cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
permanently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝmənəntli/
ipa: /ˈpɜːmənəntli/
ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)məntli/
Forms: form: more permanently
form: most permanently
Etymology: From Middle English permanently; equivalent to permanent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 63:
text: ADAS are aimed to assist the drivers, who always remain responsible for vehicle control and shall permanently monitor the environment and vehicle/system performance Informal document GRVA-18-07/Rev.2, Proposal for amendments to ECE/TRANS/WP.29/GRVA/2024/2, UN Regulation on uniform provisions concerning the approval of vehicles with regard to Driver Control Assistance Systems, UNECE, 22-26 January 2024
glosses: In a permanent manner; lastingly.
examples: text: Necromancers were thought to have the power of restoring activity to the dead, either temporarily or permanently[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:
text: Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.
ref: 2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN:
glosses: Forever.
Derived terms: nonpermanently
permafrozen
semipermanently
bivalve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪvælv/
Forms: form: bivalves
Etymology: From bi- (“two”) + valve.
Senses: glosses: Any mollusc belonging to the taxonomic class Bivalvia, characterized by a shell consisting of two hinged sections, such as a scallop, clam, mussel or oyster.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pericarp in which the seedcase opens or splits into two parts or valves.
Coordinate terms: univalve
Derived terms: bivalvate
Related terms: univalve
permanent way
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permanent ways
Etymology: permanent (contrasted with the temporary way of a contractor) + way (as in railway)
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: right of way
text: Meronyms: railbed, railroad track
text: The term "permanent way" arose to differentiate between the rough track laid by railway contractors for the constructional purposes of new lines, and the final ballasted track upon which the regular service of trains was to run. The former being purely temporary, qualification of "permanent" was applied to the latter.
ref: 1941 September, “The Why and the Wherefore: Temporary and Permanent Way”, in Railway Magazine, page 432:
text: Watt climbed the stone steps and stood before the wicket, looking through its bars. He admired the permanent way, stretching away on either hand, in the moonlight, and the starlight, as far as the eye could reach, as far as Watt's eye could have reached, if it had been inside the station.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: No. 320 finally drew into Paris one minute early, having run the 78.3 miles from Longueau in 65½min, inclusive of a permanent way slack and the usual tortoise-like progress from St. Denis.
ref: 1961 December, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 749:
text: The paid permanent way staff prepare and refettle the track during the week and at weekends volunteer gangs of some 30/40 people are engaged on relaying — [...].
ref: 1979 August, Michael Harris, “A line for all reasons: the North Yorkshire Moors Railway”, in Railway World, page 412:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: Pway
p way
p-way
railroad
right of way
track
glosses: The track and ballast (bed) of a railway.
Related terms: roadway
intertidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + tidal.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the part of a shore between the high water and the low water.
Derived terms: intertidal wetland
intertidal zone
intertidally
intertidal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertidals
Etymology: From inter- + tidal.
Senses: glosses: An intertidal zone or an organism that inhabits such a zone
Related terms: littoral
shellfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/
ipa: [ʃɛɫˑfɪʃ]
Forms: form: shellfish
form: shellfishes
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English schellefyssch, from Old English sċielfisċ. Equivalent to shell + fish.
Senses: glosses: A fisheries and colloquial term for an aquatic invertebrate having an inner or outer shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.
glosses: A culinary and nutritional term for several groups of non-piscine, non-tetrapod, aquatic animals that are used as a food source. The term often exclusively refers to edible aquatic crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and cephalopod mollusks; but sometimes echinoderms may be included as well.
Hypernyms: topics: food
lifestyle
word: seafood
Coordinate terms: topics: food
lifestyle
word: cartilaginous fish
topics: food
lifestyle
word: finned fish
topics: food
lifestyle
word: finfish
topics: food
lifestyle
word: fish
scallop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɑləp/
ipa: /ˈskæləp/
ipa: /ˈskɑləp/
ipa: /ˈskɒləp/
ipa: /ˈskæləp/
ipa: /ˈskɛləp/
ipa: /ˈskɔləp/
ipa: /ˈskaləp/
ipa: /ˈskæləp/
rhymes: -æləp
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: scallops
form: scollop
Etymology: From Old French escalope (“shell”). Doublet of escalope. Related to scale and shell.
Senses: synonyms: word: scollop
word: sea scallop
english: parts of Australia
translation: parts of Australia
glosses: Any of various marine bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pectinoidea.
examples: text: A coral rose, its petals unfolded in scallop around the tight inner bud
ref: 1980 December 27, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 12:
glosses: One of a series of curves, forming an edge similar to a scallop shell, especially in knitting and crochet.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A fillet of meat, escalope.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: word: potato cake
english: parts of Australia
translation: parts of Australia
word: potato scallop
english: parts of Australia, England and Ireland
translation: parts of Australia, England and Ireland
word: fritter
english: parts of England
translation: parts of England
word: smack
english: parts of England
translation: parts of England
word: fairy chip
english: parts of England
translation: parts of England
word: potato fritter
glosses: A battered and deep-fried round potato slice.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sautéed potato (a shallow-fried round potato slice).
glosses: A dish shaped like a scallop shell.
Derived terms: word: queen scallop
word: scallop moth
word: scallop squash
word: scallop theorem
alt: Mizuhopecten yessoensis
word: Yesso scallop
fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæk.tjə/
ipa: /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: fractures
Etymology: From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin fractūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.
Senses: glosses: An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A break in bone or cartilage.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fault or crack in a rock.
Derived terms: antifracture
Bennett fracture
Bennett's fracture
boxer's fracture
brittle fracture
Colles' fracture
complicated fracture
compound fracture
compression fracture
cryofracture
Don Juan fracture
ductile fracture
Dupuytren's fracture
fractural
fracture mechanics
fracture plane
fractureproof
Galeazzi fracture
greenstick fracture
hairline fracture
hangman's fracture
hip fracture
Holstein-Lewis fracture
hydrofracture
incomplete fracture
Jones fracture
Lisfranc fracture
macrofracture
Maisonneuve fracture
microfracture
mono-fracture
multifracture
nanofracture
nightstick fracture
nonfracture
oblique fracture
open fracture
postfracture
Pott's fracture
prefracture
pseudofracture
refracture
Rolando fracture
Salter-Harris fracture
simple fracture
Smith's fracture
stress fracture
tracheal fracture
vowel fracture
Related terms: fractal
fraction
fragment
fracture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæk.tjə/
ipa: /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: fractures
form: fracturing
form: fractured
form: fractured
Etymology: From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin fractūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.
Senses: glosses: To break, or cause something to break.
examples: text: “You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot.
ref: 2013, Frank De Blase, Pine Box for a Pin-Up:
glosses: To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.
Derived terms: fractile
fracturable
nonfracturing
refracture
occurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɝɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈkɜːɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of occur
glosses: present participle and gerund of occurre (obsolete form of occur)
occurring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɝɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈkɜːɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: occurrings
Senses: examples: text: The perceived and known fact on which this discussion is based, is not the difference between the occurring and the non-occurring of an act (for non-occurring does not say impossibility), nor the difference between possibility and impossibility of the act (for the possibility cannot be perceived), but the difference between the occurring and the impossibility.
ref: 1976, J. R. T. M. Peters, God’s Created Speech: A Study in the Speculative Theology of the Muʿtazilî Qâḍîl-Quḍât Abû L-Ḥasan ʿAbd Al-Jabbâr Bn Aḥmad Al-Hamaḏânî, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, page 197:
text: While it was noted above that the interaffecting of the present by the occurrings and implyings of the past provides a means of generating a sense of a personal past through the accumulation of bodily-relevant occurrings and implyings, […]
ref: 2016, Janet Banfield, Geography Meets Gendlin:
synonyms: occurrence
glosses: An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
Derived terms: non-occurring
occurring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɝɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈkɜːɹɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: naturally occurring macromolecules
glosses: That occurs in a specified manner.
Derived terms: non-occurring
unoccurring
measured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛʒəd/
ipa: /ˈmɛʒɚd/
ipa: /ˈmeɪʒɚd/
Forms: form: more measured
form: most measured
Senses: examples: text: He ran over a measured mile.
text: Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: That has been determined by measurement.
examples: text: He argued in measured tones.
text: But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
⁠A use in measured language lies;
⁠The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: This procedure was very tedious for me. Although she was definitely in a somnambulistic state, her answers were coming very slowly with carefully measured caution.
ref: 1989, Dolores Cannon, chapter 1, in Conversations with Nostradamus, page 8:
synonyms: word: reasonable
word: temperate
word: measured
word: mellow
word: middle of the road
word: mild
word: moderate
word: nonexcessive
word: nonextreme
word: nonfanatic
word: proper
word: reasonable
word: reasonous
word: sober
word: temperate
word: tempered
word: unexcessive
word: unextreme
glosses: Deliberate but restrained.
examples: text: As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
glosses: Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.
raw_tags: of poetry etc.
Hyponyms: satellite-measured
Derived terms: immeasured
measured drop
measuredly
measured mile
measuredness
nonmeasured
premeasured
unmeasured
measured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛʒəd/
ipa: /ˈmɛʒɚd/
ipa: /ˈmeɪʒɚd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of measure
materials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɪɹi.əlz/
ipa: /məˈtɪəɹɪəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of material
Derived terms: materials engineering
materials physics
materials science
resistant materials
materials
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɪɹi.əlz/
ipa: /məˈtɪəɹɪəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of material
functioning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more functioning
form: most functioning
Senses: examples: text: The other factions believe that those who are Factionless are nomads and outcasts. But they are actually a fully functioning community.
ref: 2015 March 19, Mekado Murphy, “'The Divergent Series: Insurgent' Creates New Worlds”, in The New York Times:
glosses: functional, working
examples: text: Oh, he looked pretty functioning to me.
glosses: Of a person, mentally disabled but still able to survive in wider society.
Synonyms: sense: functional
word: useful
Derived terms: functioning time
high-functioning
low-functioning autism
nonfunctioning
subfunctioning
functioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of function
functioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functionings
Senses: glosses: Action of the verb function.
glosses: Manner by which something functions; the workings.
Derived terms: hyperfunctioning
subfunctioning
figures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɡjɚz/
ipa: /ˈfɪɡəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of figure
figures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɡjɚz/
ipa: /ˈfɪɡəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of figure
figures
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɡjɚz/
ipa: /ˈfɪɡəz/
Senses: qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: It figures.
delivered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪv.əd/
ipa: /dɪˈlɪv.ɚd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deliver
delivered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪv.əd/
ipa: /dɪˈlɪv.ɚd/
Senses: examples: text: delivered duty paid; delivered ex ship
glosses: That has been, or will be, delivered in a specific manner.
Derived terms: nondelivered
undelivered
felonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more felonous
form: most felonous
Etymology: From Middle English felenous(e), felenows, fellenouse, felonous(e), felonows(e), felonus, from Old French feloneus.
Senses: examples: text: Deliuered vp the Lord of life to die, / And did acquite a murdrer felonous […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Evil, wicked.
absorbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹbd/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹbd/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹbd/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹbd/
Forms: form: more absorbed
form: most absorbed
Etymology: From absorb + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: fully absorbed
text: deeply absorbed
text: She was so absorbed in her book that she didn’t hear the phone.
text: The scientist remained absorbed in his experiments.
glosses: Fully occupied with one's thoughts; engrossed.
glosses: That has been taken in, engulfed, imbibed, or assimilated.
Derived terms: absorbedly
absorbedness
malabsorbed
nonabsorbed
preabsorbed
unabsorbed
absorbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹbd/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹbd/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹbd/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹbd/
Etymology: From absorb + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of absorb
Derived terms: absorbed dose
self-absorbed
Related terms: adsorbed
Michigan basement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Michigan basements
Senses: glosses: A simple, often damp, basement that has an earth floor.
Michener
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: James A. Michener was an American writer.
glosses: An American surname.
middle-aged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪdl̩ˈeɪd͡ʒd/
ipa: /ˈmɪdl̩ˌeɪd͡ʒd/
Forms: form: more middle-aged
form: most middle-aged
form: middleaged
form: middle aged
form: middle-ag’d
Senses: examples: text: The person of interest is a middle-aged man seen acting strangely in the security camera's video.
text: The admirable M. Leibnitz, a German, but a member of the Royal Society, scarce yet middle aged.
ref: 1676, Rigaud, quoting Collins, Corr. Sci. Men, volume II, published 1841, page 453:
text: When I was a middle-aged Man.
ref: 1709, Steele, Tatler, № 77, ¶ 2:
text: If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet’s Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul’s Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son’s weak mind.
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
text: A middle-aged, grave and honourable man.
ref: 1880, G. Meredith, Tragic Com., published 1881, page 81:
glosses: Of or relating to middle age or a middle-ager; neither old nor young.
examples: text: Well, perhaps that beige-on-beige color scheme may be a little middle-aged for a young artist's apartment; a little repainting won't hurt anything.
text: Cowper was really mad at intervals, but his poetry, admirable as it is in its own middle-aged way, is in need of anything rather than a strait-waistcoat.
ref: 1886, Lowell, Gray, in Latest Lit. Ess., published 1891, page 2:
text: His already almost middle-aged aspect of serene sagacity.
ref: 1887, Ruskin, Præterita, volume II, page 269:
glosses: Characteristic of middle-aged people.
examples: text: The reading and perusing of middle-ag’d Antiquities.
ref: 1710, Hearne, Collect. (O.H.S.), volume III, page 49:
text: Of the modern and middle-aged Greek.
ref: 1804, Mitford, Inquiry, page 318:
text: The English hunger bears a strong resemblance to the Spanish hambre, formed from the middle-aged Latin famina.
ref: 1845, Proc. Philol. Soc., volume II, page 145:
glosses: Belonging to the Middle Ages; medieval.
Derived terms: middle-agedness
middle age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The sequel checks in with the unmoored but largely lovable characters from the first movie as they face middle age.
ref: 2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in New York Times:
glosses: The period of life directly preceding old age, often defined roughly as ages 45–65; midlife.
Derived terms: middle-ager
middle-age spread
middlescence
Related terms: middle-aged
middle-agedness
middle age
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the middle age
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Middle Age.
Related terms: Middle Ages
mid-life crisis
busboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌsˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: busboys
Etymology: Clipping of omnibus (“assistant waiter”) + boy.
Senses: synonyms: busser
omnibus
coordinate_terms: busgirl
glosses: An assistant waiter; one who clears plates from and cleans tables.
Derived terms: english: back-formation
translation: back-formation
word: bus
word: busser
word: bussing station
Related terms: barback
runner
middleware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middlewares
Etymology: From middle + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software that functions at an intermediate layer between applications and operating system or database management system, or between client and server.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Networking software or hardware that is deployed in the middle of, as opposed to serviced by, a packet network to enhance or provide some network function, such as caching, filtering, or firewall functionality.
Derived terms: message-oriented middleware
milady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈleɪdi/
rhymes: -eɪdi
Forms: form: miladies
form: m'lady
Etymology: Partly representing a colloquial pronunciation of my + lady, partly from French milady, from English my Lady. Compare milord.
Senses: glosses: An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady.
milady
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈleɪdi/
rhymes: -eɪdi
Forms: form: miladies
form: miladying
form: miladied
form: miladied
form: miladyed
form: miladyed
form: m'lady
Etymology: Partly representing a colloquial pronunciation of my + lady, partly from French milady, from English my Lady. Compare milord.
Senses: examples: text: It may be as well to warn travellers of certain suspicious, half-genteel-looking men, speaking bad English, and Miladying every female.
ref: 1856 August 16, “Spa”, in The Illustrated London News, volume XXIX, number 816, London: William Little […], page 162, column 2:
text: To the ignorant Italians who milorded or miladied them, they were always anxious to explain that they “had no titles, and would be sorry to have any,”—that the members of the House of Lords were for the most part mere upstarts, and that the true nobility of England were the old land-owners,—the county families,—before whose names men only placed the plain Mr. and Mrs. by which they themselves, the Crawleys, preferred to be designated.
ref: 1885, Antonio [Carlo Napoleone] Gallenga, “First Repentance. […]”, in Episodes of My Second Life. (American and English Experiences.), Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 275:
text: With Czipra, tête-à-tête, he spoke also “per tu;” before others he miladyed her.
ref: 1900, “Two Girls”, in Arthur B[attishill] Yolland, transl., Debts of Honor, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, translation of Mire megvénülünk by Maurus Jókai, page 225:
text: Within a space of twenty-four hours, I’ve gone from being “Miss Lattimar” to “Mrs Newell” to “Countess of Fensworth”. When the shopkeepers “miladyed” me this morning, I kept looking around to see which titled female had arrived.
ref: 2019, Julia Justiss, The Earl’s Inconvenient Wife, Harlequin, →ISBN, chapter seventeen:
text: “He thinks of himself as an old-fashioned knight. Lots of chivalry. I will get miladyed to death. He will probably try to serenade me.”[…]Prepare to be good-sirred and miladyed to death, if not by Cedric, then by his parrot.
ref: 2021, Lish McBride, Curses, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, pages 137 and 234:
glosses: To address as “milady”.
militant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪtənt/
Forms: form: more militant
form: most militant
Etymology: From Middle French militant, from Latin mīlitāns, present participle of mīlitāre (“to serve as a soldier”).
Senses: examples: text: The upper tiers of the foreign ministry were quick to embrace a militant policy.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 394:
text: Senior members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian militant network blamed for the deadly Bali bombings, have announced they are disbanding the group, according to a report by a Jakarta-based think tank on Thursday.
ref: 2024 July 5, Reuters, “Militant group blamed for 2002 Bali bombings to be disbanded, say senior leaders”, in CNN:
glosses: Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike.
examples: text: The physiological state is not itself militant against erotic expression.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 6:
glosses: Aggressively supporting of an idea, group, political or social cause, etc.; adamant, combative.
Synonyms: warrish
militant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɪtənt/
Forms: form: militants
Etymology: From Middle French militant, from Latin mīlitāns, present participle of mīlitāre (“to serve as a soldier”).
Senses: glosses: A soldier, a combatant.
examples: text: [Jim Owles] lamented the declining influence of militant organizations and tactics, stating that militants "help keep the rest of us honest," and prevent moderates from selling out.
ref: 1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, quoting Jean O'Leary, “Women's Caucus Quits Gay Academic Union”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 1:
text: Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.
ref: 2008 February 19, John F. Burns, “Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot”, in The New York Times:
text: Officials in Pakistan have confirmed that at least 250 schoolchildren between 12 and 18 years old and several teachers were taken hostage by at least seven militants inside a high school in Domail.
ref: 2008, Militants in Pakistan release 250 schoolchildren after taking them hostage, Wikinews:
glosses: An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction.
topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant.
Derived terms: antimilitant
hypermilitant
militantism
militantly
militantness
Militant Tendency
nonmilitant
supermilitant
ultramilitant
unmilitant
Related terms: militance
military
militia
mopery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mope + -ery, from mope (“to wander aimlessly”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An imaginary or trivial legal offense.
Derived terms: mopery with intent to creep
mopery with intent to gawk
scriptorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪpˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/
ipa: /skɹɪpˈtɔɹ.i.əm/
Forms: form: scriptoria
form: scriptoriums
Etymology: From Medieval Latin scrīptōrium, from Latin scrīptōrius (“pertaining to writing”). Doublet of escritoire.
Senses: examples: text: The rules of the scriptorium varied in different monasteries, but artificial light was forbidden for fear of injury to the manuscripts, and silence was always enforced.
ref: 1912, G[ilbert] Roger Hudleston, “Scriptorium”, in Charles G[eorge] Herbermann, Edward A[loysius] Pace, Condé B[enoist] Pallen, Thomas J[oseph] Shahan, John J[oseph] Wynne, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume XIII (Revelation–Simon Stock), New York, N.Y.: Robert Appleton Company, →OCLC, page 635, column 1:
text: Very soon, however, I hesitated. It was labour-intensive work, scriptorium-slow.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxii:
text: Nevertheless, Aland criticized Martin's suggestion that the codex was the product of the scriptorium attached to a monastery,⁵³⁶ on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of monasteries in the year 200, or for the existence of scriptoria at all connected with the Church at that early date.
ref: 2008, James Ronald Royse, chapter 7, in Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri, page 499:
text: Among the earliest Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts is the Book of Durrow, a Gospel book that may have been written and decorated in the monastic scriptorium at Iona, although its provenance is not documented.
ref: 2009, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 13th edition, volume 1, page 289:
glosses: A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
Related terms: scribe
script
brown study
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown studies
Etymology: From obsolete brown (“gloomy”) and study.
Senses: examples: text: Phædra. [...] Why Soſia! What, in a brown Study? / Soſia. A little cogitabund, or ſo; concerning this diſmal Revolution in our Family!
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosia’s. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […]; and M. Tonson […], published 1691, →OCLC, Act III, pages 29–30:
text: So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
text: Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation, I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair, I fell into a brown study. Suddenly my companion's voice broke in upon my thoughts.
ref: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box:
text: After that he kept such a silence, falling as it seemed to me into a brown study, that he went away without so much as bidding me farewell, or being conscious, as far as I could tell, of my presence.
ref: 1893, Stanley J. Weyman, “Chapter II. The King of Navarre”, in A Gentleman of France:
text: Once or twice she spoke harshly to Louis; she fell at other times into a brown study; and when she thought that I was not watching her, her face wore a look of deep anxiety.
ref: 1894, Stanley J. Weyman, “Chapter IV”, in Under the Red Robe:
text: But Quatrefages glared at his plate in a brown study.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 428:
glosses: A melancholy mood accompanied by deep thought; a moody daydream.
postscript
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/
Forms: form: postscripts
form: post script
form: postscriptum
form: post scriptum
form: PS
form: P.S.
form: p.s.
Etymology: From New Latin postscriptum, from Latin, neuter of postscriptus, past participle of postscrībō (“write after”), from post (“after”) + scrībō (“write”). By surface analysis, post- + script.
Senses: examples: text: As a rule Julian dictated to secretaries, and so fast that Libanius says the "tachygraphers" were unable to keep pace with him, but certain postscripts are marked "with his own hand."
ref: 1913, Flavius Claudius Iulianus, “Letters of Julian”, in Emily Wilmer Cave Wright, transl., The Works of the Emperor Julian, volume III, Introduction to the letters:
glosses: An addendum to a letter, added after the author's signature.
examples: text: In a moving post-script to the novel, Forster tells the reader that the book was inspired by a visit to the home of Edward Carpenter.
ref: 1974 February 2, Allen Young, “Reviews”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 7:
text: And then a curious postscript: I share your dislike of the shortening of names but I must say that I'm not sure 'Alexandra' is entirely suitable for you. It seems to me that you require a name with rather more brio. I see you as a 'Lexie'. What do you think?
ref: 2010, Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine, Headline, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: An addition to a story, play, etc. after its completion.
Synonyms: sense: addendum to a letter
word: afterscript
sense: addendum to a letter
word: afterword
Derived terms: post-postscript
postscript
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/
Forms: form: postscripts
form: postscripting
form: postscripted
form: postscripted
form: post script
form: postscriptum
form: post scriptum
form: PS
form: P.S.
form: p.s.
Etymology: From New Latin postscriptum, from Latin, neuter of postscriptus, past participle of postscrībō (“write after”), from post (“after”) + scrībō (“write”). By surface analysis, post- + script.
Senses: glosses: To extend (a letter or another document) with additional remarks.
East Anglia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌiːst ˈæŋ.ɡli.ə/
Etymology: east + Anglia (the area occupied by the Angles)
Senses: glosses: The area of eastern England occupied by Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Cambridgeshire.
glosses: A former kingdom in medieval England.
Derived terms: East Anglian
phases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪzɪz/
homophone: fazes
Senses: glosses: plural of phase
phases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪzɪz/
homophone: fazes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phase
phases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪzɪz/
homophone: fazes
ipa: /ˈfeɪsiːz/
ipa: /ˈfeɪzɪz/
homophone: fazes
Senses: glosses: plural of phasis
solid phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solid phases
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of the three fundamental structural phases of matter in which the cohesive force of matter is strong enough to keep the molecules or atoms in the given positions, restraining the thermal mobility.
Synonyms: solid
Coordinate terms: gaseous phase
liquid phase
liquid phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid phases
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: liquid#Noun
coordinate_terms: gaseous phase#Noun
solid phase#Noun
plasma#Noun
glosses: One of the three fundamental structural phases of matter in which the thermal mobility of molecules or atoms is comparable with the cohesiveness, having them connected but fluid in a mass.
Related terms: liquefaction
liquefy
liquidity
aqueous phase
fluid
gaseous phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaseous phases
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of the three fundamental structural phases of matter in which the thermal mobility of molecules or atoms is strong enough to permit their free motion, significantly exceeding the cohesive force.
Synonyms: gas
Coordinate terms: liquid phase
solid phase
thematology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thematologies
Senses: glosses: The study of themes in literature, especially that of a geographically distributed culture.
Derived terms: thematological
thematologist
theologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more theologically
form: most theologically
Etymology: From theological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a theological manner.
examples: text: In the outer reaches of the Magasphere, it would be fair to say the advent of the first pope from the US has not been greeted with unbridled enthusiasm. Take Laura Loomer, the thirtysomething influencer and conspiracy theorist, whose verdict on Leo XIV was as instant as it was theologically uninformed: “Anti-Trump, anti-Maga, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis.”
ref: 2025 May 21, Julian Coman, “Maga Catholics are on a collision course with Leo XIV. They have good reason to fear him”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2025:
glosses: Concerning theological matters.
statistical mechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, or relating to statistical mechanics.
Thesprotia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɛsˈpɹəʊ.ʃə/
Senses: glosses: A regional unit of the administrative region of Epirus, Greece.
Derived terms: Thesprotian
Thessalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Thessaly + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Thessaly in Greece.
Thessalian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thessalians
Etymology: From Thessaly + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Thessaly.
Related terms: Thessalic
think over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks over
form: thinking over
form: thought over
form: thought over
Senses: examples: text: When he has time to think over what he did, he will regret it.
text: Go home, think it over and tell me your decision on Monday.
glosses: To ponder or reflect on a subject.
thin-skinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thin-skinned
form: most thin-skinned
Senses: examples: text: She's rather thin-skinned when it comes to comments about her work.
glosses: Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.
examples: You must handle thin-skinned fruits carefully to avoid bruising them.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thin, skinned.
Derived terms: thin-skinnedness
third class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third classes
Senses: glosses: A reduced-rate mail service for printed matter.
examples: text: Mail trains are limited to first and second class passengers, but on the mixed trains third class is also provided, and this is patronised exclusively by natives.
ref: 1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:
text: Mayhew's survey found that 69 per cent of Met travellers went by third class, 20.5 per cent second, 10.5 per cent first. The Met would abolish second class in 1905 at the time of electrification.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Allport's decision in 1872 to abolish Second Class on the Midland and effectively upgrade Third Class to the standards of Second, most notably with upholstered seating, sent shockwaves through the Victorian railway.
ref: 2023 February 8, Conrad Landin, “Bon appetit: 150 years of railway dining”, in RAIL, number 976, page 47:
glosses: The cheapest accommodation on a train or ship.
Related terms: word: third-class
third dimension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third dimensions
Senses: glosses: the quality, of depth or thickness, that differentiates a solid object from a two-dimensional image of it
peeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːpə/
ipa: /ˈpipɚ/
rhymes: -iːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: peepers
Etymology: From peep + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Check out the gorgeous peepers on that guy!
text: 1938, Louis Armstrong (and lyrics by Johnny Mercer), Jeepers Creepers
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get them peepers?
Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?
text: The witness stand. Goldminers giving evidence, sure he's violent didn't I see him with my own peepers chasing those poor kids up on the roof.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 36:
glosses: The eye.
examples: text: Who's there? peepers, intelligencers, eavesdroppers?
ref: 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: If listeners seldom hear good of themselves, it is also true that peepers sometimes see more than they like; and Betty, the cook, as she reached the landing, glancing askance with ominous curiosity, beheld a spectacle, the sight of which nearly bereft her of her senses.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Someone who peeps; a spy.
examples: text: So you go to see this peeper, this Marlowe. That was your mistake.
ref: 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
glosses: A private detective.
glosses: A peeping tom.
glosses: An animal, such as some frogs, having a shrill, high-pitched call.
glosses: A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.
Derived terms: word: leaf peeper
word: pixel-peeper
word: pixel peeper
taxonomic: Pseudacris crucifer
word: spring peeper
third party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third parties
form: 3rd party
form: 3d party
Senses: examples: text: A seller may employ a third party to perform specific services to augment the value of a product, such as packing and distribution.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: Someone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).
topics: law
glosses: Someone only incidentally or tangentially connected to an incident or dispute; someone other than the principals; a bystander or independent witness.
examples: text: Those who belong to the Libertarian Party serve a much larger pro-liberty community and have the specific mission of electing libertarians to public office. They traditionally billed themselves as 'America's largest third party'.
ref: 2010, Duncan Watts, Dictionary of American Government and Politics, →ISBN, page 177:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system.
Derived terms: word: third-party
word: third-party
Related terms: first-party
first party
party
second party
second-party
third
two-party system
three-party system
third-party
third-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: third rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 64–80 guns across two gun decks, a complement of 500–650, and weighing approximately 1,750 tons burthen.
examples: text: I consider it to now be a third-rate service run without any excuses being offered.
ref: 2022 December 14, Barry Doe, “NRT review meets Christmas deadlines”, in RAIL, number 972, page 40:
glosses: Poor, shoddy; less than second-rate.
Related terms: fifth-rate
first-rate
fourth-rate
second-rate
sixth-rate
third-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third-rates
form: third rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A third-rate ship of the line.
Related terms: two-decker
middle of nowhere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the middle of nowhere
form: middles of nowhere
Senses: examples: text: We set out to demonstrate to the people of the county that a corrupt ring managed the Republican party in this county. . . . We want that corrupt ring knocked into the middle of Nowhere.
ref: 1889 Nov. 2, "The Proof" (editorial), The Daily Record (Kansas, USA), p. 2 (retrieved 12 April 2013)
text: "Only we don't happen to be in the middle of nowhere! We're just about a couple of miles from a market town where abides a nice little inn whence petrol can be obtained."
ref: 1920, Margaret Pedler, chapter 29, in The Hermit of Far End:
text: The train occasionally stops when it crosses a stream in the middle of nowhere to take on water.
ref: 1950 May, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Tanganyika Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 297:
text: South Florida's Everglades Jetport is a fancy name for a concrete runway in the middle of nowhere.
ref: 1977 October 17, “Now, the Poor Man's Jumbo Jet”, in Time:
text: I've been walking through the middle of nowhere / Trying to get to heaven before they close the door
ref: 1997, Bob Dylan, “Tryin' to Get to Heaven”, in Time Out of Mind:
text: [A]fter weeks of journeying across the monotonous open sea. . . . “You see nothing for 30 days — you’re in the middle of nowhere, you feel like you are in outer space,” said Mr. Domjan.
ref: 2012 May 9, Bettina Wassener, “A Modern Magellan Demonstrates Power of the Sun”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Apr 2013:
text: In the 1800s, tons of Americans migrated all over in search of one thing: money. Towns just started popping up in the middles of nowhere to mine for gold.
ref: 2021 July 23, Ryan Trahan, 0:12 from the start, in Overnight in an Abandoned Ghost Town:
text: It feels strange to be crossing the site of the old Ripple Lane locomotive depot and freight yards on a new viaduct, to arrive in what used to be the middle of nowhere but which is now a growing new development.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 56:
glosses: A very remote or secluded area; a nondescript place lacking population, interesting things, or defining characteristics.
Synonyms: See: Thesaurus:remote place
backwater
backwoods
boondocks
the sticks
Timbuktu
Derived terms: bumfuck middle of nowhere
thornbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thornbushes
Senses: examples: text: “Meanwhile thornbush sprung wild around the house overnight.”
ref: 2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 261:
glosses: Any of many thorny or spiny shrubs and bushes.
Synonyms: thornshrub
thoroughness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌɹənəs/
ipa: /ˈθʌɹəʊnəs/
ipa: /ˈθʌɹoʊnəs/
ipa: /ˈθɜɹoʊnəs/
Forms: form: thoroughnesses
Etymology: From thorough + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being thorough.
examples: text: Such jobs as weeding, for instance, could be done with a thoroughness impossible to human beings.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: Attention to detail.
vagitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin vāgītus (“crying, wailing”), from vāgiō (“cry, wail”).
Senses: glosses: The crying of a newborn baby.
Derived terms: vagitus uterinus
vagitus uterinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Modern medical coinage from Latin vagitus (“cry”) + uterinus (“of the womb”)
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The crying of a foetus from within the uterus following rupture of the membranes.
thoughtfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɔːt.f(ə)l.nəs/
ipa: /-fʊl-/
enpr: thôt’fl-nəs
ipa: /ˈθɔt.f(ə)l.nəs/
ipa: [ˈθɔt.fl̩.nəs]
ipa: /ˈθɑt.f(ə)l.nəs/
ipa: [ˈθɑt.fl̩.nəs]
Forms: form: thoughtfullness
Etymology: From thoughtful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She sat with her feet tucked under her, and leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out the window at the passing people with a queer old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.
ref: 1905, Frances Hodgson Burnett, “Sara”, in A Little Princess: […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 3:
antonyms: thoughtlessness
glosses: Thoughtful and considerate attention.
antonyms: unthoughtfulness
glosses: Careful deliberation before action.
thoughtlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɔːtləsnɪs/
ipa: /ˈθɔːtlɪsnɪs/
ipa: /ˈθɔːtləsnəs/
enpr: thôt′ləs-nĭs
enpr: thôt′lĭs-nĭs
enpr: thôt′ləs-nəs
ipa: /ˈθɔtləsnɪs/
ipa: /ˈθɔtlɪsnɪs/
ipa: /ˈθɔtləsnəs/
enpr: thät′ləs-nĭs
enpr: thät′lĭs-nĭs
enpr: thät′ləs-nəs
ipa: /ˈθɑtləsnɪs/
ipa: /ˈθɑtlɪsnɪs/
ipa: /ˈθɑtləsnəs/
Etymology: From thoughtless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: disregard for other's feelings
glosses: heedless disregard for the consequences of one's actions
zygal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygo- + -al.
Senses: glosses: shaped like a yoke, or like the letter H
Derived terms: zygal fissure
Related terms: zygon
zibeline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzɪbəˌliːn/
Forms: form: zibelines
Etymology: From French zibeline (“sable”).
Senses: glosses: A thick, soft woolen fabric with a long nap.
glosses: The sable, or its pelt.
zhomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zhomos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dzomo.