cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
delegation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: delegations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēlēgātiō, dēlēgātiōnis, from dēlēgō: compare French délégation.
Senses: examples: text: Decentralisation of the railways was provided for by the establishment of Area Boards for each Region, which began to function on January 1, 1955, and by the extended delegation of powers to the Boards and their General Managers; […].
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
glosses: An act of delegating.
examples: text: the American delegation
glosses: A group of delegates.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.
examples: text: The mere delegation of a performance imposes no duty on the delegate to perform. If the delegate performs the duty, the duty is discharged. If the delegate does not perform the duty, the duty is not discharged, but any claim of the obligee for breach is against the delegating party and not against the delegate.
ref: 2016, Marco J. Jimenez, Contract Law: A Case and Problem Based Approach (Aspen Casebook Series), New York: Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, page 1192:
topics: law
glosses: The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)
Derived terms: delegation language
nondelegation
redelegation
subdelegation
Related terms: delegate
consultation link
bice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: bices
form: bise
Etymology: From French bis, akin to Italian bigio (“light gray, tawny”). Doublet of beige.
Senses: glosses: A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
glosses: A cobalt blue pigment.
Derived terms: bice blue
bice green
green bice
trouble and strife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troubles and strifes
Senses: glosses: Wife.
sandarac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsændəɹæk/
Forms: form: sandaracs
Etymology: From Latin sandaraca, from Ancient Greek σανδαράκη (sandarákē, “realgar”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.
examples: text: Sandarach is procured from common juniper; and incense from a juniper with yellow fruit.
ref: 1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 9:
text: Oil was also used for making varnish, by dissolving sandarac in it, and as the 'vernysshe' which appears so frequently in accounts was always bought by the pound, the term was evidently applied to the sandarac, or other similar resinous substance.
ref: 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 171:
text: There would have been many gums and resins in these markets for our lute-maker to bind his wood with: sandarac resin from North African pines […].
ref: 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white or yellow resin obtained from a north African tree (Tetraclinis articulata), and pulverized for pounce; probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral.
glosses: Any tree from the genus Tetraclinis.
plumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌm.ɚ/
homophone: Plummer
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpləmb.ə(r)/
Forms: form: plumbers
Etymology: From Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”).
The verb sense “to botch” is perhaps from the negative stereotype of the occupation.
Senses: glosses: One who works in or with lead.
glosses: One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
glosses: One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
One who installs piping for potable and waste water.
examples: text: It involved the break-in of the office of Mr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, by the White House “plumbers.”
ref: 1979, United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Legislation, Espionage Laws and Leaks: Hearings Before the Subcommittee...:
glosses: A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information.
glosses: In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
examples: text: […] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.
ref: 1958, Father Provincial Assumption B.V.M. Monastery, The Chronicle, volumes 12-13, page 39:
text: Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.
ref: 1983, Toni Martin, How to Survive Medical School, page 127:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A urologist.
Derived terms: nonplumber
plumber block
plumberless
plumber's cleavage
plumber's crack
plumber's helper
plumber's snake
plumber wrench
plumbery
Related terms: plumbing
plumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʌmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Forms: form: plumbings
Senses: examples: text: Water was dripping from the ceiling, so we figured there was a problem with the plumbing.
glosses: The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.
glosses: The trade or occupation of a plumber.
examples: text: My plumbing was playing up, so I had to see the doctor.
text: I am sure that there are those who dislike me […] but as a person, not for the sake of my plumbing.
ref: 1978 December 9, Nancy Walker, “Sexism and Racism at GCN?”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 10:
text: ‹Why did I always think the ladies' room would be less gross? How do you girls freaking miss with your plumbing!?›
ref: 2017 June 30, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 966 - Déjà vu:
glosses: A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
examples: text: This is not scientific research as such: it's just plumbing.
glosses: Practical, concrete work serving to support other work.
glosses: A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
synonyms: waterworks
glosses: The genitourinary system.
Derived terms: inspect the plumbing
nonplumbing
plumbing code
plumbingless
plumbing snake
plumbing system
Related terms: plumb
plumber
waterworks
grozing iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grozing irons
Senses: glosses: A plumber's tool for soldering lead pipes.
examples: text: A hot iron rod, being drawn along the outline, produced a crack, which enabled the outlying portions of the glass to be broken off. The ragged edge so produced was then cleaned up with the grozing-iron.
ref: 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, page 179:
glosses: A tool used in making stained glass windows; a pair of groziers.
wattling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wattlings
Etymology: From wattle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material.
ref: 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England, page 188:
glosses: An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle.
glosses: The act of making such a mesh.
osier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊzɪə/
ipa: /ˈəʊʒə/
ipa: /ˈoʊʒəɹ/
rhymes: -əʊʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: osiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French osier (“basket willow, withy”)
Senses: synonyms: common osier
glosses: A willow, of species Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America, considered the best willow for wickerwork.
glosses: Any kind of willow.
examples: text: She pulled half a dozen fine fish out of the water within the reeds, killing each as she took it out, and threading it on a long osier that she carried. Then she knotted the osier, hung it on her arm, picked up the pitcher, and turned to come back.
ref: 1906, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet:
text: Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material.
ref: 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 188:
glosses: Long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
Derived terms: word: osiered
word: osierlike
word: osiery
word: red osier
taxonomic: Cornus sericea
word: red osier dogwood
parget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑːd͡ʒɪt/
Forms: form: pargets
form: pargeting
form: pargetting
form: pargeted
form: pargeted
form: pargetted
form: pargetted
Etymology: From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: parget the outside of their houses.
ref: 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
text: the pargeted ceiling with pendants
ref: 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae:
text: Closely allied to daubing was pargetting or rough-casting, the chief difference, so far as any real distinction was made in the technical use of the terms, being that in pargetting mortar or a coarse form of plaster was used instead of clay or loam.
ref: 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:
glosses: To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.
glosses: To paint; to cover over.
parget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹd͡ʒɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑːd͡ʒɪt/
Forms: form: pargets
Etymology: From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Blind parget cherubs watched from the high corners.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 135:
glosses: Gypsum.
examples: text: The surface of the parget might be finished either smooth, with a coat of whitewash, or as rough-cast with sand or small stones.
ref: 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 191:
glosses: Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.
glosses: Paint, especially for the face.
eke
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ēk
ipa: /iːk/
ipa: /ik/
rhymes: -iːk
homophone: eek
Etymology: From Middle English ek, eek, eke (“also”) [and other forms], from Old English ēac, ǣc, ēc (“also”), from Proto-West Germanic *auk, from Proto-Germanic *auk (“also, too; furthermore, in addition”), then either:
* from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”); or
* from Pre-Germanic *h₂ew (“away from, off; again”) + *g(ʰ)e (postpositional intensifying particle meaning ‘at any rate, indeed, in fact’)
The English word is cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk, “also; for, because; but also”), Old Frisian âk, Old High German ouh (“also, as well, too”) (Middle High German ouch, modern German auch (“also, as well, too”)), Old Norse auk (“also; and”) (Danish og (“and”), Swedish och (“and”), ock (“(dated) also, as well as, too”)), Old Saxon ôk, Dutch ook (“also, too; moreover; either”), Saterland Frisian ook, uk (“also, too”), West Frisian ek (“also, too”).
Senses: examples: text: The ſoote [i.e., sweet] ſeaſon, that bud and blome forth brings, / With grene hath clad the hill, and eke the vale: […]
ref: a. 1548, Henry Haward, late Earle of Surrey [i.e., Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey], “Description of Spring, wherin Eche Thing Renewes, Saue Onely the Louer”, in Songes and Sonettes, […], [London]: Apud Richardum Tottel [i.e., Richard Tottel], published 1557, →OCLC:
text: 'Tis false: for Arthur wore in Hall / Round Table like a Farthingal, / On which, with Shirt pull'd out behind, / And eke before his good Knights dined.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 12:
text: John Gilpin was a citizen / Of credit and renown, / A train-band Captain eke was he / Of famous London town.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], published 1785, →OCLC, page 343:
text: A vinegary face has Mrs Miff, and a mortified bonnet, and eke a thirsty soul for sixpences and shillings.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Also; in addition to.
cruck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌk/
ipa: /kɹʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: crucks
Etymology: Perhaps from a dialectal variant of crutch or crook.
Senses: examples: text: 1952: To construct such a house, it is necessary to select an oak with a branch growing out at an angle of about 45°; the upper part of the tree, above the fork, having been cut off, the trunk and branch are roughly squared and divided in half . If the two halves are then placed opposite one another, with the branch ends pegged together, they constitute what was usually known as a 'cruck' or, more correctly, 'a pair of crucks'. — L.F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 195.
text: Historic England explained the listing: "The station's unique design employs a high level of sophistication and innovation through its use of conoid shells supported on a cruck-like frame, which not only create a dramatic aesthetic form, but endow the building with a light and spacious interior."
ref: 2023 March 22, Philip Haigh, “Five configuration stages to boost Manchester rail capacity”, in RAIL, number 979, page 31:
topics: architecture
glosses: A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a timber house, usually used in pairs.
Derived terms: cruck-frame
cruck-truss
cruck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌk/
ipa: /kɹʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: crucks
form: crucking
form: crucked
form: crucked
Etymology: Perhaps from a dialectal variant of crutch or crook.
Senses: glosses: To make lame.
cruck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌk/
ipa: /kɹʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: crucks
Etymology: From blend of car + truck.
Senses: examples: text: It was a car/truck. The cab had two seats like a car and the back had a flat cut out for cargo like a truck. People used to call it a 'Cruck'.
ref: 2010, Michael Thoreau, Oh Brother, Why?:
text: It was a half car, half truck. I christened it the “Cruck”.
ref: 2011, Karl J. Stenstrom, The Low Road:
glosses: A vehicle that has features of both a car and a truck.
thack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thăk
ipa: /θæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: thacks
form: thacking
form: thacked
form: thacked
Etymology: From Middle English thakken (“to stroke”), from Old English þaccian (“to touch gently, stroke, tap”), from Proto-West Germanic *þakwōn, from Proto-Germanic *þakwōną (“to touch lightly”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch”).
Cognate with Old Dutch þakolōn (“to stroke”), Old Norse þykkr (“a thwack, thump, blow”), Icelandic þjökka, þjaka (“to thwack, thump, beat”), Norwegian tjåka (“to strike, beat”), Latin tangō (“touch”). More at thwack, tangent.
Senses: qualifier: obsolete except British
glosses: To strike or thump (someone or something); to thwack.
thack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thăk
ipa: /θæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: thacks
Etymology: From Middle English thacce, from thakken (“to stroke”): see etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: A stroke; a thwack.
thack
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: thăk
ipa: /θæk/
rhymes: -æk
Etymology: From Middle English thacce, from thakken (“to stroke”): see etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: 1860, Albany Fonblanque, Jun., Hector Mainwaring; or, A lease for lives, Ward and Lock, page 205,
Thack ! thack ! thack ! the heavy hunting whip came down upon the head and shoulders of Charles Dudley.
text: Whishhh—THACK! The strap is a blur as it comes to meet my outstretched hand.
ref: 2012, Campbell Bolwell, From the Mountaintop, Xlibris, page 33:
glosses: The sound of a thack.
thack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: thăk
ipa: /θæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: thacks
Etymology: From Middle English thak, thakk, thakke, from Old English þæc, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.
Cognate with Dutch dak, Low German Dack, Danish tag (“roof”), German Dach (“roof”), Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”). Akin to Latin toga (“garment”) and Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”). See also thatch and deck.
Senses: examples: text: This outer layer was generically known as 'thack', but, owing to the fact that the vast majority of buildings in early times were covered with a thacking of straw or some similar material, 'thatch' gradually acquired its modern restricted significance of straw, or reed, heling.
ref: 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 223:
glosses: The weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often specifically thatch.
thack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: thăk
ipa: /θæk/
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: thacks
form: thacking
form: thacked
form: thacked
Etymology: From Middle English thak, thakk, thakke, from Old English þæc, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.
Cognate with Dutch dak, Low German Dack, Danish tag (“roof”), German Dach (“roof”), Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”). Akin to Latin toga (“garment”) and Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, “roof”). See also thatch and deck.
Senses: examples: text: The said day, it was represented that the thacking and covering of Houses houses in the towne with straw and hedder wes very dangerous, and rendered them obnoxious to fyre, and to the endangering of the saids houses and the neighbouring adjacent houses, and that a fatall evidence thereof, by haveing some houses thacked and covered as said is, had falne out in the Gallowgate lately; […] .
ref: 2023 [1871], John Stuart, Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen, Outlook Verlagsgesellschaft (Anatiposi Verlag), Books on Demand, page 365, 28 June 1716
glosses: To cover a roof with thack.
Derived terms: word: thacked
word: thacker
ita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: itas
form: eta
Senses: glosses: A kind of palm tree (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco.
Related terms: ita-bag
gimme
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪmiː/
rhymes: -ɪmi
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of give me.
Senses: examples: text: Gimme the ball.
text: He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] gem me, gim me, give me.
ref: [1687, Chriſtopher Cooper, “Chap. XIX: Of Barbarous Speaking”, in The Engliſh Teacher, London: John Richardſon, for the Author, page 77; republished Menston: Scolar Press, 1969:
text: Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight / Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
ref: 1979, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!”, in Voulez-Vous, performed by ABBA:
text: Come on, Dad / Gimme the car tonight / I got this girl, I wanna…
ref: 1983, Gordon Gano, “Gimme the Car”, in Violent Femmes, performed by Violent Femmes:
glosses: Give me.
Derived terms: gimme a break
gimme a five
gimme five
gimme some skin
Related terms: lemme
gimme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪmiː/
rhymes: -ɪmi
Forms: form: gimmes
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of give me.
Senses: examples: text: You have to swipe along to page three of Fifa's world rankings before catching sight of the Faroe Islands, perched in 114th place, nearly 70 spots below Scotland. But under Hakan Ericson, they no longer represent the gimme fixture most in world football once reckoned them to be.
ref: 2021 October 12, Jamie Lyall, “Faroe Islands 0-1 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: That which is easy to perform or obtain, especially in sports.
examples: text: Don't count two strokes for that — it was a gimme: if I wasn't holding the flag with my other hand for the next players waiting for the hole, it would have gone in.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: That which is easy to perform or obtain, especially in sports.
A tap-in putt, usually a couple inches from the cup.
examples: text: The Trojan horse gimme typically arrives as an e-mail attachment promising something for nothing (that is, a “gimme”)—maybe a fun free screen saver,[…]
ref: 2008 April 1, Alan Axelrod, PhD; Guy Antinozzi, J.D., The Complete Idiot's Guide to Campus Safety: Essential Safety Tips Every College Student Should Know, Penguin, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Our first answered prayer is Salvation—the entry of Christ— but that is a “gimme,” it is a “freebie,” for God has already answered this prayer for everyone, even before he or she asks.
ref: 2012 November 28, R. Crafton Gibbs, Eternal Life with God: Logos 1, of Writing God's Book of Life, R. Crafton Gibbs / Google Books Play, →ISBN, page 181:
glosses: That which is easy to perform or obtain, especially in sports.
That which is simply given away for nothing; a freebie.
examples: text: Imani: Well, yeah, I was smoking a lot of weed back then, that's a gimme. At the Manor it was really just smoking. Stress smoking. We didn't have no chronic at the time—there were some mushrooms here and there.
ref: 2009 March 12, Brian Coleman, Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies, Villard, →ISBN, page 332:
text: Didn't wear any rings, and if she had worn some, they would have contained purple stones, that was a gimme. A nightmarish thought flashed through his head. Him waking on a Sunday morning, finding Cresta there in his bed beside him,[…]
ref: 2011 08, David Carter, The Murder Diaries - Seven Times Over: Seven Times Over, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 182:
text: The staid and uncool Democratic Establishment, by blowing a gimme election, had discredited itself.
ref: 2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: That which is certain; that which is sure to be the case.
Derived terms: gimme a break
gimme a five
gimme cap
gimme hat
gimme some skin
Related terms: wannabe
sexism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛksɪzm̩/
Forms: form: sexisms
Etymology: From sex + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The notion that either gender is superior is sexism.
glosses: The belief that people of one sex (or gender) are inherently different from those of another sex, and generally that one sex is superior to others.
examples: text: The fact that there is only one woman in a management position in that company makes it easy to believe that sexism runs rampant there.
text: Dati launched a blistering attack on the prime minister, François Fillon, under whom she served as justice minister, accusing him of sexism, elitism, arrogance and hindering the political advancement of ethnic minorities.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian:
text: Beyond the glaring sexism inherent in suggesting that women's brains are so different from men's that they can't think properly, Musk lending credence to this dogshit hypothesis is incredibly goofy given that he and his audience of supposedly "high-T" men seem far more likely to fall in line with the sort of groupthink the original post references in such pseudo-phrenological terms.
ref: 2024 September 3, Noor Al-Sibai, “Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High Testosterone”, in The Byte:
glosses: Discrimination or different treatment based on sex or gender, especially discrimination against women.
examples: text: The sexism of making and promoting violent films for men and romantic comedies for women.
glosses: Attitudes or actions that are based on or promote the expectation that people adhere to stereotypical social roles (gender roles) based on sex.
Synonyms: word: sexism
Hypernyms: word: prejudice
Hyponyms: word: androphobia
word: genderphobia
word: gynophobia
word: intersexphobia
word: misandry
word: misogynoir
word: misogyny
word: transmisandry
word: transmisogyny
Coordinate terms: ableism
ageism
bigotry
chauvinism
discrimination
enbyphobia
genderism
heterosexism
homophobia
misandry
misogyny
racism
religionism
transphobia
Derived terms: antisexism
cissexism
crypto-sexism
cybersexism
heterosexism
monosexism
neurosexism
nonsexism
retrosexism
reverse sexism
Related terms: sex
sexist
hairstyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairstyles
Etymology: From hair + style.
Senses: synonyms: coif
coiffure
haircut
hairdo
glosses: The style in which someone's hair has been cut and arranged.
Derived terms: hairstyled
castellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkastəleɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more castellated
form: most castellated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin castellātus (“fortified, castellate”) + -ed (forming past participles). Equivalent to the past participle of castellate but attested earlier than other uses of the verb.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: crenellated
text: ...A Castellated mansion...
ref: 1686, Robert Plot, chapter X, in The Natural History of Stafford-shire, page 448:
text: Finally he walked slowly into a vast Italian space, with towers and castellated roofs, and a sky the colour of dark blue ink, smooth and consistent.
ref: 2004, Colm Toibin, The Master, page 2:
text: Three castellated (with battlements) towers stand sentry here, with one being particularly large. This is said to have been used by Rhodes as a belvedere, and (according to some sources) by railway staff for some time after opening.
ref: 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 46:
glosses: Castle-like: built or shaped like a castle; usually, specifically, having castellations (crenellations).
examples: text: Near-synonym: crenellated
text: Castellated nuts are used throughout, with split pins.
ref: 1904, Alexander Bell Filson Young, chapter IV, in The Complete Motorist, page 74:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.
examples: text: ...This castellated island...
ref: 1809, Robert Ker Porter, chapter IV, in Travelling Sketches in Russia & Sweden, volume I, page 30:
glosses: Castled: having or furnished with castles.
examples: text: His unbiassed justice... struck horror into the heart of every castellated felon.
ref: 1837, Walter Savage Landor, Works, volume II, page 317:
glosses: Housed or kept in a castle.
Derived terms: castellated nut
uncastellated
Related terms: castle
castellation
castellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkastəleɪtɪd/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin castellum (“cistern”).
Senses: examples: text: A fayre Conduite of sweete water, castellated in the middest of that warde and streete...
ref: 1598, John Stow, A Suruay of London, page 149:
glosses: Synonym of enclosed, when used for fountains, cisterns, &c.
synonyms: word: enclosed
word: when used for fountains
word: cisterns
word: &c
haver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪvə/
ipa: /ˈheːvəɹ/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: havers
form: havering
form: havered
form: havered
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots haiver.
Senses: examples: text: This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered, he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: To hem and haw.
examples: text: To business, and no more havers.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XIV, in Shrewsbury:
text: And if I haver,
 Yeah I know I’m gonna be,
 I’m gonna be the man
 Who’s haverin' to you.
ref: 1988, The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles):
text: She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."
ref: 2004, James Campbell, “Boswell and Mrs. Miller”, in Wendy Lesser, editor, The Genius of Language, page 194:
synonyms: babble
haiver
maunder
glosses: To talk foolishly; to chatter.
haver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪvə/
ipa: /ˈheːvəɹ/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈavə/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈheɪvə/
ipa: /ˈheːvəɹ/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: havers
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots haver, from Middle English haver, from Old Norse hafri (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Germanic *habrô (“oat, oats”), from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (“goat”). Cognate with Dutch haver (“oats”) and German Hafer (“oat”).
Senses: glosses: Oats (the cereal).
Derived terms: haver bread
haver-grass
Related terms: haversack
haver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪvə/
ipa: /ˈheːvəɹ/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈavə/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈhævɚ/
ipa: /ˈhævə/
ipa: /ˈheɪvə/
ipa: /ˈheːvəɹ/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈavə/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: havers
Etymology: From Middle English haver, havere, equivalent to have + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is held / That valour is the chiefest virtue, and / Most dignifies the haver: if it be, / The man I speak of cannot in the world / Be singly counterpoised.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Because abortion would no longer be an issue (except, again, in the case of criminal sex-havers), Democrats and republicans would stop fighting […]
ref: 2012, Robert Kurzban, Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite, page 186:
text: Yet, DiAngelo writes, white people cling to the notion of racial innocence, a form of weaponized denial that positions black people as the "havers" of race and the guardians of racial knowledge.
ref: 2018 July 23, Katy Waldman, “A Sociologist Examines the "White Fragility" That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism”, in New Yorker:
text: As a haver of eczema and chronically parched skin, I know I can always return to this nourishing formula that uses soothing colloidal oatmeal and allantoin as well as shea butter which works to protect the skin barrier.
ref: 2022 December 2, Tessa Flores, “What Our Shopping Editors Are Buying From Sephora's Holiday Sale”, in Huffington Post:
glosses: One who has something (in various senses).
topics: law
glosses: The person who has custody of a document.
Synonyms: holder
possessor
Derived terms: sex-haver
haver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪvə/
ipa: /ˈheːvəɹ/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈavə/
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈhævɚ/
ipa: /ˈhævə/
Forms: form: haverim
Etymology: From Hebrew חבר.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chaver.
oats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊts/
ipa: /ˈəʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
Senses: glosses: plural of oat
oats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊts/
ipa: /ˈəʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
Senses: examples: text: Oats are in the north corner of the farm.
text: Usually oats is last in a rotation and does not get the fertilizer that other feed grains get.
glosses: A mass of oat plants (genus Avena, especially Avena sativa).
examples: text: Oats is a heart-healthy breakfast food.
text: Oats are good for you.
glosses: Seeds of an oat plant, especially prepared as food.
Synonyms: haver
Hyponyms: overnight oats
river oats
rolled oats
sea oats
wild oats
Derived terms: feel one's oats
get one's oats
know one's oats
oatsy
proats
sow one's wild oats
Related terms: oaten
toll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊl/
ipa: /tɒl/
ipa: [t(ʰ)əʊ̯ɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɒɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔwɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)oːɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɔ(ː)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰo(ʊ̯)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰɑ(ː)ɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: tole
Forms: form: tolls
Etymology: From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol (“toll”), Dutch tol (“toll”), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs”), Danish told (“toll, duty, tariff”), Swedish tull (“toll, customs”), Icelandic tollur (“toll, customs”). More at tell, tale.
Alternate etymology derives Old English toll, from Medieval Latin tolōneum, tolōnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telōneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”).
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.
ref: 1957 October 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:
glosses: A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
examples: text: The war has taken its toll on the people.
glosses: Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
examples: toll ore refining; toll manufacturing
glosses: A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
examples: text: We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.
topics: business
glosses: A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
examples: text: We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.
glosses: A tollbooth.
topics: law
glosses: A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
glosses: A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
Derived terms: burn the coal, pay the toll
death toll
e-toll
take a toll
take its toll
toll barrier
toll booth
toll bridge
toll call
toll castle
toller
tollgate
toll line
toll road
toll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊl/
ipa: /tɒl/
ipa: [t(ʰ)əʊ̯ɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɒɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔwɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)oːɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɔ(ː)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰo(ʊ̯)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰɑ(ː)ɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: tole
Forms: form: tolls
form: tolling
form: tolled
form: tolled
Etymology: From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol (“toll”), Dutch tol (“toll”), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs”), Danish told (“toll, duty, tariff”), Swedish tull (“toll, customs”), Icelandic tollur (“toll, customs”). More at tell, tale.
Alternate etymology derives Old English toll, from Medieval Latin tolōneum, tolōnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telōneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”).
Senses: examples: text: Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
glosses: To impose a fee for the use of.
examples: text: No Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: To levy a toll on (someone or something).
glosses: To take as a toll.
examples: text: I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
glosses: To pay a toll or tallage.
toll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊl/
ipa: /tɒl/
ipa: [t(ʰ)əʊ̯ɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɒɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔwɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)oːɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɔ(ː)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰo(ʊ̯)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰɑ(ː)ɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: tole
Forms: form: tolls
Etymology: Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil
Senses: glosses: The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
toll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊl/
ipa: /tɒl/
ipa: [t(ʰ)əʊ̯ɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɒɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔwɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)oːɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɔ(ː)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰo(ʊ̯)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰɑ(ː)ɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: tole
Forms: form: tolls
form: tolling
form: tolled
form: tolled
Etymology: Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil
Senses: examples: text: Martin tolled the great bell every day.
text: Ask not for whom the bell tolls.
text: From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
examples: text: The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.
text: When hollow murmurs of their evening bells
Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To summon by ringing a bell.
examples: text: The bells tolled the King’s death.
text: Slow tolls the village-clock the drowſy hour;
The partridge burſts away on whirring wings;
Deep mourns the turtle in ſequeſter'd bower,
And ſhrill lark carols clear from her aereal tour.
ref: 1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First, London: […] E[dward] & C[harles] Dilly, […]; Edinburgh: A[lexander] Kincaid and W[illiam] Creech; and J[ohn] Bell, […], →OCLC, stanza XLI, page 21:
glosses: To announce by ringing a bell.
examples: text: The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Chief White Halfoat”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 213:
glosses: To make a sound as if made by a bell.
Derived terms: toller
toll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊl/
ipa: /tɒl/
ipa: [t(ʰ)əʊ̯ɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɒɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔwɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)oːɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɔ(ː)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰo(ʊ̯)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰɑ(ː)ɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: tole
Forms: form: tolls
form: tolling
form: tolled
form: tolled
form: tole
form: toal
Etymology: From Middle English tolen, tollen, variation of tullen, tillen (“to draw, allure, entice”), from Old English *tyllan, *tillan (“to pull, draw, attract”) (found in compounds fortyllan (“to seduce, lead astray, draw away from the mark, deceive”) and betyllan, betillan (“to lure, decoy”)), related to Old Frisian tilla (“to lift, raise”), Dutch tillen (“to lift, raise, weigh, buy”), Low German tillen (“to lift, remove”), Swedish dialectal tille (“to take up, appropriate”).
Senses: glosses: To draw; pull; tug; drag.
glosses: To tear in pieces.
examples: text: Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"
glosses: To draw; entice; invite; allure.
glosses: To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
Synonyms: sense: to lure animals
word: bait
sense: to lure animals
word: lure
toll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊl/
ipa: /tɒl/
ipa: [t(ʰ)əʊ̯ɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɒɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔwɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)oːɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɔ(ː)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰo(ʊ̯)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰɑ(ː)ɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: tole
Forms: form: tolls
form: tolling
form: tolled
form: tolled
Etymology: From Latin tollō (“to lift up”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To take away; to vacate; to annul.
examples: text: The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.
topics: law
glosses: To suspend.
toll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊl/
ipa: /tɒl/
ipa: [t(ʰ)əʊ̯ɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɒɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔwɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)oːɫ]
ipa: [t(ʰ)ɔ(ː)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰo(ʊ̯)ɫ]
ipa: [tʰɑ(ː)ɫ]
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: tole
Senses: examples: text: I done toll you for the last time.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: simple past and past participle of tell
Related terms: word: toll gene
english: etymologically unrelated to the above
translation: etymologically unrelated to the above
word: toll-like
bandar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandars
Etymology: From Hindi बंदर (bandar).
Senses: glosses: A rhesus macaque.
Related terms: bandar log
betavoltaics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From betavoltaic + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The study or application of the betavoltaic effect.
Related terms: beta particle
beta radiation
beta ray
betavoltaic
photovoltaics
voltaic
β
disaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzɑːs.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈzæs.tə/
ipa: /dɪˈzæːs.tɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: disasters
form: disastre
Etymology: From Middle French desastre, from Italian disastro, from dis- + astro (“star”), from Latin astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr.
Senses: examples: text: People would suffer disasters when society's morality degenerates.
text: Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
ref: 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
glosses: An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
examples: text: And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.
ref: 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
text: A nod means good, two nods; very good. And then there's the pursing of the lips: disaster.
ref: 2003, The Devil Wears Prada:
glosses: An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.
glosses: A skateboard trick involving a 180-degree ollie, landing on the center of the board with the front trucks facing towards the ramp and the back trucks over the lip. The skater then leans forwards to return in the ramp.
Synonyms: word: adversity
word: apocalypse
word: calamity
word: catastrophe
word: disaster
word: misery
word: qualm
word: woe
Hypernyms: word: occurrence
Hyponyms: word: doomsday event
word: natural disaster
word: avalanche
word: rockslide
word: mudslide
word: earthquake
word: seaquake
word: flood
word: tidal wave
word: tsunami
word: eruption
word: cataclysm
word: blizzard
word: drought
word: hailstorm
word: tornado
word: epidemic
word: famine
Derived terms: blizzaster
disaster area
disasterclass
disaster film
disaster flora
disasterless
disasterly
disaster movie
disasteroid
disasterpiece
disaster tourism
disaster tourist
disaster waiting to happen
disastrophe
ecodisaster
megadisaster
minidisaster
natural disaster
nondisaster
post-disaster
postdisaster
predisaster
Related terms: word: misfortune
word: accident
word: dumpster fire
word: mishap
word: misadventure
word: mischance
word: tire fire
word: disastrous
word: disastrously
dyslexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭs-lĕkʹsē-ə
ipa: /dɪsˈlɛk.si.ə/
Forms: form: dyslexias
Etymology: Learned borrowing from French dyslexie and/or German Dyslexie, coined by German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin in 1887, from dys- + lexis + -ia, from Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) + λέξις (léxis, “diction”, “word”), from Ancient Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leg- (“to collect, gather; to speak”). The term was coined with λέξις (léxis) being taken to mean "reading," likely due to semantic conflation of Greek λέγω (légō, “to speak”) and Latin legō (“to read”). By surface analysis, dys + lex(is) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: A learning disability characterized by reading and writing difficulties.
Synonyms: word-blindness
Derived terms: dyslexia-friendly
Related terms: dyslectic
dyslexic
dyslexify
alexia
dyscalculia
dysgraphia
dyslexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈlɛksɪk/
Forms: form: more dyslexic
form: most dyslexic
Etymology: By surface analysis, dyslexia + -ic. Piecewise doublet of dyslectic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to dyslexia.
examples: text: She a feminist, she think I'm sexist / Twistin' my words, I think she dyslexic
ref: 2023, “Sprinter”, performed by Central Cee x Dave:
glosses: Having dyslexia.
Derived terms: dyslexically
nondyslexic
dyslexic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈlɛksɪk/
Forms: form: dyslexics
Etymology: By surface analysis, dyslexia + -ic. Piecewise doublet of dyslectic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has dyslexia.