cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
MAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of Military Airlift Command, formerly, one of three former divisions of the US airforce, the others being SAC and TAC.
glosses: Acronym of Military Armament Corporation.
qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of Military Armistice Commission.
MAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MACs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of maximum allowable concentration, the maximum concentration of a pollutant which is considered harmless to healthy adults during their working hours, assuming they breathe uncontaminated air at all other times.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Initialism of mandatory access control.
examples: text: When operating on customer MAC (C-MAC) and service MAC (S-MAC) addresses, PBB uses a new backbone MAC (B-MAC) address. The B-MAC address is added at the edge of the PBB network, that is administered by a carrier VPN or a carrier-of-carriers VPN.
ref: 2025 April 17, “Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) and EVPN Integration Overview”, in Juniper Networks, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2025:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of media access control: the portion of Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11 wireless, Bluetooth, FDDI, ATM, and Fibre Channel networks that controls which hardware devices have access to the media over which signals are sent.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of mean aerodynamic chord.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of mid-air collision.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of message authentication code.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of merchant aircraft carrier.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Initialism of magnetic accelerator cannon.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of Migration Authorisation Code.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of membrane attack complex, a part of the complement system of the innate immune system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of multiply and accumulate, a hardware module found in digital signal processors which performs a multiplication and adds the result of that operation to an accumulator in the same cycle, used extensively in implementations of digital filters, transforms, and codecs.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Mycobacterium avium complex.
topics: anesthesiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of minimum alveolar concentration.
topics: anesthesiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of monitored anesthesia care.
Hyponyms: HMAC
Derived terms: MAC address
Mack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: Mc-
homophone: Mac
Etymology: (In sense one) From either the male name Mack or mack, itself from mackerel, which comes from Old French maquerel, from Dutch makelaar. Compare French mec.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of guy, term of address for a man or person.
synonyms: word: guy
word: term of address for a man or person
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Max.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: The Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland.
Related terms: Mac
Mack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: Mc-
homophone: Mac
Forms: form: Macks
Etymology: (In sense one) From either the male name Mack or mack, itself from mackerel, which comes from Old French maquerel, from Dutch makelaar. Compare French mec.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Mack truck.
unreliable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈlaɪ.ə.bl̩/
ipa: /ˌʌn.ɹəˈlaɪ.ə.b(ə)l/
rhymes: -aɪəbəl
Forms: form: more unreliable
form: most unreliable
Etymology: From un- + reliable.
Senses: examples: text: Tell one another whether any one of you has ever heard me discuss such questions briefly or at length; and then you will realize that the other popular reports about me are equally unreliable.
ref: 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 22:
text: The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.
ref: 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we haven’t confronted”, in CNN:
text: "Operating the WCML at this intensity makes it challenging to maintain acceptable performance levels, resulting in a frustratingly unreliable service for passengers. Minor disruption can escalate into significant delays because a train running only a few minutes late can miss its slot across a junction, resulting in a snowballing effect across the network."
ref: 2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 65:
synonyms: flakey
sporadic
undependable
antonyms: reliable
glosses: Not reliable.
Derived terms: unreliably
unreliable narrator
Related terms: unreliability
unreliable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈlaɪ.ə.bl̩/
ipa: /ˌʌn.ɹəˈlaɪ.ə.b(ə)l/
rhymes: -aɪəbəl
Forms: form: unreliables
Etymology: From un- + reliable.
Senses: examples: text: His employment by the leading papers in Chicago was intermittent, as he was classed among the unreliables. One could never tell when he was going to get drunk.
ref: 1894, Inebriety: its treatment and cure (page 17)
glosses: One who or that which cannot be relied upon.
austere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈstɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɔːˈstɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɔˈstiɹ/
enpr: ôstēr′
ipa: /ɑˈstiɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: austerer
form: more austere
form: austerest
form: most austere
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐστηρός (austērós, “bitter, harsh, astringent”), having the specific meaning “making the tongue dry” (originally used of fruits, wines), related to αὔω (aúō, “to singe”), αὖος (aûos, “dry”).
Senses: examples: text: The headmistress was an austere old woman.
synonyms: word: stern
word: strict
word: forbidding
word: ascetic
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
glosses: Grim or severe in manner or appearance.
examples: text: The interior of the church was as austere as the parishioners were dour.
synonyms: word: simple
word: plain
word: unadorned
word: unembellished
word: austere
word: bare
word: chaste
word: inornate
word: modest
word: plain
word: quiet
word: severe
word: simple
word: spartan
word: unadorned
word: unembellished
word: unextravagant
word: unornamented
word: undecked
word: ungarnished
word: untrimmed
word: unvarnished
antonyms: word: overwrought
word: flamboyant
word: extravagant
word: gaudy
word: flashy
word: unadorned
glosses: Lacking decoration; trivial; not extravagant or gaudy.
examples: text: Counterintuitively, in an effort to be austere and save money, cities which only remove a crossing every couple of years manage to be way less efficient at it than Melbourne has been.
ref: 2024 December 14, Reece Martin, “Learning from Melbourne’s Level Crossing Removal Project” (9:05 from the start), in RMTransit:
glosses: Adhering to the economic policy of austerity.
examples: text: It is like a small plum, nearly globular in shape, black covered with a bluish bloom, and with a very austere taste.
ref: 1862, Charles Pierpoint Johnson, The Useful Plants of Great Britain, page 85:
glosses: Harsh; astringent.
Derived terms: austerely
austereness
austerity
unaustere
protégée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒtəʒeɪ/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊtəʒeɪ/
Forms: form: protégées
Etymology: Borrowed from French protégée.
Senses: examples: text: The Admiral delighted in the boy, Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl; and it was the lady's death which now obliged her protegée, after some months' further trial at her uncle's house, to find another home.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 81:
text: “No, Cynthia is a protégée of my mother’s, the daughter of an old schoolfellow of hers, who married a rascally solicitor. He came a cropper, and the girl was left an orphan and penniless. My mother came to the rescue, and Cynthia has been with us nearly two years now.”
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 8:
text: Though formerly a protégée and friend of [Nicolas] Sarkozy, [Rachida] Dati has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.
ref: 2009 January 31, “Rachida Dati: why was she fired?”, in The Week, number 700, page 21:
glosses: A female protégé.
latina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latinas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Latina.
kakorrhaphiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κακορραφία (kakorrhaphía) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:kakorrhaphiophobia.
glosses: The abnormal fear of failure or defeat.
Synonyms: atychiphobia
Related terms: kakorrhaphiophobic
gimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gimmers
Etymology: From Middle English gimbyre, from Old Norse gymbr (“one-year-old ewe lamb”), from Proto-Germanic *gimrį̄ (“a yearling ewe-lamb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰyem- (“winter”).
Senses: glosses: A ewe between one and two years old.
echinacea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛkɪˈneɪʃə/
ipa: /ˌɛkɪˈneɪsɪə/
ipa: /ˌɛkɪˈneɪʃɪə/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌɛkəˈneɪʃə/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌɛkəˈneɪsɪə/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌɛkəˈneɪʃɪə/
rhymes: -eɪʃə
Forms: form: echinaceas
Etymology: From scientific Latin Echinacea, from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos, “hedgehog”, because of the soft "spines" in the centre of the flower) + translingual -acea.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, of genus Echinacea, having pinkish-purple flowers.
examples: text: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
ref: 2013 March 24, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 16 May 2013, page 134:
glosses: A herbal medicine extracted from the roots and seeds of such plants.
Hyponyms: sense: plant of genus Echinacea
word: purple coneflower
Related terms: coneflower
withershins
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Alteration of widder- in widdershins (a borrowing from Middle Low German) after the English cognate form wither- (“against, anti-”).
Senses: examples: text: Boils up their Livers in a Warlock's pow, Rins withershins about the Hemlock low
ref: 1763, Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shephard:
text: The intellectual sweetness of those lines / That cut through time or cross it withershins.
ref: 1933, W.B. Yeats, Coole Park, 1929:
glosses: Alternative spelling of widdershins (“anticlockwise”).
chop shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chop shops
form: chop-shop
Senses: examples: text: Apparently his stolen car had been taken to a chop shop, as the police only recovered the frame.
text: Once the car is in a chop shop, a skilled cutter can reduce it to salable parts in half an hour to 45 minutes.
ref: 1979, “The Car-Theft Boom”, in Newsweek, page 100:
text: New York City sports a number of chop shops, as do Chicago, Detroit and most other large metropolitan areas.[…]If they can′t find the right engine, the junkyard may call a chop shop contact to get someone on the street looking for the right make and year.
ref: 1987 August 24, Ed Heney, “Outsmart the Car Thieves”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, page 32:
text: “A chop shop disassembles the entire car, so they need a location that is secluded, like a warehouse or a vacant factory — although today′s forfeiture laws tend to discourage chop shops.”
ref: 2009, Taylor Joseph, Allison Investigates, Four Star Publishing, page 94:
glosses: A facility where stolen motor vehicles are disassembled in order to sell their mechanical parts.
Related terms: fence
receiver
thief
chop shop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chop shops
form: chop shopping
form: chop shopped
form: chop shopped
form: chop-shop
Senses: examples: text: Seller of used car, who had fraudulently represented to buyer that the vehicle identification number (VIN) had been scratched out under windshield because former owner had been trying to prevent repossession of the car, was liable to buyer for punitive damages, based on having acted willfully or with reckless disregard for the consequences of the seller's conduct, even if the seller had not known the car had been "chop shopped" from two different vehicles.
ref: 1961, American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts, Annotated, Bancroft-Whitney Company:
text: A new income, from "chop shopping," the dismantling of stolen cars and the subsequent sale of their parts, was adding to the coffers but was no panacea.
ref: 1995, William F. Roemer Jr., Accardo: The Genuine Godfather, page 305:
glosses: Alternative form of chop-shop.
germanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɜːˈmæn.ɪk/
ipa: /d͡ʒɝˈmæn.ɪk/
Etymology: From germanium + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or containing germanium.
glosses: Containing germanium with a valence of 4.
Derived terms: germanic acid
kuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 庫裏.
Senses: glosses: The kitchen of a Zen monastery.
kuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kuris
form: kurī
Etymology: From Maori [Term?].
Senses: synonyms: Maori dog
glosses: An extinct, bushy-tailed, short-legged dog of New Zealand.
Related terms: red kuri squash
gesundheit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈzʊnt.haɪt/
ipa: /ɡəˈzʊn.taɪt/
note: Canada, many US accents
ipa: /ɡəˈzʊnt.hʌɪt/
note: Canada, many US accents
ipa: /ɡəˈzʊn.tʌɪt/
Forms: form: Gesundheit
Etymology: From German Gesundheit (literally “health”), from gesund (“healthy”). The adjective is cognate with English sound, from Old English ġesund (“sound, safe, healthy”).
Senses: examples: text: Everybody Was at It, and There Was No One to Say Gesundheit
ref: 1897 July 24, “SNEEZES INTERRUPTED COURT”, in The Albany Law Journal, volume 56, number 4, page 67:
text: I used to play a game with David and Douggie, Dennis and Drew — stop their sneezes midsniff just by placing my pinkie finger against their nostrils and saying gesundheit before it was time.
ref: 2000, Abby Frucht, Polly's Ghost: A Novel (Fiction), Scribner, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Said to someone who has just sneezed.
examples: text: Flynn: All right, Blondie.
Rapunzel: Rapunzel!
Flynn: Gesundheit.
ref: 2010 November 24, Dan Fogelman, directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, Tangled, Walt Disney Pictures:
glosses: Said in response to a word that sounds onomatopoeically similar to a sneeze.
examples: text: Gesundheit, grandpa
ref: 1906, Rainier Beer advertisement:
glosses: Used as a toast
Synonyms: bless you
Œ
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: œ
form: Œs
form: Œ's
Senses: glosses: Ligature of vowels O and E, called œthel.
Related terms: Æ
lak
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of like, representing African-American Vernacular English.
lak
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of like, representing African-American Vernacular English.
deiseal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛsəl/
rhymes: -ɛʃəl
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Forms: form: deiseals
form: deisal
form: deasil
form: deisul
form: deshil
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish deiseal, from Old Irish dessel, from dess (“right, south”) + sel (“turn”).
Senses: glosses: A motion towards the right, in the direction of the hands of a clock or of the apparent motion of the sun (in the northern hemisphere); a turning in this direction.
deiseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛsəl/
rhymes: -ɛʃəl
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Forms: form: deisal
form: deasil
form: deisul
form: deshil
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish deiseal, from Old Irish dessel, from dess (“right, south”) + sel (“turn”).
Senses: examples: text: Deshil Holles Eamus.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, section 366:
text: In the eyes of our early forefathers the daily course of the Sun, bringing about the alternation of light and darkness and the regular succession of the seasons, was the most striking example that man had of that divine order of the universe which served as a model for order and justice in terrestrial affairs. Hence to go dessel or righthandwise, thus imitiating the course of the sun, was not only the right way to make a journey, but was likewise beneficial in other affairs of life, and was likely to lead to a prosperous result; whereas to go in the contrary direction (tuaithbel) would be a violation of the established order and would lead to harm.
ref: 1946, T. F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology, Dublin, pages 296–297:
glosses: Clockwise; sunwise.
Synonyms: clockwise
sunwise
righthandwise
deiseal
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛsəl/
rhymes: -ɛʃəl
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Forms: form: deisal
form: deasil
form: deisul
form: deshil
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish deiseal, from Old Irish dessel, from dess (“right, south”) + sel (“turn”).
Senses: examples: text: If a person's meat or drink were to […] come against his breath, they instantly cry out, Deisheal! which is an ejaculation praying that it may go the right way.
ref: 1794, Statistical Account of Scotland: Perthshire, section 11.521:
glosses: A deprecation meaning May it go right, said to someone who sneezes or swallows something awry.
Related terms: gesundheit
bless you
God bless you
deiseal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdjɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛʃəl/
ipa: /ˈdɛsəl/
rhymes: -ɛʃəl
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Forms: form: deisal
form: deasil
form: deisul
form: deshil
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish deiseal, from Old Irish dessel, from dess (“right, south”) + sel (“turn”).
Senses: examples: text: The surgeon […] perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west, according to the course of the sun […] which was called making the deasil.
ref: 1814, Waverley, Walter Scott, section 24:
glosses: Alternative form of deasil.
à la carte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.ləˈkɑːt/
ipa: /ˌæ.læˈkɑːt/
ipa: /ˌɑ.ləˈkɑɹt/
ipa: /ˌɑ.lɑˈkɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: a la carte
form: à-la-carte
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French à la carte (“on the menu; according to the card”).
Senses: examples: text: The restaurant had a huge à la carte menu and four specials that day.
antonyms: table d'hôte
qualifier: food and drink
glosses: Allowing selection from a fixed list of individually priced options shown on the menu.
examples: text: When schizophrenia and autism, for example, turned out to be largely heritable, we no longer blamed these disorders on cold or inept mothers. But, for such freighted traits as intelligence, liberals remained understandably anxious and continued to insist that differences—not just on a group level but on an individual one—were merely artifacts of an unequal environment. Conservatives pointed out that an à-la-carte approach to scientific findings was intellectually incoherent.
ref: 2021 September 6, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?”, in The New Yorker:
synonyms: cherry-picking
glosses: Selective; only choosing what one likes or desires.
qualifier: particularly in restaurants
glosses: A meal but only the viand (without rice).
à la carte
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.ləˈkɑːt/
ipa: /ˌæ.læˈkɑːt/
ipa: /ˌɑ.ləˈkɑɹt/
ipa: /ˌɑ.lɑˈkɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: a la carte
form: à-la-carte
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French à la carte (“on the menu; according to the card”).
Senses: examples: text: There were two divisions in the restaurants I used to visit. One division, which was patronized by fairly well-to-do people, provided any number of courses from which one chose and paid for à la carte, each dinner thus costing from one to two shillings. The other division provided six-penny dinners of three courses with a slice of bread. In my days of strict frugality I usually dined in the second division.
ref: 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvii
glosses: By ordering individually priced items from the menu.
co-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkoʊˈɛd/
Forms: form: more co-ed
form: most co-ed
form: coed
Etymology: Short for the original phrase coeducational referring to an educational institution that taught males and females together.
Senses: glosses: Of an educational institution, teaching both males and females.
examples: text: We played in a co-ed band.
text: COED NAKED SKIING: Only the bold can BARE the cold!
COED NAKED FIREFIGHTING: Find 'em Hot, Leave 'em Wet!
ref: traditional, Coed Naked Sportswear (T-shirt):
glosses: Mixing males and females; unisex; mixed-gender.
Derived terms: cohog
co-ed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkoʊˈɛd/
Forms: form: co-eds
form: coed
Etymology: Short for the original phrase coeducational referring to an educational institution that taught males and females together.
Senses: examples: text: To many a student the most appealing subject in college is a coed. A coed is usually less interested in what she gets out of college than whom.
ref: 1968, Evan Esar, 20,000 Quips and Quotes:
text: I gazed wistfully at the pretty coeds.
ref: 1980, Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior:
glosses: A young woman who attends college.
examples: text: 1959: A coed is exotic with mascara on her eye lashes, demureness in a sweater, and 'the future homemaker' with a can opener.
ref: 1959, The Michigan Technic, "The Coed":
glosses: A (generally young) woman, especially on the campus of a college or other educational institute.
examples: text: The majority of college coeds are female, but many still have trouble paying for tuition. Scholarships designed specifically for women can be useful in this situation.
ref: 2023 October 28 (last accessed), scholarships.com:
glosses: A student of either sex at a co-educational institution.
mumpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mumpish
form: most mumpish
Etymology: From mump + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: You mumpish beefalo (you sulky old cow).
text: He had written to Doctor South and had in his pocket a telegram from him received that morning: "Sacking the mumpish fool. When will you come?"
ref: 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 122:
glosses: sulking, mopey
Derived terms: mumpishly
mumpishness
mumpish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mumpish
form: most mumpish
Etymology: From mumps + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't mind being sick if I could look interesting, but mumps! The funny thing is, I haven't had time to get them from these children and must have been exposed before. […] [S]omehow I was feeling far from well, myself, and when Dr. Weston came about ten o'clock he broke the dreadful news that I was mumpish too, and sent me off to bed.
ref: 1932, Improvement Era, volume 36, page 895:
glosses: Suffering from mumps (the disease).
beefalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbif.əl.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈbif.ə.loʊ/
Forms: form: beefalo
form: beefalos
form: beefaloes
Etymology: Blend of beef + buffalo
Senses: glosses: A cross between a domestic cow and an American buffalo or bison.
glosses: The meat of such a hybrid.
coed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was always one of the more awkward moments back in college when you would go into one of the (coed) restrooms and there’d be a couple people clearly goin’ at it in the shower.
ref: 2010, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1694: Like A Hampshire Bathroom [comment]
glosses: Alternative form of co-ed.
coed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of co-ed.
DB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DBs
Senses: examples: text: With an extra-long weekend before Christmas and New Year's Day coming up, the police of motorized, subwayless Los Angeles had learned by experience to expect plenty of wrecked cars and DBs (dead bodies) on their hands.
ref: 1952, LIFE, volume 32, number 1, page 20:
glosses: Initialism of dead body.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of defensive back.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of database.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of depot brigade.
qualifier: pensions
glosses: Initialism of defined benefits.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of delayed broadcast.
glosses: Initialism of dirty book: a pornographic publication.
glosses: Initialism of diplomatic bag.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of dot ball.
DB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of Deutsche Bahn (German Railways). Previously used by its predecessor, Deutsche Bundesbahn.
glosses: Initialism of Domesday Book.
raw_tags: in place name histories
qualifier: classics
glosses: Abbreviation of Inscription of Darius at Bisutun.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Abbreviation of Dragon Ball.
examples: text: Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and head of the country’s foreign exchange regulator, chaired a symposium with representatives from foreign companies, including JP Morgan, Tesla (TSLA), HSBC (HSBC), Deutsche Bank (DB), BNP Paribas, Japan’s MUFG Bank, German chemical producer BASF, commodities trader Trafigura and Schneider Electric, according to a statement posted on the websites of the PBOC and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).
ref: 2023 September 19, Laura He, “China woos Tesla, JP Morgan and other Western companies as foreign investment slumps”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Initialism of Deutsche Bank.
Bison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and town in Kansas.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Perkins County, South Dakota.
interdict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɚdɪkt/
ipa: /ɪntɚˈdɪkt/
ipa: /ˈɪntədɪkt/
ipa: /ɪntəˈdɪkt/
Forms: form: interdicts
Etymology: From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.
Senses: glosses: A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
examples: text: The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter. […] Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.
ref: 1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
text: In May [1995], the court issued an interdict preventing the service withdrawal, pending consultation on the closure to passenger traffic of three short stretches of railway around Glasgow and its hinterland that were only used by the Fort William Sleeper - and for which BR had failed to invoke standard closure procedures.
ref: 2021 August 25, David Clough, “The Sleeper experience”, in RAIL, number 938, page 61:
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: An injunction.
interdict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntɚdɪkt/
ipa: /ɪntɚˈdɪkt/
ipa: /ˈɪntədɪkt/
ipa: /ɪntəˈdɪkt/
Forms: form: interdicts
form: interdicting
form: interdicted
form: interdicted
Etymology: From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.
Senses: examples: text: An archbishop [may not only] excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his Vicar-General may also do the same.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
examples: text: Charged not to touch the interdicted tree.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
examples: text: Do not look so alarmed, Madame; every possible precaution has been taken to prevent infection. I have given the strictest orders to interdict any communication between her attendants and those devoted to your service.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XL, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 337:
glosses: To forbid (someone) from doing something.
examples: text: Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2004, page 756:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).
Related terms: interdiction
interdictive
interdictory
interdictively
interdictor
sift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪft/
rhymes: -ɪft
Forms: form: sifts
Etymology: From Middle English syften, from Old English siftan, from Proto-West Germanic *siftijan.
Senses: glosses: An act of sifting.
intermarry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmæɹi/
rhymes: -æɹi
Forms: form: intermarries
form: intermarrying
form: intermarried
form: intermarried
Etymology: From inter- + marry.
Senses: examples: text: Mary was Catholic and Ron was Jewish, but they decided that it was acceptable to intermarry.
text: The state where most intermarriages took place was Hawaii, where more than four in 10 newlyweds (42.4%) were intermarried.
ref: 2012 February 16, Ashley Hayes, “Study: Interracial marriage, acceptance growing”, in CNN:
glosses: To marry a member of another group, social stratum, or religion.
examples: text: Mainland China and Taiwan do not border each other by land; they face each other across a 140-km-wide ocean strait. Taiwan-held Dadan Island sits 2 km away from Xiamen. Xiamenese can use binoculars to observe their kinfolk on Dadan Island, with whom they have traditionally intermarried (Mellor, 1993).
ref: 2005, Xiangming Chen, “The Greater Southeast China Subregion”, in As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 91–92:
text: Did European royals sometimes intermarry? Yes. There are a couple of examples of that. The Habsburgs are not beating the allegations.
ref: 2025 April 8, Sarah Stock, “Five Common Myths About White People — Debunked”, in Rift TV:
synonyms: intramarry
glosses: To marry within the same ethnic, social, or family group.
Derived terms: intermarrier
Related terms: intermarriage
intermarried
intermate
sally port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sally ports
form: sallyport
Senses: examples: text: And so usually a trusted caporegime would be sent out to rent a secret apartment and fill it with mattresses. That apartment would be used as a sally port into the city when an offensive was mounted.
ref: 1969, Mario Puzo, The Godfather, page 104:
glosses: An opening into or entry to a fortification, usually arched, to enable a sally; a postern.
examples: text: “The prisoner will slide his bucket of shame over to the sally port. And the prisoner will be reminded not to make any sudden movements, lest he get the prod.” “I have a name.” “just slide your shit bucket over to Sally's port.” “Thank you.”
ref: 2021 September 2, Paul Simms, “The Prisoner” (4:45 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
glosses: An entryway controlled by two doors or gates, each of which must be closed before the other can open.
grayling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: grayling
form: graylings
Etymology: From Middle English greylyng, equivalent to gray + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: “This morning,” he said, “We will fish, Turner. We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin.
glosses: Other similar fish
Thymallus arcticus (Arctic grayling)
glosses: Other similar fish
Salmo salar (Atlantic salmon)
glosses: Other similar fish
Prototroctes spp. (Retropinnidae)
Prototroctes maraena (Australian grayling)
glosses: Other similar fish
Prototroctes spp. (Retropinnidae)
Prototroctes oxyrhynchus (New Zealand grayling)
glosses: Any of species Hipparchia semele, of the family Nymphalidae of butterflies.
glosses: Other butterflies of genus Hipparchia.
glosses: Some butterflies of the genus Oeneis.
glosses: A common wood-nymph, a nymphalid butterfly (Cercyonis pegala).
sam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæm/
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
Forms: form: sams
form: samming
form: sammed
form: sammed
form: samen
Etymology: From Middle English sammen, samnen, from Old English samnian, ġesamnian (“to collect, assemble, bring together, gather, join, unite, compose, meet, glean”), from Proto-West Germanic *samnōn, from Proto-Germanic *samnōną (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Cognate with Dutch zamelen (“to collect”), German sammeln (“to collect, gather”), Swedish samla (“to gather, collect”), Icelandic samna (“to gather, collect”). More at same.
Senses: glosses: To assemble.
glosses: To bring together; join (in marriage, friendship, love, etc.).
raw_tags: of persons
examples: text: I sammed it up for ye
ref: 1905, Keighley Snowden, Princess Joyce:
glosses: To bring together; collect; put in order; arrange.
raw_tags: of things
glosses: To assemble; come together.
glosses: To coagulate; curdle (milk).
Derived terms: stand sam
upon my sam
sam
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæm/
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
Etymology: From Middle English sām (“together”), from Old English samen (“together”), from Proto-West Germanic *saman, from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”).
Senses: examples: text: Now are they saints all in that city sam.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: All Sam the souldiers then replied.
ref: a. 1600, The Battle of Floddon Field:
glosses: Together
sam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæm/
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
ipa: /sæm/
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
Etymology: From Middle English sam- (prefix), from Old English sam-, from Proto-Germanic *sēmi- (“half”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēmi- (“half”). Related to semi- (via Latin).
Senses: glosses: Half or imperfectly done.
glosses: Half-heated.
raw_tags: of food
Related terms: sammy
sandblind
sam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sæm/
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
ipa: /sæm/
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Sam (Received Pronunciation, US)
Forms: form: sams
Etymology: Possibly from Uncle Sam.
Senses: glosses: Federal narcotics agent.
bison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪ̯sən/
other: /ˈbaɪ̯zən/
rhymes: -aɪsən
rhymes: -aɪzən
Forms: form: bison
form: bisons
form: bisontes
Etymology: From Middle English bysontes, bysountes pl, from Middle French bison, from Latin bisōn, bisōnt- (“wild ox”).
The Latin term is recorded in the 1st century, likely a direct loan from Proto-Germanic *wisundaz (“wild ox, aurochs”) (see for full etymology). Akin to Old High German wisunt (“bison”), German Wisent (“bison”), Old English wesend, wusend (“bison, buffalo, wild ox”), Middle Dutch wēsent (“wild ox”). Doublet of wisent.
Senses: glosses: A large, wild bovid of the genus Bison.
Coordinate terms: bovid
bovine
buffalo
cattle
cow
wisent
Derived terms: American bison
bison grass
European bison
Higgs bison
Indian bison
North American bison
plains bison
steppe bison
wood bison
wish list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wish lists
form: wishlist
Senses: examples: text: Also on the wish list is completion of the Borders Railway, electrification to Stirling/Perth/Inverness and Dundee/Aberdeen, as well as upgrades to the Cumbrian Coast Line and electrification of Barrow-Carnforth and Windermere-Oxenholme.
ref: 2020 June 17, Andrew Roden, “Network News: High-speed rail to Scotland to rebalance the economy”, in Rail, page 21:
coordinate_terms: bucket list
grocery list
laundry list
shopping list
want list
wanted list
;
hotlist
warmlist
;
shortlist
longlist
glosses: A list of desired things.
intermediary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdi.əɹi/
ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdjəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdʒəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɪn(t)ɚˈmidiˌɛɹi/
Etymology: From French intermédiaire, adjusted to simulate a borrowing from Medieval Latin *intermediārius.
Senses: synonyms: in-between
glosses: That intermediates.
Derived terms: disintermediary
infomediary
intermediarily
metamediary
intermediary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdi.əɹi/
ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdjəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdʒəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɪn(t)ɚˈmidiˌɛɹi/
Forms: form: intermediaries
Etymology: From French intermédiaire, adjusted to simulate a borrowing from Medieval Latin *intermediārius.
Senses: examples: text: A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world […]
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been in contact via intermediaries with Curtis Yarvin, Politico Magazine reported this week.
ref: 2017 February 10, Rosie Gray, “Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2020:
synonyms: mediator
middleman
go-between
intercessor
glosses: An agent acting as a mediator between sides to facilitate agreement or cooperation.
examples: text: The intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer is the wholesaler
synonyms: middleman
broker
glosses: A person or organisation in an intermediate position (in a transaction, agreement, supply chain, etc.)
glosses: One or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end.
mediator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmidieɪtɚ/
Forms: form: mediators
form: mediatour
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mediātor (“one who mediates”), from mediātum, supine of mediō (“be in the middle”), from medius (“middle”).
Senses: glosses: One who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement.
glosses: A chemical substance transmitting information to a targeted cell.
Synonyms: negotiator
Hyponyms: word: mediatress
word: mediatrix
Derived terms: biomediator
comediator
immunomediator
mediatorless
nonmediator
undermediator
vasomediator
Related terms: mean
median
mediate
mediation
mediatorial
mediatorian
mediatorship
mediatrix
medium
Titaness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Titanesses
Etymology: From Titan + -ess.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A female Titan, any of the daughters of Uranus and Gaia.
urania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uranias
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: yellowcake
glosses: Any of several impure mixtures of uranium oxides.
glosses: Any moth of genus Urania.
wishlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪʃ.lɪst/
Forms: form: wishlists
Etymology: From wish + list.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wish list.
wishlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪʃ.lɪst/
Forms: form: wishlists
form: wishlisting
form: wishlisted
form: wishlisted
Etymology: From wish + list.
Senses: examples: text: The books table will hold the core information about each book, and the library table will hold each user’s information about that book—namely, whether it’s been read or wishlisted.
ref: 2017 September, John S. Tonello, “The Full Stack Project”, in Linux Journal, number 281, page 81:
text: The titles featured saw staggering numbers of people checking out their store pages and wishlisting the games (this is key, as on launch day, an email is sent to remind players to pick up the game).
ref: 2019 August, “Universal remote”, in Edge, number 334, page 14:
text: These discount promotions are driven by Google’s algorithm and can include: […] • Targeted in-app notifications and emails to customers that have wishlisted or sampled that title.
ref: 2021, Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Wide for the Win: Strategies to Sell Globally via Multiple Platforms and Forge Your Own Path to Success, Stark Publishing Solutions, →ISBN:
glosses: To include on a wishlist.
andrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈdɹɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From andro- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of medicine concerned with male diseases, especially those affecting the male reproductive system.
Coordinate terms: gynaecology
gynecology
Derived terms: andrologic
Related terms: andrological
andrologist
koine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪniː/
ipa: /ˈkɔɪneɪ/
Forms: form: koines
form: koinai
form: koiné
form: coene
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek κοινή (koinḗ), feminine form of κοινός (koinós, “common, general”).
Senses: glosses: A linguistic variety that has developed in supraregional contact between speakers of various interrelated dialects, typically in such a way that features shared by several dialects prevail and those of limited distribution are avoided.
examples: text: If a dominant language was spoken in the area of such trade routes, then this dominant language became the ‘interlanguage’, as it is called. Such an interlanguage, or koiné, is a simplified dialect with which speakers of two or more quite different dialects communicate with one another.
ref: 2004, Steven Roger Fischer, A History of Language, Reaktion Books, page 178:
text: Now, another term for that product is koine, which, however, I have regularly […] employed in reference to the infrastructure (procedural, juridical, formal, cultural) that enables and informs composition of a lingua franca. […] In linguistic scholarship koine mostly (!) refers to a standard language expanded by input from several dialectal sources with concomitant levelling of morphological and syntactic differences and adoption of a general and possibly restricted lexicon.
ref: 2013, J. E. Wansborough, Lingua Franca in the Mediterranean, Routledge, page 153:
synonyms: interlanguage
glosses: A lingua franca.
Derived terms: word: koineisation
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: koinëisation
Related terms: Koine
floride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fluoride.
Independence Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A holiday celebrated in the United States commemorating the country's independence from Great Britain, celebrated each year on the 4th of July.
glosses: A national holiday in the Philippines observed annually on June 12, commemorating the declaration of Philippine independence from Spain in 1898.
glosses: A national holiday in India observed annually on August 15, commemorating the nation’s independence from Great Britain in 1947.
Related terms: word: fireworks
word: 4th of July
word: Fourth of July
raw_tags: of America
word: Merdeka Day
word: Merdeka
4th of July
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the 4th of July
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Fourth of July.
exasperated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæspəɹeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of exasperate
exasperated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæspəɹeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more exasperated
form: most exasperated
Senses: examples: text: look exasperated
text: sound exasperated
text: increasingly exasperated
text: She grew exasperated by his constant interruptions.
glosses: Having one's patience greatly taxed; greatly annoyed; made furious.
glosses: Made worse or more intense.
Derived terms: exasperatedly
unexasperated
aerophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + -phagy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The swallowing of air, especially in hysteria.
Synonyms: aerophagia
Derived terms: aerophagic
reproductive health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An informal agglomeration of fertility medicine, obstetrics, gynecology and some aspects of urology and endocrinology as they relate to normal and pathological processes and conditions of human reproduction in either men or women.
genoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.oʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈdʒɛnəʊə/
Forms: form: genoas
Senses: examples: text: The more the backstay is tightened, the less the headstay will sag off to leeward, forming a rigid and more efficient arc along the luff of the genoa while beating to weather.
ref: 1982 January, Jerry Cartwright, “Cruising Seamanship”, in Motorboating & Sailing, volume 149, number 2, page 23:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: genoa jib
glosses: A staysail that resembles a jib but extends aft beyond the mast.
Derived terms: gennaker