cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gazette
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈzɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: gazettes
form: gazetting
form: gazetted
form: gazetted
Etymology: Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.
Senses: glosses: To publish (something) in a gazette.
examples: text: Benjamin had already been gazetted captain and Kopp was in process of being gazetted major.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
synonyms: gazetteer
glosses: To announce the status of (someone) in an official gazette; this pertained to both appointments and bankruptcies.
Derived terms: degazette
Related terms: dime novel
penny dreadful
geld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: gelds
Etymology: From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Probably reinforced by gelt (which see), see Norwegian Bokmål gjeld (“debt”), Danish gæld (“debt”). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jield, Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”). Also related to English yield.
Senses: glosses: Money.
A payment.
glosses: Money.
In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.
Derived terms: heregeld
woodgeld
geld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: gelds
form: gelding
form: gelded
form: gelded
Etymology: From Middle English geld and reinforced by Medieval Latin geldum, both from Old English geld, ġield (“payment, tribute”), from Proto-West Germanic *geld, from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeldʰ- (“to pay”). Probably reinforced by gelt (which see), see Norwegian Bokmål gjeld (“debt”), Danish gæld (“debt”). Geld is also written gelt or gild, and as such found in wergild, Danegeld, etc.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian jild (“money”), Saterland Frisian Jield, Jäild (“money”), Dutch geld (“money”), German Geld (“money”), Old Norse gjald (“payment”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳 (gild, “tribute”). Also related to English yield.
Senses: glosses: To tax geld.
Derived terms: geldable
Related terms: Danegeld
hidegeld
sandgeld
wergeld
wharfgeld
yield
geld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: gelds
form: gelding
form: gelded
form: gelded
form: gelt
form: gelt
Etymology: From Middle English gelden, from Old Norse gelda (“to geld, castrate”), from Proto-Germanic *galdijaną (“to castrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”).
Cognate with Old Norse geldr (“yielding no milk, dry”), German galt, gelt (“not giving milk, barren”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 (gilþa, “sickle”). Compare the archaic German Gelze (“castrated swine”) and gelzen (“to castrate”), Danish galt (“castrated boar”) (from Old Norse gǫltr (“boar, hog”), cognate with English gilt and gilde (“to geld”). "gelding" derives from Old Norse geldingr.
Senses: examples: text: "Poor old Topaz," said Mrs Flanders, as he stretched himself out in the sun, and she smiled, thinking how she had had him gelded, and how she did not like red hair in men.
ref: 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, pages 16–17:
glosses: To castrate a male (usually an animal).
examples: text: Camphor if smell'd
A man will geld.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 213:
glosses: To suppress or severely reduce sexual desire or libido.
glosses: To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.
Derived terms: gelder
geld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Forms: form: gelds
Etymology: From Middle English gelden, from Old Norse gelda (“to geld, castrate”), from Proto-Germanic *galdijaną (“to castrate”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to cut”).
Cognate with Old Norse geldr (“yielding no milk, dry”), German galt, gelt (“not giving milk, barren”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌸𐌰 (gilþa, “sickle”). Compare the archaic German Gelze (“castrated swine”) and gelzen (“to castrate”), Danish galt (“castrated boar”) (from Old Norse gǫltr (“boar, hog”), cognate with English gilt and gilde (“to geld”). "gelding" derives from Old Norse geldingr.
Senses: glosses: A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.
gentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕnʹtrē
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹi/
rhymes: -ɛntɹi
Forms: form: gentries
Etymology: From Old French genterie (“noble people collectively; nobility of character or manners”), from gent (“well-born”) + -erie.
Senses: glosses: Birth; condition; rank by birth.
glosses: Courtesy; civility; complaisance.
examples: text: landed gentry
text: English gentry
text: wealthy gentry
text: The manor was owned by the local gentry.
text: She wrote novels about the rural gentry.
glosses: People of education and good breeding.
glosses: In a restricted sense, those people between the nobility and the yeomanry.
Synonyms: the quality
the Quality
Derived terms: gentrify
gentry bush
gentry cove
gentry mort
landed gentry
Related terms: gentrification
genuine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jěnʹyo͞oĭn'
enpr: jĕnʹyo͞oīn'
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnjuːˌɪn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnjuːˌaɪn/
rhymes: -ɛnjuːɪn
rhymes: -ɛnjuːaɪn
Forms: form: more genuine
form: most genuine
Etymology: From Latin genuīnus (“innate, native, natural”), from genus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native
examples: text: a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials; genuine friendship
text: […] and before you could say 'scissors' that customer had forgotten all about the genuine article, and was out of the shop with the bijoutry.
ref: 1906, Violet Tweedale, Lady Sarah's Son, page 141:
glosses: Not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated
Synonyms: word: authentic
word: legit
word: lubish
word: natural
word: real
word: true
word: uncounterfeited
word: actual
word: bona fide
word: genuine
word: legitimate
word: non-fake
word: pukka
word: sterling
word: unadulterated
word: undissembled
word: unfaked
word: unfeigned
word: veritable
Hyponyms: word: sincere
word: heartfelt
word: undesigning
Derived terms: genuine article
genuine fake
genuine issue of material fact
genuinely
genuineness
genuine number eleven
nongenuine
ungenuine
Related terms: word: genus
word: de facto
word: de jure
word: invalid
word: potential
word: valid
word: actually
Germanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Germanizations
Etymology: From German + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of making something have more German characteristics.
glosses: The adoption of German customs or culture.
glosses: The adoption of German customs or culture.
The policy, in Nazi Germany, of the expansion of the German language and culture.
Related terms: Germanize
germination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: germinations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin germinātiō, By surface analysis, germinate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth from a seed or spore; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
Derived terms: nongermination
postgermination
pregermination
gestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕstāshən
ipa: /d͡ʒɛsˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: gestations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin gestātiō.
Senses: glosses: The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.
examples: text: It was to a conversation with another friend who had for many years been familiar with all my writings during the period of their gestation, just as I had been with his.
ref: 1900, Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey, The Interpretation of Dreams: Avon Books, page 149:
glosses: The process of development of a plan or idea.
Synonyms: pregnancy
Derived terms: gestational
gestation period
midgestation
multigestation
pregestation
uterogestation
gesticulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɛˌstɪkjəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: gesticulations
Etymology: From Middle English gesticulation, from Latin gesticulatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to aid expression of thoughts, sentiments or passion.
examples: text: In the eagerness of his gesticulations, first he knocked off my hat, then he knocked off Lessingham’s, then his own, then all three together […]
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: It is commonly supposed that they communicated by sounds and tentacular gesticulations; this is asserted, for instance, in the able but hastily compiled pamphlet (written evidently by someone not an eye-witness of Martian actions) to which I have already alluded, and which, so far, has been the chief source of information concerning them.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann:
text: The breeze had died away and the tree was now quite motionless save when William's statements required forcible gesticulations, which made it sway in a gentle nodding manner as though it were confirming every word the old sage uttered.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 193:
glosses: A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs when speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments.
examples: text: I indulged in this meditation for a moment, and then again addressed the mourner, who stood leaning against the bed with that expression of resigned despair, of complete misery, and a patient sufferance of it, which is far more touching than any of the insane ravings or wild gesticulation of untamed sorrow.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: An odd or fanciful motion.
Related terms: gesticulate
gesticulative
gesture
gestural
ghee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Indic
ipa: /ɡʰiː/
note: Western, Indic without aspiration
ipa: /ɡiː/
homophone: gi
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ghees
form: ghi
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani گھی (ghī) / घी (ghī), from Sanskrit घृत (ghṛta, “sprinkled”). First attested in the late 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: Of the medicines for relaxing the body; ghee, oil, charbi, marrow, and such are to be used; of these ghee is the best, as it is produced from milk, which is obtained from the cow.
ref: 1845, T.A. Wise, Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine, page 140:
text: A Hindu manual of erotology suggests boiled ghee, drunk in the morning, in the spring time, as a healthful, strengthening beverage.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 104:
text: Employees furiously pack ornate boxes containing laddoos enriched with ghee, spongy rasgula and all manner of colorful sweets, often made with dairy, sugar and nuts and sometimes topped with a layer of edible silver foil.
ref: 2022 October 17, Priya Krishna, “It’s Not Diwali Without Mithai”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee.
examples: text: There are two kinds of ghee. Usli ghee or clarified butter is used rarely, partly because of its expense and partly because Indians consider it "heavy". The more commonly used ghee is a mixture of various vegetable oils.
ref: 1973, Madhur Jaffrey, An Invitation to Indian Cooking:
glosses: Vegetable oil for cooking.
Related terms: butter oil
clarified butter
gimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: gimps
Etymology: Attested since about 1660, perhaps from Dutch gimp or French guimpe, and likely from Old French guimpre, a variant of guipure, a kind of trimming.
The regional sense of "gumption" is attested since about 1905, and may have developed due to the reinforced nature of gimp cord, or possibly the influence of the words gumption and gumph.
Senses: examples: text: They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks.
ref: 1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Of Bladesover House, and My Mother; and the Constitution of Society”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC, 1st book (The Days before Tono-Bungay was Invented), section IV, page 17:
glosses: A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
examples: text: I'm a fisher of men and my gimp is doing a saltarello over every body of water to fetch up what it may.
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 87:
glosses: Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
glosses: The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
examples: text: Love them and encourage them, but put some 'gimp' into them.
ref: 1898, Charles Frederick Wingate, What Shall Our Boys Do for a Living?, page 255:
text: You haven't got gimp enough to, any more than you could smash the rest of that pint, instead of swallowing it. You're a weakling...
ref: 1915, Frederick Frye Rockwell, The Key to the Land: What a City Man Did with a Small Farm, page 72:
text: When people put a lot on what their folks used to do, it always means they haven't got gimp enough left to do anything themselves.
ref: 1924, Booth Tarkington, The Midlander, page 219:
synonyms: spirit
ambition
vigor
pep
glosses: Gumption.
Derived terms: gimp nail
Related terms: guimpe
gimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: gimps
form: gimping
form: gimped
form: gimped
Etymology: Attested since about 1660, perhaps from Dutch gimp or French guimpe, and likely from Old French guimpre, a variant of guipure, a kind of trimming.
The regional sense of "gumption" is attested since about 1905, and may have developed due to the reinforced nature of gimp cord, or possibly the influence of the words gumption and gumph.
Senses: examples: text: It consists of seventy fine spun cotton threads, gimped or tied around with thread by a machine similar to that for wrapping bonnet wire.
ref: 1856, Campbell Morfit, A Treatise on Chemistry Applied to the Manufacture of Soap and Candles, page 435 with illustration:
text: ...low strings later than the mid-seventeenth century are commonly gimped (wound with fine wire on a moderate core) to allow sufficient tension without excessive mass or stiffness.
ref: 1982, Robert Donington, Music and Its Instruments, page 69:
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
examples: text: They are prettier cut and gimped in the shape of wheels.
ref: 1890, Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, How to Cook Vegetables, page 25:
text: This active material consists of a tape of pure lead, which is gimped whilst cold with deep grooves and ridges...
ref: 1906, Thomas Ernest Herbert, Telegraphy: A Detailed Exposition of the Telegraph System of the British, page 438:
text: Each hole is filled by a rosette of pure lead made by rolling up lead strip or tape which has been gimped or corrugated.
ref: 1906, George Dudley Aspinall Parr, Electrical Engineering: In Theory and Practice, page 421:
text: In some cases the leather has to be decorated with perforations while its edges may be serrated or gimped.
ref: 1978, John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen, page 232:
glosses: To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.
gimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
rhymes: -ɪmp
ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: gimps
Etymology: Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp.
Senses: examples: (person)
synonyms: cripple
disabled
glosses: A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
glosses: A crippled leg.
examples: text: She walks with a gimp in one leg, which is why she is called Madame La Gimp...
ref: 1934, Damon Runyon, Madame La Gimp:
text: ...Flat-wheel Walter...who is called by this name because he walks with a gimp on one side...
ref: 1934, Damon Runyon, What, No Butler?:
glosses: A limp or a limping gait.
synonyms: dweeb
nerd
geek
gump
spod
dork
glosses: A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A submissive dressed in a full-body suit of latex or a similar material.
topics: video-games
glosses: A character or ability that is underpowered.
Derived terms: gimboid
gimp hand
gimpish
Related terms: gimp suit
gimpy
gimp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
rhymes: -ɪmp
ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: gimps
form: gimping
form: gimped
form: gimped
Etymology: Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp.
Senses: glosses: To limp; to hobble.
topics: video-games
synonyms: nerf
glosses: To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
gimp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
rhymes: -ɪmp
ipa: /d͡ʒɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
ipa: /ɡɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: more gimp
form: most gimp
Etymology: Scots. Alternative form of jimp. Compare Welsh gwymp (“fair, neat, comely”).
Senses: qualifier: Scotland and N England
glosses: Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.
girdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɝdl̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɜːdl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl
Forms: form: girdles
Etymology: From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).
Senses: examples: text: the girdle of the world
translation: the equator
english: the equator
text: Suppose within the girdle of these walls
Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, prologue]:
text: from the world's girdle to the frozen pole
ref: 1782, William Cowper, Expostulation:
text: In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere
that gems the starry girdle of the year
ref: 1799, Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope:
glosses: That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
examples: text: And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 15:6:
text: O Queen, most exalted of Persia's deep-girdled women, venerable mother of Xerxes, wife of Darius, all hail!
ref: Aeschylus, The Persians 155
text: She therefore assumed the novice's garb, so universally worn by young Italians—a robe of black silk, only fastened round the waist by a girdle.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 109:
text: Tradition credits John the Baptist with wearing a girdle fashioned of wormwood, while he was in the wilderness.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 1:
glosses: A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
glosses: A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
glosses: The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A thin bed or stratum of stone.
glosses: The clitellum of an earthworm.
glosses: The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
Derived terms: athlete's girdle
begirdle
engirdle
girdlelike
Girdle Ness
girdle scone
girdlestead
girdle traverse
limb girdle syndrome
mirdle
notch girdle
panty girdle
pectoral girdle
peel girdle
pelvic girdle
shoulder girdle
Venus's girdle
girdle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɝdl̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɜːdl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl
Forms: form: girdles
form: girdling
form: girdled
form: girdled
Etymology: From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).
Senses: examples: text: The Equator, as everyone knows, is an imaginary line or circle girdling the Earth half-way between the North and South poles.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning, page 36:
glosses: To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
examples: text: The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees.
ref: 1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 108:
glosses: To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
Derived terms: girdler
ungirdle
girdle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɝdl̩/
ipa: /ˈɡɜːdl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl
Forms: form: girdles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of griddle.
glaciation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /ˌɡleɪsiˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: glaciations
Etymology: From French glaciation, from glace (“ice”).
Senses: examples: text: That the habitability of our planet was severely endangered by the significant rise in oxygen levels and reduction in methane due to oxygen-producing bacteria combined with the low luminosity of the Sun in the Proterozoic era (2500– 542 million years ago) is suggested by geological evidence for severe global glaciations in this epoch.
ref: 2005, Peter Ulmschneider, Intelligent Life in the Universe: Principles and Requirements Behind Its Emergence:
text: This simulation aims at describing the hydrological conditions at a Swedish deep repository of nuclear waste during a glaciation.
ref: 2006, Hanna Lokrantz, Ice Marginal Fluctuations During the Weichselian Glaciation in Fennoscandia, a Literature Review:
glosses: The process of covering with a glacier, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena; an ice age
examples: text: Deposits of the Caribou Hills glaciation only locally retain a distinct hummocky morainal form, with filled kettle depressions and subdued knobs. Along the mountain fronts the marginal deposits of this glaciation reach an average altitude of slightly more than 3,000 feet.
ref: 1953, Geological Survey Circular, The Survey, page 4:
text: Deposits from the glaciation are sparse, but glacial surfaces at 4150–4300 m in the Hunza area, above 2600 m in the Gilgit region, above 3200 m in the Haramosh region, above 4000 m on Deosai, and at 3200–3500 m in the Shigar valley area provide much evidence for this glaciation.
ref: 2002, John F. Shroder Jr., Himalaya to the Sea: Geology, Geomorphology and the Quaternary:
glosses: A particular instance of glacier formation.
examples: text: For cave glaciation to occur it is necessary that the air temperature outside the caves be negative either for all or part of a year; such conditions exist in many regions of the world.
ref: 2017, Aurel Persoiu, Ice Caves:
glosses: The act of freezing.
Derived terms: deglaciation
Elster glaciation
Elsterian glaciation
interglaciation
Mindel glaciation
neoglaciation
periglaciation
reglaciation
glans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlænz/
rhymes: -ænz
Forms: form: glandes
form: glans
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin glāns (“acorn”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: balanus
word: nut
word: bell-end
word: cockhead
word: cue ball
word: dickhead
word: dome
word: head
word: helmet
word: knob
word: knobhead
word: little head
word: mushroom tip
word: other head
word: plum
word: purple helmet
word: skull
word: tip
word: warhead
glosses: A structure at the extremity of the penis and of the clitoris in humans and other mammals.
Ellipsis of glans penis or penile glans.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: balanus
nut
glosses: A structure at the extremity of the penis and of the clitoris in humans and other mammals.
Ellipsis of glans clitoridis or clitoral glans.
glosses: The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of goiter.
synonyms: word: goiter
topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pessary.
synonyms: word: pessary
Derived terms: clitoral glans
glansectomy
neoglans
penile glans
Related terms: gland
glans clitoridis
glans clitoris
glans penis
balanic
balano-
contumacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.tjʊˈmeɪ.ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌkɑːn.tʊˈmeɪ.ʃəs/
ipa: /ˌkɑːn.tjəˈmeɪ.ʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more contumacious
form: most contumacious
Etymology: From Latin contumāx (“stubborn, obstinate”) + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: […] and, on his conſtancie, ſounds an accuſation to Herod of a contumacious affront, on ſuch a day, before many peers; præpares the king to ſome paſſion, and at laſt, by her daughter’s dancing, effects it.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes”, in Henry John Todd, editor, The Poetical Works of John Milton, volume 4, published 1801, page 505:
text: In all places too are Dissident Priests; whom the Legislative will have to deal with: contumacious individuals, working on that angriest of passions; plotting, enlisting.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First):
text: Its verbs are conjugated in a way that defies all the injunctions of the grammar books; it has its contumacious rules of tense, number and case; […]
ref: [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 39, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 262:
glosses: Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.
topics: law
glosses: Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.
Synonyms: sense: contemptuous of authority
word: disobedient
sense: contemptuous of authority
word: insubordinate
sense: contemptuous of authority
word: obstinate
sense: contemptuous of authority
word: perverse
sense: contemptuous of authority
word: rebellious
sense: contemptuous of authority
word: stubborn
Related terms: contumaciously
contumaciousness
contumacy
contumely
contumelious
cumbersome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmbəsəm/
ipa: /ˈkʌmbɚsəm/
rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more cumbersome
form: most cumbersome
Etymology: From Middle English cumbyrsum, cummyrsum; equivalent to cumber (“hindrance”) + -some. Compare encumber and incumbent.
Senses: examples: text: "You can throw off your cumbersome disguise here," said Lucy, though the words could scarcely be distinguished, from her excessive agitation, Evelyn hastily caught up a cloak and cap laid ready for him, and a few minutes brought them into the sitting-room.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: Burdensome or hindering, as if a weight or drag; vexatious.
examples: text: Cumbersome machines can endanger operators and slow down production.
glosses: Not easily managed or handled; awkward; clumsy.
examples: text: A slave’s work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.
glosses: Hard, difficult, demanding to handle or get around with.
glosses: Inert, lumbering, slow in movement.
Synonyms: word: cumbrous
word: lumpish
word: unwieldy
Derived terms: cumbersomely
cumbersomeness
uncumbersome
contrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɹaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: contrives
form: contriving
form: contrived
form: contrived
Etymology: From Middle English contreve (“to invent”), from Old French controver (Modern French controuver), from trover (“to find”) (French trouver).
Senses: examples: text: […]I cannot bear the idea of two young women traveling post by themselves. It is highly improper. You must contrive to send somebody.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: Neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:
text: With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: plan
scheme
plot
hatch
get
glosses: To invent by an exercise of ingeniosity; to devise
glosses: To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
glosses: To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
glosses: To spend (time, or a period).
Synonyms: becast
cast about
Derived terms: contrivable
contrivance
contrived
contrivement
contriver
precontrive
recontrive
uncontriving
conveniently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvinjəntli/
ipa: /kənˈviːnɪəntli/
Forms: form: more conveniently
form: most conveniently
Etymology: From convenient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: his body was now conveniently inclin'd towards me, and just softly chucking his smooth beardless chin, I asked him if he was afraid of a lady?
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
examples: text: You expect me to believe that someone created a wormhole, and now conveniently has disassembled it?
ref: 1993, Michael Piller, “Emissary”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Gul Jasad (Joel Swetow):
text: If you prefer to deal in actual figures, as opposed to conveniently distracting speculative ones, then do recall that the British taxpayer bailed out Lloyds to the tune of around £20bn, and continues to face a massive loss on those shares.
ref: 2012 July 3, Marina Hyde, “A lesson in Olymp-o-nomics”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
glosses: In a manner provoking suspicion due to how well it suits someone's purposes.
convivial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɪv.i.əl/
Forms: form: more convivial
form: most convivial
Etymology: Borrowed from French convivial, from Latin convīvium (“a feast”), combined form of con- (“together”) + vīvō (“to live”).
Senses: examples: text: I put the chief of police behind the bar, instructed him in his duties, and we four convivial spirits sprawled along the counter drinking ale and telling yarns till cockcrow.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 175:
synonyms: festive
social
gay
jovial
merry
glosses: Having elements of a feast or of entertainment, especially when it comes to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity
Derived terms: convivialist
convivialize
nonconvivial
Related terms: convive
convivially
conviviality
coordination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃən/
ipa: /koʊˌɔɹdɪˈneɪʃən/
ipa: /kəʉˌoːdɪˈnæɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: coordinations
form: co-ordination
form: coördination
Etymology: From Middle French coordination, from Late Latin coōrdinātiōnem (accusative of coōrdinātiō), from con- + ōrdinātiō. Morphologically coordinate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Then there's the State Service and the police and several other services. And there is no proper co-ordination, no single head for all these agencies.
ref: 1919, Robert W. Chambers, In Secret:
glosses: The act of coordinating, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect.
examples: text: We stood dodging each other a moment with that unfortunate co-ordination of purpose men sometimes encounter when passing each other.
ref: 1900, Irving Bacheller, Eben Holden, A Tale of the North Country:
glosses: The resulting state of working together; cooperation; synchronization.
examples: text: I’m terrible at sports; I have no coordination.
glosses: The ability to coordinate one's senses and physical movements in order to act skillfully.
examples: text: There are two possible modes of unity in a State; one by absolute co-ordination of each to all, and of all to each; the other by subordination of classes and offices.
ref: 1833 April 10, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “United States of America—Captain B. Hall—Northern and Southern States—Democracy with Slavery—Quakers”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 153:
synonyms: coordinateness
glosses: The state of being equal in rank or power.
examples: text: There’s a wealth of other complex facts about coordination that could be explored […] coordinations with but are limited to two coordinates […]; yet coordinations with and or with or can have any number of coordinates, with the coordinator preceding just the last one […] or repeated before all except the first […]
ref: 2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 85:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An equal joining together of two or more phrases or clauses, for example, using and, or, or but.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The reaction of one or more ligands with a metal ion to form a coordination compound.
Derived terms: colour coordination
color coordination
coordination chemistry
coordination complex
coordination compound
coordination number
discoordination
dyscoordination
eye-hand coordination
hand-eye coordination
heterocoordination
hexacoordination
hypercoordination
microcoordination
miscoordination
multicoordination
overcoordination
pentacoordination
postcoordination
precoordination
pseudo-coordination
recoordination
uncoordination
undercoordination
Related terms: coordinated
uncoordinated
coordinator
coordinating conjunction
core
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
enpr: kôr
ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹ]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koə/
Etymology: From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse.
Senses: examples: text: Privately held businesses may hold assets or have charges to their financial statements which are not core to their main business activity.
ref: 2009, Greg Hayes, A Practical Guide to Business Valuations for SMEs, page 68:
text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
text: These lists cover important vocabulary from eight core subjects that students need to master during secondary education: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, English, Geology, History, Mathematics, and Physics.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:
glosses: Forming the most important or essential part.
examples: text: Our interest is not in core skaters such as young males and pro skaters but the voices of those on the periphery of the subculture.
ref: 2015, Kara-Jane Lombard, Skateboarding: Subcultures, Sites and Shifts, page 45:
text: We had a segmentation strategy, where the small, independent core skate shops — the three hundred boutiques around the country who really created us — had a certain product line that was exclusive to them. […] We said to the core shops, you don't have to compete with the malls.
ref: 2022, Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference:
text: […] which provoked resistance among the 'core' snowboarders.
ref: 2023, Mari Kristin Sisjord, Women in Snowboarding:
qualifier: board sports
glosses: Deeply and authentically involved in the culture surrounding the sport.
core
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
enpr: kôr
ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹ]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koə/
Forms: form: cores
form: coring
form: cored
form: cored
Etymology: From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of obscure and uncertain origin. Possibly of native English origin, from Old English *cor, related to Old English *coruc, *corc (diminutive) (> Middle English cork, crok (“core of an apple or other fruit, heart of an onion”)) and Old English corn (“seed", also "grain”); or alternatively perhaps from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”), Dutch kern (“core”), German Kern (“core”). See also heart, corpse.
Senses: glosses: To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
examples: text: But the other thing to take into account is, when you look at the Katahdin and the Polyphemus, they both have their boiler plants pretty much amidships or slightly forward of amidships, which means that, in the event of a heat-lance strike on the boiler room, not only is that gonna core through the ship right at the center of mass, which is obviously bad for its continued structural stability, but the boilers going up is gonna incinerate pretty much anybody on the bridge, which is gonna leave it completely out of control, and is probably gonna break the ship clean in half right there and then, none of which really speaks to the ship's being able to continue onwards with enough momentum to take down a Martian tripod.
ref: 2020 April 1, Drachinifel, 6:52 from the start, in HMS Thunderchild - A bad day to be a Tripod, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2022:
glosses: To cut or drill through the core of (something).
glosses: To extract a sample with a drill.
Derived terms: corer
uncore
uncored
core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
enpr: kôr
ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹ]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koə/
Forms: form: cores
Etymology: See corps.
Senses: examples: text: He was in a core of people.
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:
glosses: A body of individuals; an assemblage.
core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
enpr: kôr
ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹ]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koə/
Forms: form: cores
Etymology: See chore.
Senses: glosses: A miner's underground working time or shift.
core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
enpr: kôr
ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹ]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koə/
Forms: form: cores
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew כֹּר (kōr).
Senses: topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
enpr: kôr
ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹ]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koə/
Forms: form: cores
Etymology: Possibly an acronym for cash on return.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
automotive
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
qualifier: machinery; marine; machinery; marine
glosses: A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
core
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kô
ipa: /kɔː/
enpr: kôr
ipa: /kɔɹ/
ipa: [kʰo̞ɹ]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: corps
homophone: caw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koə/
Forms: form: cores
Etymology: From -core, ultimately from Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the most popular "cores" at the moment—according to the Wiki's "trending pages" list—are cottage and goblin and trauma and angel. If the last one sounds appealing, you can participate by eating more meringues and buying a pet dove.
ref: 2021 February 5, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Cottagecore Was Just the Beginning”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2021:
text: The rise of micro-cores coincides with the rise of hyper-specific internet aesthetics. There's even an Aesthetics Wiki that chronicles all the possible cores online, including, but not limited to, bubblegumbitchcore, cottagecore, and fairycore.
ref: 2022 July 27, Sarah Spellings, “Core Is the New Chic”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 May 2023:
text: It's more than okay to let a microtrend be just that. Naming it as a "core" turns the clothing into a social media movement, and more often than not, the title is an overcomplication for rather basic color choices or fabric selections.
ref: 2022 December 23, Dylan Kelly, “Can 2023 Be the Year of "Nothingcore"?”, in Hypebeast, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2023:
text: The aesthetic makes a convincing case for finding joy in fashion and experimenting with personal style rather than chasing every new 'core' that comes along. It encourages real excitement about getting creative with the clothes you already have in your wardrobe and therein lies the thrill of it.
ref: 2023 March 2, Sophie Lou Wilson, “Cluttercore: Why The 2010s Blogger Aesthetic Is Back In Style”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2023:
glosses: An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.
corpuscle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːˌpʌsəl/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹˌpʌsəl/
Forms: form: corpuscles
Etymology: From Latin corpusculum, diminutive of corpus (“body”).
Senses: examples: text: [b]y mixing divers Liquors, very odd and remarkable Productions and Changes of Colours may be effected, of which no cause can be more obvious and rational than that the saline Corpuscles of one Liquor do variously act upon or unite with the tinging Corpuscles of another, so as to make them swell, or shrink, (whereby not only their bulk but their density also may be changed,) or to divide them into smaller Corpuscles, (whereby a colour'd Liquor may become transparent,) or to make many of them associate into one cluster, whereby two transparent Liquors may compose a colour'd one.
ref: 1730, Isaac Newton, “The Second Book of Opticks, Part III, Proposition V”, in Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, 4th edition, London, Kingdom of England: William Innys, page 253:
text: It is the object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis, or rather with mere juxtaposition of corpuscles separated by invisible interspaces.
ref: 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
glosses: A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.
examples: text: They gave me blood tests, of course. All kinds of blood tests testing my white corpuscles, testing my red corpuscles, testing one against the other.
ref: 2017, Sam Shepard, Spy of the First Person, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A protoplasmic animal cell; especially, such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are embedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles.
Derived terms: blood corpuscle
kidney corpuscle
Malpighian corpuscle
renal corpuscle
lamellar corpuscle
Pacinian corpuscle
Rainey's corpuscle
red corpuscle
Ruffini's corpuscle
Vater-Pacini corpuscle
white blood corpuscle
Related terms: corpuscular
corpuscularism
corpuscularianism
corpulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːpjələnt/
ipa: /ˈkɔːpjʊlənt/
ipa: /ˈkoɹpjəlɪnt/
Forms: form: more corpulent
form: most corpulent
Etymology: From Middle English corpulent, from Old French corpulent, from Latin corpulentus.
Senses: examples: text: corpulent person
glosses: Large in body; fat; overweight.
glosses: Physical, material, corporeal.
Derived terms: corpulently
corpulentness
uncorpulent
Related terms: corpulence