cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aphorism
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.ə.ɹɪ.zəm/
ipa: [ˈæf.ə.ɹɪ.zm̩]
Forms: form: aphorisms
form: aphorisming
form: aphorismed
form: aphorismed
Etymology: From Middle French aphorisme, from Late Latin aphorismus, from Ancient Greek ἀφορισμός (aphorismós, “pithy phrase containing a general truth”), from ἀφορίζω (aphorízō, “I define, mark off or determine”), from ἀπό (apó, “off”) + ὁρίζω (horízō, “I divide, bound”), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Senses: examples: text: But after each of us had inscribed his share (once I robbed my Aegidius for the purpose), our literary union was over; each of us tore his contribution out of the book and “aphorismed” on his own from then on.
ref: 1971, Arthur Schnitzler, My Youth in Vienna, page 95:
text: He was thoughtful: “Preferences define superiority,” he aphorismed. “As long as preferences are not made godly edicts."
ref: 1978, Vikram Kapur, The Traumatic Bite, page 32:
text: “I don't know what more to do,” she confessed. “I've aphorismed my heart out and relationships have not improved one whit, it seems."
ref: 2003, Arthur Herzog, Glad to Be Here, page 146:
glosses: To speak or write aphorisms.
pouch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -aʊtʃ
Forms: form: pouches
Etymology: From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.
Senses: glosses: A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: marsupium
glosses: An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
glosses: Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.
glosses: A protuberant belly; a paunch.
examples: text: […]form a large Pouch or Cyst
ref: 1747, Samuel Sharp, A Treatise on the Operations of Surgery:
glosses: A cyst or sac containing fluid.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
glosses: A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain etc. from shifting.
Derived terms: abdominal pouch
brood pouch
Faraday pouch
laryngeal pouch
manpouch
Morison's pouch
Pavlov pouch
pencil pouch
pillow pouch
posing pouch
Poucher
pouchful
pouchitis
pouchless
pouchlike
pouchling
pouchmaker
pouchmaking
pouch of Morison
pouchy
pseudopouch
Rathke's pouch
retortable pouch
retort pouch
shepherd's pouch
Related terms: bag
pocket
sack
pouch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -aʊtʃ
Forms: form: pouches
form: pouching
form: pouched
form: pouched
Etymology: From Middle English pouche, poche, borrowed from Old Northern French pouche, from Old French poche, puche (whence French poche; compare also the Anglo-Norman variant poke), of Germanic origin: from Frankish *poka (“pouch”) (compare Middle Dutch poke, Old English pohha, dialectal German Pfoch). Doublet of poke; compare pocket.
Senses: examples: text: The beggar pouched the coin.
glosses: To enclose within a pouch.
examples: text: We pouched the encryption device to our embassy in Beijing.
glosses: To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
examples: text: And, to name no more, the common Heron hath its most remarkable Parts adapted to this Service; long Legs for wading; and a long Neck answerable thereto to reach Prey; a wide, extensive Throat to pouch it; long Toes, with strong hooked Talons […]
ref: 1713, William Derham, Physico-theology, or a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God:
text: […] but if they shake the line and move, after they have remained still three or four minutes, you may conclude the fish has pouched the bait and feels the hooks, then wind up your slack and strike, but not violently, and always mind to keep the point of your rod a little raised while you are playing and killing your fish […]
ref: 1820, Thomas Frederick Salter, The Trollerʻs Guide: A New and Complete Practical Treatise on the Art of Trolling Or Fishing for Jack and Pike:
glosses: To swallow.
raw_tags: of fowls and fish
examples: text: He pouched his mouth, and reared himself up and swelled; but answered me not.
ref: 1754, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison:
glosses: To pout.
examples: text: And for the value of the gowden piece , it shall never be said I pouched her siller
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To pocket; to put up with.
harbor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːbə/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹbɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹbəɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Forms: form: harbors
form: harbour
form: harborough
form: herborough
form: harborow
Etymology: From Middle English herberwe, herber, from Old English herebeorg (“shelter, lodgings, quarters”), from Proto-West Germanic *harjabergu (“army shelter, refuge”), from *harjaz (“army”) + *bergō (“protection”), equivalent to Old English here (“army, host”) + beorg (“defense, protection, refuge”). Doublet of albergo and auberge. See also borrow, bury, harbinger, harry and here.
Senses: examples: text: The neighborhood is a well-known harbor for petty thieves.
glosses: Any place of shelter.
examples: text: [T]here aboutes dwelt greate multitudes of people half wilde, hiding thẽſelues in caues of the grounde, of ſmall ſtature, and very fearefull, for as ſoone as they ſawe them they fled into their holes, and that there was a great riuer and very good harborough.
ref: 1582, Nicolas [i.e., Nicolo] Zeno; Antonio Zeno, “The Discouerie of the Isles of Frisland, Iseland, Engroueland, Estotiland, Drogeo and Icaria, Made by M. Nicolas Zeno, Knight, and M. Antonio His Brother”, in R[ichard] H[akluyt], compiler, Divers Voyages Touching the Discouerie of America, and the Ilands adiacent vnto the Same, […], London: […] [Thomas Dawson] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC, signatures D4, recto – D4, verso:
text: A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world and has something to give in return.
ref: 1881 October, Sarah Orne Jewett, “River Driftwood”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 48, number 288, page 510, column 2:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.
glosses: A mixing box for materials.
glosses: A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body.
glosses: Shelter, refuge.
Derived terms: Charlotte Harbor
Egg Harbor
Egg Harbor City
Friday Harbor
Grays Harbor
harborage
harbourage
harborfront
harborful
harbor gasket
harborless
Harbor Link
harbor master
harbormaster
harbourmaster
harbormistress
harbor of refuge
harborscape
harbor seal
harborside
harbor town
harborward
harborwards
Mare Harbor
Oak Harbor
outharbor
safe harbor
Two Harbors
harbor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːbə/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹbɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹbəɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Forms: form: harbors
form: harboring
form: harbored
form: harbored
form: harbour
form: harborough
form: herborough
form: harborow
Etymology: From Middle English herberwen, herbere, from Old English herebeorgian (“to take up one's quarters, lodge”), from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: text: The docks, which once harbored tall ships, now harbor only petty thieves.
text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
glosses: To provide a harbor or safe place for.
examples: text: The fleet harbored in the south.
glosses: To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.
examples: text: This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set.
ref: 1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion:
glosses: To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.
examples: text: She harbors a conviction that her husband has a secret, criminal past.
text: He said, “I am full of anger and bitterness at those people, but I will go to an AA meeting today and try to divest myself of these resentments, because if I hang on to resentments, I will drink again.” It occurred to me that this man was fortunate in being aware that harboring resentments is destructive.
ref: 2007, Abraham J. Twerski, Happiness and the Human Spirit: The Spirituality of Becoming the Best You Can be, Jewish Lights Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:
text: Once I returned to the U.S., rather than harboring a grudge toward my captors, I would insist on being reassigned to Montesangre, reopening the embassy, and reestablishing diplomatic relations with the new regime.
ref: 2013, Sandra Brown, Where There's Smoke, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 268:
text: No one is saying that we should forget important parts of our own life stories. But that's not the same thing as harboring a grudge, is it?
ref: 2019, Sophie Hannah, How to Hold a Grudge: From Resentment to Contentment—The Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.
Derived terms: harborer
unharbor
Related terms: haven
dock
hearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɪː.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɪɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhiː.ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more hearing
form: most hearing
Etymology: From hear + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.
glosses: Able to hear, as opposed to deaf.
Meronyms: sense: sensation produced in the ear
word: high-pitched
sense: sensation produced in the ear
word: sharp
sense: sensation produced in the ear
word: low-pitched
sense: sensation produced in the ear
english: pitch
translation: pitch
word: bass
sense: sensation produced in the ear
word: loud
sense: sensation produced in the ear
english: volume
translation: volume
word: soft
sense: sensation produced in the ear
word: melodious
sense: sensation produced in the ear
alt: likeability
word: shrill
hearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɪː.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɪɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhiː.ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: hearings
Etymology: From hear + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: My hearing isn't what it used to be, but I still heard that noise.
glosses: The sense used to perceive sound.
examples: text: When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: The distance or physical region within which something may be heard; earshot.
examples: text: More evidence followed. Evidence as to the financial difficulties in which the prisoner had found himself at the end of July. Evidence as to his intrigue with Mrs. Raikes—poor Mary, that must have been bitter hearing for a woman of her pride.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 159:
glosses: Something heard; a report or piece of news.
examples: text: To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires […]
ref: 2004, Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus, page 73:
glosses: The act by which something is heard; the act of perceiving by sound or the auditory sense.
examples: text: There will be a public hearing to discuss the new traffic light.
glosses: A proceeding at which discussions are heard.
examples: text: Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
ref: 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
topics: law
glosses: A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
glosses: A scolding.
hearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɪː.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhɪɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhiː.ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Etymology: From hear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hear
Derived terms: committal hearing
counterhearing
hardness of hearing
hard of hearing
hearing aid
hearing dog
hearing-ear dog
hearing-impaired
hearingless
hearing loop
hearing loss
hearingly
hearing range
hearing test
hearing trumpet
in hearing
Newton hearing
posthearing
prehearing
preliminary hearing
public hearing
re-hearing
superhearing
unhearing
scrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: scraps
form: scrapping
form: scrapped
form: scrapped
Etymology: From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”). Cf. Swedish skräp (“garbage”).
Senses: examples: text: The party plans to scrap the military-drafted constitution, and bring the army's many business interests under the Ministry of Finance.
ref: 2023 May 29, Jonathan Head, “Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai election upstart who vows to be different”, in BBC:
glosses: To discard; to get rid of.
glosses: To stop working on indefinitely.
raw_tags: of a project or plan
glosses: To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.
examples: text: Northern made much of the scrapping of the first of the Pacers (142005), and to date 35 of its Class 142s have been scrapped, with a further 11 off-lease at Gascoigne Wood.
ref: 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 63:
glosses: To dispose of at a scrapyard.
examples: text: Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 165:
glosses: To make into scrap.
Derived terms: scrapper
scrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: scraps
Etymology: Perhaps from the obsolete colloquial meaning "sinister plot, scheme, villainy", or a dialectal variant of scrape.
Senses: examples: text: We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.
glosses: A fight, tussle, skirmish.
scrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: scraps
form: scrapping
form: scrapped
form: scrapped
Etymology: Perhaps from the obsolete colloquial meaning "sinister plot, scheme, villainy", or a dialectal variant of scrape.
Senses: examples: text: Oh yeah! Keep it spicy! You know I love a good tussle, Gonzales! Keep on scrappin', son! 'Course, it ain't gonna do you much good in the end.
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:
glosses: to fight
karoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈru/
Forms: form: karoos
Etymology: Originates from the Khoikhoi word karo (meaning dry, and hard)
Senses: glosses: Any vast prairie bordering a desert.
examples: text: The herd is kept in an enclosure with wire fence about 7 feet high[…] They eat grass and karoo, but prefer bush of every kind, even eating the bitter aloe.
ref: 1901 July 5, “Domestication of the Eland”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 9, page 273:
glosses: Any of the composite bushes typical of the Karoo.
Derived terms: karoid
metro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /mɛtɹo/
Etymology: Clipping of metropolitan.
Senses: examples: metro-link, metro-bus, metro-rail
glosses: metropolitan: of or relating to the city.
metro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /mɛtɹo/
/miːtɹo/
/mɛtɹo/
Forms: form: metr-
Etymology: From metra, medical English, via New Latin, via Ancient Greek μήτρα (mḗtra), "uterus".
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: utero-
hystero-
glosses: Uterus; uterine.
Derived terms: metralgia
metrocystosis
metroendometritis
metrofibroma
metrogenous
metrography
metroleukorrhea
metronymy
metroperitonitis
Related terms: endometrium
metra
myometrium
metro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /mɛtɹo/
/miːtɹo/
Senses: glosses: poetry; meter
glosses: relating to measurements
Derived terms: metromania
metrology
nipper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nippers
form: nippering
form: nippered
form: nippered
Etymology: From nip + -er.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To seize (two ropes) together.
tot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒt/
enpr: tŏt
ipa: /tɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: taught
homophone: taut (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: tots
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots tot, a shortened form of totum (“small child; tot”), of uncertain origin, perhaps shortened from totter (“to move in an unsteady way”),
Compare tottle, also Old Norse tottr (“name of a dwarf”), Swedish tutte (“small child”), Danish tommeltot (“little child”).
Senses: examples: text: He learned to run when he was just a tot.
text: When I was but a tiny tot, I knocked the neighbors cold / For I became to walk when I was scarcely one year old
ref: 1907, Will F. Denny, “You’ll Have to Get Off and Walk”, Columbia Records:
text: Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days.
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:
glosses: A small child.
examples: text: Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
ref: 1897, Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa:
text: And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.
ref: 1916, Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party:
glosses: A small amount of liquor, (particularly) a small measure of rum.
glosses: Ellipsis of tater tot.
glosses: A small cup, usually made of tin.
examples: text: Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.
ref: a. 1660, A Contemporary History Of Affairs In Ireland:
glosses: A foolish fellow.
Synonyms: sense: small amount of liquor
word: nip
Derived terms: prostitot
tot lot
tot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒt/
enpr: tŏt
ipa: /tɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: taught
homophone: taut (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: tots
form: totting
form: totted
form: totted
Etymology: Clipping of total (“to sum”)
Senses: examples: text: There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.
ref: 2017, Paul Lockhart, Arithmetic:
glosses: To sum or total.
examples: a totted debt
glosses: To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.
Derived terms: tot up
tot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɒt/
enpr: tŏt
ipa: /tɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: taught
homophone: taut (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: tots
Etymology: Clipping of total (“to sum”)
Senses: glosses: A total, an addition of a long column of figures.
Related terms: totting
ineluctable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.ɪˈlʌk.tə.bəl/
Forms: form: more ineluctable
form: most ineluctable
Etymology: From Middle French inéluctable, from Latin inēlūctābilis, from in- + ēlūctor (“struggle out”) + -bilis.
Senses: examples: text: God indeed (if it please him) can by his absolute power over his Creature, make him act this thing, or take that thing, by ineluctable Necessity, and whether he will or no.
ref: 1655, Thomas Pierce, A Correct Copy of Some Notes concerning Gods Decrees, "A Paraenesis to the Reader," chapter 4, item 50
text: They have come under the yoke of ineluctable slavery.
ref: 1797, Alexander Shiels, A Hind Let Loose, Calton (Glasgow), page 541
text: He was aware instantly of an opposition in his members, unanimous and invincible, clinging to life with a single and fixed resolve, finger by finger, sinew by sinew; something that was at once he and not he—at once within and without him;—the shutting of some miniature valve in his brain, which a single manly thought should suffice to open—and the grasp of an external fate ineluctable as gravity.
ref: 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, chapter 10, in The Ebb-Tide:
text: I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: For the self-regulating market was now believed to follow from the inexorable laws of Nature, and the unshackling of the market to be an ineluctable necessity.
ref: 1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, chapter 10, in The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 127:
text: Captain Kirk! And the ineluctible Mr. Spock. Welcome to Motherlode, gentlemen. Interested in purchasing a little love?
ref: 1973, Harry Mudd, Mudd's Passion (Star Trek: The Animated Series episode 10)
text: Out in the street, under the reddening afternoon sun, a spectacle of ineluctable commerce greeted her.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
text: […] The first will be the ineluctable fact of climate change.
ref: 2007 July 6, Marina Hyde, “The artists formerly known as huge carbon footprints”, in The Guardian:
text: As we've seen, the Manifesto’s argument for the ineluctable impoverishment of the working class under capitalism, for example, has not been borne out.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, Head of Zeus, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: avoidless
word: certain
word: fatal
word: foregone
word: impreventable
word: ineluctable
word: inescapable
word: inevitable
word: inexorable
word: irresistible
word: necessary
word: predictable
word: unavoidable
word: unforestallable
word: unescapable
word: unpreventable
antonyms: eluctable
glosses: Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.
Derived terms: ineluctably
ineluctableness
ineluctability
sanitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsænɪˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: sanitations
Etymology: From sanitary + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: To lovers of Victoriana it will not be necessary to enlarge on the original beauty of many [old stations], but to the modern traveller romantic nostalgia will not compensate for bleak, draughty waiting rooms, ancient sanitation, uncomfortable grimy seats and gas lighting; he is likely to prefer the comforts of a modern car on a winter's morning.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 249:
glosses: The hygienic disposal or recycling of waste.
glosses: The policy and practice of protecting health through hygienic measures.
Hypernyms: sense: policy and practice
word: public health
Derived terms: sanitation engineer
sanitation engineering
sanitation worker
Related terms: sanitarian
sanitary
sanitisation
sanitise
sanitization
sanitize
sanitational
disease
disinfection
microorganisms
sewage
diopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diopters
form: dioptra
form: dioptre
form: dioptry
Etymology: From Latin dioptra, from Ancient Greek διόπτρα (dióptra).
Senses: glosses: A unit of measure of the power of a lens or mirror, equal to the reciprocal of its focal length in meters. Myopia is diagnosed and measured in diopters.
glosses: The dioptre adjustment mechanism of a pair of binoculars or of a camera viewfinder.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A lens element attached to the front of a photographic lens to shorten the lens's minimum focus distance; also called a "close-up filter".
glosses: Any lens system, such as a telescope.
glosses: A theodolite or similar surveyor’s angle measuring device.
glosses: An alidade.
glosses: A surgical speculum.
glosses: An instrument for drawing the skull by projections.
parenteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + enteral; early 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: Terbinafine is available in 250 mg tablets and in a topical 1% ointment. There is no parenteral form available.
ref: 2003, Peter G. Pappas, “Terbinafine”, in William E. Dismukes, Peter G. Pappas, Jack D. Sobel, editors, Clinical Mycology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 106:
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: enteral
hyponyms: subcutaneous
intramuscular
intravenous
intraperitoneal
glosses: Administered by some means that avoids the gastrointestinal tract, particularly intravenously or by injection.
Derived terms: nonparenteral
parenterally
subcutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbkjuːˈteɪnɪəs/
rhymes: -eɪniəs
rhymes: -eɪnɪəs
Forms: form: more subcutaneous
form: most subcutaneous
Etymology: From Latin subcutāneus, from sub- + cutis (“skin”) + adjectival suffix -āneus.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the fatty layer under the skin.
Coordinate terms: sense: As routes of administration
english: often synonymous
translation: often synonymous
word: hypodermic
sense: As routes of administration
word: intradermic
sense: As routes of administration
word: intramuscular
sense: As routes of administration
word: intravascular
sense: As routes of administration
word: intravenous
Derived terms: subcutaneously
subcutaneousness
intramuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Late Latin intramuscularis, from prefix intra-, "within", + musculum, "muscle".
Senses: glosses: Inside a muscle or the muscles.
Derived terms: intramuscularly
Related terms: muscle
muscular
intravenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɹəˈviːnəs/
Etymology: From intra- + venous.
Senses: examples: text: Ikenna had typhoid and had been admitted at the hospital, receiving intravenous injections.
ref: 2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 116:
text: The inside of the vehicle is pretty sparse and there are no oxygen tanks, intravenous drips or machines that go "ping."
ref: 2024 January 9, Scott Snowden, “Santa Monica rolls out mobile mental health unit”, in Santa Monica Daily Press:
glosses: Inside the veins.
Derived terms: nonintravenous
Related terms: intravenously
intravenous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɹəˈviːnəs/
Forms: form: IV
Etymology: From intra- + venous.
Senses: examples: text: Get his morphine intravenous started stat!
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.
Synonyms: drip
intravenous drip
intravenous therapy
mundane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌnˈdeɪn/
ipa: /mən-/
ipa: [mʌnˈdeɪn]
ipa: [mɐnˈdeɪn]
ipa: [mʌnˈdɛjn]
ipa: [mʌnˈdeːn]
ipa: [mʊn-]
ipa: [mɐnˈdæɪn]
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: mundaner
form: mundanest
Etymology: From Middle English mondeyne, from Old French mondain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus (“world”). Compare Danish mondæn.
Senses: synonyms: worldly
antonyms: heavenly
arcane
glosses: Worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.
examples: text: Amongst mundane bodies, six there are that do perpetually move, and they are the six Planets; of the rest, that is, of the Earth, Sun, and fixed Stars, it is disputable which of them moveth, and which stands still.
ref: 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
glosses: Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
synonyms: word: banal
word: boring
word: commonplace
word: everyday
word: routine
word: workaday
word: jejune
word: pedestrian
word: banal
word: beat
word: blah
word: bland
word: boring
word: cold
word: colourless
word: drab
word: dreich
word: drowsy
word: dull
word: dull as dishwater
word: flat
word: ho-hum
word: humdrum
word: insipid
word: lackluster
word: lame
word: languid
word: lifeless
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: mundane
word: no fun at parties
word: plain
word: plodding
word: prosaic
word: prosy
word: pedantic
word: pedestrian
word: static
word: straightforward
word: snoozeworthy
word: soporific
word: tedious
word: uncool
word: wan
word: weaksauce
word: wooden
word: uninteresting
word: stodgy
word: vapid
word: vanilla
word: average
word: banal
word: basic
word: bog standard
word: common
word: common as bums
word: common as muck
word: commonplace
word: common-or-garden
word: common or garden variety
word: conventional
word: dime a dozen
word: everyday
word: familiar
word: garden variety
word: general
word: nonrare
word: normal
word: par for the course
word: pedestrian
word: plain
word: plain Jane
word: plain vanilla
word: quotidian
word: regular
word: routinary
word: routine
word: standard
word: standard issue
word: ten a penny
word: two a penny
word: typical
word: usual
word: run-of-the-mill
word: workaday
glosses: Ordinary; not new.
synonyms: word: banal
word: beat
word: blah
word: bland
word: boring
word: cold
word: colourless
word: drab
word: dreich
word: drowsy
word: dull
word: dull as dishwater
word: flat
word: ho-hum
word: humdrum
word: insipid
word: lackluster
word: lame
word: languid
word: lifeless
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: mundane
word: no fun at parties
word: plain
word: plodding
word: prosaic
word: prosy
word: pedantic
word: pedestrian
word: static
word: straightforward
word: snoozeworthy
word: soporific
word: tedious
word: uncool
word: wan
word: weaksauce
word: wooden
word: uninteresting
word: stodgy
word: vapid
word: vanilla
glosses: Tedious; repetitive and boring.
Derived terms: antemundane
circummundane
extramundane
inframundane
intermundane
intramundane
mundania
mundanism
mundie
nonmundane
submundane
supermundane
supramundane
transmundane
ultramundane
unmundane
mundane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌnˈdeɪn/
ipa: /mən-/
ipa: [mʌnˈdeɪn]
ipa: [mɐnˈdeɪn]
ipa: [mʌnˈdɛjn]
ipa: [mʌnˈdeːn]
ipa: [mʊn-]
ipa: [mɐnˈdæɪn]
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: mundanes
Etymology: From Middle English mondeyne, from Old French mondain, from Late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus (“world”). Compare Danish mondæn.
Senses: glosses: An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
examples: text: THE LIVERPOOL PARTY at Pat and Frank Milnes’ celebrated both the Gunpowder Plot and the Liverpool Club’s 400th and something meeting. Two mundane and non-fan friends of the hosts - women, too - played brag all night and Norman Weedall disappeared at 3 a.m.
ref: 1959 December 1, Ron Bennett, Skyrack, number 10:
text: The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes. The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’
ref: 1989 Spring, Lawrence Person, “Fear and Loathing in New Orleans: A Savage Journey Into the Heart of American Fandom”, in Nova Express, volume 2, number 3 (whole number #7), page 10:
text: Some people just think your ^([sic]) a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot ^([sic]) of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes.
ref: 1996, Angel of Death, “furries vs. mundanes”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):
glosses: A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
raw_tags: in various subcultures
glosses: A person who is not a Satanist.
examples: text: Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture.
ref: 1966 November, Lee Hoffman, “Our Authors”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 4, page 35:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
raw_tags: as "the mundane"
Synonyms: sense: mainstream person
word: mainstreamer
word: banausic
word: mundane
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: average Joe
word: layperson
word: muggle
word: plebe
word: prole
Derived terms: mundanely
mundaneness
mundanity
Related terms: english: mundane
translation: mundane
word: mundane on Wikipedia. Article on the use of as a derogatory term.
word: mainstreamer
rank
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: more rank
form: most rank
form: ranck
Etymology: From Middle English rank (“strong, proud”), from Old English ranc (“proud, haughty, arrogant, insolent, forward, overbearing, showy, ostentatious, splendid, bold, valiant, noble, brave, strong, full-grown, mature”), from Proto-West Germanic *rank, from Proto-Germanic *rankaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“straight, direct”). Cognate with Dutch rank (“slender, slim”), Low German rank (“slender, projecting, lank”), Danish rank (“straight, erect, slender”), Swedish rank (“slender, shaky, wonky”), Icelandic rakkur (“straight, slender, bold, valiant”).
Senses: examples: text: The seely man seeing him ryde so rancke, / And ayme at him, fell flat to ground for feare […].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
glosses: Quickly, eagerly, impetuously.
rank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
Forms: form: ranks
form: ranking
form: ranked
form: ranked
form: ranck
Etymology: From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”).
Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). Doublet of ring and rink.
Senses: examples: text: She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, / Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. / […] / His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes / Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
ref: 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:
glosses: To place abreast or in a line.
examples: text: Their defense ranked third in the league.
text: I vex my heart with fancies dim: / ⁠He still outstript me in the race; / ⁠It was but unity of place / That made me dream I rank’d with him.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 64:
glosses: To have a ranking.
examples: text: Ranking all things under general and special heads.
ref: 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:
text: Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
text: Heresy [is] ranked with idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, murders, and other sins of the flesh.
ref: 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:
text: From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.
ref: 1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:
glosses: To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
glosses: To take the rank of; to outrank.
Derived terms: misrank
outrank
unrank
citron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹən/
ipa: /ˈsɪtəɹn/
homophone: citrine (General American)
homophone: Citroën (UK)
Forms: form: citrons
Etymology: Borrowed from French citron (“lemon, lime”), Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan derived from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros, “cedar”) (see there for further etymology).
Senses: glosses: A greenish yellow colour.
glosses: A small citrus tree, Citrus medica.
glosses: The fruit of a citron tree.
glosses: The candied rind of the citron fruit.
Derived terms: citronwood
seatron
citron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtɹən/
ipa: /ˈsɪtəɹn/
homophone: citrine (General American)
homophone: Citroën (UK)
Forms: form: more citron
form: most citron
Etymology: Borrowed from French citron (“lemon, lime”), Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan derived from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros, “cedar”) (see there for further etymology).
Senses: glosses: Of a greenish yellow colour.
Derived terms: citronetin
citronin
citron melon
citron-throated toucan
citron wood
fingered citron
pome-citron
pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.kɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.kɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈpɑ.kət/
ipa: /ˈpɔ.kɪt/
rhymes: -ɒkɪt
Etymology: From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkô, *pukô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Equivalent to poke + -et. Doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.
Senses: examples: text: a pocket dictionary
glosses: Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
examples: text: pocket battleship
text: pocket beach
text: She ate, drank, worked, danced, and made love in exactly the same way: con brio. She came into the apartment like a pocket hurricane.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
text: “There is never a shortage of pocket [Neville]^([sic]) Chamberlains willing to sacrifice other people’s land for their own peace of mind,” Sikorski said.
ref: 2024 January 19, Larry Elliott, John Collingridge, quoting Radosław Sikorski, “Casting their shadow: how Trump, Putin and AI dominated talk at Davos”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Smaller or more compact than usual.
examples: text: a pocket pair of kings
qualifier: Texas hold'em poker
glosses: Belonging to the two initial hole cards.
Synonyms: sense: of a size suitable for a pocket
word: pocket-size
sense: of a size suitable for a pocket
word: pocket-sized
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: air pocket
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: burn a hole in one's pocket
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: fob pocket
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: line one's pockets
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: pickpocket
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: piss in someone's pocket
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: pocketbook
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: pocket flask
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: pocketknife
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: Pocket Nook
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: pocket veto
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "pocket"
word: pocket watch
Related terms: bag
pouch
purse
sack
downstroy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downstroys
form: downstroying
form: downstroyed
form: downstroyed
Etymology: Blend of down + destroy. Compare downpressor.
Senses: glosses: To destroy.
Synonyms: destroy
kill
stoicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊɪsɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈstoʊɪsɪzəm/
Forms: form: stoicisms
form: Stoicism
Etymology: From Latin stōicismus. By surface analysis, stoic + -ism. First attested in the 1620s.
Senses: glosses: A school of philosophy popularized during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.
examples: text: Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
ref: 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2013:
text: Although very distant from the lives of her subjects – she never went to school and had only the most fleeting experiences of being on equal terms with anyone – she grew into a much respected figure, admired for her stoicism and diligence
ref: 2022 September 8, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022:
glosses: A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
sealed systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sealed system
downpressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downpressors
Etymology: Blend of down + oppressor, with down replacing op (which is how up sounds in Jamaican patois).
Senses: glosses: Oppressor.
bastard sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastard swords
form: bastardsword
Senses: glosses: Any of the large, straight-bladed European swords used with either one or two hands; a longsword.
Synonyms: greatsword
longsword
tame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tām
ipa: /teɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
homophone: Thame
Forms: form: tamer
form: tamest
Etymology: From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”).
Cognate with Scots tam, tame (“tame”), Saterland Frisian tom (“tame”), West Frisian tam (“tame”), Dutch tam (“tame”), Low German Low German tamm, tahm (“tame”), German zahm (“tame”), Danish tam (“tame”), Swedish tam (“tame”), Icelandic tamur (“tame”).
The verb is from Middle English tamen, temen, temien, from Old English temian (“to tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tammjan, from Proto-Germanic *tamjaną (“to tame”).
Senses: glosses: Accustomed to human contact.
raw_tags: of animals
examples: text: The lion was quite tame.
glosses: Docile or tranquil towards humans.
raw_tags: of animals
examples: text: What, for example, were Fraunhofer's lines? McArdle had just been studying the matter with the aid of our tame scientist at the office, and he picked from his desk two of those many-coloured spectral bands which bear a general resemblance to the hat-ribbons of some young and ambitious cricket club.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
examples: text: The victim was Captain Bickenson, who had gone there from Port Darwin to try the pearling grounds, and for this purpose employed a number of tame blacks about the schooner.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 290:
glosses: Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
examples: text: This party is too tame for me.
text: For a thriller, that film was really tame.
text: Wow! So the implication there is that even 12-year-olds in France will find the movie tame. “Yes, eet was a, an amusing erotic trifle, I supposa. Ze love-making was passable, but, uh, belt play is a leettle pedestriahn, don’t you seenk?”.
ref: 2015 February 15, “Tobacco”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 2, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
synonyms: dull
flat
insipid
unexciting
antonyms: exciting
glosses: Not exciting.
examples: text: tame slaves of the laborious plough
ref: a. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Paraphrase on the 148th Psalm:
glosses: Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: wild
glosses: Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
raw_tags: of a knot
Derived terms: a wild goose never laid a tame egg
handtame
pudding and tame
tamely
tameness