cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
select
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlɛkt/
ipa: /səˈlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: more select
form: most select
Etymology: From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).
Senses: examples: text: Only a select few were allowed into the premiere.
text: A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Privileged, specially selected.
examples: text: This is a select cut of beef.
text: The two sisters at once called on Mrs. Bolton, in a newish house in a row, quite select for Tevershall.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter VII, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
glosses: Of high quality; top-notch.
select
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈlɛkt/
ipa: /səˈlɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: selects
form: selecting
form: selected
form: selected
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: select
form: select
form: selected
form: select
form: selectest
form: selected
form: selectedst
form: selects
form: selecteth
form: selected
form: select
form: selected
form: select
form: selected
form: select
form: -
form: selecting
form: selected
Etymology: From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).
Senses: examples: text: He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
text: The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
glosses: To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.
Synonyms: sense: to choose
word: choose
sense: to choose
word: opt
Derived terms: sense: from all parts of speech
word: autoselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: bioselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: counterselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: downselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: hand-select
sense: from all parts of speech
word: misselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: multiselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: overselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: preselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: quickselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: reselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectability
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectable
sense: from all parts of speech
word: select agent
sense: from all parts of speech
word: select committee
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectee
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectin
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectly
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectman
sense: from all parts of speech
word: select meeting
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectness
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectome
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selector
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectorate
sense: from all parts of speech
word: select out
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectperson
sense: from all parts of speech
word: select vestry
sense: from all parts of speech
word: selectwoman
sense: from all parts of speech
word: self-select
sense: from all parts of speech
word: subselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: superselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: ultraselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: underselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: unselect
sense: from all parts of speech
word: Western Canadian Select
Related terms: elect
election
elective
elite
en
option-select
selection
selective
option
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒpʃən/
ipa: /ˈɑpʃən/
Forms: form: options
form: optioning
form: optioned
form: optioned
Etymology: From French option, from Latin optiō (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from optō (“I choose, select”). Equivalent to opt + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.
glosses: To purchase an option on something.
examples: text: The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.
ref: 1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To configure, by setting an option.
exclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/
ipa: /ɪkˈsklu.zɪv/
Forms: form: more exclusive
form: most exclusive
Etymology: From Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).
Senses: glosses: Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
examples: text: Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
glosses: Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
glosses: Exclusionary.
examples: text: The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
glosses: Whole, undivided, entire.
examples: text: The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
examples: text: They decided to no longer be exclusive.
glosses: Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
raw_tags: of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship
Derived terms: exclusive disjunction
exclusive economic zone
exclusively
exclusiveness
exclusive-or
exclusive or
exclusive right
exclusivism
exclusivist
exclusivity
exclusivize
mutually exclusive
superexclusive
timed exclusive
ultraexclusive
unexclusive
XAND
XNAND
XNOR
Related terms: english: discrimination
translation: discrimination
word: excludent
exclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/
ipa: /ɪkˈsklu.zɪv/
Forms: form: exclusives
Etymology: From Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).
Senses: examples: text: The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.
glosses: Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
examples: text: The exclusives at the English Universities apply the term CAD to all non-members.
ref: 1873, The Slang Dictionary, John Camden Hotten:
glosses: A member of a group who excludes others from their society.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.
fundraiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌnd.ɹeɪ.zɚ/
ipa: /ˈfʌnd.ɹeɪ.zə/
Forms: form: fundraisers
form: fund-raiser
Etymology: From fund + raiser.
Senses: examples: text: This year’s fundraiser will be a walkathon.
text: But the most politically damaging blow came from a late-breaking apostate: Mr. Clooney, who just weeks earlier had spent time with Mr. Biden and helped deliver $28 million to his campaign at a Los Angeles fund-raiser.
ref: 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An event undertaken to get money by voluntary contributions for a particular activity or cause.
examples: text: She works as fundraiser for the Democratic Party.
text: The symphony will employ women as musicians, conductors, administrators, musicologists, composers and fund raisers.
ref: 1978 December 9, Lynn Tibbets, Amy Hoffman, “N.E.W.S. News”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 8:
glosses: A person who collects money from the public for some cause.
fragment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæɡmənt/
ipa: /fɹæɡˈmɛnt/
ipa: /ˈfɹæɡmɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: fragments
Etymology: From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“to break”) + -mentum.
Senses: examples: text: a fragment of an ancient writing
text: I heard a small fragment of the conversation.
text: […]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
ref: 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:
synonyms: word: chip
word: lump
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An incomplete portion of code.
examples: text: The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.
text: Unique URLs requires you to make like an information architect and do some URL design work. Possibly, you'll be controlling only the fragment identifier rather than the entire URL, but even the fragment identifier has usability implications.
ref: 2006, Michael Mahemoff, Ajax Design Patterns, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 523:
holonyms: anchor link
glosses: A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A split piece of an organism that has undergone the asexual reproduction process where the organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
Derived terms: fission fragment
fraglet
fragmentable
fragmental
fragment antigen binding
fragmentary
fragmentation
fragment crystallizable region
fragmentectomy
fragmentism
fragmentist
fragmentization
fragmentography
fragment shader
hyperfragment
interfragment
Klenow fragment
macrofragment
megafragment
microfragment
multifragment
nanofragment
Okazaki fragment
peptide fragment
photofragment
restriction fragment
sentence fragment
soul fragment
stuffer fragment
stutter fragment
subfragment
Related terms: fractal
fraction
fractious
fracture
infract
infraction
refract
refraction
refractive
refractory
refrangible
refringent
fragment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæɡmənt/
ipa: /fɹæɡˈmɛnt/
ipa: /ˈfɹæɡmɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: fragments
form: fragmenting
form: fragmented
form: fragmented
Etymology: From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“to break”) + -mentum.
Senses: examples: text: Once the centralized power of Rome fragmented, economic, social and political power simplified and relocalized.
ref: 2023 July 31, Charles Hugh Smith, Lessons from the Unraveling of the Roman Empire: Simplification, Localization:
glosses: To break apart.
examples: text: Samois includes celebate ^([sic]), heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women.
ref: 1982 December 18, Pat Califa, “Open Policy”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5:
glosses: To cause to be broken into pieces.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To break up and disperse (a file) into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of an organism: to undergo the asexual reproduction process where an organism spilts into one or more pieces, then those pieces become new individuals.
Synonyms: fragmentize
Derived terms: defragmentation
defragmenter
fragmentable
fragmentation
refragment
pardon
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːdn̩/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹdn̩/
ipa: [ˈpʰɑ˞dn̩]
ipa: /ˈpaːdɘn/
ipa: [ˈpʰäːɾɘn]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dən
Etymology: From Middle English pardonen, from Old French pardoner (modern French pardonner), from Late Latin perdonare, from per- + donare, possibly a calque (if not vice-versa) of a Germanic word represented by Frankish *firgeban (“to forgive, give up completely”), from *fir- + *geban. Akin to Old High German fargeban, firgeban (“to forgive”), Old English forġiefan (“to forgive”). More at forgive.
Senses: glosses: Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.
outcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtkɑːst/
other: /aʊtˈkɑːst/
ipa: /ˈaʊtkæst/
other: /aʊtˈkæst/
rhymes: -aʊtkɑːst
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -aʊtkæst
rhymes: -æst
homophone: outcaste
Forms: form: outcasts
form: outcasting
form: outcast
form: outcast
form: outcasted
form: outcasted
Etymology: From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
Senses: examples: text: And her faire yellow locks behind her flew, / Looſely diſperſt with puff of euery blaſt: / All as a blazing ſtarre doth farre outcaſt / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes diſpredd, / At ſight whereof the people ſtand aghaſt: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16, page 395:
text: It means equal ruin to me, as the world reckons it — outcasting, the loss of my appointment, the breaking off my life's work. I pay my price.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Hill of Illusion”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 84:
glosses: To cast out; to banish.
outcast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtkɑːst/
other: /aʊtˈkɑːst/
ipa: /ˈaʊtkæst/
other: /aʊtˈkæst/
rhymes: -aʊtkɑːst
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -aʊtkæst
rhymes: -æst
homophone: outcaste
Forms: form: more outcast
form: most outcast
Etymology: From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- + cast.
Senses: examples: text: O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!
ref: 1851, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 35:
text: We were not a big huggie family so I was very, very encased in a little stay-away-from-me shell growing-up, and here I got to open up and feel safe and able to touch and hold and be able to be with another human being, which was really a big relief, a very positive part of my understanding of myself that I wasn't just this outcast evil outsider of everything.
ref: 2019, Victor C. de Munck, Romantic Love in America, page 152:
glosses: That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
outcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtkɑːst/
other: /aʊtˈkɑːst/
ipa: /ˈaʊtkæst/
other: /aʊtˈkæst/
rhymes: -aʊtkɑːst
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -aʊtkæst
rhymes: -æst
homophone: outcaste
Forms: form: outcasts
Etymology: From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.
Senses: examples: text: The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.
ref: 2015 March 19, Mekado Murphy, “'The Divergent Series: Insurgent' Creates New Worlds”, in The New York Times:
glosses: One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper.
examples: text: Do you ever feel like an outcast?
You don't have to fit into the format
Oh, but it's okay to be different
'Cause baby, so am I
ref: 2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle, “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max:
glosses: Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
synonyms: word: outsider
extra: someone who does not belong, a misfit
glosses: A quarrel.
glosses: The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting.
Synonyms: word: abject
word: castaway
word: deviant
word: exile
word: fremd
word: leper
word: misfit
word: offscouring
word: outcast
word: outsider
word: overcast
word: pariah
word: reject
word: untouchable
Hypernyms: word: anomaly
word: person
Hyponyms: word: beggar
word: Dalit
word: outcaste
word: scapegoat
Coordinate terms: word: foreigner
word: maverick
word: strange person
word: vagabond
word: vagrant
Derived terms: outcastness
Related terms: word: alien
word: stranger
word: misanthropist
word: odd one out
word: dork
word: recluse
word: Appendix:English terms for outsiders
memorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/
ipa: /ˈmem.əˌɹɑɪ̯z/
Forms: form: memorizes
form: memorizing
form: memorized
form: memorized
form: memorise
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.
ref: 2007, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics, →ISBN, page 543:
text: Many years ago there was a rumor that a basketball star (Jerry Lucas of the New York Knicks) had memorized the entire Manhattan phone book.
ref: 2009, A Practical Study of Argument, →ISBN, page 123:
text: She was so used to the way he moved—they'd been practicing together for years, and she'd memorized the way his body worked.
ref: 2009, Hailey Abbott, The Perfect Boy, →ISBN, page 258:
glosses: To fully learn so as to have entirely available to the memory; to learn by heart, commit to memory.
Derived terms: memorizability
memorizable
memorization
memorizer
mismemorize
nonmemorized
rememorize
unmemorized
rote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊt/
ipa: /ɹoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: wrote
Etymology: From Middle English rote (“custom, habit, wont, condition, state”), further origin unknown. Found in the Middle English phrase bi rote (“by heart, according to form, expertly”), c. 1300. Some have proposed a relationship either with Old French rote/rute (“route”), or Latin rota (“wheel”) (see rotary), but the OED calls both suggestions groundless. Another explanation might be the metaphorical comparison between anything repetitive and playing the rote.
Senses: examples: text: The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.
text: He could perform by rote any of his roles in Shakespeare.
glosses: Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
Synonyms: word: roteness
Derived terms: rotelike
rotely
Related terms: drill and kill
memoriter
muscle memory
rote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊt/
ipa: /ɹoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: wrote
Forms: form: more rote
form: most rote
Etymology: From Middle English rote (“custom, habit, wont, condition, state”), further origin unknown. Found in the Middle English phrase bi rote (“by heart, according to form, expertly”), c. 1300. Some have proposed a relationship either with Old French rote/rute (“route”), or Latin rota (“wheel”) (see rotary), but the OED calls both suggestions groundless. Another explanation might be the metaphorical comparison between anything repetitive and playing the rote.
Senses: examples: text: The former may be seen as a more rote form of learning, contrasting with the latter which appears to include "executive" aspects
ref: 2000, Ami Klin with Fred R. Volkmar and Sara S. Sparrow, Asperger syndrome, page 316:
glosses: By repetition or practice and without much thought.
rote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊt/
ipa: /ɹoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: wrote
Forms: form: rotes
form: roting
form: roted
form: roted
Etymology: From Middle English rote (“custom, habit, wont, condition, state”), further origin unknown. Found in the Middle English phrase bi rote (“by heart, according to form, expertly”), c. 1300. Some have proposed a relationship either with Old French rote/rute (“route”), or Latin rota (“wheel”) (see rotary), but the OED calls both suggestions groundless. Another explanation might be the metaphorical comparison between anything repetitive and playing the rote.
Senses: examples: text: The Model of it was, That a third Part of the Senate or Parliament, ſhould rote out by Ballot every Year; […].
ref: 1744, Zachary Grey, ann., Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D., vol. 2. Dublin: […] Robert Owen […] and William Brien […]. page 92
glosses: To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
examples: [Volumnia to Corolianus] "Because that it lies you on to speak/ to th' people, not by your own instruction,/ Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you,/ But with such words that are but roted in/ your tongue,..." Coriolanus III.ii.52-55
glosses: To learn or repeat by rote.
rote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊt/
ipa: /ɹoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: wrote
Etymology: From Old Norse rót n (“tossing, pitching (of sea)”), perhaps related to rauta (“to roar”); see hrjóta. Compare Middle English routen (“to roar, bellow, storm, rage, howl”).
Senses: glosses: The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
rote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəʊt/
ipa: /ɹoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: wrote
Forms: form: rotes
Etymology: From Middle English rote, from Old French rote, probably of German origin; compare Middle High German rotte, and English crowd (“a kind of violin”).
Senses: examples: text: extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
glosses: Synonym of crowd.
synonyms: word: crowd
permeate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːmiˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɝmiˌeɪ̯t/
Forms: form: permeates
form: permeating
form: permeated
form: permeated
Etymology: First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin permeātus, perfect passive participle of permeō (“to pass through”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: water permeates sand
glosses: To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture
examples: text: Bright sunshine permeates the room on a sunny day.
text: ...it is clear that this Being itself, is what supports and surpasses, includes and permeates all other things.
ref: 1854, Saint Anselm, translated by Sidney Norton Deane, Proslogium and Monologium/Monologium/Chapter 14
text: In the fulness of time there was an eruption of the merry-makers to the sidewalk. The uninvited guests enveloped and permeated them, and upon the night air rose joyous cries, congratulations, laughter and unclassified noises born of McGary's oblations to the hymeneal scene.
ref: 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “From the Cabby’s Seat”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 165:
text: The old smell of dead whale permeates everything. It is a strange and curious place.
ref: 1922 January 4, William Shackleton, Shackleton's diaries:
text: Also, much depended on an exceptional esprit de corps which permeated the whole staff, and achieved miracles of promptitude in such details as engine-changing and the marshalling of trains.
ref: 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 135:
synonyms: impregnate
glosses: To enter and spread through; to pervade.
Derived terms: interpermeate
nonpermeated
nonpermeating
permease
permeative
unpermeated
permeate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːmiˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɝmiˌeɪ̯t/
Etymology: First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin permeātus, perfect passive participle of permeō (“to pass through”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: A watery by-product of milk production.
glosses: Liquid that has passed through a filtration system.
Related terms: impermeable
permeable
permeant
permeation
permeator
figment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɡ.mənt/
rhymes: -ɪɡmənt
Forms: form: figments
Etymology: From Late Latin figmentum (“anything made, a fiction”), from fingō (“make, form, feign”); see fiction, feign.
Senses: examples: text: a figment of one's imagination
text: He had not seen sarcomeres: these segments were a figment of his imagination.
ref: 1989 (Sep 30), R. McNeill Alexander, "Biomechanics in the days before Newton", New Scientist volume 123, No. 1684, page 59
text: Perhaps, dear reader, you are only a figment in the dream of some god, as Sherlock Holmes was a figment in the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ref: 1999, Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, page 12:
text: Jung's implication here is clearly that one should try to forget that this is only a figment or fantasy, merely make-believe—or perhaps that one should forget the “only,” the “merely”—and indeed take the fantasy seriously as a reality.
ref: 2004, Daniel C. Noel, In a Wayward Mood: Selected Writings 1969-2002, page 256:
glosses: A fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
glosses: An item which has been crafted.
Derived terms: figmentation
Related terms: feign
fiction
fictional
fictitious
morsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːsəl/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹsəl/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)səl
Forms: form: morsels
Etymology: From Middle English morsel, from Old French morsel, from Medieval Latin morsellum (“a bit, a little piece”), diminutive of Latin morsum (“a bit”), neuter of morsus, perfect passive participle of mordeo (“I bite”). Compare French morceau, whence the English doublet morceau.
Senses: examples: text: By sticking out his tongue and curling it sideways to explore the hairy jungle around his mouth, he was always able to find a tasty morsel here and there to nibble on.
ref: 1979, Roald Dahl, The Twits:
glosses: A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.
examples: text: Me thinks I ſee the Turke nodding vvith his Turban, and telling me that I ſhould thanke Heaven for that diſtance vvhich is betvvixt us, els he vvould ſvvallovv me all up at one morſell; […]
ref: 1644, James Howell, England’s Teares, for the Present Wars, […], London: […] Richard Heron, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: A mouthful of food.
examples: text: Didn't even a morsel of decency remain in his brother?
ref: 2008, Pamela Griffin, New York Brides, Barbour Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:
synonyms: word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A very small amount.
Derived terms: morselization
morselize
Adam's morsel
Related terms: mordant
remorse
morsel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːsəl/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹsəl/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)səl
Forms: form: morsels
form: morseling
form: morselling
form: morseled
form: morseled
form: morselled
form: morselled
Etymology: From Middle English morsel, from Old French morsel, from Medieval Latin morsellum (“a bit, a little piece”), diminutive of Latin morsum (“a bit”), neuter of morsus, perfect passive participle of mordeo (“I bite”). Compare French morceau, whence the English doublet morceau.
Senses: synonyms: morselize
glosses: To divide into small pieces.
glosses: To feed with small pieces of food.
parity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹɪti/
rhymes: -æɹɪti
homophone: parody (flapping, weak vowel merger)
Forms: form: parities
Etymology: From Middle French parité, from Late Latin paritas, from Latin pār (“equal”). Equivalent to pari- + -ty.
Senses: examples: text: Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
ref: 2000 April 26, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Delta Guide, Pearson Education, unpaged
text: For all their frailty at the back, Arsenal possessed genuine menace in attack and they carved through Chelsea with ease to restore parity nine minutes before half-time. Aaron Ramsey's pass was perfection and Gervinho took the unselfish option to set up Van Persie for a tap-in.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
examples: Parity is always preserved in such operations.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Senses related to classification into two sets.
A set with the property of having all of its elements belonging to one of two disjoint subsets, especially a set of integers split in subsets of even and odd elements.
examples: The particles' parities can switch at random.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Senses related to classification into two sets.
The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Senses related to classification into two sets.
The count of one bits in a value, reduced to even or odd or zero or one.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Senses related to classification into two sets.
Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
topics: games
glosses: In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
glosses: Resemblance; analogy.
Derived terms: brand parity
imparity
nonparity
omniparity
parity bit
parity game
potty parity
purchasing power parity
unparity
parity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹɪti/
rhymes: -æɹɪti
homophone: parody (flapping, weak vowel merger)
Forms: form: parities
Etymology: From Latin paritas, from pariō (“give birth”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The number of delivered pregnancies reaching viable gestational age, usually between 20-28 weeks.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The number of times a sow has farrowed.
parody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹədi/
ipa: /ˈpæɹədi/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹədi/
homophone: parity (flapping, weak vowel merger)
Forms: form: parodies
Etymology: From Latin parōdia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (parōidía, “parody”), from παρά (pará, “besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Senses: examples: text: The lively parody which he wrote […] was received with great applause.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: pastiche
send-up
glosses: A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
glosses: A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
Derived terms: autoparody
paradelle
parodiable
parodial
parodical
parodism
parodist
parodistic
parodize
parody mass
self-parody
parody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹədi/
ipa: /ˈpæɹədi/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹədi/
homophone: parity (flapping, weak vowel merger)
Forms: form: parodies
form: parodying
form: parodied
form: parodied
Etymology: From Latin parōdia, from Ancient Greek παρῳδία (parōidía, “parody”), from παρά (pará, “besides”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Senses: examples: text: The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.
glosses: To make a parody of something.
Derived terms: unparodied
Related terms: satire
satirize
pastiche
send up
sendup
send-up
spoof
take off
takeoff
portion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɹʃən/
ipa: /ˈpɔːʃən/
note: Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpoəɹʃən/
note: Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpoːɹʃən/
note: Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpoɹʃən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ʃən
Forms: form: portions
form: portioning
form: portioned
form: portioned
Etymology: From Middle English porcioun, borrowed from Old French porcion, from Latin portio (“a share, part, portion, relation, proportion”), akin to pars (“part”); see part. Compare proportion.
Senses: glosses: To divide into amounts, as for allocation to specific purposes.
examples: text: Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest.
ref: 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst:
glosses: To endow with a portion or inheritance.
Synonyms: apportion
divide
divide up
divvy
divvy up
Derived terms: portionable
portion off
portion out
counsel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kounʹ-səl
ipa: /ˈkaʊn.səl/
rhymes: -aʊnsəl
homophone: council
Forms: form: counsels
form: counseling
form: counselling
form: counseled
form: counseled
form: counselled
form: counselled
Etymology: From Middle English counseilen, from Old French conseiller, from Latin cōnsilior, from cōnsilium.
Senses: examples: text: The lawyer counselled his client to remain silent.
text: Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals counsel clients.
glosses: To give advice, especially professional advice, to (somebody).
examples: text: I would counsel prudence in this matter.
text: He counseled his daughter to resist the lure of hatred and bitterness.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 10:
glosses: To recommend (a course of action).
Derived terms: cocounsel
counselee
counsellee
keep one's counsel
keep one's own counsel
miscounsel
precounsel
uncounselled
Related terms: counselable
counsellable
counseling
counselling
counselor
counsellor
council
counselor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊnsələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkaʊnslə(ɹ)/
homophone: councilor
Forms: form: counselors
form: counsellor
form: counselour
form: counsellour
form: counseller
Etymology: From Middle English conseillour, counseiler, from Anglo-Norman cunseiler, cunseiliour, from Old French conseillier, from Latin consiliator, agent noun from cōnsilior (“I take counsel”), from cōnsilium (“plan, council, wisdom, advice”). Compare councilor. Displaced native Middle English redere, Middle English redesman, and Middle English redyeve, from Old English rǣdġiefa (literally “advice giver”).
Senses: glosses: A professional who counsels people, especially on personal problems.
topics: education
glosses: A school counselor, often in a specialty such as careers, education, or health.
topics: law
glosses: An attorney.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A high ranking diplomat, usually just below an ambassador or minister.
glosses: A children’s supervisor, usually at camp.
Derived terms: college counselor
community counselor
counselorship
family counselor
grief counselor
guidance counselor
marriage counselor
mental health counselor
rehabilitation counselor
school counselor
telecounselor
cult
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌlt/
ipa: [kʰʌlt]
note: gulf-golf merger
ipa: /ˈkɒlt/
note: without the foot-strut split
ipa: /ˈkʊlt/
rhymes: -ʌlt
Etymology: Derived from French culte, from Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”), from colō (“cultivate; protect”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a cult.
examples: text: a cult horror movie
text: To a certain extent, the cult movie and the classic are opposites, appealing to vastly different audiences. Whereas a film can become an instant cult, and then forgotten, a film cannot become an “instant classic”, which is only critical shorthand for “excellent”.
ref: 2008 August 8, Ronald Bergan, “Don't confuse cults with classics”, in The Guardian:
text: Monte Hellman, whose terse action films, epitomized by the 1971 road movie “Two-Lane Blacktop,” made him a cult hero of the American independent film movement, died on Tuesday in Palm Desert, Calif.
ref: 2021 April 21, William Grimes, “Monte Hellman, Cult Director of ‘Two-Lane Blacktop,’ Dies at 91”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Enjoyed by a small, loyal group.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of kvlt.
Related terms: new religious movement
sect
saxum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæksəm/
Forms: form: saxa
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a boulder, in geographic names on asteroids
disingenuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪs.ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/
Forms: form: more disingenuous
form: most disingenuous
Etymology: From dis- + ingenuous.
Senses: glosses: Not honourable; unworthy of honour.
examples: text: I am not so vain as to think these Remarks free from faults, nor so disingenuous as not to confess them:
ref: 1726, William Broome, edited by Maynard Mack, The Poems of Alexander Pope: The Odyssey of Homer. Books XIII-XXIV, volume 10, Methuen, published 1969, page 378:
synonyms: uncandid
glosses: Not ingenuous; not frank or open.
examples: text: But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
ref: 2012 March 24, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 87:
glosses: Assuming a pose of naïveté to make a point or for deception.
Derived terms: disingenuously
disingenuousness
wyvern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wī'və(r)n
enpr: wĭ'və(r)n
enpr: wē'və(r)n
ipa: /ˈwaɪvən/
ipa: /ˈwɪvən/
ipa: /ˈwiːvən/
ipa: /ˈwaɪvəɹn/
ipa: /ˈwɪvəɹn/
ipa: /ˈwiːvəɹn/
rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)n
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: wyverns
form: wivern
form: wiver
form: wyver
Etymology: Alteration of Middle English wyver (“viper”), borrowed from Old Northern French wivre, from Latin vīpera (“viper; snake, serpent”). Doublet of weever and viper.
Senses: examples: text: The jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
text: Notions of freedom are tied up in drink / Our ideal life contains a tavern / Where man may sit and talk of or just think / All without fear of the nighted wyvern, / Or yet another tavern where it appears.
ref: 1940-54 The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry, "WE SIT UNHACKLED DRUNK AND MAD TO EDIT", UBC Press,1992, p.222
text: Above the shield was the well-known Midland crest of a legless wyvern (a wyvern normally has two legs).
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479:
topics: fantasy
government
heraldry
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
monarchy
mysticism
mythology
nobility
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A draconian creature possessing wings, only two legs and usually a barbed tail.
Related terms: dragon
drake
lindworm
wyrm
rasher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: răsh'ə
ipa: /ˈɹæʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
Etymology: From rash + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rash: more rash
rasher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: răsh'ə
ipa: /ˈɹæʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rashers
form: rashering
form: rashered
form: rashered
Etymology: Unknown origin. Said to be an alteration of rasure.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the bacon sold is rashered or prepared as boiling joints in the retail shop, but recently there have been experiments in central arrangements for rashering bacon and its subsequent distribution pre-packed.
ref: 1956, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by command, volume 26, page 26:
glosses: To cut into rashers.
famulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: famuli
Etymology: From Latin famulus (“servant”).
Senses: glosses: A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar.
Related terms: word: familiar
levin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvɪn/
rhymes: -ɛvɪn
Forms: form: levins
Etymology: From Middle English levene. Spellings in Middle English and Early Modern English include leven, levin, levyn, leiven, and leyven. The earlier etymology is less clear. It is thought to be related to Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌹 (lauhmuni) (which see for some more), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright, to shine”). Possibly a regular reflex, possibly North Germanic loan, or possibly from a lost substrate.
Senses: examples: text: His soul was like the night around us now, dark, and sultry, and silent, but lighted up by the red levin of wrath and torn by the bellowings of thunder-passion.
ref: 1864, George MacDonald, The Old Nurse's Story:
text: And forth rith al so leuin fares.
ref: [c. 1280, “Godrich Displays Great Prowess”, in Frederic Madden, editor, The Lay of Havelok the Dane (in Middle English), London: N[icholas] Trübner & Company, published 1868, page 76, line 2690:
text: [N]either blood in face nor life in hart / It left, but both did quite drye vp, and blaſt; / As percing leuin, which the inner part / Of euery thing conſumes, and calcineth by art.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 48, page 475:
text: [...] I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time – they or their seed might escape a fatal Ramoth-Gilead.
ref: 1848, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Preface to the Second London Edition”, in Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. [...] In Two Volumes, copyright edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernh[ard] Tauchnitz Jun., →OCLC, page IX:
text: Never, elsewhen, from heaven when all serene / Fell there more levin-bolts; nor flamed so oft / Comets with curses fraught.
ref: 1854, Virgil, “The First Georgic”, in W[illiam] Sewell, transl., The Georgics of Virgil, Literally and Rhythmically Translated, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: J. H. Parker, →OCLC, pages 20–21:
glosses: Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.
Derived terms: levin brand
clochard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clochards
Etymology: Borrowed from French clochard.
Senses: examples: text: He nearly fell over the Pont Neuf, enjoyed the conversation and esteem of several hairy clochards, and was finally knocked down by a taxi in the Place Vendôme […]
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 492:
text: ‘Those clochards in Cannes, mostly old soixante-huitards. They see a tribute to modern industrial genius and can't resist giving it a swift kick.’
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 92:
glosses: A beggar or tramp, especially in France.
gaff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡæf/
rhymes: -æf
homophone: gaffe
Forms: form: gaffs
Etymology: From Middle English gaffe, from Old French gaffe, from Old Occitan gaf (“hook”), derivative of gafar (“to seize”), from 𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (giban, “to give”). Doublet of gaffe.
Sense 5 apparently derives from the idea that the garment tricks or deceives others about the wearer's genitalia.
Senses: examples: text: When Leonard finally hauls up a cod of seventy-five centimeters, probably seven years old, a typical catch ten years ago, they all joke, "Oh my God, get the gaff!"
ref: 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod: a Biography of the Fish That Changed the World:
synonyms: hakapik
glosses: A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.
examples: text: We politely ignored his gaff.
glosses: A minor error or faux pas, a gaffe.
examples: text: The sideshow feat was just a gaff, but the audience was too proud to admit they'd been fooled.
glosses: A trick or con.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The upper spar used to control a gaff-rigged sail.
examples: text: This may sound strange to readers who know little about nudes but many female impersonators, or femme-mimics, work au naturel—except for a gaff, a bra, body makeup, jewelry, and a wig (on their head). See! Semi-nude!!
ref: 1964, Kenneth Marlowe, Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 17:
text: Sissy maids may be required to wear a gaff to disguise the male genitals, and a dominant may wish a slave to wear it on a daily basis.
ref: 1996, Christina Abernathy, Miss Abernathy's Concise Slave Training Manual, San Francisco: Greenery Press, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Vicky is a pre-operative MTF transsexual […] Wearing feminine underwear over her gaff in bed helps her to redefine her absence of female genitalia during sex (sexuality) in terms of it being her 'time of the month', as she jokes to Sean [her first boyfriend].
ref: 2006, Richard Ekins, Dave King, The Transgender Phenomenon, Sage Publications, →ISBN, page 227:
coordinate_terms: packer
glosses: A type of tight, panty-like underwear worn to hold the penis and testicles tucked backwards and make one's genital region look smooth, as if one had a vulva.
Derived terms: all over the gaff
gaffman
gaff rig
gaffsail
gaff sail
gaffsman
gaff tape
gaff-topsail
Gaff Topsail
monkey gaff
penny-gaff
tip the gaff