cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
matelot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt.ləʊ/
rhymes: -ætləʊ
Forms: form: matelots
Etymology: From Middle French matelot (“sailor”). Compare Dutch matroos and German Matrose. Doublet of matross.
Senses: examples: text: One day, a stalwart sailor was brought in with a severe fracture below the knee […] A week later the leg had turned septic but the matelot was endearing cheerful. "Never mind, Sister" he assured Anne. "I'll get a piece of whalebone, like Captain Ahab."
ref: 2004, Alan O'Reilly, Sound of Battle, Coral Springs, Florida: Llumina Press, →ISBN, page 147:
text: […] a chief petty officer, snarled something under his breath about bloody 'am-fisted matelots […]
ref: 1984, John Harris, A Funny Place to Hold a War, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN:
text: So far as the average matelot was concerned, there was little romanticism about the preference for frigates, destroyers, frail E-boats that could be blown up with one well-aimed cannon, and submarines, those breeding grounds of TB and madness.
ref: 1997, Tristan Jones, Heart of Oak, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Sheridan House, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Our matelot took us out to sea in what I believed was not a very seaworthy boat.
ref: 2005, William Atlay, All for a King's Shilling, Ely, Cambridgeshire: Melrose Books, →ISBN, page 72:
text: There were no signs and no one quite knew how to navigate the museum, including, as it was Fleet Week, gaggles of boyish sailors all in their summer whites. It looked like a Frank Sinatra movie. A bunch of these matelots surrounded a police officer, who said: "You guys are from the USS Cole? Thank you for your service. Want me to take you around?"
ref: 2014 June 7, Vicki Woods, “Sadness, and a surprise, at the 9/11 Museum: The memorial at Ground Zero is filled with objects that shock the tears out of you”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, page 24:
glosses: A sailor.
examples: text: […] "Among the Brethren of the Coast—we tykes no wimmen save in passing, as it were, they being bothersome, frail and scatterbrained creatures. Instead we tykes a blood-brother, or matelot ... A matelot, 'e fights along side o' yer, nurses yer if yer falls sick. Wots 'is is yours and whats yours is 'is ... Take Klaas yonder, and young Pedro [described earlier as a slender-hipped boy with deep feminine brown eyes]; they shared the same barbacoa six, seven year and ye'll never come on 'em more than a few yards apart." To this explanation [Harry] Morgan listened in growing amazement and began to comprehend why none of these bestial-appearing boucan makers had so much as addressed Kate.
ref: 1949, Francis van Wyck Mason, Cutlass Empire, →OCLC:
glosses: A mate; a boon companion.
sent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕnt
ipa: /sɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: cent
homophone: scent
Etymology: From send + -t. See send.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of send
Derived terms: client-sent
heaven-sent
re-sent
server-sent
sent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕnt
ipa: /sɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: cent
homophone: scent
Forms: form: senti
Etymology: From Estonian sent. Doublet of cent.
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of an Estonian kroon.
sent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕnt
ipa: /sɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
homophone: cent
homophone: scent
Forms: form: sents
Etymology: See scent.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scent.
set
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕt
ipa: /sɛt/
homophone: sett
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: sets
form: setting
form: setted
form: setted
Senses: examples: text: In setted classes, students are brought together because they are believed to be of similar 'ability'. Yet, setted lessons are often conducted as though students are not only similar, but identical—in terms of ability, preferred learning style and pace of working.
ref: 2008, Patricia Murphy, Robert McCormick, Knowledge and Practice: Representations and Identities:
text: At Amber Hill, setting was a high-profile concept, and the students were frequently reminded of the set to which they belonged.
ref: 2002, Jo Boaler, Experiencing School Mathematics: Traditional and Reform Approaches and Their Impact on Student Learning:
text: Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
ref: 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
topics: education
glosses: To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
sew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊ/
ipa: /soʊ/
ipa: /səʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: seau
homophone: so
homophone: soe
homophone: soh
homophone: sow stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: sews
form: sewing
form: sewed
form: sewn
form: sewed
form: sewen
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: sew
form: sew
form: sewed
form: sew
form: sewest
form: sewed
form: sewedst
form: sews
form: seweth
form: sewed
form: sew
form: sewed
form: sew
form: sewed
form: sew
form: -
form: sewing
form: sewn
form: sewed
form: sewen
Etymology: From Middle English sewen, seowen, sowen, from Old English siwian, seowian, seowan (“to sew, mend, patch, knit together, link, unite”), from Proto-Germanic *siwjaną (“to sew”), from Proto-Indo-European *syewh₁- (“to sew”). Cognate with Scots sew, North Frisian saie, sei, Saterland Frisian säie, Danish sy, Swedish sy, Polish szyć, Russian шить (šitʹ), Latin suō, Sanskrit सीव्यति (sī́vyati). Related to seam.
Senses: examples: text: Balls were first made of grass or leaves held together by strings, and later of pieces of animal skin sewn together and stuffed with feathers or hay.
text: She [Kate Spade] took the label, which originally had been on the inside of the bag, and sewed it to the outside.
ref: 2018 June 5, Jonah Engel Bromwich, Vanessa Friedman, Matthew Schneier, “Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2018:
glosses: To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.
glosses: To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.
examples: text: to sew money into a bag
glosses: Followed by into: to enclose by sewing.
Synonyms: stitch
Derived terms: cut and sew
homesewn
no-sew
re-sew
sew buttons
sew buttons on your underwear
sew up
sew-ups
sew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊ/
ipa: /soʊ/
ipa: /səʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: seau
homophone: so
homophone: soe
homophone: soh
homophone: sow stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /sjuː/
ipa: /suː/
homophone: sue
ipa: /səʊ/
ipa: /soʊ/
ipa: /səʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: seau
homophone: so
homophone: soe
homophone: soh
homophone: sow stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: sews
form: sewing
form: sewed
form: sewed
Etymology: Back-formation from sewer (“a drain”).
Senses: examples: text: Now geld with the gelder the ram and the bul, / sew ponds, amend dammes, and sel webster thy wul
ref: 1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, volume 8, page 40:
text: […] accommodated a sluce to clense and sew the Pond, with a grate of wood to let out the wast, as in other stews and Vivaries.
ref: c. 1700, John Evelyn, chapter 9, in Elysium Britannicum, Or the Royal Gardens, published 1998, page 183:
text: If the Bank of a Pond sews, it will preserve the Fish in Frost; the Reason, as I imagine, is, because where the Water sews out, the Air will bubble in, which relieves the Fish; or perhaps it might put the Water into some Degree of Motion.
ref: 1713, Roger North, A discourse of fish and fish-ponds:
glosses: To drain the water from.
examples: text: The upward reaction of the keel blocks may be considered as a negative weight in a moment calculation, producing a decrease in the ship's stability, and it is most important that the vessel remains stable until she takes the blocks along the full length of her keel, i.e. when she is sewed, for until this moment the side shores cannot be successfully rigged.
ref: 1962, Theory and Practice of Seamanship, page 236:
text: A ship resting upon the ground, where the water has fallen, so as to afford no hope of floating until lightened, or the return tide floats her, is said to be sewed, by as much as the difference between the surface of the water, and the ship's floating-mark.
ref: 2008, William Henry Smyth, The Sailor's Word:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of a ship, to be grounded.
sew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊ/
ipa: /soʊ/
ipa: /səʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: seau
homophone: so
homophone: soe
homophone: soh
homophone: sow stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /sjuː/
ipa: /suː/
homophone: sue
homophone: sue
ipa: /səʊ/
ipa: /soʊ/
ipa: /səʉ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: seau
homophone: so
homophone: soe
homophone: soh
homophone: sow stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /sjuː/
ipa: /suː/
homophone: sue
Forms: form: sews
Etymology: From Middle English sew (“broth”), from Old English sēaw (“sap, juice”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauw.
Senses: examples: text: And than as for other Potages, ſtued Trypys, yt is dight redy. And than for to make the Numbleis in ſewe[…]
ref: c. 1555, John Lacy, “For to make Frumente”, in Wyl Bucke His Teſtament, London: Wyllam Copland:
text: At Ewle we wonten gambole, daunce, to carrole, and to ſing, To haue gud ſpiced Sewe, and Roſte, and plum-pies for a King[…]
ref: 1597, William Warner, chapter XXIIII, in Albions England a continued hiſtorie of the ſame kingdome […] , volume Book V, London: Ioan Broome, page 121:
text: If a thicke grewell or ſew be made thereof, together with floure, oile, and vinegre, ſo tempered as it may be ſupped[…]
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XX.] Chap. XVI..”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 63:
glosses: Broth, gravy.
Derived terms: fig-sew
sewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊd/
ipa: /ˈsəʊd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sew
sewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊd/
ipa: /ˈsəʊd/
Senses: glosses: Having been created through the sewing process.
sewn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sōn
ipa: /səʊn/
ipa: /soʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: Saône
homophone: sone
homophone: sown
Etymology: Morphologically sew + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of sew
shook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sho͝ok
ipa: /ʃʊk/
ipa: /ʃʉk/
ipa: /ʃuːk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: shooks
Etymology: Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).
Senses: glosses: A set of pieces for making a cask or box, usually wood.
glosses: The parts of a piece of house furniture, as a bedstead, packed together.
Synonyms: stook
shook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sho͝ok
ipa: /ʃʊk/
ipa: /ʃʉk/
ipa: /ʃuːk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: shooks
form: shooking
form: shooked
form: shooked
Etymology: Compare shock (“a bundle of sheaves”).
Senses: glosses: To pack (staves, etc.) in a shook.
shook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sho͝ok
ipa: /ʃʊk/
ipa: /ʃʉk/
ipa: /ʃuːk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Senses: glosses: simple past of shake.
examples: text: Rich. Alack, why am I ſent for to a King, Before I haue ſhooke off the Regall thoughts / Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet haue learn'd / To inſinuate,flatter,bowe,and bend my Knee.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 39:
text: Pray, assure the empress, from me, that, notwithstanding the councils which have shook the throne of her father and mother, I shall remain here, ready to save the sacred persons of the king and queen, and of her brothers and sisters ;[…]
ref: 1806, The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson […] , volume 1, Stanhope and Tilling, page 377:
text: Although she could have just held it out and it would have shook by itself. His voice was having the same effect on her that the lead guitar on Chris Isaak's Wicked Game had.
ref: 2010 April 29, “'Now that I'm married...'”, in A Summer Fling, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: past participle of shake
shook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sho͝ok
ipa: /ʃʊk/
ipa: /ʃʉk/
ipa: /ʃuːk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: more shook
form: most shook
Senses: examples: text: Upon hearing this I am really feeling the pressure. I am shook.
ref: 2015, Gary L. Heyward, Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island, page 239:
text: Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney? I'm SHOOK."
ref: 2017 March 21, Danny Madion, “Pop music, sexuality and the gay duckling”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 5:
text: He wrote this long ass thing about how we're the next up and coming thing! I'm shook, I'm like 'What the hell?" and all the emails started coming in—Interscope, Capitol, Universal, it was this whole spiral.
ref: 2018, Eddington Again, quoted in Senay Kenfe, "Eddington Again", L. A. Record, Summer 2018, page 35
glosses: Shaken up; rattled; shocked or surprised.
examples: text: Crystal was shook when Mr. Wu discovered she was shopping online for panties and bras to pass the time in class.
glosses: Emotionally upset or disturbed; scared.
Synonyms: shooketh
Derived terms: shook up
shaken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shā′kən
ipa: /ˈʃeɪ.kən/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Etymology: Morphologically shake + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of shake
shaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: shā′kən
ipa: /ˈʃeɪ.kən/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Forms: form: more shaken
form: most shaken
Etymology: Morphologically shake + -n.
Senses: examples: text: We were left shaken by the revelations of abuse.
text: The truth left many people shaken. They were shocked to realize that they'd been lied to about so many things. The Soviets began to reflect on what they understood about the history of the Communist Party. Five million out of the 19 million Party members publicly quit the CPSU before its collapse.
ref: 2020 April 1, Renxin, “Reflecting on History: From the Soviet Communist Party to the Chinese Communist Party”, in Minghui:
glosses: In a state of shock or trauma.
shaken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shā′kən
ipa: /ˈʃeɪ.kən/
rhymes: -eɪkən
ipa: /ˈʃɑːkɛn/
enpr: shā′kən
ipa: /ˈʃeɪ.kən/
rhymes: -eɪkən
Forms: form: shaken
Etymology: From Japanese 車剣.
Senses: glosses: A flat shuriken resembling a spiked wheel, as opposed to the longer stick-like kind.
shear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ʃɪɹ/
note: cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ʃɛə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: sheer
Forms: form: shears
form: shearing
form: sheared
form: shore
form: shorn
form: sheared
Etymology: From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian ski̇̀rti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.
Senses: examples: text: shear the llamas
synonyms: fleece#Verb
hypernyms: cut off#Verb
glosses: To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
examples: text: shear the afro off someone's head
coordinate_terms: shave#Verb
glosses: To cut the hair of (a person).
examples: text: So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
text: the golden tresses […] were shorn away
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 68”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
examples: text: The total along-the-runway wind component sheared from an 8-knot headwind to about a 56-knot tailwind over a 44-second period.
ref: 1985 March 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.3 Airplane Takeoff Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: United Airlines Flight 663, Boeing 727-222, N7647U, Denver, Colorado, May 31, 1984, page 41:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To change in direction or speed.
raw_tags: of wind
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
topics: business
mining
glosses: To make a vertical cut in coal.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
examples: text: Soon as the bending Scythe,
And Sickle keen, have shear'd the golden Grain,
Array'd in all the Equipage of Death,
Forth the stern Sportsman stalks
ref: 1769, John Aldington, A Poem on the Cruelty of Shooting etc.:
glosses: To reap, as grain.
glosses: To deprive of property; to fleece.
Derived terms: shear off
shear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ʃɪɹ/
note: cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ʃɛə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: sheer
Etymology: From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian ski̇̀rti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sheer.
sheared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃiɹd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shear
shorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shôrn
ipa: /ʃɔːn/
ipa: /ʃɔɹn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ʃo(ː)ɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ʃoən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: Sean
homophone: Shawn
homophone: Shaun (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Senses: glosses: past participle of shear
shorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: shôrn
ipa: /ʃɔːn/
ipa: /ʃɔɹn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ʃo(ː)ɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ʃoən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: Sean
homophone: Shawn
homophone: Shaun (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Senses: glosses: Of a sheep, etc., having been shorn.
examples: text: This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.]
ref: 1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8:
glosses: Of a person, having had a haircut.
shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shěd
ipa: /ʃɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: sheds
form: shode
form: shead
form: shede
Etymology: From Middle English sched, schede, schad, from a combination of Old English scēada (“a parting of the hair, top of the head”) and Old English ġesċēad (“distinction, reason”).
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: An area between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven.
glosses: A distinction or dividing-line.
glosses: A parting in the hair.
glosses: The top of the head.
qualifier: obsolete outside of compounds
glosses: An area of land as distinguished from those around it.
Derived terms: air shed
countershed
cultureshed
driveshed
foodshed
milkshed
serviceshed
watershed
shed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shěd
ipa: /ʃɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: sheds
Etymology: Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.
Senses: examples: text: wagon shed
text: wood shed
text: garden shed
text: There are numerous sheds in the now grass-grown yard, most of which now house threshing machines and farm carts instead of locomotives and rolling stock, although [in] the roofs of some are gaping holes.
ref: 1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 279–280:
coordinate_terms: barn#Noun
glosses: A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.
glosses: A large temporary open structure for reception of goods.
synonyms: word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
glosses: An automobile which is old, worn-out, slow, or otherwise of poor quality.
examples: text: Never saw that but we did stand and watch a pair of Sheds (156 and 165) speed north on a loaded steel.
ref: 2000 November 12, Bruce Garbutt, “Re: DRS to Cardiff (was Re: Tractor via Eddiestown)”, in uk.railway (Usenet):
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A British Rail Class 66 locomotive.
coordinate_terms: barn#Noun
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A unit of area equivalent to 10⁻⁵² square meters.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of woodshed.
Derived terms: bicycle shed
bike shed
bikeshed
boat shed
car shed
cartshed
cattleshed
coalshed
cookshed
cowshed
driveshed
engine shed
garden shed
goods shed
gunshed
hayshed
locomotive shed
locoshed
matshed
megashed
milkshed
my head's a shed
not the sharpest tool in the shed
playshed
potting shed
running shed
shearing shed
shed find
shedless
shedlike
shedload
shedmaster
shed out
shed roof
shed-room
she shed
shipshed
shoffice
snowshed
snow shed
snow-shed
stickshed
sticky shed syndrome
storage shed
toolshed
train shed
trainshed
tramshed
waiting shed
washshed
woodshed
woolshed
workshed
Related terms: cabin
hovel
hut
kiosk
outbuilding
pergola
shack
shanty
stall
storehouse
shed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shěd
ipa: /ʃɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: sheds
form: shedding
form: shedded
form: shedded
Etymology: Dialectal variant of a specialized use of shade.
Senses: examples: text: On the Dava line, apart from the banking assistance given by the 4-4-0s, the traffic is handled by the standard class "5" 4-6-0s, known among the drivers as "Hikers"; these engines are shedded at Inverness and Perth.
ref: 1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:
text: As these [diesel] trains have to be shedded under cover at night, four additional outdoor standage roads are being provided for stabling of electric rolling stock after inspection in the shed.
ref: 1956 October, “Recent Changes on the Tyneside Electrified Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 662:
text: Three 14XX class 0-4-2Ts were allocated to Bath Road for the Clevedon branch and one was sub-shedded at Yatton for a week at a time, during which period it amassed an aggregate mileage of nearly 1,400 miles.
ref: 1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 277:
glosses: To place or allocate a vehicle, such as a locomotive, in or to a depot or shed.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To woodshed.
shine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shīn
ipa: /ʃaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: shines
Etymology: From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sċīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sċān, past participle sċinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: the distant shine of the celestial city
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
synonyms: effulgence
radiance
radiancy
refulgence
refulgency
glosses: Brightness from a source of light.
synonyms: luster
glosses: Brightness from reflected light.
synonyms: brilliance
splendor
glosses: Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
synonyms: see shoeshine
glosses: Shoeshine.
examples: text: be fair or foul, or rain or shine
ref: 1685, John Dryden, Sylvae:
synonyms: see sunshine
glosses: Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
synonyms: bathtub gin
bootleg
corn liquor
hooch
mountain dew
white lightning
coon-dick
coondick
glosses: Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
glosses: A black person.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
examples: text: She's certainly taken a shine to you.
synonyms: word: affinity
word: liking
word: affinity
word: bag
word: bent
word: cup of coffee
word: cup of joe
word: cup of tea
word: fancy
word: liking
word: partiality
word: penchant
word: predilection
word: predisposition
word: preference
word: proclivity
word: propension
word: propensity
word: shine
word: taste
word: thing
glosses: A liking for a person; a fancy.
glosses: A caper; an antic; a row.
Derived terms: anti-shine powder
come rain or shine
cookie-shine
cut a shine
earthshine
fireshine
get one's shine box
monkeyshine
rain or shine
shine box
shineful
shine muscat
shininess
shiny
spit shine
spitshine
take a shine to
take the shine out of
through-shine
wondershine
shine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shīn
ipa: /ʃaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: shines
form: shining
form: shined
form: shined
Etymology: From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen in its causative uses, from Old English scīn (“brightness, shine”), and also Middle English schenen, from Old English scǣnan (“to render brilliant, make shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skainijaną, causative of *skīnaną (“to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
synonyms: wax
buff
polish
furbish
burnish
smooth
smoothen
glosses: To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
Synonyms: word: beam
word: beshine
word: gleam
word: glow
word: illuminate
word: illumine
word: light up
word: shine
Hypernyms: word: emit
word: irradiate
word: radiate
Hyponyms: word: outglow
word: outshine
word: glare
word: blink
word: flash
word: flicker
word: glimmer
word: shimmer
word: twinkle
word: fulgurate
word: scintillate
shined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shine
shone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shŏn
ipa: /ʃɒn/
enpr: shōn
enpr: shŏn
ipa: /ʃoʊn/
ipa: /ʃɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
rhymes: -əʊn
homophone: Sean (cot–caught merger)
homophone: Shawn (cot–caught merger)
homophone: Sian
homophone: shown (US)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shine
aesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /əsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /iːsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /əsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /ɪsˈθɛtɪk/
ipa: /-tɛtɪk/
note: other UK
ipa: /ɪsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /æsˈθɛ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more aesthetic
form: most aesthetic
form: æsthetic
form: esthetic
Etymology: From German Ästhetik or French esthétique, both from New Latin aesthēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “of sense perception”), from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “I feel”); analysable as aesthe(sis) + -tic.
Cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Latin audiō.
Senses: examples: text: It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities.
text: If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.
ref: 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience, act I:
text: If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.
ref: 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
text: But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:
coordinate_terms: cosmetic
glosses: Concerned with beauty, artistic effect, or appearance.
examples: text: The design of the lobby cannot be considered particularly aesthetic.
text: The station was rebuilt yet again by British Rail in 1967, when large chunks of the 19th century station were demolished and replaced with 'modern' buildings that were less than aesthetic.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 28:
synonyms: aesthetical
tasteful
antonyms: inaesthetic
unaesthetic
glosses: Beautiful or appealing to one's sense of beauty or art.
Derived terms: aesthetic attraction
aestheticisation
aestheticise
aestheticism
aestheticist
antiaesthetic
dysaesthetic
ethnoaesthetic
neuroaesthetic
nonaesthetic
phonoaesthetic
psycho-aesthetic
aesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /əsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /iːsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /əsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /ɪsˈθɛtɪk/
ipa: /-tɛtɪk/
note: other UK
ipa: /ɪsˈθɛ.tɪk/
ipa: /æsˈθɛ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: aesthetics
form: æsthetic
form: esthetic
Etymology: From German Ästhetik or French esthétique, both from New Latin aesthēticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “of sense perception”), from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai, “I feel”); analysable as aesthe(sis) + -tic.
Cognates include Proto-Germanic *awiz (“obvious”), Sanskrit आविस् (āvís, “manifestly, evidently”) and Latin audiō.
Senses: glosses: The study of art or beauty.
glosses: That which appeals to the senses.
examples: text: Her most recent works have this quirky, nonchalant aesthetic inspired by ’90s teen culture.
text: I really like the goth aesthetic you've got going there.
glosses: The set of artistic motifs defining a collection of things, especially works of art; more broadly, their aura or “vibe”.
Derived terms: aesthete
aesthetically
aesthetician
aesthetic information
aesthetics
aesthetic surgeon
aesthetic surgery
aesthetisation
non-aesthetic
Related terms: aesthesis
esthesis
allege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: alleges
form: alleging
form: alleged
form: alleged
form: alleadge
form: alledg
form: alledge
form: allegge
Etymology: From Middle English aleggen, perhaps from Old French alleguer, or from Anglo-Norman aleger, the form perhaps from Old French esligier (“to acquit”), from Medieval Latin *exlītigāre (“to clear at law”), from Latin ex (“out”) + lītigō (“sue at law”), but the meaning from Old French alleguer, from Latin allēgāre (“send on a mission, depute; relate, mention, adduce”), from ad (“to”) + lēgō (“send”).
Senses: glosses: To state under oath, to plead.
glosses: To cite or quote an author or his work for or against.
examples: text: I will further alleage a storie[…]to make us palpably feele his naturall condition.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 39, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc.
examples: text: The agency alleged that my credit history had problems.
glosses: To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.
Derived terms: allegeable
alleger
misallege
reallege
Related terms: allegation
privilege
allege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɛd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒ
Forms: form: alleges
form: alleging
form: alleged
form: alleged
form: alleadge
form: alledg
form: alledge
form: allegge
Etymology: From Middle English alleggen, from Old French alegier, from Latin alleviāre (“lighten”), from ad + levis (“light”). Doublet of alleviate.
Senses: examples: text: and suffir never your soveraynté to be alledged with your subjects,
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
english: and suffer not your sovereignty to be diminished with your subjects,
translation: and suffer not your sovereignty to be diminished with your subjects,
bold_translation_offsets: 38
48
text: Hart that is inly hurt, is greatly eased / With hope of thing, that may allegge his smart[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To lighten, diminish.
ambivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmˈbɪv.ə.lənt/
Forms: form: more ambivalent
form: most ambivalent
Etymology: Back-formation from ambivalence, from German Ambivalenz, from Latin ambi- (“in two ways”) + valeō (“be strong”); equivalent to ambi- + -valent.
Senses: examples: text: In modern burlesque [...] sexual and erotic stimuli are often present in concealed and ambivalent doubles entendres.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 77:
text: The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”
ref: 2020 January 28, Mairov Zonszein, “Christian Zionist philo-Semitism is driving Trump’s Israel policy”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2020:
glosses: Simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing or contradictory feelings, beliefs, motivations, or meanings.
examples: text: His feelings toward his parents are ambivalent.
glosses: Alternately being or having one opinion or feeling, and then the opposite.
Synonyms: sense: simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing feelings
word: conflicted
sense: simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing feelings
word: uncertain
sense: simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing feelings
word: undecided
sense: simultaneously experiencing or expressing opposing feelings
word: unresolved
sense: alternately feeling opposing feelings
word: vacillating
sense: alternately feeling opposing feelings
word: fluctuating
sense: alternately feeling opposing feelings
word: wavering
Derived terms: ambivalently
nonambivalent
preambivalent
unambivalent
Related terms: ambiguous
ambivalence
equivalent
anomaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɒm.ə.lɪ/
ipa: /əˈnɑ.mə.li/
ipa: /əˈnɔm.ə.lɪ/
Forms: form: anomalies
Etymology: From Latin anomalia, from Ancient Greek ἀνωμαλία (anōmalía, “irregularity, anomaly”), from ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos, “irregular, uneven”), negating the meaning of ὁμαλός (homalós, “even”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”).
Senses: examples: text: This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 43:
synonyms: abnormality
deviance
deviation
exception
inconsistency
irregularity
phenomenon
glosses: A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
examples: text: He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
glosses: Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
examples: text: She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
topics: sciences
glosses: Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various angular distances.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A defect or malformation.
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
glosses: An irregularity or disproportion.
Synonyms: word: aberrant
word: abnormality
word: anomaly
word: deviance
word: deviant
word: farlie
word: freak
word: irregularity
word: odd fish
word: oddity
word: outlier
word: peculiarity
word: queerness
word: rarity
word: rum
word: strange fish
word: strangeness
word: unusualness
word: weirdness
Hypernyms: word: entity
word: occurrence
Hyponyms: word: People:
word: foreigner
word: maverick
word: outcast
word: strange person
word: Objects:
word: curio
word: curiosity
Derived terms: anomalism
anomalistic
anomaloscope
anomalous
calendar anomaly
Chediak-Higashi anomaly
collie eye anomaly
deuteranomaly
eccentric anomaly
flyby anomaly
isanomaly
Kohn anomaly
mean anomaly
Pioneer anomaly
quantum anomaly
Schottky anomaly
stereoanomaly
true anomaly
Related terms: word: odditorium
arbitrary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.bɪ.tɹə.ɹi/
note: haplology
ipa: /ˈɑː.bɪ.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.bɪˌtɹɛ(ə).ɹi/
Forms: form: more arbitrary
form: most arbitrary
Etymology: From Middle English arbitrarie, Latin arbitrārius (“arbitrary, uncertain”), from arbiter (“witness, on-looker, listener, judge, overseer”).
Senses: examples: text: Benjamin Franklin's designation of "positive" and "negative" to different charges was arbitrary.
text: The decision to use 18 years as the legal age of adulthood was arbitrary, as both age 17 and 19 were reasonable alternatives.
glosses: Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.
raw_tags: of a decision
examples: text: 1937/1938, Albert Einstein, letter to Max Born
The Russian trials were Stalin's purges, with which he attempted to consolidate his power. Like most people in the West, I believed these show trials to be the arbitrary acts of a cruel dictator.
text: The bromide conforms to everything sanctioned by the majority, and may be depended upon to be trite, banal, and arbitrary.
ref: 1906, Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide?:
glosses: Determined by impulse rather than reason; often connoting heavy-handedness.
examples: text: The equation is true for an arbitrary value of x.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any, out of all that are possible.
glosses: Determined by independent arbiter.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not representative or symbolic; not iconic.
Derived terms: arbitrarily
arbitrariness
arbitrarity
arbitrary-precision arithmetic
arbitrary unit
nonarbitrary
unarbitrary
Related terms: arbit
arbiter
arbitrable
arbitrage
arbitrary and capricious
arbitrary law
arbitrate
arbitration
arbitrator
arbitrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.bɪ.tɹə.ɹi/
note: haplology
ipa: /ˈɑː.bɪ.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.bɪˌtɹɛ(ə).ɹi/
Forms: form: arbitraries
Etymology: From Middle English arbitrarie, Latin arbitrārius (“arbitrary, uncertain”), from arbiter (“witness, on-looker, listener, judge, overseer”).
Senses: examples: text: And in this long chain of consistence, a chain stretching from the long dead to the far unborn, the notion of the arbitrary could only survive as the notion of a pre-established arbitrary.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Anything arbitrary, such as an arithmetical value or a fee.
Derived terms: cultural arbitrary
arid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈæɹ.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈɛɚ.ɪd/
Forms: form: arider
form: more arid
form: aridest
form: most arid
Etymology: From French aride or directly from Latin āridus (“dry, arid, parched”), compare its synonymous contracted form ardus. Originally from the verb āreo (“I am dry, I am parched”), akin to ārdeō (“I am on fire, I burn”).
Senses: examples: text: The cake was arid.
antonyms: wet
drenched
damp
moist
glosses: Very dry.
examples: text: Deserts are known for being arid.
text: And because this part of Utah is arid, the geologic landscape is fully revealed with very little vegetation to hide it, faults and all.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
synonyms: xeric
antonyms: rainforest
humid
glosses: Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
examples: text: The millionaire viewed his gift as arid.
text: Such occupations might have seemed arid to those who did not possess the intellect to appreciate their subtleties.
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 37:
antonyms: valuable
costly
precious
glosses: Devoid of value.
Derived terms: aridic
aridification
aridify
aridisol
aridland
aridly
aridness
Aridoamerica
Aridzona
hyperarid
nonarid
subarid
Related terms: aridity
assiduous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪdjuːəs/
ipa: /əˈsɪd͡ʒuːəs/
ipa: /əˈsɪd͡ʒu.əs/
Forms: form: more assiduous
form: most assiduous
Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin assiduus, from assidere (“to sit down to”), from ad- (“to”) + sedere (“to sit”). Compare sedulous.
Cognate (via assidere) to assess.
Senses: examples: text: He was officious in the right time and place, quiet as a lamb when his patron seemed inclined to study or to muse, active and assiduous to assist or divert him whenever it seemed to be wished.
ref: 1831, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 2, in The Surgeon's Daughter:
text: He died after three weeks' illness, during which Mrs. Penniman, as well as his daughter, had been assiduous at his bedside.
ref: 1880, Henry James, chapter 33, in Washington Square, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 249:
text: A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections.
ref: 1917, P. G. Wodehouse, “Bill the Bloodhound”, in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories:
text: The most recent attempt to contact Pioneer 10 was on 6-7 February 2003. But in this case, the Madrid station got conclusively null results after an assiduous search.
ref: 2003 February 20, James A. Van Allen, “Termination of Pioneer 10's Mission”, in Pioneer 10 & 11 GTT Charged Particles, The University of Iowa:
text: Klein rose to prominence in the 1960s by assiduous application of accounting methods to the music industry.
ref: 2009 July 6, Will Pavia, “Allen Klein, accountant turned manager of the Beatles, dies at 77”, in The Times, UK:
text: “Asteroid City,” the latest from Wes Anderson, is filled with the assiduous visuals, mythic faces and charming curiosities that you expect from this singular filmmaker.
ref: 2023 June 15, Manohla Dargis, “‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: meticulous
word: diligent
word: sedulous
word: industrious
word: studious
word: assiduous
word: diligent
word: sedulous
word: notable
word: painstaking
word: hard-working
word: worksome
glosses: Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.
Derived terms: assiduity
assiduously
assiduousness
unassiduous
asylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsaɪləm/
rhymes: -aɪləm
Forms: form: asylums
form: asyla
Etymology: From Latin asylum, from Ancient Greek ἄσυλον (ásulon).
Senses: examples: text: All the busy concerns of daily existence were utterly abhorrent to me. I loathed the sound of others' voices—I hated to be mixed up with their petty routine of ordinary cares; here was an asylum offered to me—here I might lay down all the offices of humanity, and dwell beside that grave whose rest was now my only desire.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 295:
glosses: A place of safety or refuge.
glosses: The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place (as, for example, for political refugees).
examples: text: Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
Synonyms: sanctuary
shelter
Derived terms: asylee
asylophobic
asylum hotel
asylumlike
asylum seeker
asylum shopping
insane asylum
khia asylum
lunatic asylum
lunatics have taken over the asylum
Magdalene asylum
mental asylum
orphan asylum
political asylum
Related terms: non-refoulement
refugee