cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
algolagnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /alɡə(ʊ)ˈlaɡnɪə/
Etymology: From German Algolagnie, from Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”) + λαγνεία (lagneía, “lust”). Equivalent to algo- + -lagnia.
Senses: synonyms: sadomasochism
glosses: A physical condition that causes a person to gain sexual pleasure by suffering pain, particularly to erogenous zones.
Derived terms: algolagniac
algolagnic
algolagnist
Related terms: mastigophoric
sadomasochism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪdəʊˈmæsəkɪzəm/
Forms: form: sadomasochisms
form: sado-masochism
Etymology: From sado- + masochism.
Senses: glosses: The practices of sadism and masochism collectively, usually in reference to consensual practices within the BDSM community.
glosses: Sadism and masochism: the (often sexual) enjoyment by one person of both inflicting and receiving pain.
Synonyms: algolagnia
S&M
S and M
SM
s-m
s/m
Hyponyms: BDSM
masochism
sadism
Derived terms: sadomasochist
sadomasochistic
BDSM
Related terms: bossy and servile
sadomasochist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪdəʊˌmæsəkɪst/
Forms: form: sadomasochists
Etymology: See sadomasochism.
Senses: glosses: A person who enjoys both inflicting and receiving pain for sexual gratification.
Related terms: masochist
sadist
sadomasochism
sadomasochistic
sadomasochist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪdəʊˌmæsəkɪst/
Etymology: See sadomasochism.
Senses: glosses: Sadomasochistic.
sadomasochistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌseɪdəʊmæsəˈkɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more sadomasochistic
form: most sadomasochistic
Etymology: From sadomasochist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to sadomasochism or sadomasochists.
Related terms: masochistic
sadistic
sadomasochism
sadomasochist
ambidextrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæm.biˈdɛk.stɹəs/
ipa: /ˌæm.bɪˈdɛk.stɹəs/
rhymes: -ɛkstɹəs
Forms: form: more ambidextrous
form: most ambidextrous
Etymology: From Medieval Latin ambidexter + -ous, the former from ambi- (“both”) + dexter (“right”), thus literally “both hands being like a right hand”.
The Latin word is first attested in the Vetus Latina, calquing Ancient Greek ἀμφοτεροδέξιος (amphoterodéxios) in Judges 3:15 after the Septuagint, itself translating Hebrew אִטֵּר יַד יְמִינוֹ (iṭṭēr yaḏ yəmīnō, literally “bound in his right hand”). This phrase is now generally translated as “left-handed”; the Septuagint translation is either from a variant reading or from a different interpretation.
Senses: examples: text: Some are […]ambidextrous or right-handed on both sides; which happeneth only unto strong and athletical bodies, whose heat and spirits are able to afford an ability unto both.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having equal or comparable ability in both hands; in particular, able to write well with both hands.
glosses: Equally usable by left-handed and right-handed people (as a tool or instrument).
examples: text: All False, Shuffling, and Ambidextrous Dealings.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Practising or siding with both parties.
glosses: Of a person, bisexual.
examples: text: Michelangelo was a very ambidextrous artist, producing sculptures and frescoes with equal ability.
text: For years, by every possible device, we have been raising the prices of our agricultural products against the foreign buyers […] by every device known to the ambidextrous tradesman and financier. The result is that we have raised up other and unexpected competitors in the markets of the world.
ref: 1884, The British Trade Journal and Export World, page 558:
text: In a footnote, these admirers will often bemoan Agee as a Renaissance or at least ambidextrous artist in an age of specialization, a vast and turbulent ocean syphoned off through a garden hose; not just a novelist manque but also a frustrated […]
ref: 1998, Alan Spiegel, James Agee and the Legend of Himself: A Critical Study, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were spent yachting or canoeing or with his brothers. By 1903, Baden-Powell's military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller,[…]
ref: 2014, Pamela Lillian Valemont, Beauty Queen Murder - Allison Baden-Clay, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: Exceptionally skillful; adept in more than one medium, genre, style, etc.
Synonyms: both-handed
either-handed
Derived terms: ambidextrously
ambidextrousness
ambisextrous
amby
Related terms: ambidexterity
dextromanual
left-handed
right-handed
sinistromanual
ambi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /æm.bi/
ipa: /æm.bɪ/
ipa: /æm.bə/
Etymology: From Latin ambo (“both”). Doublet of amphi-.
Senses: examples: text: ambidirectional
text: ambipolar
text: ambispective
text: ambifix
glosses: Either or both.
examples: text: ambifix
text: ambilateral
text: ambilineal
glosses: On both sides.
examples: text: ambisense
text: ambivert
text: ambisyllabicity
glosses: Intermediate between two categories.
examples: text: ambilocal
text: ambivalent
text: ambiquitous
glosses: Alternating between two categories.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from either
word: ambiactive
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambident
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambidextrous
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambidirectional
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambifix
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambigender
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambigendered
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambigram
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambi-handed
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambilingual
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambipedal
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambiphilia
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambiphilic
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambipolar
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambiposition
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambiregnal
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambisexual
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambisinister
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambispective
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambitransitive
sense: terms derived from either
word: ambiversion
sense: terms derived from both sides
word: ambiciliate
sense: terms derived from both sides
word: ambicoloration
sense: terms derived from both sides
word: ambifix
sense: terms derived from both sides
word: ambilateral
sense: terms derived from both sides
word: ambilaterally
sense: terms derived from both sides
word: ambilineal
sense: terms derived from both sides
word: ambilineally
sense: terms derived from intermediate
word: ambilogy
sense: terms derived from intermediate
word: ambisense
sense: terms derived from intermediate
word: ambisexual
sense: terms derived from intermediate
word: ambisyllabic
sense: terms derived from intermediate
word: ambisyllabicity
sense: terms derived from intermediate
word: ambivert
sense: terms derived from intermediate
word: ambiverted
sense: terms derived from alternating
word: ambilocal
sense: terms derived from alternating
word: ambiquitous
sense: terms derived from alternating
word: ambitendency
sense: terms derived from alternating
word: ambivalent
Related terms: ambiance
ambiguous
ambit
ambition
ambivalent
Bloemfontein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbluːmfɒnˌteɪn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans Bloemfontein, from Dutch Bloemfontein.
Senses: synonyms: Bloem
Mangaung
coordinate_terms: Cape Town
Pretoria
glosses: A major city, the capital of the Free State province, and judicial capital of South Africa.
anal sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anal + sex. First use appears c. 1970 in the American Sociological Review.
Senses: examples: text: They had sex before either knew the other’s surname. They had anal sex before they had vaginal sex.
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 23:
text: It is a common misconception that anal intercourse is an exclusively homosexual male practice. […] As elsewhere in Africa, little data exist on the role of anal sex in HIV acquisition in women in the general population […]
ref: 2010, S. S. Abdool Karim, Q. Abdool Karim, HIV/AIDS in South Africa, page 299:
glosses: A sexual activity involving stimulation of a sexual partner's anus or rectum, especially by penetration with a penis or other object.
wikipedia: American Sociological Review
Synonyms: word: anal sex
word: assfuck
word: bumfuck
word: bumming
word: bum sex
word: buttfuck
word: butt-fucking
word: butt sex
word: butt stuff
word: fifth base
word: fudge packing
word: Greek
word: Greek arts
word: Hershey highway
word: paedicatio
word: reaming
word: rectal sex
word: sodomy
word: taking it up the ass
Hyponyms: word: ass-rape
word: buggery
word: butt-rape
Coordinate terms: scissoring
Related terms: word: vaginal sex
word: sexual activity
word: copulation
word: anus
word: fudge packer
vaginal sex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vaginal + sex.
Senses: synonyms: word: coition
word: coitus
word: cuntfuck
word: fucking
word: full sex
word: intercourse
word: penetration
word: sexual intercourse
word: balling
word: banging
word: humping
word: horizontal polka
word: the beast with two backs
glosses: Sexual intercourse in which the penis is inserted into the vagina.
Related terms: anal sex
manual sex
oral sex
PIV
penetration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛ.nɪˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /pɛ.nəˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: penetrations
Etymology: From Middle English penetracioun, from Old French penetracïon, and its source, Latin penetrātiō, from the participle stem of penetrō (“pierce”, verb). Morphologically penetrate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of penetrating something.
examples: text: Any penetration, however slight, is sufficient to complete the offense.
glosses: The insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse.
examples: text: […] my observations of her looks and actions became acutely sharpened, and that to a degree, which, notwithstanding my efforts to conceal it, could not escape her penetration.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 46:
text: I have no respect for the penetration of any man who can read the report of that conversation, and still call the principal in it insane.
ref: 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown:
glosses: The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment.
examples: text: Arsenal lacked urgency and penetration in a lazy, lacklustre opening half, sucked in by Forest's strategy of sitting back in blocks of defence waiting to hit them on the counter.
ref: 2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The act of progressing or moving forward through or into something.
topics: blackjack
games
glosses: A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play.
examples: text: The electrification of the lines radiating from Casablanca originated with the policy of economic penetration and conciliation pursued by Marshal Lyautey for the pacification of Morocco.
ref: 1950 March, “The Why and the Wherefore: Railway Electrification in Morocco”, in Railway Magazine, page 214:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service.
Derived terms: autopenetration
depenetration
double penetration
interpenetration
market penetration
nonpenetration
overpenetration
penetration aid
penetration line
penetration pricing
penetration test
prepenetration
repenetration
arse bandit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arse bandits
Etymology: From arse + bandit.
Senses: examples: text: And all the sodomites and catamites, poncey sausage jockeys, arse bandits, turd burglars and fudge packers, fur burger-licking carpet munchers, gormless imbeciles, morons, geeks, cretins and retards […]
ref: 2011, Bruce Mason, The Telomere Conspiracy, page 96:
glosses: A gay man.
Related terms: scissor sister
YBP
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Forms: form: yBP
form: ybp
Senses: examples: text: Baked clay ornaments and other objects dating from 28,000 YBP have been discovered in Eastern Europe, […]
ref: 2022, Cherl-Ho Lee, Korean Food and Foodways: The Root of Health Functional Food, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 23:
topics: archaeology
biology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
synonyms: BP
glosses: Initialism of years before present.
Derived terms: english: million years before present
translation: million years before present
word: myBP
word: C14YBP
english: radio carbon years before present
translation: radio carbon years before present
word: RCYBP
buggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡəɹi/
Forms: form: buggeries
Etymology: From bugger + -y (nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery […] shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than ten years.
ref: 1861, United Kingdom, Offences Against the Person Act 1861:
glosses: Anal sex.
examples: text: Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Ten Years.
ref: 1861, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 61”, in Offences against the Person Act 1861^(Offences against the Person Act 1861), page 833:
glosses: Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as homosexuality, bestiality or necrophilia.
examples: text: It's gone to buggery.
glosses: A broken or damaged condition.
Derived terms: antibuggery
like buggery
buggery
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡəɹi/
Etymology: From bugger + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Senses: examples: text: Did he help? Did he buggery!
synonyms: heck
fuck
glosses: Used after an inverted subject pronoun and auxiliary verb or copula to emphatically negate the verb.
buggery
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌɡəɹi/
Etymology: From bugger + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bugger.
synonyms: word: bugger
sadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪdɪzəm/
Forms: form: sadisms
Etymology: From French sadisme and German Sadismus. Named after the Marquis de Sade, famed for his libertine writings depicting the pleasure of inflicting pain to others. The word for "sadism" (sadisme) was coined or acknowledged in the 1834 posthumous reprint of French lexicographer Boiste's Dictionnaire universel de la langue française; it is reused along with "sadist" (sadique) in 1862 by French critic Sainte-Beuve in his commentary of Flaubert's novel Salammbô; it is reused (possibly independently) in 1886 by Austrian psychiatrist Krafft-Ebing in Psychopathia Sexualis which popularized it; it is directly reused in 1905 by Freud in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality which definitively established the word.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The enjoyment of inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.
glosses: Achievement of sexual gratification by inflicting pain or humiliation on others, or watching pain or humiliation inflicted on others.
glosses: Deliberate or wanton cruelty, either mental or physical, to other people, or to animals, regardless of whether for (sexual) gratification.
Derived terms: anal sadism
enforcing sadism
explosive sadism
necrosadism
sadist
sadistic
sadomasochism
spineless sadism
tyrannical sadism
zoosadism
Related terms: cruelty
masochism
schadenfreude
masochism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ə.kɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈmæz.ə.kɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: masochisms
Etymology: From German Masochismus, coined alongside Sadismus in 1886 by Richard von Krafft-Ebing in his book Psychopathia Sexualis. Named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose novel "Venus in Furs" explores a sadomasochistic relationship, + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The (often sexual) enjoyment of receiving pain or humiliation.
wikipedia: Psychopathia Sexualis
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Synonyms: algophilia
Derived terms: ethnomasochism
masochist
masochistic
sadomasochism
Related terms: sadism
nanti
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Forms: form: nantee
form: nanty
form: nuntee
form: nunty
Etymology: Borrowing from Sabir nanti, from Italian niente, from Latin ne gentem (“no person, no one”), nec entem, ne entem or ne inde.
Senses: examples: text: There was no clown for the pantomime, for he had disappointed us, and of course they couldn't get on without one; so, to keep the concern going, old Johnson, who know I was a good tumbler, came up to me, and said 'he had nanti vampo, and your nabs must fake it;' which means,—We have no clown, and you must do it.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, published 1861, The Canvas Clown, page 126:
text: She's with the trade your mother charvaed yesterday. Some omees have nanti taste!
ref: 2004, Paul Baker, Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang:
text: I can't see that over his heaving thews and bulging lallies!¶ Of course he's nanti riah, but with a basket like that, who cares about his eek?
ref: 2012 January 10, Karis, “Gareth's bright blue outfit”, in Big Brother Forum (Digital Spy):
glosses: No; not any.
Derived terms: english: hold your tongue
translation: hold your tongue
word: nanti palaver
english: no money
translation: no money
word: nanti dinarly
english: be careful
translation: be careful
word: nanti parnarly
whine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wīn
ipa: /waɪn/
ipa: /ʍaɪn/
ipa: [ʍʌɪ̯n]
ipa: [ʍäːn]
ipa: [ʍɑe̯n]
rhymes: -aɪn
homophone: wine (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whines
Etymology: From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hwīnan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hwīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian Nynorsk kvina, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine. Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wainōną (for which see dialectal English ween (“to weep, lament”)).
Senses: examples: text: The 18-year-old [Justin] Bieber can’t quite pull off the “adult” thing just yet: His voice may have dropped a bit since the days of “Baby,” but it still mostly registers as “angelic,” and veers toward a pubescent whine at times.
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
glosses: A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.
examples: text: I need to have a quick whine about my boss before we start talking about the holiday.
text: Eighner, in particular, is infamous for his "what publishers and editors did to poor me" whines.
ref: 1987 April 4, T.R. Witomski, “witomski responds to readers' response to witomski (letter)”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: A complaint or criticism.
Derived terms: cheese with that whine
coil whine
niggerwhine
wine-whine merger
whine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wīn
ipa: /waɪn/
ipa: /ʍaɪn/
ipa: [ʍʌɪ̯n]
ipa: [ʍäːn]
ipa: [ʍɑe̯n]
rhymes: -aɪn
homophone: wine (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: whines
form: whining
form: whined
form: whined
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: whine
form: whine
form: whined
form: whine
form: whinest
form: whined
form: whinedst
form: whines
form: whineth
form: whined
form: whine
form: whined
form: whine
form: whined
form: whine
form: -
form: whining
form: whined
Etymology: From Middle English whynen, hwinen, whinen, from Old English hwīnan (“to rush, to whizz, to squeal, to whine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwīnan, from Proto-Germanic *hwīnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Old Norse hvína, whence Icelandic hvína, Norwegian Nynorsk kvina, Swedish vina, and Danish hvine. Despite the strong similarity in sound and meaning, not related with German weinen, Dutch wenen, from Proto-Germanic *wainōną (for which see dialectal English ween (“to weep, lament”)).
Senses: glosses: To utter a high-pitched cry.
examples: text: The jet engines whined at take off.
glosses: To make a sound resembling such a cry.
examples: text: [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
ref: 1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:
text: Feel awfully about Scott... I always knew he couldn't think—he never could—but he had a marvelous talent and the thing is to use it—not whine in public.
ref: 1936 Feb. 15, Ernest Hemingway, letter to Maxwell Perkins
glosses: To complain or protest with a whine (compare whinge) or as if with a whine.
examples: text: The jet whined into the air.
text: The wind whined and moaned through the trees.
glosses: To move with a whining sound.
examples: text: The child whined all his complaints.
text: Kelly Queen was whining that the boss made him put on his tie.
glosses: To utter with the sound of a whine.
Derived terms: whining Willy
yottagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yottagrams
form: yottagramme
Etymology: From yotta- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10²⁴ grams. Symbol: Yg
zettagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zettagrams
form: zettagramme
Etymology: From zetta- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10²¹ grams. Symbol: Zg
exagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exagrams
form: exagramme
Etymology: From exa- + gram.
Senses: glosses: (metrology) An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹⁸ grams. Symbol: Eg
petagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petagrams
form: petagramme
Etymology: From peta- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹⁵ grams. Symbol: Pg
topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹⁵ grams. Symbol: Pg
Sometimes used in Carbon Dioxide numbers, it is equivalent to Metric Gigatons (Giga) 10⁹ x (Ton) 10³ x (kg) 10³ = 10¹⁵
Sometimes used in Carbon Dioxide numbers, it is equivalent to Metric Gigatons (Giga) 10⁹ x (Ton) 10³ x (kg) 10³ = 10¹⁵
teragram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teragrams
form: teragramme
Etymology: From tera- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10¹² grams. Symbol: Tg
gigagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigagrams
form: gigagramme
Etymology: From giga- + gram.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram < milligram < gram < kilogram < megagram
topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁹ grams. Symbol: Gg
Synonyms: kilotonne
megagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megagrams
form: megagramme
Etymology: From mega- + gram.
Senses: examples: Holonym: gigagram
Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram < milligram < gram < kilogram
topics: metrology
related: word: mul:Mg
synonyms: metric ton
tonne
ton
MT
mul:T
mul:t
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁶ grams. Symbol: Mg
hectogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectograms
form: hectogramme
Etymology: From French hectogramme. By surface analysis, hecto- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10² grams. Symbol: hg
Synonyms: sense: Symbol
word: hg
microgram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrograms
Etymology: From micro- + gram.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: milligram < gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram
text: Meronyms: picogram < nanogram
text: All seven cities saw an increase in air pollution during January-May. Readings assessed showed an average concentration of hazardous airborne particles - known as PM2.5 - up by as much as 14.8% in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, and by 16.3% in Shuozhou.[…]
According to the latest data, average rates of PM2.5 in 337 cities nationwide stood at 44 micrograms per cubic meter in the first five months of the year, unchanged from 2018, with 118 cities reaching the national standard of 35 micrograms or below.
ref: 2019 June 20, David Stanway, “China coal hub Shanxi slams seven cities for pollution spike in 2019”, in Sherry Jacob-Phillips, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2019, Environment:
text: In the United States, there was a daily mortality increase of 0.79 percent for each 10 micrograms per cubic meter increase in PM 10 and a 1.58 percent increase for each 10 microgram increase in PM 2.5.
ref: 2019 August 27, Nicholas Balakar, “The Deadly Toll of Air Pollution”, in The New York Times:
topics: metrology
related: word: microgramme
word: micro-gram
word: micro-gramme
synonyms: mul:μg
mul:mcg
mul:microg
mul:ug
gamma
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁶ grams. Symbol: μg A unit of mass equal to one millionth of a gram, or 0.000 001 grams.
Derived terms: micromicrogram
submicrogram
nanogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanograms
Etymology: From nano- + gram.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: microgram < milligram < gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram
Meronym: picogram
topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁹ grams. Symbol: ng
Derived terms: subnanogram
picogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picograms
form: picogramme
Etymology: From pico- + gram.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: nanogram < microgram < milligram < gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram
topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻¹² grams. Symbol: pg
Synonyms: word: micromicrogram
Derived terms: subpicogram
femtogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femtograms
form: femtogramme
Etymology: From femto- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻¹⁵ grams. Symbol: fg
attogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attograms
form: attogramme
Etymology: From atto- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
synonyms: word: zeptokilogram
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻¹⁸ grams. Symbol: ag
Synonyms: ag
zeptogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeptograms
form: zeptogramme
Etymology: From zepto- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻²¹ grams. Symbol: zg
yoctogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yoctograms
form: yoctogramme
Etymology: From yocto- + gram.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻²⁴ grams. Symbol: yg
Synonyms: yg
beseech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĭ-sēchʹ
ipa: /bɪˈsiːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: beseeches
form: beseek
Etymology: From Middle English besechen, bisechen, prefixed form of Old English sēċan (“to seek or inquire about”); compare the doublet beseek, from the same dialect that gave seek. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besäike (“to visit”), Dutch bezoeken (“to visit, attend, see”), German besuchen (“to visit, attend, see”), Swedish besöka (“to visit, go to see”). By surface analysis, be- + seech.
Senses: examples: text: Good madam, hear the suit that Edith urges, With such submiss beseeches; [...]
ref: 1617, pseudo-Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, Philip Massinger, Rollo, Duke of Normandy, or the Bloody Brother, act IV, scene III:
glosses: A request.
eggar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈɛɡə/
rhymes: -ɛɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: eggars
Etymology: Alteration of egger, in reference to the shape of this moth's cocoon.
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae.
Synonyms: sense: moth in Lasiocampidae family
word: lappet moth
sense: moth in Lasiocampidae family
word: snout moth
pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of pool
pools
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːlz/
rhymes: -uːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pool
Engels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛŋɡəlz/
Forms: form: Engelses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Engels.
Senses: examples: Friedrich Engels
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Engels' pause
Engels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛŋɡəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Engel
bier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪə/
ipa: /bɪɚ/
homophone: beer
homophone: bere
homophone: bear (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger)
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: biers
Etymology: From Middle English beer, beere, bere, from Old English bēr, (West Saxon) bǣr (“stretcher, bier”), from Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), Dutch baar (“bier”), German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”). More at bear.
Senses: examples: text: They bore him bare-faced on the bier.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
examples: text: On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peking on March 12. Huang Chi-lu, then a young professor of political science at the University of Kwangtung and destined to become director of the Kuomintang Archives some forty years later, has informed us of the display of strong emotion evidenced by Chiang on this occasion: "The service was officiated by Mr. Chiang and Liao Chung-k'ai and was attended by over four thousand officers, cadets, and soldiers. As the funeral ceremonies began, Mr. Chiang, unable to control himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed tears."¹ Three years later, at the conclusion of the Northern Expedition, a similarly melodramatic scene unfolded before the eyes of the public as Chiang visited Sun's bier in the suburbs of Peking.
ref: 1971, Pichon Pei Yung Loh, The early Chiang Kai-shek: A STUDY OF HIS PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, 1887-1924, Columbia University Press, page 1:
glosses: A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.
glosses: A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
Derived terms: abier
bierbalk
poep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poeps
Etymology: From Afrikaans poep.
Senses: glosses: A fart.
leven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvən/
rhymes: -ɛvən
Etymology: See levin.
Senses: glosses: eleven
glosses: Alternative spelling of levin (“lightning”).
Related terms: fifty-leven
leven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛvən/
rhymes: -ɛvən
Forms: form: levens
form: levening
form: levened
form: levened
Etymology: See leaven
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of leaven.
Related terms: forty-leven
Chinees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinee
dier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diers
Etymology: From die + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It's a way of controlling death. A way of gaining the ultimate upper hand. Be the killer for a change. Let someone else be the dier.
ref: 1985, Don DeLillo, White Noise:
text: Since other languages are structurally constrained to say who it was who died and since the original leaves the identity of the dier unexpressed, any translation in the target language is going to be incorrect.
ref: 2006, Shankar Mokashi Punekar, Awadheswari:
glosses: One who dies.
hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæt/
ipa: [hat]
ipa: [hɛt]
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: hats
form: hatting
form: hatted
form: hatted
Etymology: From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort.
Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.
Senses: examples: text: After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: To place a hat on.
examples: text: It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
ref: 1929 December 2, “Five New Hats”, in Time:
glosses: To appoint as cardinal.
examples: text: We might just go hatting this afternoon […]
ref: 1920, Katharine Metcalf Roof, The Great Demonstration, page 122:
text: Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: To shop for hats.
Derived terms: rehat
hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæt/
ipa: [hat]
ipa: [hɛt]
rhymes: -æt
Senses: glosses: simple past of hit
sad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: SADD
Forms: form: sads
form: sadding
form: sadded
form: sadded
Etymology: From Middle English sad, from Old English sæd (“satisfied, full, sated, unable to handle more, weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *sad, from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated, satisfied”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, satisfy”).
Cognate to Saterland Frisian sääd, West Frisian sêd, Dutch zat, German Low German satt, German satt.
Senses: examples: 16??, John Webster, Appius and Virginia
My father's wondrous pensive, and withal / With a suppress'd rage left his house displeas'd, / And so in post is hurried to the camp: / It sads me much; to expel which melancholy, / I have sent for company.
glosses: To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone).
sad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: SADD
Forms: form: sads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”).
sad
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæd/
rhymes: -æd
homophone: SADD
Etymology: From Donald Trump's frequent usage of the word sad (“shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor”) as an interjection in his tweets; a Trumpism.
Senses: glosses: Expressing contempt, ridicule or disgust; bah!
nap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: knap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: naps
form: napping
form: napped
form: napped
Etymology: From Middle English nappen, from Old English hnappian (“to doze, slumber, sleep”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnappōn (“to nap”). Cognate with Old High German hnaffezan, hnaffezzan (whence Middle High German nafzen (“to slumber”) whence German dialectal napfezen, nafzen (“to nod, slumber, nap”)).
Senses: synonyms: snooze
doze
kip
glosses: To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
examples: text: The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
text: I took thee napping, unprepared.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: To be off one's guard.
Derived terms: catch napping
overnap
nap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: knap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: naps
Etymology: From Middle English nap, from the verb nappen.
Senses: synonyms: word: cark
word: doss
word: rest
word: sleep
word: shut-eye
word: bed booger(s)
word: crusty
word: eye booger(s)
word: eye bogie(s)
word: eye crust
word: eye goop
word: eye gunk
word: eye sand
word: eye snot
word: gound
word: sleeper
word: sleepies
word: sleepy
word: sleepy booger(s)
word: sleepy dust
word: sleepy sand
glosses: A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
Derived terms: catnap
contact nap
dirt nap
disco nap
have a nap
micronap
nanna nap
Napgate
napless
nappish
nappuccino
naptime
power nap
take a dirt nap
take a nap
nap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: knap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: naps
Etymology: From late Middle English noppe, nappe, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German noppe, noppen (“to trim the nap”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin. Related to the first element of knapsack.
Senses: examples: text: I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: There were low bookshelves, there was a thick pinkish Chinese rug in which a gopher could have spent a week without showing his nose above the nap.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 37:
text: THEY CALL IT the "nap of the Earth," that area from the ground to the level of surrounding trees and hills, the thin rug of foliage and rock folds at the Earth's skin line that has become all-important to the United States Army.
ref: 1961, Skyline, page 9:
text: If incorporated in automatic guidance, this practical pursuit adjustment will enhance pilot acceptance of automatic guidance in following nap-of-the-earth profiles with precision.
ref: 1987, Some Data Processing Requirements for Precision Nap-Of-the-Earth (NOE) Guidance and Control of Rotorcraft
glosses: A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
examples: text: If the fabric has a nap, make sure all pieces are cut with the nap going the same direction.
text: Instead of grinding the pistons straight around the axis, they are ground diagonally with a special-built machine. As a result, the “nap” of the metal is turned in such a way that, when it meets the “nap” of the cylinder wall, both surfaces quickly develop a high finish which removes the danger of scoring a piston.
ref: 1969, Classic Car, volumes 17-19, page 32:
glosses: The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
Derived terms: nap dress
napless
nappy
nap-of-the-earth
Napster
nap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: knap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: naps
form: napping
form: napped
form: napped
Etymology: From late Middle English noppe, nappe, from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German noppe, noppen (“to trim the nap”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin. Related to the first element of knapsack.
Senses: glosses: To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).
nap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: knap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: naps
Etymology: From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France.
Senses: examples: text: 4. Races run on English, Welsh or Scottish racecourses. This criterion was included so that media tipsters ^([sic]) nap selections in general could be analysed; the source of naps, The Racing Rag 'tipster table', summarises the nap selections of newspaper tipsters, who restrict their selection to horses running at racecourses in these countries.
ref: 2005, Leighton Vaughan-Williams, The Economics of Gambling, page 71:
glosses: A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
glosses: A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
Derived terms: go nap
nap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: knap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: naps
form: napping
form: napped
form: napped
form: knap
Etymology: Probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Swedish nappa (“to pluck, pinch”). Related to nab.
Senses: glosses: To grab; to nab.
Derived terms: dognap
kidnap
nap the regulars
teen-nap
nap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: knap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: naps
form: napping
form: napped
form: napped
Etymology: From French napper, from nappe (“nape”).
Senses: examples: text: Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.
ref: 2006, Wayne Gisslen, Mary Ellen Griffin, Professional Cooking for Canadian Chefs:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To cover (something) with a sauce. (usually in the passive)
nap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næp/
homophone: knap
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: naps
Etymology: From Middle English nap (“a bowl”), from Old English hnæpp (“a cup, bowl”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“a cup, bowl”). Cognate with Dutch nap (“drinking cup”), Low German Napp (“bowl, cup”), German Napf (“bowl”), Icelandic hnappur (“button, key”). Doublet of hanap. See also nappy.
Senses: glosses: A cup, bowl.
dangerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈdeɪnʒ(ə)ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəs/
ipa: /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒɚəs/
ipa: /ˈdeɪnd͡ʒɚs/
ipa: /ˈdeɪnʒɹəs/
Forms: form: more dangerous
form: dangerouser
form: most dangerous
form: dangerousest
form: daungerous
Etymology: From Middle English dangerous (“difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger”), daungerous, from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French dangereus (“threatening, difficult”), from dangier. Equivalent to danger + -ous.
Displaced native Old English frēcne.
Senses: examples: text: Railway crossings without gates are highly dangerous.
text: [I]t is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Young Indians looking for work opportunities have made up a sizeable portion of undocumented migrants in the US, many after making the dangerous trek through Latin America to reach the US southern border.
ref: 2025 February 7, Esha Mitra, Aishwarya S Iyer and Ross Adkin, “‘Treated like criminals’: Shackling of Indians aboard 40-hour migrant flight sparks new outrage against Trump”, in CNN:
synonyms: hazardous
perilous
risky
unsafe
antonyms: safe
glosses: Full of danger.
examples: text: If they incline to think you dangerous, / They have their knaviſh Arts to make you ſo.
ref: 1696, Tho[mas] Southerne, Oroonoko: A Tragedy […], London: […] H[enry] Playford […]; B[enjamin] Tooke […]; [a]nd S. Buckley […], →OCLC, act III, scene ii, page 41:
text: And the Duke thought: The truth could he worse than he imagines, but even dangerous facts are valuable if you’ve been trained to deal with them. And there’s one place where nothing has been spared for my son—dealing with dangerous facts.
ref: 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
glosses: In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
Synonyms: word: dangerous
word: dangersome
word: hazardous
word: jeopardous
word: wicked
word: parlous
word: periculous
word: perilous
word: precarious
word: risky
word: unsafe
Derived terms: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
a little learning is a dangerous thing
armed and dangerous
dangerosity
Dangerous Corner
dangerous goods
dangerousness
nondangerous
semidangerous
undangerous
Related terms: word: danger
word: dangerously
word: harmful
word: threatening
word: treacherous
word: endanger
labda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labdas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lambda.
hexachord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexachords
Etymology: From hexa- + chord.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A series of six tones denoted with the syllables ut-re-mi-fa-sol-la separated by seconds, the only of which that is a minor second being mi-fa.
Derived terms: hexachordal
combinatoriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combinatorialities
Etymology: From combinatorial + -ity.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A quality shared by some twelve-tone tone rows by which the row and one of its transformations combine to form a pair of aggregates.
Related terms: twelve tone technique
serialism
serial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈsɪɹ.i.əl/
homophone: cereal
Etymology: Formed as series + -al, on model of Latin seriālis, from seriēs + -ālis. Cognate to Italian seriale. First use appears c. 1823. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: These singular ribs have a very different direction from that of the serial teeth of the hinge, and cannot be taken for teeth.
ref: 1823, Royal Institution of Great Britain (contributor), The Quarterly Journal - Volume 14, page 318:
synonyms: sequential
glosses: Having to do with or arranged in a series.
examples: text: The serial killer had a string of victims across seven states.
text: He was a serial entrepreneur, always coming up with a new way to make cash.
text: "No I could not!" Kate looked at Max sternly. "I am not a cheat and I am not a serial monogamist."
ref: 2012, Rachel James, Salisbury, Lulu.com, page 10:
synonyms: career
glosses: Who performs a specified action or course of action repeatedly or regularly.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Published or produced in installments.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a grammatical aspect relating to an action that is habitual and ongoing.
Derived terms: serial art
serial bond
serial comma
serial file
serial interval
serialize
serial key
serial killer
serially
serial monogamist
serial monogamy
serial music
serial number
serial pest
serial polygamy
serial port
serial position effect
serial rapist
serial time-encoded amplified microscopy