cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Teufel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Teufels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Teufel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
rebbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛbi/
ipa: /ˈɹɛbə/
rhymes: -ɛbi
rhymes: -ɛbə
Forms: form: rebbes
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish רבי (rebe). Doublet of rabbi.
Senses: examples: text: Born in Riga in 1909 into a vast cousinage that included the Lubavitcher rebbes, Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin was taken to Petrograd as a small boy, and then to London in 1921 when the Bolsheviks allowed his prosperous (and fortunate) parents to leave.
ref: 2004 June 27, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “The Book of Isaiah”, in The New York Times:
text: But two men who said they spoke with some of those who broke through the synagogue wall said the motive was to hasten an expansion of 770 — a move that they say the Lubavitcher movement’s leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the rebbe, called for more than three decades ago.
ref: 2024 September 1, Eliza Shapiro and Katherine Rosman, “Secret Synagogue Tunnel Sets Off Altercation That Leads to 9 Arrests”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The spiritual leader of a Hasidic Jewish community.
Derived terms: rebbe card
Related terms: rabbi
reb
rebbetzin
unreadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreadable
form: most unreadable
Etymology: From un- + readable.
Senses: examples: text: unreadable handwriting
text: unreadable charts
text: a machine that cut up secret documents into small unreadable fragments
text: Although the kyūjitai kanji were not banned, the obsolete kyūjitai kanji have become unreadable to more and more readers over time, thus making texts including them difficult for modern readers, but at least there is a recognized mapping from new form to old form.
ref: 2020, Stewart Arneil, “Encoding Disappearing Characters: The Case of Twentieth-Century Japanese-Canadian Names”, in Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, number 12, Text Encoding Initiative Consortium, →DOI, →ISSN:
synonyms: illegible
indecipherable
unclear
glosses: Not written clearly enough to be deciphered.
examples: text: an unreadable book
text: unreadable rants
glosses: Making an unpleasant reading experience, e.g. because it is dull or upsetting.
examples: text: The scratched CD is unreadable.
glosses: Not able to be accessed or played by some technical device.
Derived terms: unreadability
unreadableness
diablo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diablos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”). Doublet of diabolo, devil, diable, and diabolus.
Senses: glosses: the devil
diablo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish diablo (“devil”). Doublet of diabolo, devil, diable, and diabolus.
Senses: examples: text: a diablo pizza
text: a diablo burger
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Synonym of diable (“flavoured with hot spices”).
synonyms: word: diable
extra: flavoured with hot spices
mentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛn.təm/
rhymes: -ɛntəm
Forms: form: menta
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mentum (“the chin”). Doublet of menton.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The chin.
topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: A chin-like projection below the mouth of certain mollusks.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The central part of the labium in insects.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A projection in front of the flower in some orchids.
Derived terms: postmentum
prementum
submentum
Related terms: mental
mento-
diabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈbɒlɪk/
Forms: form: more diabolic
form: most diabolic
form: diabolick
Etymology: From Middle English diabolik, from Middle French diabolique, from Late Latin diabolicus, from Ancient Greek διαβολικός (diabolikós, “devilish”), from διάβολος (diábolos, “devil”). First attested in 1350–1400.
Senses: examples: text: diabolic magic square
text: "The Sovereign Council of Wisdom," or the Order of Palladium, founded in Paris, was a diabolic order claiming masonic origin.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 259:
glosses: Of, being, or pertaining to a devil or the Devil.
glosses: Having qualities traditionally attributed to devils.
examples: a cunning and diabolic plot
fires lit up a diabolic scene
glosses: Having qualities traditionally attributed to devils.
Wicked; evil; cruel.
Synonyms: devilish
mephistophelian
mephistophelean
demonic
fiendish
hellish
infernal
satanic
unholy
Derived terms: diabolical
nondiabolic
addictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɪktɪv/
rhymes: -ɪktɪv
Forms: form: more addictive
form: most addictive
Etymology: First attested 1914. Addiction in modern sense is first attested 1906, in reference to opium. There is an isolated instance from 1779, with reference to tobacco.
Senses: examples: text: These are addictive drugs.
glosses: Causing or tending to cause addiction; habit-forming.
examples: text: There are loads of mazes, it's all really good fun and utterly addictive […]
ref: 1991, Rich Pelley, "Tilt" (video game review) in Your Sinclair (issue 62, page 52)
glosses: Enjoyable, so that one comes back for more.
examples: text: He has an addictive personality.
glosses: Characterized by or susceptible to addiction.
Synonyms: habit-forming
moreish
Derived terms: addictively
addictiveness
addictive personality
addictivity
antiaddictive
subaddictive
unaddictive
Related terms: addict
addicted
addicting
addiction
addictive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdɪktɪv/
rhymes: -ɪktɪv
Forms: form: addictives
Etymology: First attested 1914. Addiction in modern sense is first attested 1906, in reference to opium. There is an isolated instance from 1779, with reference to tobacco.
Senses: glosses: A drug that causes an addiction.
glosses: Anything that is very habit-forming.
Éire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: British subjects in Éire could not vote, hold public office, or work in the government service of Éire, whereas Éire citizens in Britain could do all of these.
ref: 1989, Thomas E. Hachey; Joseph M. Hernon, Jr.; Lawrence J. McCaffrey, “The de Valera Era, 1932–1959: Continuity and Change in Irish Life”, in The Irish Experience, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, section “The Irish Republic, 1948–1959”, page 217:
text: In the light of modern scholarship it now seems highly likely that the total recruitment figure for both Northern Irish and Éire citizens in the British Armed Forces stood at around 100–120,000 men and women.
ref: 2011, Gavin Hughes, “Commitment, Casualties and Loss: Comparative Aspects of Irish Regiments at Dunkirk 1940 and in Western Europe, 1944–1945”, in Gerald Morgan, Gavin Hughes, editors, Southern Ireland and the Liberation of France: New Perspectives (Reimagining Ireland; volume 33), Peter Lang, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 85:
text: Since Éire remained in the Commonwealth during the war—leaving in 1949—it could be argued that volunteers and war workers from Éire belong in this list. Éire was the only Commonwealth country to remain neutral throughout the war.
ref: 2018, Wendy Webster, “Introduction: ‘The Big Proposition’”, in Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Eire: an island and country in northwestern Europe
Cymru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌm.ɹi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh Cymru. Doublet of Cambria and Cumbria.
Senses: examples: text: Communicating in English was usual till a common language could be established. But neither I nor Rob wished anyone to prioritise English on our behalf and the fact that anyone could be offended at hearing Cymraeg in Cymru was wretched. […] My friends had only been in Cymru a year, but Tim knew more local history than me, and the kids, being young, were already nearly fluent in Cymraeg.
ref: 2022, Julie Brominicks, The Edge of Cymru: A Journey, Bridgend: Seren, published 2023, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of Wales: a constituent country of the United Kingdom.
synonyms: word: Wales
extra: a constituent country of the United Kingdom
negroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more negroid
form: most negroid
form: Negroid
Etymology: From negro + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: They were human and yet not human. I should say that they were a little higher in the scale of evolution than Ahm, possibly occupying a place of evolution between that of the Neanderthal man and what is known as the Grimaldi race. Their features were distinctly negroid, though their skins were white. A considerable portion of both torso and limbs were covered with short hair, and their physical proportions were in many aspects apelike, though not so much so as were Ahm's. They carried themselves in a more erect position, although their arms were considerably longer than those of the Neanderthal man. As I watched them, I saw that they possessed a language, that they had knowledge of fire and that they carried besides the wooden club of Ahm, a thing which resembled a crude stone hatchet. Evidently they were very low in the scale of humanity, but they were a step upward from those I had previously seen in Caspak.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a racial classification of humanity including people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and their diaspora in other parts of the world.
negroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negroids
form: Negroid
Etymology: From negro + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: "Round-headed," he muttered. "Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?"
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.
Derived terms: groid
'groid
normgroid
Related terms: negro
negress
Africanoid
Congoid
Shraddha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रद्धा (śraddhā, “faith”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India and Nepal
New Orleans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn(j)uː ɔɹˈliːnz/
ipa: /n(j)uː ˈɔɹliːnz/
other: /nuː ˈɔɹlənz/
ipa: /ˌnuː ˈɔɹ.li.ənz/
ipa: /ˌnuː ˈɔɹ.lɛ.ənz/
note: in the local dialect, with synaeresis
ipa: /ˈnɔɹlənz/
ipa: /ˈnɔːlənz/
note: in the local dialect, with synaeresis
Forms: form: N'Orlins
form: N'orlins
form: N' Orlins
form: Norlins
form: Nawlins
Etymology: Calque of French La Nouvelle-Orléans.
Senses: synonyms: Big Easy
Crescent City
glosses: The largest city in Louisiana, United States and the parish seat of Orleans Parish, which is coterminous with the city.
Related terms: New Orleanian
Orleans Parish
Australian rules football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A variety of football devised in Australia, played on an oval field with an oval ball that players try to kick between the goalposts or between a central and outer post.
Synonyms: Aussie rules
Australian football
Related terms: AFL
leetman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leetmen
Etymology: From leet + -man.
Senses: glosses: One subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.
acouchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acouchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acouchi.
acoumeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acoumeters
form: acouometer
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō, “I hear”) + -meter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instrument for measuring the acuteness of the sense of hearing.
acoumetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō, “I hear”) + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measuring of the power or extent of hearing.
sucktacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sucktacular
form: most sucktacular
Etymology: From suck + -tacular.
Senses: examples: text: It was spring and she loved days like this. Mostly she was glad the cold, sucktacular winter was over.
ref: 2015, Amy Ruttan, One Night in New York, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: Extremely bad.
congenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdʒɛnɪt(ə)l/
Etymology: From Latin congenitus + -al.
Senses: synonyms: word: congenite
word: genetous
word: connate
word: connatural
word: congenital
word: congenite
word: genetous
word: inborn
word: inbred
word: indigenous
word: ingenite
word: innate
word: native
word: natural
word: to the manner born
word: unlearned
word: unlearnt
antonyms: acquired
glosses: Present since birth.
raw_tags: of a trait or a disease
Derived terms: CHILD syndrome
congenital amputee
congenital analgesia
congenital contractural arachnodactyly
congenital cutaneous candidiasis
congenital disorder
congenital heart defect
congenital heart disease
congenital insensitivity to pain
congenitally
congenitalness
lethal congenital contracture syndrome
noncongenital
Related terms: con-
genital
whipping boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipping boys
form: whipping-boy
Etymology: First recorded in 1647. It is debated if this type of proxy punishment actually existed, or how widespread it was.
Senses: examples: text: As the whipping boy, he must take the whippings for the royal heir, Prince Brat.
glosses: A boy who was whipped in the stead of a misbehaving prince in early modern Europe.
examples: text: Once upon a time there was a little Power, the half-bankrupt wreck of a once great empire, that lost its temper with England, the whipping-boy of all the world, and behaved, as every one knows, most scandalously.
ref: 1899, Rudyard Kipling, “Judson and the Empire”, in Soldiers Three:
text: In others he denounces it as rank Judaism, the Jew having at that time become for him the whipping boy for all modern humanity.
ref: 1901, Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Wagnerite, second edition:
synonyms: word: scapegoat
word: sacrificial lamb
word: escapegoat
word: fall guy
word: folk devil
word: goat
word: Joe Soap
word: patsy
word: scapegoat
word: whipping boy
coordinate_terms: whipping girl
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: Someone punished for the errors of others.
scapegoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt/
ipa: /ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/
Forms: form: scapegoats
Etymology: From scape + goat; coined by English biblical scholar and translator William Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew עֲזָאזֵל (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from עֵז (ez, “goat”) and אוזל (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530. Compare English scapegrace, scapegallows.
Senses: examples: text: And Aarõ caſt lottes ouer the .ij. gootes: one lotte for the Lorde, ãd another for a ſcapegoote.
ref: 1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC, Leuiticus xvj:[8], folio XXIX, verso:
text: […]; alluding herein unto the heart of man, and the precious bloud of our Saviour; who was typified indeed by the Goat that was ſlain, and the ſcape Goat in the wilderneſſe;
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Compendiously of Sundry Other Common Tenents, Concerning Minerall and Terreous Bodies, Which Examined, Prove Either False or Dubious”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 64:
glosses: In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
examples: text: He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions and the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!
text: The new Secretary of State had been long sick of the perfidy and levity of the First Lord of the Treasury, and began to fear that he might be made a scapegoat to save the old intriguer who, imbecile as he seemed, never wanted dexterity where danger was to be avoided.
ref: 1834, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham:
synonyms: fall guy
patsy
whipping boy
glosses: Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
Synonyms: word: sacrificial lamb
word: escapegoat
word: fall guy
word: folk devil
word: goat
word: Joe Soap
word: patsy
word: scapegoat
word: whipping boy
Hypernyms: word: outcast
Related terms: word: dupe
scapegoat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪpˌɡoʊt/
ipa: /ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/
Forms: form: scapegoats
form: scapegoating
form: scapegoated
form: scapegoated
Etymology: From scape + goat; coined by English biblical scholar and translator William Tyndale, interpreting Biblical Hebrew עֲזָאזֵל (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from עֵז (ez, “goat”) and אוזל (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530. Compare English scapegrace, scapegallows.
Senses: examples: text: People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.
ref: 1950, Rachel Davis DuBois, Neighbors in Action: A Manual for Local Leaders in Intergroup Relations, page 37:
text: They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to scapegoat and blame some other category of people.
ref: 1975, Richard M. Harris, Adam Kendon, Mary Ritchie Key, Organization of Behavior in Face-to-face Interaction, page 66:
text: And I want to add, as we make these changes, we work together to improve this system, that our intention is not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
ref: 1992, George H.W. Bush, State of the Union Address:
text: Then either the world or others or the self becomes the target for the human tendency to scapegoat.
ref: 2004, Yvonne M. Agazarian, Systems-Centered Therapy for Groups, page 208:
text: The question we should be asking is: who benefits when migrants and refugees are scapegoated for anger about housing?
ref: 2023 December 11, Rory Hearne, “Ireland’s housing crisis is a disaster for its people – and a gift to far-right fearmongers”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
Related terms: word: scapegoatable
word: scapegoater
word: scapegoating
word: scapegoatism
word: blame Canada
word: blameshift
word: escape
word: look for a dog to kick
word: sacrificial lamb
fairytale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: City, who lost Kevin De Bruyne to injury midway through the second half, threw on Sergio Aguero for his final appearance but there was no fairytale ending for the club's greatest goalscorer as Chelsea closed out the win.
ref: 2021 May 29, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 0-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fairy-tale.
fairytale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairytales
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fairy tale.
Derived terms: fairytalelike
fairy-tale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a fairy-tale romance
glosses: Of the nature of a fairy tale; as if from a fairy tale.
Synonyms: magical
fairy-tale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy-tales
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of fairy tale.
fairy godmother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy godmothers
form: faerie godmother
Senses: examples: text: I thought it was clever the director cast the same woman to play both the Wicked Witch and Prince Charming's fairy godmother.
glosses: In certain fairy tales, a fictional benevolent woman with magical powers who uses them to help the cause of the protagonist.
examples: text: How lucky you are to have me for a friend! I am a fairy godmother to you!
ref: 2007, Choderlos de Laclos, translated by Helen Constantine, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 195:
text: "Yeah, well, just remember, Maureen, you're not her fairy godmother. You can't wave your magic wand and fix her fucked-up life."
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.53
glosses: Any generous benefactor.
Related terms: fairy godfather
fairy primrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy primroses
Senses: synonyms: baby primrose
glosses: A Chinese ornamental (Primula malacoides) grown for its large, rose to pink flowers, grouped in many-flowered umbels.
fairy ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy rings
Etymology: The idea of a ring where fairies danced was a traditional explanation for the fungal phenomenon before it was understood.
Senses: examples: text: They are fond of music and dancing. It is their dancing that forms the fairy rings.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 262:
text: 1914, "Rhys at the Fairy Dance" in Maud Keary, Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses for Children, Macmillan and Company, page 102,
Though many a year has passed away, / None have seen Rhys since that day! / Does he dance and does he sing / For ever in a Fairy Ring?
text: Welsh folklore also reveals few references to fairy rings but there is a fine example found in the legend "Rhys at the Fairy Dance" (collected in 1827) in which Rhys is lost but found again when several people venture to a nearby fairy ring.
ref: 1972, North Carolina Folklore Society, North Carolina Folklore Journal, Volumes 20-21: 1972-1973, page 51:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
synonyms: elf circle
fairy circle
pixie ring
glosses: A place where fairies congregate in a ring, particularly in order to dance.
examples: text: This curious phenomenon has been differently accounted for. The following is Mr. Nicholson's description and explanation: "the appearance in the grass, says he, commonly called Fairy Rings, is well known. It consists either of a ring of grass of more luxuriant vegetation than the rest, or a kind of circular path in which the vegetation is more defective than elsewhere. It appears to be pretty well ascertained that the latter state precedes the former. […]
ref: 1821, Edward Polehampton, chapter VIII, in The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, A Tour Through Creation and Science, volume 5, page 316:
text: The best known Fungus occupant of fairy rings is the Fairy Ring Agaric or Champignon, Marasmius oreades, termed in the older botanical textbooks Agaricus oreades.
ref: 1884, The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Home Farmer, Volume 7, 3rd Series, July—December, 1883, page 213:
text: So writing it down and reading it later, I realized somehow my subconscious was giving me a warning of things to come. In the dream I woke up at the height of the full moon in my garden. I didn't realize that in my drunken stupor I had fallen asleep amidst a fairy ring. A fairy ring is a bunch of mushrooms growing in a circle. I often see them growing on lawns. Legend has it that if one gets caught in this circle on a full moon, the fairies will take him or her captive and do as they please.
ref: 2012, Juliana Regina Delion, Heart Attack!: Shadows on the Eve of Tomorrow, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 18:
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
synonyms: elf circle
elf-dance
fairy circle
pixie ring
glosses: A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium.
Derived terms: fairy ring agaric
fairy ring champignon
fairy ring fungus
fairy ring mushroom
Related terms: fairy circle
magic circle
periphery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɪfəɹi/
Forms: form: peripheries
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περί (perí)
Ancient Greek περῐ- (perĭ-)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Ancient Greek περιφέρω (periphérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek περιφερής (peripherḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
Ancient Greek -ια (-ia)
Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia)bor.
Latin peripheriabor.
Middle French peripheriebor.
English periphery
Borrowed from Middle French peripherie. Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three layers of atmosphere (lower, middle, and upper) believed to surround the Earth”), from the same origin, although the Modern English term most likely does not descend from it.
Senses: examples: text: The suburbs are a city's periphery.
text: Tumor location was concentrated in the macula and superonasal periphery in patients 13.2 months.
ref: 2015 January 8, “Spatiotemporal Patterns of Tumor Occurrence in Children with Intraocular Retinoblastoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: The phrase 'Imperial Manila' is used throughout the archipelago to denote the capital-heavy decision-making and the imposition of the will and culture of the political and economic centre on the peripheries.
ref: 2018, Balázs Áron Kovács, Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins, Springer, →ISBN, page 280:
glosses: The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
glosses: A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.
Derived terms: left periphery
midperiphery
peripherolobular
semiperiphery
Related terms: peripherad
peripheral
fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/
other: /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/
other: /ˈfʌŋɡiː/
other: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒiː/
enpr: fŭnʹjī
enpr: fŭngʹgī
ipa: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/
ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/
ipa: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒiː/
ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡiː/
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rhymes: -ʌndʒi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
synonyms: funguses
fungusses
glosses: plural of fungus
Derived terms: fungicolous
fungi imperfecti
fungiproof
fungisterol
fungitarian
fungivorous
fungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/
other: /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/
other: /ˈfʌŋɡiː/
other: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒiː/
enpr: fŭnʹjī
enpr: fŭngʹgī
ipa: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/
ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/
ipa: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒiː/
ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡiː/
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rhymes: -ʌndʒi
ipa: /ˈfuːnd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈfund͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈfuːnd͡ʒiː/
other: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/
other: /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/
other: /ˈfʌŋɡiː/
other: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒiː/
enpr: fŭnʹjī
enpr: fŭngʹgī
ipa: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/
ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡaɪ/
ipa: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒiː/
ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡiː/
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rhymes: -ʌndʒi
Etymology: See fungee. Sense 2 (“style of folk and popular music”) is apparently from the fact that the music is a blend of different musical instruments and styles, just as the dish (sense 1) is a blend of different flavours.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fungee (“a cornmeal dish from the Caribbean, usually made with okra and served with salt fish, shellfish, or chicken”).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: quelbe
scratch
glosses: A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of banjo, guitar, ukulele, and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm.
fairy shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy shrimps
form: fairy shrimp
Senses: examples: text: Triops and fairy shrimp are small crustaceans that can survive years lying dormant in drought conditions. They live in the ground in eggs until weather conditions such as floods can bring them to the surface, says IFL Science.
ref: 2023 September 5, Amelia Neath, “Three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ are waking up in the desert after Burning Man washout”, in The Independent:
glosses: A small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages and swimming on its back.
appendage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɛndɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: appendages
Etymology: From append + -age.
Senses: synonyms: extremity
member
glosses: An external body part that projects from the body.
synonyms: outgrowth
appendix
process
glosses: A natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
synonyms: appendix
annex
glosses: A part that is joined to something larger.
Derived terms: appendageal
appendaged
appendageless
appendagelike
appendagitis
hilar appendage
unappendaged
fungo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡoʊ
Forms: form: fungos
form: fungoes
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).
Senses: examples: text: The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.
text: Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.
ref: 2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
examples: text: He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fungo bat.
Derived terms: fungo bat
fungo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌŋɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡoʊ
Forms: form: fungos
form: fungoing
form: fungoed
form: fungoed
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.
squalor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈskwɑlɚ/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
homophone: squaller (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: squalors
Etymology: From the Latin squālor.
Senses: examples: text: The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor.
ref: 1860, Isaac Taylor, Ultimate Civilization: And other essays:
text: bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XII”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: We’re living in squalor
That’s the name of this house
This house is called squalor by all
There’s a door broken somewhere but I never can remember quite where.
ref: 2013, Car Seat Headrest, We Can't Afford (Your Depression Anymore):
synonyms: squalidness
foulness
filthiness
squalidity
glosses: Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty
Derived terms: senile squalor syndrome
slothful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slothful
form: most slothful
form: slothfull
Etymology: From sloth + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 18:9:
text: This Book will make a Travailer of thee, / If by its Counſel thou wilt ruled be; / It will direct thee to the Holy Land, / If thou wilt its Directions understand: / Yea, it will make the ſloathful, active be; / The Blind alſo, delightful things to ſee.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for His Book”, in The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
synonyms: inactive
sluggish
indolent
antonyms: active
unslothful
glosses: lazy; idle; tending to sloth.
rabid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæbɪd/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪbɪd/
ipa: /ˈɹæbɪd/
rhymes: -æbɪd
Forms: form: rabids
Etymology: From the Latin rabidus, from rabiō (“to rave”).
Senses: glosses: A human or animal infected with rabies.
glosses: Someone who is fanatical in opinion.
logo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɡoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊɡəʊ
Forms: form: logos
Etymology: 1937, clipping of logogram or logotype.
Senses: examples: text: The unified colour palette of reds, blues, and yellows used throughout the signage matches that of the institution’s logo and letterhead.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
synonyms: logotype
glosses: A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization.
examples: text: What about including a CD of your music or a copy of your audio logo/jingle in your promotional items […]
ref: 2011, James Hammond, Branding Your Business:
glosses: An audio recording for the same purpose; a jingle.
topics: sciences
glosses: A single graphic which contains one or more separate elements.
glosses: An ensign, a badge of office, rank, or power.
examples: text: How many new logos did we close this quarter?
topics: business
qualifier: sales
glosses: A corporate customer.
Derived terms: logo 3
logoed
logo edit
logo editor
logo kid
logoless
logomania
logomark
slogo
sonic logo
rabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.biːz/
rhymes: -eɪbiːz
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: Arctic dog disease
word: hydrophobia
word: lyssa
glosses: An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.
Derived terms: baby rabies
furious rabies
pseudorabies
rabid
rabietic
encephalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˌsɛfəˈlaɪtɪs/
ipa: /ɛnˌkɛfəˈlaɪtɪs/
Forms: form: encephalitides
Etymology: From encephal- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the brain.
Synonyms: cephalitis
phrenitis
Derived terms: word: Australian encephalitis
word: autoencephalitis
word: cerebroencephalitis
word: Cree encephalitis
word: eastern equine encephalitis
word: encephalitic
word: encephalitis lethargica
word: encephalitogen
word: encephalitogenous
word: granulomatous amoebic encephalitis
word: herpesencephalitis
taxonomic: Japanese encephalitis virus
word: Japanese encephalitis
word: leucoencephalitis
word: leukoencephalitis
word: meningoencephalitis
word: Murray Valley encephalitis
word: myeloencephalitis
word: panencephalitis
word: periencephalitis
word: polioencephalitis
word: postencephalitis
word: Powassan encephalitis
word: Russian encephalitis
word: Russian spring–summer encephalitis
taxonomic: Tick-borne encephalitis virus
word: tick-borne encephalitis
word: Venezuelan equine encephalitis
word: ventriculoencephalitis
word: West Nile encephalitis
Related terms: word: meningitis
alt: human African trypanosomiasis, African lethargy, Congo trypanosomiasis
word: sleeping sickness
racial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪʃəl/
rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: more racial
form: most racial
Etymology: From race + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: the racial complexion
text: racial stereotypes
text: racial remarks
text: racial profiling
text: racial discrimination
text: From a musical point of view, the modern Iberian seems a fac-simile of the mediæval Frenchman. Barring out racial distinctions, they both live in an analogous environment.
ref: 1712, The Art Melodious - Observations of a Musician, page 36:
text: Such extremes have always been characteristic of the barbarous northmen, and we may not be wrong in referring to racial causes for the solution of this problem of contrarieties otherwise inexplicable.
ref: 1854, W. Stevens, Printer (publishers), The Leisure Hour - An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading · Volume 3, page 678:
text: Coincidentally, support for race-conscious policies, such as affirmative action, financial reparations for slavery, and race-based government assistance, have reached record highs. In fact, by some measures, the racial liberalism of white Democrats and liberals has even surpassed that of their non-white counterparts.
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 1:
glosses: Of or relating to a race (or a people).
Derived terms: alethoracial
aletho-racial
antiracial
anti-racial
anti-racialism
antiracialism
aracial
biracial
cisracial
cis-racial
cisracialism
cis-racialism
ethnoracial
hyperracial
inter-racial
interracial
intraracial
monoracial
multiracial
multi-racial
nonracial
non-racial
omniracial
polyracial
postracialised
post-racialised
postracialism
post-racialism
postraciality
post-raciality
postracialized
post-racialized
postracial
post-racial
preracialised
pre-racialised
preracialism
pre-racialism
preraciality
pre-raciality
preracialized
pre-racialized
preracial
pre-racial
proracialism
pro-racialism
proracial
pro-racial
proto-racial
pseudoracial
pseudo-racial
quadriracial
racial barrier
racial grievance industry
racial hygiene
racial integration
racialisation
racialise
racialised
racialising
racialism
racialist
racialistic
racialistical
racialistically
raciality
racialization
racialize
racialized
racializing
racially
racial Marxism
racial memory
racialness
racial profile
racial profiler
racial profiling
racial purity
racial science
racial spoils
socioracial
subracial
transracialism
trans-racialism
transracialist
trans-racialist
transraciality
trans-raciality
transracial
trans-racial
triracial
uniracial
Related terms: antiracism
anti-racism
anti-racist
antiracist
cis-racism
cisracism
postracism
post-racism
preracism
pre-racism
proracism
pro-racism
proracist
pro-racist
race
racism
racist
racistic
transracism
trans-racism
racial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪʃəl/
rhymes: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: racials
Etymology: From race + -ial.
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.
rackett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹækɪt/
rhymes: -ækɪt
homophone: racket
homophone: racquet
Forms: form: racketts
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: cervelas
raggett
sausage bassoon
glosses: An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
regarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, regard + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regard
regarding
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, regard + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
ref: 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Concerning, respecting.
Synonyms: about
apropos
with respect to
regarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑɹdɪŋ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑːdɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Forms: form: regardings
Etymology: By surface analysis, regard + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] God Invisible by the assumption of His Manhood was laid open to the regardings of our sight.
ref: 1844, Pope Gregory I, Morals on the Book of Job:
text: […] to his wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory heel, such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony step, that their dreams would have been of the crunching teeth of sharks. But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the odd second mate, came up from below […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: The act by which something is regarded or observed.
concerning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Forms: form: more concerning
form: most concerning
Etymology: From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: It's very concerning that our neighbour seems to be crying very loudly these days.
glosses: Causing concern; worrying.
examples: text: So great and so concerning truth.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: Important.
Synonyms: alarming
worrisome
Derived terms: concerningly
concerningness
inconcerning
unconcerning
concerning
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Etymology: From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Physically, everything is perfect, but concerning your mental state, you have some problems.
text: The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 10:29:
glosses: Regarding, respecting.
Synonyms: apropos
as for
concerning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Etymology: From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concern
concerning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /kənˈsɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Forms: form: concernings
Etymology: From concern + -ing. The adjective and preposition follow from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: We shall write to you, / As Time and our Concernings shall importune, / How it goes with us, and do look to know / What doth befall you here.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: That which one is concerned in; one's business.
rehash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈhæʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌhæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: rehashes
form: rehashing
form: rehashed
form: rehashed
Etymology: From re- + hash.
Senses: examples: text: I never did care for Sunday joint that was served up cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday, rissoled on Wednesday, and re-hashed on Thursday[.]
ref: 1942 July 1, The Newcastle and Maitland Catholic Sentinel, Newcastle, NSW, page 224, column 2:
glosses: To hash (chop food into small pieces) again.
examples: text: Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.
text: The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.
text: The general rehashed plans for the war.
glosses: To repeat with minor variation.
examples: text: Let's not rehash what we did last night.
glosses: To analyze a prior contentious or embarrassing event.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
rehash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈhæʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌhæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: rehashes
Etymology: From re- + hash.
Senses: examples: text: He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
glosses: Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
rehibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehibitions
Senses: glosses: The return of a purchased item to the seller, on the ground of defect or fraud.
Related terms: rehibitory
resentful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɛntfəl/
Forms: form: more resentful
form: most resentful
Etymology: From resent + -ful.
Senses: synonyms: unforgiving
spiteful
rancorous
acrimonious
glosses: Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.
examples: text: ‘Them bloody chaps 'ave a cushy job,’ said little Martlow with resentful envy. ‘Just fly over the line, take a peek at ol' Fritz, and as soon as a bit o' shrapnel comes their way, fuck off 'ome jildy, toot sweet.’
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 27:
text: Is it serving Hashem to be machmir and resentful, rather than adhere to the letter of the law and be relaxed and happy?
ref: 2008 July 16, Jessie Fischbein, “Being Machmir”, in The Jewish Star:
synonyms: bitter
embittered
glosses: Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.
Derived terms: resentfully
resentfulness
reservoir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛz.ə.vwɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vɔɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɾɛzəɾvɔjɾ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɾɪzəɾˈvɔjɾ/
Forms: form: reservoirs
form: reservoiring
form: reservoired
form: reservoired
Etymology: From French réservoir (“collection place”) (fig.), réservoir (“storehouse”) (lit.). in turn from French réserver (“to reserve, keep”).
Senses: glosses: To store or keep (something) in or as in a reservoir.
aqueduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.wɪˌdʌkt/
ipa: /ˈæk.wəˌdʌkt/
ipa: /ˈɑk.wəˌdʌkt/
Forms: form: aqueducts
form: aquaeduct
form: aquæduct
Etymology: Adapted borrowing from Latin aquaeductus (“conveyance of water”), from aqua (“water”) + dūcō (“I lead”, “I bring”); compare the French aqueduc.
Senses: glosses: An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
examples: text: All the years he’d been down there in the traffic he’d taken this aqueduct for just another bridge, nothing to tell you that canal boats and waterfowl were being carried along above your head.
ref: 2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 57:
glosses: A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially an ancient structure.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.
Derived terms: aqueductal
aqueduct of Sylvius
mesencephalic aqueduct
periaqueduct
Sylvian aqueduct
Related terms: ecoduct
viaduct
receiving reservoir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: receiving reservoirs
Senses: glosses: A principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply.
rolling-pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rolling-pins
Senses: examples: text: “And we must get a rolling-pin,” she cried, “for I shall make pumpkin pies every day.[…]”
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 62:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rolling pin.
rollway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollways
Etymology: From roll + way.
Senses: glosses: An inclined slope or chute prepared for rolling logs into a stream or into a mill.
examples: text: Ingots that fully pass inspection are moved along the rollway to a point opposite to which they are to be piled, and then piled by means of a small magnet on an air hoist carried by a movable wall jib crane.
ref: 1917, “Equipment for Expediting Shell-Forging”, in The Iron Age, 100 (4): 187:
glosses: A series of cylindrical metal rolls placed between two rails and spaced apart, used to convey materials along a production line.