cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Honorius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Late Latin Honorius, derived from honōrus (“conferring honour”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Latin male given name Honōrius, notably borne by a Roman emperor and several popes.
Related terms: Honoria
Honora
honoratus
antinuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antinuclear
form: most antinuclear
form: anti-nuclear
Etymology: From anti- + nuclear.
Senses: examples: ref: 1995, "As antinuclear sentiment became popular, politicians such as Govs. Hugh L. Carey and Mario M. Cuomo jumped on the bandwagon and helped delay and defeat the opening. All the while the interest costs grew at astronomical rates." --New York Times, Oct 15, 1995, Antinuclear Role in High Electric Costs:
glosses: Opposed to the production or use of nuclear weapons, or opposed to the generation of electricity from nuclear power.
glosses: Serving as protection from nuclear devices
glosses: Against the nucleus of a biological cell.
Buckingham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.ɪŋ.əm/
Etymology: From Old English Buccingahām, from the personal name Bucca (see bucca (“he-goat”)) + -ing (“belonging to”) + hām (“home”).
Senses: glosses: The Buckingham Palace.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Buckinghamshire, England.
glosses: A place name:
A former city in Quebec, Canada, merged into Gatineau in 2002.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Colorado, named after a railroad official.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Florida.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Illinois.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Iowa, named after Buckingham County, VA.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A former city in Texas, now part of Richardson, Texas.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place, the county seat of Buckingham County, Virginia.
glosses: A dukedom in the English peerage.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English derived from the place name.
Derived terms: Buckinghamshire
Buckingham County
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Buck House
glosses: The official London residence of the British monarch.
glosses: The British monarch or royal family.
Clarendon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæ.ɹən.dən/
rhymes: -æɹəndən
Forms: form: Clarendons
Etymology: The Wiltshire place-name may come from Old English *Claringa dūn, the hill associated with Clare (a personal name).
The parish in New Brunswick was named after a settlement, named in turn after British politician George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon (1800 - 1870).
The typeface was named after the Clarendon Press, which was named after the Earl of Clarendon (a former chancellor of Oxford University).
Senses: glosses: A royal palace near Salisbury, now ruined, or the country house built on its site.
glosses: A peerage title (especially in reference to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon).
glosses: A civil parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A parish of Jamaica.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Monroe County, Arkansas, United States.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Donley County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A serif typeface.
Derived terms: Clarendon County
Clarendonian
Clarendon Parish
Eustace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːˌstɪs/
Forms: form: Eustis
form: Hustis
Etymology: From the Old French form of Byzantine Greek εὐσταθής (eustathḗs, “steadfast, stable”) or εὔστᾰχῠς (eústăkhŭs, “fruitful”, literally “abundant in grain”), from εὖ (eû) + στάχυς (stákhus). Doublet of Ostap.
Senses: examples: text: His name unfortunately was Eustace Scrubb, but he wasn’t a bad sort.
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Silver Chair:
text: ‘The boy’s Eustace, my lord’, hooted the Owl as loud as it could. ‘Useless?’ said the Dwarf irritably. ‘I dare say he is. Is that any reason for bringing him to court? Hey?’ ‘Not useless’, said the Owl. ‘EUSTACE’. ‘Used to it, is he? I don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m sure. […]
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 3, in The Silver Chair:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Stacey
Stacy
weather speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weatherspeak
form: weather-speak
Senses: glosses: phatic conversation about the weather.
glosses: meteorological jargon
Methodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛθədɪst/
Forms: form: Methodists
form: methodist
Etymology: From method + -ist; for the origin of the designation, see Methodism.
Senses: examples: text: The question, which visibly moved Clinton, delves into an area of the candidate’s life that is deeply personal but rarely discussed. Clinton’s friends and confidants describe the former first lady as a devout Methodist whose faith guides much of what she does.
ref: 2016 January 25, Dan Merica, “In personal exchange, Clinton laments using faith to ‘judge so harshly’”, in CNN:
text: After years of debate, hundreds of United Methodists from all over the world gathered in St. Louis last week to settle the denomination’s stance on LGBT clergy and same-sex weddings.
ref: 2019 March 3, Dakin Andone, “Fractured after vote against LGBT clergy, weddings, United Methodists face possible split”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: Methodish
hypernyms: Protestant
glosses: A member of the Methodist Church; a Wesleyan.
Methodist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛθədɪst/
Forms: form: more Methodist
form: most Methodist
form: methodist
Etymology: From method + -ist; for the origin of the designation, see Methodism.
Senses: examples: text: Clinton’s faith is something she developed as a child growing up in Park Ridge, Illinois, attending the suburb’s First Methodist Church.
ref: 2016 January 25, Dan Merica, “In personal exchange, Clinton laments using faith to ‘judge so harshly’”, in CNN:
synonyms: Meth.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the branch of Christianity that descends from the religious societies overseen by John Wesley (1703–1791) among others.
Derived terms: Primitive Methodist
Related terms: Methodism
Barnabas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹnəbəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Βαρναβᾶς (Barnabâs), from Aramaic בַרְנֶבֻאָה (barneḇú’â, literally “prophet's son”), from בּר (bar, “son of”) and נְבִיָּא (nəḇiyyā, “prophet”).
Senses: examples: text: And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation, ) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
ref: Acts 4:36-37
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Related terms: word: Barnaby
sense: pet form
word: Barney
Merton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː.tən/
ipa: /ˈmɝ.tən/
Forms: form: Mertons
Etymology: From Old English Merantūn.
Senses: glosses: Any of several placenames in England from words meaning lake and settlement.
A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5212).
glosses: Any of several placenames in England from words meaning lake and settlement.
A district in borough of Merton, in south-west Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2670).
glosses: Any of several placenames in England from words meaning lake and settlement.
A London borough of Greater London.
glosses: Any of several placenames in England from words meaning lake and settlement.
A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP5717).
glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English from the placenames.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Ellipsis of Merton College, Oxford.
Derived terms: Merton Park
Mertonian
Nell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
homophone: knell
Forms: form: Nellie
form: Nelly
Senses: examples: text: O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou does love thy lord,
Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts;
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Eleanor, Ellen, or Helen
Derived terms: Nelson
Leopold
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːəpəʊld/
ipa: /ˈliːəpoʊld/
ipa: /ˈlɛpəld/
Etymology: From Old French Leopold, from Old High German liut (“people”) + bald (“bold”). The first part is sometimes associated by folk etymology with Latin leo (“lion”), as in Leo and Leonard. More at lede, bold.
Senses: examples: text: Several kings of the Belgians were called Leopold.
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages. Used in the 19th century but rare today.
glosses: A place name:
A suburb of Geelong in the City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A place name:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Perry County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Bollinger County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A place name:
An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States.
Frederic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, a French style spelling variant of Frederick
Talbot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːlbət/
Forms: form: Talbott
form: Talbut
form: Talbutt
form: Taulbut
Etymology: From Middle English talbot, from Old French talebot (“bandit”); a Norman nickname applied to robbers who blackened their faces to avoid recognition, from Old High German *Talbald (personal name), from Old High German tal (“valley, dale”) + bald (“bold, courageous”).
Senses: examples: text: Sahaiʔa May Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014. However, on her birth certificate, her name is spelled Sahai'a because the Northwest Territories government only allows the Roman alphabet to be used on official documents.
ref: 2016 June 13, Hilary Bird, “Baby named Sahaiʔa prompts changes to Vital Statistics Act”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2016:
glosses: An English surname thought to be of Norman (Germanic) origin.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: An earldom in the British peerage
glosses: A former brand of English motor car.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Benton County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Menominee County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A town in the Shire of Central Goldfields, central Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Port Talbot
Talbot County
Talbot Green
Talbot-Plateau law
Talbotton
Raphael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæf.eɪˌɛl/
ipa: /ˈɹæf.eɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈɹæf.ɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˌɹæf.aɪˈɛl/
ipa: /ˌɹɑː-/
ipa: /ˈɹɑː-/
ipa: /ˌɹɑ.faɪˈɛl/
ipa: /ˌɹæf.aɪˈɛl/
ipa: /ˈɹæf.i.əl/
ipa: /ˈɹɑ.fi.əl/
ipa: /-eɪ-/
ipa: /ˈɹæf.ɛəl/
Forms: form: Raphaels
Etymology: Latin Raphael. From Koine Greek Ῥᾱφᾱήλ (Rhāphāḗl), from Hebrew רָפָאֵל (Rāfāʾēl, literally “God cures/has healed”).
Senses: examples: text: I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and which go in and out before the glory of the Holy One.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Tobit 12:15:
glosses: An archangel in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian Renaissance painter (1483–1520).
Derived terms: Rafe
Striped Raphael catfish
Marlborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːlbɹə/
ipa: /ˈmɑːɹlbɹə/
Etymology: From marl + -borough.
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1969).
glosses: Marlborough College
glosses: A dukedom in the British peerage.
glosses: A region, an and former province of the South Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A territorial authority in New Zealand, more or less contiguous with the region; in full, Marlborough District.
glosses: A rural town and locality in the Shire of Livingstone, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A neighbourhood in north-east Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Hartford County, Connecticut.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A village in St. Louis County, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Cheshire County, New Hampshire,
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Ulster County, New York, named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Derived terms: East Marlborough
Marlborough Sounds
New Marlborough
Related terms: Marlboro
Barton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)tən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tən
Etymology: From Old English bere (“barley”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure”).
Senses: glosses: Any of many places in England:
A hamlet in Barton and Pooley Bridge parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4826).
glosses: Any of many places in England:
A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP1025).
glosses: Any of many places in England:
A village in Preston, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5137).
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
An unincorporated community in Amador County, California.
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
A ghost town and community in Fresno County, California.
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
A town in Maryland.
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
An unincorporated community in Deuel County, Nebraska, derived from the surname.
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
A town in Tioga County, New York.
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon.
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
A town, village, and river in Vermont.
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
A town in Wisconsin.
glosses: Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including:
A community in Nova Scotia.
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English from the places in England.
examples: text: As Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman showed in his brilliant biography, Cheney deployed his masterful knowledge of policymaking to exert influence at all levels of government.
ref: 2016 July 11, Julian Zelizer, “The vice presidency is no longer a joke”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Barton and Pooley Bridge
Barton County
Barton Hartshorn
Barton Hill
bartonite
Barton-le-Street
Barton-McCombie deoxygenation
Barton-Nackman trick
Barton reaction
Barton St David
Barton-under-Needwood
Barton upon Humber
Barton upon Irwell
Great Barton
Marsh Barton
Steeple Barton
barton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bartons
Etymology: From Old English bere (“barley”) + tūn (“place”).
Senses: examples: text: There's the barton rich / With dyke and ditch / And hedge for the thrush to live in [...].
ref: 1816, John Keats, For there's Bishop's Teign:
text: So fair a fancy few would weave / In these years! Yet, I feel, / If someone said on Christmas Eve, / “Come; see the oxen kneel, / “In the lonely barton by yonder coomb / Our childhood used to know,” / I should go with him in the gloom, / Hoping it might be so.
ref: 1915, Thomas Hardy, The Oxen:
glosses: A farmyard.
glosses: the lands of a manor reserved for the Lord's use
glosses: an arrangement of blocks and pulleys; a burton
Thackeray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An English habitational surname from a place in Yorkshire, of Old Norse origin, from þak (“thatch, roof”) + rá (“nook”), therefore referring to a "place with thatching".
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A community in western Saskatchewan, Canada.
Related terms: Thackray
Thackeray
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thakre
Etymology: Anglification of Marathi ठाकरे (ṭhākre).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Hindoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hindoos
Senses: examples: text: Our early popular ideas of the mildness and effeminacy of the Hindoos were derived from the Bengalees, and are by no means characteristic of the general population of India.
ref: 1856, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 237:
text: After a week's trial at 4d. per ton his men struck, saying that the work was not fit for white men, although there were 19 whites employed for the same work which 15 Hindoos were accomplishing.
ref: 1901 December 6, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 20, page 632:
glosses: Hindu
examples: text: Having made Calcutta the capital of their dominions, the English distinguished this city by such peculiar marks of favour, as a free people would be expected to bestow, in establishing an English Court of Judicature, and granting to all within its jurisdiction, the same civil rights as every Briton enjoys in his native country; thus putting the Natives of India in possession of such privileges as their forefathers never expected to attain, even under Hindoo Rulers.
ref: 1825, THE ORIENTAL HERALD, AND JOURNAL OF GENERAL LITERATURE (April to June), volume V, page 503:
glosses: Any subject regarding to Mughal Empire.
Hindoo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There are brahmins of various degrees, who have the care of religion, or of the administration of the Gentoo law allotted to them. These priests are held sacred by the Indians or Hindoos.
ref: 1795, THE STOKES UNIVERSAL GAZETTEER, page HIN:
text: After more than once recovering his fortunes, when they seemed to be almost desperate, he invaded Hindostan, and, in 1525, overthrew and killed sultan Ibrahim, the last Hindoo emperor of the Patan or Afghan race.
ref: 1829, ENCYCLOPAEDIA AMERICANA, page 506:
glosses: Indians
Huxley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌksli/
Forms: form: Huxleys
Etymology: From the Old English personal name *Hucc + -s- + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”). The first element could also be husċ (“insult, scorn, mockery”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A village in Hargrave and Huxley parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ510614).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada, named after Thomas Henry Huxley.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Story County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Shelby County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
argumentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑːɡjəmənˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑːɡjʊ-/
ipa: /ˌɑɹɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑɹɡjəmənˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑɹɡju-/
Forms: form: argumentations
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English argumentacioun, from Anglo-Norman argumentacion, Middle French argumentation, or their etymon Latin argūmentātiō; by surface analysis, argument + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: His chain of argumentation is flawed.
text: None of the traditional proposals suffers from the weaknesses characteristic of CAW's suggestions: what CAW has to offer are mere guesses, arrived at in a totally unsystematic way and totally unsupported by rational and reasonable argumentation.
ref: 1989 January 24, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 131:
glosses: Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
examples: text: Their argumentation continued long into the night.
glosses: An exchange of arguments
examples: text: An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments.
ref: 2009, Iyad Rahwan, Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.
Derived terms: argumentational
argumentationally
counterargumentation
Eliot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eliots
form: Elliot
form: Elliott
form: Eliott
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish surname, variant of Elliott.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elliott.
Derived terms: Eliotesque
Eliotian
Benson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛn.sən/
rhymes: -ɛnsən
Etymology: Ultimately from Old English Benesingtūn.
Senses: glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English from a place in Oxfordshire.
glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic from Benedict + -son.
glosses: A rural municipality, the Rural Municipality of Benson No. 35, in south-east Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A hamlet within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan.
glosses: A village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SU6191).
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Cochise County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Woodford County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Swift County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Swift County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Hamilton County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Johnston County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rutland County, Vermont.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Anderson, Burnett County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Benson County
Bensonian
Mount Benson
Calhoun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Calhouns
Etymology: Common anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Colquhoun.
Senses: glosses: An Irish or Scottish surname.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Gordon County, Georgia.
glosses: A village in Richland County, Illinois.
glosses: A ghost town in Cheyenne County, Kansas.
glosses: A home rule city, the county seat of McLean County, Kentucky.
glosses: A census-designated place in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A tiny city in Henry County, Missouri.
glosses: The former name of a city in South Carolina, known since 1943 as Clemson.
glosses: A town in McMinn County, Tennessee.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
glosses: A neighborhood of New Berlin, Wisconsin.
topics: education
glosses: Calhoun College.
glosses: Ellipsis of Calhoun County.
Derived terms: Calhoun County
Fort Calhoun
Lake Calhoun
Cornelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹˈniliə/
ipa: /kɔːˈniːlɪə/
Etymology: From Latin Cornēlia, name of a famous Roman matron, feminine form of the gens name Cornelius; in continental Europe, also a feminine form of the saint's name Cornelius.
Senses: examples: text: Ah! boy ; Cornelia never with more care / Read to her sons, than she hath read to thee / Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator.
ref: 1592, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act IV, scene 1:
glosses: A female given name from Latin in quiet use since the 18th century.
Derived terms: sense: variants and pet forms
word: Corrie
analytic function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analytic functions
Senses: examples: text: There is a large and important literature concerned with the question of how to characterize precisely the boundary values of analytic functions. For example, when the analytic functions are of Hardy Class H#42; in a half plane, then their boundary values are attained in the L2 norm and, in fact, the analytic function can be reproduced by a Cauchy integral of the boundary value.
ref: 1966, E. J. Beltrami, M. R. Wohlers, Distributions and the Boundary Values of Analytic Functions, Academic Press, page vii:
text: 2000, Vladimir V. Mityushev, Sergei V. Rogosin, Constructive Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems for Analytic Functions: Theory and Applications, Chapman & Hall / CRC, page v,
Thus we have limited ourselves by boundary value problems for analytic functions, and some related problems. The constructive ideas are always in our mind, so, the basic goal of this book is to be useful for experts in analytic function theory and for nonspecialists in it, and even for non-mathematicians who apply these methods in their research.
text: 2010, Emmanuel Fricain, Andreas Hartmann, Regularity on the Boundary in Spaces of Holomorphic Functions on the Unit Disk, Javad Mashreghi, Thomas Ransford, Kristian Seip (editors, Hilbert Spaces of Analytic Functions, American Mathematical Society, page 91,
We review some results on regularity on the boundary in spaces of analytic functions on the unit disk connected with backward shift invariant subspaces in Hᵖ.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any smooth (infinitely differentiable) function f, defined on an open set D⊆ℂ( textit or⊆ℝ), whose value in some neighbourhood of any given point x_0∈D is given by the Taylor series ∑ₙ₌₀ ᪲(f⁽ⁿ⁾(x_0))/(n!)(x-x_0)ⁿ.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: window function
Hypernyms: sense: analysis
word: function
Hyponyms: sense: analysis
word: complex analytic function
sense: analysis
word: monogenic analytic function
sense: analysis
word: real analytic function
Derived terms: complex analytic function
real analytic function
antigenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigenicities
Etymology: From antigenic + -ity.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The ability, or degree of ability, to react with the products of an immune response.
Derived terms: alloantigenicity
neoantigenicity
xenoantigenicity
Related terms: antigen
immunogenicity
antiphonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɪfənəl/
Forms: form: antiphonals
Senses: glosses: A book of antiphons or anthems sung or chanted at a liturgy; an antiphonary or antiphoner.
glosses: An antiphon; a piece sung or chanted in an antiphonal manner.
Synonyms: sense: book
word: antiphoner
sense: book
word: antiphonar
sense: book
word: antiphonary
antiphonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈtɪfənəl/
Senses: examples: text: The antiphonal hymn was sung regularly at church.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Characterized by antiphones or antiphony; incorporating alternate, or responsive singing by a choir split into two parts.
Derived terms: antiphonally
paleography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpalɪˈɒɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ˌpeɪlɪˈɒɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ˌpeɪliˈɑɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: paleographies
form: palaeography
form: palæography
Etymology: From paleo- + -graphy; imitating Latin palaeographia for the first sense and French paléographie and paléogéographie for the second and third senses.
Senses: examples: text: Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality which is the natural fruit of a conveyancing practice.
ref: 1910, H. A. L. Fisher, Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge: University Press:
glosses: The study of old or ancient forms of writing.
glosses: Ancient scripts or forms of writing themselves, as uncial, scriptio continua, or methods of using papyrus scrolls.
glosses: Paleogeography.
up the wall
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Those noisy children are driving me up the wall.
text: You really are a pain in the arse, aren't you (laugh track)? The PM is going up the wall! Hitting the roof! You can't go around making speeches like that.
ref: 1980 February 25, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Open Government”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Vic Gould (Edward Jewesbury):
glosses: crazy, mad
Related terms: up the walls
power station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power stations
Senses: examples: text: All the bigger towns in this vast area are to have new power stations. Yinchuan and Bayenhot in Ningsia province, Sining in Chinghai, Tienshui, Tunhchuan and Paochi in Shensi, and Tihua in Sinkiang have all been mentioned in Press reports.
ref: 1954 February [1954 January], “China's Industrial Growth”, in Economic Digest, volume VII, number 2, London: Economic Research Council, →OCLC, pages 87–88:
text: The Underground would eventually be powered by two giant power stations, as we will see, before plugging itself directly into the National Grid.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: An industrial complex where electricity is produced.
Synonyms: power plant
Derived terms: hydroelectric power station
nuclear power station
wind power station
power stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power station
historiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˌstɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: historiographies
Etymology: From historio- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: As was mentioned on p.31, value-judgments are generally considered the most conspicuous source of subjectivity in historiography.
ref: 1991, Els Elffers-van Ketel, The Historiography of Grammatical Concepts, Rodopi, page 51:
text: We limited the discussion to historiographies examining the development of the modern Middle East from World War I onward.
ref: 2006, “Introduction”, in Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer, Y. Hakan Erdem, editors, Middle East Historiographies: Narrating the Twentieth Century, University of Washington Press, page 7:
text: This article examines the usages of the notion of “revival” in the context of nineteenth-century Balkan history and, more precisely, in different national historiographies in the region.
ref: 2015, Alexander Vezenkov, Tchavdar Marinov, “The Concept of National Revival in Balkan Historiographies”, in Roumen Daskalov, Alexander Vezenkov, editors, Entangled Histories of the Balkans, Volume 3: Shared Pasts, Disputed Legacies, Koninklijke Brill, page 406:
glosses: The writing of history; a written history.
examples: text: In its broadest sense, historiography has to do with the process of historical writing, the identification and use of source material, and the techniques and methods applied to the analysis of these data.
ref: 1999, B. W. Higman, “1: The Development of Historical Disciplines in the Caribbean”, in B. W. Higman, editor, General History of the Caribbean, Volume 4: Methodology and Historiography of the Caribbean, UNESCO Publishing, page 5:
text: Consistently the most underestimated and neglected debate in recent British historiography is that between Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson conducted in the mid-1960s in the pages of the New Left Review and the Socialist Register.
ref: 2006, Keith Nield, “22: A Symptomatic Dispute?: Notes on the relations between Marxian theory and historical practice in Britain”, in Robert M. Burns, editor, Historiography: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, Volume 2: Society, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 91:
text: Thus in this brief and schematic survey of modern Indian historiography an emphasis is placed on the role of the concept of the Indian nation in the writing of Indian history; this will provide contextual knowledge for the following chapters.
ref: 2009, Nicole Weickgenannt Thiara, Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography: Writing the Nation into Being, Palgrave Macmillan, page 6:
glosses: The study of the discipline and practice of history and the writings of past historians.
Related terms: historiographic
historiographical
historiographically
historiographer
historiograph
historiographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˌstɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfəɹ/
Forms: form: historiographers
Etymology: From historiography + -er.
Senses: examples: text: May Your Majeſty be pleaſed to accept theſe remains of a noble Author, as they vvere collected by the care of Your late Hiſtoriographer; […]
ref: 1734, Mary Stephens, “To the King”, in [Francis] Bacon; Robert Stephens, compiler, edited by [John Lockyer], Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, →OCLC, page [i]:
text: "That's a fine young fellow," said the historiographer of earwigs, to an American who stood next him in the crowd.
ref: 1856, L. S. Lavenu, chapter XVII, in Erlesmere; or, Contrasts of Character, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 171:
glosses: A scholar who studies historiography.
Derived terms: historiographership
Related terms: historiographic
historiographical
historiographically
histologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈstɑlədʒɪst/
Forms: form: histologists
Etymology: From histology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies histology.
Derived terms: neurohistologist
paleohistologist
hit-and-miss
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hit-and-miss
form: most hit-and-miss
Senses: examples: text: But garbage, ashes, tin cans, rubbish, paper, packing, stable refuse, things which go so far to make a community less lovely and less livable are gotten rid of in the most hit and miss fashion, if at all.
ref: 1921, Dr. W.F. Bleifuss, “Report of Committee on Garbage and Refuse Disposal”, in Minnesota Municipalities, volumes 6-8, page 125:
text: The upgrade from Channel 4 cult hit to Netflix blockbuster gave Charlie Brooker’s hit-and-miss dystopia anthology Black Mirror bigger stars, a bigger budget and, most notably, a far bigger audience.
ref: 2021 March 31, Benjamin Lee, “Made for Love review – Black Mirror-esque comedy needs an upgrade”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of hit-or-miss.
hobbyhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobbyhorses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hobby horse.
hobby-horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hobby-horses
Senses: examples: text: The discordant minstrelsy of every kind renewed its din; the boys shrieked and howled, and the men laughed and halloed, and the women giggled and screamed, and the beasts roared, and the dragon wallopp’d and hissed, and the hobby-horse neighed, pranced, and capered, and the rest frisked and frolicked, clashing their hob-nailed shoes against the pavement, till it sparkled with the marks of their energetic caprioles.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 300–301:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hobby horse.
honoraria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑnəˈɹɛɹi.ə/
Senses: glosses: plural of honorarium
anti-intellectual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-intellectual
form: most anti-intellectual
form: antiintellectual
Etymology: From anti- + intellectual.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: philistine
coordinate_terms: word: antiscience#Adjective
english: overlapping
translation: overlapping
word: antieducation
word: ;
english: including being [[indifferent]]
translation: including being [[indifferent]]
word: nonintellectual
word: unintellectual
glosses: Hostile to intellectual thinking, methods, or ideas.
Related terms: anti-intellectualism
anti-intellectual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-intellectuals
form: antiintellectual
Etymology: From anti- + intellectual.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: philistine
glosses: A person who scorns intellectuals and their views and methods.
hotelier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊˈtɛl.i.ə/
ipa: /həʊˈtɛl.iˌeɪ/
ipa: /hoʊˈtɛl.i.əɹ/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.tɛlˈjeɪ/
ipa: /ˌhoʊ-/
ipa: /-təl-/
ipa: /hoʊˈtɛl.jəɹ/
Forms: form: hoteliers
form: hôtelier
Etymology: Borrowed from French hôtelier.
Senses: examples: text: Mumbai: Hotelier Gaurav Arya arrived at the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) office in Mumbai on Tuesday to record his statement in a money laundering case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death.
ref: 2020 September 1, “Goa Hotelier Being Questioned For Second Day In Sushant Rajput Case”, in NDTV.com:
text: Jim managed to secure employment in a hotel on the lake shore, but even then I could see that his interest in being a hotelier was waning.
ref: 2020 January 30, Maurice Holland, Just a simple innkeeper: The Journey of an Irish Hotelier, Australian Self Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 68, →ISBN:
text: He was, by nature and choice, a hotelier and destined to become the most famous hotelier in the world.
ref: 1964, Conrad N. Hilton, hotelier, page 75:
synonyms: word: publican
coordinate_terms: hôtelière
glosses: Someone who owns or runs a hotel.
Derived terms: motelier
antipollution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æn.taɪ.pəˈluː.ʃən/
Etymology: * anti- + pollution
Senses: glosses: Anything that helps the environment by reducing pollution.
antipollution
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æn.taɪ.pəˈluː.ʃən/
Forms: form: more antipollution
form: most antipollution
Etymology: * anti- + pollution
Senses: examples: text: He also proposed putting more air purifiers in schools and to explore additional anti-pollution efforts with China.
ref: 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: Reducing or opposing pollution.
antipoverty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + poverty.
Senses: examples: text: This initiative gave birth to an urban movement, the […] SAPE: a way of expressing an identity that was antipoverty, antidepression, and antipower (because it opposed the abas-cost, the uniform imposed by Mobutu) for thousands of young Kinshasans, as well as for Brazzavillians on the other side of the Congo River.
ref: 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182:
topics: government
politics
glosses: That serves to alleviate poverty.
antiseptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antiseptically
form: most antiseptically
Etymology: From antiseptic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The agents, particularly a woman named Betty (Lynne Cormack), gush idiotically about what great potential Robin has, and dream of revamping his act so antiseptically that they can bill him as "Canada's Comic Illusionist," instead of the specialty performer that he clearly is.
ref: 1987 October 16, Janet Maslin, “Film: 'Too Outrageous,' a Sequel”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an antiseptic manner.
glosses: Regarding antisepsis.
antithetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antithetically
form: most antithetically
Etymology: From antithetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an antithetic manner.
glosses: Using antithesis.
antithetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antithetic
form: most antithetic
Etymology: From Latin antitheticus.
Senses: glosses: Diametrically opposed.
glosses: Synonym of antithetical.
synonyms: word: antithetical
Derived terms: antithetically
antithetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antithetics
Etymology: From Latin antitheticus.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike antithetics, a control variable can be used for any attribute of the random variable Y that is being simulated […]
ref: 2017, P. W. A. Lewis, Ed McKenzie, Simulation Methodology for Statisticians, Operations Analysts, and Engineers:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Ellipsis of antithetic variate.
aphoristically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aphoristically
form: most aphoristically
Etymology: From aphoristic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aphoristic manner.
glosses: Using or regarding aphorisms.
apocryphally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more apocryphally
form: most apocryphally
Etymology: From apocryphal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head.
ref: 2022 January 9, Laura Spinney, “Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: allegedly
anecdotally
glosses: In an apocryphal manner.
glosses: Regarding apocrypha.
apostleship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostleships
Etymology: From apostle + -ship.
Senses: coordinate_terms: discipleship
glosses: The position, post, or duty of being an apostle.
hooked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hook up
apostle spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apostle spoons
head_nr: 1
Senses: examples: text: Apostle spoons were a common baptismal gift in the 16th and 17th centuries.
text: They busied themselves with the tea. There were silver tongs for the sugar, apostle spoons with elaborate handles, a milk jug adorned with a pheasant in flight.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 114:
head_nr: 1
glosses: A spoon (usually silver) with an image of an apostle or other Christian religious figure as the termination of the handle.
apostle spoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostle spoon, usually as a set of twelve representing the different apostles.
nolle prosequi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒlɪ ˈpɹɒsɪkwaɪ/
ipa: /ˌnəʊlɪ ˈpɹɒsɪkwaɪ/
ipa: /ˌnoʊli ˈpɹoʊsɪkwaɪ/
ipa: /ˌnoʊli ˈpɹoʊsɪkwi/
ipa: /ˌnɑli ˈpɹɑsɪkwaɪ/
ipa: /ˌnɑli ˈpɹɑsɪkwi/
Forms: form: nolle prosequis
form: nolle prosequies
form: noli prosequi
form: nolo prosequi
form: nolly prossy coy
Etymology: From Latin nolle prosequi (“to not want to pursue”). Cf. prosecute.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A declaration from the attorney general ending a criminal prosecution.
topics: law
glosses: A proceeding or declaration by which a plaintiff or prosecutor ends a legal suit.
examples: text: [...] where the ordinary man would have met the suggestion they had made with a firm nolle prosequi, I was barred from doing this by the code of the Woosters, which, as is pretty generally known, renders it impossible for me to let a pal down. [...] “I do wish you wouldn't always be so difficult, Bertie. Your aunt tells me it was just the same when you were a child. She'd want you to eat your cereal, and you would stick your ears back and be stubborn and non-co-operative, like Jonah's ass in the Bible.” I could not let this go uncorrected. It's pretty generally known that when at school I won a prize for Scripture Knowledge. “Balaam's ass. Jonah was the chap who had the whale. Jeeves!” “Sir?” “To settle a bet, wasn't it Balaam's ass that entered the nolle prosequi?” “Yes, sir.”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVI and XIX:
glosses: A refusal, a denial, a rejection.
Synonyms: word: nol. pros.
word: nol pros
Related terms: prosecute
nolle prosequi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒlɪ ˈpɹɒsɪkwaɪ/
ipa: /ˌnəʊlɪ ˈpɹɒsɪkwaɪ/
ipa: /ˌnoʊli ˈpɹoʊsɪkwaɪ/
ipa: /ˌnoʊli ˈpɹoʊsɪkwi/
ipa: /ˌnɑli ˈpɹɑsɪkwaɪ/
ipa: /ˌnɑli ˈpɹɑsɪkwi/
Forms: form: nolle prosequis
form: nolle prosequing
form: nolle prosequiing
form: nolle prosequied
form: nolle prosequied
form: noli prosequi
form: nolo prosequi
form: nolly prossy coy
Etymology: From Latin nolle prosequi (“to not want to pursue”). Cf. prosecute.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To issue a nolle prosequi.
Synonyms: word: nol. pros.
word: nol pros
dewy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjuː.i/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuː.i/
ipa: /ˈduː.i/
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: dewier
form: more dewy
form: dewiest
form: most dewy
Etymology: From Middle English dewy, deuhy, from Old English dēawiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwag, *dauwīg, equivalent to dew + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His mildly vivid dewy beam
Of beryl to diffuse: the gleam
With elf-light tiniest figures lit
Of shapely moon-fair elves who sit
Each on a gemmy blade's curled tip
In circle.
ref: 1863, Roden Noel, Behind the Veil: And Other Poems, London: Macmillan and Co., page 149:
text: The dewy grass was too slick for football.
synonyms: word: bedewed
word: rory
word: bedewed
word: dewy
word: roric
word: rorid
word: rory
word: roscid
glosses: Covered by dew.
examples: text: In the dewy fog, it was cold and damp.
text: At midnight, in the month of June, / I stand beneath the mystic moon. / An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, / Exhales from out her golden rim
ref: 1831, Edgar Allan Poe, The Sleeper:
glosses: Having the quality of bearing droplets of water.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of dew.
examples: text: 1814, 16 March, Percy Bysshe Shelley letter to Hogg, Thy Gentle Face
Thy dewy looks sink in my breast
Thy gentle words stir poison there;
text: It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness; […]
ref: 1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page 13:
text: Simplicity in life, simplicity in art, and a dewy freshness over all.
ref: 2009, Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier, Aldous Huxley Annual, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Fresh and innocent.
Derived terms: dewily
dewiness
dewy-eyed
undewy
BSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Berkeley Software Distribution.
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: Ellipsis of BSD license.
Derived terms: BSD license
FreeBSD
BSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of big swinging dick.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of bead seat diameter, the diameter of the wheelrim where the tire bead sits when mounted.