cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hobble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒbəl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: hobbles
Etymology: From Middle English hobblen, hobelen, akin to Middle Dutch hoblen, hobbelen (Modern Dutch hobbelen).
Senses: glosses: One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
examples: text: We made it and we hobbled up the stairs. Or I hobbled. My sons didn't hobble, I hobbled.
ref: 2017, Sam Shepard, chapter 37, in Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: An unsteady, off-balance step.
examples: text: "Saddle a horse—any horse—only let him be sure and fleet," cried Ashwoode, "and I'll pay you his price thrice over!"
"Well, it's a bargain," replied the groom, promptly; "I don't like to see a gentleman caught in a hobble, if I can help him out of it. […]
ref: 1845, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Cock and Anchor:
glosses: A difficult situation; a scrape.
glosses: An odd job; a piece of casual work.
Synonyms: english: rope
translation: rope
word: tether
hobble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒbəl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
Forms: form: hobbles
form: hobbling
form: hobbled
form: hobbled
Etymology: From Middle English hobblen, hobelen, akin to Middle Dutch hoblen, hobbelen (Modern Dutch hobbelen).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: shackle, enshackle
text: you hobble your old horse and turn him grazing
ref: 1865, Charles Dickens, Doctor Marigold:
glosses: To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
examples: text: The friar was hobbling the same way too.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
text: Pepa runs all over Madrid in high heels and tube skirts that make her hobble and give the impression of restraining a naturally energetic woman.
ref: 1988 December 25, Michael Bronski, “Passion Statement”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 11:
glosses: To walk lame, or unevenly.
examples: text: The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone:
glosses: To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
examples: Near-synonyms: nobble, hamper, hinder, embarrass
glosses: To disable; to impede.
Synonyms: sense: walk unevenly
word: hirple
Derived terms: chain hobble
hobblebush
hobble-bush
hobble-chain
hobble chain
hobble knot
hobblerope
hobble-rope
hobble rope
hobble skirt
hobble-skirted
hobblesome
hobblingly
hobbly
unhobble
ITU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of International Telecommunication Union, originally called the International Telegraph Union.
glosses: Initialism of International Triathlon Union.
glosses: Initialism of International Typographical Union.
glosses: Initialism of IT University of Copenhagen.
glosses: Initialism of Istanbul Technical University.
ITU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ITUs
Senses: synonyms: ICU
CCU
intensive care unit
glosses: Initialism of intensive treatment unit.
cottager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒtɪd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈkɑtɪd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: cottagers
Etymology: From cottage (“small hut”) + -er (demonym suffix); compare cotter.
Senses: examples: text: The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager, won my reverence; while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 48:
text: A cottager, I mark’d a throne
Of half the world as all my own,
And murmur’d at such lowly lot!
ref: 1827, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Tamerlane and Other Poems:
text: I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
ref: 1854 September – 1855 January, [Elizabeth Gaskell], “Roses and Thorns”, in North and South. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1855, →OCLC, page 23:
synonyms: cotter
cottier
coscet
glosses: A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.
cottager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒtɪd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈkɑtɪd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: cottagers
Etymology: From cottage (“to have sex in a public lavatory”) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: One who engages in sex in public lavatories; a practitioner of cottaging.
obsequiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obsequiousnesses
Etymology: From Middle English obsequyousnesse, equivalent to obsequious + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: obsequience
obsequiosity
obsequity
glosses: The quality of being obsequious; servile compliance.
Derived terms: inobsequiousness
observable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈzɜː.və.bəl/
ipa: [əbˈzɜː.və.bɫ̩]
ipa: /əbˈzɝ.və.bəl/
ipa: [əbˈzɝ.və.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: more observable
form: most observable
Etymology: From observe + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The strange new star was at the edge of the observable universe.
text: In 1913, in the same year that Mother's Day became a nationally observable holiday, the American people passed another milestone: for the first time in American history more than one person in one thousand was divorced.
ref: 2004, John Lukacs, A New Republic: A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century:
text: Although intellectual property rights, such as patents, are highly observable, they are mostly limited to product technologies. Process technologies, or the routines endemic in the firm's production, are not readily observable, and thus cannot be easily imitated.
ref: 2008, David J. Teece, Technological Know-how, Organizational Capabilities, and Strategic Management:
glosses: Able to be observed.
glosses: Deserving to be observed; worth regarding; remarkable.
Synonyms: sense: able to be observed
word: noticeable
word: perceivable
word: perceptible
sense: deserving to be observed
word: eminent
word: noteworthy
word: notable
Derived terms: coobservable
eigenobservable
nonobservable
observableness
observable universe
observably
unobservable
observable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈzɜː.və.bəl/
ipa: [əbˈzɜː.və.bɫ̩]
ipa: /əbˈzɝ.və.bəl/
ipa: [əbˈzɝ.və.bɫ̩]
Forms: form: observables
Etymology: From observe + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Temperature is an observable but entropy is derived.
text: In quantum mechanics, observables correspond to Hermitian operators. Also, they act a lot like random variables. Taking their expected value one may recover something resembling a classical observable.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any physical property that can be observed and measured directly and not derived from other properties
observance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əb-zûrʹvəns
ipa: /əbˈzɝvəns/
ipa: /əbˈzɜːvəns/
Forms: form: observances
form: observancy
form: observaunce
Etymology: From Old French observance, from Latin observantia. Equivalent of observe + -ance.
Senses: glosses: The practice of complying with a law, custom, command or rule.
glosses: The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion.
glosses: Observation or the act of watching.
examples: Thomas Merton was a monk in the Order of Cistertians of the Strict Observance.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A rule governing a religious order, especially in the Roman Catholic church.
glosses: That which is to be observed.
glosses: Reverence; homage.
Derived terms: disobservance
hyperobservance
inobservance
misobservance
nonobservance
Sabbath observance
unobservance
demoniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːməˈnaɪəkəl/
Forms: form: more demoniacal
form: most demoniacal
form: dæmoniacal
Etymology: From Latin daemoniacus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: sarcastic, demoniacal laughter
text: Rebecca laughed in her face, with a horrid sarcastic demoniacal laughter, that almost sent the schoolmistress into fits.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 13:
text: 'What do you think of that, Job?' I asked of our retainer, who was sitting on the edge of the boat, trying to get as much sunshine as possible, and generally looking uncommonly wretched, and I pointed to the fiery and demoniacal head.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Head of the Ethiopian”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 59:
text: The spectator feels almost persuaded that he is witnessing some unearthly demoniacal orgie.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 72:
glosses: Pertaining to, characteristic of, or produced by a demon or evil spirit; devilish, demonic, fiendish.
Derived terms: demoniacally
observant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈzɝvənt/
ipa: /əbˈzɜːvənt/
Forms: form: more observant
form: most observant
Etymology: Borrowed from French observant.
Senses: examples: text: The observant police officer noticed that my tax disk was out-of-date.
glosses: Alert and paying close attention; watchful.
examples: text: I was normally observant of the local parking restrictions.
text: We are told how observant Alexander was of his master Aristotle.
ref: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
text: They also profess Buddhism, but are not so observant of its customs, nor are there so many monasteries and Lamas to be met with as in the other part of Bhutan.
ref: 1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 13:
glosses: Diligently attentive in observing a law, custom, duty or principle; regardful; mindful.
examples: text: She is an observant Catholic who goes to church regularly.
glosses: Practicing a religion.
Derived terms: hyperobservant
nonobservant
unobservant
Related terms: inobservant
V8
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌviːˈeɪt/
Forms: form: V8s
form: V-8
Etymology: From V- + 8.
Senses: coordinate_terms: straight-eight
;
V6
V10
V12
;
V-twin
glosses: An internal combustion engine with eight cylinders arranged in two banks that form a V shape.
coordinate_terms: straight-eight
glosses: A vehicle with such an engine.
intentional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
ipa: [ɪnˈtʰɛnʃənɫ̩]
ipa: /ɪnˈtenʃənəl/
ipa: [ɪnˈtʰenʃənɫ̩]
Forms: form: more intentional
form: most intentional
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin intentiōnālis. By surface analysis, intention + -al.
Senses: glosses: Intended or planned; done deliberately or voluntarily.
examples: text: It should, however, be borne in mind that even in the cohortative proper, the -ah does not add to the simple imperfect the ‘intentional’ signification expressed by that mood: the signification is already there, and the new termination merely renders it more prominent.
ref: 1892, Samuel Rolles Driver, A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew, Third, Revised And Improved edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 79:
text: When Kafka’s novels are analyzed with the autistic frame of reference in mind the behavior of his protagonists make more sense and will reveal that Kafka’s protagonists focus on external behavioral cues which are guided by Kafka’s education and mindset of a lawyer. As such Kafka’s protagonists are a reflection of the thinking and behavior of Kafka the author. Critics and literary scholars misinterpret Kafka’s work by focusing on aspects such as the psychological and mental state of the characters, which are of limited actual concern for the externally intentional focus of the writer Kafka.
ref: 2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume 47, →DOI, pages 2336–2347:
glosses: Reflecting intention; marking an expenditure of will in the shape of a matter.
topics: law
glosses: Done with intent.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Object to intention, only appearing due to wilful perception.
Synonyms: sense: intended
word: deliberate
word: purposeful
word: purposive
word: advertent
word: conscious
word: intentional
word: on purpose
word: volitational
word: volitional
word: voluntary
word: wilful
Hyponyms: word: advised
word: premeditated
Derived terms: intentional community
intentional fallacy
intentional grounding
intentionalism
intentionalist
intentionalistic
intentionality
intentionally
intentional pass
intentional species
intentional walk
nonintentional
preterintentional
intentional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/
ipa: [ɪnˈtʰɛnʃənɫ̩]
ipa: /ɪnˈtenʃənəl/
ipa: [ɪnˈtʰenʃənɫ̩]
Forms: form: intentionals
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin intentiōnālis. By surface analysis, intention + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something that has no essential underlying structure but apparition only as defined by perception; object only because consciousness is directed to it.
examples: text: Tariana distinguishes interrogative and imperative moods. Interrogative mood is marked through a separate set of evidentials fused with tense (see §14.2). Imperatives are discussed in §16.1. Modalities include: frustrative (§16.2), intentional (§16.3), apprehensive (§16.4), uncertainty (§16.5), conditional (§16.6), purposive (§16.7) and counter-expectation (§16.8). […] The intentional is marked with the clitic -kasu. It can occur with any group of verbs, marking imminent action, as in 16.60 and intention, as in 16.61.
ref: 2003, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, “16 - Mood and modality”, in A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 371, 383:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The cohortative mood as found in Hebrew (terminology borrowed from Julius Friedrich Böttcher † 1863 and now outmoded), and constructions of similar purpose in even more exotic languages.
Turing machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turing machines
Etymology: Named after English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing (1912–1954), who introduced the concept in 1936 to give a mathematically precise definition of computability.
Senses: examples: text: Another class, P, is a subset of NP, and includes all decision problems that can be solved by a (deterministic) Turing machine in polynomial time.
ref: 2017, Arlindo Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 81:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An abstract computing machine that has a finite number of possible internal states and operates on an infinite memory tape by first reading a symbol from a cell in the tape, and then, deterministically, based on that symbol and the machine’s state, writing a symbol in that cell, moving to a neighboring cell, and/or changing state.
Related terms: deterministic Turing machine
nondeterministic Turing machine
Turing complete
Turing function
Turing tape
Turing test
turmite
universal Turing machine
functionally complete
genotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more genotoxic
form: most genotoxic
Etymology: From geno- + toxic.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Capable of damaging genetic material such as DNA, and thus causing mutations or possibly cancer.
Derived terms: antigenotoxic
cytogenotoxic
epigenotoxic
genotoxically
genotoxicity
genotoxic stress
nongenotoxic
subgenotoxic
Related terms: genotoxicant
genotoxin
supposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃən/
Forms: form: suppositions
Etymology: From Middle English supposicioun, from Anglo-Norman supposicion, from Latin suppositiō, suppositiōnem (“supposition”), from sub- (“under”) + positiō, positiōnem (“position; theme”), from positus (“position”), from the perfect passive participle of pōnō, pōnere (“put, place”).
Senses: glosses: Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
glosses: The act or an instance of supposing.
Synonyms: word: assumption
word: conjecture
word: educated guess
word: foreguess
word: given
word: guess
word: guesstimate
word: hunch
word: hypothesis
word: inference
word: overhope
word: posit
word: possibility
word: postulation
word: presumption
word: reckoning
word: speculation
word: supposition
word: surmise
word: suspicion
word: theory
word: working hypothesis
Hypernyms: word: statement
Hyponyms: word: prejudice
word: presupposition
word: shot in the dark
word: SWAG
Derived terms: supposition theory
Related terms: word: deposition
word: suppositious
word: supposititious
word: suppository
word: axiom
word: postulate
word: suppose
grey matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray matter
Senses: examples: text: "I'd better be putting my grey matter into that algebra instead of wasting it plotting for a party dress that I certainly can't get."
ref: 1904, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Penelope's Party Waist”, in Short Stories: 1904:
text: "Inspector Pepys!" gasped Bernard Megger, swallowing between the words, "I shall remember you!"
"You will be wasting grey matter!" replied the man.
ref: 1914, Sax Rohmer, chapter 10, in The Sins of Severac Bablon:
text: How many phone numbers are stored in your grey matter?
ref: 2001 September 28, Thomas K. Grose, “Connect the Dots”, in Time:
glosses: Brains; a person's ability to think.
examples: text: He fell from the 5th floor. There is grey matter on the path behind his head. I'm afraid he's dead.
glosses: Literal brains as a general substance.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A collection of cell bodies and (usually) dendritic connections, in contrast to white matter.
Related terms: white matter
observer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈzɝvɚ/
ipa: /ɑb-/
ipa: /əbˈzɜːvə/
ipa: /ɒb-/
Forms: form: observers
Etymology: From observe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Most impartial observers agreed that Sampras had not served well.
glosses: One who makes observations, monitors or takes notice
examples: text: I shall be an observer of the local customs.
glosses: One who adheres or follows laws, guidelines, etc.
examples: text: The UN sent many observers to the country's first elections.
text: When the army reached Tsun-i, an enlarged Politburo meeting was called. Teng attended as an observer.
ref: 1985, Ching Hua Lee, “Becoming Mao's Man (1931-1935)”, in Deng Xiaoping: The Marxist Road to the Forbidden City, Princeton, N.J.: The Kingston Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:
glosses: A person sent as a representative, to a meeting or other function to monitor but not to participate
examples: text: The Vatican and Palestine have observer status at the UN.
glosses: A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization.
examples: text: The only crew-member to survive the crash was the Canadian observer.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A crew member on an aircraft who makes observations of enemy positions or aircraft
examples: text: We waited till dusk when the observers' vision was poorest.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sentry etc. manning an observation post
Synonyms: english: sense 1 only
translation: sense 1 only
word: beholder
word: observator
Hyponyms: air observer
Derived terms: electoral observer
interobserver
intraobserver
nonobserver
observeress
observerless
observer pattern
observership
participant observer
Sabbath observer
Related terms: observable
observably
observance
observant
observation
observational
observatory
observe
obsess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: obsesses
form: obsessing
form: obsessed
form: obsessed
Etymology: From Latin obsessus, perfect passive participle of obsideō (“sit on or in, remain, besiege”), from ob (“before”) + sedeō (“I sit”); see sit, session, etc.; compare assess, possess.
Senses: examples: text: Some people are obsessed with sports.
text: The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
ref: 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
text: Over the past few months, RAIL has frequently condemned the Department for Transport for its growing contempt for rail customers - by obsessing on cost, caring nothing for service, and not having the slightest interest in growth.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
qualifier: passive voice; constructed with "with"; passive voice; constructed with "with"
glosses: To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
examples: text: Thoughts of her obsess my every waking moment.
glosses: To dominate the thoughts of someone.
examples: text: Stop obsessing over it, will you!
glosses: To think or talk obsessively about.
raw_tags: construed with over
Synonyms: fixate
Derived terms: obsessee
obsessingly
obsessive
obsessoid
obsessor
Related terms: obsession
obstacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒbstəkəl/
ipa: /ˈɑbstəkəl/
Forms: form: obstacles
Etymology: From Middle English obstacle, from Old French obstacle, from Latin obstāculum.
Senses: examples: text: A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.
glosses: Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress, either physically or figuratively
Synonyms: impediment
hindrance
hurdle
barrier
complication
snag
Derived terms: obstacle course
obstacle race
obstacle-ridden
obstacular
obstetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɛtɹɪk/
Forms: form: obstetrick
Etymology: From Medical Latin obstetricus (“belonging to a midwife”), from Latin obstētrīx (“midwife”).
Senses: examples: text: obstetric clinic
text: For Wenham, the most striking statistic from Sierra Leone, one of the countries worst affected by Ebola, was that from 2013 to 2016, during the outbreak, more women died of obstetric complications than the infectious disease itself.
ref: 2020 March 19, Helen Lewis, “The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Of or relating to obstetrics (the care of women during and after pregnancy).
Derived terms: nonobstetric
OB-GYN
obstetrically
obstetricate
obstetrication
obstetrician
obstetrics
obstetric toad
obstetrix
obstetrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɛ.trɪks/
ipa: /ɑbˈstɛ.trɪks/
Forms: form: ob.
form: obs.
form: obstet.
form: obstetr.
form: obstetricks
Etymology: From obstetric.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: gynecology
glosses: The care of women during and after pregnancy.
Derived terms: OB-GYN
teleobstetrics
Related terms: obstetrician
obstetrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒbstəˈtɹɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑbstəˈtɹɪʃən/
Forms: form: obstetricians
Etymology: From obstetrics + -ician.
Senses: examples: text: The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.
ref: 2001, Ellen Gruenbaum, The Female Circumcision Controversy: An Anthropological Perspective:
text: “Each time they’d build, they’d try to outbuild all the rest of them,” said Dr. Randall F. Hipple, a retired obstetrician who helped establish a seven-block stretch of the street as a National Historic District.
ref: 2007 July 20, Dave Caldwell, “Williamsport, Pa.: Home of True Small Ball”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: obstetrist
tocologist
glosses: A physician who specializes in childbirth.
Related terms: obstetrician-gynecologist
obstinacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑbstɪnəsi/
ipa: /ˈɒbstɪnəsi/
Forms: form: obstinacies
form: obstinance
form: obstinancy
Etymology: From obstinate + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: He finished only through a mixture of determined obstinacy and ingenuity.
text: "I don't know where," replied the girl.
"Then I do," said Sikes, more in the spirit of obstinacy than because he had any real objection.
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 44, in Oliver Twist:
text: 1877, Leo Tolstoy (author), David Magarshack (translator), Anna Karenina, part 6, ch 12,
His hand closed, he drew back, and his face assumed a still more stubborn expression.
"For you it's a matter of obstinacy," she said, looking intently at him and suddenly finding the right word for the expression of his face which exasperated her so much.
glosses: The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.
glosses: A group of bison; the collective noun for bison.
Synonyms: word: conviction
word: insistence
word: recalcitrance
word: stubbornness
word: tenacity
word: obstinacy
word: doggedness
word: pertinacity
word: resolve
word: temerity
word: vehemence
word: intransigence
word: pigheadedness
Related terms: word: determination
word: perseverance
word: persistence
word: resolution
word: steadfastness
word: sticktoitiveness
word: mumpsimus
word: obstinate
word: persevere
obstructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹʌk.tɪv/
ipa: /əbˈstɹʌk.tɪv/
ipa: /ɑbˈstɹʌk.tɪv/
Forms: form: more obstructive
form: most obstructive
Etymology: From obstruct + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: I wanted to see his report on me, but my manager was being obstructive.
text: The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, chapter V, in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; II), third edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 310:
glosses: Causing obstructions.
Derived terms: antiobstructive
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
deobstructive
nonobstructive
obstructively
obstructiveness
obstructivism
postobstructive
unobstructive
obstructive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹʌk.tɪv/
ipa: /əbˈstɹʌk.tɪv/
ipa: /ɑbˈstɹʌk.tɪv/
Forms: form: obstructives
Etymology: From obstruct + -ive.
Senses: glosses: One who obstructs something.
obtainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈteɪnəbl̩/
Forms: form: more obtainable
form: most obtainable
Etymology: From obtain + -able.
Senses: examples: 2007, Bill Mason, Connetquot targeted: BLACK POWDER HISTORY, Newsday.com, 14 July,
Potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal are combined in proportions and through methods easily obtainable in books and on the Internet.
glosses: Able to be obtained.
Synonyms: word: gettable
word: procurable
word: repertible
Derived terms: inobtainable
nonobtainable
unobtainable
obtrude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈtɹuːd/
ipa: /ɒbˈtɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: obtrudes
form: obtruding
form: obtruded
form: obtruded
Etymology: From Latin obtrūdō (“thrust off or against”), from ob- (“ob-”) + trūdō (“thrust”).
Senses: examples: text: By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
text: It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […]
ref: 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:
text: The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.
ref: 2007 July 16, Andrew Martin, The Guardian:
glosses: To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area.
examples: text: How you can bear such recollections, is astonishing to me!—They will sometimes obtrude—but how you can court them!
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 18:
text: Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.
ref: 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
text: Occasionally the thought obtruded itself that possibly at some later day Tarzan would regret his magnanimity, and claim his rights.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 99:
text: It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life.
ref: 1991, Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre:
text: In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude.
ref: 2010 August 7, Colin Greenland, The Guardian:
glosses: To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into).
examples: text: She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail.
ref: 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, volume II:
text: This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?"
ref: 2004 January 13, Marc Abrahams, The Guardian:
text: As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 121:
glosses: To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in.
Derived terms: obtruder
obtrusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtrusions
Senses: glosses: An interference or intrusion.
glosses: An encroachment beyond proper limits.
Related terms: obtrude
obtuseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtusenesses
Etymology: From obtuse + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being obtuse.
glosses: Something that is obtuse.
Synonyms: obtusity
obverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑb.vɚs/
ipa: /ɑbˈvɝs/
ipa: /əbˈvɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Etymology: From Latin obversus, 1650s.
Senses: examples: text: The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.
synonyms: facing
presenting
glosses: Turned or facing toward the observer.
examples: text: When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.
synonyms: analogous
like
parallel
reciprocal
glosses: Corresponding; complementary.
examples: text: an obverse leaf
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.
Derived terms: obversely
obverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑb.vɚs/
ipa: /ɑbˈvɝs/
ipa: /əbˈvɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: obverses
Etymology: From Latin obversus, 1650s.
Senses: examples: text: The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.
antonyms: reverse
glosses: The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A proposition obtained by obversion, e.g. All men are mortal => No man is immortal.
occultism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occultisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French occultisme, analyzable as occult + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The study of the supernatural
glosses: A belief in occult powers and the hope of controlling them
occultist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌltɪst/
Forms: form: occultists
Etymology: From occult + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 68:
text: In the early 1930s, he fell under the spell of a wife-beating, alcoholic, Austrian occultist called Karl Maria Wiligut and a Dutch prehistorian called Herman Wirth, whose views further fed his fantastical illusions.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 46:
glosses: A person who practises or studies occultism; a practitioner of, or person learned in, the occult.
Derived terms: occultistic
pulmonic sounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: sounds in which the air stream originates in the lungs.
Related terms: airstream
articulation
roach clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roach clips
Senses: glosses: A clip or holder, usually a 1 inch alligator clamp, used to hold the end of a hand-rolled marijuana cigarette so it can be smoked without burning the smoker's fingers.
Related terms: cigarette holder
Shug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Scottish nickname usually applied to people with the first name Hew or Hugh or other spellings of this name.
rat bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat bikes
Senses: glosses: A motorcycle maintained at the lowest possible cost and usually painted black.
Sharma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sarma
Etymology: * Transliteration of Hindi शर्मा (śarmā).
* Transliteration of Telugu శర్మ (śarma).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
glosses: A surname from Telugu.
bushwhacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushwhackers
form: bushwacker
Etymology: From bush + whacker.
Senses: glosses: One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
glosses: A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country.
examples: text: The bushwhackers remained at General Cooper′s camp several days, then crossed the Red River into Texas.
ref: 1962, Albert E. Castel, William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times, page 155:
text: 1967 April, Donald Keith, The Time Machine Hunts a Treasure, Boys' Life, page 51,
She stared at us. “Hardly. You must be from far off, not to know about Quantrill′s raids. Last March the bushwhackers rode into Aubrey, shot every man in town, stole everything, burned down houses. […] ”
text: Many bushwhackers were young men born to families of southern heritage who were generally wealthier and more likely to own slaves than the typical Missouri farmer.[…]His eldest daughter, Elisa, was an effective bushwhacker spy and informant.
ref: 2007, Jeremy Neely, The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line, page 109:
glosses: A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War.
glosses: Someone who attacks without warning.
examples: 1977 September, Dave Hurteau, Air and Water, Field & Stream, page 90,
We spent the rest of the day hopping from pond to pond with the bushwhackers, and we found them very suited for it.
glosses: A small, soft-floored inflatable boat (designed for use by one or two people).
Related terms: word: bushbash
shoesmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoesmiths
Etymology: From shoe + smith.
Senses: synonyms: farrier
shoeingsmith
glosses: A person who shoes horses for a living.
preventing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈvɛntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛntɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prevent
prevented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈvɛntɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prevent
preventable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preventable
form: most preventable
form: preventible
Etymology: From prevent + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being prevented.
preventable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preventables
form: preventible
Etymology: From prevent + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Nonetheless, we should all like to see fewer of these preventables in our ER and more of that money going to help keep these people safe and healthy.
ref: 2011, Leonard J. Marcus, Barry C. Dorn, Eric J. McNulty, Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration:
glosses: Something that can be prevented.
bony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊni/
ipa: /ˈboʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: bonier
form: boniest
form: boney
Etymology: From Middle English bony, equivalent to bone + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
glosses: Full of bones.
examples: text: That bony fellow could use a few hot dinners.
glosses: With little flesh; skinny, thin.
glosses: Having prominent bones.
Derived terms: bonily
boniness
bony bream
bony fish
bony labyrinth
bonytail
infrabony
intrabony
nonbony
suprabony
consistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪstənsi/
Forms: form: consistencies
Senses: glosses: Local coherence.
glosses: Correspondence or compatibility.
examples: text: They want to achieve a high degree of consistency in their process and their product.
text: That consistency of behaviour whereby he inflexibly pursues those measures which appear the most just.
ref: 1716 January 6 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 2. Monday, December 26. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:
glosses: Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
examples: text: Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.
text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
glosses: The degree of viscosity of something.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
examples: text: His friendship is of a noble make and a lasting consistency.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Firmness of constitution or character; substantiality; durability; persistency.
Derived terms: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
endoconsistency
exoconsistency
nonconsistency
paraconsistency
photoconsistency
self-consistency
sparsistency
unconsistency
Related terms: consist
consistence
consistent
spack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacks
Etymology: Possibly a contraction of spastic (as a term of abuse).
Senses: glosses: A person with cerebral palsy.
examples: text: You spilt beer on your shirt, you spack!
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:spack.
synonyms: spacko
spaz
spazmo
glosses: An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person.
Derived terms: spack attack
Related terms: spacko
spacka
spacker
spaz
spastic
pose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊz/
ipa: /pəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: poses
Etymology: From Middle English pose, from Old English ġeposu pl (“cold in the head; catarrh”, literally “(the) sneezes; (the) snorts”), from Old English pos, ġepos (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-West Germanic *pos, from Proto-Germanic *pusą (“sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Germanic *pusōną, *pusjaną (“to snort, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Compare Low German pusten (“to blow, puff”), German dialectal pfausen (“to sneeze, snort”), Norwegian dialectal pysa (“to blow”).
Senses: examples: text: Now […] have we many chimnies, and yet our tenderlings complain of rheums, catarrhs, and poses.
ref: 1586, William Harrison, Description of England:
text: Megg yesterday was troubled with a pose, Which, this night hardned, sodders up her nose.
ref: 1825, Robert Herrick, The poetical works of Robert Herrick:
text: The Ague, Cough, the Pyony, the Pose. Aches within, and accidents without, [...]
ref: 1903, Thomas Heywood, Lucian (of Samosata.), Desiderius Erasmus, Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma's:
text: And whereas some say, that they which use oft washing of their heads shall be very prone to headache, that is not true, but only in such that, after they have been washed, roll up their hair (being yet wet) about their heads; the cold whereof is dangerous to bring them to catarrhs and poses, with other inconveniences.
ref: 2009, Eucharius Rösslin, Thomas Raynalde, Elaine Hobby, The Birth of Mankind:
glosses: Common cold, head cold; catarrh.
pose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊz/
ipa: /pəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: poses
Etymology: From Middle English posen, from Old French poser (“to put, place, stell, settle, lodge”), from Vulgar Latin pausāre (“to blin, cease, pause”), from Latin pausa (“pause”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis); influenced by Latin pōnere. Doublet of pause.
Senses: examples: text: Please adopt a more graceful pose for my camera.
text: Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: Position, posture, arrangement (especially of the human body).
glosses: Affectation.
Derived terms: banana pose
child's pose
cobra pose
composite pose
cool pose
corpse pose
crow pose
multipose
pigeon pose
posedown
poselet
posey
T pose
T-pose
triangle pose
vacuum pose
Related terms: appose
compose
contrapose
counterpose
decompose
depose
dispose
expose
impose
indispose
juxtapose
oppose
postpose
predispose
prepose
presuppose
propose
recompose
repose
superimpose
superpose
suppose
transpose
pose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊz/
ipa: /pəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: poses
form: posing
form: posed
form: posed
form: poze
Etymology: From Middle English posen, a combination of aphetic forms of Middle English aposen and opposen. More at appose, oppose.
Senses: examples: text: And hit fortuned that after .iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke ij:
text: 'Tis my solitary recreation to pose my apprehension with those involved Ænigmas and riddles of the Trinity, with Incarnation and Resurrection.
ref: 1642, Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, in Religio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published 1656, →OCLC, section 9, page 16:
glosses: To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.
glosses: to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.
glosses: To perplex or confuse (someone).
Derived terms: poser
boga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bogas
Senses: glosses: Haemulon vittatum, a species of grunt.
somnambulistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [sɒmˌnæmbjʊˈlɪstɪk]
Etymology: From somnambulist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a somnambulist.
Synonyms: word: somnambulic
word: somnambulant
Related terms: somnambulate
somnambulist
undisputed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisputed
form: most undisputed
Etymology: From un- + disputed.
Senses: examples: text: The publishing industry is littered with frequent blurbers. Still, Mr. Shteyngart managed to stand out as an undisputed master of the form.
ref: 2014 May 17, Jennifer Weiner, “All Blurbed Out”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Universally agreed upon; not disputed.
glosses: Unchallenged and accepted without question.
credenza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəˈdɛnzə/
Forms: form: credenzas
form: credenze
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian credenza. Doublet of credence.
Senses: examples: text: Two credenze dating about the middle of the century, shown in Figures 135 and 136, illustrate the stage of excessive ornamentation of furniture reached about this time.
ref: 1918, William M[acdougal] Odom, A History of Italian Furniture from the Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 202:
text: The furniture consists of many fine small and large cabinets, credenze and tables, all especially alluring and of unusual types not very frequently found today; […]
ref: 1925, Frank H. G. Keeble, “Foreword”, in Italian Renaissance Furniture, Sculptured Bas-Reliefs, Primitive Paintings, Maiolicas, Brasses, Forged Iron, Velvets and Other Textiles from the Studios of an Eminent Florentine Antiquarian (A Collection of Florentine Renaissance furniture and Objects of Art), New York, N.Y.: American Art Association, Inc.:
text: A recessed top story containing a cupboard was added to many credenze in the 16th cent. and this was usual in subsequent periods.
ref: 1960, Helena Hayward, editor, The Connoisseur’s Handbook of Antique Collecting: A Dictionary of Furniture, Silver, Ceramics, Glass, Silver, Fine Art, Etc., New York, N.Y.: Galahad Books, →ISBN, page 86, column 2:
text: It was as if Belonging lay in some ivory-inlaid credenza in the^([sic]) Hague, waiting to be opened before expiration date.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: A sideboard or buffet.
examples: text: I wandered over to his record collection, past his mantel displaying mid-century lighters, past his closet filled with trench coats and shoehorns, past his credenza stacked with pamphlets.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “Yeti Lovemaking”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: A horizontal filing cabinet, typically placed behind a desk.