cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
uphold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌpˈhəʊld/
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: upholds
form: upholding
form: upheld
form: upheld
form: upholden
Etymology: From Middle English upholden, equivalent to up- + hold. Compare Dutch ophouden (“to stop, cease, hold up”), German aufhalten (“to stop, halt, detain”). Compare also Middle Low German upholt, Old Norse upphald (“uphold, support”).
Senses: examples: text: The mournful train/ Echoed her grief, [...]/ With groans, and hands upheld, to move his mind, /Besought his pity to their helpless kind
ref: 1899, John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer, Percival Chubb, Dryden's Palamon and Arcite, page 5:
glosses: To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
examples: text: A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
ref: 1769, The King James Bible, Proverbs 29:23:
text: That misbegotten devil, Falconbridge, /In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.
ref: 1623, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, Act V, Scene iv:
text: Uttering such broken ejaculations Mrs. Hart burst into a passion of tears, and only Lord Chetwynde's strong arms prevented her from falling. / He upheld her.
ref: 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
text: Wednesday June 02, 2021, Has the Northern Ireland Protocol undermined the United Kingdom?
Similarly, both the Government and the EU argued at the time the deal was agreed that they were upholding the Good Friday Agreement by implementing the Protocol.
text: In early May [of 2025], Mr. Trump said, “I don’t know” when asked by NBC News if he had to uphold the Constitution.
ref: 2025 May 9, Cameron Joseph, “They’ve watched democracies fail. They see it happening under Trump.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
examples: text: but there was still a connexion upheld among the different ideas, which succeeded each other.
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 18:
text: We must continually separate out and clearly articulate that support for the Jews as a people has nothing to do with upholding the policies of the Israeli state.
ref: 1986 February 15, GCN staff, “Our Movement Is No Place for Jew-hating”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 4:
glosses: To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned)
Synonyms: vindicate
Derived terms: word: upholdatory
upheld
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈhɛld/
rhymes: -ɛld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uphold
upset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭpʹsĕtʹ
ipa: /ˌʌpˈsɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: more upset
form: most upset
Etymology: From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
Senses: examples: text: He was upset when she refused his friendship.
text: My children often get upset with their classmates.
text: We were shocked when we asked a disruptive man in the front row to move to the back, and when he subsequently left, the producer's helpers were so upset for him they gave him two free tickets to the next 'women's music' production.
ref: 1981 December 5, Jana Runnals, Rosemary Schonfeld, “The Liberalisation of 'Women's Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 9:
glosses: Angry, distressed, or unhappy.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move.
text: Bryan came home from school with an upset tummy.
glosses: Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
raw_tags: of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract
Synonyms: word: in a tizzy
sense: angry, distressed, unhappy
word: angry
sense: angry, distressed, unhappy
word: distressed and unhappy
Derived terms: upset price
upset stomach
upset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭpsĕt
ipa: /ˈʌpsɛt/
Forms: form: upsets
Etymology: From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).
Senses: examples: text: My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset.
glosses: Disturbance or disruption.
examples: text: But it is probably the biggest upset for the away side since Ronnie Radford smashed a famous goal as Hereford defeated Newcastle 2-1 in 1972.
ref: 2011 January 8, Paul Fletcher, “Stevenage 3 - 1 Newcastle”, in BBC:
text: Sanders’s win in Michigan was one of the greatest upsets in modern political history.
ref: 2016 March 9, Harry Enten, “What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means”, in FiveThirtyEight:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
politics
sports
glosses: An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
examples: "collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
topics: automobile
automotive
business
insurance
transport
vehicles
glosses: An overturn.
examples: text: “Bob, let's cancel the baby sitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.”
“Sure you can, Liz! Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets. And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!”
ref: 1958 May 12, Life, volume 44, number 19, advertisements, page 110:
glosses: An upset stomach.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
examples: text: The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the unfavorable interaction of severe vertical air drafts and large longitudinal control displacements resulting in a longitudinal upset from which a successful recovery was not made.
ref: 1965 June 1, Civil Aeronautics Board, “Synopsis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Northwest Airlines, Inc., Boeing 720B, N724US, Near Miami, Florida, February 12, 1963, retrieved 25 Nov 2022, page 1:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
examples: text: Willow basket making, an artisan inserting bye-stakes in the upsets.
ref: 1972, Nilima Roy, Basketry and Mat-weaving in India:
glosses: A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
Synonyms: sense: disturbance, disruption
word: disruption
sense: disturbance, disruption
word: disturbance
Derived terms: jet upset
process upset
upset the applecart
upset the pot
upsetting thermometer
wake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪk/
ipa: /weːk/
homophone: Wake
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: wakes
Etymology: Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake, from or akin to Old Norse vǫk (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök), from Proto-Germanic *wakwō (“wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“moist, wet”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
glosses: The movement of water created when an animal or a person moves through water.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
examples: text: The player left the rest of the field trailing in her wake.
text: This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
ref: 1826, Thomas De Quincey, “Lessing”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
text: Several humbler persons […] formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
ref: 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
text: It was all of a piece. If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its wake.
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
text: Alex Song launched a long ball forward from the back and the winger took it down nicely on his chest. He cut across the penalty area from the right and after one of the three defenders in his wake failed to make a meaningful clearance, the Oxlade-Chamberlain was able to dispatch a low left-footed finish into the far corner.
ref: 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The area behind something or somebody rapidly-moving
Derived terms: Kelvin wake pattern
wakeboarding
wake flow
wake loss
wakeskater
wakeskating
wake turbulence
wake vortex
Related terms: wait
watch
in the wake of
wakes
woke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wōk
ipa: /wəʊk/
ipa: /woʊk/
ipa: /wəʉk/
ipa: /wɐʉk/
ipa: /wɐʉk/
ipa: /wok/
ipa: /woːk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: wokes
Etymology: Shortened from woken or woken up, or derived from dialectal use of woke (past participle of wake). The sense of being aware of social injustice dates to at least the 1930s. The derogatory use has been most commonly used as of the 2020s.
Senses: examples: text: Not to beat a dead horse, but it would appear that the wokes are in an abusive relationship with the speech policemen, given that some of their favored terms are being abruptly disallowed (like trigger warning or “preferred” pronouns).
ref: 2022 December 21, Judson Berger, “You Can’t Say That at Stanford”, in National Review:
glosses: A person with progressive views or attitudes.
examples: text: Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University in London, said the war on woke kicked off as a counter to the “silent revolution” of liberal and progressive attitudes during the economic boom of the decades up to 2008.
ref: 2021 January 8, Emilio Casalicchio, “Britain’s culture war extends beyond Brexit”, in Politico:
text: The woke is the new religion of the left.
ref: 2022-02-24, Ron DeSantis, Governor DeSantis and Senator Blackburn Address CPAC, via C-SPAN:
text: Millennials, such as Styles (and the other Harry, HRH, for that matter), were able to popularise and profit from woke.
ref: 2023 February 18, Panda La Terriere, “Why Gen Z is turning against woke culture”, in The Spectator:
text: For I’m afraid the demise of woke won’t be like the end of toothbrush moustaches, indie folk music or any other temporary behaviour supercharged by the whims of the young and the hip, then dropped without consequence.
ref: 2024 April 22, Kathleen Stock, “Turn of the woke tide will leave many stranded”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: successor ideology
glosses: A progressive ideology, in particular with regards to social justice.
woke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wōk
ipa: /wəʊk/
ipa: /woʊk/
ipa: /wəʉk/
ipa: /wɐʉk/
ipa: /wɐʉk/
ipa: /wok/
ipa: /woːk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past of wake
examples: text: […] have woke out of dreams, mayhap in which the beloved was smiling on you, whispering love-words-oh! how sweet and fondly remembered!
ref: 1860 January–June, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “Miss Prior is Kept at the Door”, in Lovel the Widower, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1861, →OCLC, page 56:
text: It has its tempers and its gentle moods. Yesterday it slept as we did, and now it has woke after a quiet night.
ref: 1873, Jules Verne, “Four Thousand Leagues under the Pacific”, in [anonymous], transl., Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas; […], James R. Osgood edition, Boston, Mass.: Geo[rge] M[urray] Smith & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 96:
text: What time did you wake up, and what woke you so flamin' early on a Sunday morning? Something must have woke you. The alarm clock?
ref: 2007 November 10, Joy Dettman, One Sunday, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, →ISBN, page 184:
glosses: past participle of wake
waked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wake
woken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəʊ.kən/
ipa: /ˈwoʊ.kən/
rhymes: -əʊkən
Etymology: Morphologically woke + -n.
Senses: glosses: past participle of wake
woken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəʊ.kən/
ipa: /ˈwoʊ.kən/
rhymes: -əʊkən
Forms: form: wokens
form: wokening
form: wokened
form: wokened
Etymology: From woke + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The “wokening” industry swallowed Orr's latest incarnation—the new, improved Rory Rabineau—as a perfect antidote to the perceived poison of his uninsurable “mental instability.”
ref: 2022, Bruce Wagner, ROAR: American Master, The Oral Biography of Roger Orr:
text: Which is why progressivism ain't no religion; it's a cult. Instead of the Ten Commandments, it's political correctness. Instead of any meaningful spiritual awakening, it's a performative woke'''ning.
ref: 2022, Dave Rubin, Don't Burn This Country:
text: Instead of a grim reminder of reality in which the Black hero survives the ordeal only to be wrongfully dispatched by police—à la Night of the Living Dead—Get Out exudes the hope of an ever-wokening world.
ref: 2023, Robin R. Means Coleman, Mark H. Harris, The Black Guy Dies First:
glosses: To make or become woke or woker.
Derived terms: word: wokening
word: unwoken
wear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛə/
ipa: /wɛː/
ipa: /wɛ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: [wɛɚ]
ipa: [wɛɹ]
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
enpr: wîr
ipa: /wiə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
enpr: wûr
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
note: Indic, cheer–chair merger or spelling pronunciation
enpr: wîr
ipa: /wɪja(r)/
note: Indic, cheer–chair merger or spelling pronunciation
homophone: ware
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wears
form: wearing
form: weared
form: wore
form: weared
form: wore
form: worn
form: worne
form: wer
form: weir
Etymology: From Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to guard, keep, defend; ward off, hinder, prevent, forbid; restrain; occupy, inhabit; dam up; discharge obligations on (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“to defend, protect, ward off”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).
Cognate with Scots wer, weir (“to defend, protect”), Dutch weren (“to aver, ward off”), German wehren (“to fight”), Swedish värja (“to defend, ward off”), Icelandic verja (“to defend”).
Senses: glosses: To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
glosses: To defend; protect.
examples: to wear the wolf from the sheep
glosses: To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
glosses: To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
wear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wâr
ipa: /wɛə/
ipa: /wɛː/
ipa: /wɛ(ə)ɹ/
ipa: [wɛɚ]
ipa: [wɛɹ]
ipa: /weː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
enpr: wîr
ipa: /wiə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
enpr: wûr
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
note: Indic, cheer–chair merger or spelling pronunciation
enpr: wîr
ipa: /wɪja(r)/
note: Indic, cheer–chair merger or spelling pronunciation
homophone: ware
homophone: where (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weir
homophone: we're (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: were
homophone: whir (fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wears
Senses: examples: text: Cool and clear, cool and clear, / By shining shingle, and foaming wear;
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
glosses: Dated form of weir.
wore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wô
ipa: /wɔː/
enpr: wôr
ipa: /wɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: wōr
ipa: /wo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /woə/
homophone: war (horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: Waugh (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: simple past of wear
examples: text: Crim. No, though I loſe that Head which I before / Deſign'd ſhould the Morocco-Crown have wore[…]
ref: 1673, Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco […] , William Coleman, act III, page 19:
text: Some of the greatest scholars, politicians, and wits, that ever Europe produced, have wore the habit of an abbé[…]
ref: 1824, Tobias Smollett, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., volume VII, page 125:
text: But he wore surgical gloves when we had sex, I mean if we had had a body condom he would have wore it and he'd go wash immediately.
ref: 1997 August 4, Patricia A Lather, Christine S Smithies, Troubling The Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: past participle of wear
glosses: simple past of ware ("bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern")
worn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːn/
ipa: /wɔɹn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /wo(ː)ɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /woən/
homophone: warn (horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: more worn
form: most worn
form: worne
Etymology: By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
Senses: examples: text: Upon this, an unhappy-looking woman, in a sort of mourning, neat, but sadly worn, hid her face behind a meagre bundle, and was heard to sob.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
glosses: Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
examples: text: Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit.
ref: 1889, The Wesley Naturalist, volume 2, page 143:
glosses: Worn out; exhausted.
worn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔːn/
ipa: /wɔɹn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /wo(ː)ɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /woən/
homophone: warn (horse–hoarse merger)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Forms: form: worne
Etymology: By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
Senses: glosses: past participle of wear
Derived terms: bodyworn
body-worn
body-worn camera
forworn
nap-worn
outworn
shelf-worn
worn-in
worn-out
worn out
wedded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛdəd/
rhymes: -ɛdəd
Senses: glosses: Joined in marriage.
raw_tags: of a couple
examples: text: She was too wedded to the first thought that came into her mind to see that her second idea was better.
text: The future policy of the Bundesbahn in diesel traction is firmly wedded to high-speed engines with hydraulic transmissions, and has standardised on four—possibly five—types.
ref: 1960 November, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 677:
text: So instead what we have now is a marriage of inconvenience - and it's fair to say that since then, the two haven't exactly walked hand in hand into the sunset to enjoy a life of wedded bliss.
ref: 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Joined as if in a marriage.
Derived terms: weddedness
wedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛdəd/
rhymes: -ɛdəd
Senses: examples: text: 15th c., [1997], Thomas Malory, Eugène Vinaver ed.
And kynge Lott of Lowthean and of Orkenay thenne wedded Margawse that was Gaweyns moder, and kynge Nentres of the land of Garlot wedded Elayne: al this was done at the request of kynge Uther.
text: Ross the Red, it is said, wedded a Danaan woman, Maga, daughter of Angus Ōg.
ref: 1911, [1990], T. W. Rolleston, Celtic Myths and Legends:
text: Húrin wedded Morwen Eledhwen of the First House — and their children were Túrin and Nienor.
ref: 1976, [2004], J. E. A. Tyler, The Complete Tolkien Companion:
text: But when he shall have wedded himself unto that duty so that he hath made it one with him as a bridegroom maketh himself one with his bride, then doth that duty become of a sudden very beautiful unto him and unto others.
ref: a. 1911 1986, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=vALiAcRyBcwC&pg=PA380&lpg=PA380&sig=hOThAAm-raql5gJhpMZzbU1P-T8
text: 1986, St. John Chrysostom, On Marriage and Family Life, Catherine P. Roth & David Anderson tr. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=hbMtKk-kiLMC&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&sig=GVHA-ol3fLhiSzro9HX7X4Rs4hE
She was wedded wearing no golden robe but chastity, piety, generosity, and every other virtue.
text: “Who would have thought she’d already been wedded and bedded?”
ref: 2004, Maureen O’Hara, ’Tis Herself:
glosses: simple past and past participle of wed
weep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wēp
ipa: /wiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: weeps
form: weeping
form: wept
form: wept
form: weeped
form: weeped
Etymology: From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”).
Cognate with Scots weep (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”),
Proto-Slavic *vъpiti (“to weep”).
Senses: examples: text: They wept together in silence.
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I:
glosses: To cry; to shed tears, especially when accompanied with sobbing or other difficulty speaking, as an expression of emotion such as sadness or joy.
examples: text: They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 11:13:
glosses: To lament; to complain.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
To produce secretions.
raw_tags: of a wound or sore
examples: text: a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
text: The blood weeps from my heart.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To give off moisture in small quantities, e.g. due to condensation.
To flow in drops; to run in drops.
examples: text: The willows weep and the moonbeams sleep / On the mariner's silent grave.
ref: 1893, Edward William Cole, The best song book in the world, page 314:
glosses: To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
examples: text: Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
 Of having lost her favorite dove.
ref: 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove:
text: […] Which weep a loss for ever new,
⁠A void where heart on heart reposed;
⁠And, where warm hands have prest and closed,
Silence, till I be silent too.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: To weep over; to bewail.
Synonyms: word: beweep
word: burst into tears
word: cry
word: cry one's eyes out
word: greet
word: shed a tear
word: shed tears
word: squirt some
word: wail
word: weep
Hypernyms: word: be sad
Hyponyms: word: bawl
word: blubber
word: cry someone a river
word: sob
word: whimper
Derived terms: beweep
enough to make the angels weep
forweep
read 'em and weep
weep buckets
weephole
weep hole
weeping willow
weep in one's beer
weep into one's beer
weep Irish
weepy
Related terms: word: crybaby
word: complain
weep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wēp
ipa: /wiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: weeps
Etymology: From Middle English wepen, from Old English wēpan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōpijan, from Proto-Germanic *wōpijaną (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂b- (“to call, cry, complain”).
Cognate with Scots weep (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”),
Proto-Slavic *vъpiti (“to weep”).
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.
glosses: A session of crying.
examples: text: He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup[.]
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page v. 62:
glosses: A sob.
synonyms: purge
glosses: A red or reddish liquid that seeps out from raw muscular meat during storage, consisting mostly of water and protein; "meat juice".
weep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wēp
ipa: /wiːp/
rhymes: -iːp
Forms: form: weeps
Etymology: Imitative of its cry.
Senses: glosses: A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
wept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Forms: form: weeped
Etymology: From weep + -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weep
wetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛtəd/
rhymes: -ɛtəd
homophone: whetted
Senses: examples: text: The ironbark trees are "rung" at a certain height top and bottom, and the bark detached in one sheet; it is then wetted, and laid out flat on the ground, huge stones being placed to keep it from rolling up again.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 50:
glosses: simple past and past participle of wet
won
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wŭn
ipa: /wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: one (in most accents)
Etymology: * Past participle of win, from Old English winnan.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of win
Derived terms: hard-won
unwon
won
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wŭn
ipa: /wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: one (in most accents)
ipa: /wɒn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
homophone: one (for speakers who pronounce that word as /wɒn/)
homophone: wan
enpr: wŭn
ipa: /wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: one (in most accents)
Forms: form: wons
form: wonning
form: wonned
form: wonned
form: wone
Etymology: From Old English wunian, from Proto-Germanic *wunāną, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Dutch wonen, German wohnen.
Senses: examples: text: I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxxiii
glosses: To live, remain.
glosses: To be accustomed to do something.
won
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wŭn
ipa: /wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: one (in most accents)
ipa: /wɒn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
homophone: one (for speakers who pronounce that word as /wɒn/)
homophone: wan
enpr: wŏn
ipa: /wɒn/
enpr: wän
ipa: /wɑn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: one (for speakers who pronounce that word as /wɒn/)
homophone: wan
enpr: wŭn
ipa: /wʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: one (in most accents)
ipa: /wɒn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒn
homophone: one (for speakers who pronounce that word as /wɒn/)
homophone: wan
Forms: form: won
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 원(圓) (won), from Sinitic 圓 /圆 (“circle” > “round coin”) referring to the piece of eight. Doublet of yuan and yen.
Senses: synonyms: ₩
￦
glosses: The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
Derived terms: blue won
red won
Related terms: english: won
translation: won
word: ㌆
wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭnd
ipa: /wɪnd/
enpr: wīnd
ipa: /waɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
homophone: winned
Forms: form: winds
form: winding
form: winded
form: winded
form: wound
form: wound
form: winde
Etymology: From Middle English wynd, wind, from Old English wind (“wind”), from Proto-West Germanic *wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥tos (“wind”), from earlier *h₂wéh₁n̥ts (“wind”), derived from the present participle of *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola weend, wyeene (“wind”), North Frisian win, winj (“wind”), Saterland Frisian Wíend (“wind”), West Frisian wyn (“wind”), Alemannic German wend, wind, winn, wénn (“wind”), Bavarian bint, Wind (“wind”), Cimbrian, Mòcheno bint (“wind”), Dutch wind (“wind”), German, German Low German Wind (“wind”), Luxembourgish Wand (“wind”), Yiddish ווינט (vint, “wind”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish vind (“wind”), Faroese, Icelandic vindur (“wind”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍃 (winds, “wind”), Latin ventus (“wind”), Welsh gwynt (“wind”), Sanskrit वात (vā́ta, “wind”), Russian ве́тер (véter, “wind”), perhaps Albanian bundë (“strong damp wind”). Doublet of athlete, vent, weather and nirvana.
Senses: examples: text: Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; / To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! / His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, / And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.
ref: 1796, Gottfried Augustus Bürger, “The Chase”, in [Walter Scott], transl., The Chase, and William and Helen: Two Ballads, from the German […], Edinburgh: […] Mundell and Son, […], for Manners and Miller, […]; and sold by T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 1:
text: Something higher must lie at the back of that eager response to pack-music and winded horn — something born of the smell of the good earth
ref: 1913, Edith Constance Holme, Crump Folk Going Home, page 136:
text: "If your Majesty is ever to use the Horn," said Trufflehunter, "I think the time has now come." Caspian had of course told them of this treasure several days ago./[…]/"Then in the name of Aslan we will wind Queen Susan's Horn," said Caspian.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
glosses: To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
examples: text: The boxer was winded during round two.
glosses: To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
glosses: To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
glosses: To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
glosses: To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
examples: text: The hounds winded the game.
glosses: To perceive or follow by scent.
glosses: To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
glosses: To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭnd
ipa: /wɪnd/
enpr: wīnd
ipa: /waɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
homophone: winned
enpr: wīnd
ipa: /waɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
homophone: wined
homophone: whined (wine–whine merger)
enpr: wĭnd
ipa: /wɪnd/
enpr: wīnd
ipa: /waɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
homophone: winned
Forms: form: winds
Etymology: From Middle English wynden, from Old English windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną. Compare West Frisian wine, Low German winden, Dutch winden, German winden, Danish vinde, Walloon windea. See also the related term wend.
Senses: glosses: The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
Synonyms: word: wind
Hyponyms: word: gust
word: breeze
word: light air
word: gale
word: storm
word: thaw wind
word: hurricane
word: air drainage
word: gravity wind
word: anabatic wind
word: katabatic wind
word: westerly
word: easterly
word: souther
word: norther
word: easter
word: wester
word: northeaster
word: northwester
word: southeaster
word: southwester
word: chinook
word: foehn
word: ghibli
word: levanter
word: mistral
word: sirocco
word: zephyr
word: simoom
word: khamsin
word: antitrade
word: trade wind
word: trades
word: waft
Meronyms: word: meridional wind
word: zonal wind
Related terms: word: draft
word: eddy
word: flatus
word: breath
word: updraft
word: ventilation
word: hydrometeor
withdraw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɔː/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɔː/
ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɔ/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɔ/
ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɑ/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: withdraws
Etymology: From Middle English withdrawe (“act of stopping a judicial proceeding”), from withdrawen, withdrauen (verb): see etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed one of theſe VVitneſſes vvas over perſvvaded by ſome Perſons, to be out of the vvay, upon G. B.’s Trial; but he came aftervvards, vvith ſorrovv for his vvithdravv, and gave in his Teſtimony: […]
ref: 1692 (indicated as 1693), Cotton Mather, “The Tryal of G[eorge] B[urroughs] at a Court of Oyer and Terminer, Held in Salem, 1692”, in The Wonders of the Invisible World. Observations as well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. […], Boston, Mass.: […] Benjamin Harris, →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: An act of drawing back or removing; a removal, a withdrawal or withdrawing.
topics: law
glosses: Synonym of withdraught (“a dismissal of a lawsuit with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit; a retraxit; also, a fine imposed on a plaintiff for such a dismissal”).
synonyms: word: withdraught
extra: a dismissal of a lawsuit with prejudice based on a plaintiff's withdrawal of the suit; a retraxit; also, a fine imposed on a plaintiff for such a dismissal
withdrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈdɹuː/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Senses: glosses: simple past of withdraw
withdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɔːn/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɔːn/
ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɔn/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɔn/
ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɑn/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Forms: form: more withdrawn
form: most withdrawn
Senses: examples: text: a withdrawn library book
qualifier: library science
glosses: Removed from circulation.
examples: text: a withdrawn child
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Introverted; not inclined to interact with other people.
withdrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɔːn/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɔːn/
ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɔn/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɔn/
ipa: /wɪðˈdɹɑn/
ipa: /wɪθˈdɹɑn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Senses: glosses: past participle of withdraw
era
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: îrʹə
ipa: /ˈɪə.ɹə/
ipa: [ˈɪə̯.ɹə ~ ˈɪː.ɹə]
ipa: /iə.ɹə/
ipa: [ˈi̞ə̯.ɹə ~ ˈiː.ɹə]
ipa: /ˈi.ɹə/
ipa: [ˈiː.ɹə]
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈɛː.ɹə/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: [ˈɛ̝.ɹə ~ ˈe̞ː.ɹə]
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
homophone: airer (non-rhotic, cheer–chair merger)
enpr: ĕrʹə
enpr: îrʹə
ipa: /ˈɛɹ.ə/
ipa: /ˈɪɚ.ə/
homophone: error (/ˈɛɹ.ə/, non-rhotic)
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɛrɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈirɑ/
rhymes: -ɛɹə
rhymes: -ɪəɹə
Forms: form: eras
form: æra
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin aera.
Senses: examples: text: Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
ref: 2012 January 23, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2012, page 87:
glosses: A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
glosses: An indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.
Synonyms: sense: time period of indeterminate length
word: age
sense: time period of indeterminate length
word: epoch
sense: time period of indeterminate length
word: period
word: cycle
word: day
word: era
word: generation
word: Great Year
word: interval
word: Platonic year
word: time
Hyponyms: sense: cosmological time unit
word: stelliferous era
sense: cosmological time unit
word: degenerate era
sense: cosmological time unit
word: black hole era
sense: geochronologic unit
word: Cenozoic era
sense: geochronologic unit
word: erathem
sense: geochronologic unit
word: Mesozoic era
sense: geochronologic unit
word: Paleozoic era
word: ice age
Derived terms: bubble era
classical era
dead-ball era
era-defining
era name
Fleabag era
flop era
geologic era
golden era
live-ball era
modern era
our era
Planck era
rainbow era
charm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chäm
ipa: /tʃɑːm/
enpr: chärm
ipa: /t͡ʃɑɹm/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: charms
form: jarm
Etymology: Synchronically a variant of chirm, but reflects Middle English charme (or unattested *charm), from Old English ċearm (“cry, alarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *karm, masculine variant of *karmi f, from Proto-Germanic *karmiz, *karm(j)az (“cry, lament, calling sound”). Near-doublet of chirm, which is from the feminine counterpart.
Senses: examples: text: […]Free libertie to chaunt our charmes at will:[…]
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Teares of the Muses”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: Sweet is the breath of morn, her riſing ſweet,
 With charm of earlieſt Birds;
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, 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:
text: The laughter rose like the charm of starlings.
ref: 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 152:
glosses: The mixed sound of many voices, especially of birds or children.
examples: text: A charm of finches flew overhead, singing into the vivid afternoon sky.
ref: 2018, Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart:
glosses: A flock, group (especially of finches).
incorporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/
enpr: ĭnkôr'pərāt
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.e(ɪ)t/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹe(ɪ)t/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
enpr: ĭnkôr'pərət
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
Forms: form: more incorporate
form: most incorporate
Etymology: From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).
Senses: examples: text: As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: And gazing on thee, sullen tree,
⁠Sick for thy stubborn hardihood,
⁠I seem to fail from out my blood
And grow incorporate into thee.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
incorporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/
enpr: ĭnkôr'pərāt
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.e(ɪ)t/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹe(ɪ)t/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
enpr: ĭnkôr'pərət
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.ət/
enpr: ĭnkôr'pərət
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/
enpr: ĭnkôr'pərāt
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.e(ɪ)t/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹe(ɪ)t/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
enpr: ĭnkôr'pərət
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
Etymology: From in- (“not”) + corporate.
Senses: examples: text: Moses forbore to speak of angels, and of things invisible, and incorporate.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
text: The air vibrated at a white-hot temperature, the stones seemed to be trembling silently, ready to flow, and in the distance, at a curve of the road, the files of men, guns and horses seemed detached from the earth, and trembled like a mass of jelly in their onward progress, and it seemed to me that they were not living people that I saw before me, but an army of incorporate shadows.
ref: 1905, Leonid Andreyev, translated by Alexandra Linden, The Red Laugh: Fragments of a Discovered Manuscript:
glosses: Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
examples: text: an incorporate banking association
glosses: Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
ipso facto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the same fact”).
Senses: examples: text: Cope was not long in feeling him as operating on the unconscious assumption—unconscious, and therefore all the more damnable—that the young man in business constituted, ipso facto, a kind of norm by which other young men in other fields of endeavor were to be gauged: […]
ref: 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope at His House Party”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 94:
text: For [Ludwig von] Mises or [Murray] Rothbard, it is simply confused to posit latent preferences; if two individuals fail to make an exchange, then this ipso facto demonstrates that at that moment at least one of them would not have benefited from the exchange.
ref: 1999 April, Bryan Caplan, “The Austrian Search for Realistic Foundations”, in Southern Economic Journal, volume 65, number 4, page 833:
text: We've imbued "natural food" with such virtuous connotations that meat supposedly raised according to the law of nature is, ipso facto, thought to be an ethically worthwhile choice.
ref: 2011 April 8, James McWilliams, “An Inconvenient Truth: Free-Range Meat Isn't 'Natural'”, in The Atlantic:
text: Intellectually, Ibanez had understood that there would be a lot of caverns. She'd once read that the Great Lakes, the largest freshwater bodies in the world, had a surface area of something like a quarter of a million square kilometres. The Mishepeshu were said to have used their tunnels to travel between the lakes and their islands. Ipso facto, there would be a lot of interior space down here. She'd patrolled some of it before. She'd seen it mapped by drones like the ones Nascimbeni had used. She should have been prepared.
ref: 2023 October 10, HarryBlank, “The Cruelest Fight”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024:
coordinate_terms: eo ipso
glosses: By that very fact itself; actually.
ipso facto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪpsəʊ ˈfæktəʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ipsō factō (“by the same fact”).
Senses: examples: text: Is not the reading of another's diary an ipso facto act of voyeurism?
ref: 1984 April 14, Richard Knisely, “Quintessential Narcissism”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
glosses: Being such by itself, or by its own definition; inherent.
Related terms: per se
ipse dixit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪpseɪ ˈdɪksɪt/
ipa: /ˌɪpsiː ˈdɪksɪt/
ipa: /ˌɪpsi ˈdɪksɪt/
rhymes: -ɪksɪt
Forms: form: ipse dixits
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ipse dīxit (“he himself said it”), calque of Ancient Greek αὐτὸς ἔφα (autòs épha).
Originally used by the followers of Pythagoreanism, who claimed this or that proposition to be uttered by Pythagoras himself. Extended during the Middle Ages to the statements of Aristotle, and more famously used in such contexts.
Senses: examples: text: To, avoid, therefore, all Imputation of laying down a Rule for Poſterity, founded only on the Authority of ipſe dixit; for which, to ſay the Truth, we have not the profoundeſt Veneration; […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Of the Serious in Writing; and for What Purpose It Is Introduced”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V, page 113:
text: Mr. Lincoln has not character enough for integrity and truth, merely on his own ipse dixit, to arraign President Buchanan, President Pierce, and nine Judges of the Supreme Court, not one of whom would be complimented by being put on an equality with him. There is an unpardonable presumption in a man putting himself up before thousands of people, and pretending that his ipse dixit, without proof, without fact, and without truth, is enough to bring down and destroy the purest and best of living men.
ref: 1858 August 21, Stephen A. Douglas, parliamentary debates, Ottawa, Illinois:
glosses: A dogmatic and unproved proposition or dictum that is accepted solely on the authority of someone who is known to have asserted it.
glosses: An authority who makes such an assertion.
Synonyms: sense: unproved dogmatic assertion
word: ad verecundiam
sense: unproved dogmatic assertion
word: appeal to authority
sense: unproved dogmatic assertion
word: ipsedixitism
Derived terms: ipsedixitism
ipsedixitist
droit de seigneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droit du seigneur
Etymology: Error for or alteration of French droit du seigneur (“lord's right”) (with du becoming de).
Senses: glosses: The supposed right of the feudal lord to deflower the maiden bride of one of his subjects.
Synonyms: ius primae noctis
pendente lite
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin pendente līte (“awaiting the litigation”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Pending a legal suit in court.
Related terms: lis pendens
wildlife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪldlaɪf/
rhymes: -aɪldlaɪf
Forms: form: wild life
Etymology: From wild + life.
Senses: examples: text: This town offers wildlife tours where you can go and watch the bears, deer, wild rabbits and other creatures in their natural habitats.
glosses: undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.
glosses: Living undomesticated organisms of all kinds.
Derived terms: wildlife bridge
wildlife carer
wildlife corridor
wildlife crossing
wildlife park
wildlife refuge
wildlife reserve
wildlife sanctuary
Related terms: flora
fauna
zucchetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tsʊˈkɛtəʊ/
ipa: /(t)sʊˈkɛtoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛtəʊ
Forms: form: zucchettos
form: zuchetto
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian zucchetto, ultimately a diminutive of zucca (“gourd, squash”), due to the shape. Compare zucchini.
Senses: synonyms: calotte
glosses: A small skullcap worn by Roman Catholic clergy (the Pope's is white, a cardinal's red, a bishop's purple, and a priest's black), Anglican clergy, and Syriac or Malankara Orthodox clergy
begum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɡʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: begums
form: begumming
form: begummed
form: begummed
Etymology: From be- + gum.
Senses: glosses: To daub or cover with gum.