cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɑ.stɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tɪk/
ipa: /dɑe.əɡˈnɔs.tɪk/
ipa: /daɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tək/
ipa: [dɑe̯.əɡˈnɔ̟s.tək]
Forms: form: more diagnostic
form: most diagnostic
form: diagnostick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαγνωστικός (diagnōstikós), adjective from διαγιγνώσκειν (diagignṓskein, “to distinguish, diagnose”).
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to diagnosis.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characteristic of a particular disease.
examples: text: Each language has its own distinct phonological qualities which a counter can tap into with effect. It is not necessarily specific phonemes (though these can sometimes be diagnostic), but rather the frequency and phonotactic distribution of each disparate set of phonemes that go together in the speech stream in certain recognisable ways.
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 10:
glosses: Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.
examples: text: A diagnostic assessment
topics: education
glosses: Intended to assess a student's preexisting knowledge on the material being taught.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of a skeletal or genetic feature) Characteristic of a particular taxon or clade.
Hyponyms: pathognomonic
Derived terms: adiagnostic
autodiagnostic
biodiagnostic
clinicodiagnostic
coprodiagnostic
cytodiagnostic
diagnostically
diagnosticate
diagnosticity
diagnostic overshadowing
electrodiagnostic
eudiagnostic
histodiagnostic
immunodiagnostic
intradiagnostic
iridodiagnostic
misdiagnostic
multidiagnostic
nanodiagnostic
neurodiagnostic
nondiagnostic
phytodiagnostic
postdiagnostic
prediagnostic
psychodiagnostic
self-diagnostic
serodiagnostic
subdiagnostic
telediagnostic
transdiagnostic
undiagnostic
xenodiagnostic
diagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɑ.stɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tɪk/
ipa: /dɑe.əɡˈnɔs.tɪk/
ipa: /daɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tək/
ipa: [dɑe̯.əɡˈnɔ̟s.tək]
Forms: form: diagnostics
form: diagnostick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαγνωστικός (diagnōstikós), adjective from διαγιγνώσκειν (diagignṓskein, “to distinguish, diagnose”).
Senses: glosses: Any technique used in medical diagnosis.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.
glosses: That by which anything is known; a symptom.
Related terms: diagnostics
urticant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Causing itching or stinging.
urticant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urticants
Senses: glosses: Such a substance.
meare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meares
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mere.
glosses: Obsolete form of mare.
meare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mere.
use up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uses up
form: using up
form: used up
form: used up
Senses: examples: text: "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."
ref: 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
text: The All Blacks drove upfield, using up the remaining moments, and when Joubert blew for another French infringement, the biggest party in New Zealand's history was under way.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: expend
glosses: To consume, deplete, expend, or exhaust.
raw_tags: of a resource
glosses: To take or occupy.
raw_tags: of time or space
insurance policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurance policies
Senses: topics: business
insurance
glosses: A legal document outlining a particular insurance cover for an insured entity for a given risk.
examples: text: Prince Harry may yet turn out to be the crown’s best insurance policy. By marrying Meghan Markle, he is linking royalty with a 21st-century celebrity who has a backstory that many people in Britain can identify with.
ref: 2017 December 27, “The Guardian view on Prince Harry: the monarchy’s best insurance policy”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Something that protects or safeguards.
Synonyms: insurance contract
Related terms: bargaining chip
wild card
underwriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underwriters
Etymology: From underwrite + -er.
Senses: glosses: An entity assuming a financial risk.
topics: business
insurance
glosses: A person working for an insurance company who arranges and authorizes an insurance policy with a broker or insured.
examples: text: They were the underwriters of the company's shares, but only on a "best efforts" basis.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An entity undertaking to market newly issued securities.
used to
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːs(t).tu/
ipa: /juːs(t).tə/
ipa: /jus(t).tu/
ipa: /jus(t).tə/
homophone: use to
rhymes: -uːstu
rhymes: -uːstə
ipa: /juːzd/
Forms: form: usta
form: useta
Etymology: From used, past participle of use (“(archaic sense) to be in the habit of”) + to.
Senses: examples: text: I am very used to cleaning up other people’s mess.
text: I became/grew quite used to his ways.
text: I got used to this weather.
text: “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.
ref: 1965, Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone:
glosses: Accustomed to, tolerant or accepting of.
Synonyms: wont to
accustomed to
used to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːs(t).tu/
ipa: /juːs(t).tə/
ipa: /jus(t).tu/
ipa: /jus(t).tə/
homophone: use to
rhymes: -uːstu
rhymes: -uːstə
ipa: /juːzd/
Forms: form: used to
form: usta
form: useta
Etymology: From used, past of use (“(archaic sense) to be in the habit of”) + to (“infinitive marker”).
Senses: examples: text: You never used to like soap operas, did you?  I used to like that band long ago, and I was surprised I still do.  I used to know a guy from the UK who pronounced "mother" with the "r".  It used to be me who ran the company.  There used to be open fields here. Now it's a shopping mall.
text: I always used to go to the seaside in August as a child.
text: He used to live here, but moved away last year.
text: The club used to be frequented by locals; then, after the "incident", it used to get raided by the cops.
text: My wife used not to be so hot-tempered.
text: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 2:
text: 1980, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson (lyrics), Agnetha Fältskog (lead vocalist), ABBA, The Winner Takes It All
But tell me does she kiss like I used to kiss you? / Does it feel the same, when she calls your name?
text: When I was a kid I used to think it was all the same clouds that kept coming by.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 94:
ref: 2002, David I. Grossvogel, Didn't You Used to Be Depardieu?:
ref: 2003, G. E. Kruckeberg, Things My Daddy Used to Say:
topics: temporal-location
time
glosses: Formerly and habitually or repeatedly, but possibly no longer, did.
Derived terms: ain't what it used to was
used-to-be
atled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ətlɛd/
Forms: form: atleds
Etymology: delta spelled backwards, the symbol being an inverted delta: ∇.
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Del.
Synonyms: del
nabla
usher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭshʹ-ər
ipa: /ˈʌʃəɹ/
ipa: [ˈʌʃ.ə(ɹ)]
ipa: [ˈʌʃ.ɚ]
ipa: [ˈaʃ.ə(ɹ)]
rhymes: -ʌʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ushers
form: huisher
Etymology: From Middle English ussher, uscher, usscher, from Anglo-Norman usser and Old French ussier, uissier (“porter, doorman”) (compare French huissier), from Vulgar Latin *ustiārius (“doorkeeper”), from Latin ōstiārius, from ōstium (“door”). Akin to ōs (“mouth”). Probably a doublet of ostiary and huissier.
Senses: glosses: A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
synonyms: bridesman
groomsman
glosses: A male escort at a wedding.
glosses: A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
examples: text: [H]e defrayed the expence of his entrance, and left him in the particular care and inspection of the usher, who […] though obliged by the scandalous administration of fortune to act in the character of an inferior teacher, had by his sole capacity and application, brought the school to that degree of reputation which it never could have obtained from the talents of his superior.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: He began to learn Latin with Mr. Hawkins, usher, or under-master of Lichfield school, ‘a man (said he) very skilful in his little way.’
ref: 1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in James Boswell, editor, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.
glosses: Any schoolteacher.
Derived terms: gentleman usher
usheress
usherette
nabla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nablas
form: nevel
Etymology: From Latin nabla, from Ancient Greek νάβλα (nábla, “Phoenician harp”), from ancient Hebrew נֵבֶל (nḗḇel) or a Phoenician cognate. Doublet of nebel, which comes via the modern Hebrew נֵ֤בֶל.
Senses: glosses: A Hebrew stringed instrument.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The symbol ∇, used to denote the gradient operator.
Synonyms: sense: instrument
english: possibly the same instrument
translation: possibly the same instrument
word: nebel
word: atled
word: del
Derived terms: quabla operator
usher in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ushers in
form: ushering in
form: ushered in
form: ushered in
Senses: examples: text: Defeat 12 months ago away to the same opponents signalled the end of John Toshack's reign as Wales manager, ushering in first caretaker Brian Flynn and then current boss Gary Speed.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
glosses: To announce the arrival of something; to herald.
examples: text: It ushered in a whole new era.
text: The war-torn first half of the 20th century, together with the railway grouping of 1923, ushered in further austerity in design.
ref: 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
text: Until recently, journalist inquiries to X's press department received an auto-response of a poop emoji. Yaccarino, attempting to usher in a friendlier era, greets me warmly.
ref: 2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 17:
glosses: To begin something with preparatory material; to introduce.
usherette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usherettes
Etymology: From usher + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: It is such a tiny little place that at first I thought I had gone wrong, and was in an antechamber. Plain papered walls, ascetic chairs, a moldy piano, and a couple of usherettes seemed extremely bare.
ref: 1905 September, Alan Dale, “Dramatic Flashes from London and Paris”, in Ainslee’s Magazine, volume 16, page 152:
text: And then the usherette opened the doors of this dark palace and with a flashlight held behind her took him to his seat.
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:
text: He says, “Mike, let's do the town.” Can you refuse a guy who just gives you a thirty thousand dollar property? We do the town. We do the girl shows, and he yells at all the dames and tries to date the usherettes until we finally get pitched out. […]”
ref: 1954 April, Louis Trimble, “Probability”, in If: Worlds of Science Fiction:
text: […] I won’t even see her again till next Saturday night on account of her doing week-nights as an usherette at the Regal […]
ref: 1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 7, in The Ballad of Peckham Rye, London: Macmillan:
text: But please don’t call them usherettes. […] “Usherette makes us sound as if we’re miniature ushers or something. It’s an old term that we’re trying to get rid of.”
ref: 1994 April 24, Glenn Collins, “Making it work. Sentinels of Broadway”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A female usher.
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Black Rod
glosses: The sergeant-at-arms in the House of Lords.
Black Rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black Rods
Senses: glosses: Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
examples: text: Soon after, the Scotch commissioners presented also to the upper house the charge against him, tending to prove him an incendiary: he was immediately committed to the custody of the black rod.
ref: 1784, William Owen, William Johnston, A new and general biographical dictionary, page 154:
glosses: An usher in the legislature of some British colonies. Canada still had them in 2025.
Derek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Forms: form: Derick
form: Derrick
form: Deryck
Etymology: Borrowed in the Middle Ages from a Middle Low German variant of Theodoric, and revived in the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: "Do you think so? Her husband has an odd name - Derek Keppel. He is a musician - a violinist."
ref: 1895, The American Magazine, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 446:
text: We do not entertain as much anymore because of Derek. (He produces strain. We have to pretend he doesn't.) I used to like him when I still thought he was normal. I was fond of him. I used to call him Dirk, and Kiddo, Steamshovel, Dinky Boy, and Dicky Dare. Till I found out what he was. Now it's always formal: Derek.
ref: 1974, Joseph Heller, Something happened, →ISBN, page 509:
text: Frederick or Derek Boothby was in his late fifties, the son of a naval officer and a daughter of the Earl of Limerick.
ref: 2010, James Robertson, And the Land Lay Still, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 292:
text: The willingness to bring more marginal legal cases reflects how the amount of money being put toward election litigation has increased significantly, said Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame who noted that the trend also applies to Democrats and outside groups across the ideological spectrum.
ref: 2024 April 11, Fredreka Schouten and Tierney Sneed, “GOP leaders pursue new lawsuits over 2024 election rules – including attacking methods of voting they want supporters to use”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bo Derek
Related terms: Dedrick
Del
Derk
Derry
Dirk
Jerrick
Terry
vector algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of mathematics that deals with vectors and operations on them.
utterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌt.ə(ɹ).li/
ipa: [ˈʌtl̩i]
Etymology: From utter + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Well, now we are utterly lost.
text: I have failed you utterly.
text: An utterly emphatic 5-0 victory was ultimately capped by two wonder strikes in the last two minutes from Aston Villa midfielder Gary Gardner. Before that, England had utterly dominated to take another purposeful stride towards the 2013 European Championship in Israel. They have already established a five-point buffer at the top of Group Eight.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
text: Scott, somewhat stunned and now worried that everybody might have opened fire at the U.S. destroyers (he presumably missed Laffey and Farenholt merrily blazing away with their own guns into the darkness), ordered all firing to cease after a couple of minutes. Helena, along with Boise, was already several hundred shells lighter, and both Boise and San Francisco herself actually kept firing, as their captains were utterly sure about their targets; San Francisco's captain was very apologetic as he overruled Admiral Scott.
ref: 2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 20:18 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: Completely; entirely; to the fullest extent.
Derived terms: completely and utterly
table linen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table linens
form: table-linen
Senses: glosses: tablecloths and napkins
Synonyms: napery
Hypernyms: linen
linear algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of mathematics that deals with vectors, vector spaces, linear transformations and systems of linear equations.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: an associative algebra
Related terms: Glossary of linear algebra
numerical linear algebra
tablecloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablecloths
form: table cloth
form: table-cloth
Etymology: From Middle English tabyllcloth, table cloth, tabylle clothe, a partial translation of earlier Middle English bord cloth, bordcloth (“tablecloth”), from Old English bordclāþ, equivalent to table + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: Just across the field stood a small house. In the yard the week's washing was hung out. Among the articles was a red tablecloth.
ref: 1893, Horatio Alger, Jr., Facing the World:
glosses: A cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.
Derived terms: tableclothy
Related terms: place mat
table mat
table d'hôte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɑːblə ˈdəʊt/
/ˌtɑːbəl -/
Forms: form: tables d'hôte
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French table d'hôte (“table of the host”).
Senses: examples: text: The increases from December 4 in the prices of table d'hôte meals in British Railways restaurant cars were expected, in view both of a general upward trend in meal prices in the catering trade and of the fiat that train meals must pay for themselves.
ref: 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Dearer meals in B.R. trains”, in Modern Railways, page 78:
glosses: a menu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price
table d'hôte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌtɑːblə ˈdəʊt/
/ˌtɑːbəl -/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French table d'hôte (“table of the host”).
Senses: glosses: Of menu selections, offered at a fixed price.
Synonyms: prix fixe
set menu
tacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tack
tacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackings
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: Loose temporary stitches in dressmaking etc.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of changing tack.
examples: text: The English doctrine of tacking was first solemnly established in Marsh v . Lee , under the assistance of Sir Matthew Hale , who compared the operation to a plank in shipwreck gained by the last mortgagee
ref: 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:
topics: law
glosses: A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose a claim.
topics: law
glosses: The joining together of consecutive periods of possession of property, especially between squatters in cases of adverse possession.
Jovian planet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jovian planets
Senses: glosses: Any of the four gas giant planets in the Solar System: Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, or Neptune.
square matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square matrixes
form: square matrices
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
hyponyms: triangular matrix
identity matrix
invertible matrix
singular matrix
Hermitian matrix
symmetric matrix
glosses: A matrix having the same number of rows as columns.
Meronyms: main diagonal
marches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɑːtʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃɪz
Senses: examples: text: They settled in the border marches.
glosses: plural of march
marches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɑːtʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of march
sperm whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sperm whales
Etymology: A clipping of spermaceti whale.
Senses: glosses: A whale (Physeter macrocephalus), the largest of the toothed whales.
glosses: Any whale in the superfamily Physeteroidea, which also includes the small whales of genus Kogia.
Synonyms: cachalot
common cachalot
Derived terms: dwarf sperm whale
pygmy sperm whale
sperm whale oil
sperm-whale porpoise
humpback whale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmpbæk ˌweɪl/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈhʌmpbæk ˌʍeɪl/
Forms: form: humpback whales
Senses: examples: text: Humpback whales often display "inquisitive, friendly behavior" toward boats and humans, according to Jodi Frediani, a marine wildlife photographer and paper co-author.
ref: 2025 June 10, Julia Jacobo, “How humpback whales are playfully communicating with humans, according to scientists”, in ABC News:
synonyms: humpback
glosses: A species of baleen whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).
Beluga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Belugas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beluga.
maim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: maims
form: maiming
form: maimed
form: maimed
Etymology: From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin; see mayhem.
Senses: examples: text: He was maimed by a bear.
text: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), pages 377–378:
synonyms: mutilate
glosses: To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
Derived terms: maimee
maimer
Related terms: mayhem
maim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: maims
Etymology: From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin; see mayhem.
Senses: examples: text: it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was falne, beyond my greateſt friendes reach to recouer mee
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: A severe, serious wound.
PhD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PhDs
Senses: examples: text: “Xuankun Li, who named the bee fly Paramonovius nightking, is a PhD student at CSIRO and a huge fan of ‘Game of Thrones,’ proving that inspiration for new species names can come from anywhere,” entomologist Dr. Bryan Lessard said in a statement.
ref: 2019 July 1, Lauren M. Johnson, “New species of bee fly named after ‘Game of Thrones’ character”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative form of Ph.D..
Jovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vi.ən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.vi.ən/
Forms: form: more Jovian
form: most Jovian
Etymology: From Latin Iovis, genitive of Iuppiter, analysable as Jove + -ian.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: Jovial
glosses: Pertaining to the planet Jupiter.
examples: text: Near-synonym: Zeusian
text: He did not admit of equals. But as a patron he was superb. With his Jovian air, his colossal condescension, his amused smile, his general suggestion of the god descending to the mortal, he could be quite overpowering in his amiability.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Jovial
glosses: Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus); Jove-like; befitting Jupiter.
Derived terms: circumjovian
Jovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vi.ən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.vi.ən/
Forms: form: Jovians
Etymology: From Latin Iovis, genitive of Iuppiter, analysable as Jove + -ian.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: Jovial
Jupiterian
glosses: An imaginary inhabitant of the planet Jupiter.
Coordinate terms: Lunar
Martian
Mercurian
Neptunian
Plutonian
Saturnian
Terran
Uranian
Venusian
Derived terms: Epistellar Jovian
Jovian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊ.vi.ən/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊ.vi.ən/
Etymology: From the emperor’s name, Latin Jovianus.
Senses: glosses: Flavius Jovianus Augustus (331–364), a Roman emperor.
crème de la crème
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creme de la creme
Etymology: Borrowed from French crème de la crème (literally “cream of the cream”).
Senses: examples: text: To be an astronaut you must be the crème de la crème.
text: ‘Plainly,’ said Miss Brodie, ‘you were not listening to me. If only you small girls would listen to me I would make of you the crème de la crème.’
ref: 1961, Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, page 14:
text: Whether you've been on the hunt for a pair of quality overalls or you just wanna cosplay as Mrs. Robert Rausch (the ‘Love Island’ girlies know), these ones from Dickies are the crème de la crème.
ref: 2024 October 8, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “65+ Fall Prime Day Fashion Deals Your Closet Is Begging You to Shop”, in Cosmopolitan:
text: He studied engineering and architecture at the Politecnico di Torino and the fancy Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées—one of those Paris institutions for the crème de la crème de la crème^([sic]).
ref: 2025 April 26, Caroline Roux, “The age of adaption”, in FT Weekend:
glosses: Best of the best; something superlative; the very best.
Synonyms: cream of the crop
best of the best
pick of the crop
crème
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crème
form: most crème
form: creme
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French crème. Doublet of cream and crema.
Senses: examples: text: I was still wearing Florsheim cordovan wingtip shoes, medium gray flannel slacks, with a broadcoth crème shirt that displayed pale green stripes setting off my dark green silk tie imprinted with light brown heads of horses.
ref: 1989, Benjamin Evans Dean, A Virginian in Yankeeland: Volume Four: Some Stars and Stripes Voyages, →ISBN, page 10:
text: He went through periods where he wore monochromatic outfits, and though he had begun to experiment with new combinations, he still liked to return to the blue suit with the blue shirt and the blue tie, or the creme colored suit with the creme shirt and the creme tie.
ref: 1999, Margaret Allison (pseudonym; Cheryl Klam), The Last Curve, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 15:
text: (this page) Crème sequin dress by St. Patrick, $1,000, at Bridal Designs, Dragonfly earrings, $12,000, cultured pearl necklace worn as bracelet, $14,000, Lucida® solitaire diamond ring, $22,800, channel set diamond band, $2,075, at Tiffany & Co. Shoes by Stuart Weitzman, $285.[…](left) Crème dress with white lace overlay and pink sash by Monique Lhuillier, $2,910, at Bridal & Formal.
ref: 2005, Cincinnati Wedding, pages 48 (picture perfect) and 51 (master class):
glosses: Synonym of cream.
synonyms: word: cream
crème
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crèmes
form: creme
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French crème. Doublet of cream and crema.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A very sugary, fluffy white cream derivative or creamlike analogue.
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
glosses: Cream.
Derived terms: crème caramel
crème Chantilly
crème de cacao
crème de menthe
cremey
marshmallow creme
crème
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crèmes
form: crèming
form: crèmed
form: crèmed
form: creme
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French crème. Doublet of cream and crema.
Senses: examples: text: Cremed magnesia beautifies the skin in the same easy way that milk of magnesia purifies the stomach[…]Thousands of doctors now insist that their wives, patients and nurses use nothing but cremed magnesia on their faces.
ref: 1929 July 11, “Look Lovely Tonight: New Skin Beauty in Five Minutes—It’s as Simple as Washing Your Face”, in Daily News, volume 11, number 13, New York, N.Y., page 33, column 2:
text: Raspberries, usually souffléed or crèmed[…]
ref: 1966, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman, volume 64:
text: CREMING BLEACH 1.5 oz. net wt. / & CREME ACTIVATOR 1 oz. wt.
ref: 1976 April 7, Battle Creek Enquirer and News, volume 76, number 260, Battle Creek, Mich., page A-8:
text: Cremed Honey Spreads Combine the Goodness of Nature[…]David Yurgelum of Gourmet Products (Watertown, Conn.) is a connoisseur when it comes to cremed honey spreads.
ref: 1989, Honey Hotline:
text: Cremed Powder Eyeshadow ($16) has a slightly heavy texture that is more powdery than creamy.
ref: 2001, Paula Begoun, Don’t Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me: A Unique Guide to Over 30,000 Products, Plus the Latest Skin-Care Research, 5th edition, →ISBN, page 929:
text: Translating to “delight of the valley,” Délice is an uber-crèmed fromage blanc, or as Davis likes to call it, a “crème de fromage.” It’s a triple crème, fresh, soft cheese made with whole cow’s milk and cream, with fresh Sonoma chèvre mixed in.
ref: 2012, Kirstin Jackson, “Délice de la Vallée Fromage Blanc, California”, in It’s Not You, It’s Brie: Unwrapping America’s Unique Culture of Cheese, Perigee Books, →ISBN:
text: Sweet! / How Twinkies Got Crèmed / They’re golden brown, irresistibly spongy, and filled with “crème” (you don’t think there’s actually cream in there, do you?).
ref: 2015, Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo, editors, W. C. Privy’s Original Bathroom Companion, number 2, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To whip into a thick creamy texture.
cachette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cachettes
Etymology: From French cachette.
Senses: examples: text: The dwarf plucked the bird from its cachette, throttled it with a twist of his knotty hands, and held it up for the gunman to admire.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 49:
text: A further twenty-six well-preserved statues were discovered in 1989 where they had been buried in a cachette under the floor of the temple.
ref: 2009, Charles Harrison, An Introduction to Art:
glosses: A hidden nook; a hiding place.
Kapingamarangi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
glosses: The Austronesian language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia, especially by the inhabitants of Kapingamarangi.
Kapingamarangi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Kapingamarangi atoll or the Kapingamarangi language.
acroamatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acroamatic
form: most acroamatic
form: acroamatick
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin acroamaticus, acroaticus (“esoteric”), at first chiefly in reference to the “esoteric” and originally oral teachings of Aristotle, from Ancient Greek ἀκροαματικός (akroamatikós, “for hearing only; esoteric”), from ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai, “to listen”).
Senses: examples: text: Prate they not cataracts of insensible noise, / That with obstreperous cadence cracks the organs / Acroamatick, till the deaf auditor / Admires the words he heares not?
ref: 1632, Thomas Randolph, The Jealous Lovers, Cambridge, page 59:
text: I should prefer, therefore, to call the former acroamatic, or audible (discursive) proofs, because they can be carried out by words only (the object in thought), rather than demonstrations, which, as the very term implies, depend on the intuition of the object.
ref: 1922, F. Max Müller, transl., Critique of Pure Reason, translation of Kritik der reinen Vernunft by Immanuel Kant, page 590:
text: The idea that the first thought, as an internal event, is always also dialogical, that is, possesses a communicative quality in itself, is connected to its acroamatic origin.
ref: 2009, Jürgen Trabant, “Herder and Language”, in Hans Adler, Wulf Köpke, editors, A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder, Camden House, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: Of or pertaining to hearing.
examples: text: How to begin such warfare against sovereign religion in times ruled by the very zealots against whom one must fight? How else but covertly, enigmatically, in the acroamatic manner practiced so beautifully in Holy War?
ref: 1993, Laurence Lampert, Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Repeatedly in the Gospels Jesus takes his disciples aside to offer them acroamatic teachings not intended for the mass of listeners or to explain a secret meaning to some parable with which he has entertained the larger crowd.
ref: 1995, Philip L. Culbertson, A Word Fitly Spoken: Context, Transmission, and Adoption of the Parables of Jesus, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Esoteric, abstruse; (in particular) taught orally to select students and not disseminated.
examples: text: Coordinate term: erotematic
text: Up to that time the “acroamatic” method had been used in which the catechist gave a lecture, and the children were only listeners (ἀκροᾶσθαι).
ref: 1959, Josef Andreas Jungmann, Handing on the Faith: A Manual of Catechetics, page 28:
text: [Questions’] employment here does not mark a shift from the acroamatic (lecture-based) to the erotematic (interrogatory) method, for the answers are not known.
ref: 2015, Nils F. Schott, "A Mother to All" in Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World, p. 108, n. 45
topics: education
glosses: Based on lectures or exposition by monologue.
Derived terms: acroamatically
Related terms: acroamatics
Tanger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tangier.
Related terms: Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
reproach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: reproaches
Etymology: From Middle English reprochen, from Old French reprochier (Modern French reprocher).
Senses: examples: text: My father made no reproach in his letters and only took notice of my science by inquiring into my occupations more particularly than before.
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 4, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2011:
glosses: A mild rebuke, or an implied criticism.
glosses: Disgrace or shame.
glosses: An object of scorn.
Synonyms: obloquy
opprobrium
Derived terms: self-reproach
reproach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹoʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: reproaches
form: reproaching
form: reproached
form: reproached
Etymology: From Middle English reprochen, from Old French reprochier (Modern French reprocher).
Senses: examples: text: if ye be reproached for the name of Christ
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Peter 4:14:
text: this new commer, Shame,
There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Mezentius […] with his ardour warmed / His fainting friends, reproached their shameful flight, / Repelled the victors.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: exprobrate
word: blame
word: rebuke
word: upbraid
word: animadvert
word: admonish
word: bash
word: bawl out
word: blast
word: derogate
word: berate
word: berisp
word: castigate
word: censure
word: chastise
word: chew out
word: chide
word: condemn
word: criticize
word: denounce
word: denunciate
word: drag
word: dress down
word: eat someone alive
word: excoriate
word: find fault
word: fulminate
word: get down
word: get up
word: give somebody a piece of one's mind
word: give somebody what-for
word: inveigh
word: lace into
word: lambaste
word: lay into
word: lecture
word: light into
word: objurgate
word: pooh-pooh
word: put someone on blast
word: rate
word: read somebody the riot act
word: rebuke
word: reprehend
word: reprimand
word: reproach
word: reprove
word: rip into
word: rubbish
word: savage
word: scold
word: slam
word: tear into
word: tell off
word: threap
word: tick off
word: tosh
word: keelhaul
word: upbraid
word: vilify
word: vituperate
glosses: To criticize or rebuke (someone).
examples: text: I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, / For that he knew you, might reproach your life.
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 V, scene i]:
glosses: To disgrace, or bring shame upon.
Synonyms: sense: to disgrace
word: disgrace
sense: to disgrace
word: dishonor
Derived terms: beyond reproach
reproachful
reproachable
volte-face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒltˈfæs/
ipa: /-ˈfɑːs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: volte-faces
form: volte face
Etymology: Borrowed from French volte-face.
Senses: examples: text: Psychoanalysis has sprung many surprises on us, performed more than one volte face before our indignant eyes.
ref: 1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Psychoanalysis vs. Morality”, in Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 9:
text: Then, on July 15, 1971, came Nixon's sudden announcement that Kissinger had just made a secret trip to Peking and that he himself had accepted Chou En-lai's invitation to visit the Chinese mainland sometime before May, 1972. This was instantly interpreted in chancelleries all over the world as a sign that the United States was about to execute a volte-face in its China policy.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:
text: My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester – although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My Weirdest and Wackiest Rover Yet”, in Rail, pages 67–68:
text: For one-time advocates of unfettered globalisation, this volte-face has resulted in cognitive dissonance, because the new suite of policy proposals implies that longstanding rules of the international trading system will be bent or broken.
ref: 2022 June 1, Joseph Stiglitz, “Davos 2022 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: about-face
U-turn
glosses: A reversal of attitude, policy, or principle.
examples: text: Shakespeare often used volte-faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A dramatic change in mood or tone.
rouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊz/
homophone: rows stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -aʊz
Forms: form: rouses
form: rouze
Etymology: From Middle English rousen, from Anglo-Norman reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body, from Latin recūsō, by loss of the medial 'c.' Doublet of recuse.
Figurative meaning “to stir up, provoke to activity” is from 1580s; that of “awaken” is first recorded 1590s.
Senses: glosses: An arousal.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
rouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊz/
homophone: rows stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -aʊz
Forms: form: rouses
Etymology: First attested in the late 16th Century. From carouse, from rebracketing of the phrase “drink carouse” as “drink a rouse”.
Senses: examples: text: No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day
But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,
And the King’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
Respeaking earthly thunder.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: An official ceremony over drinks.
examples: text: Fill the cup, and fill the can:
Have a rouse before the morn:
Every minute dies a man,
Every minute one is born.
ref: 1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Vision of Sin”, in Poems, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, page 219:
glosses: A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
glosses: Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
awoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwəʊkn̩/
rhymes: -əʊkən
Etymology: Morphologically awoke + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of awake
Synonyms: english: some US
translation: some US
word: awaked
awoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈwəʊkn̩/
rhymes: -əʊkən
Etymology: Morphologically awoke + -n.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:awoken.
glosses: Misspelling of awaken.
Derived terms: unawoken
inclined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈklaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: more inclined
form: most inclined
form: enclin’d
form: enclined
form: inclin’d
Etymology: From incline + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The take-off ramp was inclined at 20 degrees.
glosses: At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.
examples: text: I am inclined to believe you.
text: She's inclined to lose her temper.
synonyms: given to
glosses: Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
Synonyms: word: apt
word: bain
word: disposed
word: fain
word: forward
word: inclined
word: liable
word: minded
word: ready
word: predisposed
word: prone
word: propense
word: wont
Derived terms: inclined elevator
inclined lift
inclinedly
inclined plane
overinclined
preinclined
that way inclined
uninclined
Related terms: word: acquiescent
word: predilection
inclined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈklaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: enclin’d
form: enclined
form: inclin’d
Etymology: From incline + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incline
Derived terms: inclined to
inclined plane
Related terms: incline
merely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪəli/
ipa: /ˈmɪɹli/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)li
Etymology: From Middle English mereli, equivalent to mere + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But let us not be unfair to the kibitzers. Not all players hate 'em. Some merely dislike 'em.
ref: 1951 October, Bruce Hayden, “Of Cabbageheads and Kings”, in Chess Review:
text: All these people, who have tried to set you against me out of envy and love of slander – and some too merely passing on what they have been told by others – all these are very difficult to deal with.
ref: 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: Without any other reason etc.; only, just, and nothing more.
examples: text: It is not forgot, since the acute and distinct Arminius was perverted meerly by the perusing of a namelesse discourse writt'n at Delf, which at first he took in hand to confute.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
text: I am sorry to say, that I doubt if there is a judge in Massachusetts who is prepared to resign his office, and get his living innocently, whenever it is required of him to pass sentence under a law which is merely contrary to the law of God.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts:
glosses: Wholly, entirely.
Synonyms: word: but
word: just
word: literally
word: merely
word: no more than
word: nothing but
word: only
word: simply
hunkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunkeys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hunky (“Hungarian or other Eastern European”).
reporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɚ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɔːtə/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpoətə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reporters
form: reportor
form: reportour
Etymology: From Middle English reportour, from Old French reporteur; equivalent to report + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The reporters of important security bugs may be paid a bounty by the software developer.
glosses: Someone or something that reports.
glosses: A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
glosses: A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
topics: law
glosses: A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.
Derived terms: case reporter
court reporter
cub reporter
law reporter
mandated reporter
mandatory reporter
police reporter
pool reporter
sideline reporter
Related terms: news report
reporting
rapporteur