cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
undead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdɛd/
ipa: /ˈʌndɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: un-dead
Etymology: From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. The term was revived, popularized, and imbued with supernatural connotations by its usage in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
Senses: glosses: Not dead; alive.
glosses: Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
examples: text: When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.
ref: 2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2019:
qualifier: horror fiction
glosses: Being animate, though non-living.
undead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdɛd/
ipa: /ˈʌndɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: undead
form: undeads
form: un-dead
Etymology: From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. The term was revived, popularized, and imbued with supernatural connotations by its usage in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
Senses: examples: text: In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers.
text: "You will do me a service," the undead said to him.
ref: 1983, Tanith Lee, The Wars of Vis:
text: Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.
ref: 1997, Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997:
text: "Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him."
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xxiv. 319:
text: Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom
ref: 2006, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, “Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, in An Even Scarier Solstice:
text: It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people. They can retrench like Cersei, back on her bullshit, I mean, warpath. Or they can adapt, like The Hound. Neither way necessarily ensures success, but we know the archmaester isn’t unequivocally right. We’ve seen dragons reborn and armies of the undead. I wouldn’t be so sure that Wall will stand forever.
ref: 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
qualifier: horror and fantasy fiction
glosses: A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
Related terms: Frankenstein's monster
living dead
mummy
revenant
vampire
zombie
undying
patch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: patches
form: patching
form: patched
form: patched
Etymology: From Middle English patche, of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of earlier Middle English placche (“patch, spot, piece of cloth”), from Old English *plæċċ, *pleċċ (“a spot, mark, patch”), from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”). For the loss of l compare pat from Middle English platten. Germanic cognates would then include Middle English plecke, dialectal English pleck (“plot of ground, patch”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, piece, patch”), Dutch plek (“spot, place, stain, patch”), Dutch plak (“piece, slab”), Swedish plagg (“garment”), Faroese plagg (“cloth, rag”).
Or, possibly a variant of Old French pieche, dialectal variant of piece (“piece”). Compare also Old Occitan petaç (“patch”).
Senses: examples: text: My coat needs patching.
text: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
glosses: To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
glosses: To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
glosses: To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
examples: text: [the control panel of hovercraft The Logos has lit up after being jumped by The Hammer]
Sparky: She lives again.
Crew member of The Hammer via radio: You want us to patch an uplink to reload the software, Sparky?
Sparky: Yeah, that'd be swell. And can you clean the windshield while you're at it?
ref: 2003, The Matrix Revolutions, Scene: Starting the Logos, 00:43:09 - 00:43:32
glosses: To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
examples: text: The truce between the two countries has been patched up.
qualifier: generally with the particle "up"
glosses: To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence:
To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
examples: text: I'll need to patch the preamp output to the mixer.
glosses: To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
Derived terms: mispatch
patchable
patch over
patch together
prepatch
repatch
unpatch
Related terms: diff
diff file
patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: patches
Etymology: Perhaps borrowed from Italian pazzo or paggio; the form influenced by folk etymological association with patch (Etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: Shylock:
The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder,
Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
More than the wild-cat;[…]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
text: Caliban: What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch![…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
Derived terms: crosspatch
professor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɛsɚ/
ipa: /prɵˈfɛsə(r)/
ipa: /ˈprɵfəsə(r)/
Forms: form: professors
form: professour
Etymology: Derived from Anglo-Norman proffessur, from Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”).
Senses: examples: text: Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.
ref: 2014 November 22, Michel Clasquin-Johnson, “What is the difference between a research professor and a professor”, in Quora:
synonyms: prof
Prof.
glosses: The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
glosses: A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
examples: text: As for Religion, I have not said, much lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof.
ref: 1660, William Petty, Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland, p. 170/1:
text: This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;
ref: 1897, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (transl.) The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Introduction, p. v
glosses: One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
examples: text: Two young men of familiar acquaintance … were one euening at a common Inne of this town (as I haue heard) where the one of them shewed his skill on the Virginals, to the no little contentement of the hearers. Nowe as diuers guests of the house came into the room to listen, so among the rest entered an artificiall Conny-catcher, who as occasion serued, in the time of ceissing betweene the seueral toyes and fancies hee plaid: very much commended his cunning, quicke hand, and such qualities praiseworthy in such a professour.
ref: 1592, Robert Green, The Thirde & Last Part of Conny-catching, Bodleian Library (Malone 575), London: John Lane. Reprinted in 1923, Harrison, G. B. (ed.), The Bodley Head Quartos III, Plainstow, Great Britain: Curwen Press, p. 29
glosses: A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill.
examples: text: You could hear [...] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 415:
glosses: A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
glosses: The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
Derived terms: absent-minded professor
adjunct professor
assistant professor
associate professor
brofessor
distinguished professor
extraordinary professor
full professor
institute professor
James B. Duke professor
little professor
mad professor
nonprofessor
president's professor
professorate
professordom
professoress
professoriat
professoriate
professorine
professoring
professorish
professorless
professorlike
professorling
professorly
professor ordinarius
Professor's Cube
professorship
regents' professor
regents professor
research professor
Sterling professor
subprofessor
university professor
visiting professor
Related terms: professorial
regius professor
Regius professor
Regius Professor
perfidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.fɪ.di/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.fɪ.di/
Forms: form: perfidies
Etymology: From Middle French perfidie, from Latin perfidia from perfidus (“faithless, treacherous, false”), from fides (“faith”); related to, for example, English fidelity.
Senses: synonyms: treachery
betrayal
glosses: A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust.
examples: text: Stratagems must be carefully distinguished strategy from perfidy, since the former are allowed, whereas the latter is prohibited.
ref: 1921, Lassa Oppenheim with Ronald Francis Roxburgh, International law: a treatise, page 229:
text: Abuse of a protective emblem amounts to perfidy and constitutes a war crime under the customary law of armed conflict.
ref: 1993, Leslie C. Green, The contemporary law of armed conflict, page 89:
text: Ruses of war are legitimate so long as they do not involve treachery or perfidy on the part of the belligerent resorting to them.
ref: 2008, Sidney Axinn, A Moral Military, page 84:
text: Cyberattacks almost inevitably involve an element of deception, such as tricking a user to click on a malicious link. So, to what extent could cyberattacks count as perfidy and therefore be illegal given international humanitarian law?
ref: 2012 June 5, Patrick Lin, Neil Rowe, Fritz Allhoff, “Is It Possible to Wage a Just Cyberwar?”, in The Atlantic:
qualifier: international law
glosses: An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack.
raw_tags: in warfare
examples: text: Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.
ref: 1962, Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, The Guns of August, page 154:
text: Honda Motor Co. is the latest victim of e-mail perfidy, which started when a phony chain letter promised that the automaker would give away free cars.
ref: 2000 July 17, “Honda becomes chain letter victim”, in eWeek:
text: Letterman roared about the perfidy of lying politicos.
ref: 2008 October 16, “McCain expected to make amends on Letterman show”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: A state or act of deceit.
Synonyms: perfidiousness
Related terms: perfidious
perfidiously
convict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kənvĭktʹ
ipa: /kənˈvɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: convicts
form: convicting
form: convicted
form: convicted
Etymology: From Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Doublet of convince. Displaced native Old English forwyrċan (“to convict, condemn”).
Senses: examples: text: He was a convicted felon.
text: His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
text: And his subjects wrung all they could wring / Out of temple and palace and store. / But when there seemed no more to bring, / His captors convicted the king / Of once having started a war, / And strangled the wretch with a string.
ref: 1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:
topics: law
synonyms: word: sentence
word: disapprove
glosses: To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
examples: text: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is standing by his decision not to integrate Apple’s CarPlay into the company’s EVs, even as rivals embrace it. […] Speaking on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Scaringe said Rivian aims to build a “seamless digital experience” entirely within its own software ecosystem. This means that Rivian will simply be offering native access to key apps like Apple Music, Spotify, Google Maps, and YouTube, according to MacRumors. […] Rivian’s software approach mirrors that of Tesla, which also relies on its own app integrations rather than Apple’s. […] The Rivian CEO added that the company is preparing to introduce AI-powered features within 18 months, including native voice-to-text messaging. Scaringe said this upcoming AI suite will further justify the brand’s decision to control the in-vehicle experience. “We’re really convicted on this,” the CEO said. While he acknowledged that some customers may avoid Rivian due to the lack of CarPlay, Scaringe said he’s “very confident” in the choice. “Some of those decisions not everyone’s going to agree with,” he said. “That’s okay.”
ref: 2025 October 16, EV.com Staff, quoting RJ Scaringe, “Rivian CEO Stands Firm on Skipping Apple CarPlay, Calls It a “Convicted” Decision”, in EV.com:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
synonyms: convince
glosses: To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
Derived terms: convictable
nonconvicted
reconvict
self-convicted
unconvict
unconvicted
Related terms: conviction
courage of one's convictions
convict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnvɪkt/
enpr: kŏnʹvĭkt
ipa: /ˈkɑnvɪkt/
Forms: form: convicts
Etymology: From Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Doublet of convince. Displaced native Old English forwyrċan (“to convict, condemn”).
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: word: assigned servant
word: con
word: government man
word: public servant
glosses: A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
synonyms: penal colonist
glosses: A person deported to a penal colony.
glosses: The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
glosses: A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
Derived terms: con
convict hour
convictism
ex-convict
penitent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnɪtənt/
Forms: form: more penitent
form: most penitent
form: pænitent
form: penitant
form: pœnitent
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin paenitēns, poenitēns (“penitent”), present participle of paeniteō, poeniteō (“I cause to repent; I regret, repent”). Doublet of penitente.
Senses: examples: text: Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
text: If thou be penitent and grieved, or desirous to be so, these heinous sins shall not be laid to thy charge.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: repentant
word: contrite
word: remorseful
word: penitent
word: repentant
word: apologetic
word: contrite
word: guilt-ridden
glosses: Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.
examples: text: […] But we that know what ’tis to faſt and pray, / Are penitent for your default to day.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Doing penance.
Derived terms: nonpenitent
penitence
penitently
unpenitent
penitent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnɪtənt/
Forms: form: penitents
form: pænitent
form: penitant
form: pœnitent
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin paenitēns, poenitēns (“penitent”), present participle of paeniteō, poeniteō (“I cause to repent; I regret, repent”). Doublet of penitente.
Senses: glosses: One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
examples: text: Wamba, who defeated the Saracens in an attempt upon Spain, was deprived of the crown, because he had been clothed in the habit of a penitent, while labouring under the influence of poison, administered by the ambitious Erviga!
ref: 1837, William Russell, The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Longman, Rees, & Co., page 20:
glosses: One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
glosses: One under the direction of a confessor.
peremptory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/
Forms: form: more peremptory
form: most peremptory
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman peremptorie, parentorie et al. (Modern French péremptoire), and its source, Latin peremptōrius (“deadly; precluding debate, decisive”), from perimō (“destroy, thwart”), from per- (“thorough”) + emō (“I obtain, buy”).
Senses: examples: text: there is no reason but if any of the outlawries be indeed without error, but it should be a peremptory plea to the person in a writ of error, as well as in any other action.
ref: 1596, Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law, section II:
topics: law
synonyms: positive
absolute
decisive
conclusive
final
glosses: Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal
examples: text: As this trial has now been postponed multiple times, there will be an adjournment to April 24, peremptory on the parties.
topics: law
glosses: (of a date or deadline) Absolutely requiring compliance or attendance; brooking no further delay; to proceed whether a party attends or not; final.
examples: text: He marched under a placard reading "End Bossiness Now" but decided it was a little too peremptory, not quite British, so changed the slogan on subsequent badges, to "End Bossiness Soon."
ref: 2003, Andrew Marr, The Guardian, 6 Jan 03:
glosses: Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic.
glosses: Firmly determined, resolute; obstinate, stubborn.
examples: text: Upon the other hand, there are a great many people who, having no private property of their own, and being always on the brink of sheer starvation, are compelled to do the work of beasts of burden, to do work that is quite uncongenial to them, and to which they are forced by the peremptory, unreasonable, degrading Tyranny of want.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism:
text: […] less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: Though today (surveying that yellowing document) I shudder at the peremptory tone of the instructions I gave, Alastair - in that same volume in which I get chastised for my coverage of the Macmillan rally - was generous enough to remark that my memorandum became 'an office classic'.
ref: 1999 January 2, Anthony Howard, The Guardian, section 99:
glosses: Accepting no refusal or disagreement; imperious, dictatorial.
Derived terms: overperemptory
peremptorily
peremptoriness
peremptory challenge
unperemptory
peremptory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɛmptəɹi/
Forms: form: peremptories
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman peremptorie, parentorie et al. (Modern French péremptoire), and its source, Latin peremptōrius (“deadly; precluding debate, decisive”), from perimō (“destroy, thwart”), from per- (“thorough”) + emō (“I obtain, buy”).
Senses: examples: text: Each side was allowed 20 peremptories, and the prosecution used 18 of its allotment.
ref: 2015 June 18, Justice Alito, Davis v. Ayala, Case No. 13-1428
topics: law
glosses: A challenge to the admission of a juror, without the challenger needing to show good cause.
performance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pər-fôrʹ-məns
ipa: [pəˈfɔː.məns]
ipa: [pɚˈfɔɹ.məns]
ipa: [pəˈfoː.məns]
Forms: form: performances
form: performaunce
Etymology: From Middle English parfourmaunce; equivalent to perform + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: the performance of an undertaking or a duty
text: Though the result wasn't what we were hoping for, I have to commend the performance of the team, never giving up until the end.
text: Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
text: The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.
ref: 1960 February 24, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:
glosses: The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
glosses: That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
examples: text: The band played a mix of old and new songs during their 90-minute performance.
text: We saw the whole ballet performance from the front row.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A live show or concert.
examples: text: Better performance means more work accomplished in shorter time and/or using fewer resources.
glosses: The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance.
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of performance (arts)
word: command performance
sense: Hyponyms of performance (arts)
word: concert
sense: Hyponyms of performance (arts)
word: movie
sense: Hyponyms of performance (arts)
word: play
sense: Hyponyms of performance (arts)
word: show
Derived terms: antiperformance
autoperformance
concert performance
coperformance
cyberformance
cyberperformance
high-performance
high-performance liquid chromatography
informance
isoperformance
key performance indicator
low-performance
midperformance
misperformance
multiperformance
nonperformance
outperformance
overperformance
performance anxiety
performance arousal
performance art
performance artist
performance bond
performance-driven
performance management
performance metric
performance poetry
performancewear
postperformance
preperformance
reperformance
seismic performance
specific performance
street performance
ultraperformance
underperformance
unperformance
variety performance
Related terms: word: performant
word: preformance
raw_tags: of performance
word: preform
raw_tags: of perform
gynecologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡaɪnəˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒaɪnəˈkɒləd͡ʒɪst/
Forms: form: gynecologists
form: gynaecologist
form: gynæcologist
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) (genitive form
γυναικός) + -λογία (-logía, “branch of study”), itself the combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “word, knowledge, reason”). By surface analysis, gynecology + -ist or gyneco- + -logist.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Schirren: The members of this round table keep on speaking about urologists and gynecologists but you never mention andrologists.
ref: 1986, Emil Steinberger, G. Frajese, Anna Steinberger, editors, Reproductive Medicine, page 493:
text: From now on, too, general practitioners should, as Southard emphasized, be urged to be at least as familiar with the general principles and methods of the psychiatrist as they are with those of the gynecologist, the dermatologist, and the pædiatrist.
ref: 2006, various authors, A Psychiatric Milestone, The Echo Library, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: A physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system.
Synonyms: word: gynie
word: gyno
Derived terms: gynotician
urogynecologist
Related terms: word: gynecology
word: obstetrician-gynecologist
word: OB-GYN
polypropylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypropylenes
Etymology: From poly- + propylene.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: ♷
synonyms: PP
polypropene
hypernyms: polyolefin
coordinate_terms: polyethylene
polyethene
glosses: A thermoplastic resin made by the polymerization of propylene, and used for films, fibres, or moulding materials.
Derived terms: polypropylene glycol
Chumash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈxʊməʃ/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈhʊməʃ/
ipa: /xuːˈmɑːʃ/
Forms: form: Chumashim
form: Chumashes
Etymology: From Yiddish חומש (khumesh), from Hebrew חֻמָּשׁ (khumásh), from חֲמִישָּׁה (khamishá, “five”).
Senses: glosses: Any book of the Pentateuch.
glosses: The Pentateuch collectively.
Related terms: Chamisha Chumshei Torah
Chumash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈxʊməʃ/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈhʊməʃ/
ipa: /xuːˈmɑːʃ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃumɑʃ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃumæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˈʃumɑʃ/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈxʊməʃ/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈhʊməʃ/
ipa: /xuːˈmɑːʃ/
Forms: form: Chumashes
form: Chumash
Etymology: From Ineseño čʰumaš (“the Santa Barbara Channel Island people”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular Native American people of southern California.
Chumash
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈxʊməʃ/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈhʊməʃ/
ipa: /xuːˈmɑːʃ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃumɑʃ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃumæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˈʃumɑʃ/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈxʊməʃ/
note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈhʊməʃ/
ipa: /xuːˈmɑːʃ/
Etymology: From Ineseño čʰumaš (“the Santa Barbara Channel Island people”).
Senses: glosses: The colonial given language name of this tribe.
perpetrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ).pɪˌtɹeɪt.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: perpetrators
Etymology: From Latin perpetrātor. By surface analysis, perpetrate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: perpetrator of violence
glosses: One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.
Synonyms: word: arrestee
word: prisoner
word: deeder
word: perp
word: collar
Derived terms: co-perpetrator
multiperpetrator
perpetratress
poopetrator
perp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: perps
Etymology: Clipping of perpetrator.
Senses: examples: text: "We have the perp in custody," the policeman said.
text: Got himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp. Slid it right through the fabric of the perp’s shirt, gliding the flat of the blade along the base of his neck, and pinned him to a warped and bubbled expanse of vinyl siding on the wall of the house that the perp was trying to break into.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A perpetrator.
Derived terms: perp walk
perp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Senses: examples: text: a perp window
topics: architecture
glosses: Clipping of perpendicular.
perp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɝp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: perps
Etymology: Clipping of perpetual futures or Clipping of perpetual bond .
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A perpetual bond.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Perpetual futures.
personal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sə.nəl/
ipa: /ˈpɜːs.nəl/
ipa: /ˈpɜɹ.sə.nəl/
ipa: /ˈpɜɹs.nəl/
Forms: form: personals
form: personall
Etymology: From Middle English personal, personele, from Anglo-Norman personel, personal, personell, Old French personal, personel, from Late Latin persōnālis (“of a person, personly”), equivalent to person + -al. Doublet of personnel.
Senses: glosses: An advertisement by which an individual attempts to meet others with similar interests.
examples: text: 1748, Tobias Smollett (translator), Alain-René Lesage (original), The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
In addition to this, a coarse shirt quite new, a pair of my father's shoes quite old, and, what rejoiced me more than all the rest, a rouleau of twenty rials in a linen rag. Behold the sum total of my personals.
text: I've had my cell ransacked, savagely searched, and as a result, had my legal papers stolen and destroyed, allong with what little personal clothing and other personals I had.
ref: 1982 April 10, Roosevelt Williamson, “Prison Racism and Legal Slavery in America”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
glosses: One's own property or asset
perspicacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɜː.spɪˈkeɪ.ʃəs/
enpr: pûr'spĭ·kā'shəs
ipa: /ˌpɜːɹ.spɪˈkeɪ.ʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more perspicacious
form: most perspicacious
Etymology: First attested 1548, from Late Latin perspicācitās (“discernment”), from Latin perspicax (“sharp-sighted”), from perspiciō (“look through”), from per- (“through”) + speciō (“look at”). See also perspective.
Senses: examples: text: As a gay prisoner my incarceration has given me a perspicacious view of our judicial system.
ref: 1982 April 17, David K. Jose, “Habeas Corpus”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
glosses: Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.
Derived terms: perspicaciously
perspicaciousness
unperspicacious
Related terms: perspicacity
perspicuity
perspicuous
perspicuously
perspicuousness
clairvoyant
conspicuous
perspective
pert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːt/
ipa: /pɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: perts
form: perting
form: perted
form: perted
Etymology: From Middle English pert, perte, aphetic form of apert.
Senses: glosses: To behave with pertness; to misbehave.
pert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɜːt/
ipa: /pɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: perts
Etymology: From Middle English pert, perte, aphetic form of apert.
Senses: glosses: An impudent person.
perverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈvɝs/
ipa: /pəˈvɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: perverses
Etymology: From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).
Senses: examples: text: If two antipodal points move continuously on the sphere, they trace out what are called symmetric figures. These figures have corresponding elements equal, and are equal in area, but are not in general superposable. The one is, in fact, the perverse of the other.
ref: 1884, Robert Edgar Allardice, Spherical Geometry:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.
Derived terms: tendril perversion
perverse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɚˈvɝs/
ipa: /pəˈvɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: perverses
form: perversing
form: perversed
form: perversed
Etymology: From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).
Senses: examples: text: This rule hath been always for the commodity of that kingdom, where as the powers have been thus by them perversed.
ref: 1545, John Bale, Image of Both Churches:
text: And though impartial history now and then cast the alow (halo) of a martyr over an unsuccessful patriot's grave; yet even that was not always sure; tyrants often perversed history, sullied by adulation or by fear; — but whetever that last verdict might have been; for him who dared to struggle against despotism, when he struggled in vain, there was no honor on earth; victorious tyranny marked the front of virtue with the brand of a criminal.
ref: 1852 February 6, Louis Kossuth, Address delivered before the General Assembly of Ohio:
text: That I have loved you My most puissant disciple I am the fabric of life and death Humanity has perversed the truth
ref: 2013, Winter Laake, Enter-The Vampire:
text: A second sun burst for an instant at first, Then glittered and glinted and twilight perversed And limbs limned in red quenched the sands of their thirst, The limbs of a human by all the Fates cursed;
ref: 2014, Maurits Zwankhuizen, The Desert Rose Inn:
glosses: To pervert.
scarab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæɹəb/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈskɛɹəb/
rhymes: -æɹəb
rhymes: -ɛɹəb
Forms: form: scarabs
Etymology: From Middle French scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”). Doublet of scarabaeus, now obsolete.
Senses: glosses: A beetle of the species Scarabaeus sacer, sacred to the ancient Egyptians.
glosses: Any species of beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.
examples: text: The scarab, which is a very small one, Leo had insisted upon having set in a massive gold ring, such as is generally used for signets, and it was this very ring that I now picked up.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle.
Synonyms: word: cockchafer
word: dung beetle
word: June bug
word: scarabaeus
word: scarab beetle
Derived terms: Argentinian scarab
scarab beetle
scarabaeid
scarabaeoid
phase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fāz
ipa: /feɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: faze
Forms: form: phases
form: phasing
form: phased
form: phased
Etymology: From New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to cause to appear”); compare phantasm and see face.
Senses: examples: text: The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased out as the new models were phased in.
glosses: To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).
raw_tags: with in or out
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
examples: text: Anyone who has lost their way in cyberspace—realizing they have just phased into what they had previously categorized as 'solid' matter—will understand this example.
ref: 1997, P. Lunenfeld, “Hybrid Architectures and the Paradox of Unfolding”, in Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution, →ISBN, page 443:
text: Archer took a deep breath and, steeling himself for the bizarre experience, carefully walked to the bulkhead and phased through.
ref: 2004, Paul Ruditis, Star Trek: Enterprise: Shockwave, →ISBN, page 100:
text: Intangible or invisible objects in comic books are often drawn with a dotted line. When Kitty Pryde of the X-Men phases through objects, she's drawn that way, and Wonder Woman's invisible plan[sic] used to be drawn that way as well.
ref: 2011, Timothy Callahan, Grant Morrison: The Early Years, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: To pass into or through a solid object.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To use a phaser.
Hyponyms: phase in
phase out
Derived terms: phaseable
rephase
unphased
phase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fāz
ipa: /feɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: faze
Forms: form: phases
form: phasing
form: phased
form: phased
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of faze
phase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: fāz
ipa: /feɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: faze
Forms: form: Phase
Etymology: From Latin phase (“passover”), Phasa, from Hebrew פָּסַח (pésach).
Senses: glosses: Passover
phial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəl/
ipa: /ˈfaɪəl/
ipa: /faɪl/
homophone: file (one GA pronunciation)
rhymes: -aɪəl
rhymes: (one GA pronunciation) -aɪl
Forms: form: phials
form: phialing
form: phialling
form: phialed
form: phialed
form: phialled
form: phialled
Etymology: The noun is derived partly:
* from Middle English fiole, phiole, phial (“small bowl or cup for liquids, etc.; flask”) [and other forms], from Middle French fiole, phiole [and other forms], and Old French fiole (modern French fiole), from Late Latin fiola, phiola, from Latin phiala (“broad, flat, shallow bowl or cup”), from Ancient Greek φιάλη (phiálē, “round and shallow bowl, pan, or saucer”), probably from Pre-Greek; and
* directly from Latin phiala (see above).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Doublet of vial.
Cognates
* Catalan fiola
* French fiole
* Italian fiala
* Old Occitan fiola (Occitan fiòla)
Senses: synonyms: vial
glosses: To keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or as if in, a phial.
picayune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹpĭk'ə'yo͝on
ipa: /ˌpɪkəˈjuːn/
ipa: /ˌpɪkəˈjun/
ipa: /-ki-/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: picayunes
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from southern French picaillon, pécaillon, picayon (“type of small foreign coin; (informal, especially in the plural) cash, money”), and from its etymon Occitan picalhon, picaioun (“cheaply made Savoyan-Piedmontese coin that was rapidly demonetized; (by extension) cash, money”), probably from Occitan piquar (“to ring (bells); to knock, strike”) (referring to the clinking of coins in a pocket), originally imitative.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: A small coin of the value of six-and-a-quarter cents; a Spanish coin with a value of half a real; a fippenny bit.
glosses: A coin worth five cents (a nickel) or some other low value.
synonyms: word: absolute zero
word: also-ran
word: chopped liver
word: cipher
word: crumb
word: Joe Nobody
word: little guy
word: minnow
word: nebbish
word: nobody
word: no one
word: nothing
word: nothingburger
word: nonentity
word: picayune
word: pip-squeak
word: pleb
word: peon
word: prole
word: puny
word: quidam
word: rinky-dink
word: shrimp
word: wankstain
word: zero
word: zilch
word: bagatelle
word: bag of shells
word: bric-a-brac
word: dicky
word: dicky-bird
word: fico
word: fig
word: flyspeck
word: minuity
word: niff-naff
word: picayune
word: scuddick
word: sop
word: toy
word: trick
word: trifle
word: triviality
word: whiffle
word: white chip
glosses: A person regarded as unworthy of respect or useless; also, something of very little value; a trifle.
glosses: An argument, fact, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger issue or fails to make any difference.
Derived terms: picayuneish
picayunish
picayunishness
picayunity
picayune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹpĭk'ə'yo͝on
ipa: /ˌpɪkəˈjuːn/
ipa: /ˌpɪkəˈjun/
ipa: /-ki-/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: more picayune
form: most picayune
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from southern French picaillon, pécaillon, picayon (“type of small foreign coin; (informal, especially in the plural) cash, money”), and from its etymon Occitan picalhon, picaioun (“cheaply made Savoyan-Piedmontese coin that was rapidly demonetized; (by extension) cash, money”), probably from Occitan piquar (“to ring (bells); to knock, strike”) (referring to the clinking of coins in a pocket), originally imitative.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: It's also representative of a psychological syndrome that I notice has gotten steadily worse as the Cruise wears on, a mental list of dissatisfactions and grievances that started picayune but has quickly become nearly despair-grade.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
text: [T]here are four competing groups promoting the language – and they cannot agree even on how it should be spelled (Kernewek, Kernowek, Kernuak and Curnoack, among others). It might seem like a picayune matter, akin to the rivalry in the film "Monty Python's Life of Brian" between the Judean People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front and the People's Front of Judea. But the issue is deadly serious to speakers of Cornish.
ref: 2005 November 17, Sarah Lyall, “In an old Celtic revival, spelling is a test of wills”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: picayunish
word: base
word: contemptible
word: foolish
word: for the birds
word: futile
word: frivolous
word: idle
word: ignorable
word: immaterial
word: inconsequential
word: inconsiderable
word: indifferent
word: insignificant
word: like a fart in a windstorm
word: meager
word: mean
word: minor
word: negligible
word: nothingburger
word: nondescript
word: paltry
word: petty
word: picayune
word: picayunish
word: piddling
word: piddly
word: pissant
word: pitiful
word: pointless
word: silly
word: simple
word: slight
word: tin-pot
word: trifling
word: trivial
word: two-bit
word: unimportant
word: unweighty
word: vain
word: worthless
word: wretched
glosses: Of little consequence; small and of little importance; petty, trivial.
synonyms: peevish
petty
glosses: Childishly spiteful; tending to go on about unimportant things; small-minded.
Derived terms: picayunely
picayuneness
picayunish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more picayunish
form: most picayunish
Etymology: From picayune + -ish.
Senses: examples: a picayunish business
glosses: Petty; paltry; mean.
Synonyms: picayune
slight
trivial
insignificant
pimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: pimps
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).
Senses: examples: text: A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore
ref: 2006, Lily Allen, Iyiola Babalola, Darren Lewis, Tommy McCook, “LDN”, in Alright, Still, performed by Lily Allen:
text: All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label
ref: 2018, Brendon Urie, Michael Angelakos, Sam Hollander, Morgan Kibby, Jake Sinclair, Dillon Francis, “Hey Look Ma, I Made It”, in Pray for the Wicked, performed by Panic! at the Disco:
glosses: Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A man who can easily attract women.
Synonyms: word: abbot
word: bludger
word: bully
word: cock-bawd
word: dalaal
word: fishmonger
word: flashman
word: fleshmonger
word: hoon
word: hustler
word: mackerel
word: mack
word: mack daddy
word: muttonmonger
word: nookie-bookie
word: pandar
word: pimp
word: pussymonger
word: ruffian
word: souteneur
word: sweetman
word: whoreman
word: whoremaster
word: whoremonger
Hypernyms: word: pander
word: panderer
word: procurer
Hyponyms: word: croziered abbot
word: gorilla pimp
word: superpimp
word: bawd
word: brothel-keeper
word: fancy man
word: ponce
Derived terms: gorilla pimp
pimp cup
pimpdom
pimpery
pimp hand
pimphood
pimpish
pimpless
pimplike
pimpmobile
pimpness
pimpology
pimpship
pimp slap
pimp-slap
pimp steak
pimp stick
pimpy
Romeo pimp
sugar pimp
superpimp
Related terms: word: trafficker
word: white slaver
word: prostitute
word: prostitute's client
pimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: pimps
form: pimping
form: pimped
form: pimped
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).
Senses: glosses: To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
examples: text: The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
glosses: To prostitute someone.
examples: text: You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.
synonyms: pimp out
pimp up
;
mack out
coordinate_terms: level up
max out
spec out
spec up
trick out
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
examples: text: Only an attending physician can pimp a chief resident; the chief resident and attending can pimp a junior resident; they all three can pimp an intern.
ref: 2004, Robert A. Blume, Arthur W. Combs, The Continuing American Revolution: A Psychological Perspective, page 183:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
examples: text: I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
text: The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.
ref: 1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 19:
glosses: To promote, to tout.
examples: text: I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.
glosses: To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
Synonyms: sense: prostitute someone
word: hustle
word: whore out
word: pimp out
sense: promote, tout
word: pitch
sense: promote, tout
word: promote
sense: promote, tout
word: tout
sense: promote, tout
word: spruik
Derived terms: gorilla pimp
pimp off
pimp out
pimp up
unpimped
pimp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“boy, youth, young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “solicitor”).
Senses: glosses: Excellent, fashionable, stylish.
Related terms: word: pimping
word: player
word: playa
word: madam