cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Body of Christ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Body of Christ
form: body of Christ
Etymology: From body + of + Christ.
Senses: glosses: The corpse or resurrected body of Jesus Christ.
examples: text: Priest, presenting the host: The Body of Christ. [= This bread is the body of our saviour.]
Congregant, receiving the host: Amen. [= Yes, I agree that it is.]
synonyms: host
glosses: The consecrated bread of the Eucharist, considered to be the flesh of Jesus Christ.
glosses: All believers in Jesus Christ as a group; the Church.
Related terms: Communion
Holy Communion
Lamb of God
focussing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The bacteriologist adjusted the focussing knob on the microscope.
glosses: Alternative spelling of focusing.
focussing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At the time of the accident, the searchlight signals here were fitted with standard narrow-beam focussing, aimed at a train within 70yd of the signal.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Newcastle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76:
glosses: Alternative spelling of focusing.
focussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of focus
file away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: files away
form: filing away
form: filed away
form: filed away
Senses: examples: text: Would you help me file away these reports?
glosses: To store in a file; to get rid of a document by placing it in a file or other storage.
examples: text: His words hurt, but I'll file away my emotions until I can get my revenge.
glosses: To cause oneself to remember (something); to avoid expressing a feeling, fact or idea until an appropriate time.
examples: text: The soldiers filed way at a quick pace.
text: Then, in a moment of sheer grief, he touched Yebby’s tousled hair for the last time and stood back, watching silently as the men filed away, out of the clearing towards the settlement.
ref: 2011 September 14, Barbara Yates Rothwell, The Boy from the Hulks, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 230:
glosses: To move away in a file.
Tz'utujil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tz'utujils
form: Tz'utujil
form: Tzutujil
form: Tzutuhil
form: Sutujil
form: Zutugil
form: Zutuhil
Etymology: From Spanish, from Tz'utujil, from tz'utuj (“cornfield flower”) + -il (a suffix that indicates abstraction). Literally it means “beautiful cornfield flower”.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people, one of the 21 Maya ethnic groups that dwell in Guatemala, primarily around Lake Atitlan.
Tz'utujil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tzutujil
form: Tzutuhil
form: Sutujil
form: Zutugil
form: Zutuhil
Etymology: From Spanish, from Tz'utujil, from tz'utuj (“cornfield flower”) + -il (a suffix that indicates abstraction). Literally it means “beautiful cornfield flower”.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Tz'utujil people.
happy hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: happy hours
Etymology: US origin, 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, happy hour. A great American invention for spending quality time with spouse, soused.
ref: 1988, Heywood Gould, Cocktail (motion picture), spoken by Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise):
glosses: A time of day, usually in the afternoon or early evening, when a bar or pub offers its drinks at a discounted price.
glosses: Any small gathering, usually in the afternoon or early evening, set aside to relax and have a drink.
glosses: Flowers.
realization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /-laɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹiə-/
Forms: form: realizations
form: realisation
Etymology: From French réalisation, from Middle French; equivalent to realize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: He came to the startling realization that he had never really known the truth.
text: A bath is a lovely relaxing event, until the realization that you're soaking in your own crud.
glosses: The act of realizing, as:
An act of figuring out or becoming aware.
examples: text: He did not stay around long enough to see the realization of the idea.
text: The realization of the plan took several years.
glosses: The act of realizing, as:
The act of making real.
coordinate_terms: embodiment
eventualization
incarnation
instantiation
execution
examples: text: The painter's realization of her concept was breathtaking.
glosses: The act of realizing, as:
The result of an artistic effort.
examples: text: The realization of -nd as -nn- is not uncommon in the Nuorese dialects.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 79:
glosses: The act of realizing, as:
The manner in which a phoneme is pronounced.
Derived terms: self-realization
Related terms: real
realism
realistic
reality
realizable
realize
realizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪə.laɪzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹi(.ə)ˌlaɪzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɪə.laɪzɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of realize
bordering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of border
bordering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: France and Spain are bordering nations.
text: King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale-house bordering on the theatre, when he was summoned to go on the stage.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
glosses: Having a common boundary or border
Related terms: border on
bordering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borderings
Senses: examples: text: White silk borderings and silver buckles.
ref: 1874, Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine:
glosses: A pattern or ornament forming a border.
organoleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)ˌɡænəʊˈlɛptɪk/
Etymology: From French organoleptique, from organo- + Ancient Greek ληπτικός (lēptikós, “disposed to take”), from λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
Senses: examples: text: The organoleptic assessment of the wine showed that it was spoiled.
text: At some point in the history of QC evaluations of alcohol beverages the phrase ‘organoleptic testing’ crept into the industry's vocabulary. Though organoleptic testing does refer to the use of the senses for product evaluations, that is where the comparison to sensory evaluation stops.
ref: 2011, John Piggott, editor, Alcoholic Beverages: Sensory Evaluation and Consumer Research, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the sensory properties of a particular food or chemical, the taste, colour, odour, and feel.
Derived terms: organoleptically
organoleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)ˌɡænəʊˈlɛptɪk/
Forms: form: organoleptics
Etymology: From French organoleptique, from organo- + Ancient Greek ληπτικός (lēptikós, “disposed to take”), from λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
Senses: glosses: Such a property
Good King Henry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good-king-henry
Etymology: 1640; alteration (influenced by the name of Henry VII (1457–1509), King of England) of Good-Henry (1578), from the name Henry.
Senses: synonyms: Lincolnshire spinach
mercury
poor man's asparagus
markery
English mercury
allgood
glosses: A goosefoot of species Blitum bonus-henricus (syn. Chenopodium bonus-henricus), native to Britain and much of Europe, cultivated as a vegetable.
Hypernyms: goosefoot
Coordinate terms: english: white goosefoot, fat hen
translation: white goosefoot, fat hen
word: Chenopodium album
hourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊ̯əli/
ipa: /ˈaʊ̯ɚli/
Etymology: From hour + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There are hourly express buses.
text: The [four] motors have a continuous rating of 144 h.p. and an hourly output of 180 h.p., giving a total hourly rating of 720 h.p. compared with the six-motored "Arlecchino's" 994 h.p.
ref: 1961 November, D. W. Beadle, “New long-distance electric units for the Italian State Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 671:
text: This service has suffered badly from Department for Transport-inspired cuts which reduced it from hourly to two-hourly. This, coupled with regular cancellations, has rendered the train service between the area's two biggest towns almost unusable.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:
synonyms: horary
glosses: Occurring every hour.
glosses: Unsalaried, paid by the hour; (by extension) blue-collar.
Derived terms: bihourly
bi-hourly
half-hourly
hourly rating
hourly wage
nonhourly
quarter-hourly
semihourly
semi-hourly
subhourly
trihourly
two-hourly
hourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊ̯əli/
ipa: /ˈaʊ̯ɚli/
Etymology: From hour + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Express buses depart hourly.
text: Commencement of a two-hourly service pattern by GWR marked the return of regular services to Okehampton for the first time since their withdrawal in 1972. There are plans to extend this to hourly.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Thousands savour Okehampton visit”, in RAIL, number 948, page 11:
glosses: At intervals of an hour.
Derived terms: bihourly
half-hourly
semihourly
semi-hourly
hourly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊ̯əli/
ipa: /ˈaʊ̯ɚli/
Forms: form: hourlies
Etymology: From hour + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She never reads her hourly report, but let her hourlies be fifteen minutes late and she raises a ruckus.
glosses: Something produced each hour.
eternally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈtɜː.nə.li/
ipa: /ɪˈtɜːn.li/
ipa: /ɪˈtɝ.nə.li/
ipa: /iˈtɝ.nə.li/
ipa: /ɪˈtɜːn.li/
Forms: form: æternally
Etymology: From Middle English eternally, eternaly; equivalent to eternal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I shall be eternally grateful for your assistance.
glosses: For eternity; forever.
examples: text: The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
ref: 1908, W. B. M. Ferguson, chapter 1, in Zollenstein:
glosses: Unceasingly, recurringly.
Synonyms: sense: for eternity
word: ever
word: forevermore
word: until hell freezes over
word: forever
sense: unceasingly, recurringly
word: ceaselessly
word: incessantly
word: nonstop
word: continuously
Derived terms: [[:eternally collapsing object
irreducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹɪˈdjuːsɪbəl/
Etymology: From ir- + reducible.
Senses: examples: text: With each reduction in the number of railways, there must come, eventually, a decline in interest, if only through reduction in variety; and when it comes to one nationalised railway only we have reached the irreducible minimum.
ref: 1948 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
antonyms: unincreasable
glosses: Not able to be reduced or lessened.
glosses: Not able to be brought to a simpler or reduced form.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Unable to be factorized into polynomials of lower degree, as (x² + 1).
raw_tags: of a polynomial
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: Whose numerator and denominator share no common factor greater than 1.
raw_tags: of a fraction
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: Unable to be factored into smaller integers; prime.
raw_tags: of an integer
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Whose only divisors are units and associates.
raw_tags: of an element of a ring
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Inexpressible as the union of two proper algebraic subvarieties.
raw_tags: of an algebraic variety
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Not containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
raw_tags: of a manifold
topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Impossible to divide further into representations of lower dimension by means of any similarity transformation.
raw_tags: of a representation
Derived terms: irreducibility
irreducible complexity
irreducibleness
irreducibly
irrep
irreducible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹɪˈdjuːsɪbəl/
Forms: form: irreducibles
Etymology: From ir- + reducible.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such a polynomial
eventual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɛn(t)ʃʊəl/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛn(t)ʃəl/
ipa: /ə-/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛnt͡ʃuəl/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛnt͡ʃəl/
ipa: /ə-/
homophone: evential stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: From event + -ual; compare French éventuel. The third sense is influenced by any of several European languages, including German eventuell, French éventuel, Italian eventuale, Spanish eventual, Swedish eventuell.
Senses: glosses: Finally resulting or occurring (after a period of time); inevitable.
glosses: Pertaining to events; event-related, evential.
examples: text: They both opposed an eventual imposition of anti-dumping measures as they considered that it could lead to a cessation of imports of the product concerned from the PRC79.
qualifier: non-native speakers' English or European Union
glosses: Possible, potential.
Synonyms: soon-to-be
Derived terms: eventualise
eventualism
eventualist
eventuality
eventually
irreducibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irreducibilities
Senses: examples: text: I gave them account of what I had seen of the case, of my opinion concerning the irreducibility of the rupture, and that it had no share in the present complaint; at the same time desiring my colleague to examine for himself.
ref: 1779, Percivall Pott, The Chirurgical Works of Percivall Pott, volume 3, page 305:
glosses: The quality or degree of being irreducible.
examples: text: There is plebs in bodies, in souls, in individuals, in the proletariat, in the bourgeoisie, but everywhere in a diversity of forms and extensions, of energies and irreducibilities.
ref: 1997, John S. Ransom, Foucault's discipline: the politics of subjectivity, page 130:
glosses: Something that is irreducible.
Derived terms: Abel's irreducibility theorem
irreducibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irreducibly
form: most irreducibly
Etymology: From irreducible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irreducible manner or state.
irrefragability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: irrefragableness
glosses: The quality or degree of being irrefragable.
irrefragableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irrefragable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of irrefragability.
synonyms: word: irrefragability
irrefragably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹɛf.ɹə.ɡə.blɪ/
Forms: form: more irrefragably
form: most irrefragably
Etymology: From irrefragable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irrefragable state or condition.
irrefrangible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪɹɪˈfɹænd͡ʒəbəl/
Forms: form: more irrefrangible
form: most irrefrangible
Senses: glosses: Not to be broken or transgressed against; inviolable.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: refrangible
glosses: Incapable of being refracted.
Derived terms: irrefrangibleness
irrefrangibly
refracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refract
refracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more refracted
form: most refracted
Senses: examples: a refracted a ray of light
glosses: Turned out of its straight course.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Bent back at an acute angle.
irrefrangibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or degree of being irrefrangible.
irrefrangibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irrefrangible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: How irrefrangible something is.
irrefrangibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irrefrangibly
form: most irrefrangibly
Etymology: From irrefrangible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irrefrangible manner.
seasonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seasonally
form: most seasonally
Etymology: From seasonal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We get bobolinks here seasonally.
text: Although the 1-D RCM can predict only horizontally, diurnally, and seasonally averaged conditions, it is capable of estimating the first-order climate responses of the atmosphere, which is our intention in this study.
ref: 1983, Richard P. Turco et al., “Nuclear winter: Global consequences of multiple nuclear explosions”, in Science, volume 222, number 4630, →ISSN, page 1284:
glosses: Occurring every season.
examples: text: Cherries are available here seasonally.
glosses: Occurring only in season.
Related terms: seasonably
seasonedly
crined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪnd
ipa: /kɹaɪnd/
ipa: /kɹʌɪnd/
Etymology: From Old French crine (“hair of the head”) (French crin) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Sa. three boys' heads couped at the shoulders ppr. having snakes enwrapped about their necks vert ; (sometimes borne with a chev. ar.) Crest - A boy's head as in the arms, (sometimes crined or.) VAUGHAN
ref: 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland: Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms:
text: a crested bird called in Zemblan sampel (‘silktail’), closely resembling a waxwing in shape and shade, is the model of one of the three heraldic creatures (the other two being a reindeer proper and a merman azure, crined or) in the armorial bearings of the Zemblan King, Charles the Beloved
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Having hair or a mane of a specified tincture, different from that of the body.
synchronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋkɹənəs/
Forms: form: more synchronous
form: most synchronous
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin synchronus, from Ancient Greek σύγχρονος (súnkhronos, “contemporaneous”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “with, together”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -ous = synchrony + -ous; however, all related words (e.g., synchronic, synchrony, synchronicity, diachronous, diachronic, diachrony, diachronicity) were coined later, either as back-formations from, or otherwise by analogy with the surface analysis of, synchronous.
Senses: synonyms: simultaneous
in phase
in sync
in step
synchronised
nonasynchronous
metachronous
antonyms: asynchronous
antisynchronous
glosses: At the same time, at the same frequency.
examples: text: Post is a “fire and forget” where the UI thread work is performed asynchronously; Send is synchronous in that the call blocks until the UI thread work has been performed.
ref: 2014, Richard Blewett, Andrew Clymer, Pro Asynchronous Programming with .NET, page 25:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: blocking
modal
single-threaded
antonyms: asynchronous
coordinate_terms: plesiochronous
glosses: Single-threaded; blocking; occurring in the same thread as other computations, thereby preventing those computations from resuming until the communication is complete.
raw_tags: of communication
Hyponyms: sun-synchronous
Derived terms: antisynchronous
asynchronous
autosynchronous
bisynchronous
desynchronous
dyssynchronous
dysynchronous
geosynchronous
heliosynchronous
hemisynchronous
hypersynchronous
isosynchronous
metasynchronous
nonasynchronous
nonsynchronous
parasynchronous
pseudosynchronous
semisynchronous
subsynchronous
sun-synchronous orbit
supersynchronous
synchronous diaphragmatic flutter
synchronously
synchronous motor
synchronousness
synchronous orbit
synchronous rotation
synchronous speed
Related terms: diachronic
diachronically
diachronous
diachronously
synchicity
synchronic
synchronicity
synchronise
synchronist
synchronize
synchronously
synchrony
profitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒf.ɪ.tə.bli/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.fɪ.tə.bli/
Forms: form: more profitably
form: most profitably
Etymology: From profitable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Despite the prevailing external forces, we remain confident in our ability to profitably grow the business in our addressable markets," the company said.
ref: 2023 January 25, “Network News: Keltbray receives £33 million credit facility platform”, in RAIL, number 975, page 11:
glosses: In a profitable manner, in a way that achieves profit or gain.
generously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more generously
form: most generously
Etymology: From generous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He generously donated what little he could.
text: The dessert generously filled a large plate.
text: Consequently, to brighten up a shady spot in the front garden we have recently added ‘Harlequin’, its green foliage splashed generously with white, though hopefully not to be splashed generously with a multicolour yawn.
ref: 2006, Ian Shenton, The Trouble with Plants: Tales of Trivia and Tribulation from an English Garden, page 80:
glosses: In a generous manner, in a way that is giving or ample.
Synonyms: freely
liberally
torquated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɔːˈkweɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more torquated
form: most torquated
Etymology: From Latin torquātus + -ed. By surface analysis, torque + -ated.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a torque.
glosses: Shaped like a torque; twisted; convoluted.
chronologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkli/
ipa: /ˌkɹɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkəli/
Forms: form: more chronologically
form: most chronologically
Etymology: From chronological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He had aged but a year chronologically, but in appearance a decade.
text: Moreover, the term [...] is well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards, while the earliest Anglo-Indian evidence only extends as far back as 1865 and so does not hold precedence. Thus, deriving the term from Hindustani is not chronologically admissible on present evidence.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255:
topics: manner
glosses: In a chronological manner; with reference to time.
examples: text: His chapters are arranged thematically, not chronologically.
glosses: In sequence according to time.
Derived terms: sclerochronologically
skeletochronologically
thievery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːv.(ə)ɹ.i/
Forms: form: thieveries
Etymology: From thieve + -ery. Compare Old Frisian deverie ("thievery; theft"; > West Frisian dieverij; Saterland Frisian Däiweräi), Dutch dieverij (“thievery”), German Low German Deveree (“thievery; theft”), German Dieberei (“thievery”), Danish tyveri (“thievery; theft; larceny”), Swedish tjuveri (“thievery”).
Senses: examples: text: This instance of thievery will not be overlooked.
text: One thief may well have the power to achieve a certain amount of success in fulfilling his desires to possess the property of another. But thievery being what it is, it feeds that desire in an intemperate way, and so the desire grows and grows.
ref: 2008, John O’Callaghan, “Neither Robber Barons nor Philosopher Kings: Political Prudence in the Just Polity”, in Margaret Monahan Hogan, Lauretta Conklin Frederking, editors, The American Experiment: Religious Freedom, [Portland, Ore.]: University of Portland, Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture, →ISBN, section 4 (Theoretical Analyses), page 343:
glosses: The act of theft, the act of stealing.
examples: text: Injurious Time now, with a robber's haste, / Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how;
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 42:
glosses: That which is stolen.
chronometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəˈnɒm.ə.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kɹəˈnɑ.mə.tɚ/
ipa: [kɹəˈnɑ.mə.ɾɚ]
ipa: /kɹəˈnɔm.ə.tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: chronometers
form: chronometre
Etymology: From chrono- + -meter, possibly after the model of earlier French chronomètre (“metronome”), ultimately from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + μέτρον (métron, “meter, measuring device”).
Senses: examples: text: A wristwatch costs $20. A chronometer costs $20,000.
text: The balances of all moveable time-keepers, the chronometer excepted, are prevented from vibrating beyond the proper arc by what is called bankings. The inferior escapements are very easily banked; a pin fixed in the balance, coming in contact with one or two studs, is sufficient for that purpose. […]
ref: 1825, “Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce”, in Royal Society of Arts, Great Britain:
text: The stock-in-trade of this old gentleman comprised chronometers, barometers, telescopes, compasses, charts, maps, sextants, quadrants, and specimens of every kind of instrument used in the working of a ship's course, or the keeping of a ship's reckoning, or the prosecuting of a ship's discoveries.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “chapter 4”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since [Isaac] Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use.
ref: 1878 March 30, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood and Company […], published 1878, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: A device for measuring time, particularly a precision mechanism for measuring time of day.
Synonyms: english: some uses
translation: some uses
word: timepiece
Hyponyms: word: clock
english: some uses
translation: some uses
word: timepiece
word: watch
word: pocket watch
word: stopwatch
word: chronograph
word: chronoscope
word: sundial
word: hourglass
word: water clock
word: clepsydra
word: horologium
word: horologe
Coordinate terms: word: horology
english: study of time
translation: study of time
word: chronometry
word: horologist
english: manufacturer
translation: manufacturer
word: horologer
Derived terms: biochronometer
cosmochronometer
geochronometer
marine chronometer
microchronometer
micronometer
pantochronometer
legibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legibilities
Senses: examples: text: The legibility of this text is questionable: half the people asked said it was almost illegible, but the other half said it was easy to read.
text: The legibility of a type-face is very largely dependent on the absence of similarity between those characters of pairs or triplets which are the most easily mistaken for one another.
ref: 1922, Lucien Alphonse Legros, A Note on the Legibility of Printed Matter:
synonyms: readability
glosses: The property of being legible or easily readable.
Derived terms: interlegibility
perpetuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɜː(ɹ)pɪˈtjuːɪti/
ipa: /ˌpɝpəˈtuːɪti/
Forms: form: perpetuities
Etymology: From Middle English perpetuitee, perpetuite, perpetuyte, from Old French perpetüité, ultimately from Latin perpetuitās.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.
ref: 1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
text: The gnomic belief that the world is conditioned by love is no idle apothegm. Love, as the instrument of creative agencies and cosmic perpetuity, is no banausic conception.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page i:
glosses: The quality or state of being perpetual; endless duration; uninterrupted existence.
glosses: Something that is perpetual.
topics: law
glosses: A limitation intended to be unalterable and of indefinite duration; a disposition of property which attempts to make it inalienable beyond certain limits fixed or conceived as being fixed by the general law.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An annuity in which the periodic payments begin on a fixed date and continue indefinitely.
Synonyms: sense: quality or state of being perpetual
word: endlessness
word: eternity
word: endlessness
Derived terms: in perpetuity
nonperpetuity
Related terms: Perpetuity in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
legislate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪsˌleɪt/
Forms: form: legislates
form: legislating
form: legislated
form: legislated
Etymology: Back-formation from legislation, legislator.
Senses: examples: text: If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate and enforce the statutes.
synonyms: word: lawmake
glosses: To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
Derived terms: colegislate
delegislate
legislation
legislative
legislator
legislature
overlegislate
relegislate
unlegislate
bosquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bosquets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bosket.
bosket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒskɪt/
Forms: form: boskets
form: bosquet
Etymology: Borrowed from French bosquet, from Italian boschetto, diminutive of bosco (“wood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus or boscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (compare Old High German busk). Doublet of bouquet.
Senses: examples: text: When he returned from a swim in the broad and deep brook beyond the bosquet, with wet hair and tingling skin, Van got the rare treat of finding his foreglimpse of live ivory accurately reproduced [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 98:
glosses: A small grove or copse of trees, a thicket.
Related terms: ambush
bush
ceaselessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ceaselessly
form: most ceaselessly
Etymology: From ceaseless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass.
ref: 1905, Richard Jefferies, Nature Near London:
text: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 9, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:
synonyms: word: eternally
word: nonstop
word: unendingly
word: ceaselessly
word: consecutively
word: constantly
word: continually
word: continuously
word: endlessly
word: eternally
word: everlastingly
word: extendedly
word: incessantly
word: infinitely
word: neverendingly
word: nonstop
word: ongoingly
word: perpetually
word: persistently
word: relentlessly
word: steadily
word: successively
word: unbrokenly
word: unceasingly
word: unendingly
word: unintermittedly
word: uninterruptedly
word: unrelentingly
word: unrelievedly
word: unremittingly
word: unstoppingly
glosses: Without ceasing.
preterist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛtəɹɪst/
Forms: form: preterists
Etymology: From preter- + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One whose chief interest is in the past.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: An adherent of preterism; one who believes that the Biblical prophecies of the Apocalypse refer to historical events which have already taken place.
lansquenet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːnskəˌnɛt/
ipa: /ˈlanskəˌnɛt/
ipa: /ˌlænskəˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: lansquenets
form: lambskinnet
form: Landsknecht
form: landsknecht
form: lansknecht
form: lanzknecht
form: lansquenette
Etymology: Borrowed from French lansquenet, from German Landsknecht, from Lands (“of the land”) + Knecht (“servant”). Doublet of Landsknecht.
Senses: examples: text: […] arising out of this festival there was established an individual lansquenet tradition, in speech and outward appearance, and the bare, sunburnt necks of the vagabond soldiers, their baggy garments hanging in shreds, and their short swords, could be seen all over the country for long afterwards.
ref: 1855, Gottfried Keller, translated by A.M. Holt, Green Henry, Calder Publications, published 1960, page 440:
text: Ruthless killing, wanton strife / Add up to a lanzknecht’s life.
ref: 1999, HJC von Grimmelshausen, translated by Mike Mitchell, Simplicissimus, Dedalus, published 2016, page 52:
text: I have never really been outdoorsy enough to make a mercenary landsknecht, although their immense two-handed swords, flowing moustaches and puffed-silk slashed sleeves take some beating.
ref: 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 55:
glosses: Any of a class of German mercenaries of the 15th and 16th centuries, most of whom were pikemen and foot soldiers.
examples: text: “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: One could see part of the dimly lit court where under an enclosed poplar two soldiers on a stone bench were playing lansquenet.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
text: And so it was over the game of lansquenet that I scored my first triumph.
ref: 1782, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, translated by Helen Constantine, Dangerous Liaisons, published 2007, page 196:
synonyms: skin the lamb
glosses: A gambling card game in which the dealer is given an initial card and the players another; cards are then turned up until the value (rank) of one of those cards is met.
Anno Domini
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: anno domini
form: anno Domini
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin annō Dominī (“in the year of the Lord”) from the word annō (“in the year”) the ablative of annus (“year”) + Dominī (“of the Lord”) the genitive of Dominus (“the Lord”).
Senses: examples: text: In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620.
ref: 1620, Mayflower Compact, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: The scene was Mr. Cruncher’s private lodging in Hanging-sword-alley, Whitefriars: the time, half-past seven of the clock on a windy March morning, Anno Domini seventeen hundred and eighty.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “Book the Second”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: In the year of our Lord (often abbreviated A.D. or AD).
Synonyms: alt: A.D., A. D., a.d.
word: AD
word: Common Era
word: Christian Era
word: in the year of our Lord
word: in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ
Related terms: Anno Hegirae
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will do
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: An ellipsis for "I will do (it or that)."
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see will, do.
examples: text: Could you wake me when you get up? — No problem, will do.
text: Make sure you understand this before the next class. — Will do, for sure.
text: One of us needs to verify the source. — Will do, but I could use some help.
qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: Affirmative yes in response to an especially personal or direct request for the performance of some action.
Related terms: that will do
that'll do
commonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commonises
form: commonising
form: commonised
form: commonised
Etymology: From common + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: “The trick is not to commonise the wrong bits in different models. You commonise parts such as batteries and alternators, not things the customer can see, like the window switches.”
ref: 2004, “The Car Industry: Fighting Back”, in The Economist:
text: Special new fasteners are being introduced on the new car to hold it together better than ever. To simplify design and ease of maintenance I eventually hope to commonise and standardise all fasteners on the car.
ref: 2003, Paul Bott, Formula Racing at Birmingham:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of commonize.
attune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtjuːn/
ipa: /əˈt͜ʃuːn/
ipa: /əˈt(j)un/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: attunes
form: attuning
form: attuned
form: attuned
Etymology: From ad- + tune.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To bring into musical accord.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To tune (an instrument).
examples: text: By meditating, I try to attune myself to the greater cosmos.
glosses: To bring into harmony or accord.
examples: text: Is yonder wave the sun's eternal bed? / Soon shall the orient with new lustre burn, / And spring shall soon her vital influence shed, / Again attune the grove, […]
ref: c. 1771, James Beattie, Life and Immortality:
glosses: To fill with music.
Derived terms: attunable
attunement
attuner
misattune
reattune
molested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of molest
True Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the True Cross
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The cross on which Christ was crucified, particularly considered as a relic.
Synonyms: Cross
Holy Rood
Related terms: Veracruz
eolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eoliths
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs, “dawn”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: Crudely chopped flints, believed to be naturally produced by geological processes such as glaciation.
limpness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limpnesses
Etymology: From limp + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Property of being limp.
lionization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lionizations
Etymology: From lionize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of lionizing, the behavior that treats someone as a celebrity, either respectfully honoring or fawning adoration.
lionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lionize
lionizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lionization
linguine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪŋˈɡwiːnɪ/
ipa: /lɪŋˈɡwini/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: linguines
form: linguini
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian linguine (literally “little tongues”), from lingua (“tongue”).
Senses: glosses: Ribbons of pasta, cut from a sheet, not as wide as tagliatelle.
Derived terms: linguinilike
limitlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limitlessnesses
Etymology: From limitless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The limitlessness of the heavens awes us.
glosses: The property of being limitless: infiniteness, boundlessness.
Synonyms: infinity
interrogative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈɹɔɡ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˌɪn.təˈɹɔɡ.ə.ɾɪv]
Etymology: From Late Latin interrogātīvus.
Senses: examples: text: an interrogative phrase
text: an interrogative pronoun
text: The regular place of the interrogative word, of whatever kind, is at the beginning of the sentence, or as near it as possible.
ref: 1877, William Dwight Whitney, Essentials of English Grammar for the Use of Schools, §470:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Asking or denoting a question.
examples: text: He took on an interrogative tone of voice.
text: Thus speaking, the good man regarded his lady with an interrogative look. "I do n't know, dear!" she replied kindly, and sighing again.
ref: 1847, Charles Sealsfield, Rambleton: A Romance of Fashionable Life in New-York during the Great Speculation of 1836, →OCLC, page 127:
glosses: Pertaining to inquiry; questioning
Synonyms: examining
inquiring
investigative
Coordinate terms: assertoric
imperative
Derived terms: interrogative accent
interrogative judgement
interrogatively
interrogative pronoun
noninterrogative
nterrogative adjective
Related terms: interrogate
interrogation
interrogator
interrogative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈɹɒɡ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˌɪn.təˈɹɑ.ɡə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈɹɔɡ.ə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˌɪn.təˈɹɔɡ.ə.ɾɪv]
Forms: form: interrogatives
Etymology: From Late Latin interrogātīvus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word (pronoun, pronominal adjective, or adverb) implying interrogation, or used for asking a question: why, who, when, etc.
examples: text: There be five manner of points and divisions most used among cunning men; the which if they be well used, make the sentence very light and easy to be understood, both to the reader and hearer: and they be these, virgil,—come,—parenthesis,—plain point,—interrogative.
ref: 1824, J. Johnson, Typographia:
text: Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.
ref: 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
synonyms: word: question mark
extra: ?
examples: text: "Who are you, sir, and what is your business?" demanded the Marquis... "That is a fair interrogative, my lord," answered Dalgetty.
ref: 1819, Sir Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose, section XII:
glosses: A question; an interrogation.
Synonyms: sense: punctuation mark
word: question mark
word: interrogative
Hypernyms: word: word
Hyponyms: word: interrogative pronoun
Derived terms: interrogative-point
Related terms: word: interrogate
word: interrogatedness
word: interrogatee
word: interrogation
word: interrogator
word: interrogatory
topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: redditive
pieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pie
pieing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: pieings
Senses: examples: text: The Canadian prime minister was the victim of a pieing.
glosses: An instance of throwing a pie at someone, often a politician or other powerful or influential person as a means of protest.
bed push
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed pushes
Senses: glosses: A fundraising event, usually run by hospitals, where a wheeled bed is pushed through the streets to raise awareness of the campaign.
awari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An African game of strategy, played by moving seeds on a board.
Synonyms: oware
puffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌfɚ/
ipa: /ˈpʌfə/
rhymes: -ʌfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: puffers
Etymology: From puff + -er.
The cellular automata definition is a clipping of puffer train.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that puffs.
glosses: Any of several poisonous fish, of the family Tetraodontidae, which have the ability to inflate their bodies when in danger.
glosses: A manually-operated inhaler.
glosses: A train; a locomotive, usually one that is steam-powered.
glosses: A Clyde puffer, a kind of small ship.
glosses: A car left idling to warm up, emitting steam from the rear.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: An insulated puffy jacket, such as a down jacket.
glosses: A person who gives exaggerated praise to a product, literary work, etc.
examples: text: Cicero in his Offices declares his opinion , that a vendor ought not to appoint a puffer to raise the price
ref: 1834, The Law Library:
glosses: One who is employed by the owner or seller of goods sold at auction to bid up the price; a by-bidder.
glosses: An alchemist; so named from their constant attendance to the bellows of their furnaces.
glosses: The common, or harbour, porpoise.
glosses: A kier used in dyeing.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A soffietta.
examples: text: This is the next best thing, which is a pseudo-puffer made by converting a stream of spaceships into puffer output using several c/3 spaceships.
ref: 1993 March 16, David Bell, “Life program (part 2/18)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: Might be interesting to see if the debris from this puffer can be suppressed somehow -- assuming somebody hasn't already done that, but I don't see any sign of previous attempts.
ref: 2008 June 25, Dave Greene, “B37/S23 - A Chaotic Universe.”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.
ref: 2015, Paul Rendell, Turing Machine Universality of the Game of Life, page 133:
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A finite pattern that moves like a spaceship but leaves a trail of debris.
glosses: A security device used to detect traces of explosives or drugs on a person, by blowing puffs of air that pick up tiny particles.
Synonyms: topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: globefish
topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: pufferfish
Derived terms: Clyde puffer
party puffer
peter puffer
pink puffer
porcupine puffer
puffer coat
puffer jacket
Randall's puffer
threetooth puffer
stinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Years ago, when striplings, he and I had done a stretch together at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, the preparatory school conducted by that prince of stinkers, Aubrey Upjohn MA, and had frequently stood side by side in the Upjohn study awaiting the receipt of six of the juiciest from a cane of the type that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, as the fellow said.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter I:
glosses: plural of stinker
totemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊˈtɛmɪk/
rhymes: -ɛmɪk
Etymology: From totem + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The Lithuanian director escaped the Nazis and moved to New York, where he became a totemic figure for artists including Andy Warhol and John Lennon[.]
ref: 2019 January 23, Alex Needham, “Jonas Mekas, titan of underground filmmaking, dies aged 96”, in The Guardian:
text: Hunt also refused to rule out cuts to totemic Conservative pledges, including defence spending and the pensions triple lock.
ref: 2022 October 17, Jessica Elgot, Larry Elliott, Aubrey Allegretti, “Jeremy Hunt shreds Truss’s economic plans in astounding U-turn on tax”, in The Guardian:
text: Gone is the idea of a totemic strand of DNA that extends six feet when uncoiled and stretched out in a straight line. Now, the rebooted reference resembles a corn maze, with alternative paths and side trails that allow scientists to explore a broader range of the genetic diversity found in people the world over.
ref: 2023 May 10, Elie Dolgin, “Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Serving as, or relating to, a totem.
Related terms: emblematic