cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Uniform Resource Locator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uniform Resource Locators
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A universal address for resources on the internet, which is most commonly used for websites.
Synonyms: web address
URL
web
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Forms: form: the web
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *webaną
Proto-Germanic *wabją
Old English webb
Middle English web
English web
From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), West Frisian, Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”).
Senses: examples: text: Let me search the web for that.
text: No, the web probably isn't addictive in the sense that nicotine or heroin are; no, Facebook and Twitter aren't guilty of "killing conversation" or corroding real-life friendship or making children autistic.
ref: 2013 May 13, Oliver Burkeman, “Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
web
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛb/
rhymes: -ɛb
Forms: form: webs
form: webbing
form: webbed
form: webbed
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *webaną
Proto-Germanic *wabją
Old English webb
Middle English web
English web
From Middle English web, webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots wab (“web”), West Frisian, Dutch web (“web”), Danish væv (“web”), Faroese vevur (“web”), Icelandic vefur (“web”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vev (“web”), Swedish väv (“web”).
Senses: glosses: To construct or form a web.
examples: text: The canker worm has no shelter upon the tree, but lies out upon the leaf or branch ; this forms itself a house by webbing the corner of a leaf, into which it retreats on the first appearance of danger[…]
ref: 1853 June 21, R. C. Stone, “A New Insect”, in Simon Brown, editor, The New England Farmer, volume V, Boston: Raynolds & Nourse, page 362:
text: In the meantime continents were being ribbed with railways, the atmosphere was being webbed with telegraph wires connecting every important commercial centre[…]
ref: 1895, “Has Gold Risen?”, in The Forum, volume XVIII, New York: The Forum Publishing Co., page 577:
glosses: To cover with a web or network.
glosses: To ensnare or entangle.
glosses: To provide with a web.
examples: text: Item that the Wever whiche shall have the wevyng of eny wollen yerne to be webbed into cloth shall weve werk[…]
ref: 1511–12, “An Act agaynst deceyptfull making of Wollen Cloth”, in The Statures of the Realm, volume III, London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, published 1963, page 28:
glosses: To weave.
format
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt/
ipa: /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/
Forms: form: formats
Etymology: Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).
Senses: examples: text: The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work.
ref: 1896, George Haven Putnam, Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages:
glosses: The layout of a publication or document.
glosses: The form of presentation of something.
examples: text: The radio station changed the format of its evening program.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file type.
Derived terms: container format
E-format
file format
formatize
format string
Harvard format
large format
letterbox format
medium format
microformat
multiformat
package format
radio format
subformat
wildmat
zoo format
format
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).mæt/
ipa: /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/
Forms: form: formats
form: formatting
form: formatted
form: formatted
Etymology: Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“I shape, fashion”).
Senses: glosses: To create or edit the layout of a document.
glosses: Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.
examples: text: I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.
Synonyms: sense: change a document to fit onto different type of page
word: reformat
sense: computing: prepare storage medium
word: initialise
word: initialize
Derived terms: autoformat
deformat
formattable
formatter
formatting
misformat
overformat
preformat
unformat
wildmat
formatting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.mæt.iŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.mæt.iŋ/
ipa: [ˈfɔɹ.mæɾ.iŋ]
ipa: /ˈfoː.mæt.iŋ/
Forms: form: formattings
Senses: glosses: The visual style of a document, including fonts, borders, etc.
glosses: The code in a markup language which determines a document's format.
formatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː.mæt.iŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.mæt.iŋ/
ipa: [ˈfɔɹ.mæɾ.iŋ]
ipa: /ˈfoː.mæt.iŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of format
solus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sōlus.
Senses: examples: text: Enter Hector solus.
glosses: alone, unaccompanied (as a stage direction)
fund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌnd/
rhymes: -ʌnd
Forms: form: funds
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
Borrowed from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus.
Senses: examples: text: the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
text: a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
glosses: A sum or source of money.
glosses: An organization managing such money.
examples: text: Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
glosses: A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
examples: text: He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
text: an inexhaustible fund of stories
ref: 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
text: He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
glosses: A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
Derived terms: alternative fund
alternative investment fund
balanced fund
bond fund
chit fund
closed-end fund
collateralized fund obligation
consolidated fund
contingencies fund
equity fund
feeder fund
forfeiture fund
fundage
fundholder
fundholding
fund house
fundless
fund manager
fund of funds
fundraise
fund-raiser
fundraiser
fund-raising
fundraising
fun fund
go-go fund
green fund
growth fund
health fund
hedge fund
honey fund
honeyfund
income fund
index fund
interfund
investment fund
load fund
master fund
megafund
microfund
money market fund
money-market fund
mutual fund
no-load fund
open-end fund
pension fund
pooled fund
provident fund
quant fund
road fund licence
sinking fund
slush fund
sovereign wealth fund
stabilization fund
stock fund
subfund
Superfund
superfund
trust fund
trust fund baby
umbrella fund
vulture fund
wage-fund doctrine
yellow dog fund
fund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌnd/
rhymes: -ʌnd
Forms: form: funds
form: funding
form: funded
form: funded
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
Borrowed from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus.
Senses: examples: text: He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.
glosses: To pay or provide money for.
glosses: To place (money) in a fund.
glosses: To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.
Derived terms: co-fund
crowdfund
defund
fundable
funder
outfund
overfund
part-fund
self-fund
underfund
unfund
funder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌndɚ/
rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: funders
Etymology: From fund + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I think funding sources do have an impact on the political direction of any organization. An organization that is not politically palatable to the funder is going to lose the funder. That has had an impact on the direction of the gay liberation event.
ref: 1987 May 9, Gordon Gottlieb, Richard Burns, Sue Hyde, “Homocrats and Liberationists: Burns and Hyde Consider the Community's Institutions”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
text: Network Rail's funder in Scotland, Transport Scotland, published a plan in 2020 saying that by 2035 the rail routes to Aberdeen (and to Inverness, Tweedbank and Carlisle via Kilmarnock) would be electrified.
ref: 2024 February 7, “Network News: NR seeks bidders for Scottish OLE”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 10:
glosses: One who funds.
Derived terms: seed funder
trust-funder
Related terms: fund
donation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəʊˈneɪʃən/
enpr: dōnā'shən
ipa: /doʊˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: donations
Etymology: From Middle English donacion, donation, from Middle French donation, from Latin dōnātiō (“a present”), from dōnō (“to give”), from dōnum (“a gift”). Recorded in English since the 15th century. Equivalent to donate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: They were collecting donations for the elderly at Christmas.
text: And some donation freely to estate
On the bless'd lovers.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.
examples: text: After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
Derived terms: backdonation
blood donation
donationware
DonoWall
e-donation
egg donation
hemodonation
microdonation
nondonation
organ donation
postdonation
Related terms: donate
fundraising
manufacture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˌmænəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˌmanjʊˈfaktʃə/
ipa: /ˌmanjəˈfaktʃə/
ipa: /ˌmanɪˈfaktʃə/
rhymes: -æktʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: manufactures
Etymology: From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin manūfactūra (“a making by hand”), from manūfactus, a compound of manū factus, manū being ablative of manus (“hand”), and factus past participle of faciō (“I do, make”).
Compare manual, facture.
Senses: examples: text: After years of exporting the gum base to be used as an ingredient in the manufacture of regular chewing gum, the cooperative recently decided to start making its own gum using only chicle gum base and natural flavorings and sweeteners
ref: 2009 April 3, Olivia Feld, “New gum could mean sticky end for mess”, in CNN.com:
glosses: The action or process of making goods systematically or on a large scale.
examples: text: The roads [are] crowded with carriers, laden with rich manufactures.
ref: 1727, Jonathan Swift, A Short View of the State of Ireland:
text: Thus, a patented manufacture should be either better in quality or cheaper in cost than that which it is intended to supplant.
ref: 1853, Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, page 133:
glosses: Anything made, formed or produced; product.
examples: text: Our lawgivers take special pride in the ever active manufacture of new bills and laws.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: The process of such production; generation, creation.
topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
glosses: A watch manufacturer that makes its own parts, rather than assembling watches from parts obtained from other firms.
Related terms: manufact
manufactory
manufacture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænjuˈfækt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˌmænəˈfækt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˌmanjʊˈfaktʃə/
ipa: /ˌmanjəˈfaktʃə/
ipa: /ˌmanɪˈfaktʃə/
rhymes: -æktʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: manufactures
form: manufacturing
form: manufactured
form: manufactured
Etymology: From Middle French manufacture, from Old French, from Medieval Latin manūfactūra (“a making by hand”), from manūfactus, a compound of manū factus, manū being ablative of manus (“hand”), and factus past participle of faciō (“I do, make”).
Compare manual, facture.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists are learning how to manufacture sperm and egg cells from other types of cell; others are developing "alternative" wombs
ref: 2008 July 23, Michael Brooks, “Comment: It's time for the Vatican to accept IVF”, in New Scientist, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2016:
glosses: To make things, usually on a large scale, with tools and either physical labor or machinery.
examples: text: to manufacture wool into blankets
text: The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
ref: 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post:
glosses: To work (raw or partly wrought materials) into suitable forms for use.
examples: text: The collegian keeps manufacturing new excuses for their tardiness.
text: Digital technology has made it so easy to manufacture lies that it's become difficult to separate fact from fiction.
ref: 2000 December 10, Daniel Zalewski, “The Misinformation Age”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022:
glosses: To fabricate; to create false evidence to support a point.
Derived terms: biomanufacture
comanufacture
demanufacture
manufacturability
manufacturable
manufacturage
manufactural
manufacture of consent
manufacturess
micromanufacture
mismanufacture
nanomanufacture
nonmanufacture
premanufacture
remanufacture
semimanufacture
Related terms: machinofacture
manufacturer
dispose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpoʊz/
ipa: /dɪˈspəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Etymology: From French disposer.
Senses: examples: text: By thus doing, he submits himself to God's rod, commits himself to the dispose of his providence; yea, by thus doing, he casteth the lot of his present and future condition into the lap of his creditors, and leaves the whole dispose thereof to the Lord […]
ref: 1680, John Bunyan, The Life and Death of Mr Badman:
glosses: The disposal or management of something.
glosses: Behaviour; disposition.
profession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈfɛʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈfɛʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈprɵfəʃən/
rhymes: -ɛʃən
Forms: form: professions
Etymology: From Middle English professioun, from Anglo-Norman professioun, Old French profession (“declaration of faith, religious vows, occupation”), from Latin professiō (“avowal, public declaration”), from the participle stem of profitērī (“to profess”). By surface analysis, profess + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: She died only a few years after her profession.
text: Rosario was a young novice belonging to the monastery, who in three months intended to make his profession.
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 27:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A declaration of faith.
A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
examples: text: I congratulate you upon the wisdom that withheld you from entering yourself a member of the Protestant Association […] it is likely to bring an odium upon the profession they make, that will not soon be forgotten.
ref: 1780, William Cowper, letter, 12 June
glosses: A declaration of faith.
The declaration of belief in the principles of a religion; hence, one's faith or religion.
examples: text: Despite his continued professions of innocence, the court eventually sentenced him to five years.
text: I scarcely know any thing that really interests me, and I would give a great deal not to be so quick-sighted as I am; it would be so pleasant to believe only a tithe of the professions that are made me.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Presentiment”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: A declaration of faith.
Any declaration of belief, faith or one's opinion, whether genuine or (as now often implied) pretended.
examples: text: My father was a barrister by profession.
text: “You are very idle, Cashel; I am sure of that. It is too provoking to throw away so much money every year for nothing. Besides, you must soon be thinking of a profession.” “I shall go into the army,” said Cashel. “It is the only profession for a gentleman.”
ref: 1886, George Bernard Shaw, Cashel Byron’s Profession. […], London: The Modern Press, […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: A professional occupation.
An occupation, trade, craft, or activity in which one has a professed expertise in a particular area; a job, especially one requiring a high level of skill or training.
examples: text: His conduct is against the established practices of the legal profession.
glosses: A professional occupation.
The practitioners of such an occupation collectively.
Derived terms: caring profession
helping profession
learned profession
liberal profession
oldest profession
oldest profession in the world
professional
professionless
profession of faith
pseudoprofession
semiprofession
world's oldest profession
pebble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛb.əl/
rhymes: -ɛbəl
Forms: form: pebbles
Etymology: From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English papolstān (“pebble-stone”), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel of unknown origin + Old English stān. Compare Albanian popël.
Senses: examples: text: Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
Fillip the stars;
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge;
As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
examples: text: Brazilian pebble
glosses: Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
synonyms: cube powder
prismatic powder
glosses: A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
examples: text: You ain't got your Glock for the summer / And you ain't gonna pop for your gunner / You ain't in the whip with them pebbles (Nah) / You ain't on the strip with the rebels (Nah)
ref: 2019 February 22, Giggs, “You Ain't…” (track 13), in Big Bad…, performed by Giggs:
synonyms: word: peb
coordinate_terms: word: rock
english: crystallized lump of crack cocaine
translation: crystallized lump of crack cocaine
glosses: A small piece of crack cocaine.
Derived terms: pebble-bed reactor
pebble dash
pebble-dash
pebble in one's shoe
pebble lens
pebbleless
pebblelike
pebble mill
pebble plant
pebbler
pebblesnail
pebblestone
pebble toad
pebbleware
pebbly
snatch the pebble
pebble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛb.əl/
rhymes: -ɛbəl
Forms: form: pebbles
form: pebbling
form: pebbled
form: pebbled
Etymology: From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English papolstān (“pebble-stone”), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel of unknown origin + Old English stān. Compare Albanian popël.
Senses: glosses: To pave with pebbles.
examples: to pebble the ice between games
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To deposit water droplets on the ice.
glosses: To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules, in a pebble game.
calix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calixes
form: calices
Senses: glosses: Dated form of calyx.
Derived terms: glycocalix
dismount
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈmaʊnt/
rhymes: -aʊnt
Forms: form: dismounts
form: dismounting
form: dismounted
form: dismounted
Etymology: From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.
Senses: examples: text: She carefully dismounted from the horse.
text: She carefully dismounted the horse.
text: Cadel Evans was the first to suffer, quickly dismounting and waiting to take a bike from one of his BMC Racing team-mates, only to discover that the first of them had also punctured.
ref: 2012 July 15, Richard Williams, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track, Guardian Unlimited:
glosses: To (cause to) get off (something).
examples: text: The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
text: PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.
ref: 1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed, page 1130:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
examples: text: But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To come down; to descend.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
Synonyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: umount
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: unmount
Derived terms: dismountable
dismounter
dismount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈmaʊnt/
rhymes: -aʊnt
Forms: form: dismounts
Etymology: From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.
Senses: examples: text: Nice dismount!
glosses: The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard.
examples: text: It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
tenuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛn.ju.əs/
rhymes: -ɛnjuəs
homophone: tenuis (when "tenuous" includes /j/ and its unstressed /ɪ/ = [ə])
Forms: form: more tenuous
form: most tenuous
Etymology: Irregularly formed from Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous. Compare tenuious.
Senses: examples: text: The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
text: Far from being amicable, the numbers seemed to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection.
synonyms: word: delicate
word: gossamer
word: breakable
word: delicate
word: flimsy
word: fragile
word: frail
word: frailsome
word: frangible
word: tenuous
glosses: Thin in substance or consistency.
examples: text: His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.
text: July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
synonyms: word: ethereal
word: airy
word: aery
word: ethereal
word: immaterial
word: insubstantial
word: tenuous
word: unreal
word: unsubstantial
glosses: Insubstantial.
examples: text: Paulina's repeated, almost anxious iteration of the lawfulness of her actions serves as a reminder of women's tenuous stance before the law in early modern English society.
ref: 1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page 110 of 89–118:
text: Is this connected to "pro-gay" Governor Weld's contract with some in the community—gay rights in exchange for keeping sex out of the picture? Those willing to make this 'bargain with the devil' depend for their tenuous status on keeping the rest of us in line, moralizing about the need to behave "beyond reproach," clarifying to the straight public that there are good gays and bad ones.
ref: 1996 September, “Moral Clashes”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
glosses: Precarious, dependent upon unreliable things.
Derived terms: tenuously
tenuousness
Related terms: attenuate
extenuate
tenuities
tenuity
tendrilous
wispy
gray-collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gray-collar
form: most gray-collar
form: gray collar
form: grey-collar
form: grey collar
Etymology: From gray and collar by extension of white-collar and blue-collar, perhaps with gray being seen as intermediate between white and blue.
Senses: examples: text: But if you look at the employment trends in the country, you find that the white-collar (and gray-collar) activities have become increasingly important...
ref: 1963, R. Robb Taylor, editor, University and community; proceedings of a conference, April 25-26, 1963, under the auspices of the Association of Urban Universities and the Johnson Foundation, page 58:
text: 1964, National Ice Association: Forty-Seventh Annual Convention, Democratic Party Convention, OK State Fed of Labor
Your present plan is rated, not for the so-called blue collar people, it’s rated for white-collar and that thin gray line, the gray-collar worker. In many small businesses you don’t know who is blue-collar and who is white-collar, the boss often doing all kinds of work around the firm.
text: 1971, Richard Patrick Coleman, Social Status in the City, Jossey-Bass, page 68,
At the lower-middle level, the typical Negro male was a gray-collar worker in one of the civil services, worked for the railroads as a Pullman porter or dining car waiter, or owned a small business.
text: 1989, United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Efforts to Commercialize Superconductivity: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Government Printing Office, page 152,
Vocational training reaches greater fractions of the labor force in nations like West Germany; large Japanese companies invest more heavily in job-related training for blue- and gray-collar employees than do American firms.
glosses: Of or pertaining to working-class professions that do not involve significant manual labor, such as skilled technical professions, combining elements of blue-collar and white-collar.
open-collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The white-collar worker and open-collar professional have been imbued from earliest schooling with an individualist, anti-labor organizational ethic. Added to this, the new technologies are being utilized, in some cases, to restore patterns of home work and piece work.
ref: 1990, Larry A. Hickman, Technology as a Human Affair, McGraw-Hill, page 444
text: In qualitative studies, open-collar workers said they felt they accomplished more because there were fewer interruptions. Employers also find that offering telecommuting positions can give them a recruiting advantage.
ref: 1990, Ronald D. Rotstein, The Future, Carol Publishing Group, page 41
text: Far from being some special breed in three-button suits, these hard-working people are blue collar as often as white collar and, increasingly, the open collar workers of the information age.
ref: 1993, Miscellaneous Forestry: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms and Energy of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First and Second Sessions, U.S. General Printing Office, page 506
glosses: Of or pertaining to work that is performed from home, especially by means of the Internet.
black-collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From black market and -collar.
Senses: examples: text: Rewards necessarily drop for the former — not only because their numbers increase relatively but also because their output per man-hour does not rise as rapidly as that of the black-collar worker.
ref: 1946, The Ethical Outlook, page 270:
text: What attitudes, types of ideas and particular experiences would lead a "blue collar worker" to perceive the evidence of the defendant's guilt differently than a white, pink or black collar worker?
ref: 1979, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California:
text: Why can't we pass a law whereby every white/blue/black-collar worker with children pay into a fund about P20.00 a week from his pay.
ref: 1991, Search ResultsBusiness Journal, volume 66, number 7, page 52:
glosses: Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services.
examples: text: black-collar worker
text: In Helsinki, the inner-city workers' housing which was once uniformly red, now occupied by ‘black-collar’ workers—creative industry types who wear a T-shirt to work—votes solidly green.
ref: 2012, Olaf Cramme, Patrick Diamond, editors, After the Third Way: The Future of Social Democracy in Europe, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: Relating to creative work.
examples: text: Even if you add to this the 4200 jobs created each year by the energy-efficiency measures for which the Rudd government claims credit, it is completely negated by the ‘black-collar’ jobs being added as Queensland and New South Wales expand coal exports.
ref: 2010, Robert Manne, David McKnight, editors, Goodbye to All That? […] , Black Inc., →ISBN, page 257:
glosses: Relating to coalminers and oil workers.
examples: text: This is scarcely the first crisis involving what an Australian victims' group, Broken Rites, has termed black-collar crime. But never before has a scandal cast doubts on the judgment and authority of a pope.
ref: 2010 March 19, Riazat Butt, John Hooper, “Calamity for pope as the past – and case of Peter Hullermann – returns to haunt him”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Relating to the clergy.
Related terms: black market
Not to be confused with black-coated
green-collar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more green-collar
form: most green-collar
Etymology: By analogy with other compounds in -collar, especially white-collar and blue-collar, and taking green to represent the environment, environmentalism, and so on.
Senses: examples: 1976, Patrick Heffernan, “Jobs for the Environment — The Coming Green Collar Revolution”, in Jobs and Prices in the West Coast Region: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 134,
1997, Geoff Mulgan, Perri 6 [sic], et al., The British Spring: A Manifesto for the Election After Next, Demos, page 26,
The United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark are all generating hundreds of thousands of new 'green collar' jobs, especially for young people, achieving remarkable reductions in energy, water, waste disposal and materials costs.
2001, Diane Warburton and Ian Christie, From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World, Earthscan, page 75,
Studies for the UK suggest that the more than 100,000 existing 'green collar' workers in environmental occupations could be joined by many thousands more, both in the private sector and in the 'social economy' of community enterprises.
glosses: Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries.
examples: text: 1983, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, Cultivation of Marihuana in National Forests: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, […], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 32,
American [marihuana] growers, who have more recently become known as America's "green-collar" workers because of the bright green color of their product, […]
text: Blue-collar 29.7 33.5
Green-collar 21.2 10.0
White-collar 25.0 31.7
Grey-collar 24.0 24.8
ref: 2004, Martin Heidenreich et al., Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Governances in a Globalized World, Routledge UK, page 394, Qualification structure of the workforce (%) 1980 1997
glosses: Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment.
Related terms: green-collar crime
green collar crime
ergo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɚɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɝɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
Etymology: From Middle English ergo, from Latin ergō.
Senses: examples: text: "I merely made an individual application of a general rule. All women love flattery—ergo, Miss Arundel liked it."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 59:
text: The pirates who invaded this fort left Sparrow locked in his cell; ergo, they are not his allies.
ref: 2003, Pirates of the Caribbean::
glosses: Consequently, therefore, or thus.
ergo
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɚɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɝɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
Etymology: From Middle English ergo, from Latin ergō.
Senses: glosses: therefore (especially in syllogisms)
ergo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɚɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɝɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
Forms: form: ergos
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: Clipping of ergometer (rowing machine).
ergo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɚɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɝɡoʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
Forms: form: ergos
Etymology: Clipping of ergonomic
Senses: examples: text: I just love the ergos on this knife. It just feels great and carries so well.
glosses: An ergonomic factor or characteristic.
facsimile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fækˈsɪm.ə.li/
Forms: form: facsimiles
form: facsimilia
form: fac-simile
Etymology: From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).
Senses: examples: text: To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?
ref: 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in James Matheson Thompson, editor, Twentieth Century Theories of Art, published 1990, § VIII, 540:
glosses: A copy or reproduction.
examples: text: Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
glosses: A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
glosses: The image sent by the machine itself.
Synonyms: sense: copy
word: autotype
sense: copy
word: copy
sense: copy
word: reproduction
sense: machine
word: facsimile machine
sense: machine
word: fax
sense: machine
word: fax machine
sense: copy made by a facsimile
word: facsimile reproduction
sense: copy made by a facsimile
word: fax
Derived terms: facsimilist
facsimilize
microfacsimile
nonfacsimile
telefacsimile
facsimile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fækˈsɪm.ə.li/
Forms: form: facsimiles
form: facsimileing
form: facsimiled
form: facsimiled
form: facsimilied
form: facsimilied
form: fac-simile
Etymology: From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).
Senses: glosses: To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
glosses: To make a copy of; to reproduce.
Synonyms: fax
telefax
table tennis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: ping pong
word: flim-flam
word: whiff-whaff
word: gossima
glosses: A game or sport (similar to tennis) that involves the hitting of a light plastic ball across a table (fashioned like a mini tennis court) by rackets (paddles, bats (Britain)).
Derived terms: table tennis ball
table tennis player
table tennis table
Japanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Japanizes
form: Japanizing
form: Japanized
form: Japanized
form: japanize
form: Japanise
form: japanise
form: Japonize
form: japonize
form: Japonise
form: japonise
Etymology: From Japan + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Multiplying five times as rapidly as the whites, the Japs must someday―unless the problem is met now―absolutely control this Coast. Just as Hawaii and the Sacramento valley have been Japanized, so will the state of Washington.
ref: 1919 July 29, “Is This To Remain White Man's Land?”, in Seattle Star:
text: His latest, Tokyo Godfathers, may sound like a gangster film, but rather it's Kon's attempt to Japanize a Western tradition that goes back to Charles Dickens and beyond: the heartwarming holiday story.
ref: 2003 December 3, Mark Schilling, “The ideal Xmas present?”, in The Japan Times:
glosses: To Nipponize.
Related terms: Japanese
diadromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dia- (“across”) + -dromous (< Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos, “running, path, way”)). Compare Modern Greek διάδρομος (diádromos, “corridor”).
Senses: glosses: that travels between salt water and fresh water as part of its life cycle
raw_tags: of a fish
Related terms: diadromy
amphidromous
anadromous
catadromous
oceanodromous
potamodromous
catadromous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catadromous
form: most catadromous
Etymology: From cata- + -dromous, by analogy with anadromous. Compare catanadromous.
Senses: examples: text: Bird migration routes favor marshes and river valleys, as do, more obviously, the movement of anadromous salmon and, the mirror image, catadromous eels, to mention only two of the numerous migrating fish species.
ref: 2017, James C Scott, chapter 1, in Against the Grain, New Haven & London: Yale, →ISBN, page 53:
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Living in fresh water as an adult, but breeding in the sea.
raw_tags: of a migratory fish
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a fern in which the first veins in a frond segment are produced towards the base of the frond.
Related terms: amphidromous
diadromous
oceanodromous
potamodromous
pareidolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹ.aɪˈdəʊ.li.ə/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌpæɹ.iˈdoʊ.li.ə/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌpæɹ.aɪˈdoʊ.li.ə/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.iˈdoʊ.li.ə/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.aɪˈdoʊ.li.ə/
rhymes: -əʊliə
Forms: form: pareidolias
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pareidolie, constructed from Ancient Greek παρα- (para-, “alongside”) + εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image”) + -ία (-ía).
Senses: examples: text: This last is called by Dr. Kahlbaum, changing hallucination, partial hallucination, perception of secondary images, or pareidolia.
ref: 1868 July, John Sibbald, The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 13, page 238:
text: Pareidolia underlies several forms of divination.
ref: 1993, Raymond Moody, Paul Perry, Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 13:
text: Pareidolias aren't solely limited to images. When I was a youngster, I remember listening to The Beatles' song "Strawberry Fields" over and over to hear what seemed to be "I buried Paul."
ref: 2006, Steve W. Martin, “Choosing Your Battles”, in Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Pareidolia is a state of mind where a vague or unclear image is perceived to be something recognizable, regardless of whether it's something you expect to see. The most famous example of pareidolia is the familiar face of the Man in the Moon.
ref: 2010, Rick Emmer, “Nessies of the New World”, in Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction? (Creature Scene Investigation), New York, N.Y.: Chelsea House Publishers, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
hypernyms: apophenia
glosses: The tendency to interpret a vague stimulus as something known to the observer, such as interpreting marks on Mars as canals, seeing shapes in clouds, or hearing hidden messages in music.
Derived terms: pareidolic
microorganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈɔː.ɡəˌnɪz.m̩/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.kɹoʊˈɔɹ.ɡəˌnɪz.m̩/
Forms: form: microorganisms
form: micro-organism
form: microörganism
Etymology: From micro- + organism.
Senses: examples: text: The cud is then reswallowed and further digested by specialized microorganisms that live in the rumen.
text: Bacillus anthracis: from the first up to the sixth day, this microorganism was isolatable, or in other words still alive.
ref: 1957, Communicationes Veterinariae - Volumes 1-3, page 52:
text: The differences in biofilm penetration patterns of both tested photosensitisers and the light source could have played an important role for the survival of microorganisms after the application of aPDT. In a recent own study, we showed that the deepest layers of the oral biofilm were not affected by the aPDT [4 ].
ref: 2015 November 7, “Antimicrobial Photoinactivation Using Visible Light Plus Water-Filtered Infrared-A (VIS + wIRA) Alters In Situ Oral Biofilms”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
synonyms: microbe
glosses: An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye; especially, a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium.
Synonyms: word: microorganism
word: microbe
Hypernyms: word: organism
Hyponyms: word: bacterium
Related terms: macroorganism
fecundity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ/
Forms: form: fecundities
form: fœcundity
Etymology: From Latin fēcunditās (“fruitfulness, fertility”), from fēcundus, equivalent to fecund + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.
ref: 2006, Neil Gaiman, “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett”, in Good Omens, Corgi, page 410:
glosses: Ability to produce offspring.
examples: text: [I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:
glosses: Ability to cause growth or increase.
examples: text: The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 29:
glosses: Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
glosses: Rate of production of young by a female.
Synonyms: sense: ability to produce offspring
word: fertileness
sense: ability to produce offspring
word: fertility
Derived terms: antifecundity
infecundity
subfecundity
superfecundity
Related terms: fecund
fecundation
octet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒkˈtɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: octets
form: octett
form: octette
Etymology: From Latin octo (“eight”).
Senses: synonyms: word: octad
word: octonary
word: ogdoad
english: chiefly Greek and Egyptian contexts
translation: chiefly Greek and Egyptian contexts
word: octuplet
english: particularly babies
translation: particularly babies
word: nundine
english: 8-day week
translation: 8-day week
glosses: A group or set of eight of something.
examples: text: An octet of waiters sang her "Happy Birthday".
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A group of eight musicians performing together.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A composition for such a group of musicians.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: byte
glosses: A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o
examples: text: This is done by breaking down each set of permissions (user, group, and other) to represent an octet.
ref: 2003, Nitesh Dhanjani, Linux and UNIX security portable reference:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values.
Hyponyms: english: years
translation: years
word: octennium
Derived terms: color-octet
octetonium
octet rule
Related terms: octa-
octuple
duet
nonet
quartet
quintet
septet
sextet
solo
trio
dine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: dines
form: dining
form: dined
form: dined
Etymology: From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.
Senses: glosses: To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
examples: text: Brown accompanied his jolly landlord and the rest of his friends into the large and smoky kitchen, where this savoury mess reeked on an oaken table, massy enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry-men.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 68:
text: I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor.
ref: 2019 November 12, Claire North [pseudonym; Catherine Webb], chapter 60, in The Pursuit of William Abbey, New York, N.Y.: Orbit, →ISBN, page 328:
glosses: To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
glosses: To dine upon; to have to eat.
Synonyms: dinner
Derived terms: dine and dash
dine at the Y
dine in
dine-in
dine on ashes
dine out
dine out on
diner
dinery
dinette
dineware
dine with Duke Humphrey
dining
interdine
undined
wine and dine
Related terms: dinner
dine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Etymology: From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.
Senses: glosses: Dinnertime.