cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːz/
homophone: peas
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: From Middle English pese (“pea”), from Old English pise (“pea”), from Late Latin pisa, variant of Latin pisum (“pea”), from Ancient Greek πίσον (píson), variant of πίσος (písos).
Senses: examples: text: The due proportion for any land (except it be a very light blowing ſand) is two beans for one pea; by which means, they will be (without doubt) a ſtanding crop, as the beans will be (as it were, a rodding for the peaſe; in this caſe they are aſſiſtants to each other; for as the peaſe are kept ſtanding, and form (as it were) an arch over the top of the bean, the circulating air is admitted round them to aſſiſt in feeding the corning part thereof.
ref: 1770, C[harles] Varley, A New System of Husbandry. From Experiments Never Before Made Public. […], volume II, York: […] [F]or the Author, by N. Nickson, […], pages 274–275:
text: Experience ſhows that the common pea, whether white or grey, cannot be reared to perfection in any field which has not been either naturally or artificially impregnated with ſome calcareous matter.—Hence it happens, that peaſe are rarely cultivated univerſally as a field crop, unleſs in thoſe parts of the country where either lime, of marle, or chalk abound. But, on the ſeacoaſt, where ſhell-fiſh are often catched in abundance, we meet with a few exceptions to this general rule. It is pretty remarkable, that a ſoil which could hardly have made one pea come to perfection, although richly manured with dung,—if it ſhall have been once limed, ſhall be capable of producing abundant crops of peaſe ever afterwards, if duly prepared in other reſpects.
ref: 1777, James Anderson, Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 2nd edition, volume II, Edinburgh: […] William Creech; and T[homas] Cadell, […], pages 336–337:
text: Take a quart of Green Pease, (keep out half a pint of the youngest, boil them separately, and put them in the Soup when it is finished,) put them on in boiling water, boil them tender, and then pour off the water, and set it by to make the Soup with; put the pease into a mortar, and pound them to a mash. Then put them in two quarts of the water you boiled the pease in, stir all well together, let it boil up for about five minutes, and then rub it through a hair sieve or tammis; if the pease are good, it will be as thick and fine a vegetable soup as need be sent to Table.
ref: 1821, [William Kitchiner], The Cook’s Oracle: Containing Receipts for Plain Cookery on the Most Economical Plan for Private Families: […], 3rd edition, London: […] A[rchibald] Constable & Co. […]; and Hurst, Robinson, & Co. […], page 255:
glosses: plural of pea
Derived terms: peascod
peasemeal
pease porridge
pease pottage
pease pudding
split pease
pease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːz/
homophone: peas
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: peases
form: peasing
form: peased
form: peased
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman paiser, pesser et al., Old French paisier, aphetic form of apaisier (“to appease”). Probably also partly from aphetic use of appease.
Senses: glosses: To make peace between (conflicting people, states etc.); to reconcile.
glosses: To bring (a war, conflict) to an end.
examples: text: And yf this come to the rulers eares, we wyll pease him, and make you safe.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxviij:
glosses: To placate, appease (someone).
peasen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːzən
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Equivalent to pease + -en (plural ending).
Senses: glosses: plural of pease
-ible
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪbəl/
ipa: /əbəl/
Forms: form: -able
Etymology: From Middle English -ible, from Old French -ible, from Latin -ibilis.
Senses: examples: convertible
glosses: An adjective suffix, now usually in a passive sense; forms adjectives meaning "able to be", "relevant or suitable to, in accordance with", or expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense.
Derived terms: -ibly
accessible
admissible
alible
apprehensible
audible
collectible
combustible
comestible
compatible
comprehensible
compressible
concupiscible
contemptible
convertible
corrigible
corruptible
credible
deductible
defeasible
defensible
destructible
diffusible
digestible
dirigible
discernible
distensible
divisible
edible
eligible
emulsible
expansible
extensible
fallible
feasible
flexible
foible
forcible
frangible
fungible
fusible
gullible
horrible
illegible
immersible
immiscible
impartible
impassible
imperceptible
impermissible
implausible
impossible
impressible
inaccessible
inadmissible
inaudible
incoercible
incombustible
incompatible
incomprehensible
incompressible
incontrovertible
inconvertible
inconvincible
incorrigible
incorruptible
incredible
indefeasible
indefectible
indefensible
indelible
indestructible
indigestible
indiscernible
indivisible
inedible
ineligible
inexhaustible
inexpressible
inextensible
infallible
infeasible
inflexible
infrangible
infusible
insensible
insuppressible
insusceptible
intangible
intelligible
invincible
invisible
irascible
irreducible
irrefrangible
irremissible
irrepressible
irresistible
irresponsible
irreversible
legible
miscible
negligible
nondeductible
omissible
ostensible
partible
passible
perceptible
perfectible
permissible
persuasible
plausible
plug-compatible
possible
prescriptible
putrescible
refrangible
remissible
reprehensible
resistible
responsible
reversible
risible
runcible spoon
self-compatible
self-incompatible
semiflexible
semisubmersible
sensible
submergible
submersible
suggestible
supersensible
susceptible
tangible
tax-deductible
terrible
transmissible
unintelligible
unsusceptible
vendible
vincible
visible
Related terms: able
-ible
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪbəl/
ipa: /əbəl/
Forms: form: -able
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -i- + -bulum (instrumental suffix) or -bula (instrumental suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom. Related to Latin suffixes -brum (candelabrum) and -bra (vertebra).
Senses: examples: crucible, mandible, thurible
glosses: An instrumental suffix; forms nouns representing:
a tool or instrument
glosses: An instrumental suffix; forms nouns representing:
a place or location
Derived terms: crucible
mandible
thurible
rare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛ/
ipa: /ɹɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ɹɜɹ]
ipa: /ɹɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹɛɹ/
ipa: /ɹeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɹeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɹiə/
ipa: /ɹeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɹɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: rear (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: rares
Etymology: From Middle English rare, from Old French rare, rere (“rare, uncommon”), from Latin rārus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“friable, thin”). Replaced native Middle English gesen (“rare, scarce”) (from Old English gǣsne), Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden), and Middle English seldscene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old English seldsēne).
Senses: examples: text: Most of the time, you do this by trading low-valued rares for more valuable ones or trading uncommons for rares. Other times it's trading cards that are in print for ones that are out of print, or low-value rares for good uncommons.
ref: 1995, George Baxter, Larry W. Smith, Mastering Magic Cards, page 116:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A scarce or uncommon item.
rare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛ/
ipa: /ɹɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ɹɜɹ]
ipa: /ɹɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹɛɹ/
ipa: /ɹeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɹeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɹiə/
ipa: /ɹeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɹɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: rear (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: rarer
form: more rare
form: rarest
form: most rare
form: reer
form: rere
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of rear, from Middle English rere, from Old English hrēr, hrēre (“not thoroughly cooked, underdone, lightly boiled”), from hrēran (“to move, shake, agitate”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōzijaną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱroHs- (“to mix, stir, cook”). Related to Old English hrōr (“stirring, busy, active, strong, brave”). More at rear.
Senses: examples: text: Then Curds and Cream, the Flow'r of Country Fare, / And new-laid Eggs, which Baucis’ buſie Care / Turn’d by a gentle Fire, and roaſted rare.
ref: 1717, John Dryden, “Book VIII. [The Story of Baucis and Philemon.]”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 285:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
antonyms: well done
glosses: Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.
Synonyms: word: dearthy
word: few and far between
word: geason
word: infrequent
word: in short supply
word: rare
word: raresome
word: scant
word: scantling
word: scarce
word: selcouth
word: seld
word: seldom
word: selly
word: superrare
word: uncommon
word: unfrequent
Derived terms: medium rare
Pittsburgh rare
rare-ripe
Related terms: word: rareness
word: rarity
word: For the adverb (e.g. rarely) see Thesaurus:occasionally
word: strange
word: unique
word: frequency
rare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛ/
ipa: /ɹɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ɹɜɹ]
ipa: /ɹɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹɛɹ/
ipa: /ɹeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɹeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɹiə/
ipa: /ɹeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɹɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: rear (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: rares
form: raring
form: rared
form: rared
Etymology: Variant of rear.
Senses: examples: text: Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 328:
glosses: To rear, rise up, start backwards.
examples: text: Here I have to say that I was walking along dark-hearted, my nose out of joint about Audie's notice of her, for just as quickly as my feelings kindled, my old envy rared.
ref: 2013, Janet Peery, What the Thunder Said: A Novella and Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: To rear, bring up, raise.
rare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛ/
ipa: /ɹɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ɹɜɹ]
ipa: /ɹɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹɛɹ/
ipa: /ɹeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɹeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɹiə/
ipa: /ɹeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɹɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: rear (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: more rare
form: most rare
Etymology: Compare rather, rath.
Senses: examples: text: The men, that sway / In work of those tools that so fit our state, / Are rude mechanicals, that rare and late / Work in the market-place;
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 147, lines 420–423:
glosses: Early.
Synonyms: word: dearthy
word: few and far between
word: geason
word: infrequent
word: in short supply
word: rare
word: raresome
word: scant
word: scantling
word: scarce
word: selcouth
word: seld
word: seldom
word: selly
word: superrare
word: uncommon
word: unfrequent
Related terms: word: rareness
word: rarity
word: For the adverb (e.g. rarely) see Thesaurus:occasionally
word: strange
word: unique
word: frequency
crayfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: crayfishes
form: crayfish
form: crawfish
form: craifish
form: crafish
form: crefish
form: crevis
form: crevyssh
Etymology: Alteration (by folk etymological influence of fish) of Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice ("crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse), from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-, *gerebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”).
Akin to Old High German krebiz (Modern German Krebs (“crustacean, crab, crayfish”)), Middle Low German krēvet (“crab, crayfish”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”). More at crab.
Senses: glosses: Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
glosses: Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.
A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.
qualifier: Upper Midwestern US
glosses: A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).
glosses: A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.
glosses: The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).
Synonyms: sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: crawdad
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: crawldad
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: crawfish
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: crawlfish
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: mudbug
sense: freshwater crustaceans
word: yabby
sense: slipper lobster
word: Moreton Bay bug
Derived terms: word: crayfishery
taxonomic: Aphanomyces astaci
word: crayfish plague
word: crayfish snake
word: marbled crayfish
word: sea-crayfish
word: sea crayfish
word: signal crayfish
crayfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: crayfishes
form: crayfishing
form: crayfished
form: crayfished
form: crawfish
form: craifish
form: crafish
form: crefish
form: crevis
form: crevyssh
Etymology: Alteration (by folk etymological influence of fish) of Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice ("crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse), from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-, *gerebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”).
Akin to Old High German krebiz (Modern German Krebs (“crustacean, crab, crayfish”)), Middle Low German krēvet (“crab, crayfish”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”). More at crab.
Senses: glosses: To catch crayfish.
glosses: Alternative spelling of crawfish (to backpedal, desert, or withdraw).
Related terms: lobster
prawn
shrimp
yabby
lobster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒb.stə/
ipa: /ˈlɑb.stɚ/
rhymes: -ɒbstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more lobster
form: most lobster
Etymology: From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster).
Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster.
Senses: synonyms: red as a lobster
glosses: Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.
lobster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒb.stə/
ipa: /ˈlɑb.stɚ/
rhymes: -ɒbstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lobsters
form: lobstering
form: lobstered
form: lobstered
Etymology: From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster).
Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster.
Senses: glosses: To fish for lobsters.
mobile game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobile games
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An electronic game played using a cellular phone.
Related terms: computer game
electronic game
video game
domestic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈmɛs.tɪk/
ipa: /-stək/
ipa: /dəˈmes.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛstɪk
Forms: form: domestics
form: domestick
Etymology: From Middle French domestique, from Latin domesticus, from domus (“house, home”).
Senses: examples: text: It ſeems, the Minds of theſe People are ſo taken up with intenſe Speculations, that they neither can ſpeak, nor attend to the Diſcourſes of others, without being rouzed by ſome external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which reaſon, thoſe Perſons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domeſticks, nor ever walk abroad or make Viſits without him.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of the Laputians Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), pages 16–17:
text: Her fears thus prevailing, she communicated them to her mother as soon as the object of them had retired, who not in the least participating in them, they gradually subsided; but for an interval only, for, when retired to her chamber, during the hours of repose, every sound intimidated her; the growling of their faithful dog, or a halfsuppressed bark, brought the looks of the new domestic again before her sight.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 244:
text: New standards of cleanliness increased the workload for domestics.
ref: 1992, Mary Romero, Maid in the U.S.A.:
glosses: A maid or household servant.
examples: text: 2005, Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website athttps://web.archive.org/web/20060618212243/http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/boards/dv_whatcom042505.pdf on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.
text: Nobody wanted to join the 'Cardigan Squad' – so-called because Child Protection officers were seen as woolly, glorified social workers that mopped up after domestics.
ref: 2010, Harry Keeble, Baby X: Britain’s Child Abusers Brought to Justice, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent.
Related terms: domesticate
domesticated
domestication
domesticity
leukaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukaemias
Senses: examples: 1979, Medical Association of South Africa, South African Medical Journal, Volume 55, Issues 1-14, page 9,
On the other hand, adult respiratory distress syndrome is a prominent complication in patients with acute leukaemia and to this must be added the whole spectrum of opportunistic infections.
1992, Charles L. Sawyers, The bcr-abl Gene in Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia, Owen N. Witte (editor), Cancer Surveys, Volume 15: Oncogenes in the Development of Leukaemia, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, page 37,
The molecular biologists′ vision that the cloning of the chromosomal translocations found in human leukaemias would lead to the identification of the genes that cause these leukaemias has become a reality with the demonstration that the fusion protein generated by the chromosomal translocation found in chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) can induce leukaemia in mice (Daley et al, 1990; Kelliher et al, 1990).
2009, M. C. G. Israëls, The Shortcomings of Animal Research in Leukæmia, Ciba Foundation Symposium, Leukaemia Research, page 28,
In transmitted mouse leukaemia the cells remain fixed in type, but tissue culture methods applied to human acute leukaemias show that these cells are not fixed in type.
2010, Sheryl Persson, Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation: Medical Breakthroughs That Changed the World, Exisle Publishing, NSW, page 283,
There are different types of childhood leukaemia, which can be classified as acute or chronic. In children, about 98 per cent of leukaemias are acute.
glosses: Alternative spelling of leukemia.
Derived terms: aleukaemia
antileukaemia
erythroleukaemia
hypoleukaemia
leukaemia cutis
leukaemiavirus
leukaemogenesis
preleukaemia
pseudoleukaemia
Related terms: leukaemic
crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæb/
enpr: krăb
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: crabs
Etymology: From Middle English crabbe (“wild apple”), of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect skrabba (“sour apple, apple cart”).
Senses: examples: text: I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Just as by cultivation the acrid wild crab has been developed into the beautiful and luscious apple, may the unripe, ill-fed, neglected wild fruits of the fields and slums be developed into pure and noble and beautiful men and women.
ref: 1895, Robert Blatchford, “The New Party in the North”, in Andrew Reid, editor, The New Party Described by Some of its Members, London: Hodder Brothers, page 24:
glosses: The crab apple or wild apple.
glosses: The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
examples: text: She swore to such things , that I could do nothing but swear and call names : upon which out bolts her husband upon me , with a fine taper crab in his hand and fell upon me with such violence , that , being half delirious , I made a full confession
ref: 1741, David Garrick, The Lying Valet:
glosses: A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
glosses: A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
glosses: A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
glosses: A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
glosses: A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
Synonyms: sense: crab apple
word: crab apple
sense: tree
word: crab apple
Derived terms: word: cherry crab
word: Chinese crab
word: crab apple
word: crab-apple
word: crabapple
word: crab-bat
word: crab-knob
word: crab-staff
word: crab-stick
word: crabstick
word: crab-stock
word: crab-tree
taxonomic: Malus coronaria
word: garland crab
taxonomic: Malus baccata
word: Siberian crab
crab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæb/
enpr: krăb
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: crabs
form: crabbing
form: crabbed
form: crabbed
Etymology: From Middle English crabbe (“wild apple”), of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect skrabba (“sour apple, apple cart”).
Senses: glosses: To irritate, make surly or sour
glosses: To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
examples: text: Get you to bed, drab, courage Or l'll so crab your shoulders!
ref: 1639, John Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas:
text: I was on a horse named The Skipper, a perfect terror to ride when he was in a bad humour, which he invariably was; nevertheless he was a splendid hunter and I never crabbed him.
ref: 1935, Jack Molyneux, John Fairfax-Blakeborough, Thirty Years a Hunt Servant: Being the Memories of Jack Molyneux, page 161:
text: The Shiremans had a down on him over stores he'd condemned as not fit for dogs, let alone able seamen, and they'd got wind he was a socialist, and they crabbed him all over the shipping companies' offices.
ref: 2021, H. De Vere Stacpoole, Vanderdecken:
glosses: To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
examples: If I think one thing and speak another, / I will both crab Christ and our Ladie His mother.
glosses: To offend or insult.
Derived terms: crabber
crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæb/
enpr: krăb
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: crabs
Etymology: Possibly a corruption of the genus name Carapa
Senses: glosses: The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
Derived terms: crab-nut
crab oil
crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹæb/
enpr: krăb
rhymes: -æb
Forms: form: crabs
Etymology: From carabiner.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of carabiner, modified based on likening the shape of a carabiner to a crab's claw.
cancerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cancerates
form: cancerating
form: cancerated
form: cancerated
Etymology: From Latin cancerātus (“eaten by a cancer”).
Senses: glosses: To grow into a cancer; to become cancerous.
within
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈɪn/
ipa: /wɪðˈɪn/
ipa: /wɪˈθɪn/
ipa: /wɪˈθɪn/
ipa: /wɪθˈɪn/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /wɪtˈɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: w/i
form: w/in
Etymology: From Middle English withinne, withinnen, from Old English wiþinnan; equivalent to with + in.
Senses: examples: text: within her studio
text: O God! can I not save / One from the pitiless wave? / Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
ref: 1849 March 31, Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream Within a Dream”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: […], volumes II (Poems and Miscellanies), New York, N.Y.: J. S. Redfield, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 40:
text: The Rat[…] lightly stepped into a little boat which the Mole had not observed. It was painted blue outside and white within, and was just the size for two animals; and the Mole's whole heart went out to it at once[…].
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: In the inner part, spatially; physically inside.
examples: text: within his hearing; her within five seconds of breaking the record; within an inch of falling overboard
text: England struck back with a fine try from Ben Foden and closed to within seven points with three minutes left when Mark Cueto capitalised on a break from replacement Matt Banahan.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:
glosses: In the scope or range of.
examples: text: Leave here within three days.
text: On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
text: And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes
ref: 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Before the specified duration ends.
Derived terms: live within oneself
state within a state
stay within the lines
wheel within a wheel
within a bull's roar
within ames ace
within an ace of
within an inch of one's life
within an inch of one's skin
within call
within cry
within-doors
within doors
within living memory
within one sigma
within one's means
within one's rights
within reach
within reason
within-subjects
within the agreed time
within the four seas
within the pale
within touching distance
within
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈɪn/
ipa: /wɪðˈɪn/
ipa: /wɪˈθɪn/
ipa: /wɪˈθɪn/
ipa: /wɪθˈɪn/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /wɪtˈɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: w/i
form: w/in
Etymology: From Middle English withinne, withinnen, from Old English wiþinnan; equivalent to with + in.
Senses: examples: text: If you would hear it with all these about you, I am ready to speak. Or do we go within?
ref: 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: In or into the interior; inside.
within
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈɪn/
ipa: /wɪðˈɪn/
ipa: /wɪˈθɪn/
ipa: /wɪˈθɪn/
ipa: /wɪθˈɪn/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: /wɪtˈɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: w/i
form: w/in
Etymology: From Middle English withinne, withinnen, from Old English wiþinnan; equivalent to with + in.
Senses: examples: text: the within appeal
text: As part of the within appeal the appellants brought a fresh evidence motion. Although the court did not specifically address the motion in its oral reasons dismissing the appeal, that motion was rejected by the court for the following reasons.
ref: 2013, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Malka v. Vasiliadis:
topics: law
glosses: In the context of which the present document or ruling is made.
stepchild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepchildren
form: step-child
Etymology: From Middle English stepchild, stepchyld, from Old English stēopċild (“stepchild”), equivalent to step- + child. Compare Dutch stiefkind (“stepchild”), German Stiefkind (“stepchild”), Swedish styvbarn (“stepchild”).
Senses: examples: text: Calculating the growth in stepfamilies isn’t simple, but a demographic analysis published last year estimated that about 16 percent of Americans over age 70 have at least one stepchild. […] Overall, stepchildren provide less care to older adults
ref: 2024 March 8, Paula Span, “When Elder Care Is All in the Stepfamily”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The child of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
glosses: A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
Synonyms: sense: child of one's spouse but not one's own
word: stepbairn
sense: child of one's spouse but not one's own
word: stepkid
sense: child of one's spouse but not one's own
word: step
sense: bereaved child
word: orphan
Hyponyms: stepdaughter
stepson
stepteen
Derived terms: red-headed stepchild
stepchildhood
Related terms: half-sibling
half-brother
half-sister
step-grandchild
step-grandson
step-granddaughter
step-niece
step-nephew
step-cousin
kopje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊpi/
ipa: /kɒpi/
homophone: copy
Forms: form: kopjes
form: koppie
Etymology: From (South African) Dutch kopje, diminutive of kop (“head”).
Senses: examples: text: In one spot only was the solemn monotony of the plain broken. Near the center a small solitary “kopje” rose. Alone it lay there, a heap of round ironstones piled one upon the other, as over some giant’s grave.
ref: 1883 June, Ralph Iron [pseudonym; Olive Schreiner], “Shadows from Child-life. The Watch.”, in The Story of an African Farm, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: H. M. Caldwell Company, →OCLC, part I, page 9:
text: We selected a lichenous kopje perhaps fifteen yards away, and landed neatly on its summit one after the other.
ref: 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Prospecting Begins”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 105:
text: It was nearly noon when he reached the great bowlder at the top of which terminated the secret passage to the pits beneath the city. Like a cat he scaled the precipitous sides of the frowning granite kopje.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 206:
text: Martha looked over a mile or so of bush to a strip of pink ploughed land; […] and then, ridge after ridge, fold after fold, the bush stretched to a line of blue kopjes.
ref: 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 8:
text: On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 72:
glosses: A small hill or mound, especially on the African veld.
redeem
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdiːm/
ipa: /ɾiːˈd̪iːm/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: redeems
form: redeeming
form: redeemed
form: redeemed
Etymology: From Middle English redemen, modified from Old French redimer, from Latin redimō (“release; obviate; atone for”), itself from red- (“back; again”) + emō (“buy; gain, take, procure”).
Senses: glosses: To recover ownership of something by buying it back.
glosses: To liberate by payment of a ransom.
examples: text: Your Highneſſe needs not doubt but in ſhort time,
He will with Tamburlaines deſtruction
Redeeme you from this deadly ſeruitude.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
text: Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments ...
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 6:6:
glosses: To set free by force.
glosses: To save, rescue.
glosses: To clear, release from debt or blame.
glosses: To expiate, atone (for).
topics: business
finance
glosses: To convert (some bond or security) into cash.
glosses: To save from a state of sin (and from its consequences).
glosses: To repair, restore.
glosses: To reform, change (for the better).
glosses: To restore the honour, worth, or reputation of oneself or something.
glosses: To reclaim.
Synonyms: sense: recover ownership
word: buy back
sense: recover ownership
word: repurchase
Derived terms: redeemable
redeemably
redeemer
redeem oneself
redeem the time
unredeemable
unredeemably
unredeemed
Related terms: redemption
redemptioner
redemptor
Redemptorist
redemptory
scant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: scanter
form: scantest
Etymology: Adjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Verb from Middle English scanten, from the adjective. Noun and adverb from Middle English scant, from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment
text: His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour.
ref: 1824, John Watkins, Life of Hugh Latimer:
text: Another major defect of the current literature dealing with the nomenclature of hybrid forms of English is the scant attention paid to the question of frequency.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 4:
text: The mainstream media hones in on bad news stories where UK railways are concerned, yet gives scant attention to the many items of good news emerging from the network.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Aylesbury (2009)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
synonyms: sparse
spare
glosses: Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
examples: text: Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
examples: text: a scant cup of sugar
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.
raw_tags: of a measurement
Synonyms: sense: scarce
word: geason
word: rare
Derived terms: scanty
Related terms: scantily
scant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: scants
form: scanting
form: scanted
form: scanted
Etymology: Adjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Verb from Middle English scanten, from the adjective. Noun and adverb from Middle English scant, from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: to scant someone in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries
text: Scant not my cups.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: where man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To limit in amount or share; to stint.
examples: text: The wind scants.
glosses: To fail, or become less; to scantle.
scant
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /skænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Etymology: Adjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Verb from Middle English scanten, from the adjective. Noun and adverb from Middle English scant, from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: After his previous escapades, Mary had scant reason to believe John.
text: (as pronoun) The failure of this project has scant to do with me.
text: The summer I answered my first personals, I was a 19-year-old dyke living alone in a three-room bachelorette pad, scant blocks from Main Street, Waltham, Massachusetts.
ref: 1979 April 7, Pat M. Kuras, “Advertising for Love”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
text: [Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.
ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
glosses: Very little, very few.
Synonyms: little
few
slight
scant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: scants
Etymology: Adjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Verb from Middle English scanten, from the adjective. Noun and adverb from Middle English scant, from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: A blonde appeared from the officers' room, wearing a scant of material that passed for issued undergarments.
ref: 2020, Nathaniel DeZago, Cries of Battle: Selstra:
glosses: A small piece or quantity.
examples: text: As soon as the corpse was placed on the pile, and some prayers muttered by the attendant Bramin, fire was set to it at one of the corners, and the wood being dry, and in great quantity, it soon blazed up and consumed the body to ashes, without any noisome smell, such as however does not unfrequently happen if there is a scant of wood, or rain intervenes to damp it.
ref: 1757, John-Henry Grose, A voyage to the East-Indies, with observations on various parts there, page 360:
text: I was greatly surprised, however, in this very fertile and abundant country, to find so great a scant of provisions in the inns.
ref: 1831, Derwent Conway, Switzerland, the South of France and the Pyrenees, page 224:
text: Even if labour were diverted to a great extent from our grand staple, the cotton manufacture, we are not prepared to admit that the country would be worse off. The worst that could happen in such a case would be, that for a few years, during the inordinate progress of railways, our population would run short of shirts and shifts. If the woollen manufacture be the theme, there would be a scant of coats and petticoats; or if the earthenware manufacture, there must be fewer teapots and pipkins.
ref: 1846, J T Hackett, Ability of the public to make the projected railways, reprinted in The Railway Register Vol. IV, page 144 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MEsFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=%22scant%22
glosses: Scarcity; lack.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: A sheet of stone.
qualifier: wood
glosses: A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
Derived terms: scants
scant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /skænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Etymology: Adjective and determiner from Middle English scant, from Old Norse skamt, neuter of skammr (“short”), from Proto-Germanic *skammaz (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱem- (“mutilated, hornless”). Verb from Middle English scanten, from the adjective. Noun and adverb from Middle English scant, from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: [A]ske a Stoicke vvhich Philoſophy is true, he vvil preferre his ovvne. Then aske him vvhich approacheth next the truth, he vvill confeſſe the Academiques. So deale vvith the Epicure, that vvill ſcant indure the Stoicke to be in ſight of him, ſo ſoone as he hath placed himſelfe, he vvill place the Academiques next him.
ref: 1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC:
text: So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
founder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊn.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈfaʊn.də/
rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: founders
Etymology: From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”).
Senses: examples: text: The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
ref: 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 161:
glosses: The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
examples: text: a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
glosses: One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
Derived terms: bell founder
bell-founder
type founder
type-founder
founder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊn.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈfaʊn.də/
rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: founders
Etymology: From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
Related terms: foundered
dark matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Dunkle Materie, from dunkel (“dark”) and Materie (“matter”). Coined by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in German in 1933, to account for the apparent mass needed to account for galaxy clusters, where the mass of luminous matter did not add up to enough of a gravitational effect, inferring nonluminous matter must exist to account for the missing mass. The term gained new popularity due to the missing mass found in galaxies to account for galaxy rotation curves discovered by Vera Rubin in research published in English in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: The evidence for dark matter in galaxies started to accumulate in the mid-1970s. By the following decade it became clear that essentially all galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are surrounded by extensive halos of dark matter.
ref: 2001, Susan M. Fitzpatrick, John T. Brue, Carving Our Destiny: Scientific Research Faces a New Millennium:
text: On large scales like that of clusters of galaxies, gravitational lensing indicates that the dark matter is smoothly distributed, on the average.
ref: 2004, L. Bergström, A. Goobar, “Particle Astrophysics and the Dark Sector of the Universe”, in John W. Mason, editor, Astrophysics Update, pages 124–125:
topics: astronomy
astrophysics
natural-sciences
glosses: Matter which cannot be detected by its radiation but whose presence is inferred from gravitational effects.
topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: strictly
glosses: Matter which has mass but which does not readily interact with normal matter except through gravitational effects.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Unclassified or poorly understood genetic material.
Hyponyms: word: baryonic dark matter
alt: CDM
word: cold dark matter
alt: FDM
word: fuzzy dark matter
alt: HDM
word: hot dark matter
word: non-baryonic dark matter
word: warm dark matter
Coordinate terms: axion
higgsino
MACHO
neutralino
PBH
sterile neutrino
WIMP
Derived terms: DM
Related terms: dark energy
dark light
dark sector
polyphiloprogenitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpɒlɪfɪləpɹəˈd͡ʒɛnɪtɪv/
Etymology: From poly- + philoprogenitive.
Senses: examples: text: Polyphiloprogenitive / The sapient sutlers of the Lord / Drift across the window-panes.
ref: 1919, T. S. Eliot, Mr Eliot's Sunday Morning Service:
glosses: Having many descendants.
glosses: Extremely prolific; myriad
glosses: Having many offspring, characterized by high reproduction
perturbate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)beɪt/
Forms: form: perturbates
form: perturbating
form: perturbated
form: perturbated
Etymology: From Latin perturbātus.
Senses: examples: text: force her blisse to perturbate
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: To perturb.
Derived terms: perturbation
perturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: perturbations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French perturbation, from Old French perturbacion, from Latin perturbatio.
Senses: examples: text: Reſtore your ſelues, vnto your temper, Fathers; / And, vvithout perturbation, heare me ſpeake: […]
ref: 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act IIII:
text: But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheerful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
glosses: Agitation; the state of being perturbed
examples: text: Natures that haue much Heat, and great and violent deſires and Perturbations, are not ripe for Action, till they haue paſſed the Meridian of their yeares: As it was with Iulius Cæſar, and Septimius Seuerus.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Youth and Age. XLII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, pages 247–248:
glosses: A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system)
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies
Derived terms: cosmological perturbation theory
perturbational
perturbation theory
photoperturbation
preperturbation
reperturbation
subperturbation
Related terms: perturb
perturbatory
disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɔːdə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪsˈɔɹdɚ/
ipa: /dɪzˈɔːɹdəɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: disorders
form: disordering
form: disordered
form: disordered
form: disordre
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French desordre (modern French désordre), from Old French desordre, from des- + ordre; by surface analysis, dis- + order.
Senses: glosses: To throw into a state of disorder.
glosses: To knock out of order or sequence.
Derived terms: disorderable
disorderer