cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹeɪt/
note: traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete
enpr: trā
ipa: /tɹeɪ/
note: traditional British pronunciation, now virtually obsolete
rhymes: -eɪt
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: tray
homophone: trey stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: traits
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), from Latin trahō. Doublet of tract.
Senses: examples: text: inherited traits and acquired traits
text: The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?
text: The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
ref: 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, Truth:
text: The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity.
ref: 1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education:
text: Turning to our second trait, if you have straight hair, then both of your parents must carry an allele for this trait.
ref: 2003, Robert S. Siegler, Judy S. DeLoache, Nancy Eisenberg, How Children Develop, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 89:
topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: characteristic
glosses: An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
examples: text: Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin.
text: Traits are parametrized on other methods, which must be provided to create a class using the trait. Using a trait-like mechanism to compose large collections of mutually-dependent classes or traits could lead to parameter explosion.
ref: 2006, Nathaniel J. Nystrom, Programming languages for scalable software extension and composition:
coordinate_terms: mixin
interface
class
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
Derived terms: character trait
personality trait
subordinate trait
traitlike
X-linked trait
Related terms: portrait
sickle cell trait
tract
tractate
treat
treaty
lady
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪdi/
ipa: [ˈleɪ.ɾi]
rhymes: -eɪdi
Forms: form: ladies
form: ladying
form: ladied
form: ladied
Etymology: From Middle English lady, laddy, lafdi, lavedi, from Old English hlǣfdīġe (“mistress of a household, wife of a lord, lady”, literally “bread-kneader”), from hlāf (“bread, loaf”) + dīġe (“kneader”), related to Old English dǣġe (“maker of dough”) (whence dey (“dairymaid”)). Compare also lord. More at loaf, dairy, dough. Unrelated to lad.
Senses: examples: text: “[…]When I am dead ye’ll mind I said it, my leddy.” “Ah, Elspeth, but do not lady me; say Christine, just wee Christine.[…]”
ref: 1897, Macmillan’s Magazine, page 13, column 1:
text: “I thought you would never come, Lady Mary,” and he kissed her again. “Why will you persist in ladying me? Have I not told you—stop, now, will you?” and she pushed his mouth away. “Have I not told you as many times as you have seen me to call me Mary only?”
ref: 1906, Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, page 374:
text: I see Bey still continues jealous of poor Mou; does she still go by that name? In Greek it means “my” and her Paramanas always called her Lady Mary Mou, so we called her Mou. I hope you admire my teaching you Greek. I beg you will break Bruce of ladying her, if it should grow up with him it would be detestable.
ref: 1928, The Letters of Mary Nisbet of Dirleton, Countess of Elgin, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton and Company, page 276:
text: ‘Then, Lady Placida, there is something I wish to ask of you.’ ‘Only,’ she said sternly, ‘if you stop Ladying me. I have a name, dear.’
ref: 2006, Jim Butcher, Cursor’s Fury: Book Three of the Codex Alera, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, page 658:
text: “Lady!” “No, do not ‘lady’ me!” Margaret admonished.
ref: 2013, Brenda Joyce, A Rose in the Storm, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 130:
text: “How can I help, my lady?” “Stop the ladying.[…]”
ref: 2018, Skye MacKinnon, Winter Princess (Daughter of Winter, Book Two), Peryton Press:
glosses: To address as “lady”.
Related terms: lord
gentleman
ladies' room
broad
ordnance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ôrdʹnəns
ipa: /ˈɔːdnəns/
other: /ˈɔːdɪnəns/
enpr: ôrdʹnəns
ipa: /ˈoɹdnəns/
other: /ˈoɹdɪnəns/
homophone: ordinance (some pronunciations)
Forms: form: ordnances
Etymology: A reduced form of ordinance, which is attested from the late 14th century in the sense of "military equipment or provisions". The sense of "artillery" arises in the early 15th century, the sense "military logistics" in the late 15th century. The shortened form ordnance arises by the 17th century, now often distinguished in writing from the other meanings of ordinance. Also doublet of ordonnance.
Senses: examples: text: When the Turkes took Constantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I have heard both Bells and Ordnance, but never been so much affected with those, as with these Bells.
ref: 1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVI., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 438-40
glosses: Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
examples: text: From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 293–294:
glosses: Artillery.
Derived terms: ordie
ordnanceman
Ordnance Survey
soft ordnance
bonjour
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒnˈʒʊə/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒ̃ˈʒʊə/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒnˈd͡ʒʊə/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒnˈd͡ʒɔː/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒnˈʒɔː/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɑnˈʒʊəɹ/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɑnˈd͡ʒʊəɹ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɑnˈd͡ʒoɹ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɑnˈʒoɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: From French bonjour (“good afternoon/good day/good morning”).
Senses: examples: text: Say bonjour to the botched R.S.V.P. The practice of replying to invitations, let alone actually showing up to parties as promised, has become as antiquated as the chimney sweep, and much messier.
ref: 2009 March 13, Alexandra Jacobs, “Blame the Messager”, in New York Times:
glosses: Good morning; hello.
raw_tags: in French contexts
bonjour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒnˈʒʊə/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒ̃ˈʒʊə/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒnˈd͡ʒʊə/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒnˈd͡ʒɔː/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɒnˈʒɔː/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɑnˈʒʊəɹ/
note: without the pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɑnˈd͡ʒʊəɹ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɑnˈd͡ʒoɹ/
note: pour–poor merger
ipa: /bɑnˈʒoɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: bonjours
form: bonjouring
form: bonjoured
form: bonjoured
Etymology: From French bonjour (“good afternoon/good day/good morning”).
Senses: examples: text: He went on down the boulevard, bonjouring right and left, lifting his hat, bowing. He moved very slowly.
ref: 1938, Donald Barr Chidsey, Each one was alone:
text: Connaughton entered the simple but cheery restaurant, checked his coat, bonjoured the maître d'...
ref: 1988, Gary Hart, The Strategies of Zeus:
text: They bonjoured back and stood there awkwardly. Finally, Flood broke the silence.
ref: 2005, James H Irwin, Mokanshan: A Tale of Wallis Simpson's Naughty Shanghai Postcards:
glosses: To greet in French with "bonjour".
carbon monoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: carbon monoxide poisoning
text: A process for preparing normally solid high molecular weight, hydrocarbon polymers which comprises heating and reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen at a temperature of 125 ° to 350 °C, under a pressure of at least 30 atmospheres and in contact with a phosphomolybdic compound represented by the formula P₂Mo_(20–24)O_(2–60).
ref: 1959, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, volume 87, page 6658:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colorless, odorless, flammable, highly toxic gas.
Synonyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: CO
Derived terms: carbon monoxide alarm
Related terms: carbon dioxide
rad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: radder
form: raddest
Senses: examples: text: In the Guinness Book of World-fucking-Records, man… under "Raddest Fucking Dude Alive"!
ref: 2002, Brent Goldberg, David Wagner, Van Wilder (motion picture), spoken by Wasted Guy (Aaron Paul):
text: What is up, girly-friend? Holy shit, cuz. This is such a rad surprise.
ref: 2011, Diablo Cody, Young Adult (motion picture), spoken by Wheelchair Mike (John Forest):
synonyms: word: amazing
word: astounding
word: awesome
word: awesomesauce
word: based
word: bewildering
word: cool
word: dope
word: enchanting
word: excellent
word: extraordinary
word: far out
word: fire
word: goshwow
word: hellagood
word: impressive
word: incredible
word: inspiring
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: grand
word: grandiose
word: great
word: groovy
word: magnificent
word: major
word: majestic
word: marvellous
word: mystifying
word: mythic
word: neat
word: lit
word: outstanding
word: phenomenal
word: powerful
word: rad
word: selcouth
word: stupendous
word: stupefying
word: sublime
word: surpassing
word: terrific
word: tight
word: unbelievable
word: unreal
word: wicked
word: wonderful
word: wondrous
word: ace
word: admirable
word: awe-inspiring
word: awesome
word: bang on
word: bang-up
word: based
word: beneship
word: bitching
word: bomb
word: brilliant
word: bully
word: cher
word: choice
word: chronic
word: chur
word: cock on
word: cool
word: copacetic
word: crackerjack
word: cushty
word: dank
word: def
word: dope
word: excellent
word: exceptional
word: fab
word: fabulous
word: fantabulosa
word: fantastic
word: finger-lickin' good
word: fire
word: fireball
word: first-rate
word: fly
word: frabjous
word: gnarly
word: goated
word: great
word: grouse
word: kicking
word: killer
word: lash
word: lautitious
word: lit
word: marvelous
word: nang
word: outstanding
word: out of sight
word: phat
word: peng
word: phenomenal
word: pukka
word: quality
word: rad
word: radical
word: rum
word: sick
word: slap-up
word: slick
word: spiffing
word: splendid
word: sterling
word: super
word: superb
word: superior
word: sweet
word: swell
word: terrific
word: tight
word: top
word: top-drawer
word: top-hole
word: top-notch
word: top-of-the-range
word: top-shelf
word: topping
word: tubular
word: wicked
word: wicked pissah
word: wonderful
word: worldie
glosses: Clipping of radical (“excellent”).
Derived terms: k-rad
rad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: rads
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: centigray, cGy (same physical quantity)
topics: metrology
related: word: rd
coordinate_terms: gray
Gy
glosses: A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray, that is, 1 centigray.
glosses: Symbol for the radian, a unit of measure for angle.
topics: automotive
business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
transport
vehicles
glosses: Clipping of radiator.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Abbreviation of sight radius.
examples: text: The women who work in it with me are all feminists, they're all rads, two of them are black belts in karate...I mean, they're major women.
ref: 1991 April 19, Penny Arcade, “The Real Thing”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: Clipping of radical: a political radical.
Derived terms: rad-hard
Related terms: deg
grad
mil
rand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹænd/
ipa: /rʌnt/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: rands
Etymology: From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.
Senses: examples: text: at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh
text: Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.
ref: 1963, Field Studies [Council of Great Britain], volume 1, page 132
text: Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.
ref: 1984, Herman W. Gabriel, Glossary of Landscape & Vegetation Ecology for Alaska, page 64, entry "lagg":
text: […] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep.
ref: 2013, Peter D. Moore, European Mires, page 288:
coordinate_terms: lagg
glosses: The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
examples: text: They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins
ref: 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
examples: text: They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.
ref: 1867, Anderson, Rhymes, page 44
glosses: A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
glosses: A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
qualifier: basket-making
glosses: A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
rand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹænd/
ipa: /rʌnt/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: rands
form: rand
Etymology: Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand.
The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.
Senses: glosses: A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
glosses: The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
rand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹænd/
ipa: /rʌnt/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: rands
form: randing
form: randed
form: randed
Etymology: See rant.
Senses: examples: text: […] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to VVare, to meete a Gentleman of the Court.
ref: c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker]; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, signatures F, verso – F2, recto:
glosses: To rant; to storm.
rand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹænd/
ipa: /rʌnt/
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: rands
Etymology: Shortened from random.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A random number.
Raum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Raums
Etymology: Borrowed from German Raum. Doublet of room.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪnz/
rhymes: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of vine
vain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: vān
ipa: /veɪn/
homophone: vane
homophone: vein
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: vains
form: vaining
form: vained
form: vained
form: wayn
Etymology: A conversion of the adjectival form of vain. The only use of this verb in English appears c. 1628 in the writings of Owen Felltham.
Senses: glosses: To frustrate.
vane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /veɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
homophone: vain
homophone: vein
Forms: form: vanes
Etymology: From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.
Senses: glosses: A weather vane.
glosses: Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
synonyms: vexillum
meronyms: barb
glosses: The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
qualifier: navigation
glosses: A sight on a sextant or compass.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: fin
glosses: One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
Derived terms: Cooper vane
wind vane
burglar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːɡlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbɝɡlɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: burglars
Etymology: 16th century, from Medieval Latin burglātor, British byform of burgātor (“burglar”), derived from burgō (“to commit burglary”), from Late Latin burgus (“fortified town”), itself probably from Frankish *burg (“fortress”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, *burgiją (“borough, watch-tower”).
The -l- in burglātor may have been inserted under influence from Latin latro (“thief”). The shortened English form may have arisen through confluence with Old French burgeor (“burglar”), itself from the same Latin source.
Senses: examples: text: The burglar made off with a large diamond from the museum.
text: In the village itself his lionheartedness had been a legend ever since he had brained a burglar with a number seven iron, and the jury in Guildford had, despite the clear direction of the judge, resolutely declined to convict him for the use of unnecessary force.
ref: 2010, Louis De Bernières, Notwithstanding, →ISBN, page 82:
text: There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.
ref: 2017 June 23, Max Byrd, “A Trip to Southern Italy to Shed Light on a Family Scandal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2017:
text: Corona, who carries a pistol filled not with bullets but with tequila and drives around in his pickup truck that says “Porder Batrol” on the side, says he was playing pickleball at the time, which allowed the burglar free rein to the territory.
ref: 2025 February 1, Noah Goldberg, “He runs a desert micro-nation by the Salton Sea. Population Zero.”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2025:
glosses: A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing theft.
Synonyms: word: burglarizer
word: housebreaker
word: burglar
word: cracksman
word: drawlatch
word: sneck lifter
Hypernyms: word: criminal
word: thief
Hyponyms: word: cat burglar
word: heister
word: second-storey man
word: shoplifter
Derived terms: antiburglar
burglar alarm
burglar bar
burglaree
burglarious
burglarize
burglarise
burglarous
burglarously
burglarproof
burglary
burgle
cat burglar
cat-burglar
gin burglar
time burglar
turd burglar
Related terms: word: bank robber
burglar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːɡlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbɝɡlɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: burglars
form: burglaring
form: burglared
form: burglared
Etymology: 16th century, from Medieval Latin burglātor, British byform of burgātor (“burglar”), derived from burgō (“to commit burglary”), from Late Latin burgus (“fortified town”), itself probably from Frankish *burg (“fortress”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, *burgiją (“borough, watch-tower”).
The -l- in burglātor may have been inserted under influence from Latin latro (“thief”). The shortened English form may have arisen through confluence with Old French burgeor (“burglar”), itself from the same Latin source.
Senses: examples: text: The latter, with another constable, remained to watch the burglared premises both back and front, […]
ref: 1901, Emma Orczy, The Robbery in Phillimore Terrace:
glosses: To commit burglary.
Related terms: robber
thief
burgle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɝɡl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡəl
Forms: form: burgles
form: burgling
form: burgled
form: burgled
Etymology: Back-formation from burglar (1867).
Senses: examples: text: In St. Louis, burglars burgle by daylight
ref: 1867 March 14, “This and That”, in Delaware Tribune, Wilmington, DE, page 1:
text: The New York World has coined a new verb -- "to burgle."
ref: 1867 August 24, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, page 8:
text: The language grows apace. A "cablegram" has been received, and $400 have been "burgled."
ref: 1868 February 13, Louisville Daily Courier, Louisvile, KY, page 4:
text: Burgled his safe and bolted with the tin.
ref: 1868, John Brougham, Much Ado About a Merchant of Venice, New York: Samuel French, page 13:
text: [S]he went and burgled three pears out of the dish ...
ref: 1869, Joanna H. Mathews, Bessie at School, London: James Nisbet & Co., page 183:
text: Conceive the Great Lexicographer admitting to his Dictionary such excrescencies as: "Burgle, verb active, To break into a dwelling-house,"
ref: 1870 February 5, “American Slangography”, in Punch, London, page 44:
text: Burglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism. ... The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle.
ref: 1872, M. Schele De Vere, Americanisms: The English of the New World, New York: Charles Scribner, page 587:
text: When an American says, "I've been burgled" -- where an Englishman would say, "My house has been broken into by thieves" -- he succeeds in shortening the statement by more than half ...
ref: 1873 April 21, Albert Julius Mott, “Inaugural Address”, in Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, volume xxvii, London: Longman, Greens, Reader & Dyer, page 30:
text: Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night.
ref: 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Beryl Coronet”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011:
synonyms: burglarize
glosses: To commit burglary.
examples: text: And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.
ref: 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
text: Foden did his job admirably. The fact that both City goals came from burgling possession in the final third indicated how successfully City managed collectively to disrupt Real’s buildup play.
ref: 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To take the ball legally from an opposing player.
Derived terms: unburgled
Related terms: burglar
burglary
cat-burgle
breaking and entering
rob
steal
thieve
purloin
burglarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡləɹaɪz/
Forms: form: burglarizes
form: burglarizing
form: burglarized
form: burglarized
form: burglarise
Etymology: From burglar + -ize (1829).
Senses: examples: text: People who would now attempt to burglarize in top-boots, would be as mad as if they were to adopt that costume for picking pockets.
ref: 1829 July 5, [ William Hazlitt ?], “The Advantages of Committing Burglary in cuerpo Elucidated”, in The Atlas, London, page 442:
text: [M]en exclaim against you as the most bungling of "cabbagers" ... that ever burglarised upon the property of Shakespeare!
ref: 1839 December 7, "Mustard-Seed", “To Sir Charles Shaw, K. C. T. S., &c., &c.”, in Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, Manchester, page 6:
text: In this dilemma there were but two resources open to the infuriated stewards, -- one to carry the key vi et armis; the other, to burglarize the cellar.
ref: 1840 May 1, "Shamrock", “Steeple-Chasing in Ireland”, in The Sporting Review, London, page 364:
text: Deaseley Brothers & Dodge, wholesale dry goods store, was burglarized last night, and three thousand dollars worth of silks taken. No arrests.
ref: 1856 November 1, Louisville Daily Courier, Louisville, KY, page 3:
text: I also told you my house had been thoroughly burglarized three times,
ref: 1856 December 16, "The London Scoundrel", “A Plea for the Gallows (Letter to the Editor)”, in The Times, London, page 10:
text: We see in a telegraphic despatch from across the boundary line that a store was "burglarized" a short time ago.
ref: 1865 September 24, Upper Canada Law Journal, Toronto, page 228:
text: Burglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism. ... The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle.
ref: 1872, M. Schele De Vere, Americanisms: The English of the New World, New York: Charles Scribner, page 587:
text: During a recent burglary epidemic a police superintendent one night made a tour of inspection through the burglarised district.
ref: 1903 March 31, “From Day To Day”, in The Express and Telegraph, Adelaide, page 1:
text: This attempt to burglarize the house betrayed the caliber of the enemy.
ref: 1922, Victor Appleton, chapter 9, in Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive, New York: Grossett and Dunlap, page 82:
text: Police said they believed the woman interrupted Harvey as he attempted to burglarize nearby cars.
ref: 2007 December 14, Robert Muirhead, “Man sent to prison for robbing woman at gunpoint”, in Journal Inquirer.com, Connecticut, page 228:
synonyms: burgle
glosses: To commit burglary.
Derived terms: burglarizer
Related terms: burglar
burglary
cat-burglarize
burgle
rob
steal
thieve
baffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæfl̩d/
rhymes: -æfl̩d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of baffle
baffled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæfl̩d/
rhymes: -æfl̩d
Forms: form: more baffled
form: most baffled
Senses: examples: text: She looked completely baffled by the puzzle.
text: The scientists were baffled by the unexpected results.
text: He was baffled when his keys disappeared.
glosses: Thoroughly confused, puzzled
glosses: Having baffles
Derived terms: bedaffled
unbaffled
keen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːn/
enpr: kēn
ipa: /kin/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: Keane
homophone: Keene
Forms: form: keens
form: keening
form: keened
form: keened
form: keene
form: kene
Etymology: From Middle English kene (“bold, brave, sharp”), from Old English cēne (“keen, fierce, bold, brave, warlike, powerful; learned, clever, wise”), from Proto-Germanic *kōniz (“knowledgeable, skilful, experienced, clever, capable”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”).
Cognate with Danish køn (“handsome, pretty”), Dutch kien (“smart, wise, able”), koen (“daring, valiant, doughty, courageous”), German kühn (“bold, daring, audacious, hardy, valiant, venturesome”), Icelandic kænn (“wise, crafty, clever, able”), Faroese kønur (“expert (in, on), experienced, skilful, able, capable”), Scots keen (“lively, brisk; avaricious”). Related to Old English cunnan (“to know how to, be able to”). More at cunning, can.
Senses: examples: text: This is the pureſt exerciſe of health, / The kind refreſher of the ſummer-heats; / Nor, when cold Winter keens the brightening flood, / Would I weak-ſhivering linger on the brink.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 93, lines 1256–1259:
glosses: To make cold, to sharpen.
keen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːn/
enpr: kēn
ipa: /kin/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: Keane
homophone: Keene
Forms: form: keens
Etymology: From Irish to lament, keen.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he went so swiftly that he could only follow her to the door. The large shape of the car swallowed her up; and the car twisted softly around the little drive and away to the London road. Minutes later he heard its Klaxon, just one sharp keen, like the harsh cry of a sea-bird.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/5/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, London: W[illiam] Collins Sons & Co., →OCLC, →OL:
glosses: A prolonged wail for a deceased person.
keen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːn/
enpr: kēn
ipa: /kin/
rhymes: -iːn
homophone: Keane
homophone: Keene
Forms: form: keens
form: keening
form: keened
form: keened
Etymology: From Irish to lament, keen.
Senses: examples: text: Last night he had put down too much Potheen / (A vulgar blend of Methyl and Benzene) / That, at some Wake, he might the better keen. / (Keen—meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps: / 'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.)
ref: 20th century, Stuart Howard-Jones (1904–1974), “Hibernia”, in Kingsley Amis, comp., The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1978, page 243
synonyms: howl
wail
glosses: To utter a keen.
examples: text: Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen.
ref: 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71:
text: Satiran, lost in his own grief, shuddered once, then lifted his head to the sky and keened out his loss to the heavens.
ref: 2000, Mercedes Lackey, Brightly Burning, New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
examples: text: I keened my Gran, I keened my babies, but then my words poured out of my grief. I don't have the full heart like that for Owen, sorry as I am for his goin. Without the heavy grief on me I can maybe think of the words easier.
ref: 1996, Virginia Warner Brodine, Seed of the Fire, New York, N.Y.: International Publishers, →ISBN, page 28:
text: She sniffed and nodded and cried and wailed and keened for her husband, who would never come back to her.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 113:
synonyms: word: grieve
word: lament
word: begrieve
word: bemoan
word: bewail
word: beweep
word: condole
word: deplore
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: keen
word: lament
word: mean
word: mourn
word: pine
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wail
word: wayment
glosses: To mourn.
Related terms: keener
derogatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹɒɡətɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈɹɑɡəˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more derogatory
form: most derogatory
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin dērogātōrius, from Latin dērogō; corresponding to derogate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: It was perfectly plain, that fast and far as scandal flies, Lady Anne's words, when derogatory to the Count, and that beloved wife, for whose sake they would have been most resented, had never reached their retreat in Devonshire, much less followed them to distant Italy.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XL, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: Disparaging.
examples: text: The Tories […] knew that […] the House which should be the first to come to a resolution would have a great advantage over the other. […] The Commons had determined that, on Monday the twenty-eighth of January, they would take into consideration the state of the nation. The Tory Lords therefore proposed, on Friday the twenty-fifth, to enter instantly on the great business […]. But […] Devonshire moved that Tuesday the twenty-ninth should be the day. “By that time,” he said with more truth than discretion, “we may have some lights from below which may be useful for our guidance.” His motion was carried; but his language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their order.
ref: 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter X, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 626:
synonyms: injurious
glosses: Tending to derogate
raw_tags: with to
examples: text: Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.
ref: 1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
synonyms: injurious
glosses: Tending to derogate:
Reducing the power or value of (a governmental body, etc); detracting from.
raw_tags: with to
examples: text: Billie Jean King said Friday that the Australian Open’s Margaret Court Arena should have its name changed because of Court’s derogatory comments about gay and transgender people.
ref: 2018, Ben Rothenberg, The New York Times:
synonyms: injurious
glosses: Tending to derogate:
Lessening the worth of (a person, etc); expressing derogation; insulting.
raw_tags: with to
topics: law
glosses: Being or pertaining to a derogatory clause.
raw_tags: of a clause in a testament
Derived terms: derogatorily
derogatoriness
derogatory clause
nonderogatory
underogatory
derogatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹɒɡətɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈɹɑɡəˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: derogatories
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin dērogātōrius, from Latin dērogō; corresponding to derogate + -ory.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A tradeline on a credit report that indicates negative credit history.
Related terms: derogate
derogation
rob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔb/
ipa: /ɹɒb/
enpr: rŏb
ipa: /ɹɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: räb
ipa: /ɹɑb/
Forms: form: robs
form: robbing
form: robbed
form: robbed
Etymology: From Middle English robben, from Anglo-Norman robber, from Late Latin raubāre, from Frankish *raubōn (compare Dutch roven) and Old High German roubōn, raubōn (“to rob, steal, plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *raubōną. Doublet of reave.
Senses: examples: text: He robbed three banks before he was caught.
glosses: To steal from, especially using force or violence.
examples: text: The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
text: I never robbed the soldiers of their pay.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud.
examples: text: Working all day robs me of any energy to go out in the evening.
text: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2:
text: The railway is still vital to Jordan's export trade, but in spite of the poor quality of the road, diesel lorries are gradually robbing it of freight traffic, and anyone who can afford to fly does so rather than face the long desert journey by rail.
ref: 1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 167:
glosses: To deprive (of).
raw_tags: used with "of"
examples: text: Her house was robbed.
ref: 2008 September 4, National Public Radio, All Things Considered:
glosses: To burgle.
examples: text: That bloke robbed my phone!
glosses: To steal.
glosses: To commit robbery.
examples: text: Kevin Mirallas then robbed Bacary Sagna to run into the area and draw another save from Szczesny as the Gunners held on to lead at the break.
ref: 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To take possession of the ball, puck etc. from.
Derived terms: flash rob
like robbing a baby
on the rob
robber
robbery
rob blind
rob out
rob Peter to pay Paul
rob someone blind
rob the cradle
who's robbing this coach
Related terms: reave
bereave
rip
rubble
rubbish
rob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔb/
ipa: /ɹɒb/
enpr: rŏb
ipa: /ɹɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
enpr: räb
ipa: /ɹɑb/
Forms: form: rhob
form: rohob
Etymology: From Medieval Latin rob, from Arabic ربّ (“thickened fruit juice”). Compare French rob, Spanish rob, Italian rob, robbo, Portuguese robe, arrobe, Persian ربودن (present stem: robâ).
Senses: examples: text: [I]nſtead of Honey, Rob of Elder, Conſerve of Roſes, or Syrup of Violets; Glyſters, Pedilavia of emollient Decoctions with Nitre; or Elder, Vinegar, or Focus's of the ſame, applied with Sponges behind the Ears, to the Armpits, Groins, Hams, &c. or with Barley-water and a little Roſe-vinegar.
ref: 1749, [Thomas Short], “10th, Of Feverish Heat”, in A General Chronological History of the Air, volume II, T[homas] Longman, A[ndrew] Millar, →OCLC, pages 512–513:
text: Also began to make wort from the malt and give it to such people as had symptoms of the scurvy; one of them indeed is highly scorbutick altho he has been taking of the rob for some time past without finding himself benefited therefrom […] .
ref: 1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 20 December
glosses: A syrup made of evaporating fruit juice over a fire, usually mixed with sugar or honey, and especially used for medicinal purposes.
monotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌmɑnəˈtɑnɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɔnəˈtɔnɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnək/
ipa: [ˌmɔ̟nəˈtɔ̟nək]
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μονότονος (monótonos, “monotone”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), equivalent to monotone + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a function: that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
examples: text: The Same Spade talk-alike, super-cynical heroine of the piece is named Emma Victor, and there's no end to her rapid-fire, monotonic, street-smart patter.
ref: 1988 December 11, Georgia Cotrell, “A Lezbeen Sam Spade”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:
glosses: Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.
Derived terms: comonotonic
monotonically
monotonicity
nonmonotonic
Related terms: antimonotonic
monotone
monotonic decreasing
monotonic function
monotonic increasing
monotonous
monotony
rhino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.nəʊ/
enpr: rīʹnō
ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.noʊ/
rhymes: -aɪnəʊ
homophone: RINO
Forms: form: rino
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: When so be as a man has no money, why then, a savin and exceptin your onnur's reverence, a's but a poor dog. But when so be as a man as got the rhino, why then a may begin to hold up his head.
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anne St. Ives, vol. III.52:
text: There I fell in with Betsy, and as she proved a regular out and outer, I spliced her, and a famous wedding we had of it, as long as the rhino lasted.
ref: 1835, Frederick Marryat, The Pacha of Many Tales:
text: —Here you are, says Alf, chucking out the rhino. Talking about hanging, I'll show you something you never saw
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Money.
rhino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.nəʊ/
enpr: rīʹnō
ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.noʊ/
rhymes: -aɪnəʊ
homophone: RINO
Forms: form: rhinos
Etymology: Clipping of rhinoceros.
Senses: examples: text: ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:
text: This cutting from an East African newspaper caught our eye last month: "The up mail train from Mombasa was held up for an hour at Kibwezi by an angry rhino on Monday night."
ref: 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: B.R. exile at work?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:
glosses: A rhinoceros.
Derived terms: black rhino
Indian rhino
Javan rhino
Merck's rhino
narrow-nosed rhino
rhino beetle
rhino ferry
rhinoless
rhinolike
Sumatran rhino
white rhino
woolly rhino
doh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of d'oh (“expression of frustration”).
doh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /doʊ/
ipa: /dəʊ/
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: dohs
Etymology: An anglicised spelling of do.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
Synonyms: do
Coordinate terms: ut
re
mi
fa
so
sol
la
si
ti
Derived terms: high doh
fah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fahs
Etymology: An anglicised spelling of fa.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of fa.
fah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: He leaned against the fence, pulled a pear from his tunic and bit into it. His face puckered. "No good?" Alypius said. Augustine spat out the pieces. "Fah!" he said.
ref: 1957, Henry W. Coray, Son of Tears, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 14:
glosses: Alternative form of faugh.
fah
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of far.
soh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊ/
ipa: /soʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: seau
homophone: sew
homophone: so
homophone: soe
homophone: sow stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: sohs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of so.
lah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: lahs
Etymology: An anglicised spelling of la.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative spelling of la.
sea urchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēʹ ûr'tsĭn
ipa: /ˈsi ˌɝtʃɪ̈n/
Forms: form: sea urchins
Etymology: From sea + urchin (“hedgehog”), reflecting a similarity in appearance to a hedgehog.
Senses: examples: text: 1986, Patrick S. Leahy, Chapter 1: Laboratory Culture of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus Adults, Embryos, and Larvae, Thomas E. Schroeder (editor), Methods in Cell Biology, Volume 27: Echinoderm Gametes and Embryos, page 2,
Of the many species of sea urchins utilized in biological research today the most widely used in North America is probably the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.
text: The pericentriolar radial complex characteristic of the spermatozoa of other echinoderms is lacking in the spermatozoa of all sea urchins.
ref: 2001, V. L. Kasyanov, Reproductive Strategy of Marine Bivalves and Echinoderms, page 90:
text: Approximately 20% of sea urchins are direct-developers, meaning that they bypass the pluteal larval stage and develop directly into an adult sea urchin.
ref: 2004, Belinda J. Sly, The Development and Evolution of the Echinoderm Nervous System, page 9:
glosses: Any of many marine echinoderms, of the class Echinoidea, commonly found in shallow water, having a complex chewing structure named Aristotle's lantern.
wikipedia: sea urchin
Hypernyms: sense: sea urchin
word: echinoid
Derived terms: sea-urchin cactus
Related terms: sand dollar
urchin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜːtʃɪn/
ipa: /ˈɜːtʃən/
enpr: ûrʹchĭn
ipa: /ˈɝt͡ʃɪn/
ipa: /ˈɝt͡ʃən/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃɪn
Forms: form: urchins
form: urchon
Etymology: From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Old Northern French irechon, from Vulgar Latin *ērīciōnem, from Latin ericius. Compare modern French hérisson, whence the English doublet herisson.
Senses: examples: text: And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins, laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family. For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 7, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: A mischievous child.
examples: text: And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes / Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.
ref: a. 1879, William Howitt, The Wind in a Frolic:
glosses: A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets.
glosses: A sea urchin.
examples: text: Here we have a carding-engine, with the drum surmounted with urchin or squirrel cards[…]
ref: 1836, Andrew Ure, The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain […] :
glosses: One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
glosses: A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs.
glosses: A hedgehog.
examples: text: We'll dress [them] like urchins, ouphes, and fairies.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form of a hedgehog.
Derived terms: cake urchin
heart urchin
keyhole urchin
nano-urchin
sea urchin
street urchin
urchin barren
urchiness
urchin fish
urchinly
wheel urchin
sea cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea cows
form: sea-cow
form: seacow
Etymology: From sea + cow.
Senses: synonyms: sirenian
glosses: Any of several marine mammals of the order Sirenia, including the manatee and dugong.
Derived terms: Steller's sea cow
Related terms: dolphin
otter
vaquita
whale
manatee
sea anemone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea anemones
Senses: glosses: Any polyp, of the order Actiniaria, which occurs in marine and estuarine habitats, and which captures its food using tentacles.
Derived terms: starlet sea anemone
Venus flytrap sea anemone
quantitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒntɪtətɪv/
ipa: /ˈkwɒntətɪv/
ipa: /ˈkwɑn.təˌteɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɑn.təˌteɪ.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈkwɑn.əˌteɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈkwɑn.əˌteɪ.ɾɪv]
enpr: kwänʹtĭ-tā-tĭv
ipa: /ˈkwɑn.tɪˌteɪ.tɪv/
Forms: form: more quantitative
form: most quantitative
Etymology: From Late Latin quantitātīvus. By surface analysis, quantity + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Of a measurements and data types: based on some quantity or number rather than on some quality.
glosses: Of logical analysis: based on quantification as well as qualification, rather than solely the latter: thus, not ignorant of magnitudes (large or small).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a form of analysis, that determines the amount of some element or compound in a sample.
Derived terms: histoquantitative
morphoquantitative
non-quantitative
nonquantitative
pseudoquantitative
pseudo-quantitative
quantitative analysis
quantitative analyst
quantitative easing
quantitative genetics
quantitative linguistics
quantitatively
quantitative metathesis
quantitativeness
quantitative research
quantitativist
quantophrenia
semiquantitative
unquantitative
Related terms: quant
quantity
quantitate
qualitative