cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
embolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmbəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: embolisms
Etymology: The term was coined in 1848 by Rudolf Virchow. From Old French embolisme (“intercalation of days in a calendar to correct errors”), from Late Latin embolismus, from Ancient Greek ἐμβολισμός (embolismós, “intercalary”), from ἐμβάλλω (embállō, “to insert, throw in”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An obstruction or occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus, that is by a blood clot, air bubble or other matter that has been transported by the blood stream.
examples: text: Authorities differ as to the manner in which the Arabs practised embolism: some say, they added a month to every third year; others, that they intercalated seven months in a period of nineteen years ; and others, nine months in twenty-four years.
ref: 1844, The Asiatic journal and monthly miscellany, volume 2:
glosses: The insertion or intercalation of days into the calendar in order to correct the error arising from the difference between the civil year and the solar year.
topics: Christianity
glosses: An intercalated prayer for deliverance from evil coming after the Lord's Prayer.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The variable body of a liturgical preface, between the protocol and eschatocol, typically stating the motive for worship on a given day.
Derived terms: aeroembolism
air embolism
amniotic fluid embolism
atheroembolism
cardioembolism
embolismal
embolismatic
embolismic
embolismical
fat embolism
macroembolism
microembolism
paradoxical embolism
pulmonary embolism
radioembolism
thrombembolism
thromboembolism
Related terms: embolus
emblem
thrombosis
sudden infant death syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SIDS
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The sudden and unexplained death of an infant aged one month to one year, normally while sleeping.
Synonyms: crib death
cot death
triatic stay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triatic stays
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A stay connecting the mastheads of a multi-masted rig such as a schooner or ketch.
trestle tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trestle trees
Senses: glosses: A structure attached to a mast to support the top and the heel of a topmast.
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: tree
proedria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proedrias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προεδρία (proedría).
Senses: glosses: The grassy area that separated the orchestra from the audience; or the front rows of the audience.
raw_tags: in a classical Greek theatre
glosses: The right to sit in front seats at the theatre, public games, etc
raw_tags: in a classical Greek theatre
curate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjʊəɹət/
ipa: /-ɹɪt/
enpr: kjo͝oʹrĭt
ipa: /ˈkjʊɹɪt/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ʊəɹət
Forms: form: curates
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin cūrātus (“one who has been curated, a curate”), a substantivation of the perfect passive participle of cūrō. Doublet of curato and curé. Equivalent to cure + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: hypernyms: cleric
coordinate_terms: abbé
deacon
;
canon#Etymology_2
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priest
reverend
pastor
rector
vicar
glosses: An assistant rector or vicar.
hypernyms: cleric
glosses: A parish priest.
examples: text: ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed. He put his penny on the counter and, leaving the curate to grope for it in the gloom, retreated out of the snug as furtively as he had entered it.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 107:
glosses: An assistant barman.
Derived terms: curacy
curateless
curate's egg
curateship
curatic
curatolatry
perpetual curate
Related terms: sinecure
curate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjʊəɹət/
ipa: /-ɹɪt/
enpr: kjo͝oʹrĭt
ipa: /ˈkjʊɹɪt/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ʊəɹət
ipa: /kjʊəˈɹeɪt/
enpr: kjo͝o-rātʹ
enpr: kjo͝oʹrāt
ipa: /kjʊˈɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkjʊɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: curates
Etymology: From cur(ium) + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.
belligerence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belligerences
form: belligerency
Etymology: From belligerent + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: A closer look at North Korean history reveals what Pyongyang’s leaders really want their near-farcical belligerence to achieve — a reminder to the world that North Korea exists, and an impression abroad that its leaders are irrational and unpredictable.
ref: 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:
antonyms: nonbelligerency
glosses: The state of being belligerent; aggressive inclination to war.
seriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪɹiəsnəs/
ipa: /ˈsɪəɹiəsnəs/
Forms: form: seriousnesses
Etymology: From serious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
ref: 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:
synonyms: earnestness
seriosity
antonyms: jocularity
levity
unseriousness
glosses: The state or quality of being serious.
Related terms: self-seriousness
serious
sincerity
sincereness
TIFF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪf/
homophone: tiff
Senses: qualifier: computer graphics file format
glosses: Acronym of tagged image file format.
TIFF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪf/
homophone: tiff
Forms: form: TIFFs
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: tif
Tif
TIF
glosses: An image stored in the TIFF format.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: .tif
.Tif
.TIF
.tiff
.Tiff
.TIFF
glosses: A file using TIFF file format
SVG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Scalable Vector Graphics.
glosses: Initialism of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a Caribbean nation.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Stevenage railway station in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England.
glosses: Initialism of Schroder Venture Group.
glosses: Initialism of Sun Valley Gardens, a nudist club in Pelham, Ontario, Canada.
SVG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SVGs
Senses: examples: text: In this chapter we will cover: […] • Creating SVGs with popular image editing packages and services • Inserting SVGs into a page with img and object tags […]
ref: 2015, Ben Frain, Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 170:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A graphic stored in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of saphenous vein graft.
awkwardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awkwardnesses
form: aukwardness
Etymology: From awkward + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] instead of the joyous voices of his playfellows he hears the rough commands of an unindulgent master or a scolding mistress; — he is continually reproached for his awkwardness and timidity, and reminded of his pauper origin.
ref: 1849, Minutes of the committee of council on education, page 82:
glosses: The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.
glosses: The quality of an embarrassing situation.
Synonyms: clunkiness
clumsiness
discomfiture
ineptness
ineptitude
inelegance
Derived terms: awkwardnessful
Related terms: awkwardly
piggy bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piggy banks
Senses: synonyms: penny bank
pig bank
glosses: A small container, sometimes in the form of a pig, in which small saved coins are stored.
glosses: Any supply of money or savings.
Hypernyms: money box
Related terms: pig
bank
penny-pig
anti-abortion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-abortion
form: most anti-abortion
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antiabortion.
Derived terms: anti-abortionism
turophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtjʊəɹəfaɪl/
/ˈtʊəɹəfaɪl/
Forms: form: turophiles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τυρός (turós, “cheese”) + -phile.
Modern coinage; attested since 1930s.
Popularized by Clifton Fadiman on American TV quiz show Information Please in 1952.
Senses: glosses: a gourmet/connoisseur of cheese
Synonyms: caseophile
fromagophile
democratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛməˈkɹætɪkli/
ipa: /ˌdɛməˈkɹætəkli/
ipa: /ˌdɛməˈkɹætəkəli/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
rhymes: -ætɪkli
rhymes: -ætɪkəli
Forms: form: more democratically
form: most democratically
Etymology: Partly from democratical + -ly (suffix forming adverbs), and from democratic + -ally (variant of -ly), modelled after Middle French democratiquement (modern French démocratiquement).
Senses: examples: text: a democratically elected leader
text: [T]hey ſee that they vvere not ſummoned ariſtocratically to a ſenate houſe of lords and great States, but invited democratically and after a popular manner to ſupper, vvhere the pooreſt may take his place vvith the richeſt, like as in the ſtate of a citie and common-vvealth, called Democratie.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “[The Symposiaques or Table-questions.] The Second Question. Whether the Master of the Feast ought Himselfe to Assigne unto Every Guest His Place, or Suffer Them to Sit as They will Themselves?”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 647:
text: Nor are thoſe Provinces vvhich are in ſubjection to a Democracie, or Ariſtocracie of another Common-vvealth, Democratically, or Ariſtocratically governed, but Monarchically.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Severall Kinds of Common-wealth by Institution, and of Succession to the Soveraigne Power”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Of Common-wealth), page 98:
text: He was not happy in the social changes of thirty years. Three decades ago, Dr. Westlake, Julius Flickerbaugh the lawyer, Merriman Peedy the Congregational pastor and himself had been the arbiters. That was as it should be; the fine arts—medicine, law, religion, and finance—recognized as aristocratic: four Yankees democratically chatting with but ruling the Ohioans and Illini and Swedes and Germans who had ventured to follow them.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter IV, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, section IV, page 48:
antonyms: nondemocratically
undemocratically
glosses: In a democratic way; according to the principles of democracy.
Derived terms: nondemocratically
undemocratically
Related terms: demotically
donor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊnɚ/
ipa: /ˈdəʊnə/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊnəɹ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊnə
rhymes: -əʊnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: donors
form: donour
Etymology: From Middle English donoure, donour; from Anglo-Norman donour, from Old French doneur (See French donneur).
Senses: examples: text: The charity raised $2,000 from various donors.
text: The hospital is seeking an organ donor.
text: "You prefer, then, having the money to the ornaments which I had intended for you?"/"Oh! the hundred pounds, certainly," exclaimed Isabella, colouring a little at the idea of trespassing on the donor's generosity.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 104:
glosses: One who makes a donation.
examples: text: You'll need to lengthen the plug for the fan switch and swap its connector for that of the donor.
ref: 2004, Aaron Bonk, Honda Engine Swaps, CarTech, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: An object, typically broken beyond repair, that is used for spare parts.
examples: text: a carbonyl donor molecule
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor.
Synonyms: word: donater
word: donator
Derived terms: ambassadonor
blood donor
dibling
donator
donor card
donor class
donorcycle
donoress
donor fatigue
donorless
donorship
donor-specific antibody
electron donor
interdonor
megadonor
Michael donor
multidonor
necrodonor
nondonor
organ donor
phosphodonor
sperm donor
straw donor
superdonor
universal donor
Related terms: donee
doctored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)d/
Senses: glosses: past participle of doctor
doctored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: more doctored
form: most doctored
Senses: examples: text: doctored statistics
text: President Trump sued CBS in a federal court alleging that the interview was deceptively “doctored” to help Harris beat Trump. CBS insisted that it was not doctored.
ref: 2025 February 3, Brian Stelter, “The FCC’s battle with CBS over its Harris interview is raising red flags”, in CNN:
glosses: altered; falsified; skewed; manipulated
glosses: repaired
Related terms: spin-doctored
tigecycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -cycline (“tetracycline derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A glycylcycline antibiotic.
bald eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bald eagles
Etymology: Named after the white markings on its head and tail.
Senses: glosses: Haliaeetus leucocephalus, a species of eagle native to North America and notable for the white plumage on its head.
Synonyms: American eagle
bald erne
baldie
American eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American eagles
Senses: glosses: Haliaeetus leucocephalus, a species of eagle characterized by notable white head plumage, native to North America and national bird of the United States of America.
Synonyms: sense: Haliaeetus leucocephalus
word: bald eagle
Related terms: Haliaeetus leucocephalus
electrocardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌlɛktɹəˈkɑɹdi.əˌɡɹæm/
Forms: form: electrocardiograms
form: EKG
Etymology: From electro- + cardio- + -gram, Modelled on German Electrocardiogramm(modern German Elektrokardiogramm)
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: cardiogram
ECG
EKG
glosses: The recording that an electrocardiograph produces.
Related terms: english: the device that creates the recording
translation: the device that creates the recording
word: electrocardiograph
english: the process that the device performs
translation: the process that the device performs
word: electrocardiography
cardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardiograms
form: cardiogramme
Etymology: From cardio- + -gram.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The visual output an electrocardiograph produces
Synonyms: electrocardiogram
Derived terms: apexcardiogram
ballistocardiogram
dextrocardiogram
laevocardiogram
magnetocardiogram
mechanocardiogram
phonocardiogram
radiocardiogram
rheocardiogram
telecardiogram
vectorcardiogram
electrocardiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrocardiographs
Etymology: From electro + cardio- + -graph.
Senses: synonyms: cardiograph
ECG
EKG
glosses: A device used in the diagnosis and detection of heart abnormalities that measures electric potentials on the surface of the body and creates a record (electrocardiogram) of the electrical currents associated with heart muscle activity.
Derived terms: word: electrocardiographic
word: electrocardiographically
Related terms: english: the recording produced by the device
translation: the recording produced by the device
word: electrocardiogram
english: the modality of the device
translation: the modality of the device
word: electrocardiography
IHOP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: During that time of my life I went to the IHOP every evening, heading over on my bike at exactly seven and returning at exactly nine.
ref: 2004, David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: Acronym of International House of Pancakes, a US-based restaurant chain.
Hase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the German surname, from Middle High German and Middle Low German hase (“hare”), from Old High German haso.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Hase, from earlier Haase. Not from the noun meaning “hare”, but related to its ultimate source: from Old Saxon hasu, from Proto-West Germanic *hasu (“grey”).
Senses: glosses: A river in Lower Saxony, Germany
antimodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antimodernist
form: most antimodernist
Etymology: From anti- + modernist.
Senses: glosses: Opposing modernism.
antimodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimodernists
Etymology: From anti- + modernist.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes modernism.
anti-racism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiracism.
apomixis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apomixes
Etymology: From German Apomixis, from apo- + mixis.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Plant reproduction without fertilization.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Plant reproduction without fertilization, meiosis, or the production of gametes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Animal reproduction in which the egg cell does not undergo meiosis or fertilization.
Related terms: agamospermy
apogamy
parthenogenesis
apple wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple wines
Etymology: From apple + wine. Compare German Apfelwein, Dutch appelwijn, Old English æppelwīn.
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic beverage made from apples; cider.
harelip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harelips
Etymology: From hare + lip.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
synonyms: cleft lip
glosses: A congenital malformation of the upper lip, reminiscent of the mouth of a hare.
Related terms: hare
lip
harelip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: harelips
form: harelipping
form: harelipped
form: harelipped
Etymology: From hare + lip.
Senses: examples: text: I don't care if it harelips the governor.
text: I'm gonna get them doors open if it harelips everybody on Bear Creek!
glosses: To curse (as if by causing a harelip),
alphabetized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: American and Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetised.
Derived terms: misalphabetized
unalphabetized
alphabetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alphabetize
cleft lip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleft lips
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: harelip
Related terms: cleft palate
bestowal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈstəʊ.əl/
ipa: /bɪˈstoʊ.əl/
rhymes: -əʊəl
Forms: form: bestowals
Etymology: From bestow + -al.
Senses: synonyms: bestowment
glosses: The act of bestowing.
Synonyms: word: accordance
word: bestowal
word: bestowment
word: conferment
word: conferral
word: impartation
word: giving
word: presentation
word: presentment
word: supply
Hypernyms: word: transference
Hyponyms: word: affordment
word: delivery
word: donation
word: investiture
word: restitution
Derived terms: misbestowal
Related terms: word: give
word: giver
bhoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhoys
Senses: qualifier: West Coast Scottish
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of boy.
glosses: A tough, a thug.
Synonyms: sense: boy
word: boy
sense: thug
word: troublemaker
bhoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhoys
Etymology: From boy + -h-.
Senses: examples: text: Whilst he was searching Luna in an attempt to spot Ego, the two Irish Bhoys tried to focus the other 'scope on the bedroom of a brunette opposite.
ref: 1952 September, Chuck Harris, “James White Meets Me”, in Hyphen, number 2, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2011, page 16:
text: Refreshed from my little rest, I am left to guard the turrets as the bhoy goes to fetch his beloved who has returned from her daily toils
ref: 2008 February, Nic Farey, “Chapter Four”, in Tits, Sausages and Ballet Shoes, page 12:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Boy.
Synonyms: boy
bhoy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From boy + -h-.
Senses: examples: text: assumed that the clot howling in a McCormick tenor and interspersing his shrieks with "Oh Bhoy! Oh Bhoy!" was my best friend and co-editor
ref: 1952 September, Chuck Harris, “James White Meets Me”, in Hyphen, number 2, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2011, page 15:
text: Philadelphia in '53 had repercussions because they couldn't have anything resembling dancing or music. They had people parading around in costume in the meeting hall with the chairs still there. Hoo Bhoy!
ref: 1962 June, Francis Marion Busby, “With Keen Blue Eyes and a Bicycle...”, in Cry of the Nameless, number 161, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2019, page 14:
text: Oh Bhoy! This "I dream of 4E" (Forry?) nearly unsocked myself with laughter. Reminds me somehow of Ian Banks' books that must be something like retold dreams, too.
ref: 1995 September, Franz H. Milkis, “Ook Ook, Slobber Drool! Letters of Comment”, in The Space Cadet Gazette, number 3, page 28:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
Synonyms: boy
man
goshwowboyoboy
oh boy
oh man
wow
yay
Related terms: oh bhoy
embryology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryologies
Etymology: From embryo + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of embryos and (often) also the developmental biology of all prenatal phases (embryology sensu stricto plus fetology and teratology collectively).
Derived terms: cytoembryology
embryologic
embryologist
neuroembryology
Related terms: embryogenesis
histogenesis
histology
elliptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪp.tɪk.əl/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪp.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: /əˈlɪp.tɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: more elliptical
form: most elliptical
Etymology: From elliptic + -al, from Ancient Greek ἐλλειπτικός (elleiptikós), from ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “I leave out, omit”).
Senses: examples: text: Having admitted that the projectile was describing an orbit around the moon, this orbit must necessarily be elliptical; science proves that it must be so.
ref: 1876, “Chapter XIX”, in Edward Roth, transl., All Around the Moon:
glosses: In a shape of, or reminding of, an ellipse; oval.
examples: text: If he is sometimes elliptical and obscure, it is because he has so much to tell us.
ref: 1940, Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station:
glosses: Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted.
examples: text: Browning's dark and elliptical mode of speech, like his love of the grotesque, was simply a characteristic of his, a trick of his temperament, and had little or nothing to do with whether what he was expressing was profound or superficial.
ref: 1903, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “Chapter VI”, in Robert Browning:
text: He was called a tramp; but that was only an elliptical way of saying that he was a philosopher, an artist, a traveller, a naturalist and a discoverer.
ref: early 20th century, O. Henry, The Making of a New Yorker:
glosses: Concise, condensed.
raw_tags: of speech
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Elliptic.
Synonyms: elliptic
Derived terms: elliptically
ellipticalness
hyperelliptical
nanoelliptical
nonelliptical
overelliptical
quasielliptical
semi-elliptical
semielliptical
subelliptical
superelliptical
unelliptical
elliptical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪp.tɪk.əl/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪp.tɪ.kəl/
ipa: /əˈlɪp.tɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: ellipticals
Etymology: From elliptic + -al, from Ancient Greek ἐλλειπτικός (elleiptikós), from ἐλλείπω (elleípō, “I leave out, omit”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An elliptical galaxy.
glosses: An elliptical trainer.
lib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: libs
Etymology: Abbreviation for various words beginning in lib-.
Senses: examples: text: own the libs
topics: government
politics
glosses: liberal
examples: text: women's lib
glosses: liberation
glosses: library
glosses: libertarian
Derived terms: libber
LIBlet
libspeak
libtoid
shitlib
ziolib
lib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: libs
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English libbe, from Old English lybb, lyb (“medicine, drug, potion, poison, charm”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubi, from Proto-Germanic *lubją (“wort, herb, drug, poison”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lewb- (“to peel, break, damage”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, remove, prune, separate”). Cognate with German Luppe, Lüppe (“salve, ointment, plant juice, medicine, magic”), Icelandic lyf (“medicine, drug”).
Senses: glosses: A potion; magic potion; charm; concoction.
lib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: libs
form: libbing
form: libbed
form: libbed
Etymology: From Middle English *libben (suggested by libbyng (“gelding”), lybbere (“gelder”)), related to Dutch lubben (“to castrate, emasculate”), Dutch libbe (“a steer”), lubbert (“a eunuch”). Further relation uncertain. Possibly related to Old English *lybban (“to doctor”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubbjan; or perhaps related to Old English lappa, læppa (“lappet, piece, section, lobe, portion, district”). More at lop.
Senses: glosses: To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).
Related terms: glib
libbert
libbet
embryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛm.bɹi.ɒn.ɪk/
Forms: form: more embryonic
form: most embryonic
Etymology: From New Latin embryonicus.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to an embryo.
examples: text: We are also to see the green-lighting of some much overdue reform of fares and ticketing, even if it's still embryonic and to be trialled on part or the network.
ref: 2023 February 22, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: A farewell to micro-management”, in RAIL, number 977, page 3:
glosses: Of a project, etc: very new and still evolving; yet to reach its full potential.
Synonyms: english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: embryonal
Derived terms: abembryonic
anembryonic
carcinoembryonic
embryonical
embryonically
embryoniclike
extraembryonic
fetoembryonic
interembryonic
intraembryonic
maternoembryonic
monembryonic
monoembryonic
nonembryonic
polyembryonic
postembryonic
proembryonic
typembryonic
unembryonic
loony lefty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loony lefties
Senses: examples: 1994, Meryl Aldridge, Making Social Work News http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=QurCxw9C7Z4C&pg=PA200&lpg=PA200&sig=paBsJGVUMjbGxZ-W7SX90U_6Bzc
This is the tabloid world of snoopers, bunglers, loony lefties and little Hitlers.
1998, Sylvia Bashevkin, Women on the Defensive http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=Piwck9KHrZMC&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&sig=b0cpCRQd7DcWspW8YqS5M70QWuQ
We are in no way open to the charge that we are loony lefties running the organization on behalf of some fringe interests.
2004, T D Allman, Rogue State http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=F7WEyxRnR78C&pg=PA381&lpg=PA381&sig=n1E2zC3gavDywc644o_fwI8WRIg
This put the “conservative” Cheney in the same camp as looney lefties like former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, whose opposition to the Iraq sanctions derived from their own peculiar “good versus evil” take on US-Iraq relations.
glosses: A member of the loony left.
embryogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryogeneses
Etymology: From embryo + -genesis.
Senses: coordinate_terms: zygogenesis
fetogenesis
glosses: The process by which an embryo is formed and develops.
Related terms: embryogenetic
embryogenic
embryology
euphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more euphonic
form: most euphonic
Etymology: From euphony + -ic (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).
Senses: examples: text: The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent. Even its first, or general denomination, was the result of no common research or selection, although, according to the example of my predecessors, I had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography affords, and elect it at once as the title of my work, and the name of my hero.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], “Introductory”, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 3–4:
synonyms: dulcet
euphonious
euphonous
mellifluous
glosses: Characterized by euphony; harmonious.
Derived terms: euphonical
euphonically
uneuphonic
emphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈfætɪk/
ipa: /ɪm-/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əmˈfætək/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more emphatic
form: most emphatic
form: emphatick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós, “emphatic”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “I show, present”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, show”); related to ἔμφασις (émphasis) and English emphasis.
Senses: examples: text: Yet when play restarted the Czech was a train that kept on running over Nadal. After breaking Nadal in the opening game of the final set, he went 2-0 up and later took the count to 4-2 with yet another emphatic ace – one of his 22 throughout.
ref: 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Characterized by emphasis; forceful.
examples: text: He gave me an emphatic no when I asked him out.
glosses: Stated with conviction.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do plus an infinitive without to.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: plain
glosses: Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.
Phrayngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: plain
glosses: Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.
Ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
qualifier: archaic except in layman’s use
glosses: Referring to the above consonants as well as /ħ/ and /ʕ/ (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/ and /ʔ/).
Synonyms: distinct
Derived terms: emphatical
emphatically
emphaticness
emphatic pronoun
emphatic state
nonemphatic
overemphatic
unemphatic
Related terms: emphasis
emphasise
emphasize
emphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈfætɪk/
ipa: /ɪm-/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əmˈfætək/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: emphatics
form: emphatick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐμφατικός (emphatikós, “emphatic”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “I show, present”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I shine, show”); related to ἔμφασις (émphasis) and English emphasis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: An emphatic consonant.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as a lot or really.
Related terms: phatic
expellee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expellees
Etymology: From expel + -ee.
Senses: hyponyms: DP
displaced person
exile
expatriate
refugee
glosses: One who is expelled.
economist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/
ipa: /iːˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
ipa: /ɪˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
ipa: /əˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
ipa: /ɪˈkɔn.ə.mɪst/
Forms: form: economists
form: œconomist
Etymology: From Middle French économiste (“household manager”). By surface analysis, economy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
text: The formula, which AEI economists said had “no foundation in either economic theory or trade law,” instead wrongly incorporated the elasticity for retail prices. […] However, certainty is anything but a sure thing these days, and the bread-and-butter of the US economy might not go unscathed, said RSM economist Brusuelas.
ref: 2025 April 9, Alicia Wallace, “The next round of Trump’s tariffs could hurt even more. Here’s what to expect”, in CNN Business:
glosses: An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
glosses: One concerned with political economy.
glosses: One who manages a household.
glosses: One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
Synonyms: sense: one who economizes
word: economiser
sense: one who economizes
word: economizer
sense: one who economizes
word: miser
Derived terms: behavioral economist
bioeconomist
geoeconomist
macroeconomist
microeconomist
neuroeconomist
noneconomist
pharmacoeconomist
planned economist
political economist
socioeconomist
thermoeconomist
Related terms: economy
landing craft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landing crafts
form: landing craft
Senses: examples: text: Turpentine timber was obtained from the forests outside Maryborough and Townsville, and shipped by rail and landing craft to Hayman Island.
ref: 1954 March, “The Hayman Island Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A type of flat-bottomed boat used to transport infantry and vehicles onto a shore during an assault from the sea.
Derived terms: LC
landing craft tank
LCT
landing craft infantry
LCI
landing craft vehicle
LCV
landing craft utility
LCU
landing craft air cushion
LCAC
Related terms: alt: LPD
word: landing platform dock
word: landing ship
word: amphibious assault ship
rushed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌʃt/
rhymes: -ʌʃt
Forms: form: more rushed
form: most rushed
Senses: examples: text: I was so rushed today, I didn't have time to eat lunch.
glosses: Very busy.
examples: text: My rushed attempt at an essay received a predictably poor grade.
glosses: Done in haste; done quickly or hastily.
examples: text: […] once densely rushed, into a condition practically free from rushes.
ref: 1937, Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, Journal, page 12:
glosses: Abounding or covered with rushes.
Derived terms: rushed off one's feet
rushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌʃt/
rhymes: -ʌʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rush
Derived terms: rushed behind
calculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælkjʊleɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkælkjəleɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calculate
calculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælkjʊleɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˈkælkjəleɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more calculated
form: most calculated
Senses: examples: text: The calculated total appeared to be wrong.
glosses: Arrived at or determined by mathematical calculation; ascertained mathematically.
examples: text: a calculated campaign of disinformation
text: We made a calculated decision not to visit them on the first day, in case we seemed too eager.
text: Tobacco companies develop carefully calculated media campaigns.
text: Zivin’s (1982) findings bear this out, that as actors grow to adulthood they become increasingly calculated and less spontaneous about displaying nonverbals, and their displays correspondingly tend to be understood as more calculated and less spontaneous.
ref: 1987, Robert Sanders, Cognitive Foundations of Calculated Speech, page 135:
text: Her myriad “crimes reflected a stunning degree of calculated cruelty,” the judge wrote, and he called her “a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer who denied culpability, and possessed a high potential for future violence.”
ref: 2017, Jerry Clark, Ed Palattella, Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, page 5:
glosses: Carefully thought out or planned.
examples: text: Zivin's (1982) findings bear this out, that as actors grow to adulthood they become increasingly calculated and less spontaneous about displaying nonverbals, and their displays correspondingly tend to be understood as more calculated and less spontaneous.
ref: 1987, Robert Sanders, Cognitive Foundations of Calculated Speech, page 135:
text: Being very calculated, he knew very well the arrival and departure hours, and respected them.
ref: 2017, Alexander T, Cruise Ships, Behind the Iron Wall:
text: Her myriad “crimes reflected a stunning degree of calculated cruelty,” the judge wrote, and he called her “a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer who denied culpability, and possessed a high potential for future violence.”
ref: 2017, Jerry Clark, Ed Palattella, Mania and Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, page 5:
glosses: Calculating; unemotional and analytical.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: calculatedly
calculated mistake
calculatedness
calculated risk
uncalculated
wondered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌndəd/
ipa: /ˈwʌndɚd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wonder
wondered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌndəd/
ipa: /ˈwʌndɚd/
Forms: form: more wondered
form: most wondered
Senses: examples: text: The wondred Argo, which in venturous peece / First through the Euxine seas bore all the flowr of Greece.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Wonderful, extraordinary.
urged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɝd͡ʒd/
ipa: /ɜːd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of urge
belonged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈlɒŋd/
ipa: /bɪˈlɔŋd/
ipa: /bɪˈlɑŋd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒŋd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belong
inquired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkwaɪɹd/
ipa: /ɪnˈkwaɪəd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inquire
glanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɑːnst/
ipa: /ɡlænst/
rhymes: -ɑːnst
rhymes: -ænst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glance
secured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkjʊəd/
ipa: /səˈkjɔːd/
ipa: /səˈkjʊɹd/
ipa: /səˈkjɝd/
ipa: /səˈkjɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ʊəd
rhymes: (General American) -ʊɹd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of secure
secured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkjʊəd/
ipa: /səˈkjɔːd/
ipa: /səˈkjʊɹd/
ipa: /səˈkjɝd/
ipa: /səˈkjɔɹd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ʊəd
rhymes: (General American) -ʊɹd
Forms: form: more secured
form: most secured
Senses: glosses: That has been secured or fastened.
Derived terms: secured creditor
secured debt
secured loan
disposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspoʊzd/
ipa: /dɪˈspəʊzd/
rhymes: -əʊzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispose
disposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspoʊzd/
ipa: /dɪˈspəʊzd/
rhymes: -əʊzd
Forms: form: more disposed
form: most disposed
Senses: examples: text: when he was disposed to pass into Achaia
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 18:27:
text: Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: Shortly afterwards the North Eastern Railway made overtures for the purchase of the Blyth & Tyne system, and the directors of the latter were then disposed to sell, but, in view of their excellent dividend record, stood out for a good price.
ref: 1943 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Blyth & Tyne Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
glosses: inclined, minded
examples: text: well-disposed; ill-disposed
glosses: Having a certain disposition.
examples: text: The wenches are disposed
ref: 1610–1614, John Fletcher, “The Tragedie of Valentinian”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Inclined to mirth; jolly.
Derived terms: disposedly
disposedness
ill-disposed
indisposed
predisposed
undisposed
well-disposed
ultimogeniture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultimogenitures
Senses: glosses: A system of inheritance in which the youngest son or youngest child inherits an estate.
Coordinate terms: primogeniture
clarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈklæɹ.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈklɛɹ.ə.ti/
ipa: [ˈklɛɹ.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /ˈklæɹ.ə.ti/
rhymes: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: clarities
Etymology: From Middle English claritee, from Old French clarté, from Latin clāritās, from clārus (“clear”); equivalent to clear + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: She dreamed with great clarity.
text: The brilliant clarity of his argument could not be faulted.
glosses: The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.
examples: text: Lack of clarity on the part of the teacher will cause confusion among the students.
synonyms: clearness
obviousness
transparency
antonyms: confusion
glosses: The ability to be easily understood.
glosses: The ability to think clearly and rationally.
examples: text: The singer was praised for the amazing clarity in her voice.
glosses: The ability to be easily heard.
Derived terms: disclarity
hyperclarity
inclarity
moment of clarity
post-nut clarity
unclarity
wonders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌndɚz/
ipa: /ˈwʌndəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of wonder
wonders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌndɚz/
ipa: /ˈwʌndəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wonder
precept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːsɛpt/
rhymes: -iːsɛpt
ipa: /ˈpɹɛsɛpt/
Forms: form: precepts
form: præcept
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipiō (“to teach”), from Latin prae (“pre-”) + capiō (“take”).
Senses: examples: text: Precept guides, but example draws.
text: By Heav’ns, ſuch Virtues, join’d with ſuch Succeſs,
Diſtract my very Soul: Our Father’s Fortune
Wou’d almoſt tempt us to renounce his Precepts.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:
text: He found a people in the extreme of barbarism living in caves, feeding upon the bloody flesh of animals they killed in hunting; he taught them many things, so that by his example, and for generations after he left them by his precepts, they advanced to high civilization.
ref: 1891, Susan Hale, Mexico (The Story of the Nations), volume 27, London: T. Fisher Unwin, page 80:
text: I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept.
ref: 2006, Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language:
glosses: A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
topics: law
glosses: A written command, especially a demand for payment.
glosses: An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
examples: text: The Parish Council is financed by raising a small levy - the precept - on all residential properties within the parish. http://www.medsteadpc.org/community/medstead-parish-council-12575/home
glosses: An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
A rate or tax set by a precept.
precept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːsɛpt/
rhymes: -iːsɛpt
ipa: /ˈpɹɛsɛpt/
Forms: form: precepts
form: precepting
form: precepted
form: precepted
form: præcept
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin praeceptum, form of praecipiō (“to teach”), from Latin prae (“pre-”) + capiō (“take”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To act as a preceptor; to teach a physician-in-training by supervising their clinical practice.
examples: text: [T]he tvvo commended rules by him [Aristotle] ſet down, vvhereby the axioms of Sciences are precepted to be made convertible, and vvhich the latter men have not vvithout elegancy ſurnamed; the one the rule of truth, becauſe it preventeth deceipt; the other the rule of prudence, becauſe it freeth election, are the ſame thing in ſpeculation and affirmation, vvhich vve novv obſerve.
ref: 1603 (date written), [Francis] Bacon, “Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature; with the Annotations of Hermes Stella. Chapter XI. The Chapter Immediately Following the Inventary; Being the 11th in Order, a Part thereof.”, in Robert Stephens, compiler, edited by [John Lockyer], Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, published 1734, →OCLC, page 411:
glosses: To teach (something) by precepts.
urges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urge
urges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of urge
urging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɝd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɜːd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of urge