cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
distributed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɹɪbjutɪd/
ipa: /ˈdɪstɹɪbjutɪd/
Forms: form: more distributed
form: most distributed
Senses: examples: text: Webster and Wong (2008) found that semivirtual teams had more positive perceptions of their local teammates compared to the distributed teammates […]
ref: 2014, Jessica L. Wildman, Richard L. Griffith, Leading Global Teams (page 80)
glosses: Spread across a relatively wide area.
examples: text: distributed computing
text: distributed ray tracing
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving numerous separate computers or entities, rather than the traditional one.
Derived terms: biodistributed
codistributed
distributed hash table
distributed ledger
distributedly
distributedness
equidistributed
geodistributed
maldistributed
nondistributed
undistributed
explained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspleɪnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of explain
increased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɹiːst/
rhymes: -iːst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of increase
needed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːdɪd/
ipa: /ˈnidɪd/
homophone: kneaded
Forms: form: more needed
form: most needed
Etymology: From need + -ed. The adjective is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: A much-needed rest.
text: Just-in-time as-needed support for in-house training
text: And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
antonyms: unneeded
glosses: Necessary; being required.
Derived terms: much-needed
neededly
neededness
needed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːdɪd/
ipa: /ˈnidɪd/
homophone: kneaded
Etymology: From need + -ed. The adjective is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of need
occurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɝd/
ipa: /əˈkɜːd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: occured
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of occur
glosses: simple past and past participle of occurre (obsolete form of occur)
proposed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpoʊzd/
ipa: /pɹəˈpəʊzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of propose
proposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpoʊzd/
ipa: /pɹəˈpəʊzd/
Senses: examples: text: We discussed the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
text: She presented her research on the proposed merger between the two companies.
text: The proposed changes to the tax system sparked a heated debate.
glosses: Suggested or planned but not yet implemented.
pressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of press
pressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more pressed
form: most pressed
Senses: examples: text: The staff was even more pressed for useful intelligence about the enemy's intentions than it was about the enemy's capabilities.
text: He found himself hard pressed.
glosses: Under strain or deprivation.
examples: text: Cardi B hater’s are pressed because she won a Grammy for best album of the year
text: She did what she always does: laid out a trap, and the well-intended took the bait. Like clockwork. Why do we stay so pressed instead of just ignoring her?
ref: 2020, Evan Ross Katz, “Why Did We Take the 'Harry Styles Wore a Dress' Bait?”, in Paper Magazine:
glosses: Upset, bothered.
examples: text: The most obvious source for tracking pressed men is the muster books of the individual ships, for these encompass those impressed both afloat and ashore. Yet the muster books are notoriously uneven in quality as an historical source.
ref: 2008, Nicholas Rogers, The Press Gang: Naval Impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Recruited by a press gang.
Derived terms: cold-pressed
hard-pressed
pressed duck
pressed for time
pressed glass
pressed ham
pressed rice
seated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seat
seated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: sitting
examples: text: ... but she was very conscious, too, of her Saturday-morning appearance - of her blouse, which she'd once unpicked and refashioned in an attempt at 'make-do and mend', and her old tweed skirt, rather seated at the back.
ref: 2011 February 3, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt
examples: text: "Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?
ref: 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution:
glosses: fixed; confirmed
glosses: located; situated
examples: text: There was a rush-seated chair with a hole in the seat, — and that […] seemed to be all that the room contained.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
glosses: Furnished with a seat.
Related terms: deep-seated
prevision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/
Forms: form: previsions
form: prævision
Etymology: From Middle English previsioun, from Old French prevision, from Late Latin praevisio, praevisionem, from Latin praevideo.
Senses: examples: text: I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.
ref: 1889, Margaret Oliphant, The Portrait:
text: it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore's brilliancy and Mrs. Wix's passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
text: The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and there is no prevision of their obsolescence.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
glosses: Advance knowledge; foresight.
glosses: A prediction.
prevision
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/
Forms: form: previsions
form: previsioning
form: previsioned
form: previsioned
form: prævision
Etymology: From Middle English previsioun, from Old French prevision, from Late Latin praevisio, praevisionem, from Latin praevideo.
Senses: glosses: To predict or envision the future.
problematical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more problematical
form: most problematical
Etymology: From Latin problēmaticus + -al. By surface analysis, problematic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Doubtful or disputed.
examples: text: The salt seer attentively listened, accompanying the Foretopman's recital with queer twitchings of his wrinkles and problematical little sparkles of his small ferret eyes.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Dubious or ambiguous.
Synonyms: problematic
gonads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonad
gives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪvz/
rhymes: -ɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give
gives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪvz/
rhymes: -ɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of give
appears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɪəz/
ipa: /əˈpɪɹz/
ipa: /əˈpiːɹz/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z
Senses: examples: text: It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
ref: 1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appear
highest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of high: most high
highest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.ɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of high: most high
carefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛːf(ə)li/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/
Forms: form: more carefully
form: most carefully
Etymology: From Middle English carfulli, carefulliche, from Old English carfullīċe, ċearfullīċe (“carefully, diligently”), equivalent to careful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] there was she faine / To call them all in order to her ayde, / And them conjure, upon eternall paine, / To counsell her, so carefully dismayd, / How she might heale her sonne […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Sorrowfully.
examples: text: As he was a politician, he discussed all subjects carefully, not offending anyone.
text: He carefully studied the papers, while planning his next move.
text: He carefully avoided the subject all evening.
text: Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
glosses: With care; attentively, circumspectly.
glosses: Conscientiously, painstakingly, fastidiously, meticulously
Derived terms: tread carefully
kazan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kazans
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian каза́н (kazán), from a Turkic language. Cognate with Azerbaijani qazan, Kazakh қазан (qazan), Turkish kazan, Uzbek qozon.
Senses: examples: text: A proper kazan also has to be well greased by constant use — it should never be washed with water, or, God forbid, actually scrubbed and scoured. The Uzbeks just wipe it carefully with an oiled cloth; and they will insist and I will second this — that the older the kazan, the better the pilaf.
ref: 1990, Anya Von Bremzen, John Welchman, Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook:
glosses: a cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine
skirted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From skirt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] a small glass box in which you wander, swivel, waver, flashing your flesh like a skirted girl doing cartwheels on the lawn.
ref: 2007, Naomi Guttman, Wet Apples, White Blood, page 68:
synonyms: beskirted
glosses: Wearing a skirt.
examples: text: Carefully the child tried to cover her deformed leg under her skirted pyjamas.
ref: 1979, Qurratulain Hyder, A Woman’s Life, Chetana Publications:
text: Women should wear skirted suits or dresses with dress shoes; pantsuits are not usually worn.
ref: 2012, Jeanette S. Martin, Lillian H. Chaney, Global Business Etiquette: A Guide to International Communication and Customs, 2nd edition, Praeger, →ISBN, page 87:
text: The women whose new jobs required pants, overalls, or skirted uniforms broke dramatically with convention.
ref: 2017, Lynn Dumenil, The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: Having a skirt.
glosses: Bordered.
examples: text: a skirted topic of conversation
glosses: Passed around; evaded.
glosses: Narrowly missed.
Related terms: hobble-skirted
pencil-skirted
poodle-skirted
skirted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From skirt + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skirt
sasanach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sasanachs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sassenach.
hala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halas
form: hala
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian hala, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan. Doublet of pandan via Malay.
Senses: glosses: Pandanus tectorius, a screw pine native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
hala
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hala
form: most hala
Senses: examples: text: Hack. Kiſs, kiſs her, Man; this Town affords ſuch every where; you'll hate the Country, when you ſee a little more; kiſs her, I ſay.
 Lolp. I am ſo hala; I am aſhamed.
ref: 1688, Thomas Shadwell, The Squire of Alsatia:
glosses: Embarrassed or ashamed.
trendy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛndi/
rhymes: -ɛndi
Forms: form: trendier
form: trendiest
Etymology: From trend + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I hate those trendy pre-wrinkled shirts.
text: MDF and HDF – or medium-density fiberboard and high-density fiberboard – are two of the trendiest materials in woodworking these days.
ref: 2019 September 20, “MDF vs HDF: Understanding Differences and Best Uses in Woodworking”, in Forest Plywood:
text: Some people who go to trendy cafés lament getting stuck at the long central table that has to be shared, instead hoping they get a ‘private’ table. But that is foolish. On a recent trip to see family, I got stuck at the big table in a café, too; I ended up making a new friend there and learning about the surrounding town.
ref: 2024 July 22, Antone Martinho-Truswell, Take a seat: the long table is an antidote to loneliness:
synonyms: word: a la mode/à la mode
word: all the rage
word: chic
word: cool
word: dapper
word: done
word: elegant
word: fashionable
word: groovy
word: happening
word: hep
word: hip
word: in
word: in fashion
word: jaunty
word: modish
word: natty
word: on fleek
word: on trend
word: pizazzy
word: spiffing
word: spiffy
word: styleworthy
word: stylish
word: smart
word: snazzy
word: tasteful
word: tippy
word: trendy
word: voguish
word: up-to-the-minute
word: with-it
word: zhoosh
glosses: Of, or in accordance with the latest trend, fashion or hype.
trendy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛndi/
rhymes: -ɛndi
Forms: form: trendies
Etymology: From trend + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They're the kids who care. Yet they're the bad kids, and the trendies, the ones who are too cool to let anything matter, are the good kids. It's all twisted around.
ref: Quoted in 1995, Leonard Michaels, David Reid, Raquel L. Scherr, West of the West: Imagining California (page 103)
synonyms: word: fashionista
word: voguie
word: Corinthian
word: faddist
word: fashionable
word: fashionist
word: fashionista
word: hepcat
word: hepster
word: hipster
word: sophisto
word: snappy dresser
word: trendite
word: trendy
word: voguie
word: swell
glosses: A trendy person.
commentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏm′ən-tə-rē
enpr: kŏm′ən-trē
ipa: /ˈkɒm.ən.t(ə.)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɔm.ən.t(ə.)ɹi/
enpr: kŏm′ən-târē
enpr: kä′mən-tĕrē
note: General American, father-bother merger, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkɑ.mənˌtɛɹ.i/
enpr: kə-mĕn′trē
enpr: kə-mĕn′tə-rē
note: Indic
ipa: /kŏm.ĕɳ.ʈ(ă.)ɾi/
Forms: form: commentaries
Etymology: From Middle French commentaire, from Latin commentārius, commentārium (“notebook”), compare French commentaire. See comment.
Senses: examples: text: This letter […] was published by him with a severe commentary.
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
examples: text: Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War
glosses: A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum.
examples: text: We listened to the football commentary while watching the match.
glosses: An oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
Synonyms: sense: series of comments or annotations
english: ancient & medieval European works
translation: ancient & medieval European works
word: scholia
sense: series of comments or annotations
word: secondary source
Derived terms: anti-commentary
audio commentary
commentarial
commentary box
commentary track
critical commentary
DVD commentary
metacommentary
political commentary
running commentary
social commentary
subcommentary
supercommentary
commentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commentary
polytheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒlɪˈθiːɪst/
Forms: form: polytheists
Etymology: From poly- + theist.
Senses: glosses: a believer in, or advocate of, polytheism
Irishwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irishwomen
Etymology: From Middle English Irish womman, equivalent to Irish + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman from Ireland
Related terms: Irish
Irishman
bootleg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbutˌlɛɡ/
Forms: form: bootlegs
form: bootlegging
form: bootlegged
form: bootlegged
Etymology: From boot + leg. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III's reign, derived from the smugglers' custom of hiding packages of valuables in their large sea-boots when dodging the king's coastguardsmen.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg to make ends meet.
text: In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg whiskey from a still hidden in the backwoods.
glosses: To engage in bootlegging.
To make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.
examples: text: In the 1990s, Grandpa used to bootleg under some sort of Robin-Hood-esque notion.
text: In the 1990s, Grandpa used to bootleg Windows CD-ROMs.
glosses: To engage in bootlegging.
To make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.
examples: text: In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg to make ends meet.
text: In the 1930s, Grandpa used to bootleg coal from a shaft hidden in the backwoods.
glosses: To engage in bootlegging.
To operate a mine illicitly.
Derived terms: bootlegger
bootleggery
bootlegging
bootleg ground
bootleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbutˌlɛɡ/
Forms: form: bootlegs
Etymology: From boot + leg. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III's reign, derived from the smugglers' custom of hiding packages of valuables in their large sea-boots when dodging the king's coastguardsmen.
Senses: glosses: The part of a boot that is above the instep.
glosses: An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An unauthorized recording, e.g., of a live concert.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A remix or mashup that is a combination of two songs but that is not authorized and audited for copyright use; primarily in the electronic music scene.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff, conceals the ball against his hip, and rolls out.
bootleg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbutˌlɛɡ/
Etymology: From boot + leg. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III's reign, derived from the smugglers' custom of hiding packages of valuables in their large sea-boots when dodging the king's coastguardsmen.
Senses: glosses: Illegally produced, transported or sold; pirated.
examples: text: bootleg coffee
glosses: Being an inferior imitation of something, possibly a counterfeit.
Derived terms: bootleg mining
Related terms: bathtub gin
moonshine
uninteresting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninteresting
form: most uninteresting
Etymology: From un- + interesting.
Senses: examples: text: To many, a railway ticket is but an uninteresting bit of pasteboard, which must be purchased before a journey is undertaken, and once obtained, may be stowed away in a convenient pocket and forgotten, until a watchful railway official requests its production.
ref: 1939 November, R. S. Tayler, “A Railway Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
glosses: Arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.
Synonyms: noninteresting
characterless
heterophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕʹtərōfōn
ipa: /ˈhɛtəɹəʊfəʊn/
Forms: form: heterophones
Etymology: From hetero- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A word with multiple pronunciations.
Related terms: word: heterophonic
word: heterophonous
word: heterophony
word: identical
word: same
word: homophone & homograph
english: category
translation: category
word: homophone
word: different
word: homophone & heterograph
word: alternative spelling
word: homonym
word: synonym
word: heterophone & heterograph
english: category
translation: category
word: heteronym
word: heterophone & homograph
word: alternative pronunciation
word: distinct
self-assertive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-assertive
form: most self-assertive
Etymology: From self- + assertive.
Senses: glosses: determined to advance one's own personality or views
Related terms: self-assertion
brash
booner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booners
Etymology: Suggestions are:
* From boondocks.
* From the name of the town of Boonah or the Shire of Boonah, Queensland.
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Canberra
glosses: A person who takes particular pride in their car and enjoys showing it off.
glosses: A bogan.
Synonyms: sense: car-proud person
word: hoon
sense: car-proud person
word: petrolhead
booner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booners
Etymology: From the Boone and Crockett Club.
Senses: glosses: A trophy size big game animal, as measured by the Boone and Crockett ranking criteria.
booner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of boon: more boon
vivification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vivifications
Etymology: From Latin vīvificātiō. By surface analysis, vivificate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The giving of life; vitalization; animation.
Derived terms: autovivification
Related terms: revivification
date palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: date palms
Senses: examples: text: The date palms of the little fertile spot they had just left, and the circle of goatskin tents, stood out in sharp relief against the yellow sand—a phantom paradise upon a phantom sea.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 87:
glosses: A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.
Synonyms: sense: Phoenix dactylifera
word: date
sense: Phoenix dactylifera
word: date tree
Derived terms: African wild date palm
Phoenix reclinata
Canary Island date palm
Phoenix canariensis
Cape Verde Island date palm
Phoenix atlantica
Ceylon date palm
Phoenix pusilla
cliff date palm
Phoenix rupicola
Cretan date palm
Phoenix theophrasti
dwarf date palm Phoenix acaulis
Phoenix roebelenii
mountain date palm
Phoenix loureiroi
Senegal date palm
silver date palm
Phoenix sylvestris
sugar date palm
gum tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gum trees
form: gum-tree
form: gumtree
Senses: synonyms: gum
hypernyms: tree#Noun
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plant#Noun
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organism#Noun
glosses: Any of various types of trees in various taxa; an individual of any such type.
A eucalyptus tree, including trees now placed in the genera Angophora and Corymbia.
synonyms: gum
hypernyms: tree#Noun
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plant#Noun
<
organism#Noun
glosses: Any of various types of trees in various taxa; an individual of any such type.
Sapium glandulosum, found from northern Argentina to southern Mexico.
Derived terms: gum-treed
happy as a possum up a gum tree
have seen one's last gum tree
strike me up a gum tree
up a gum tree
Related terms: rubber tree
allomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ə.mɔːf/
ipa: /ˈæl.oʊ.mɔɹf/
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.mɔɹf/
Forms: form: allomorphs
Etymology: From allo- + -morph.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: paramorph
glosses: Any of the different crystalline forms of a substance.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of the different phonological representations of a morpheme.
Derived terms: allomorphic
allomorphism
allomorphy
Related terms: allophone
makeweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: makeweights
form: make-weight
Etymology: From make + weight.
Senses: examples: 1893, Richard Le Gallienne, in a publisher's report on stories by Ernest Dowson, quoted in Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine, page 88.
I would advise you to accept these as an instalment of a volume, (they are not big enough to make one themselves) with the promise that the stories to come should be more striking, more original in theme — not less so, not mere makeweights — than those under consideration.
glosses: Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.
examples: text: He added a long litany of peripheral precedents which the judge dismissed as mere makeweights.
text: Other railway schemes of the earliest period certainly mentioned benefits to agriculture, but only as a make-weight; most of them justified themselves by improved transport of minerals for shipment, […], or by carriage of bulk loads of manufactured goods.
ref: 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
text: Fashion, as it happens, favors certain rows of the style matrix: museums, connoisseurs, and others are makeweights in the Artworld.
ref: 1964 October 15, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 61, number 19, page 584:
glosses: Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.
Related terms: butcher's thumb
adjectitious
Guadalcanal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡwɑː.dəl.kəˈnɑːl/
Etymology: From Spanish. The Pacific island was named in 1568 by Álvaro de Mendaña, after his hometown of Guadalcanal, Spain. From Arabic وَادِي الْخَانَات (wādī l-ḵānāt, “Valley of the Stalls”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: A volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands.
glosses: A volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands.
A battle in World War II in which American forces recaptured it from the Japanese.
Related terms: Guadalajara
Guadalquivir
Guadalupe
Guadiana
Great Satan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Great Satan
form: great Satan
Etymology: Calque of Iranian Persian شیطان بزرگ (šeytân-e bozorg), which is more often the name of the largest of the three jamarat at which stones are thrown during the hajj. The derogatory sense was coined by Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989 Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, one day after the onset of the Iran hostage crisis.
Senses: examples: text: Ahmadinejad, facing serious political problems, can posture about standing up to the Great Satan.
ref: 2007, Alexander Cockburn, “Will they nuke Iran?”, in The Free Press:
text: Or, have Muslims been alienated from the Congress because of the Prime Minister's warm embrace of the Great Satan?
ref: 2007, Swapan Dasgupta, “Muslims aren't the only voters”, in The Pioneer:
glosses: The United States of America, particularly with regard to its perceived imperialist foreign policy.
raw_tags: in Iran
used by Muslims
wikipedia: Iran hostage crisis
Related terms: Jewnited Snakes
dermasurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜːməˌsɜːdʒəɹi/
Etymology: From derma- + surgery.
Senses: glosses: The surgical treatment of benign and malignant skin conditions; dermatologic surgery.
Related terms: dermasurgeon
dermasurgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɜːməˌsɜːdʒən/
Forms: form: dermasurgeons
Etymology: From derma- + surgeon.
Senses: glosses: A dermatologist who specializes in dermasurgery.
stating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: statings
Senses: examples: text: Most of Quayle's and Bush's slips follow the basic formula of what the French call lapalissades, the tautological statings of the obvious attributed to the mythical figure of Monsieur la Palice […]
ref: 2016, Slavoj Zizek, Organs without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences:
glosses: statement
stating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of state
tasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪstɪŋ
Forms: form: tastings
Etymology: From Middle English tastynge, taastyng, equivalent to taste + -ing (gerundive ending).
Senses: glosses: A small amount of food or drink.
glosses: The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it.
Synonyms: degustation
Derived terms: domain tasting
tasting menu
tasting room
winetasting
tasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪstɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English tastinge, taastynge, equivalent to taste + -ing (present participle ending).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of taste
anagram dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anagram dictionaries
Senses: glosses: a list of words, or groups of words, ordered according to the number of each letter in the word; used for solving crosswords and similar puzzles
myrtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːtl̩/
enpr: mûrʹtəl
ipa: /ˈmɝtl̩/
ipa: [ˈmɝtɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈmɝɾɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
Forms: form: myrtles
Etymology: From Old French myrte, from Latin myrtus, from Ancient Greek μύρτος (múrtos, “myrtle”).
Senses: examples: text: In the Middle Ages pulverized myrtle leaves were applied to the body as a sexual stimulation.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 162:
glosses: An evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Myrtus, native to southern Europe and north Africa.
glosses: Cyrilla species.
glosses: A dark green shade that resembles the color of Myrtus leaves.
Derived terms: word: bog myrtle
taxonomic: Myrica gale
word: bog-myrtle
taxonomic: Myrtus communis
word: common myrtle
taxonomic: Lagerstroemia spp.
word: crape myrtle
taxonomic: Vinca minor
word: creeping myrtle
word: crêpe myrtle
taxonomic: Lagerstroemia spp.
word: crepe myrtle
taxonomic: Ruscus aculeatus
word: Jew's myrtle
taxonomic: Backhousia citriodora
word: lemon myrtle
word: Myrtle Beach
taxonomic: Nothofagus cunninghamii
word: myrtle beech
word: myrtled
word: myrtlelike
taxonomic: Calyptranthes zuzygium
word: myrtle of the river
taxonomic: Austropuccinia psidii
word: myrtle rust
taxonomic: Setophaga coronata coronata
word: myrtle warbler
word: myrtle wax
taxonomic: Myoporum acuminatum
word: native myrtle
taxonomic: Umbellularia californica
word: Oregon myrtle
taxonomic: Rhodomyrtus tomentosa
word: rose myrtle
taxonomic: Myrtus nivellei
word: Saharan myrtle
word: salt myrtle
taxonomic: Baccharis halimifolia
word: salt-myrtle
taxonomic: Kalmia buxifolia
word: sand myrtle
word: sea myrtle
word: sea-myrtle
taxonomic: Ugni molinae
word: strawberry myrtle
taxonomic: Nothofagus cunninghamii
word: Tasmanian myrtle
taxonomic: Myrtus communis
word: true myrtle
taxonomic: Morella cerifera
alt: syn. Myrica cerifera
word: wax myrtle
folio
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊlɪəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfəʊljəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfoʊliˌoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊljəʊ
Forms: form: folios
form: folioing
form: folioed
form: folioed
Etymology: From Middle English folio (“leaf of a book”), borrowed from Medieval Latin foliō, Late Latin foliō, Latin foliō, the ablative singular form of Late Latin folium (“leaf or sheet of paper”), Latin folium (“leaf of a plant”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“bloom, flower”). Doublet of foil and folium, and distantly related to phyllo and phyllon.
Senses 1, 2, 3.1, 5, and 6 relating to a leaf or page are derived from Medieval Latin foliō in references; sense 5 (“page in an account book”) may be derived from Italian foglio (“rectangular sheet of paper”), from Latin folium. Senses 3.2 and 3.3 relating to a paper size are from Italian in foglio or its etymon Latin in foliō.
Senses: examples: text: And all the pleadings and other proceedings and copies thereof shall be fairly and legibly written; and if not so written, and folioed, and indorsed as aforesaid, the clerks shall not file such as may be offered to them for that purpose, nor will the court hear any motion or application founded thereon.
ref: 1860, Nathan Howard, Jr., “Rules of the Supreme Court”, in The Code of Procedure of Pleadings and Practice of the State of New-York, 1860, 2nd enl. and improved edition, New York, N.Y.: Banks & Brothers, law publishers, 144 Nassau Street; and 475 Broadway, Albany, →OCLC, rule XX, page 735:
text: Folioing. The rule previously stated as to affidavits and other papers in respect to folioing applies also to petitions. They must be fairly and legibly written and indorsed, and where they are of more than two folios in length must be folioed.
ref: 1874, William Wait, “Part XIII. Motions, Orders and Papers. Chapter II. Affidavits and Petitions. Article II. Petitions. Section 3. Form and Contents of Petitions.”, in The Practice at Law, in Equity, and in Special Proceedings, in All the Courts of Record in the State of New York; with Appropriate Forms, volume IV, Albany, N.Y.: William Gould & Son, law booksellers and publishers, →OCLC, page 585:
text: Folioing is necessary as an indication how far in his work the poster has proceeded, and must be done in both books immediately after each entry.
ref: 1907, J[ohn] Thornton, “Lesson VII.—The Principle of the Transfer from Preparatory to Final Record”, in A Manual of Bookkeeping for the Use of Students (Elementary Commercial Class-books), new and rev. edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, St Martin's Street, London, →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: To put a serial number on (a folio or page, or on all the folios or pages of a book); to foliate, to page.
fantasise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fantasises
form: fantasising
form: fantasised
form: fantasised
form: fantasize
Senses: examples: text: He's so hot. I used to fantasise about him constantly.
glosses: To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
glosses: To portray in the mind, using fantasy.
Derived terms: fantasiser
assorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assort
assorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assorted
form: most assorted
Senses: examples: text: Nor was I ever able to treat myself to the national drunkard's delight that is the ‘munchy box’: a foot-square pizza carton crammed with onion rings, doner meat shavings, hunks of nan bread and nuggets of assorted bhaji, all served on a bed of Glasgow salad.
ref: 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: Composed of a number of different kinds or types; mixed; miscellaneous.
Synonyms: word: assorted
word: confused
word: conglomerate
word: desultory
word: deviating
word: different
word: disaccordant
word: discordant
word: discrepant
word: disordered
word: disparate
word: dissimilar
word: divers
word: diverse
word: diversified
word: inaccordant
word: incongruous
word: inconsistent
word: inconsonant
word: indiscriminate
word: inharmonious
word: irregular
word: jumbled
word: manifold
word: many-sided
word: mingled
word: miscellaneous
word: mixed
word: mixed up
word: mosaic
word: motley
word: multifarious
word: multiform
word: multifold
word: multigenerous
word: multiplex
word: nonuniform
word: odd
word: omniform
word: omnigenous
word: omnifarious
word: polymorphous
word: protean
word: sundry
word: unmatched
word: unrelated
word: varied
word: variegated
word: variform
word: various
Hypernyms: word: heterogeneous
Hyponyms: word: epicene
Derived terms: assortedly
assortedness
assortment
unassorted
Related terms: word: et hoc genus omne
fantasize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæntəˌsaɪz/
ipa: /ˈfæntəˌsaɪz/
ipa: [ˈfæ̃ɾ̃əˌsaɪz]
ipa: [ˈfænəˌsaɪz]
Forms: form: fantasizes
form: fantasizing
form: fantasized
form: fantasized
form: fantasise
form: phantasise
form: phantasize
Etymology: From fantasy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I fantasized about my ideal date.
glosses: To indulge in fantasy; to imagine things only possible in fantasy.
examples: text: Not that Mom and I didn't have our "shared experiences" — it's just that I'd like to forget most of them. I'd rather fantasize us together in that little cafe.
ref: 1984 August 11, Janice Irvine, “Secrets of Fear, Shame, and Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 9:
text: Actress Dana Delany fantasizes about making love with two men.
ref: 1995 March 22, “Seinfeld with Madonna? 'Cosmo' reveals sex fantasies”, in The Arizona Republic:
glosses: To portray in the mind, using fantasy.
Derived terms: fantasization
fantasizer
refantasize
flâneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flâneurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flaneur.
mocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mock
mocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Forms: form: mockings
Senses: glosses: mockery
Derived terms: mocking is catching
mocking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
Forms: form: more mocking
form: most mocking
Senses: glosses: derisive or contemptuous
examples: text: mocking laugh
text: mocking laughter
glosses: teasing or taunting
Derived terms: mockingbird
mockingly
mockingness
mocking thrush
mocking wren
unmocking
occlude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkluːd/
Forms: form: occludes
form: occluding
form: occluded
form: occluded
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin occlūdere, from ob (“before”) and claudere (“to shut”).
Senses: examples: text: His reflection is occluded by the mist on the mirror.
ref: 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 301:
glosses: To obstruct, cover, or otherwise block (an opening, a portion of an image, etc.).
glosses: To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
Derived terms: malocclude
nonoccluded
occludable
occluded front
occluder
occludin
reocclude
re-occlude
reoccluded
unoccluded
Related terms: disocclude
disocclusion
occlusal
occlusion
occlusive
postoccluded
preoccluded
diametral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French dyametral, from Medieval Latin diametrālis.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or measured across a diameter.
glosses: Contrary; diametrically opposed.
Synonyms: diametrical
Derived terms: diametrally
nondiametral
diametral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diametrals
Etymology: From Middle French dyametral, from Medieval Latin diametrālis.
Senses: examples: text: […] The inceſſion or locall motion of animals is made vvith analogy unto this figure, by decuſſative diametrals, Quincunciall Lines and angles.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: A diameter.
centuple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːpəl
Senses: glosses: Hundredfold. Multiplied by one hundred.
Derived terms: centuply
centuple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːpəl
Forms: form: centuples
form: centupling
form: centupled
form: centupled
Senses: glosses: To increase a hundredfold.
examples: text: "Mechanisation, science, and technology have centupled the productive potential of human labour."
ref: 2015, Errico Malatesta, Carl Levy, Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta:
glosses: To increase or multiply something by a hundred.
Derived terms: centuplet
Related terms: centuplication
alphagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.fəˌɡɹæm/
Forms: form: alphagrams
Etymology: Apparently a blend of alphabetical + anagram; see also -gram.
Senses: glosses: The letters of a word, or any other set of letters, arranged in alphabetical order.
Related terms: anagram
anamonic
palindrome
vigor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪɡɚ/
Forms: form: vigors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vigour.
leguminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leguminous
form: most leguminous
form: leguminose
Etymology: From Middle English leguminous, from Medieval Latin legūminōsus.
Senses: glosses: Of the Leguminosae family of peas, beans etc.
glosses: Resembling a legume.
Derived terms: nonleguminous
Afro-American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro-Americans
form: Aframerican
Etymology: From Afro- + American.
Senses: examples: text: That great battle was won, not because the victim of slavery was a negro, mulatto, or an Afro-American, but because the victim of slavery was a man and a brother to all other men, a child of God, and could claim with all mankind a common Father, and therefore should be recognized as an accountable being, a subject of government, and entitled to justice, liberty and equality before the law, and every where else.
ref: 1894 September 3, Frederick Douglass, Blessings of Liberty and Education, Manassas, Virginia:
glosses: A native or resident of the United States (an American) who is of African heritage.
Synonyms: African-American
Afro-American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Aframerican
Etymology: From Afro- + American.
Senses: examples: text: I inadvertently gave the afro-american delivery boi a $5 tip probably due to the fact that I had pickled a few brain cells.
ref: 2004 August 5, "Zonee", “Ungratefull fucking pizza boi....”, in alt.pizza.delivery.drivers (Usenet), retrieved 09 Mar 2008:
glosses: Of African-American heritage or culture
Synonyms: African-American
Related terms: black
person of color
negro
Afro-Latin
Afro-Russian
Euro-American
gorm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
homophone: gaum (non-rhotic)
ipa: /ɡoɹm/
Forms: form: gorms
form: gorming
form: gormed
form: gormed
form: gawm
Etymology: A variant of gaum, from Middle English gome, from Old Norse gaumr, from Proto-Germanic *gaumō; compare Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌿𐌼𐌾𐌰𐌽 (gaumjan, “observe”), and see gaum for more. The -r- was not originally pronounced but was a device used by non-rhotic dialects of English to indicate vowel length or quality (compare Burma, Myanmar, and juggernaut).
Senses: examples: text: Passing through St. George's Square, Lupus Street, Chichester Street, he scarcely saw a soul; then, quite suddenly, he struck a dense crowd, kept back by the police, standing gorming at a great jagged hole in a high blank wall, a glimpse, the merest glimpse of more broken walls, shattered chimneys.
ref: 1922, Elinor Mordaunt, Laura Creichton, page 110:
text: "Tell Sannah to bring some coffee," said the young woman to a diminutive Kaffir boy, who stood gorming at us with round black eyes.
ref: 1901, New Outlook, volume 67, page 408:
text: They would stand in silence, mindlessly gorming at each other, […]
ref: 1990, Jean Ure, Play Nimrod for him, →ISBN, page 96:
text: In particular, we like to emphasize that, far from wasting our childhoods (not to mention adulthoods) mindlessly gorming at The Virginian and The Avengers, we spent those couch-potato years in rigorous preparation for our chosen career.
ref: 2005, Lynne Truss, The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels, →ISBN:
glosses: To gawk; to stare or gape.
Related terms: english: see, recognize, take notice of
translation: see, recognize, take notice of
word: goam
english: understand; comprehend; consider
translation: understand; comprehend; consider
word: gaum
gorm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
homophone: gaum (non-rhotic)
ipa: /ɡoɹm/
Forms: form: gorms
form: gorming
form: gormed
form: gormed
Etymology: A variant of gaum (itself likely a variant of gum), with the ‘r’ being a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English.
Senses: examples: text: 'It is quite ruined.'
'How did she do it? What a pity!'
'With paint—assisting in the painting of a garden-gate. She told me the pleasure of "gorming" it on was too irresistible to be resisted; and the poor little new gown in done for.'
ref: 1884, Margaret Elizabeth Majendie, Out of their element, page 70:
text: "It was in a little sprinkler bottle, an' I gormed it onto my vittles good an' thick. Lordy, Lordy, an' now I got to die!"
ref: 1909, Augusta Kortrecht, “The Widow Mary”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 48, page 182:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:gorm.
glosses: Alternative form of gaum (“to smear”).
gorm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
homophone: gaum (non-rhotic)
ipa: /ɡoɹm/
Forms: form: gorms
form: gorming
form: gormed
form: gormed
Etymology: From gormandize/gormandise.
Senses: examples: text: The bear came up to the berries and stopped. Not accustomed to eat out of a pail, he tipped it over, and nosed about the fruit "gorming" it down, mixed with leaves and dirt, […]
ref: 1885, James Johonnot, Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and Their Kin, page 105:
text: […] an itinerant bruin and with naught on his hands but time and an appetite, [to] wander from ravine to ravine and gorm down this delectable fruit.
ref: 1920, Outdoor Recreation: The Magazine that Brings the Outdoors In:
text: As Luohi said later, "He gormed it. Nay, he didn't eat it. He gormed it, the pig."
ref: 1980, Michael G. Karni, Finnish Americana, page 5:
glosses: To devour; to wolf down (food).
gorm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːm/
homophone: gaum (non-rhotic)
ipa: /ɡoɹm/
Forms: form: gorms
form: gorming
form: gormed
form: gormed
form: gaum
Etymology: Supposed by some to be related to gormless and/or gorming, and by others to be related to gorm (“smear”) (itself probably related to gum (“make sticky; impair the functioning of”)).
Senses: examples: text: I find the cheap shilling self-filling pen advertised in these pages excellent value—quite equal to that of fountain-pens I have paid ten times as much for. It is also durable. I am a careless person, and prefer to discard it when I have “gormed” it […]
ref: 1910, English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 91, page 273:
text: "Truth is, I've gormed it all up, Alistair. When it comes t' women — nice women anyway — I'm as caw-handed and cork-brained as any pimply boy."
ref: 2008, Christine Blevins, Midwife of the Blue Ridge, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: To make a mess of.
raw_tags: with ‘up’
Related terms: gormed
efforts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfɚts/
ipa: /ˈɛfəts/
Senses: glosses: plural of effort
copies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑpiz/
ipa: /ˈkɒpiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of copy
copies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑpiz/
ipa: /ˈkɒpiz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copy
lives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪvz/
rhymes: -ɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of live
lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪvz/
rhymes: -ɪvz
ipa: /laɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
ipa: /lɪvz/
rhymes: -ɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of life
stopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɑpt/
rhymes: -ɑpt
Etymology: From stop + -ed. In some senses, the adjective follows from the verb; in others, it may derive directly from the noun stop.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stop