cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
headache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdeɪk/
rhymes: -ɛdeɪk
Forms: form: headaches
form: headach
form: head-ache
Etymology: From Middle English hevedeche, from Old English hēafodeċe, equivalent to head + ache.
Senses: examples: text: I have a splitting headache after that party last night.
text: I advise you to take some painkillers for the headache, it's probably nothing serious.
text: Sometimes on television they tell you a product is "good for headaches." I don't want something that's good for headaches. I want something that's bad for headaches. And good for me.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, “SPORTS ROUNDUP”, in Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pain or ache in the head.
examples: text: The clumsy filing system has been a huge headache.
text: Bogland now dominates the scene and the construction engineers must have suffered many a headache in seeking to secure a firm foundation.
ref: 1957 May 24, Walter McGrath, “The Thurles-Clonmel Line, C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 319:
glosses: A nuisance or unpleasant problem.
Synonyms: sense: physical pain
word: cephalalgia
sense: annoyance
word: bother
sense: annoyance
word: pain in the neck
Hyponyms: hangover
hemicrania
megrim
migraine
tension headache
Derived terms: alarm clock headache
antiheadache
cluster headache
headache vine
headaching
headachy
icecream headache
ice cream headache
ice-pick headache
I have a headache
migraine headache
preheadache
red wine headache
sexual headache
sick headache
suicide headache
thunderclap headache
location
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: locations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
glosses: A particular point or place in physical space.
examples: text: The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
ref: 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 http://google.com/books?id=1ss-AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA207&dq=location
glosses: An act of locating.
examples: text: It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]
ref: 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography, page 188:
glosses: An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
topics: law
glosses: A leasing on rent.
topics: law
glosses: A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
topics: law
glosses: The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc
glosses: An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Synonyms: word: a place
Derived terms: bilocation
central location test
co-location
cytolocation
delocation
echolocation
electrolocation
elocation
emergency location transmitter
emergency location transponder
geolocation
immunolocation
interlocation
intralocation
location-agnostic
location arithmetic
locationism
locationist
location map
macrolocation
measure of location
micro-location
microlocation
mislocation
multilocation
on location
personal location beacon
personal location radiobeacon
photolocation
radiolocation
relocation
storage location
translocation
Related terms: local
locale
localize
locate
locational
locative
locator
locational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃənəl/
ipa: /lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃnəl/
ipa: /loʊˈkeɪʃənəl/
ipa: /loʊˈkeɪʃnəl/
Etymology: From location + -al.
Senses: examples: Locational periphery is used to describe places physically distant from the heart of the city. -- Wikipedia article on social distance
Geography is the study of the locational and spatial variation in both physical and human phenomena on Earth. -- Wikipedia article on geography
glosses: Having to do with location.
Synonyms: positional
Derived terms: locationality
locationally
multilocational
nonlocational
radiolocational
volantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volante
batsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbætsmən/
Forms: form: batsmen
Etymology: From bat + -s- + -man.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player of the batting side now on the field.
examples: text: The batsman, Kathryn Leng, (who has played for quite a few years for England) asked the umpire dumbfounded if Charlie was going to bowl with a helmet on.
ref: 2001 June 19, Julia Price, “Julia's Ashes Diary 2001”, in Women's Cricket in Australia -Ashes Tour 2001, southernstars.org, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2015:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The player now receiving strike; the striker.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A hitter.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An officer who used a pair of hand-held bats to signal to aircraft as they came in to land on the flight deck.
Synonyms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hitter
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: batter
topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: batter
Hypernyms: sense: male cricketer
word: batter
topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: cricketer
Hyponyms: topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
english: batsman; when is treated as both male and female
translation: batsman; when is treated as both male and female
word: batswoman
Derived terms: batsmanship
batswoman
hit batsman
opening batsman
Related terms: bat
miniscule
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miniscule
form: most miniscule
Etymology: Likely a conflation between miniature and minuscule.
Senses: examples: text: I remember the whirl and whine of her black Singer...
Threading the levers, eyepieces, winding the turquoise string
through hooks, and miniscule wheels, up and down...
ref: 1984, Julia Alvarez, Homecoming: Peoms by Julia Alvarez, Grove Press Inc., →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of minuscule.
cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪkɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /krɪ(k)ˈkɛʈ/
Forms: form: crickets
form: crecket
Etymology: From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin.
Compare Dutch kriek (“cricket”), Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.
Senses: glosses: An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
glosses: An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
glosses: A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
Derived terms: word: ant cricket
word: balm cricket
word: balm-cricket
word: bush cricket
word: bush-cricket
word: bushcricket
word: cave cricket
word: chirpy as a cricket
word: cricket bird
word: cricket flour
english: Acris
translation: Acris
word: cricket frog
word: cricketless
word: cricketlike
word: crickety
word: crotch crickets
word: dune cricket
word: fen cricket
word: field cricket
word: holy cricket
word: house cricket
word: Italian tree cricket
word: Jerusalem cricket
word: jiminy cricket
word: king cricket
word: merry as a cricket
word: mole cricket
word: moon cricket
word: Mormon cricket
word: narrow-winged tree cricket
word: Otomí tree cricket
word: saddle-backed bush cricket
word: sand cricket
word: snowy tree-cricket
word: spring field cricket
word: tree-cricket
word: true cricket
cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪkɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /krɪ(k)ˈkɛʈ/
Etymology: Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
examples: text: Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […]
ref: 1954, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 7, page 81:
antonyms: not cricket
glosses: An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
raw_tags: in the negative
glosses: A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
Derived terms: backyard cricket
cricketainment
cricketana
cricket ball
cricket bat
cricket chair
cricketeer
cricketer
cricket field
cricket ground
cricketly
cricket net
cricket pitch
cricket score
cricket test
cricket whites
crickety
day/night cricket
French cricket
grade cricket
Kanga cricket
Kiwi cricket
kwik cricket
limited overs cricket
one-day cricket
pencil cricket
premier cricket
pub cricket
single wicket cricket
Test cricket
windball cricket
cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪkɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /krɪ(k)ˈkɛʈ/
Forms: form: crickets
form: cricketing
form: cricketed
form: cricketed
Etymology: Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).
Senses: examples: text: Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living?
Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.
ref: 1891 May 27, "A Cricketer in Low Circumstances", The Evening News (Sydney); cited in "What do we know about the first Test cricketer?", ESPNcricinfo, 7 August 2016
glosses: To play the game of cricket.
cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪkɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /krɪ(k)ˈkɛʈ/
Forms: form: crickets
form: crecket
form: cracket
Etymology: The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).
Senses: examples: text: Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob
ref: 1746, Tim Bobbin, A View of the Lancashire Dialect; by Way of Dialogue, Manchester: Josehp Harrop, pages 31 in the 6th edition 1757, 13–14 in the 1797 edition:
glosses: A wooden footstool.
glosses: A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
alot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of allot.
alot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of a lot (compare to awhile).
alot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There was alot of sex discrimination in the 60’s. For one thing there was no sports for girls and in alot of schools the female teachers were not allowed to get married or they could be fired. http://print.google.com/print?id=ejtdcf-taQkC&pg=PA346&lpg=PA346&sig=t0Sp87KqxsH-UGYklzl72NMUz1Q
ref: 2000, Teaching Secondary English, ed. Daniel Sheridan. [in a tenth-grade student's paper]
text: It was alot of lumber, alot of condos, and Joe did not know alot about either of them, only that it was alot of money; he hated to throw his money into something he did not know alot about.
ref: 2003, Matt Janacone, Three by the Sea:
text: She talked about death: “My philosophy on life is it could be alot better. Like I would’ve never gotten into this mess if I wouldn’t have tried to commit suicide. Actually I was just trying to make myself sick. But then again it could be alot worse! …”
ref: 2005, Aphrodite Jones, Cruel Sacrifice [From the suicidal patient's own writing.] http://print.google.com/print?id=KtlMQCtBzygC&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248&sig=2mA_bCMZr0l0dCLfhRWe4cBdmd4
glosses: Alternative form of a lot.
Related terms: lotta
moreso
stove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stōv
ipa: /stəʊv/
enpr: stŭv
note: Indic
ipa: /sʈəv/
Forms: form: stoves
form: stoving
form: stoved
form: stoved
Etymology: From Middle Dutch stove and/or Middle Low German stove (compare Dutch stoof, German Low German Stuve, Stuuv), both from Proto-West Germanic *stubu, *stubō, from Proto-Germanic *stubō (“room, living room, heated room”), further origin uncertain. Cognate with Old English stofa (“bathroom, bathhouse”), stufbæþ (“hot-air bath”), Old High German stuba (whence German Stube), Old Norse stofa (whence Icelandic stofa (“living room”), Norwegian stove, Danish and Norwegian stue and Swedish stuga). The Germanic words are very old, and are the source of the Slavic and Romance terms. It is often speculated that the Germanic terms were borrowed from Vulgar Latin *extūfa, *extūfāre (“to heat with steam”), from Latin ex- + *tūfus (“hot vapor”), from Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “fever”).
Doublet of stufa.
Senses: examples: text: to stove feathers
text: The wide use of amine-cured epoxy paints is mostly due to their providing many of the properties of stoved epoxy films from an ambient temperature-cured system.
ref: 1975, William Geoffrey Potter, Uses of Epoxy Resins, page 39:
glosses: To heat or dry, as in a stove.
examples: text: to stove orange trees
text: orange-trees , lemon-trees , and myrtles , if they be stoved
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat.
examples: text: to stove a finger
glosses: To jam; to sprain.
stove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stōv
ipa: /stəʊv/
enpr: stŭv
note: Indic
ipa: /sʈəv/
Senses: examples: text: [A]ye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: "A dead whale or a stove boat!"
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: "Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din / but with one fat ball, the Yank stove us in."
ref: 1981, Stan Rogers, “Barrett's Privateers”, in Fogarty's Cove, Springfield, Ontario: Barn Swallow Records:
glosses: simple past and past participle of stave
I'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ̯l/
ipa: /ɑːl/
ipa: /əl/
ipa: /ʌl/
homophone: aisle
homophone: isle
homophone: all
homophone: awl
rhymes: -aɪl
rhymes: -aɪəl
Forms: form: I’l
form: Ile
Etymology: Contraction of I will/shall.
Senses: glosses: I will.
examples: text: These fragments I have shored against my ruins / Why then Ile fit you.
ref: 1922 October, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “Part V. What the Thunder Said.”, in The Waste Land, 1st book edition, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, published December 1922, →OCLC, page 49, lines 430–431:
glosses: I shall.
Synonyms: chill
ch'ill
Derived terms: I'll be a monkey's uncle
I'll be blowed
callipygian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæ.ləˈpɪ.d͡ʒi.ən/
ipa: /ˌkælɪˈpɪdʒi.ən/
ipa: /ˌkæliˈpɪdʒjən/
ipa: /ˌkæləˈpɪdʒi.ən/
ipa: /ˌkæləˈpɪdʒjən/
Forms: form: more callipygian
form: most callipygian
form: kallipygian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καλλίπυγος (kallípugos) + -ian, from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + πυγή (pugḗ, “buttocks”).
Senses: examples: text: […]we soon once more were in a state to renew our delicious combat; and a second course was run in the delightful callipygian recesses of Venus’s second temple of lubricity.
ref: 1873, anonymous author, The Romance of Lust, volume 1:
text: Suddenly the music grew fainter, as if drawing away, and the dancers, their feet together and limbs half opened, descended in a slow spiral, with gentle undulations, until they touched the floor; the instant their callipygian charms grazed the mosaic, they recoiled like suddenly awakened serpents, […]
ref: 1918, Frances Douglas, transl., Sónnica, Duffield & Company, translation of original by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, page 131:
text: Her gown (perhaps as a result of the scorching winds coming off the ambas) clung damply to her body, clearly revealing her callipygian curves and the entire shapely length of her legs.
ref: 2006, Geoffrey Brock, transl., The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, translation of original by Umberto Eco, →ISBN, page 246:
text: [T-Rex:] My lovely visage, callipygian frame, startlingly awesome calves and charming smile will yet go down in history!
ref: 2007, Ryan North, Dinosaur Comics, from the comic strip on May 22
text: With trepidation, but not embarrassment, I offer the thought that Mrs. Obama, a formerly disadvantaged alumna of Princeton and Harvard, to judge from her well-strategized appearances on national television in exiguous dresses and trousers, is as callipygian as Jennifer Lopez.
ref: 2008 January 12, Conrad Black, “A nation seeking a hero”, in National Post, Canada:
glosses: Having beautifully shaped buttocks.
glosses: Specifically, describing a statue (often of a goddess such as Aphrodite) in a pose that shows off the figure's shapely buttocks.
Synonyms: sense: having beautiful buttocks
word: bootylicious
sense: having beautiful buttocks
word: bumtastic
sense: having beautiful buttocks
word: callipygous
sense: having beautiful buttocks
word: rumpalicious
word: asstastic
word: callipygian
word: gyatt
word: steatopygous
Hypernyms: word: voluptuous
Related terms: word: steatopygia
word: steatopygous
word: natiform
word: busty
word: buttocks
word: :Category:en:Buttocks
ter
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Senses: examples: text: "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."
ref: 1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:
text: ‘Do you mean ter tell me,’ he growled at the Dursleys, ‘that this boy – this boy! – knows nothin’ abou’ – about ANYTHING?’
ref: 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, section IV:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of to.
ter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: "But he never speaks ter anybody, child—he hain't for years, I guess, except when he just has to, for business, and all that."
ref: 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 8, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
text: ‘What about that tea then, eh?’ he said, rubbing his hands together. ‘I’d not say no ter summat stronger if yeh’ve got it, mind.’
ref: 1997, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, section IV:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of to.
ter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of to.
vender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: venders
Senses: examples: text: 1773, Stanfield Parkinson, preface to the Journal of his brother Sydney Parkinson's Endeavour voyage, page 18,
Can it be supposed, that a man of Dr. Hawkes-worth’s discretion and abilities would enter into an engagement of this nature, and make a purchase of such moment, without enquiring into the title of the vender?
text: […] Tanee was accosted by certain good fellows, friends and boon companions, who condoled with him on his misfortunes—railed against the queen, and finally dragged him away to an illicit vender of spirits, in whose house the party got gloriously mellow.
ref: 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, “Queen Pomaree”, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 309:
glosses: Alternative spelling of vendor.
moor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /mʊə/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /mɔː/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /moɹ/
ipa: /moː/
ipa: /moː/
ipa: [möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)]
ipa: /mʉːɹ/
ipa: /muːɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: Moore
homophone: more (pour–poor merger)
homophone: maw (most non-rhotic accents with the pour–poor merger)
homophone: mooer (some accents)
Forms: form: moors
Etymology: From Middle English mor, from Old English mōr, from Proto-West Germanic *mōr, from Proto-Germanic *mōraz, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognates include Welsh môr, Old Irish muir (from Proto-Celtic *mori); Scots muir, Dutch moer, Old Saxon mōr, Old Saxon mūr, German Moor and perhaps also Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹 (marei). See mere.
Senses: examples: text: A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.
text: In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.
text: the ruins yet resting in the wild moors
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
text: And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, →OCLC, pages 101-102:
glosses: An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
glosses: A game preserve consisting of moorland.
Derived terms: word: Alston Moor
word: Barnby Moor
word: Blea Moor
word: Bodmin Moor
word: Broadmoor
word: Buckland in the Moor
word: Clayton-le-Moors
word: Cleator Moor
word: Clifton Moor
word: Cranmoor
word: Crosland Moor
word: Dartmoor
word: Draycott in the Moors
word: East Moors
word: Exmoor
word: Goss Moor
word: Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
word: Holton le Moor
word: Lower Moor
word: Low Moor
word: moorball
word: moorband
word: moorberry
word: moorbird
word: moorburn
word: moor buzzard
word: moorcock
word: Moorcroft
word: moorer
word: moor-evil
word: moorfowl
word: moor grass
word: moorhen
word: moorill
word: moorish
word: moorland
word: moorlog
word: moor macaque
word: moorman
word: Moor Monkton
word: moorpan
word: Moor Park
word: Moor Row
word: moorsman
word: moorstone
word: moortop
word: moorwort
word: moory
word: Rannoch Moor
english: Cheshire
translation: Cheshire
word: Thornton-le-Moors
word: Ushaw Moor
word: West Moor
word: West Moors
word: Widecombe in the Moor
moor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /mʊə/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /mɔː/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /mʊ(ə)ɹ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /moɹ/
ipa: /moː/
ipa: /moː/
ipa: [möː(ə̯)~mʊ̈ː(ə̯)]
ipa: /mʉːɹ/
ipa: /muːɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: Moore
homophone: more (pour–poor merger)
homophone: maw (most non-rhotic accents with the pour–poor merger)
homophone: mooer (some accents)
Forms: form: moors
form: mooring
form: moored
form: moored
Etymology: From Middle English moren, from unattested Old English *mārian, from Proto-West Germanic *mairōn (“to moor, fasten to”), related to *maida- (“post”), from Proto-Indo-European *mēyt-, *meyt-, from *mēy-, *mey- (“stake, pole”). Cognate with Dutch meren (“to moor”), marren (“to bind”).
Senses: examples: text: The vessel moored in the stream.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To cast anchor or become fastened.
examples: text: They moored the boat to the wharf.
text: His thought is tied, the curving prow
Of motion moored to rock;
And minutes burst upon a brow
Insentient to shock.
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Death Piece”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 4:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
glosses: To secure or fix firmly.
Coordinate terms: berth
cleat
dock
Derived terms: moorable
moorage
mooring
mooring buoy
mooring can
mooring post
moor up
remoor
unmoor
unmoored
eunuch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞oʹnək
ipa: /ˈjuː.nək/
Forms: form: eunuchs
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek εὐνή (eunḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *hékʰō
Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō)
Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos)bor.
Latin eunūchusder.
Middle English eunuk
English eunuch
From Middle English eunuk, from Middle French eunuque, from Latin eunūchus, from Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos), from εὐνή (eunḗ, “bed”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, keep”). Originally probably used to refer to a bed chamber attendant.
Senses: examples: text: Semiramis was the first woman to invent eunuchs and women have had sympathy for them ever since; […] and women can tell them what they can't tell other men.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “2/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: A castrated human male.
examples: text: He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch,
And in my Sarell tend my Concubines
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 iii:
text: [describing a bas-relief] An eunuch holds a fly-flapper or fan over the head of the king, who appears to be conversing or performing some ceremony with a figure standing in front of him; probably his vizir or minister.
ref: 1849, Austen Henry Layard, chapter III, in Nineveh and Its Remains: with an account of a visit to the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan:
glosses: Such a man employed as harem guard or in certain (mainly Eastern) monarchies (e.g. late Roman and Chinese Empires) as court or state officials.
glosses: A man who is not inclined to marry and procreate.
raw_tags: in translations of ancient texts
examples: text: Mr. Peterson really reaches for a low one when he says, "They (gays) should never commit themselves to any broader ideological movement." I am, paradoxically, a Christian, a Maxist, a Gay, and a Human Being. To be gay one should not be a political eunuch.
ref: 1976 December 11, Ronnie Allen, “No Political Eunuch”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 4:
glosses: One that is ineffectual.
Synonyms: gelding
Derived terms: eunuched
eunuch flute
eunuchism
eunuchize
eunuchlike
eunuchry
eunuch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞oʹnək
ipa: /ˈjuː.nək/
Forms: form: eunuchs
form: eunuching
form: eunuched
form: eunuched
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek εὐνή (eunḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *hékʰō
Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō)
Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos)bor.
Latin eunūchusder.
Middle English eunuk
English eunuch
From Middle English eunuk, from Middle French eunuque, from Latin eunūchus, from Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos), from εὐνή (eunḗ, “bed”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, keep”). Originally probably used to refer to a bed chamber attendant.
Senses: glosses: To castrate.
glosses: To render ineffectual.
Related terms: castrate
castratism
castrato
de-sex
desex
gelding
neuter
sterilize
abandonware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abandonwares
Etymology: From abandon + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: RR> Never heard of Wildscan. Is it shareware or is there a^([sic]) evaluation
RR> version available?
It's abandonware ala Joe Martin inc.:)
ref: 1996 October 12, John Hentsch, “Re: Converting file areas (one more time)”, in alt.bbs.wildcat (Usenet), retrieved 08 Feb 2017, message-ID <ff1_9610122110@mb.fidonet.org>:
text: Abandonware is software that is no longer being sold or supported by its author, copyright owner, or licensed distributor. Software that is still being sold, but no longer supported, is sometimes also referred to as abandonware.
ref: 2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Such toolkits developed in research projects are deemed to end as abandonware where the authors stop working on it and reported bugs will not get fixed after the associated paper was accepted.
ref: 2017, Paper accepted, toolkit abandoned., “Paper accepted, toolkit abandoned.”, in Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, Aarhus, Denmark, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2025, page 1, column 2:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
video-games
glosses: A software product that is no longer updated or maintained, or whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.
Related terms: abandon
adware
annoyware
baitware
bloatware
blogware
cardware
careware
censorware
charityware
courseware
crapware
crippleware
crudware
cyberware
demoware
donationware
dreamware
emailware
fatware
firmware
foistware
freeware
fritterware
funware
gameware
groupware
guiltware
hassleware
helpware
hijackware
liveware
malware
meatware
middleware
nagware
otherware
parasiteware
payware
postcardware
prayerware
ransomware
scareware
scumware
shareware
shelfware
shitware
shovelware
spyware
teachware
trialware
vaporware
wetware
announcementware
free software
public domain
esse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛsi/
Forms: form: esses
Etymology: From Latin esse.
Senses: examples: text: Hence it is that the Univerſe, which was created from his Eſſe, and which regarded as to Uſes is his Image, obtained theſe three in all and ſingular the Things appertaining to it.
ref: 1788, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Wisdom of Angels Concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, London: […] W. Chalklen, page 136:
text: […]that is his proprium, since the esse of the life of man is his will;
ref: 1801, Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Cœlestia: or, Heavenly Mysteries Contained in the Sacred Scriptures, or Word of the Lord, Manifested and Laid Open, volume X, London: […] J. Hodson, page 482:
text: In like manner Christians treading closely on the heels of Jews, notwithstanding all the divine miracles, which accompanied their first establishment, iu^([sic]) order to call them from the Deistical worship of a supreme esse, extended through all space, and to fix them in the exclusive acknowledgement of the one God in a divine human form, are equally guilty of idolatry, in worshipping Gods or persons, that have no real existence.
ref: 1824–68, A[braham] J[ones] Le Cras, The Theological Contrast: or, Error Exposed, and Truth Elucidated, Being an Investigation into All the Systems of Religion, Now Propagated in the Whole World, London: […] Thomas Goyder, pages 95–97:
text: Essence is a being by an esse which the essence is. Substance is a being by an esse which the substance is. Ens is a being by an esse which the ens is.
ref: 1961, Gerard Smith, Lottie H. Kendzierski, Philosophy of Being, The Macmillan Company, page 339:
text: Agreed, if there are as many esse'''s in an individual as there are forms in that individual, then a plurality of substantial forms in an individual implies a plurality of substantial esse'''s in that individual, just as a plurality of accidental forms in an individual implies a plurality of accidental esse'''s in that individual.
ref: 2015, Christopher Hughes, Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God, Routledge, page 62:
glosses: Essence, essential nature.
Related terms: agere sequitur esse
commission de bene esse
de bene esse
in esse
sumus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumu
recursion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən
Forms: form: recursions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin recursiō (“the act of running back or again, return”), from recurrō (“run back; return”), from re- (“back, again”) + currō (“run”).
Senses: examples: text: The inhabitants predicate the recursion of these storms by numerous other signs, and are prompt to take every precaution to avoid their effects.
ref: 1852, William Hastings Macaulay, chapter XIX, in Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas:
glosses: The act of recurring.
examples: text: n! = n × (n − 1)! (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion.
text: However, we have still not achieved our goal of devising a finite set of rules which will generate an infinite set of sentence structures. In order to achieve this goal, we need to allow for the fact that natural languages typically have the property that they allow potentially infinite recursion of particular structures.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 128:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself.
examples: text: This function uses recursion to compute factorials.
text: When an algorithm makes two recursive calls, we say that it uses binary recursion.
ref: 2011, Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, David M. Mount, Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 144:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The invocation of a procedure from within itself.
Derived terms: infinite recursion
Kleene's recursion theorem
left recursion
minimal recursion semantics
primitive recursion
recursion theory
tail recursion
Related terms: recur
recurrence
recurrent
recurse
recursive
recursivity
secures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of secure
vermes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vermis
pluma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin plūma. Doublet of plume.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A feather.
Related terms: filopluma
plumae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pluma
zio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zio
form: most zio
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Zio.
zio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zios
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Zio.
luna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːnə/
homophone: lunar
homophone: looner (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -uːnə
Forms: form: lunas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūna (“moon; month; crescent”).
Senses: examples: text: “Gee,” whispered Oliver. He sat there staring. “A luna! I never thought I’d see a real luna!”
ref: 1944, Elizabeth Enright, Then There Were Five, Farrar & Rinehart, page 80:
text: On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing.
ref: 1969, Sterling North, “An Introduction to Butterflies and Moths”, in Boys’ Life, May 1969 issue, Boy Scouts of America, page 64
text: Spray BT on your young oak to protect against gypsy moths, and you wipe out future lunas, cecropias, and everything else on the leaves, along with the pests.
ref: 2010, Sally Roth (contributor), in Judy Pray (compiler), Garden Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Plant, Grow, and Harvest, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., page 348
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A luna moth: a member of species Actias luna.
examples: text: The Bread of Angels is first taken from the tabernacle, where it rests in the luna, and placed upon the altar, covered with a corporal. After genuflecting, the priest puts the luna containing the Blessed Sacrament on its throne—the monstrance—and elevates it […]
ref: 1907 May, “Dominicanus”, “The Rosary and the Blessed Sacrament”, in the Dominican Friars, The Rosary Magazine, Volume 30, Number 5, page 494
text: This receptacle is called a “luna” or “lunula” (a moon, or a little moon), and has glass on either side, so that the Host may be seen when enclosed therein. […] ¶ […] ¶ The ciborium, the pyx and luna of the ostensorium are blessed with a simpler formula than that used for the chalice, and […] ¶ […] ¶ The chalice, the paten, the luna and the pyx are sacred things, true sacramentals, and are worthy of deepest reverence; for […]
ref: 1917, John F. Sullivan, The Externals of the Catholic Church, BiblioLife, LLC, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 115–116:
text: The luna, which is a piece of glass in the shape of a moon, contains the Blessed Sacrament, previously consecrated. The luna is then placed in the middle of the sunburst of the monstrance.
ref: 2007, John Trigilio, Kenneth Brighenti, The Catholicism Answer Book: The 300 Most Frequently Asked Questions, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 156:
topics: Christianity
qualifier: chiefly Catholicism and Anglicanism
glosses: A lunette: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
Synonyms: sense: glass holder
word: lunette
sense: glass holder
word: lunula
Related terms: luna cornea
luna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːnə/
homophone: lunar
homophone: looner (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -uːnə
Forms: form: luna
form: lunas
Etymology: From Hawaiian luna (“leader; supervisor”).
Senses: examples: text: There are several reasons why the Hawaiian-born Japanese boys and girls do not take kindly to plantation labor, but one of the chief reasons is the objection to the kind of lunas who oversee the work of the laborers.
ref: 1922 June, U. G. Murphy, “The Japanese Problem in Hawaii: How the Task of Christianizing and Americanizing the Oriental is Progressing”, in The Friend, volume 91, number 6, page 130:
text: […] haoles could not visualize Chinese or Japanese in positions of authority. And from sad experience, the great plantation owners had discovered that the Americans they could get to serve as lunas were positively no good. Capable Americans expected office jobs and incapable ones were unable to control the Oriental […]
ref: 1959, James Michener, Hawaii, Fawcett Crest, published 1986, →ISBN, page 737:
text: After the day was over I went to the luna to count my day but he would not. Then I went to him the second time and he said he would not put it down.
ref: 2000, Sally Engle Merry, Colonizing Hawai'i: the cultural power of law, page 321:
text: Capital punishment was outlawed by the government but some plantation managers and luna still delivered lashings and other forms of abuse.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 35:
glosses: A foreman on a plantation.
zoo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzəʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈzəʊ.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈzoʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈzoʊ.oʊ/
Etymology: From (combining form of) Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”).
Senses: glosses: animal
largo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: largos
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A very slow tempo.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical piece or movement in such a tempo.
largo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Strong and stately.
latte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːteɪ/
ipa: /ˈlæt.eɪ/
ipa: /laˈteɪ/
rhymes: -æteɪ
rhymes: -ɑːteɪ
Forms: form: lattes
form: latté
Etymology: Ellipsis of caffè latte, from Italian caffè (“coffee”) + latte (“milk”), from Latin lac, lactis.
Senses: examples: text: Lilian Benedict walked into the office carrying two cups of latte.
ref: 1991, Jayne Ann Krentz, chapter 12, in Sweet Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 208:
text: Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
ref: 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020, page 68:
text: High-priced lattes and customized drinks helped lift the coffee chain’s US sales in the quarter ending on October 1, the company said Thursday.
ref: 2023 November 2, Danielle Wiener-Bronner, “Starbucks is leaning into its sugary concoctions to boost the business”, in CNN Business:
text: Photos of the drink, posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo by the Shanghai Starbucks Reserve Roastery, show a drizzle of dark red sauce atop the latte foam — with a square slice of pork on a skewer resting on the mug rim.
ref: 2024 February 20, Jessie Yeung and Hassan Tayir, “Pork flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A drink of coffee made from espresso and steamed milk, generally topped with foam.
examples: text: matcha latte
glosses: A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).
examples: text: latte liberal
text: Newt Gingrich accused New York mayor Bill De Blasio of “small soy latte liberalism” in 2014 – emphasising that the only thing more girlish than drinking a big dairy milky coffee was drinking a small vegan milky coffee.
ref: 2025 September 4, Sam Wolfson, quoting Newt Gingrich, “Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Affluent leftism.
Synonyms: caffè latte
cafe latté
coffee latté
Coordinate terms: cafe au lait
flat white
Derived terms: avocado latte
avolatte
chai latte
latte art
latte artist
latte factor
latteless
latte levy
latte liberal
latte-sipping
Latte Town
poor man's latte
pumpkin spice latte
vanillatte
Related terms: café latte
cosmic latte
fior di latte
latte macchiato
latte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːteɪ/
ipa: /ˈlæt.eɪ/
ipa: /laˈteɪ/
rhymes: -æteɪ
rhymes: -ɑːteɪ
ipa: /ˈlæti/
ipa: /ˈlɑːteɪ/
ipa: /ˈlæt.eɪ/
ipa: /laˈteɪ/
rhymes: -æteɪ
rhymes: -ɑːteɪ
Forms: form: lattes
Senses: glosses: A pillar capped by a hemispherical stone capital with the flat side facing up, used as building supports by the ancient Chamorro people and now used as a sign of Chamorro identity.
leggero
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian leggero.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Lightly, delicately, or gently.
locale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊˈkɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
ipa: /loʊˈkæl/
rhymes: -æl
Forms: form: locales
Etymology: From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
text: Small houses have sprung up as rapidly as the summer grasses used to spring in the Five Fields, so notorious for robbery and murder, that even Madame de Genlis, not usually very accurate in her English locale, is perfectly right in making them the scene of a robber's attack.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 231:
glosses: The place where something happens.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.
examples: text: Since every locale is of the form #92;mbox#123;Sub#125;#95;#92;mathcal#123;E#125;(1) [subobjects of the terminal object in #92;mathcal#123;E#125;] for some topos #92;mathcal#123;E#125;, locale theory can be regarded as the fragment of topos theory concerning subobjects of 1. A subobject of 1 is a map 1#92;rightarrow#92;Omega, which can reasonably called a truth value. In that sense, locale theory is the study of truth values.
ref: 2011 June 27, Tom Leinster, “An informal introduction to topos theory”, in arXiv.org, Cornell University Library, retrieved 21 Mar 2018:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.)
Hyponyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: spatial locale
Derived terms: locale-aware
locale-awareness
locale theory
localic
sublocale
luce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːs/
ipa: /ˈlʉs/
homophone: loose
rhymes: -uːs
Forms: form: luces
Etymology: From Old French lus, luis, from Latin lūcius.
Senses: examples: text: As wee hunt after beasts, so Tygers and Lyons hunt after men, and have a like exercise one upon another: Hounds over the Hare; the Pike or Luce over the Tench[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: The pike, Esox lucius, when fully grown.
Derived terms: sea-luce
Related terms: eau de luce
recursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɜː(ɹ)sɪv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more recursive
form: most recursive
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin recursīvus. Equivalent to recurse + -ive
Senses: examples: text: The recursive nature of stories which borrow from each other
glosses: drawing upon itself, referring back.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: of an expression, each term of which is determined by applying a formula to preceding terms
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: of a program or function that calls itself
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: which can be computed by a theoretical model of a computer, in a finite amount of time
raw_tags: of a function
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: whose characteristic function is recursive (4)
raw_tags: of a set
Hypernyms: sense: of a set, whose characteristic function is recursive
word: recursively enumerable
Hyponyms: sense: of a function
word: primitive recursive
sense: of a function
word: tail recursive
Derived terms: co-recursive
filtered-popping recursive transition network
left-recursive
recursion
recursive acronym
recursive compound word
recursive conundrum
recursive definition
recursive descent
recursive function
recursively
recursiveness
recursive neural network