cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
broadside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbrɔːdsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈbrɔdˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: broadsides
Etymology: From broad + side.
Senses: examples: text: Broadside! What fools to face our guns!
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Rtas 'Vadum (Robert Davi), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
examples: text: Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.
ref: 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
text: Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
text: He delivered a broadside to the RMT leadership, saying: "This response to a significantly enhanced offer exposes their true priority - using the British public and NR workers as pawns in a fight with the Government.
ref: 2022 December 14, Mel Holley, “Network News: Strikes go on as RMT rejects RDG's "detrimental" offer”, in RAIL, number 972, page 9:
glosses: A forceful attack, whether written or spoken.
glosses: A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
glosses: The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
Derived terms: broadside ironclad
broadside on
broadsider
broadside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbrɔːdsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈbrɔdˌsaɪd/
Etymology: From broad + side.
Senses: examples: text: [...] the slight fluctuations [in speed] were due to a strong side-wind, which caught the train broadside along exposed stretches of the line.
ref: 1964 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 388:
text: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
They were going some 60-80 mph [on a motorcycle] down a 30 mph street, hit a car broadside & Pat pushed against Bert, who was crushed into the side of the car.
glosses: Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.
broadside
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbrɔːdsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈbrɔdˌsaɪd/
Forms: form: broadsides
form: broadsiding
form: broadsided
form: broadsided
Etymology: From broad + side.
Senses: glosses: To collide with something side-on.
oölogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oö- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Yet it is not difficult to see that Oölogy promises to become an important auxiliary both in aiding to determine natural divisions, and to enable us to decide in regard to varieties the specific identity of which is in doubt. Let us take an instance. [...] Without looking at all to the external structure of these birds, Oölogy would seem to indicate that the Cat-Bird, though closely allied to the true Mocking-Bird, is at least one step, and that the Brown Thrush is even farther, removed.
ref: 1857, Thomas M[ayo] Brewer, “Introduction”, in North American Oölogy (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge; XI), part I (Raptores and Fissirostres), Washington, D.C.: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, published 1859, →OCLC, page vi:
text: When we come to examine the oölogy of the great Columbo-gallinaceous group, one well represented in the avifauna of the United States, it is possible to make the comparisons quite extensive, owing to [Charles] Bendire's exhaustive labors, as seen in his fine quarto volume already spoken of at the beginning of this paper.
ref: 1893, R[obert] W[ilson] Shufeldt, “Comparative Oölogy of North American Birds”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1892: Report of the U.S. National Museum (The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-second Congress; Mis. Doc. 114, part 2), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 473:
text: Dave Marshall, Frank Graham, Chuck Henny, Lloyd Kiff, Phil Cuthbert, and Joe Mazzoni shared their knowledge of hunting, oölogy, and bird-skin preservation, and provided philosophical insight concerning men's desire to hunt.
ref: 2011 December, Renée Thompson, “Acknowledgements”, in The Plume Hunter, Torrey, Ut.: Torrey House Press, →ISBN, page 260:
glosses: Alternative spelling of oology.
Derived terms: oölogic
oölogical
oölogist
Related terms: oölogically
ooidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: oöidal
Etymology: From ooid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Egg-shaped.
examples: text: 1975, Augustus K. Armstrong, Carboniferous Corals of Alaska, A Preliminary Report, Paleozoic Corals of Alaska, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 823, Parts 1-4, page 49,
The lithostrotionoid corals are common in bryozoan-echinoderm and ooidal packstones adjacent to ooidal and well-sorted crinoid grainstones.
text: The two formations show similar types of ooidal ironstone as well as other quite different lithologies.
ref: 2004, East Midlands Geological Society, The Mercian Geologist, volume 16, page 214:
text: 2009, Oscar Merino-Tomé, Juan R. Bahamonde, Luis P. Fernández, Juan R. Colmenero, Facies architecture and cyclicity of an Upper Carboniferous carbonate ramp developed in a Variscan piggy-back basin (Cantabrian Mountains, northwest Spain), Gary Nichols, Edward Williams, Chris Paola (editors), Sedimentary Processes, Environments and Basins: A Tribute to Peter Friend, International Association of Sedimentologists, Special Publication 38, page 203,
Inner-ramp deposits correspond to skeletal and ooidal shoals, beaches and tidal channels (see Burchette & Wright, 1992).
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Oolitic.
Synonyms: sense: egg-shaped
word: ooid
sense: egg-shaped
word: ovoid
marquess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː.kwɪs/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.kwɪs/
Forms: form: marquesses
form: marquis
form: marquesse
Etymology: See marquis for etymology. Note also that marquess is very unusual in the English language in that it ends in -ess but is a masculine term. The title is granted only to males (the female equivalent is marchioness).
Senses: glosses: A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl.
examples: text: Anne Boleyn was created Marquess of Pembroke in 1532
glosses: A marchioness.
Derived terms: marquessate
Related terms: march
marchioness
marquisate
marquise
haematite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiː.məˌtaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: haematites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hematite.
Derived terms: haematitic
kaiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kaisers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kaiser.
Derived terms: kaiserdom
kaisership
cocus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: Brya ebenus, a Caribbean flowering tree.
Derived terms: cocuswood
disillusion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.ɪˈluːʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: disillusions
form: disillusioning
form: disillusioned
form: disillusioned
Etymology: From dis- + illusion: literally, the removal or undoing of illusion.
Senses: examples: text: To disillusion a man is not to break him, but to open his eyes to the machinery behind the curtain.
ref: 2025, anonymous author, On the Edge of Perception:
glosses: To free or deprive of illusion; to disenchant.
Derived terms: disillusioned
disillusionment
disillusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.ɪˈluːʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: disillusions
Etymology: From dis- + illusion: literally, the removal or undoing of illusion.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of disenchanting or freeing from a false belief or illusion.
examples: text: Disillusion is not disappointment; it is the breaking of the spell—the moment the veil falls and truth becomes inescapable.
ref: 2025, Independent Submission, “Rewriting Disillusion”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The state of being freed from a constructed or imposed illusion; the recognition of an underlying truth previously obscured by a false or controlled narrative.
Synonyms: sense: state of being or becoming free of false belief
word: disillusionment
sense: state of being or becoming free of false belief
word: awakening
sense: state of being or becoming free of false belief
word: clarity
sense: state of being or becoming free of false belief
word: revelation
fulminic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Iso-cyanic acid, HCNO, an unstable compound which forms explosive salts
errors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɹɚz/
ipa: /ˈɛɹəz/
rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of error
errors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɹɚz/
ipa: /ˈɛɹəz/
rhymes: -ɛɹə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of error
caffè
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæˈfeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: café stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: caffès
form: caffe
form: caffé
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian caffè. Doublet of café and coffee.
Senses: examples: text: He then relaxes over an espresso in a caffè, and resumes.
ref: 1977, Robert S. Kane, Italy A to Z: A Grand Tour of the Classic Cities, Doubleday, page 5:
text: In caffès you should pay first at la cassa and then take your ticket (lo scontrino) to the bar, […]
ref: 2008, Emma Jones, Hunter Travel Guides: Tuscany and Umbria, Hunter Publishing, page 23:
text: […]; other days she waited on tables in the caffè in Piazza Laconda.
ref: 2011, Santa Montefiore, The Mermaid Garden, Simon and Schuster, page 279:
glosses: An Italian café.
Related terms: caffè americano
caffè latte
caffè macchiato
caffè mocha
cake mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cake mixes
Senses: glosses: A powdered mixture of the dry ingredients used to produce a cake or the finished mixture before baking.
Hamilton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæmɪltən/
Forms: form: Hamiltons
Etymology: From Old English *Hameldūne, from hamel (“blunt, flat-topped”) + dūne (“hill”). The Scottish surname is from the place in Leicestershire. The dollar-bill sense is from the portrait of Alexander Hamilton featured on it.
Senses: examples: text: I think the girls all work for $200 p/hr, give or take a few Hamiltons.
ref: 2000 March 9, "time4funwithu" (username), "(ASP) New Orleans - Zoey, in alt.sex.prostitution, Usenet
text: We all know that the stock cooler that comes with your CPU will get the job done, but it won't be exceptionally cool, nor are stock coolers particularly quiet or attractive. Aftermarket coolers, on the other hand, are all of the above, and usually cost just a few Hamiltons.
ref: 2006 September, Josh Norem, a review in Maximum PC, page 78
text: All these products cost around $30 each, but although you can use other methods to accomplish the same result without any cost at all, we think the simplicity of using a single program is well worth a few Hamiltons.
ref: 2007, Brian Johnson, Duncan Mackenzie, Harvey Chute, Zune for Dummies, page 110:
synonyms: Alexander Hamilton
Alex Hamilton
glosses: A United States ten-dollar bill.
Related terms: dead president
Washington
Lincoln
Jackson
Benjamin
Franklin
purport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpɔːt/
ipa: /pɚˈpɔɹt/
ipa: /ˈpɜːpɔːt/
ipa: /ˈpɜːpət/
ipa: /ˈpɚpɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: purports
form: purporting
form: purported
form: purported
Etymology: From Middle English purporten, from Anglo-Norman purporter and Old French porporter (“convey, contain, carry”), from pur-, from Latin pro (“forth”) + Old French porter (“carry”), from Latin portō (“carry”).
Senses: examples: text: He purports himself to be an international man of affairs.
text: The intermediate station seen here, Llanbister Road, is 5 hilly miles by road from the town it purports to serve.
ref: 1962 August, “More W.R. services in jeopardy”, in Modern Railways, page 82, photo caption:
glosses: To convey, imply, or profess (often falsely or inaccurately).
examples: text: He purported to become an international man of affairs.
text: In all cases, however, although micronations may purport to assert sovereignty in any number of ways, they remain conceptually distinct from recognised sovereign states.
ref: 2022, Harry Hobbs, George Williams, “Prince Leonard Prepares for War” (chapter 1), in Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 18:
glosses: To intend.
purport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpɔːt/
ipa: /pɚˈpɔɹt/
ipa: /ˈpɜːpɔːt/
ipa: /ˈpɜːpət/
ipa: /ˈpɚpɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: purports
Etymology: From Middle English purporten, from Anglo-Norman purporter and Old French porporter (“convey, contain, carry”), from pur-, from Latin pro (“forth”) + Old French porter (“carry”), from Latin portō (“carry”).
Senses: examples: text: My practice, you say, refutes my doubts. But you mistake the purport of my question.
ref: 1748, [David Hume], Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, part 2:
text: Sorrowful, phantasmal as this same Double Aristocracy of Teachers and Governors now looks, it is worth all men’s while to know that the purport of it is, and remains, noble and most real.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “I, Aristocracies”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):
text: A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its many infant convolutions, thousands of dormant atoms, into which God has put a mystic possibility for noticing an adult’s act, and figuring out its purport.
ref: 1939, Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby:
glosses: Import, intention or purpose.
examples: text: For she her sex under that strange purport / Did use to hide.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:
glosses: A disguise; a covering.
dæmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dæmons
Senses: examples: text: Edmund was almost as welcome to his brother, as Fanny to her aunt; but Mrs. Norris, instead of having comfort from either, was but the more irritated by the sight of the person whom, in the blindness of her anger, she could have charged as the dæmon of the piece.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 299:
text: It was their opinion, and that of all similar sects, that cœlestial powers were often incarnate and came from time to time to rule the earth, dæmon kings whose conception and aphanism were alike miraculous.
ref: 1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, page 67:
glosses: Dated spelling of daemon.
Derived terms: dæmonic
dæmonism
dæmonize
asepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asepses
Etymology: From a- + sepsis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The state of being free from sepsis.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The process of removing pathogenic organisms or protecting against such organisms.
ninety-eight
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number immediately following ninety-seven — ninety plus eight — and preceding ninety-nine.
Synonyms: word: 98
word: XCVIII
mescaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛs.kəl.ɪn/
/ˈmɛs.kə.liːn/
Forms: form: mescalines
form: mescalin
Etymology: From mescal (“peyote”) + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
ref: 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, New York: Popular Library, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hallucinogenic and intoxicating compound present in the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii), the San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi), and the Peruvian torch (Echinopsis peruviana).
Derived terms: antimescaline
longest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒŋɡəst/
ipa: /ˈlɒŋɡɪst/
ipa: /ˈlɔŋɡəst/
ipa: /ˈlɑŋ.ɡəst/
rhymes: -ɒŋɡəst
rhymes: -ɒŋɡɪst (Received Pronunciation)
rhymes: -ɔŋɡəst (General American)
rhymes: -ɑŋɡəst (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: long + -est
Senses: examples: text: It's not the longest or tallest viaduct in Britain, but the landscape upon which it sits makes for a stunning backdrop.
ref: 2025 October 1, Chris Howe, “Top 10: Britain's most significant rail bridges: Ribblehead Viaduct”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 57:
glosses: superlative form of long: most long
longest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒŋɡəst/
ipa: /ˈlɒŋɡɪst/
ipa: /ˈlɔŋɡəst/
ipa: /ˈlɑŋ.ɡəst/
rhymes: -ɒŋɡəst
rhymes: -ɒŋɡɪst (Received Pronunciation)
rhymes: -ɔŋɡəst (General American)
rhymes: -ɑŋɡəst (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: long + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of long: most long
longest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒŋɡəst/
ipa: /ˈlɒŋɡɪst/
ipa: /ˈlɔŋɡəst/
ipa: /ˈlɑŋ.ɡəst/
rhymes: -ɒŋɡəst
rhymes: -ɒŋɡɪst (Received Pronunciation)
rhymes: -ɔŋɡəst (General American)
rhymes: -ɑŋɡəst (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: long + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of long
piece of cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːsə(v)ˈkeɪk/
Forms: form: pieces of cake
Etymology: Attested since 1936, originally in American English. Possibly from cakewalk, or the notion of facility that derives from many cakes having agreeable tastes, and hence being ‘easy’ to consume. Compare French être du gâteau (literally “to be a cake”), être de la tarte (literally “to be a pie”), both meaning "to be easy, to be a piece of cake".
Senses: examples: text: Sure, no problem. It'll be a piece of cake.
text: Dennis's enthusiasm was difficult for Ryan to manage, but Javier's angsty Victorian-era man-pain is a piece of cake.
ref: 2014, Dominique Frost, In the Blaze of His Hungers, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: breeze
word: cakewalk
word: child's play
word: cinch
word: doddle
word: duck soup
word: walk in the park
word: walkover
word: bagatelle
word: breeze
word: cake and gingerbread
word: cakewalk
word: child's play
word: cinch
word: doddle
word: doss
word: duck soup
word: easy pickings
word: gimme
word: layup
word: low-hanging fruit
word: no-brainer
word: open and shut case
word: picnic
word: piece of cake
word: piece of piss
word: plain sailing
word: plane sailing
word: slam dunk
word: snap
word: walk in the park
word: walkover
glosses: A job, task or other activity that is pleasant or, by extension, easy or simple.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, cake.
Related terms: easy as pie
doddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɑd(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒdəl
homophone: dawdle (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: doddles
form: dawdle
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from dialectal English doddle (“to toddle; sway; nod drowsily”).
Senses: examples: text: Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? / Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle.
ref: 1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian:
text: Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not.
ref: 2002 September 14, “KarstadtQuelle: Below par”, in The Economist:
text: He was a QC from Edinburgh, wearing the black jacket and pinstripe trousers of his trade, as if straight from court, and probably persuaded to come in the belief that if you could interest the Budhill and Springboig party in the repressive Gaullist policies in Algeria then becoming Solicitor-General was a dawdle.
ref: 2009, Archie Macpherson, “Thumping the Tub”, in A Game of Two Halves: The Autobiography, Edinburgh: Black & White Publishing, →ISBN, page 63:
synonyms: word: breeze
word: cinch
word: piece of cake
word: bagatelle
word: breeze
word: cake and gingerbread
word: cakewalk
word: child's play
word: cinch
word: doddle
word: doss
word: duck soup
word: easy pickings
word: gimme
word: layup
word: low-hanging fruit
word: no-brainer
word: open and shut case
word: picnic
word: piece of cake
word: piece of piss
word: plain sailing
word: plane sailing
word: slam dunk
word: snap
word: walk in the park
word: walkover
glosses: A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
doddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɑd(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒdəl
homophone: dawdle (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: doddles
form: doddling
form: doddled
form: doddled
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from dialectal English doddle (“to toddle; sway; nod drowsily”).
Senses: examples: text: […] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.
ref: 1874, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, My Time, and what I've Done with it: An Autobiography, page 369:
glosses: To dodder.
examples: text: Usually we doddled, stopping to flush quail or dove for dinner, skeet-shooting our beer bottles, and watering the cacti.
ref: 2004, Katie Lee, Sandstone Seduction: Rivers and Lovers, Canyons and Friends:
glosses: Misspelling of dawdle.
doddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒdl̩/
ipa: /ˈdɑd(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɒdəl
homophone: dawdle (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: doddles
Senses: glosses: A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.
Related terms: doodle
hæmatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hematite.
oöidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oöidal
form: most oöidal
Etymology: From oöid + -al.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ooidal.
præfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præfects
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of prefect.
Irish Gaelic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪɹɪʃ ˈɡeɪlɪk/
Senses: glosses: the Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, commonly called Gaeilge or Irish
Synonyms: Irish
domestic partnership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domestic partnerships
Senses: glosses: A legal or personal relationship between individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are not joined in a traditional marriage or a civil union. Typically the partners in a domestic partnership enjoy at least part of the rights that the married couples have.
Related terms: civil partnership
civil union
cohabitation
registered partnership
upsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upset
upsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: upsettings
Senses: examples: text: the upsettings of all their careful plans
glosses: An overturning or disarrangement.
upsetting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: more upsetting
form: most upsetting
Senses: examples: text: He found taking his cat to the vet to be put down very upsetting.
text: The bodies lying at the scene of the crash were an upsetting sight.
synonyms: word: deplorable
word: saddening
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: Causing upset; distressing, unsettling, hurtful.
glosses: Conceited; presumptuous.
prez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛz
Forms: form: prezzes
Etymology: Clipping of president. Compare prex.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of president.
œsophagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œsophagi
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of oesophagus.
sez
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛz/
rhymes: -ɛz
Senses: examples: text: Sez who? – Sez me!
text: "Whoo!" Dr. Blatnoyd had a soda straw and was busy snorting away. "No worries, it's on the house, as the TV antenna man always sez.... Hmm, missed a little...."
ref: 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 169:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of says.
Wes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: wĕs
enpr: wĕz
ipa: /wɛs/
ipa: /wɛz/
rhymes: -ɛs
rhymes: -ɛz
Senses: examples: text: On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.
ref: 2024 February 7, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Harris set to host Democratic governors this weekend to discuss 2024 campaign”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Wesley or Weston.
Wesley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛsli/
ipa: /ˈwɛzli/
rhymes: -ɛsli
rhymes: -ɛzli
Etymology: Several places in England, from Old English west (“west”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to west + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: John Wesley, founder of Methodism.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of 18th century and later usage, today often without any religious connotations.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Madison County, Arkansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Emanuel County, Georgia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Will County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city and township in Kossuth County, Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Maine, named after John Wesley.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Washington County, Ohio.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Atoka County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A former community in Wood County, West Virginia.
glosses: A hamlet in Stone Mills, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A village in north-east Dominica.
glosses: A southern suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
glosses: A town in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.
Derived terms: Wesleyan
Related terms: sense: pet form of the given name
word: Wes
e'er
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛə/
ipa: /ˈɛʔə/
ipa: /ɛɚ/
ipa: /ˈɛʔɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: air
homophone: Ayr
homophone: ere
homophone: eyre
homophone: heir
homophone: are stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: err stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Etymology: Contraction of ever, similar to o'er from over.
Senses: examples: text: “… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
qualifier: otherwise archaic
glosses: Contraction of ever.
Related terms: ne'er-do-well
ne'er
whene'er
where'er
ne'er
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛʔə/
ipa: /nɛə/
ipa: /ˈnɛʔɚ/
ipa: /nɛəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛʔə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ne're
Etymology: Contraction of never.
Senses: examples: text: Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true. The “Blue-Light Elder” knows ’em well; says he, “That’s Banks — he’s fond of shell; Lord save his soul! We’ll give him” — well, that’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Silence! Ground arms! Kneel all! Caps off! Old Blue Light’s going to pray. Strangle the fool that dares to scoff: Attention! 'Tis his way. Appealing from his native sod in forma pauperis to God: “Lay bare thine arm, stretch forth thy rod! Amen!” That’s “Stonewall’s Way.”
He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Ah! Maiden, wait and watch and yearn for news of Stonewall’s band! Ah! Widow read with eyes that burn that ring upon thy hand. Ah! Wife, sew on, pray on, hope on! Thy life shall not be all forlorn. The foe had better ne’er been born that gets in “Stonewall’s Way.”
ref: 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
qualifier: or fossilized; otherwise archaic; or fossilized; otherwise archaic
glosses: Contraction of never
Derived terms: ne'er a
ne'er cast a clout till May be out
Related terms: e’er
ne’er-do-well
whene’er
there's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: note: stressed form
ipa: /ðɛəz/
note: stressed form
ipa: /ðɛːz/
ipa: /ðəz/
note: stressed form
ipa: /ðɛəɹz/
note: stressed form
ipa: /ðɛɹz/
ipa: /ðəɹz/
ipa: /ðeːz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðiəz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ðeəz/
ipa: /ðeɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ðɜː(ɹ)z/
homophone: theirs
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Forms: form: dere's
form: der's
Senses: examples: text: There’s a strange guy over there.
text: There’s far too much attention being paid to it.
text: I've made up my mind; there's no arguing with me.
glosses: Contraction of there is
examples: text: There’s some chairs in the garage, aren’t there?
text: Imagine there’s no countries.
ref: 1971 October 11, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, “Imagine”, Imagine, Apple Records
text: There's only two types of people in this world: the conformist API consumer and the renegade web scraper.
ref: 2024 July 26, Fireship, “Am I going to jail for web scraping?”, in YouTube:
glosses: Contraction of there are
examples: text: There’s been an accident!
glosses: Contraction of there has.
glosses: Contraction of there was.
glosses: Contraction of there does.
where's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛə(ɹ)z/
ipa: /ʍɛə(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
homophone: wares
homophone: warez
homophone: wears (wine–whine merger)
Senses: examples: text: Where's your hat?
glosses: Contraction of where is.
examples: text: Where's she gone?
glosses: Contraction of where has.
examples: text: Where's he go every day?
glosses: Contraction of where does.
examples: text: Where's them papers what I give you?
glosses: Contraction of where are.
campo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campos
Etymology: From camp(us) + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Baker Fountain [is] fun to run through, if you can avoid slipping or getting busted by the Campos.
ref: 2005, Julia Schwent, Gohari Omid, Rice University College Prowler Off the Record, page 135:
glosses: A police officer assigned to a university campus.
campo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campos
Etymology: From Spanish campo and/or Portuguese campo. Doublet of camp and campus.
Senses: examples: text: [...], from the bare table-land of Mexico, and their great scarcity on the open campos of the interior of Brasil.
ref: 1853, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology, page 468:
text: The name Serlao, meaning originally the interior as distinguished from the maritime country, has come to be applied to dry, hilly, and stony districts of the campos only suited for pasture. To the agricultural coast belt of the eastern provinces [...]
ref: 1890, The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, page 226:
text: The vegetation of this part of Brazil is characteristic of the campos (plains).
ref: 1892, Almont Barnes, Report on the Agriculture of South America: With Maps and Latest Statistics of Trade, page 78:
text: Characteristically, the campos of Brazil show scattered woody vegetation. Open grasslands are interlarded between various types of woodland pasture in a way impossible to indicate on a small-scale map, [...]
ref: 1968, Roy Nash, The Conquest of Brazil, Biblo & Tannen Publishers, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: A field or plain in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking area.
kalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin kalium.
Senses: glosses: potassium.
Related terms: dyskalemia
eukalemia
hyperkalemia
hypokalemia
kalemia
kaliopenia
normokalemia
kalij
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalijes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of kalij pheasant.
synonyms: word: kalij pheasant
ebullient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈbʊliənt/
ipa: /ɪˈbʌliənt/
Forms: form: more ebullient
form: most ebullient
Etymology: Borrowing from Latin ēbulliēns, present participle of ēbulliō (“I boil”), from bulliō (“I bubble up”) (English boil). Compare bubbling, bubbly, and perky, which use a similar metaphor.
Senses: examples: text: The Spring will come with its ebullient blood, / With flush of roses and imperial eyes
ref: 1908, James Ryder Randall, “Ashes”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 45:
text: Marina's oddly ebullient words seemed to come to her slow as balloons
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 233:
text: Boris Johnson, the ebullient editor of the Spectator and Tory MP for Henley, is at the centre of a Scotland Yard inquiry over an allegedly racist article by the columnist Taki which provoked death threats against a leading black lawyer.
ref: 2003 February 28, Nick Hopkins, “Spectator and its Tory MP editor may face charges over Taki race rant”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: But now, as an ebullient Mr. Milei declares his government the most successful in history and assures Argentines they’ll soon collect on the economic revival he pledged would follow the pain, the bar is getting higher even as risks remain.
ref: 2024 December 10, Isabel Depre, “After President Milei’s first year, Argentina’s economy is looking strangely ... normal”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: zestful
glosses: Enthusiastic; high-spirited.
synonyms: word: abubble
word: bubbly
word: abubble
word: bubblesome
word: bubbly
word: ebullient
word: effervescent
word: fizzy
word: foamy
word: frothy
word: gassy
word: sparkling
word: sparkly
word: spumescent
glosses: Of a liquid: boiling and bubbling, or agitated as if boiling.
examples: text: It is allowed, that Senates and great Councils are often troubled with redundant, ebullient, and other peccant Humours, with many Diſeaſes of the Head and more of the Heart; with ſtrong Convulſions, with grievous Contractions of the Nerves and Sinews in both Hands, but eſpecially the Right; with Spleen, Flatus, Vertigos and Deliriums; with Scrophulous Tumors full of fœtid purulent Matter; with ſower frothy Ructations, with Canine Appetites and Crudeneſs of Digeſtion, beſides many others needleſs to mention.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 82:
glosses: Causing heat.
Derived terms: ebulliently
var
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: vars
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of variable.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Abbreviation of variance.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of electrical power, in an AC circuit, equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of Anavar.
Derived terms: varmeter
zenzic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: zenzick
Etymology: From New Latin zenzicus, zensicus, from zensus, Germanized from census / German zenzi (“square (of a number)”), from Italian censo (“property”), used in Medieval times to denote the algebraic square based on a translation of Arabic مَال (māl, “property, assets, estate; (obsolete) algebraic square”).
Senses: glosses: relating to the square of a number
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
Related terms: english: fourth power
translation: fourth power
word: zenzizenzic
english: eighth power
translation: eighth power
word: zenzizenzizenzic
english: sixteenth power
translation: sixteenth power
word: zenzizenzizenzizenzike
hypotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + -trophy.
Senses: glosses: A degeneration in the functioning of an organ due to the reduction of the volume of the cells.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The growth of buds, stipules, or excess wood on the lower side.
Related terms: hypotrophic
atrophy
atrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæt.ɹə.fi/
Forms: form: atrophies
Etymology: Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ἄτροφος (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “I fatten”). Equivalent to a- + -trophy.
Senses: examples: text: Now that chatbots are going the way of Google—moving from the miraculous to the taken-for-granted—the anxiety has shifted, too, from apocalypse to atrophy. Teachers, especially, say they’re beginning to see the rot. The term for it is unlovely but not inapt: de-skilling.
ref: 2025 October 26, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Age of De-Skilling”, in The Atlantic:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use.
Derived terms: atrogene
atrophic
atrophin
dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy
dermatrophy
encephalatrophy
fibroatrophy
hemiatrophy
lipoatrophy
panatrophy
pseudoatrophy
scleroatrophy
spinal muscular atrophy
yellow atrophy
atrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæt.ɹə.fi/
Forms: form: atrophies
form: atrophying
form: atrophied
form: atrophied
Etymology: Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ἀτροφία (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ἄτροφος (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “I fatten”). Equivalent to a- + -trophy.
Senses: examples: text: Boy. I love summer vacation. I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already.
ref: 1987 June 13, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
text: The M10 highway looks normal enough at the southern limits of St. Petersburg, but then, with a jolt, it begins to atrophy. For the next 430 miles the surface of the highway, while paved, varies from corduroy to jaw-rattling patchwork.
ref: 2013 October 13, Ellen Barry, “The Russia Left Behind: A journey through a heartland on the slow road to ruin”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To wither or waste away.
examples: text: Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion
ref: 2001, Tool, “Schism”:
glosses: To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.
Related terms: -trophy
hypotrophy
decondition
cuckold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊld
ipa: /ˈkʌ.kəʊld/
ipa: /ˈkʌ.kəld/
ipa: /ˈkʌ.koʊld/
ipa: /ˈkʌ.kəld/
Forms: form: cuckolds
form: cuckhold
Etymology: From Middle English cokolde, cokewold, cockewold, kukwald, kukeweld, from Old French cucuault; a compound of cucu (“cuckoo”) and Old French -auld. The word references the behavior of cuckoo birds where they lay their eggs in another bird’s nest. Cucu is either a directly derived onomatopoeic derivative of the cuckoo's call, or from Latin cucūlus. Latin cucūlus is a compound of onomatopoeic cucu (compare Late Latin cucus) and the diminutive suffix -ulus.
Old French -auld is from Frankish *-wald (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; compare English Harold, for instance), a suffixal use of Frankish *wald (“wielder, ruler, leader”), from Proto-Germanic *waldaz (compare German Gewalt, from the related *waldą (“power, might”)), from *waldaną (“to rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong; to rule”).
Appears in Middle English in noun form circa 1250 as cokewald. First known use of the verb form is 1589.
Senses: examples: text: If I never marry, I shall never be a cuckold.
ref: 1546, François Rabelais, The Third Book, Chapter 36
text: You see, it happened that two lieutenantesses were fighting, because their husbands had made cuckolds of them ...
ref: 1994, An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing, 1777-1992, page 183:
text: In the early English drama, no play better approximates Ovid's contemptuous portrait of the willing cuckold than does Thomas Middleton's Chaste Maid in Cheapside (ca. 1612).
ref: 2001, Goran V. Stanivukovic, Ovid and the Renaissance Body, page 178:
text: Nothing captured the alt-right mentality better than cuckservative, with its taunt that moderation is unmanly and certain conservative males are cuckolds.
ref: 2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 10 Feb 2022:
coordinate_terms: cuckquean
glosses: A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially when he is unaware or unaccepting of the fact.
glosses: A man who is paraphilically attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.
glosses: A West Indian plectognath fish, Rhinesomus triqueter.
glosses: The scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis and allied species.
glosses: Synonym of fringed filefish.
synonyms: word: fringed filefish
Synonyms: sense: Rhinesomus triqueter
word: Ostracion triqueter
sense: Rhinesomus triqueter
word: smooth trunkfish
word: Acteon
word: cornuto
word: cuck
word: cuckold
word: hoddy-peak
word: skimmington
word: Vulcanian
Hypernyms: word: husband
word: cuckoldee
Hyponyms: word: mari complaisant
word: plonker
word: wittol
Derived terms: word: cuck
word: cuckcake
word: cuckoldee
word: cuckolder
word: cuckolding
word: cuckoldize
word: cuckoldly
word: cuckold-maker
word: cuckoldom
word: cuckoldress
word: cuckoldry
word: cuckoldy
word: cuckquean
word: cucky
word: uncuckold
Related terms: word: bull
word: vixen
word: wittol
word: cuckquean
word: cuckolder
word: cuckoldize
cuckold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊld
ipa: /ˈkʌ.kəʊld/
ipa: /ˈkʌ.kəld/
ipa: /ˈkʌ.koʊld/
ipa: /ˈkʌ.kəld/
Forms: form: cuckolds
form: cuckolding
form: cuckolded
form: cuckolded
form: cuckhold
Etymology: From Middle English cokolde, cokewold, cockewold, kukwald, kukeweld, from Old French cucuault; a compound of cucu (“cuckoo”) and Old French -auld. The word references the behavior of cuckoo birds where they lay their eggs in another bird’s nest. Cucu is either a directly derived onomatopoeic derivative of the cuckoo's call, or from Latin cucūlus. Latin cucūlus is a compound of onomatopoeic cucu (compare Late Latin cucus) and the diminutive suffix -ulus.
Old French -auld is from Frankish *-wald (similar suffixes are used in some personal names within other Germanic languages as well; compare English Harold, for instance), a suffixal use of Frankish *wald (“wielder, ruler, leader”), from Proto-Germanic *waldaz (compare German Gewalt, from the related *waldą (“power, might”)), from *waldaną (“to rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“to be strong; to rule”).
Appears in Middle English in noun form circa 1250 as cokewald. First known use of the verb form is 1589.
Senses: examples: text: "Gave her anything she wanted - her own car, her own bank account, a free leg to amuse herself as she pleased. Of course she hated him for it. Cuckolded him, too, naturally."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 173:
text: Most of the twelve Caesars were rumored to have been licentious as both adulterers and homosexuals (not that the two were mutually exclusive, as will be seen), and Gaius and Nero were both supposed to have been adulterers, active homosexuals, and pathics. According to Suetonius, Julius Caesar was cuckolded by Clodius (Iul. 6, 74) but was himself so noted an adulterer that Pompey (lul. 50) called him "Aegisthus" (mock epic again); and his foreign affairs were the talk of Rome and of the army (Iul, 49–52).
ref: 1992, Amy Richlin, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor, revised edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Hey, I would never cuckold one of my friends. That’s way not cool.
ref: 2008, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content 1319: The Flimsiest of Logic:
synonyms: word: cuck
word: horn
word: hornify
word: put horns on
word: behorn
word: cuckold
word: cuckoldize
word: cuck
word: horn
word: hornify
word: put horns on
word: two-time
glosses: To make a cuckold or cuckquean of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing their partner or spouse.
Derived terms: uncuckolded
hypertrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɜː.tɹə.fi/
ipa: /haɪˈpɜɹ.tɹə.fi/
Forms: form: hypertrophies
Etymology: From French hypertrophie, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over, excessive”) + τροφή (trophḗ, “nourishment”), equivalent to hyper- + -trophy.
Senses: examples: text: Ectopic chondrocyte hypertrophy has been demonstrated in OA, suggesting that the pathogenetical process involves a recapitulation of endochondral ossification [ 11 – 13 ].
ref: 2010 January 29, Anita Woods et al., “Control of chondrocyte gene expression by actin dynamics: a novel role of cholesterol/Ror-α signalling in endochondral bone growth”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, volume 13, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: atrophy
hypotrophy
hyperplasia
glosses: An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
antonyms: atrophy
hypotrophy
hyperplasia
glosses: An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.
Increase in muscle size through increased size of individual muscle cells; a result of weightlifting, and other exercise. It differs from muscle hyperplasia, which is the formation of new muscle cells.
Derived terms: antihypertrophy
cardiohypertrophy
eccentric hypertrophy
hemihypertrophy
hypertrophic
hypertrophical
hypertrophically
hypertrophous
lipohypertrophy
prehypertrophy
pseudohypertrophy