cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
evade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈveɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: evades
form: evading
form: evaded
form: evaded
Etymology: From Middle French évader, from Latin ēvādō (“I pass or go over; flee”), from ē (“out of, from”) + vādō (“I go; walk”). See also wade.
Senses: examples: text: He evaded his opponent's blows.
text: The robbers evaded the police.
text: to evade the force of an argument
text: The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles.
ref: 1847, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord:
text: “Evading” is moving through ground occupied by an opponent without trying to knock him down. You can attempt this as part of any maneuver that allows movement, provided you can move fast enough to go past your foe – not just up to him.
ref: 2004, “Moving Through Other Characters”, in GURPS Basic Set: Campaigns, page 368:
text: If someone tries to evade you from the front (see Evading, p. B368) and you have a melee weapon that can parry, you may roll against weapon skill instead of DX in the Contest. You keep him from evading if you win or tie
ref: 2007, “Obstruction”, in GURPS Martial Arts, page 106:
glosses: To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
examples: text: Evading from perils.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
text: Unarmed they might / Have easily, as spirits evaded swift / By quick contraction or remove.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, 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:
glosses: To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
examples: text: The ministers of God are not to evade and take refuge any of these ... ways.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding.
Synonyms: equivocate
shuffle
dodge
end-run
sidestep
give the go-by
give someone the runaround
Derived terms: evadable
evadee
evader
evadible
evadingly
evasible
evasion
evasive
unevaded
Related terms: prevaricate
Early Modern English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of the English language written and spoken from the end of the 15th century to the mid-17th century.
Synonyms: Early New English
Hypernyms: Modern English
Coordinate terms: Late Modern English
globule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɒbjuːl/
ipa: /ˈɡlɑbjul/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒbjuːl
rhymes: (General American) -ɑbjul
Forms: form: globules
Etymology: From French globule, from Latin globulus, from globus (“globe”).
Senses: examples: text: Suppoſe now that in a fair Day the Sun ſhines through a thin Cloud of ſuch globules of Water or Hail, and that the globules are all of the ſame bigneſs[…]
ref: 1704, Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, 3rd edition, London: W. and J. Innys, published 1721, page 289:
text: A civilized hotel is a little urban globule floating like scum on a rustic pool.
ref: 1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 19:
text: They described the eggs as spherical in shape, highly transparent with a thin, horny egg membrane and a relatively wide perivitelline space. Each egg contained a single oil globule.
ref: 1991, Dean W. Ahrenholz, “Population Biology and Life History of the North American Menhadens, Brevoortia spp.”, in Marine Fisheries Review, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2021, page 9:
text: Mature female black rockfish and newborn (inset), which sports an oil globule (arrow) - its prepacked lunch. Older moms give young a bigger starting meal, boosting the offsprings'^([sic]) growth and survival.
ref: 2005 June 4, Janet Raloff, “Empty Nets: Fisheries may be crippling themselves by targeting the big ones”, in Science News, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2021:
glosses: A small round particle of substance; a drop.
Derived terms: Bok globule
conglobulate
globulet
globuliferous
globulimeter
globulin
globulism
globulist
globulite
hypoglobulia
microglobule
nanoglobule
plastoglobule
gleeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliːfəl/
Forms: form: more gleeful
form: most gleeful
form: gleefull
Etymology: From glee + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.
ref: 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful.
Synonyms: elated
exhilarated
high-spirited
overjoyed
Derived terms: gleefully
gleefulness
ungleeful
Related terms: glee
shrill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: shrills
Etymology: From Late Middle English schrille, shirle, shrille (“of a sound: high-pitched, piercing; producing such a sound”), possibly from the earlier shil, schille (“loud, resounding; high-pitched”), from Old English scill (“sonorous sounding”), of Germanic origin and probably ultimately imitative.
The r in the word was introduced by analogy to Middle English skrīke, skrīken, scrēmen, possibly to avoid confusion with non-Anglian forms of schelle (modern English shell) where Old English scill (“sonorous sounding”) and scill (“shell”) existed.
The word is cognate with Icelandic skella (“crash, bang, slam”), Low German schrell (“sharp in taste or tone”).
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen at laſt / I heard a voyce, which loudly to me called, / That with ſuddein ſhrill I was appalled.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, part 6:
text: The shrill of the whistle from the locomotive “Charlestown” announced the arrival of the first train into Fitchburg on 5 March 1845— [...]
ref: 2015, Cliff[ord J.] Schexnayder, Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel, Portsmouth, N.H.: Peter E. Randall, →ISBN:
text: Sonographic example of two consecutive loud shrills of a common marmoset, showing sound frequencies of harmonics reaching into the ultrasonic range.
ref: 2018, Jaco Bakker, Johannes A. M. Langermans, “Ultrasonic Components of Vocalizations in Marmosets”, in Stefan M. Brudzynski, editor, Handbook of Ultrasonic Vocalization: A Window into the Emotional Brain (Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience; 25), London; San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, →ISBN, part L (Ultrasonic Vocalization in Other Vertebrate Taxa), figure 49.1 caption, page 539, column 2:
glosses: A shrill sound.
Red Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Red Indians
Etymology: See redskin for details about the etymology.
Senses: glosses: An aboriginal native of the Americas of pre-Columbian lineage. An Indian, Amerind(ian), American Indian, a Native American.
Coordinate terms: red
redskin
Related terms: Red
æsthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æsthetics
Senses: examples: text: Physiological æsthetics purported to measure and analyze the impact of form, movement and color not only on the eye but on the body.
ref: 1997, Barbara T. Cooper, Mary Donaldson-Evans, editors, Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of Nineteenth-Century French Culture, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 219:
text: Psychoanalysis, one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive models ever offered in the fields of cognition (epistemology), affect (emotion system), action and motivation (pragmatics) and æsthetics, may very well be the last creation of “modernism.”
ref: 2001, Mary Lawrence Test, Dalhousie French Studies, volume 54, “Dominique Desanti: Un Hommage”, page 111 (Department of French, Dalhousie University)
text: Æsthetics matter: a particularly attractive, innovative, or clever design of the interface is always appreciated.
ref: 2010 winter, “[Lecture #1 - Welcome to CS193P] Assignment 1A - Hello Stanford!”, in CS 193P iPhone Application Development, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2014, page 2:
text: æsthetics matter / there should be / a beauty to the flow / of thought on 𝕏
ref: 2024 July 21, Elon Musk (@elonmusk), X, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2024:
glosses: Dated spelling of aesthetics.
American Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American Indians
Etymology: American + Indian. The noun is attested since 1702, the adjective since shortly thereafter.
Senses: glosses: A member of some indigenous peoples of the Americas, especially the continental United States, but excluding the Inuit, Yupik, and Aleuts.
glosses: An indigenous person from the United States.
Related terms: Amerind
Amerindian
Cablinasian
Indian
Injun
Native American
North American Indian
American Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more American Indian
form: most American Indian
Etymology: American + Indian. The noun is attested since 1702, the adjective since shortly thereafter.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas or their languages.
Related terms: word: Euro-American
english: U.S. citizens of South Asian extraction from India
translation: U.S. citizens of South Asian extraction from India
word: Indian-American
yesteryear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛstəjɪə/
ipa: /ˈjɛstərjɪər/
ipa: /ˈjestəjøː/
note: Wales, other regions
ipa: /ˈjɛstəjɜː/
Forms: form: yesteryears
form: yester-year
Etymology: From yester- + year.
Senses: examples: text: To be old here, is to be respectable, and time-honored is the epithet most coveted. You see no sign of the doings of yesterday or yesteryear: the new is careful of obtruding itself, and comes into the world under matronage of the old.
ref: 1840 August 2, George H[enry] Calvert, Scenes and Thoughts in Europe. […], New York, N.Y.: Wiley and Putnam, published 1846, page 5:
text: It seems to me that it isn't these little acts and little connexions we make in our lives that matter so very much. They pass away, and where are they? Where…Where are the snows of yesteryear?
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 5, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
text: Where Babcock has proprietary technologies, they will be preserved and developed, in so far as they help to give the company an edge over its rivals. But make no mistake, if Parker and Salmon have their way, boiler suits are the workwear of yesteryear at Babcock. Graduates, not grease-monkeys, are the typical employees of the future.
ref: 1994 November 5, Ross Tieman, “Yachtsmen on a long-term voyage to recovery”, in The Times, number 65,104, London, page 25:
text: After passing Starcross and then the new […] Marsh Barton station, we soon arrive at the delightful Exeter St Davids station, which still retains much of its charm and GWR character of yesteryear.
ref: 2023 August 23, Pip Dunn, “The last bastion of the HST 'Castles'”, in RAIL, number 990, page 49:
glosses: Past years; time gone by; yore.
glosses: Last year.
Synonyms: sense: time gone by
word: foretime
word: yestertide
word: the past
Derived terms: where are the snows of yesteryear
yesteryear
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɛstəjɪə/
ipa: /ˈjɛstərjɪər/
ipa: /ˈjestəjøː/
note: Wales, other regions
ipa: /ˈjɛstəjɜː/
Forms: form: yester-year
Etymology: From yester- + year.
Senses: examples: text: Was it yesteryear or centuries ago that the Orient Express thundered over that narrow, glistening channel and linked the Golden Horn to the Seine?
ref: 1917 April, Fullerton L[eonard] Waldo, “Embattled Serbia”, in The Forum, volume LVII, New York, N.Y.: The Forum Publishing Company […], section I, page 448:
text: To believe in God was to Moroni’s credit. But to believe in the Son of God, a Being who had only been prophesied about and whose birth was still in the future, is truly remarkable. It is similar to those who lived yesteryear (and are living today) after the coming of Christ, who believed (and who do believe) in Him, although He has never been seen in person.
ref: 1992, V. James Lovalvo, “Role Models of Righteousness in the Book of Mormon”, in James Van Treese, editor, Book of Mormon Reflections: “Truth in Perspective”, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Northwest Publishing Inc., →ISBN, section “General Moroni”, page 329:
text: What lives there today provides a clue as to what lived here yesteryear.
ref: 2005, James Lazell, “Ways of Looking at Diversity”, in Island: Fact and Theory in Nature, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, section “Rarefaction”, page 13, column 2:
glosses: In past years.
Related terms: bygone
yesterday
kinship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪnʃɪp/
Forms: form: kinships
Etymology: From kin + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.
examples: text: The first of these were the ten engines of class "C8", Nos.290-299, which had a very strong kinship to the C.R. "Carbrooks".
ref: 1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774:
glosses: Relation or connection by nature or character.
Derived terms: nonkinship
skinship
Related terms: kin
kith as in kith and kin
benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛn.ɪ.fɪts/
ipa: /ˈbɛn.ə.fɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of benefit
examples: text: Her dad had been on benefits for years so she never ever received pocket money. When she walked to school she would scour the pavements for coins.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: public assistance; welfare.
Derived terms: e-benefits
benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛn.ɪ.fɪts/
ipa: /ˈbɛn.ə.fɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of benefit
followers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of follower
maidservant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maidservants
form: maid servant
form: maid-servant
Etymology: From Middle English maide servant; equivalent to maid + servant.
Senses: examples: text: Sixe dayes thou ſhalt labour, and doe all thy worke. / But the ſeuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou ſhalt not doe any worke, thou, nor thy ſonne, nor thy daughter, nor thy man ſeruant, nor thy maid ſeruant, nor thine oxe, nor thine aſſe, nor any of thy cattel, nor thy ſtranger that is within thy gates, that thy man ſeruant and thy maid ſeruant may reſt as well as thou.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 5:13–14, column 2:
text: "A great people were they. They conquered till none were left to conquer, and then they dwelt at ease within their rocky mountain walls, with their man servants and their maid servants, their minstrels, their sculptors, and their concubines, and traded and quarrelled, and ate and hunted and slept and made merry till their time came."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: But a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his rights over what he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what he calls his rights over her whom he calls his wife. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass. / —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan antiphoned.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A female servant; a maid.
Synonyms: word: servantess
word: servingmaid
word: servingwoman
word: servitress
word: servitrix
word: womanservant
Coordinate terms: manservant
servingman
Related terms: manservant
ll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of lines; formed similarly to pp for pages.
Senses: glosses: lines
minette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minettes
Senses: examples: text: The title page bears a minette portrait of the Duke being crowned by the hand of an ideal figure of Chicago, and below are the coat-of-arms and motto of the Duke's house.
ref: 1893, Columbian Exposition Dedication Ceremonies Memorial:
text: […] there were hundreds of other sizes of photographic prints ranging from a minette novelty to mammoth views.
ref: 1981, Lou W. McCulloch, Card Photographs: A Guide to Their History and Value, page 161:
glosses: The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
examples: text: The minettes of Buell Mountain are felsic, and many contain ground-mass quartz.
ref: 1977, Navajo Kimberlites and Minettes:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral deposit consisting of iron ore of sedimentary origin, found in the south of Luxembourg and in Lorraine.
hop it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hops it
form: hopping it
form: hopped it
form: hopped it
Senses: examples: text: It has been rather misty for several mornings, so I told my pal to get ready and we would hop it the next day.
ref: 1918 June 15, Private John A. Scott, “A Prisoner of War”, in The Saturday Evening Post, page 28:
text: "You stop that!" cried a voice in the passage. "It's that blasted Jewess!" said the woman. She went to the kitchen door. "What the 'ell are you doing in our 'ouse? 'Op it, quick, or it will be the worse for you!"
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:
text: ‘[…] But when the others found out about it they got a bit restive, and I had to hop it. One of them pitched a spear at me. […]’
ref: 1952, Charlotte Jay, Beat Not the Bones, Wakefield Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Alan popped round too at lunchtime but I politely told him to hop it and call back later. He was a bit miffed but three was definitely a crowd.
ref: 2003, Stephen Walton, Interference, Lulu, published 2007, →ISBN, page 160:
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: To leave; to go away.
quitclaim
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪtkleɪm/
Forms: form: quitclaims
form: quitclaiming
form: quitclaimed
form: quitclaimed
Etymology: From Middle English quiteclaymen, from Anglo-Norman quiteclamer, from clamer quite (“to claim quit”). Compare claim quit.
Senses: examples: text: 1991, JD Gordon, "How Not to Succeed in Law School", Yale Law Journal, April
I hereby give, grant, bargain, sell, release, convey, transfer, and quitclaim all my right, title, interest, benefit, and use whatever in, of, and concerning this chattel, otherwise known as an orange, or citrus orantium, together with all the appurtenances thereto of skin, pulp, pip, rind, seeds, and juice for his own use and behoof, to himself and his heirs in fee simple forever, free from all liens, encumbrances, easements, limitations, restraints, or conditions whatsoever, any and all prior deeds, transfers or other documents whatsoever.
text: It introduced a bill into the legislature that allowed the king to quitclaim all of Ruth's lands in return for Spreckels gaining title to 24,000 crucial acres at Wailuku, near Spreckelsville.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 86:
topics: law
glosses: To relinquish or release (a claim, title, etc.); to transfer (an interest in property).
quitclaim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪtkleɪm/
Forms: form: quitclaims
Etymology: From Middle English quiteclaymen, from Anglo-Norman quiteclamer, from clamer quite (“to claim quit”). Compare claim quit.
Senses: glosses: A renunciation of claims.
topics: law
glosses: A deed that is a renunciation of claims to a parcel of real property and a transfer of one's claims to another.
Derived terms: quitclaim deed
mediæval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediæval
form: most mediæval
Senses: examples: text: In that position she might have been an effigy on some mediæval tomb such as the Marshal had so often seen.
ref: 1993, Magdalen Nabb, chapter 10, in The Marshal at the Villa Torrini, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 176:
text: This embraces all mediæval societies between the ninth and twelfth centuries, as its advocates intended.
ref: 2006, Noel Cox, “Dark Age and Mediæval Europe”, in Technology and Legal Systems, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, part II (The Relationship of Government and Technology), section 6 (Changes in the Past), page 132:
glosses: Dated spelling of mediaeval.
Derived terms: mediævally
sarcology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sarco- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the soft parts of the body, including myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology
subpœna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpœnas
form: subpœnæ
Senses: examples: text: Nothing vnder a Sub-pœna can dravv him to London, and vvhen he is there, hee ſtickes faſt vppon euery Obiect, caſts his eyes avvay vppon gazing, and becomes the prey of euery cut-purſe.
ref: 1612 (date written), Tho: Overburye [i.e. Thomas Overbury], “Characters, or Witty Descriptions of the Properties of Sundry Persons. A Country Gentleman.”, in A Wife. Now the Widdow of Sir Tho: Overburye. Being a Most Exquisite and Singular Poem of the Choise of a Wife. […], 4th edition, London: […] G[eorge] Eld, for Lawrence Lisle, […], published 1614, →OCLC:
text: No man to be called by Privy Seal or Subpœna to anſwer any matters but ſuch as have no remedy by the Common law, and that to appear ſo by the teſtimony of two Juſtices of either Bench, and by Indenture between them and the Plaintiff, which Plaintiff ſhall always appear in proper perſon, and find ſurety by recognizance to proſecute with effect the matters of the Bill only, and to anſwer dammages if the ſame fall out againſt the Plaintiff.
ref: 1644, Edw[ard] Coke, “The Court of Chancery”, in The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. […], London: […] M[iles] Flesher, for W[illiam] Lee, and D[aniel] Pakeman, →OCLC, page 83:
text: For the worthy magistrate, determined to omit no chance of doing Effie justice, and to leave her sister no apology for not giving the evidence which she was supposed to possess, had caused the ordinary citation, or sub-pœna, of the Scottish criminal court, to be served upon her by an officer during his conference with David.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 181:
text: [page 318] "Samuel Weller?" said Mr. Jackson, enquiringly. "Vun o' the truest things as you've said for many a long year," replied Sam, in a most composed manner. "Here's a subpœna for you, Mr. Weller," said Jackson. […] [page 319] Mr. Jackson seemed rather puzzled by Sam's proceedings; but, as he had served the subpœnas, and had nothing more to say, he made a feint of putting on the one glove which he usually carried in his hand, for the sake of appearances; and returned to the office to report progress.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Which is All about the Law, and Sundry Great Authorities Learned therein”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, pages 318–319:
text: For to-day in this arena, / Summoned by a stern subpœna, / Edwin, sued by Angelina— / Shortly will appear.
ref: 1875 March 25 (first performance), W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, librettist; Arthur Sullivan, composer, Trial by Jury. A Novel and Original Dramatic Cantata, London: Walter Smith, […], published 1875, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Archaic spelling of subpoena.
subpœna
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subpœnas
form: subpœnaing
form: subpœnaed
form: subpœnaed
Senses: examples: text: We wish to subpœna the public to our characters.
ref: 1815 January – 1817 January, William Hazlitt, “No. XXXIII. On Different Sorts of Fame.”, in William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners, volume II, Edinburgh: […] [George Ramsay & Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1817, →OCLC, page 65:
text: Poor Willy! he would not even subpœna any of his old friends as to his general character. But even if he had, what could the Court do since he pleaded guilty?
ref: 1857, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “Containing Much of that Information which the Wisest Men in the World Could Not Give but which the Author Can”, in What will He Do with It? (Collection of British Authors; CCCCXL), Tauchnitz edition, volume III, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, book VII, page 276:
text: I am just reminded that the president, who is also transfer-agent, of the Black Rapids Coal Company, happens to be on board here, and, having been subpœnaed as witness in a stock case on the docket in Kentucky, has his transfer-book with him.
ref: 1857 April 1, Herman Melville, “Renewal of Old Acquaintance”, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, New York, N.Y.: Dix, Edwards & Co., […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: Witnesses, duly and in good faith, subpœnaed to attend any court, officer, commissioner, auditors or referees, or summoned to attend any judge, officer, or commissioner, in any cse where there attendance may, by law, be enforced by attachment or warrant, are exonerated from arrest in any civil suit, while going to the place where they are required to attend, while remaining in attendance as such witnesses, and while returning therefrom.
ref: 1860, Sanford M[oon] Green, “Commencement of Actions; and Proceedings on Both Sides to the Defendant‘s Appearance, Inclusive”, in A Treatise on the Practice of the Circuit Courts of the State of Michigan; […], Detroit, Mich.: S. D. Elwood, […], →OCLC, § 137, page 41:
text: Mr. Elgood and his daughter were both subpœnaed for the adjourned inquest.
ref: 1875, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘What, then, You Knew Not this Red Work Indeed?’”, in A Strange World […], volume I, London: John Maxwell and Co. […], →OCLC, page 181:
text: The Federal Government subpœnaed over fifty witnesses, but many of these were relieved of testifying by the submission of documents.
ref: 1942 May–June, “U.S.A. Pullman Monopoly Opposed”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130:
glosses: Archaic spelling of subpoena.
rike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: rikes
form: riking
form: riked
form: riked
Etymology: Results from the difficulty of pronouncing the phoneme /l/ for L1 speakers of many Far East languages.
Senses: qualifier: Far East
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of like.
footloose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more footloose
form: most footloose
Etymology: From foot + loose.
Senses: examples: text: He was footloose in his youth.
text: Because we often imagine that immigrants are constantly on the move, footloose, able to change course at any moment.
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 465:
text: […] They are footloose but also desperate, squeezed by rising inequality and a frayed safety net.
ref: 2021 February 18, A. O. Scott, “‘Nomadland’ Review: The Unsettled Americans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Tending to travel or do as one pleases; readily without many commitments or responsibility.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of a sail: not properly secured at the bottom.
Derived terms: footloose and fancy free
footloosely
footlooseness
Related terms: itchy feet
wanderlust
keen as mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He was keen as mustard to begin the new job, until he learned what it really entailed.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very keen, enthusiastic, eager.
Related terms: Keen's mustard
a popular brand of mustard
cis-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: cis
homophone: sis
Etymology: From the Latin preposition cis (“on this side of”). The earliest known sexuality-related use of the prefix in any language was in a 1914 German-language book on sexology. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of the prefix in the context of gender in English dates from 1994.
Senses: examples: text: cis- + alpine → cisalpine (“on this [the Roman] side of the Alps”)
text: cis- + Rhenane → cisrhenane (“on this [the speaker's] side of Rhine”)
text: cis- + Caucasia → Ciscaucasia
text: cis- + Jordan → Cisjordan
text: cis- + Neptunian → cis-Neptunian
topics: geography
natural-sciences
antonyms: trans-
glosses: On this side of.
examples: text: cis- + diazene → cis-diazene
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Forming names of chemical compounds in which two atoms or groups are situated on the same side of some plane of symmetry passing through the compound.
examples: text: cis- + gender → cisgender
text: cis- + sexual → cissexual
qualifier: gender
glosses: Not trans.
examples: text: cis- + sexism → cissexism
text: cis- + normativity → cisnormativity
qualifier: gender
glosses: Not trans.
Being, or pertaining to being, cis.
Derived terms: word: cisman
word: ciswoman
word: cismale
english: more commonly spaced as cis man
translation: more commonly spaced as cis man
word: cisfemale
Related terms: cis
trans-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænz/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trāns (“across, on the far side, beyond”).
Senses: examples: text: trans- + national → transnational
text: trans- + regional → transregional
text: trans- + American → transamerican
glosses: Extending across, through, or over.
examples: text: trans- + alpine → transalpine
text: trans- + uranic → transuranic
glosses: To or on the other side of, beyond; outside of.
examples: transacetylase, tranexamic acid, transaldolase
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound in which two atoms or groups are situated on opposite sides of some plane of symmetry passing through the compound. (Also used without the hyphen as an adjective; see trans.)
examples: transmasculine, transfeminist, transphobia
For quotations using this term, see Citations:trans-.
glosses: Transgender or transsexual, or pertaining to those who are transgender or transsexual.
Synonyms: word: x-
sense: across, through
word: dia-
sense: across, through
word: para-
sense: across, through
word: per-
sense: to or on the other side of
word: para-
sense: beyond
word: para-
sense: beyond
word: hyper-
sense: beyond
word: ultra-
sense: beyond
word: out-
sense: beyond
word: extra-
sense: beyond
word: preter-
sense: outside of
word: ex-
sense: outside of
word: ecto-
Coordinate terms: dia-
epi-
Related terms: intra-
inter-
supra-
trans
transalpine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + Alpine.
Senses: antonyms: cisalpine
;
cismontane
hypernyms: transmontane
tramontane
glosses: On the other side of the Alps (usually with respect to Rome, therefore the north side).
Derived terms: Transalpine Gaulish
conditional perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditional perfects
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A combination of the conditional mood and the perfect tense, roughly corresponding to English 'I would have...'
Synonyms: past conditional
deprive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: deprives
form: depriving
form: deprived
form: deprived
form: depryve
form: deprieve
Etymology: From Middle English depryven, from Old French depriver, from Medieval Latin dēprīvō, from Latin dē- + prīvō.
Senses: examples: text: "By means of the Golden Cap I shall command the Winged Monkeys to carry you to the gates of the Emerald City," said Glinda, "for it would be a shame to deprive the people of so wonderful a ruler."
ref: 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
text: If we had been deprived of it, the most serious consequence would be that we'd be deprived of philosophy.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 260a:
synonyms: shear
bereave
glosses: Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.
glosses: To degrade (a clergyman) from office.
glosses: To bereave.
Synonyms: bereave
impoverish
Derived terms: word: deprivable
word: deprival
word: deprivement
word: depriver
word: redeprive
Related terms: deprivation
private
privation
privy
ATV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Associated Television.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of Asia Television Limited.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of ATV (Austria).
ATV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATVs
Senses: examples: text: South of the beach access road, people rode ATVs over the dunes, and the ATV engines sounded like bugs from a distance, a high buzzing whine. Ambulances drove down the beach to collect ATV drivers three or four times a day.
ref: 2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), pages 245-246:
topics: transport
glosses: Initialism of all-terrain vehicle (an astride-seated quad or tri-wheeled off-road recreational vehicle).
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
transport
glosses: Initialism of Automated Transfer Vehicle.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of amateur television.
glosses: Initialism of airport transit visa.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of atazanavir.
Hyponyms: sense: all-terrain vehicle
word: quad bike
Aesculapian staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aesculapian staffs
form: rod of Asclepius
form: staff of Asclepius
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A symbol of the medical profession, ⟨⚕⟩, consisting of a staff with a single snake or worm twined around it.
Related terms: asklepian
caduceus
Star of Life
lawks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔːks/
ipa: /lɔks/
ipa: /lɑks/
Forms: form: lawk
form: lauk
form: lork
form: lorks
Senses: examples: text: "Lawks! how uncomfortable," said the cook. "And M. Henri, was he wet too?"
ref: 1850, Anthony Trollope, La Vendée:
text: "Your civic pride does you credit," said Hwel. "And now, please, leave the cart. I'm sure you've got some wood to gather. Lawks."
ref: 1988, Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters:
glosses: Lord! (especially as an expression of surprise)
Synonyms: Lord
lordy
dear Lord
Derived terms: lawks a-mercy
OQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OQs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of obligatory quote.
glosses: Initialism of operational qualification.
OQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
crunch time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crunchtime
form: crunch-time
form: time crunch
Senses: examples: text: Tough-minded, Vidia reacted in much the same way as he had in Uganda. Whenever he met Indians in Kenya, he challenged them, demanding to know their backup plans in case of trouble. He called it "crunch time." "Very well then," he [V. S. Naipaul] would say after the first pleasantries, "what are you going to do when crunch time comes?
ref: 2000, Paul Theroux, Sir Vidia's shadow: a friendship across five continents, page 61:
text: His decision on cluster munitions, which drew scorn from progressives in Congress, is indicative of a sense in Washington that the war is reaching crunch time as Ukraine wages a slow but steady counter-offensive.
ref: 2023 July 7, David Smith, “End justifies means for Biden in sending cluster bombs to Ukraine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A critical period of time during which it is necessary to work hard and fast.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The last few minutes of play in the fourth quarter.
Related terms: nut-cutting time
thinko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɪŋkəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ
Forms: form: thinkos
Etymology: From think + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).
Senses: examples: text: I must have done quite a thinko, but I don't remember leaving my keys in the refrigerator.
text: 1998, K. G. Binmore, Game Theory and the Social Contract, Volume 2: Just Playing, page 34,
We need to face the fact that thinkos are likely to be much more important, even though such a source of noise is much harder to model.
text: Spell-checkers can help with simple types such as misspeIIings and repeated words, but they are little defense against the equally common "thinkos," such as the inconvenience/incontinence example above. Your only defense against thinkos is a careful read.
ref: 2006, Kristen B. Donohue, “Misused Words and Other Witing Gaffes: A Manager's Primer”, in Written Communications that Inform and Influence, Harvard Business School, page 164:
text: I don't know about you, but I don't want to grovel through a bunch of code blocks to track down a typo or thinko.
ref: 2008, Kurt Wall, Tcl and Tk Programming for the Absolute Beginner, page 134:
text: There are two kinds of linguistic missteps, the typos and the thinkos. Typos are the processing glitches that intercede between a thought and its expression. They can make you look foolish, but they aren't really the signs of an intellectual or ethical deficiency, the way thinkos are.
ref: 2009, Geoff Nunberg, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times, page 59:
synonyms: brain fart
hypernyms: blip
blooper
blunder
boo-boo
error
faux pas
fluff
gaffe
lapse
mistake
slip
slip-up
stumble
;
defect
fault
;
coordinate_terms: clicko
copy-pasto
hearo
printo
scanno
speako
spello
typo
writo
glosses: A careless mistake made in thinking.
thinko
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɪŋkəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkəʊ
Forms: form: thinkos
form: thinkoing
form: thinkoed
form: thinkoed
form: thinko'd
form: thinko'd
Etymology: From think + -o, on the model of typo (“typographical error”).
Senses: glosses: To make a mistake when thinking.
specific power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific powers
Senses: examples: text: A female blue whale may produce a specific power of up to 16 kilowatts per tonne when travelling fast.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio of the power produced by an object to its mass.
zeros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeroes
Senses: glosses: plural of zero
zeros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeroes
Senses: glosses: The decade of the 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, etc. The noughties. The 2000s.
endocrinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛn.də.kɹɪˈnɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɛn.də.kɹɪˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: endocrinologies
Etymology: From French endocrinologie, or endocrine + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: The first journal devoted to endocrinology wasnʼt founded until 1917.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 169:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The study of the endocrine glands of the human body, the hormones produced by them, and their related disorders.
Derived terms: endocrinologic
endocrinological
endocrinologist
neuroendocrinology
neuroimmunoendocrinology
psychoneuroendocrinology
socioendocrinology
Related terms: endocrine
intracrinology
disbelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsbɪˈliːf/
Forms: form: disbeliefs
Etymology: From dis- + belief.
Senses: examples: text: She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City.
glosses: An unpreparedness, unwillingness, or an inability to believe that something is the case.
examples: text: I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon.
glosses: Astonishment.
examples: text: There is an agony of suffering in that lingering doubt which haunts the human soul in the beginnings of disbelief.
ref: 1885, H. J. Hardwicke, “The God Idea”, in The Agnostic: A Monthly Journal of Liberal Thought, volume 1, page 239:
text: No adolescent can achieve disbelief in the stork without an eruption of young oaths and cynicisms.
ref: 1927, Gilbert W. Gabriel, “Male, Female and American Drama”, in Vanity Fair, volume 27, number 4, page 73:
text: His later left-wing films prevented any pure and strong emotional attachment between the two sexes from gaining narrative momentum, which might reflect his gradual disbelief in romantic love.
ref: 2002, Laikwan Pang, Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932-1937, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Just like the disbelief in Santa Claus happens gradually, I wondered if it was similar for people leaving their faith.
ref: 2012, Gloria Neufeld Redekop, Bad Girls and Boys Go to Hell (or not): Engaging Fundamentalist Evangelicalism, →ISBN, page 246:
glosses: The loss or abandonment of a belief; the cessation of belief.
Synonyms: incredulity
Derived terms: suspend one's disbelief
suspension of disbelief
willing suspension of disbelief
Related terms: misbelief
unbelief
disbelieve
brickbat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪkbæt/
ipa: /ˈbɹɪkˌbæt/
Forms: form: brickbats
form: brickbatting
form: brickbatted
form: brickbatted
Etymology: The noun is derived from brick + bat (“a bit, piece; specifically, part of a brick with one whole end”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: We had two boys arrested, both colored, for brick-batting a colored woman in her house. They were sent to the chaingang for 12 months each.
ref: 1904, “Crime in Georgia”, in W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, editor, Some Notes on Negro Crime, Particularly in Georgia […] (The Atlanta University Publications; 9), Atlanta, Ga.: Atlanta University Press, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats (noun sense 1).
glosses: To assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism.
collectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From collective + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ...the tube of the throat between the larynx and the oral cavity, which is called the pharynx; the oral cavity; and the nasal cavity. These passages are collectively known as the vocal tract.
ref: 2001, Michael Dobrovolsky, “Phonetics: The Sounds of Language”, in William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, editors, Contemporary Linguistics, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.
Synonyms: jointly
mutually
Derived terms: collectively exhaustive
small-l liberal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small-l liberals
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A person who holds liberal views but may or may not be a member or supporter of their country's "Liberal Party".
examples: text: I was a factional warrior for the [New South Wales] Right of the [New South Wales] Libs. […] the main reason I allowed my membership to lapse was simple. I saw the conservative wing being overrun by a bunch of feral ex-lefties for whom being small “l” liberal was only a means to further their careers in the political sex industry.
ref: 2006 January 3, Irfan Yusuf, “What’s changed about me?”, in Webdiary:
text: Was this a reflection of [then-leader of the Victorian Liberal Party Teb] Baillieu's small-l liberal values or just a product of anger over public safety and inadequate rail services?
ref: 2010 December 4, Michael Gordon, “Big challenges for Melbourne's small-l Liberal”, in The Sunday Morning Herald:
text: Harry Guinness, was a policy and political adviser to Julie Bishop when she was foreign minister and deputy Liberal leader. His responsibilities included foreign aid, climate change and environmental sustainability. Last summer’s bushfires were the catalyst for Guinness — self-described as “definitely philosophically a small ‘l’ Liberal” — and colleagues to set up Blueprint as a pro-market think tank.
ref: 2021 March 12, Mike Steketee, “The revolt of the Liberal moderates”, in Inside Story:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A person who is a member of, or associated with, the Moderate (centrist) faction of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Related terms: Liberal
Liberal Party
small-c conservative
small-l libertarian
unpacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + packed and unpack + -ed.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unpack
unpacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + packed and unpack + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I worked all day and managed to get all the boxes unpacked.
glosses: Having had its packing removed.
examples: text: The unpacked gifts are on the table.
glosses: Not yet packed.
examples: text: I left the box, still unpacked, at our old house.
glosses: Not yet having had its packing removed. (Especially after still. For more on this use, see http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002171.html)