cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
giver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪvə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɡɪvɚ/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: givers
Etymology: From Middle English gevar, gyffare, variants (due to English given (“to give”)) of Middle English yevere, ȝevere, ȝyvere, equivalent to give + -er. Cognate with German Geber (“donor”).
Senses: glosses: One who gives; a donor or contributor.
Synonyms: word: accorder
word: assigner
word: bestower
word: bequeather
word: deliverer
word: furnisher
word: giver
word: granter
word: presenter
word: renderer
word: supplier
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: charitarian
word: contributor
word: donator
word: donor
word: lender
word: remitter
word: seller
Derived terms: almsgiver
caregiver
care-giver
gift giver
giver-upper
Indian giver
lawgiver
life-giver
Native American giver
nongiver
prizegiver
ring-giver
thanksgiver
wife-giver
Related terms: word: bestowal
word: give
peace of mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minute's peace of mind.
ref: 1726, Jonathan Swift, chapter 18, in Gulliver's Travels:
text: Who can describe the pleasure and delight, the peace of mind and soft tranquillity, the sickly boy felt in the balmy air, and among the green hills and rich woods, of an inland village!
ref: 1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 32, in Oliver Twist:
text: Genevieve was tall and blonde, a destroyer of masculine peace of mind.
ref: 1917, P. G. Wodehouse, “Crowned Heads”, in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories:
text: In between, what I find is pleasing and I'm feeling fine / Love is so confusing, there's no peace of mind
ref: 1978, “Heart of Glass”, in Parallel Lines, performed by Blondie:
text: Peace of mind is good for health, good for community, good for family, and also for physical growth.
ref: 2006 April 15, “Dalai Lama: Tibet Wants Autonomy, Not Independence”, in Time, retrieved 26 May 2015:
text: The basic toilet has quite a heavy door, which then bleeps to remind you to lock it - with a nice, peace of mind, manual lock.
ref: 2024 January 24, Pip Dunn, “Adventure on a GA Class 20 Aventra”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 52:
synonyms: word: calmness
word: inner peace
word: peace
word: peacefulness
word: repose
word: serenity
word: tranquillity
word: calmness
word: calm
word: even-mindedness
word: inner peace
word: peace
word: peace of mind
word: peacefulness
word: phlegm
word: quietness
word: tranquillity
word: equanimity
word: composure
word: repose
word: restfulness
word: roo
word: self-possession
word: serenity
word: stillness
glosses: The absence of mental turmoil or anxiety.
Related terms: word: mindfulness
word: presence of mind
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: piece of my mind
compute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kəm-pyo͞ot'
rhymes: -uːt
ipa: /kəmˈpjuːt/
ipa: /kəmˈpjut/
ipa: /kəmˈpjʉːt/
ipa: /kŏm.pyʈ/
note: most common realisation
ipa: [kɐmˈpjuːʈ]
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin com-
Proto-Italic *putos
Latin putus?
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin putō
Latin computō
Proto-Italic *-āzi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Latin computārelbor.
French computerbor.
English compute
17th century. Borrowed from French computer, from Latin computō (“calculate, compute”). Doublet of count.
Senses: examples: text: The GPU does not have enough on-chip SRAM memory for the parameters, and doesn't have enough compute for the entire model.
text: Once you have the total, does it exceed the maximum amount of compute that can be served up in your vCenter environment? It is quite normal for users to consume everything you provide.
ref: 2015, J. Powell, Mastering vRealize Automation 6.2, page 41:
text: To change the amount of compute and memory, you can select a different DB Instance class of the database.
ref: 2016, Joe Baron, Hisham Baz, Tim Bixler, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam:
text: Compute, in many cases, is decoupled from the storage, making it easy to charge and pay for only what is consumed. It also becomes easy to scale up the compute when needed depending on the type of service.
ref: 2020, Prashila Naik, Hands-on Cloud Analytics with Microsoft Azure Stack, BPB Publications, →ISBN:
qualifier: chiefly cloud computing
glosses: Computational processing power.
Derived terms: test-time compute
excellence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksələns/
Forms: form: excellences
Etymology: From Middle English excellence, from Old French excellence, from Latin excellentia.
Senses: examples: text: John Davies was awarded for excellence in the field of computer security.
glosses: The quality of being excellent; brilliance
glosses: Something in which one excels.
glosses: An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.
Synonyms: superiority
pre-eminence
perfection
worth
goodness
purity
greatness
Derived terms: center of excellence
plural of excellence
superexcellence
Related terms: par excellence
commitment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪtmənt/
ipa: /kəˈmɪtmɪnt/
Forms: form: commitments
Etymology: From commit + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
glosses: The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.
glosses: Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially
glosses: Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.
glosses: Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.
examples: text: Citizenship in the original Greek concept was not simply the granting of rights to do as one pleased;
it also demanded a commitment to serve the interests of the many via personal sacrifice.
ref: 2020 November 23, Charles Hugh Smith, Why I'm Hopeful About 2021:
glosses: The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
glosses: Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.
glosses: State of being pledged or engaged.
glosses: The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.
Synonyms: allegiance
charge
committal
consignment
dedication
devoir
duty
engagement
guarantee
liability
loyalty
must
need
oath
obligation
ought
pledge
promise
responsibility
undertaking
vow
word
Derived terms: acceptance and commitment therapy
commitmentless
commitment-phobe
commitmentphobia
commitment-phobic
commitmentphobic
commitment ring
decommitment
noncommitment
overcommitment
precommitment
Related terms: commit
committal
noncommittal
genius
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: jēniəs
enpr: jēnyəs
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒi.ni.əs/
rhymes: -iːniəs
rhymes: -iːnjəs
Forms: form: more genius
form: most genius
Etymology: From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus.
Senses: examples: text: What a genius idea!
text: Bjarte Birkeland asserts that the reason why Nynorsk writers of fiction have succeeded in coming so close to naked life is not that they are more genius than authors writing in Bokmal, but that they are using their mother tongue
ref: 2002, Oskar Bandle, Lennart Elmevik, Gun Widmark, The Nordic Languages: An International Handbook of the North Germanic Languages, volume 1, page 466:
text: We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
ref: 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: But Vahul was more genius than Rishi.
ref: 2019, Iswarya Somasundaram, Research the Treasure, page 64:
text: She said the writing for these products “is very genius” because it's carefully done.
ref: 2022 August 2, Wanda Sutherland, “Dangers of vaping: Teen use of e-cigarettes considered epidemic”, in Elk Valley Times:
glosses: Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.
afferent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.fə.ɹənt/
ipa: /ˈæ.fɜː.ənt/
Etymology: From Latin adferens (“bringing to”), present participle of adferre (“to bring to”), from ad (“to, toward”) + ferre (“to carry, bear”).
Senses: examples: text: An afferent nerve carries impulses from the body to the brain.
antonyms: efferent
glosses: Carrying towards.
Derived terms: afferentation
afferent loop syndrome
afferently
baroafferent
cerebroafferent
chemoafferent
deafferent
exafferent
mechanoafferent
nonafferent
pseudoafferent
reafferent
thermoafferent
afferent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.fə.ɹənt/
ipa: /ˈæ.fɜː.ənt/
Forms: form: afferents
Etymology: From Latin adferens (“bringing to”), present participle of adferre (“to bring to”), from ad (“to, toward”) + ferre (“to carry, bear”).
Senses: glosses: An afferent structure or connection
Derived terms: afferented
efferent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛ.fɜː.ənt/
/ˈɛ.fə.ɹənt/
Etymology: From Latin efferēns, present active participle of efferō (“bring or carry out”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”).
Senses: examples: text: An efferent nerve carries impulses from the brain to the body.
glosses: Carrying away from.
examples: text: Efferent impulses are those conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards.
glosses: Carried outward.
Derived terms: corticoefferent
efferent arteriole
efferent duct
efferently
efferent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛ.fɜː.ənt/
/ˈɛ.fə.ɹənt/
Forms: form: efferents
Etymology: From Latin efferēns, present active participle of efferō (“bring or carry out”), from ē (“out of”), short form of ex, + ferō (“carry, bear”).
Senses: glosses: A duct or stream that carries away.
Related terms: elate
elated
elation
grouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊs/
ipa: /ɡræɔs/
ipa: /ɡræus/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: grouse
form: grouses
Etymology: Attested in the 1530s, as grows ("moorhen"), a plural used collectively.
The origin of the noun is unknown; the following derivations have been suggested:
* From Old French grue (“crane”) (modern French grue) or Medieval Latin gruta (“crane”), both from Latin grūs (“crane”).
* Borrowed from Celtic or a different Medieval Latin word.
* Imitative of the bird’s call.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Among fowls for the table [of King Henry VIII] are crocards, winders, runners, grows, and peions, but neither Turky or Guiney-fowl.
ref: 1531 January, “XXI. Extracts from a MS. Dated ‘apud Eltham, mense Jan. 22 Hen. VIII.’ Communicated to the Society by Owen Salusbury Brereton, Esq; Read at the Society of Antiquaries, April 9, 1772.”, in Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, volume III, London: […] Society [of Antiquaries of London]; and by Messieurs Whiston, White, Robson, Baker and Leigh, and Brown, published 1775, →OCLC, page 157:
text: Looke to 't, young growſe: Ile lay it on, and ſure; / Take 't off who's wull.
ref: 1633 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 70:
text: The shy black grouse, “with an eye on every feather,” can only thrive in vast, absolutely undisturbed heath and moorlands. Therefore, unfortunately, there are not too many black grouse.
ref: 1979, Rien Poortvliet, translated by Marlies Comjean, “The Black Grouse”, in The Living Forest: A World of Animals, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; Peacock Press/Bantam Books, →ISBN:
text: I don’t know whether someone will go to the North Face this year. There you can find pure loneliness. In the base camp, you are only joined by snow grouses. Otherwise, it is extremely quiet, and you have the view of the North Face. You won’t meet anyone at the Kangshung Face too.
ref: 2015 February 14, “Kaltenbrunner: “All Everest parties around one table!””, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023:
synonyms: moorbird
moorcock
moorfowl
glosses: Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles.
glosses: The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
Derived terms: blue grouse
Caucasian grouse
dusky grouse
Franklin grouse
Franklin's grouse
grouseless
grouselike
grouse locust
grouse whortleberry
hazel grouse
pine grouse
ruffed grouse
sage-grouse
sage grouse
sand-grouse
sand grouse
sandgrouse
sharp-tailed grouse
Siberian grouse
sooty grouse
tippet grouse
willow grouse
wood grouse
grouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊs/
ipa: /ɡræɔs/
ipa: /ɡræus/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: grouses
form: grousing
form: groused
form: groused
Etymology: Attested in the 1530s, as grows ("moorhen"), a plural used collectively.
The origin of the noun is unknown; the following derivations have been suggested:
* From Old French grue (“crane”) (modern French grue) or Medieval Latin gruta (“crane”), both from Latin grūs (“crane”).
* Borrowed from Celtic or a different Medieval Latin word.
* Imitative of the bird’s call.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To hunt or shoot grouse.
grouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊs/
ipa: /ɡræɔs/
ipa: /ɡræus/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: grouses
form: grousing
form: groused
form: groused
Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly borrowed from Norman groucier, from Old French groucier, grousser (“to grumble, murmur”) [and other forms] (whence grutch (“to complain; to murmur”) and grouch). The further etymology is unknown, but it may be derived from Frankish *grōtijan (“to make cry, scold, rebuke”) or of onomatopoeic origin.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;
Be handy and civil, and then you will find
That it's beer for the young British soldier.
ref: 1890, Kipling, The Young British Soldier:
text: Grouse away!" he growled. "If grousin' made a man happy, you'd be the champion."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: To complain or grumble.
Derived terms: word: grouser
word: grousing
grouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊs/
ipa: /ɡræɔs/
ipa: /ɡræus/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: grouses
Etymology: The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly borrowed from Norman groucier, from Old French groucier, grousser (“to grumble, murmur”) [and other forms] (whence grutch (“to complain; to murmur”) and grouch). The further etymology is unknown, but it may be derived from Frankish *grōtijan (“to make cry, scold, rebuke”) or of onomatopoeic origin.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: A cause for complaint; a grumble.
grouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaʊs/
ipa: /ɡræɔs/
ipa: /ɡræus/
rhymes: -aʊs
Forms: form: grouser
form: grousest
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from British dialectal groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian (Scotland)), grosh (northeast Lancashire) and groshy (“having thriving vegetation; juicy and tender; of weather: good for vegetation, rainy”) (Lancashire, Yorkshire), grushie (“having thriving vegetation”) (Scotland); from Scots groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian, obsolete), grush (obsolete), grushie, grushy (“growing healthily or lushly; excellent, very good”) (both archaic), from gross (“lacking refinement, coarse; fat; large”) + -ie (suffix meaning ‘rather, somewhat’).
Senses: examples: text: I had a grouse day.
text: That food was grouse.
text: Real grouse birthday this. First time he's had a party.
ref: 1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 99:
text: They were the grousest ladies she′d ever met.
ref: 1991, Tim Winton, Cloudstreet, Scribner Paperback Fiction, published 2002, page 182:
text: Not a question but the gag of Mulder pissing on the ID4 poster was grouse.
ref: 1998 July 23, Stujo, “SPOILER FTF - questions”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):
text: I know, but I moved from riding bikes to flying and it is a great move. All riders without a fear of heights I know that flew with me thought it was grouse- and there are no coppers or speed limits up there.
ref: 2003 October 4, Leeroy, “FS Ultralight Aircraft”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet):
synonyms: word: ace
word: admirable
word: awe-inspiring
word: awesome
word: bang on
word: bang-up
word: based
word: beneship
word: bitching
word: bomb
word: brilliant
word: bully
word: cher
word: choice
word: chronic
word: chur
word: cock on
word: cool
word: copacetic
word: crackerjack
word: cushty
word: dank
word: def
word: dope
word: excellent
word: exceptional
word: fab
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantastic
word: finger-lickin' good
word: fire
word: fireball
word: first-rate
word: fly
word: frabjous
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: great
word: grouse
word: kicking
word: killer
word: lash
word: lautitious
word: lit
word: marvelous
word: nang
word: outstanding
word: out of sight
word: phat
word: peng
word: phenomenal
word: pukka
word: quality
word: rad
word: radical
word: rum
word: sick
word: slap-up
word: slick
word: spiffing
word: splendid
word: sterling
word: super
word: superb
word: superior
word: sweet
word: swell
word: terrific
word: tight
word: top
word: top-drawer
word: top-hole
word: top-notch
word: top-of-the-range
word: top-shelf
word: topping
word: tubular
word: wicked
word: wicked pissah
word: wonderful
word: worldie
antonyms: word: excellent
word: good
word: great
word: positive
word: superior
glosses: Excellent.
initiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.eɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.ət/
ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.ət/
Forms: form: initiates
Etymology: From a substantivization of the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. Cognate with French initié (“an initiate, neophyte”).
Senses: glosses: A new member of an organization.
glosses: One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
antonyms: noninitiate#Noun
novice#Noun
coordinate_terms: expert#Noun
nonexpert#Noun
;
layperson
amateur#Noun
dilettante
;
insider
old hand
;
journeyman
master#Noun
;
learner
student
teacher
glosses: One who is oriented in and familiar with a topic or subject; especially, one who is an expert in it.
initiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.eɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.eɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃ.i.ət/
ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃ.ɪ.ət/
Forms: form: more initiate
form: most initiate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin initiātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: examples: text: the initiate fear that wants hard use
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: Unpracticed, untried, new.
examples: text: To rise in science as in bliss, / Initiate in the secrets of the skies.
ref: 1744, [Edward Young], “Night the Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim’d. In Two Parts. Containing, the Nature, Proof, and Importance of Immortality. Part the First. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Begun, commenced, introduced to or in the rudiments (of), newly admitted.
confabulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfæbjʊleɪt/
Forms: form: confabulates
form: confabulating
form: confabulated
form: confabulated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin cōnfābulātus, perfect active participle of cōnfābulor, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: synonyms: confab
glosses: To speak casually with; to chat.
glosses: To confer.
examples: text: "It has been well established that the speech areas in the absence of input often confabulate a response."
ref: 1991, George P. Prigatano Chairman, Daniel L. Schacter, Awareness of Deficit after Brain Injury: Clinical and Theoretical Issues ...:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
Derived terms: word: confab
Related terms: word: confable
word: confabular
word: confabulation
word: confabulative
word: confabulator
word: confabulatory
fantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæntəsi/
ipa: /ˈfæntəzi/
ipa: [ˈfæ̃ɾ̃əsi]
ipa: [ˈfænəsi]
Forms: form: fantasies
form: phantasie
form: phantasy
Etymology: Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.
Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.
Senses: examples: text: Is not this something more than fantasy?
ref: c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, London, act 1, scene 1:
text: A thousand fantasies / Begin to throng into my memory.
ref: 1634, John Milton, Comus:
text: The whole position was so tremendous and so absolutely unearthly, that I believe it actually lulled our sense of terror, but to this hour I often see it in my dreams, and at its mere phantasy wake up covered with cold sweat.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Try as hard as it can, empirical science cannot come up with a naturalistic explanation; it can only slip into fantasies that make scientists feel good because they are in harmony with their opinions, prejudices, and unconscious assumptions about the nature of reality.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 92:
glosses: That which comes from one's imagination.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
examples: text: Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter:
glosses: A fantastical design.
glosses: The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
Derived terms: cyberfantasy
dark fantasy
docufantasy
epic fantasy
fantascience
fantasist
fantastic
fantasy baseball
fantasy collapse
fantasy cricket
fantasy football
fantasy land
fantasylike
fantasy of manners
fantasy sports
fantasywear
fantasy world
fantasy wrestling
fat fantasy
heroic fantasy
high fantasy
intrusion fantasy
low fantasy
nonfantasy
paleofantasy
power fantasy
restitutive fantasy
romantasy
science fantasy
stfantasy
stfsy
technofantasy
telefantasy
urban fantasy
Related terms: fantasize
fantasy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæntəsi/
ipa: /ˈfæntəzi/
ipa: [ˈfæ̃ɾ̃əsi]
ipa: [ˈfænəsi]
Forms: form: fantasies
form: fantasying
form: fantasied
form: fantasied
form: phantasie
form: phantasy
Etymology: Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía, “apparition”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to render visible”), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνω (phaínō, “to make visible”); from the same root as φάος (pháos, “light”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂nyéti, from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.
Verb from Middle English fantasien, from Old French fantasier. Doublet of fancy.
Senses: glosses: To conceive (something) mentally; to imagine.
examples: text: Perhaps I would be able to help him recapture the well-being and emotional closeness he fantasied his brother had experienced with his parents prior to his birth.
ref: 2013, Mark J. Blechner, Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: To fantasize about something).
examples: text: Firſt I phantaſied that if I liſt to take vpon me the crowne and imperiall Scepter of the realme, now was the time propice and conuenient.
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “Richarde the Thirde”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 816:
glosses: To conceive mentally; to imagine.
examples: text: Which he doth most fantasy.
ref: 1551, Thomas More, “(please specify the Internet Archive page)”, in Raphe Robynson [i.e., Ralph Robinson], transl., A Fruteful, and Pleasaunt Worke of the Best State of a Publyque Weale, and of the Newe Yle Called Utopia: […], London: […] [Steven Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, […], →OCLC:
text: The kyng fantasied so much his daughter Anne that almost everything began to grow out of frame and good order
ref: 1641, George Cavendish, Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe:
glosses: To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
Related terms: cloud-cuckoo-land
necromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕkʹ-rə-măn'-si
ipa: /ˈnɛkɹəˌmænsi/
Forms: form: necromancies
form: necyomancy
form: egromancy
Etymology: Circa 1300, from Middle English nigromancye, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (“black”), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. By surface analysis, necro- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: And for to make this treatise the more pleasaunt and facill, I have put it in forme of a Dialogue, which I have diuided into three bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, and Necromancie in special.
ref: 1597, King James Daemonologie, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: And in one word for all, Nagomancy, or Necromancy; by inspecting, consulting, and divining by, with, or from the dead.
ref: 1652, Gaule The Magastromancer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: 1867 E. Rogers, quoted in K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic
the Devil did often tempt me to study necromancy and nigromancy and to make use of magic, and to make a league with him...
text: There is no doubt..that necromancy is the touch-stone of occultism...
ref: 1920, L. Spence, Encyc. Occult:
glosses: Divination involving the dead or death.
glosses: Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.
glosses: Synonym of necroposting.
synonyms: word: necroposting
Derived terms: thread necromancy
Related terms: necromancer
necromantic
raising hell
raising the dead
magi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd͡ʒaɪ/
ipa: /ˈmeɪd͡ʒaɪ/
ipa: /ˈmeɪɡaɪ/
rhymes: -ædʒaɪ
rhymes: -eɪdʒaɪ
rhymes: -eɪɡaɪ
Senses: synonyms: mages
glosses: plural of mage
synonyms: maguses
glosses: plural of magus
mage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: māj
ipa: /meɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: magi
form: mages
Etymology: From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek Μάγος (Mágos), from the hapax Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (m-gu-u-š /⁠maguš⁠/). Doublet of magus.
Senses: topics: fantasy
glosses: A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
examples: text: While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa.
ref: c. 1790, Edward Gibbon, On the Position of the Meridional Line, and the supposed Circumnavigation of Africa by the Ancients; republished as The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. […] , volume 5, 1814, pages 186–87:
glosses: Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest.
synonyms: word: magus
extra: a Zoroastrian priest
Synonyms: sense: practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic
word: magic user
sense: practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic
word: spellcaster
sense: practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic
word: enchanter
sense: practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic
word: conjurer
sense: practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic
word: thaumaturge
sense: practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic
word: theurgist
sense: spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts
word: spiritualist
sense: spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts
word: mystic
sense: spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts
word: shaman
sense: spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts
word: witch doctor
Derived terms: archimage
archmage
battlemage
black mage
blood mage
bloodmage
mageocracy
magery
mageship
magewoman
magocracy
swordmage
hemopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemopoieses
Etymology: From hemo- + -poiesis.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Formation of new cellular components of the blood in myeloid or lymphatic tissue.
Synonyms: hematopoiesis
Derived terms: dyshemopoiesis
Related terms: hemopoietic
mores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɔːɹiːz/
ipa: /ˈmoɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˈmoɹiz/
ipa: /ˈmoːɹæɪz/
ipa: /ˈmoːɹiːz/
rhymes: -ɔːɹeɪz
Forms: form: moeurs
Etymology: From Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs. Doublet of moeurs.
Senses: examples: text: All of us seem to need some totalistic relationships in our lives. But to decry the fact that we cannot have only such relationships is nonsense. And to prefer a society in which the individual has holistic relationships with a few, rather than modular relationships with many, is to wish for a return to the imprisonment of the past — a past when individuals may have been more tightly bound to one another, but when they were also more tightly regimented by social conventions, sexual mores, political and religious restrictions.
ref: 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 99:
text: It is relevant here to recall that the word “morality” is derived from mos with its plural mores, and that in its present usage it has not lost this connexion with the mores — the rules of behaviour — of a society.
ref: 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 165:
text: Even as the elements of a culture were forming, as legends began to accrue, as their mastery of programming started to surpass any previous recorded levels of skill, the dozen or so hackers were reluctant to acknowledge that their tiny society, on intimate terms with the TX-0, had been slowly and implicitly piecing together a body of concepts, beliefs, and mores.
ref: 1984, Steven Levy, chapter 2, in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution:
text: The country's traditional mores have sparked recent ideological battles, as well as a few national embarrassments.
ref: 2013 May 3, Dean Van Nguyen, “Why Ireland Has Lagged Behind the Rest of Europe on Reproductive Rights”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2016:
text: The one area where sexual mores seem to have changed is gay relationships. At the beginning of 2004, only 46 percent of respondents thought gay sex should be legal; in another poll that year, only 42 percent of people said they saw it as morally acceptable or believed that same-sex marriage should be legal.
ref: 2014 June 9, Emma Green, “Americans: Still Pretty Judge-y”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2016:
glosses: A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
Derived terms: english: nonstandard back-formation
translation: nonstandard back-formation
word: more
mores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɔːɹiːz/
ipa: /ˈmoɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˈmoɹiz/
ipa: /ˈmoːɹæɪz/
ipa: /ˈmoːɹiːz/
rhymes: -ɔːɹeɪz
ipa: /mɔː.ɹz/
rhymes: -ɔːɹz
ipa: /ˈmɔːɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɔːɹiːz/
ipa: /ˈmoɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˈmoɹiz/
ipa: /ˈmoːɹæɪz/
ipa: /ˈmoːɹiːz/
rhymes: -ɔːɹeɪz
Forms: form: moeurs
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of more
mores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɔːɹiːz/
ipa: /ˈmoɹeɪz/
ipa: /ˈmoɹiz/
ipa: /ˈmoːɹæɪz/
ipa: /ˈmoːɹiːz/
rhymes: -ɔːɹeɪz
ipa: /mɔː.ɹz/
rhymes: -ɔːɹz
Forms: form: moeurs
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of more
Little Red Riding Hood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtl̩ ɹɛd ɹaɪ.dɪŋ hʊd/
Forms: form: Little Red Riding-Hood
Etymology: From little + red + riding hood.
Senses: glosses: A fairy tale about a young girl who walks through the forest to visit her grandmother and encounters the Big Bad Wolf (or another vicious wolf, or werewolf in archaic versions).
glosses: The girl who is the protagonist and title character in this story.
carpal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/
enpr: kärʹ pəl
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.pəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
homophone: carpel
Forms: form: carpals
Etymology: From the Latin carpālis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the eight bones of the wrist (carpus).
Synonyms: carpal angle
carpal bone
carpal canal
carpal tunnel syndrome
carpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)pəl/
enpr: kärʹ pəl
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.pəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
homophone: carpel
Etymology: From the Latin carpālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the carpus.
examples: text: The human wrist contains eight carpal bones and the hand has five metacarpals , but in birds just a couple of tiny carpal bones remain besides the carpometacarpus; these are the radiale and the ulnare, involved in the folding of the wrist joint.
ref: 2020, Marianne Taylor, How Birds Work:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the obvious bend in a bird's wing.
Derived terms: carpal tunnel
cubitocarpal
dorsocarpal
extracarpal
intercarpal
intracarpal
mediocarpal
mesocarpal
midcarpal
radiocarpal
supercarpal
transcarpal
ulnocarpal
Snow White
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /snəʊ waɪt/
ipa: /snoʊ(h)waɪt/
Forms: form: Snow Whites
form: Snow-White
Etymology: Calque of German Schneewittchen (literally “white as snow”).
Senses: glosses: A fairy tale, the best-known version of Schneewittchen collected by the Brothers Grimm, in which a beautiful young girl is targeted by a jealous queen and tended by dwarfs.
examples: text: The discovery of male Cinderellas and Snow Whites in modern Turkish folklore invites further meditations and investigations.
ref: 1994, Canadian Children’s Literature, page 29:
text: Though it is often up to the Prince Charming of each novel to sweep the Austenian Snow Whites and Cinderellas off their feet, it is often up to the Snow Whites and Cinderellas to teach their respective heroes a little sense—or, in the case of Colonel Brandon and his all-but-impassioned Shakespeare reading, a little sensibility.
ref: 2008, Carol J. Adams, Douglas Buchanan, Kelly Gesch, The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Jane Austen, Continuum, →ISBN, page 113:
text: There is no shortage of little girls dressed as Sleeping Beauties, Snow Whites, Cinderellas, or even any of the princess “rebels” such as Ariel (who gave up her voice for a man) or Belle (who endured captivity as a pathway to love).
ref: 2021, Gloria J. Romero, Just Not That Likable: The Price All Women Pay for Gender Bias, Post Hill Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The main character in that story.
glosses: A fictional character in the fairy tale Snow-White and Rose-Red, from Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot collected by the Brothers Grimm.
Coordinate terms: Coal-Black
Coal Black
Rose-Red
Rose Red
Related terms: snow-white
snow white
white as snow
metacarpal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕt′ə-kär′pəl
ipa: /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑː.pəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑɹ.pəl/
ipa: /ˌmet.əˈkɐː.pəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛt.əˈkaɹ.pəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛʈ.aˈkaːʳ.pal/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
Etymology: From metacarpus + -al or metacarp- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of the metacarpus.
Derived terms: dorsometacarpal
humerometacarpal
intermetacarpal
metacarpally
midmetacarpal
plesiometacarpal
telemetacarpal
trapeziometacarpal
ulnometacarpal
metacarpal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕt′ə-kär′pəl
ipa: /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑː.pəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛt.əˈkɑɹ.pəl/
ipa: /ˌmet.əˈkɐː.pəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛt.əˈkaɹ.pəl/
ipa: /ˌmɛʈ.aˈkaːʳ.pal/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pəl
Forms: form: metacarpals
form: metacarpalia
Etymology: From metacarpus + -al or metacarp- + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: metacarpal bone
hypernyms: bone
glosses: Any of the bones of the metacarpus.
Native American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Native American
form: most Native American
Senses: glosses: Of the American Indians.
Derived terms: Native Americanesque
Native American myopathy
Related terms: First Nations
First Peoples
American Indian
Amerindian
Amerind
Indian
Euro-American
humerus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hyo͞o'mərəs
ipa: /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
ipa: /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
homophone: humorous
Forms: form: humeri
Etymology: From Late Latin humerus, from umerus. Cognate with Spanish hombro (“shoulder”).
Senses: examples: text: Jojo was fine, however—well, she had a fractured humerus and needed to stay overnight, but it could’ve been a lot worse.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 76:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bone of the upper arm.
Synonyms: armbone
Related terms: funny bone
clavicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæv.ɪk.əl/
ipa: /ˈklæv.ɪk.l̩/
rhymes: -ævɪkəl
Forms: form: clavicles
form: clavicula
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French clavicule, from Latin clāvicula (“a small key”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and, when Mr. Ornato had recounted the story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.
ref: 2022 June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, 0:47 from the start, in Secret Service officials: Agents willing to dispute Trump SUV incident under oath, CNN:
text: And you worked a lot too. You were thin from biking around all day; your protruding clavicles collected rainwater.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “Yeti Lovemaking”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: collarbone
glosses: The collarbone; the prominent bone at the top of the chest between the shoulder and the neck connecting the shoulder and the breastbone.
examples: text: The Voluta is a ſimple ſhell, having no hinge, formed of one piece, and of a figure approaching to conic, but short; the clavicle being uſually depreſſed, in all very ſhort: the mouth is long, perpendicular, and narrow: the animal inhabiting this ſhell is a limax.
ref: 1752, John Hill, “Voluta”, in An History of Animals. […], London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, […], →OCLC, page 137:
topics: biology
conchology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The upper part of a spiral shell.
Derived terms: clavicled
clavicular
claviculate
interclavicle
postclavicle
supraclavicle
Rumpelstiltskin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɹʌmpəlˈstɪltskɪn/
Forms: form: Rumplestiltskin
Etymology: From German Rumpelstilzchen; Wikipedia discusses the hypotheses.
Senses: glosses: A fairy tale about a dwarf who saves the miller’s daughter by spinning straw into gold in exchange for her first-born child, but is foiled when she guesses his name.
glosses: The fictional dwarf who is the title character of that story.
Synonyms: english: from English Fairy Tales, collected & edited by Joseph Jacobs, 1884
translation: from English Fairy Tales, collected & edited by Joseph Jacobs, 1884
word: Tom Tit Tot
inclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkluːʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: inclusions
form: enclusion
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inclusio, inclusionis, from the verb Latin inclūdō (“to shut in, enclose, insert”), from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). By surface analysis, include + -sion. Doublet of enclosure.
Senses: examples: text: The poem was a new inclusion in the textbook.
glosses: An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
examples: text: The inclusion of the poem added value to the course.
glosses: The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
glosses: Anything foreign that is included in a material.
examples: text: The fewer inclusions a diamond has, the better is its clarity and value. Often the inclusions can be cut out of a diamond in the rough.
ref: 2009, Cindy Lasiter, Diamonds in the Rough, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page xi:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
topics: biology
histology
natural-sciences
glosses: An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
glosses: Restriction; limitation.
Derived terms: bioinclusion
e-inclusion
inclusionary
inclusion complex
inclusion compound
inclusion function
inclusionism
inclusionist
inclusion map
inclusion polymorphism
inclusion rider
inclusion unit
microinclusion
nanoinclusion
noninclusion
overinclusion
postinclusion
preinclusion
pseudoinclusion
reinclusion
transclusion
underinclusion
Related terms: include
item
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.təm/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.təm/
ipa: [ˈaɪ̯.ɾəm]
ipa: [ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩]
ipa: /ˈɑɪ.təm/
ipa: [ˈɑɪ.ɾəm]
Forms: form: items
form: iteming
form: itemed
form: itemed
Etymology: From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items".
Senses: glosses: To make a note of.
Related terms: itemize
item
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.təm/
ipa: /ˈaɪ.təm/
ipa: [ˈaɪ̯.ɾəm]
ipa: [ˈaɪ̯.ɾm̩]
ipa: /ˈɑɪ.təm/
ipa: [ˈɑɪ.ɾəm]
Etymology: From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items".
Senses: glosses: likewise
text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕkst
ipa: /tɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: texts
Etymology: From Middle English text, from Old French texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“I weave”). Cognate to English texture.
Senses: glosses: A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
glosses: A book, tome or other set of writings.
examples: text: In the morning, you're vexed / He's on to the next / And you didn't even get no text
ref: 2004, Amy Winehouse, Salaam Remi, “Fuck Me Pumps”, in Frank, performed by Amy Winehouse:
glosses: Ellipsis of text message, a brief written message transmitted between mobile phones.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: binary
coordinate_terms: plain text
glosses: Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
glosses: A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
synonyms: topic
theme
glosses: Anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.
examples: text: German text
topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: text hand
glosses: A style of writing in large characters; also, a kind of type used in printing.
Hyponyms: english: alternative text
translation: alternative text
word: alt text
word: body text
word: double text
word: dummy text
word: flat text
word: glitch text
word: hypertext
word: metatext
word: non-linear text
word: parallel text
word: plain text
word: plaintext
word: running text
word: schizotext
Derived terms: alt text
bi-text
body text
church text
clobber text
context
drunk text
e-text
flavor text
flavour text
here-text
hover text
parallel text
predictive text
pretext
rich text
sex-text
sexting
small text
source text
splash text
stick to one's text
subtext
taproot text
target text
text adventure
textbase
text-based
textbook
text-book
text box
text door neighbour
text editor
text file
text hook
text hooker
texting
text linguistics
text link
text message
text messaging
text neck
textonym
text painting
text retrieval
text simplification
text tennis
text-to-speech
text-type
text type
textual
text wall
timed text
Ur-text
ur-text
visual text
wall of text
text
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕkst
ipa: /tɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: texts
form: texting
form: texted
form: texted
form: text
form: text
Etymology: From Middle English text, from Old French texte (“text”), from Medieval Latin textus (“the Scriptures, text, treatise”), from Latin textus (“style or texture of a work”), perfect passive participle of texō (“I weave”). Cognate to English texture.
Senses: examples: text: Just text me when you get here.
text: I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
synonyms: word: message
word: SMS
glosses: To send a text message to; i.e. to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
examples: text: Have you been texting all afternoon?
glosses: To send and receive text messages.
examples: text: I wish / (Next to my part of Heav'n) that she would spend / The last part of her life so here, that all / Indifferent judges might condemn me for / A most malicious slanderer, nay, text it / Upon my forehead
ref: 1607–21, Phillip Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret, act 2, scene 1:
text: The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted line is above the untexted; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the texted line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again.
ref: 2009, Lain Fenlon, Early Music History: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Music (Music), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page p. 223:
glosses: To write in large characters, as in text hand.
Derived terms: double text