈʌp]
ipa: /ʃʌt ˈʌp/
ipa: [ʃʌˈɾʌp]
Forms: form: more shut up
form: most shut up
form: shuddup
form: shutup
form: shurrup
form: shaddup
Senses: examples: 2010. Jem (And Sam). Ferdinand Mount.
She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.
1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75.
Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.
1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166.
Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.
glosses: Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter.
shut up
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌt ˈʌp/
ipa: [ʃʌʔ ˈʌp]
ipa: [ʃʌt̚ ˈʌp]
ipa: /ʃʌt ˈʌp/
ipa: [ʃʌˈɾʌp]
Forms: form: shuddup
form: shutup
form: shurrup
form: shaddup
Senses: examples: text: Shut up! We're sick of your whining!
synonyms: shut it
be quiet
shh
shush
silence
qualifier: highly impolite; dismissal; highly impolite; dismissal
glosses: Stop talking (usually in the form of making annoying, irrelevant, or false comments, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk), arguing, crying, etc.
examples: text: I got accepted to Yale! —Shut up, really? That's awesome!
text: No, I know what home-school is, I'm not retarded! So you've actually never been to a real school before? Shut up! Shut up!
ref: 2004, Tina Fey, Mean Girls (motion picture), spoken by Regina George (Rachel McAdams):
text: Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA.
Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA!
Jen: It means "personal assistant".
Moss: Thank you. Right, OK. What does that actually involve?
ref: 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
synonyms: get out
never
no
no way
yeah right
you don't say
shut the front door
I'll go to the foot of the stairs
glosses: I don't believe it!, no way!
regard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: regards
form: regarde
form: reguard
form: reguarde
Etymology: From Middle English regard, regarde, reguard, from Anglo-Norman reguard, from regarder, reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Piecewise doublet of reward; compare also guard, ward, guardian, and so on.
Senses: examples: text: He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard, and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 750
glosses: A steady look, a gaze.
glosses: One's concern for another; esteem; relation, reference.
examples: text: This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking […]
ref: 1842, Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 144:
text: We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard […]
ref: 1903, Kentucky Mines, Minerals Dept, Annual Report, page 186:
text: These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard.
ref: 1989, Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life, Cambridge University Press, page 399:
qualifier: preceded by “in” or “with”
glosses: A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
examples: text: Dolph. For the Dolphin,
I stand here for him: what to him from England?
Exe. Scorne and defiance, sleight regard, contempt,
And any thing that may not mis-become
The mightie Sender, doth he prize you at.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 77, column 1:
text: He is held in great regard in Whitehall.
synonyms: esteem
repute
glosses: The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.
Synonyms: consideration
onlook
respect
Derived terms: court of regard
disregard
in regard
in regard of
in regard to
regard ring
with regard to
regard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑːd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: regards
form: regarde
form: reguard
form: reguarde
Etymology: Popularized about 2022 along with regarded.
Senses: glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of retard.
ubiquitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈbɪkwɪtəs/
ipa: /juːˈbɪkwətəs/
ipa: /juˈbɪkwɪtəs/
ipa: [juˈbɪkwɪɾəs]
ipa: /juˈbɪkwətəs/
ipa: [juˈbɪkwəɾəs]
ipa: /jʉːˈbɪkwɪtəs/
ipa: [jʉːˈbɪkwɪɾəs]
rhymes: -ɪkwɪtəs
Etymology: From ubiquity + -ous, from Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque (“everywhere”), from ubī̆ (“where”) + -que (“each, ever”).
Senses: examples: text: In Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, God is ubiquitous.
synonyms: omnipresent
glosses: Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
examples: text: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “’’Moby Dick’’, Chapter 41”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
ref: 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:
text: This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 29:
synonyms: ever-present
glosses: Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
synonyms: common
pervasive
glosses: Widespread; very prevalent.
Synonyms: widespread
Derived terms: nonubiquitous
ubiquitous computing
ubiquitously
Related terms: ubiquarian
ubiquitarian
ubiquitary
ubiquiter
ubiquitin
ubiquitinate
ubiquitist
ubiquity
seismicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismicities
Etymology: From seismic + -ity.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A measure or a degree of how seismic a region is or how prone it is to earthquakes.
epoch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːpɒk/
ipa: /ˈɛpɒk/
ipa: /ˈɛpək/
ipa: /ˈɛp.ək/
ipa: /ˈɛpˌɑk/
ipa: /ˈiˌpɑk/
ipa: /ˈeɪˌpɑk/
rhymes: -iːpɒk
rhymes: -ɛpək
Forms: form: epochs
form: epoching
form: epoched
form: epoched
form: epocha
Etymology: From Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “I hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, hold”). Doublet of epoche.
Senses: examples: text: The continuous data were epoched into segments of 1500 ms (starting 500 ms before visual stimulus onset), time-locked to stimulus onset (0 ms) and sorted according to experimental conditions.
ref: 2015 July 6, “Stronger Neural Modulation by Visual Motion Intensity in Autism Spectrum Disorders”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: sciences
glosses: To divide (data) into segments by time period.
adverbial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈvɝbi.əl/
ipa: /ədˈvɜːbi.əl/
Forms: form: more adverbial
form: most adverbial
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis. By surface analysis, adverb + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: As we can have the adjectival forms bright, brighter, brightest, so we can have the adverbial forms brightly, brightlier, brightliest, but degree is alike inconceivable in the adjective ‘round,’ and the A. ‘here.’
ref: 1876, “Ad′verb”, in John M[erry] Ross, editor, The Globe Enyclopædia of Universal Information, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Estes & Lauriat, […], page 25, column 1:
text: And in (123) below, a (bracketed) Adverbial Phrase has undergone WH MOVEMENT:
 (123) (a) [How quickly] will he drink the beer —?
 (123) (b) [How carefully] did he plan his campaign —?
 (123) (c) [How well] did he treat her —?
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 9, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 495:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to an adverb.
Derived terms: adverbial accusative
adverbial adjunct
adverbial case
adverbial clause
adverbial genitive
adverbialism
adverbialist
adverbiality
adverbialization
adverbialize
adverbially
adverbialness
adverbial number
adverbial of time
adverbial participle
adverbial particle
adverbial phrase
nonadverbial
preadverbial
time adverbial
adverbial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ædˈvɝbi.əl/
ipa: /ədˈvɜːbi.əl/
Forms: form: adverbials
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis. By surface analysis, adverb + -ial.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An adverbial word or phrase.
Derived terms: predicative adverbial
time frequency adverbial
Related terms: word: adverbially
contrabassoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrabassoons
Etymology: Semi-anglicized version of Italian contrafagotto, probably following the model of the English word contrabass (which derives from Italian contrabbasso).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way.
Synonyms: contrafagotto
double bassoon
Derived terms: contrabassoonist
romanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: romanizes
form: romanizing
form: romanized
form: romanized
form: romanise
form: Romanize
form: Romanise
Etymology: From Roman + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The author romanizes Chinese names using the Wade–Giles system rather than the Pinyin system.
text: A new system has been invented by which Chinese can be written in our letters as pronounced. This is called by the rather uncouth name of “Romanised.”
ref: 1912, Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, chapter 10, in Changing China,, New York: D. Appleton, page 132:
text: Some of the Chinese students had difficulty comprehending the need to Romanize the Chinese etymons.
ref: 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 147:
synonyms: Latinize
transliterate
glosses: To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet.
examples: text: But since this custome was probably disused before their Invasion or Conquest, and the Romanes confessedly practised the same, since their possession of this Island, the most assured account will fall upon the Romanes, or Brittains Romanized.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, chapter 2, in Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, London: Hen. Brome, page 28:
glosses: To bring under the authority or influence of Rome.
examples: text: […] perhaps he has Romaniz’d his Grecian Dames too much, and made them speak sometimes as if they had been born in the City of Rome, and under the Empire of Augustus.
ref: 1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface:
text: Long before this period, it [London] was fully romanized, and the customs, manners, buildings, and arts of the conqueror adopted.
ref: 1790, Thomas Pennant, Of London, London: Robt. Faulder, page 8:
glosses: To make or become Roman in character or style.
examples: text: […] the more primitive times of Protestantism were more leaning to that which Romanizing spirits have called Puritanism.
ref: 1661, John Corbet, The Interest of England in the Matter of Religion, London: George Thomason, Section 11, p. 50:
synonyms: Latinize
glosses: To make or become Roman Catholic in religion (by conversion), character or style.
examples: text: perhaps too, he [Ben Jonson] did a little to much Romanize our Tongue, leaving the words which he translated almost as much Latine as he found them: wherein though he learnedly followed the Idiom of their language, he did not enough comply with ours.
ref: 1668, John Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesie, London: Henry Herringman, page 50:
synonyms: Latinize
glosses: To fill with Latin words or idioms.
Derived terms: romanization
cover version
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cover versions
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: cover
cover song
coordinate_terms: word: remake
english: motion pictures
translation: motion pictures
glosses: A version of a song that is a new performance or rerecording of that song by a different artist.
tenor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/
homophone: tenner
Forms: form: tenour
Etymology: From Middle English tenour, from Anglo-Norman tenour, from Old French tenor (“substance, contents, meaning, sense; tenor part in music”), from Latin tenor (“course, continuance; holder”), from teneō (“I hold”). In music, from the notion of the one who holds the melody, as opposed to the countertenor.
Senses: examples: text: He has a tenor voice.
text: Many a star athlete has very little hair anywhere except what he wears on top of his head, and a voice that is absolutely tenor.
ref: 1962, Frank Howard Richardson, For Parents Only: The Doctor Discusses Discipline:
text: Sometimes Charlie would sing notes that were more tenor than original melody, forcing Bill to sing a high baritone-style line.
ref: 2009, Richard Smith, Can't You Hear Me Calling: The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:
text: The door swung open, and a masculine voice—a little more tenor than Brookes's bass tones—called, “Brookes, come in. Do you have your colleague with you?”
ref: 2012, Lily George, Captain of Her Heart, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 173:
text: Kahn was not a big man and he had a voice that was a little more tenor than most preferred.
ref: 2015, Michael J. Senger Sr., The Connection, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.
Related terms: Tenor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
laity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˈleɪ.ɪ.ti/
rhymes: -eɪɪti
Forms: form: laities
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman laite, from Latin laitas, from Ancient Greek λαός (laós, “people”).
Senses: glosses: People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
glosses: The common man or woman.
glosses: The unlearned, untrained or ignorant.
Related terms: lay
layman
layman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪmən/
rhymes: -eɪmən
Forms: form: laymen
Etymology: From Middle English layman, lay man, equivalent to lay (“non-clergy”) + man. Cognate with Old Frisian lēkmann, lēkmonn (“layman”), obsolete Dutch leekeman (“layman”), Old High German leihman (“layman”), Danish lægmand (“layman”), Swedish lekman (“layman”), Norwegian lekmann (“layman”), Icelandic leikmaður (“layman”).
Senses: glosses: Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.
examples: text: Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman.
text: Let me explain it to you [[in layman's terms|in layman's terms]].
text: The layman, perhaps, is not fully aware to what extent even the popular reputations of scientists and scholars are made by that class and are inevitably affected by its views on subjects which have little to do with the merits of the real achievements.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 419:
glosses: Someone who is not a professional in a given field.
glosses: A common person.
examples: text: should he be held to be just a layman, or does he have some art?
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 221d:
glosses: A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject.
glosses: Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order.
Derived terms: in layman's terms
laymanism
laymanize
laymanship
Related terms: laity
alto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.təʊ/
ipa: /ˈæl.toʊ/
rhymes: -æltəʊ
Forms: form: altos
form: alti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian alto (“high”). Doublet of old.
Senses: glosses: A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
glosses: A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An alto saxophone.
Synonyms: sense: musical part or section
word: contratenor altus
sense: musical part or section
word: high countertenor
Coordinate terms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
english: initialism of soprano, alto, tenor, bass
translation: initialism of soprano, alto, tenor, bass
word: SATB
Derived terms: alto clarinet
alto clef
alto cliff
alto flute
alto horn
altoist
alto recorder
alto sax
soprano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɹænoʊ/
Forms: form: sopranos
form: soprani
form: sopranoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). Doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French.
Senses: glosses: The musical part higher in pitch than alto, typically encompassing the range of the treble clef.
examples: text: boy soprano
text: soprano saxophone
text: I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.
ref: 2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Chips from a Life, →ISBN:
synonyms: sop
glosses: A person or instrument that performs the soprano part.
Coordinate terms: sense: voice types
word: mezzo-soprano
sense: voice types
word: contralto
sense: voice types
word: countertenor
sense: voice types
word: tenor
sense: voice types
word: baritone
sense: voice types
word: bass
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: SATB
Derived terms: lyric soprano
mezzo-soprano
singing soprano
sing soprano
sopranino
sopranist
soprano clarinet
soprano recorder
soprano sax
soprano saxophone
soprano saxophonist
spinto soprano
soprano
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈpɹænoʊ/
Forms: form: sopranos
form: sopranoing
form: sopranoed
form: sopranoed
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). Doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French.
Senses: examples: text: "Sure they ain't done me no harm," sopranoed the woman.
ref: 1953, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel:
glosses: To sing or utter with high pitch.
contralto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒnˈtɹæltəʊ/
ipa: /kɒnˈtɹɑːltəʊ/
rhymes: -æltəʊ
rhymes: -ɑːltəʊ
Forms: form: contraltos
form: contralti
Etymology: Contraction of contratenor alto, from Latin contratenor altus.
Senses: examples: text: As for her dress, it was invariably rich, effective, and chic, yet in good taste. Lastly, her feet and hands were astonishing, and her voice a deep contralto.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter III, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/III):
text: Out in the yard a womanʼs hoarse contralto intoned a hymn.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 68:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The lowest female voice or voice part, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. The terms contralto and alto refer to the same musical pitch range, but among singers, the term contralto is reserved for female singers; the equivalent male form is counter-tenor. Originally the contratenor altus was a high countermelody sung against the tenor or main melody.
wikipedia: contralto
Synonyms: alto
Coordinate terms: sense: voice types
word: soprano
sense: voice types
word: mezzo-soprano
sense: voice types
word: countertenor
sense: voice types
word: tenor
sense: voice types
word: baritone
sense: voice types
word: bass
Related terms: contratenor altus
alto
tenor
baritone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ɪ.təʊn/
ipa: /ˈbæɹ.ɪ.toʊn/
Forms: form: baritones
form: barytone
Etymology: From Italian baritono, from Ancient Greek βαρύτονος (barútonos), from βαρύς (barús, “heavy”) + τόνος (tónos, “tone”). Doublet of baryton and barytone.
Senses: synonyms: bari
glosses: The male voice between tenor and bass.
glosses: The musical range between tenor and bass.
synonyms: bari
glosses: A person, instrument, or group that performs in the range between tenor and bass.
glosses: A brass instrument similar to the euphonium, but with a cylindrical bore instead of a conical one; a baritone saxhorn.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of barytone.
Coordinate terms: sense: voice types
word: soprano
sense: voice types
word: mezzo-soprano
sense: voice types
word: contralto
sense: voice types
word: countertenor
sense: voice types
word: tenor
sense: voice types
word: bass
Derived terms: bari
baritonal
baritonality
baritone clef
baritone guitar
baritone horn
baritone hornist
baritone sax
baritone saxophone
baritone saxophonist
baritonist
bass-baritone
contrabass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.tɹəˌbeɪs/
Forms: form: contrabasses
Etymology: From Italian contrabbasso, from contra (“against”) + basso (“low”).
Senses: glosses: The part or section one octave lower than bass.
glosses: Double bass; string bass.
glosses: Any of the several contrabass instruments.
glosses: The person or instrument performing the contrabass part.
Derived terms: contrabass bugle
contrabass clarinet
contrabassist
contrabass recorder
contrabass sax
contrabass saxophone
contrabass saxophonist
octocontrabass
subcontrabass
triple contrabass viol
Related terms: bass
contra
like
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: līk
ipa: /laɪ̯k/
ipa: /læ̙ːk/
ipa: /lɑːk/
ipa: /lɔɪ̯k/
ipa: /lʌɪk/
ipa: [ləi̯k]
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: likes
form: lak
Etymology: Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), West Frisian lykje (“to seem, appear, look”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic and Faroese líka (“to like”).
Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).
Senses: examples: text: Tell me your likes and dislikes.
synonyms: favorite
preference
antonyms: dislike
pet hate
pet peeve
glosses: Something that a person likes (prefers).
examples: text: Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
ref: 2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:
text: Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes
ref: 2019, “Balenciaga”, performed by Princess Nokia:
text: Likes are the social media currency undergirding an entire influencer economy, inspiring a million Kardashian wannabes and giving many of us regular people daily endorphin hits.
ref: 2020 January 17, Amy Chozick, “This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes”, in New York Times:
glosses: An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
Derived terms: like farm
like
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: līk
ipa: /laɪ̯k/
ipa: /læ̙ːk/
ipa: /lɑːk/
ipa: /lɔɪ̯k/
ipa: /lʌɪk/
ipa: [ləi̯k]
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: more like
form: most like
form: lak
Etymology: Adjective from Middle English lik, lyk, lich, like, from Old English ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”)
Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from Old English ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”).
Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like.
Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb).
Senses: examples: text: DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit.
CLAUDIO. Faith, like enough.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: Likely.
examples: text: Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 103:13:
glosses: In a like or similar manner.
like
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: līk
ipa: /laɪ̯k/
ipa: /læ̙ːk/
ipa: /lɑːk/
ipa: /lɔɪ̯k/
ipa: /lʌɪk/
ipa: [ləi̯k]
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: lak
Etymology: Adjective from Middle English lik, lyk, lich, like, from Old English ġelīċ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr, glíkr; both from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“like, similar, same”). Related to alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly. Cognate with West Frisian like (“like; as”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”) Swedish lik (“like, similar”)
Adverb from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, from Old English ġelīċe (“likewise, also, as, in like manner, similarly”) and Old Norse líka (“also, likewise”); both from Proto-Germanic *galīkê, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“same, like, similar”).
Conjunction from Middle English like, lyke, lik, lyk, from the adverb Middle English like.
Preposition from Middle English like, lyke, liche, lyche, lijc, liih (“similar to, like, equal to, comparable with”), from Middle English like (adjective) and like (adverb).
Senses: examples: text: 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
text: But if you do right to me, baby
I’ll do right to you, too
Ya got to do unto others
Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you
ref: 1978, Bob Dylan, Do Unto Others:
glosses: As, the way.
examples: text: It looks like you've finished the project.
text: It seemed like you didn't care.
text: Why don’t we do something useful like clean the kitchen?
text: A too skinny white girl, dressed like some kind of teen-ager although she had to be thirty, with one of those fake white-girl smiles stuck on her face like with scotch tape.
ref: 1981 February 14, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 8:
glosses: As if; as though; such as.
Derived terms: be like
feel like
like a plasterer's radio
like there were no tomorrow
look like
make like
seem like
sound like
like
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: līk
ipa: /laɪ̯k/
ipa: /læ̙ːk/
ipa: /lɑːk/
ipa: /lɔɪ̯k/
ipa: /lʌɪk/
ipa: [ləi̯k]
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: likes
form: liking
form: liked
form: liked
form: lak
Etymology: From like (adverb) and like (adjective).
Senses: examples: text: He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition, from the wall of Kensington garden.
ref: 1837, Earl of Orford Walpole (Horace), Correspondence with George Montagu:
glosses: To be likely.
reflex arc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflex arcs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neurophysiology
neuroscience
physiology
sciences
glosses: The neural pathway that mediates a reflex.
Jim Crow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒɪm ˈkɹoʊ/
Etymology: From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance.
Senses: glosses: A Black man.
examples: text: Texas stands for segregation—for Jim Crow cars, for eating in separate restaurants, for sitting in separate rail coaches, for doing all the things which make white and black people in the United States realise how different they are.
ref: 1950 February, Leonard Lindsay, in John O'London's Weekly, “The Jim Crow Car”, in Railway Magazine, page 126:
text: Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?
ref: 2024 February 26, Courtney Kube, Marlene Lenthang, Corky Siemaszko, quoting Aaron Bushnell, “U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy in D.C. has died”, in NBC News:
glosses: The collective policies and customs of an era of racial oppression in the U.S., especially legalized racial persecution and segregationist practices, prevalent from the late 1800s through the 1960s until challenged by the U.S. civil rights movement.
glosses: A fictional character from various minstrel show performances who is stereotypically depicted as an unintelligent, violent, and promiscuous Black man.
Derived terms: Jim Crow law
Jim Crowism
Related terms: sundown town