cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
distemper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɛmpə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: distempers
Etymology: From Old French destemprer, from Latin distemperare.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
examples: text: O perplex'd diſcompoſition, O ridling diſtemper, O miſerable condition of Man.
ref: 1624, John Donne, “1. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 8:
text: [M]y spirits began to sink under the Burden of a strong Distemper, and Nature was exhausted with the Violence of the Fever […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.
glosses: A glue-based paint.
glosses: A painting produced with this kind of paint.
Derived terms: canine distemper
canine distemper virus
feline distemper
sleepy distemper
throat distemper
doing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: du'ing
ipa: /ˈduːɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdiːɪn/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Forms: form: dein
form: deein
form: doïng
Etymology: See do.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of do
doing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: du'ing
ipa: /ˈduːɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdiːɪn/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Forms: form: doings
form: dein
form: deein
form: doïng
Etymology: See do.
Senses: examples: text: This is his doing. (= "He did it.")
text: Draining that swamp is going to take some doing!
text: Mr. Dawe further calls his voyage “A Record of some Strange Doings at Sea.” They are strange doings, in fact, and yet not as novel as might be expected. They involve mutiny, piracy, shipwreck, and fights with Savages […]
ref: 1900, Book News, volume 18, page 80:
glosses: A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
Synonyms: act
action
Derived terms: doingness
doings
evildoing
harmdoing
nondoing
non-doing
rightdoing
take some doing
well-doing
wrongdoing
doing
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: du'ing
ipa: /ˈduːɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdiːɪn/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
enpr: doing
ipa: /dɔɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪŋ
enpr: du'ing
ipa: /ˈduːɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈdiːɪn/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Forms: form: dein
form: deein
form: doïng
Etymology: Onomatopœic.
Senses: glosses: The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
Synonyms: boing
bluet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bluːɪt/
homophone: blewit
Forms: form: bluets
Etymology: From Middle English blawede, blewed, blewet, bloued, blowed, bloweth, from Middle English blewe (“blue”). Alternatively, perhaps from Old French bleuet (diminutive of bleu (“blue”)). Compare Modern French bleuet (“cornflower”).
Senses: examples: text: My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze ….
ref: 1913, Robert Frost, 'The Vantage Point'
text: They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 232:
glosses: Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
glosses: Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
Centaurea, a plant genus in the family Asteraceae
glosses: Any of several different plants, from several genera, having bluish flowers.
Several plant genera in the family Rubiaceae, notably Houstonia and Oldenlandiopsis.
glosses: Any of several small damselfly species, including the genera Coenagrion and Enallagma.
Derived terms: attenuated bluet
boreal bluet
creeping bluet
cony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.ni/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.ni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: conies
form: coney
form: cunny
form: connie
Etymology: From Middle English cony, back formation from conies (plural), from Anglo-Norman conis, the plural of connil (“rabbit”), from Latin cunīculus, of unknown origin. Cognate to Dutch konijn, German Kaninchen, Spanish conejo, and Portuguese coelho. The original pronunciation was /ˈkʌni/ (for the spelling, compare honey and money), but the similarity to cunt (and particularly homophony with cunny) led through taboo avoidance both to the word's displacement in the main by rabbit and bunny and to the spelling-pronunciation /ˈkəʊni/ becoming standard.
Senses: examples: text: I were skynnes of conny, / That causeth I loke so donny.
ref: c. 1517 (date written; published c. 1545), John Skelton, “Here after Foloweth the Booke Called Elynour Rummynge. The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng per Skelton Laureat.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 108, lines 399–400:
english: I wear skins of cony, / That cause me to look so dunny.
translation: I wear skins of cony, / That cause me to look so dunny.
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text: ORLANDO. Are you native of this place? / ROSALIND. As the cony that you see / dwell where she is kindled.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], lines 344-346:
glosses: A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus).
glosses: Rabbit fur.
glosses: Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps, formerly Lagomys princeps).
glosses: Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps, formerly Lagomys princeps).
Used in the Old Testament as a translation of Hebrew שָׁפָן (shafán), thought to be the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis, syn. Hyrax syriacus).
examples: text: It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony and cony catcher.
ref: 1599, Diet's Dry Dinner:
glosses: A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher.
glosses: An edible West Indian fish, a grouper given in different sources as: Epinephelus apua, the hind of Bermuda; nigger-fish, Epinephelus punctatus; Cephalopholis fulva.
glosses: Any if certain members of family Epinephelidae of Atlantic groupers, such as mutton hamlets, graysby, Cuban coneys, and rooster hinds.
glosses: A burbot.
glosses: A woman; a sweetheart.
Synonyms: sense: rabbit
word: bunny
sense: rabbit
word: hare
sense: tropical West Atlantic groupers
word: coney
sense: burbot
word: coney-fish
Derived terms: butter the cony
cony wool
Related terms: Coney Island
cozen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊzən/
ipa: /ˈkoʊzən/
rhymes: -əʊzən
Forms: form: cozens
form: cozening
form: cozened
form: cozened
Etymology: From coz(y) + -en.
Senses: examples: text: "As I see it, Master Fraser, a 'bairn' ought to be verra concerned when a mon thrice her age cozens up to her."
ref: 2008, Hannah Howell, Silver Flame, page 354:
text: A wasp nest cozened up in the corner of the far ceiling.
ref: 2013, Rick Cox, Orphan Moon, page 180:
text: I heard someone at the swap meet say they were going to cozen up to someone, and someone else told me my sales pitch was a filibuster.
ref: 2013, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore, page 26:
glosses: To become cozy; (by extension) to become acquainted, comfortable, or familiar with.
crump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌmp/
homophone: Crump
homophone: krump
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: crumps
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: And there was another bit [of a hymn]: ‘To an inheritance incorruptible. … Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealèd at the last trump.’ For ‘trump’ we always used to sing ‘crump.’ ‘The last crump’ was the end of the war and would we ever hear it burst safely behind us?
ref: 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XVIII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 251:
text: Crump, crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
ref: 1999, Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum:
text: Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump.
ref: 2000, Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea:
text: "Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump.
ref: 2008, Paul Wood, BBC News., Taking cover on Sderot front line:
glosses: The sound of a muffled explosion.
crump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌmp/
homophone: Crump
homophone: krump
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: crumps
form: crumping
form: crumped
form: crumped
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: “Mortars crumped, and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.”
ref: 2007 September 28, William Grimes, “In Middle Leg of the Race, the Prize Was Italy”, in New York Times:
glosses: To produce such a sound.
crump
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌmp/
homophone: Crump
homophone: krump
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: more crump
form: most crump
Etymology: See crumb.
Senses: examples: a crump loaf
glosses: Hard or crusty; dry baked
Derived terms: crumple
crumpy
crump
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌmp/
homophone: Crump
homophone: krump
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: more crump
form: most crump
Etymology: From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”).
Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.
Senses: examples: text: Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
ref: 1701, John Gauden (attributed), Several Letters between Two Ladies Wherein the Lawfulness and Unlawfulness of Artificial Beauty in Point of Conscience are Nicely Debated:
glosses: Crooked; bent.
crump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌmp/
homophone: Crump
homophone: krump
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: crumps
form: crumping
form: crumped
form: crumped
Etymology: From Middle English crump, cromp, croume, from Old English crump, crumb (“stooping, bent, crooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *krump, from Proto-Germanic *krumpaz, *krumbaz (“bent”).
Compare Dutch krom (“bent”), German krumm (“crooked”), Danish krum. Related to cramp.
Senses: examples: text: I can only be in one place at a time, so sometimes I just have to say, “Listen, I’ve got this other patient that’s crumping down the hall.[”]
ref: 1998, Marsha E. Fonteyn, Thinking Strategies for Nursing Practice, Lippincott, page 167:
text: if the patient is acutely crumping from cardiac arrest, do not waste time doing an ECG when you could be performing CPR.
ref: 2009, Kevin Schwechten, USMLE Step 3 Triage: An Effective, No-nonsense Review, Oxford University Press, page 4:
text: Not to be confused with the dance style, doctors use 'crumping' when they have a patient that is 'crashing, but not aggressively,' the Chicago doctor told Daily Mail Online.
ref: [2017 December 30, Natalie Rahhal, “The secret codes doctors use to INSULT their patients right in front of them - and why the lingo harms your health care”, in Daily Mail Online:
qualifier: medical slang
glosses: To decline rapidly in health (but not as rapidly as crash).
Synonyms: circle the drain
cud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭd
ipa: /kʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: cuds
Etymology: From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”).
Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).
Senses: glosses: The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminants from their rumen, to be chewed a second time.
Derived terms: chew the cud
cudweed
cud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭd
ipa: /kʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: cuds
form: cudding
form: cudded
form: cudded
Etymology: From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-West Germanic *kwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Doublet of quid (“material for chewing”).
Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit जतु (jatu, “lac, gum”).
Senses: examples: text: Here were two ladies nearly fifty years old, throwing back their heads to sing love songs, nursery songs, hymns, God Save the Queen, Rule Britannia—songs that spilled over the drawing-room as easily as Small's cow songs spilled over the yard, only Small's songs were new, fresh grass snatched as the cow snatched pasture grass. The ladies’ songs were rechews—cudded fodder.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: […] although the wagon wheels perpetually flung up rivers of red sand, and she travelled in a column of whirling ruddy dust, the sweet perfumes of newly cudded grass mingled with it, mile after mile, as if the four-divided stomachs of the great oxen were filled with nothing but concentrated memories of hours of grazing along the water heavy vleis.
ref: 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, HarperCollins, published 2009, Part One, Chapter Two:
glosses: To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.
cud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭd
ipa: /kʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
ipa: /kʊd/
rhymes: -ʊd
enpr: kŭd
ipa: /kʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Etymology: Shortened form of could.
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas the anchor-ice comin' up. To the right, to the lift, as far as iver a man cud see, the water was covered with the same.
ref: 1899, Jack London, The Men of Forty-Mile:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of could.
cue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: queue
Forms: form: cues
form: kue
form: kew
form: que
Etymology: From Middle English cu (used for half a farthing, from q as an abbreviation for Latin quadrāns (“quarter of an as”)), from Latin cū, kū. Compare French ku.
Senses: examples: text: "My name is Quinn," said Quinn. "Cue-you-eye-en-en."
ref: 2008, John Clark Pratt, Vietnam Voices: Perspectives on the War Years, 1941–1975, page 315:
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.
qualifier: universities
glosses: A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing and noted with a q (for Latin quadrāns (“farthing”)) in the buttery books.
Derived terms: mind one's pees and cues
cue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: queue
Forms: form: cues
Etymology: From earlier qu, abbreviation of Latin quandō (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.
Senses: examples: text: This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.
That was the cue for further pressure from the Russian side and it took further Cudicini saves to keep the score down.
ref: 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An action or event that is a signal for somebody to do something.
examples: text: When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.
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 IV, scene i]:
glosses: The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next actor to speak; any word or words which serve to remind an actor to speak or to do something; a catchword.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
examples: text: Give them [the servants] their cue to attend in two lines as he leaves the house.
ref: 1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A hint or intimation.
glosses: Humour; temper of mind.
Derived terms: autocue
cuebid
cue card
cue game
cueist
cueless
cueman
cue mark
cuer
cue sheet
cuesport
cue sport
cuestick
cue-to-cue
curlicue
miscue
on cue
postcue
precue
retrocue
right on cue
sensory cue
social cue
take one's cue from
cue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: queue
Forms: form: cues
form: cueing
form: cuing
form: cued
form: cued
Etymology: From earlier qu, abbreviation of Latin quandō (“when”), marked on actor's play copy where they were to begin.
Senses: examples: text: Cue the cameraman, and action!
text: The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).
ref: 2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To give someone a cue signal.
examples: text: These techniques can cue an open dialogue with your interviewer.
text: The teenager, as beloved a full-back as any in these parts since Danny McGrain was tearing it up, cut in, shot and saw his attempt deflected in off Sterling's boot. Cue more pandemonium.
ref: 2016 September 28, Tom English, “Celtic 3–3 Manchester City”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), BBC Sport:
glosses: To spark or provoke.
Derived terms: cueable
cue in
cue off
cue up
miscue
postcue
precue
retrocue
cue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: queue
Forms: form: cues
Etymology: Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”).
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.
examples: text: Fat, short, radiant, General Chattesworth—in full, artillery uniform—was there, smiling, and making little speeches to the ladies, and bowing stiffly from his hips upward—his great cue playing all the time up and down his back, and sometimes so near the ground when he stood erect and threw back his head, that Toole, seeing Juno eyeing the appendage rather viciously, thought it prudent to cut her speculations short with a smart kick.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.
Derived terms: cue ball
cue sport
cue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: queue
Forms: form: cues
form: cueing
form: cuing
form: cued
form: cued
Etymology: Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”).
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
glosses: To form into a cue; to braid; to twist.
Synonyms: cue up
Related terms: sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: banana cue
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: camote cue
culler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌlər/
homophone: color
homophone: colour
note: Indic
ipa: /kɐl.(l)ɐ(r)/
homophone: color
homophone: colour
Forms: form: cullers
Etymology: From cull + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who picks or chooses.
An inspector who selects wares suitable for market.
examples: text: Outside the usual occupational groups at risk for such diseases (farmers, veterinarians, animal handlers, cullers), anyone with regular animal contact, such as pet owners and those who keep livestock species near their home, may be at risk.
ref: 2014, David L. Katz, James F. Jekel, Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health:
glosses: One who picks or chooses.
One who kills animals to keep their numbers down.
culls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌlz/
rhymes: -ʌlz
Senses: glosses: plural of cull
culls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌlz/
rhymes: -ʌlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cull
culver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlvə/
rhymes: -ʌlvə
Forms: form: culvers
Etymology: From Middle English culver, from Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula (“little pigeon”), from Latin columba (“pigeon, dove”).
Senses: examples: text: Had he ſo doen, he had him ſnatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fiſt.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 281:
text: The palsie plagues my pulses
when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen
your culuers take, or matchles make
your Chanticleare or sullen
ref: c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
text: Then he walked on a little and came to a goodly cage, than which was no goodlier there, and in it a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among birds as the minstrel of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck marvellous fine and fair.
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Uns al-Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter al-Ward Fi’l-Akmam or Rose-in-Hood. [Night 376.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume V, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 49:
qualifier: south and east dialect or poetic
glosses: A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
Synonyms: wood pigeon
wood-pigeon
woodpigeon
Derived terms: culverhouse
culverkey
culvertail
culvertailed
culver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlvə/
rhymes: -ʌlvə
Forms: form: culvers
Etymology: From culverin, perhaps by confusion with culver (“dove or pigeon”).
Senses: examples: text: Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt, their deadly hail to shower; […]
ref: 1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XVII, page 108:
glosses: A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
cupric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːpɹɪk/
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin cuprum (“copper”). See -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing copper with an oxidation number of 2
Derived terms: cupric acetate
cupric carbonate
cupric chloride
cupric oxide
cupric sulfate
cupric sulphate
cupric sulfide
cupric sulphide
mercurico-cupric
Related terms: cupreo-
cupro-
cuprine
cuprous
curia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːɹi.ə/
rhymes: -uːɹiə
Forms: form: curias
form: curiae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin curia.
Senses: glosses: Any of the subdivisions of a tribe in ancient Rome
glosses: The Roman senate during the republic
glosses: Any of several medieval councils or courts of justice
Related terms: Curia
curial
curiate
curlew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːlju/
ipa: /ˈkɜːlu/
ipa: /ˈkɝlu/
Forms: form: curlews
Etymology: From Middle English curlew, from Old French courlieu (see French courlis), claimed to be imitative of the bird's cry but apparently assimilated with dialectal *corliu (“runner, messenger”), a variant of coureur (the bird is adept at running).
Senses: glosses: Any of several migratory wading birds in the genus Numenius, remarkable for their long, slender, downcurved bills.
examples: text: That quivering wail from the billabong lying murkily mystic towards the East was only the cry of the fearing curlew.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 16:
glosses: A stone curlew (Burhinidae spp.).
Derived terms: word: beach stone-curlew
taxonomic: Numenius tahitiensis
word: bristle-thighed curlew
word: bush stone-curlew
word: curlewlike
taxonomic: Numenius madagascariensis
word: eastern curlew
taxonomic: Numenius borealis
word: Eskimo curlew
taxonomic: Numenius arquata
word: Eurasian curlew
word: Eurasian stone-curlew
word: great stone-curlew
word: Hudsonian curlew
taxonomic: Numenius minutus
word: little curlew
taxonomic: Numenius americanus
word: long-billed curlew
word: northern curlew
taxonomic: Numenius tenuirostris
word: slender-billed curlew
word: stone-curlew
Related terms: curlew sandpiper
stone curlew
curr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: currs
form: curring
form: curred
form: curred
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: 1798, William Wordsworth, The Idiot Boy, first published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, republished in 1827, The Poetical Works of Wordsworth, 1872, page 53,
The owlets hoot, the owlets curr, / And Johnny's lips they burr, burr, burr,
glosses: To coo like an owl.
glosses: To purr like a cat.
curter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of curt: more curt
cusp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌsp/
rhymes: -ʌsp
Forms: form: cusps
Etymology: From Latin cuspis (“a point, spear, pointed end”); first used in astrology. Doublet of cuspid and cuspis.
Senses: glosses: A sharp point or pointed end.
examples: text: Newcastle were 11 points adrift of Spurs following their 5-0 mauling at the hands of the north London club in February.
But a sixth successive Premier League win puts them on the cusp of European football next season as they surged 15 points clear of seventh-placed Everton, who have five games left to play.
ref: 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
topics: architecture
glosses: A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures, a common motif in Gothic architecture.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
examples: text: I see freight returning in a big way. The 2016 reconnection of the Helwith Bridge quarries can produce up to three heavy trains a day. The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.
ref: 2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 40:
glosses: A point of transition.
Synonyms: sense: sharp point, pointed end
word: ord
Derived terms: cuspal
cuspate
cuspation
cusped
cusp form
cuspless
cusplet
cusplike
cusp neighborhood
cusp neighbourhood
cuspule
cuspy
hypercusp
intercusp
monocusp
on the cusp
ossicusp
pseudocusp
Related terms: bicuspid
cusper
cuspid
tricuspid
cusp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌsp/
rhymes: -ʌsp
Forms: form: cusps
form: cusping
form: cusped
form: cusped
Etymology: From Latin cuspis (“a point, spear, pointed end”); first used in astrology. Doublet of cuspid and cuspis.
Senses: glosses: To behave in a reckless or dangerous manner.
cyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈænɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: more cyanic
form: most cyanic
Etymology: From cyan + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of cyanogen or its derivatives
examples: text: The dark bank of the wall rode up. The deep cyanic sky.
ref: 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: azure-blue
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing an anthocyanin
raw_tags: of a flower
Derived terms: cyanate
cyanic acid
hydrocyanic
hydroferricyanic
isocyanic
thiocyanic
cycad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪkəd/
ipa: /ˈsaɪkæd/
Forms: form: cycads
Etymology: From translingual Cycas (“genus of tropical trees”).
Senses: examples: text: As has been already remarked, the occurrence of genuine Cycads in the Carboniferous vegetation has not been demonstrated, and the same holds good of all the Palaeozoic floras. True Cycads, therefore, so far as known, make their first appearance in the Trias, at the commencement of the Mesozoic period, where they are represented by the genera Pterophyllum, Zamites, and Podozamites.
ref: 1872, Henry Alleyne Nicholson, A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General Introduction on the Principles of Palaeontology:
text: Then, after incomputable years, he was no longer man but a man-like beast, roving in forests of giant fern and calamite, or building an uncouth nest in the boughs of mighty cycads.
ref: 1933, Clark Ashton Smith, Ubbo-Sathla:
text: I began to count the pools, each a flare of turquoise light lost behind the high walls of the villas with their screens of cycads and bougainvillaea.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 7:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the division Cycadophyta, having a stout and woody trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves.
Derived terms: cycad blue
cycadean
cycadian
cycadlike
cycadophyte
cycasin
cyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: cysts
Etymology: From Late Latin cystis, from Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “anatomical sac”).
Senses: glosses: A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
Hyponyms: aerocyst
autocyst
Baker's cyst
Bartholin's cyst
blastocyst
chocolate cyst
chylocyst
cystic
cystous
cytocyst
dacryocyst
decyst
dermoid cyst
ectocyst
encyst
endocyst
enterocyst
epitheliocyst
gametocyst
ganglion cyst
gymnocyst
hematocyst
heterocyst
hypnocyst
intracyst
keratocyst
lithocyst
macrocyst
megacyst
mesocyst
metacyst
microcyst
mucocyst
nematocyst
oocyst
otocyst
ovarian cyst
paracyst
paracystitis
pericyst
phyllocyst
pneumatocyst
precyst
pseudocyst
pyocyst
sebaceous cyst
somatocyst
spermatocyst
sporocyst
statocyst
tomocyst
tubulocyst
urocyst
zoocyst
Derived terms: cystectomy
cysted
cysticule
cystiform
cystlike
cystoid
cystose
cystospore
Related terms: enchondroma
dactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæktɪl/
Forms: form: dactyls
form: dactyle
form: dactile
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dactylus, from Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), three bones of the finger corresponding to three syllables. Doublet of dactylus and date.
Senses: examples: text: Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]
ref: 1822 October 15, Quevedo Redivivus [pseudonym; Lord Byron], “The Vision of Judgment”, in The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South, 2nd edition, volume I, number I, London: […] John Hunt, […], published 1823, →OCLC, stanzas XC–XCI, page 33:
text: —My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1: Telemachus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 4:
glosses: A metrical foot of three syllables (— ⏑ ⏑), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented.
Derived terms: cephalopolysyndactyly
dactylar
dactylist
double dactyl
leptodactylous
paradactylum
Related terms: dactylic
polydactyl
anapest
spondee
finger
dahl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dahls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dal.
dammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dammers
Etymology: From Middle English dammer, dammar, equivalent to dam + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who builds a dam.
dammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dammers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of damar.
darkle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːk(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹk(ə)l/
Forms: form: darkles
form: darkling
form: darkled
form: darkled
Etymology: Back-formation from darkling.
Senses: examples: text: Thus to their hopeless eyes the night was shown, / And grimly darkled o'er the faces pale [...].
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.49:
glosses: To be dark; to be visible only darkly.
glosses: To become dark; to show indistinctly.
dasher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dashers
Etymology: From dash + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who dashes; a fast runner.
examples: text: the dasher of a churn
glosses: That which dashes or agitates.
glosses: A dashboard or splashboard.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The lower boards around the edge of the rink.
glosses: One who makes an ostentatious parade or display.
Derived terms: blue dasher
scrub dasher
Related terms: dine-and-dasher
dash and dashing
dauber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: daubers
Etymology: From Middle English daubere, equivalent to daub + -er.
Senses: examples: text: After he had exerted all his powers to produce a masterpiece of art, the canons, upon viewing the picture, pronounced it a contemptible performance, and the artist a miserable dauber; and Vandyck could hardly obtain payment for his work.
ref: 1853, Shearjashub Spooner, Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3), page 140:
text: I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
ref: 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Good Wives:
text: I'm not a good painter; I'm a dauber who can get a good likeness. Van Gogh or Cézanne would never have made it; I was given a bottle of Beaujolais and a set of directions.
ref: 2015, Erich Maria Remarque, The Promised Land, Random House, →ISBN, page 412:
synonyms: word: alcatote
word: auf
word: botcher
word: bumbler
word: bungler
word: blunderer
word: blunderhead
word: butterfingers
word: chucklehead
word: clodhopper
word: dauber
word: duffer
word: dumbshit
word: fuckup
word: fumblefingers
word: fumbler
word: galoot
word: gaum
word: gawk
word: gobaloon
word: goon
word: gype
word: trapes
word: klutz
word: lomperd
word: looby
word: lubber
word: lummox
word: lumpkin
word: maladroit
word: mess-up
word: messup
word: muff
word: oaf
word: palooka
word: peabrain
word: pisher
word: sad sack
word: schlemiel
word: schmuck
word: screwup
word: shit bird
word: slangrill
word: spaz
word: stumblebum
word: turkey
word: weapon
word: yutz
glosses: One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
synonyms: dabber
inkball
qualifier: copperplate printing
glosses: A pad or ball of rags, covered with canvas, for inking plates.
examples: text: Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil?
ref: 2007, “Fluorescent Adolescent”, in Favourite Worst Nightmare, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
synonyms: dabber
dobber
glosses: A type of thick marker pen used to mark a bingo card.
glosses: A low and gross flatterer.
glosses: The mud wasp; the mud dauber.
Derived terms: dirt-dauber
daunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔːnt/
ipa: /dɔnt/
ipa: /dɑnt/
rhymes: -ɔːnt
Forms: form: daunts
form: daunting
form: daunted
form: daunted
Etymology: From Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, donter (“to tame”), from Latin domitō (“tame”, verb), frequentative of Latin domō (“tame, conquer”, verb), from Proto-Italic *domaō, from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”). Doublet of dompt.
Senses: examples: text: [The English] valiantly, and with the ſlaughter of many, put backe the enemy: which was ſo farre from daunting the Normans, that by it they were more whetted to re-enforce themſelues vpon them[…]
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Harold the Second of that Name, the Sonne of Earle Goodwine, and Thirtie Eight Monarch of the Englishmen, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book VIII ([The Danes] […]), paragraph 38, page 407, column 1:
text: Death I'll meet, my soul no terrors daunting,
Take the life for which thy heart is panting,
Spare not thou, though he spare, his life granting,
Or let death end us both at a blow.
ref: [1865?], Eugène Scribe, translated by Charles Lamb Kenney, L’Africaine. An Opera in Five Acts, […] The Music by Giacomo Meyerbeer. Translated into English […], London: Published and sold by Chappell & Co., […], Boosey & Co., […], →OCLC, act III, page 34:
text: No, I shall not disgrace the Cause, I shall not grieve my comrades by weak surrender! I will fight and struggle, and not be daunted by threat or torture.
ref: 1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter 17, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist:
text: Ah, I have changed, I do not know
Why lonely hours affect me so.
In days of yore, this were not wont,
No loneliness my soul could daunt.
ref: 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, “A Lost Dream”, in The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar:
glosses: To discourage, intimidate.
glosses: To overwhelm.
Derived terms: dauntable
daunted
daunter
daunting
dauntingly
dauntless
dauntsome
undauntable
undaunted
davit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪvɪt/
ipa: /ˈdævət/
rhymes: -eɪvɪt
Forms: form: davits
Etymology: The word davit is derived from Middle English and Old French daviot, which is a diminutive of David; thus it means "little David", maybe because those small cranes can handle a much bigger lifeboat.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
examples: text: A solid, pyramid-like hummock of ice, left to starboard as the steamer ascended, and which projected close alongside the upper, or boat-deck, as she fell over, had caught, in succession, every pair of davits to starboard, bending and wrenching them, smashing boats, and snapping tackles and gripes, until, as the ship cleared herself, it capped the pile of wreckage strewing the ice in front of, and around it, with the end and broken stanchions of the bridge.
ref: 1912, Morgan Robertson, The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
nautical
transport
glosses: A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.
Synonyms: sense: spar used to hoist the flukes of the anchor
word: fish davit
decant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈkænt/
rhymes: -ænt
Forms: form: decants
form: decanting
form: decanted
form: decanted
Etymology: From French décanter, from Medieval Latin dēcanthāre, from dē- + canthus (“beak of a cup or jug”).
Senses: examples: text: After washing, the insoluble lime soap is decomposed with hot dilute sulphuric acid. The melted fatty acids thus rise as an oil to the surface, when they are decanted.
ref: 1908, Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle:
glosses: To pour off (a liquid) gently, so as not to disturb the sediment.
examples: to decant wine
glosses: To pour from one vessel into another.
examples: text: Swincombe, formerly Swan-combe, runs to the north of the ridge, and has the sources of its river in the Fox Tor mires and near Childe's Tomb. It runs north-east, and then abruptly passes north to decant into the West Dart.
ref: 1900, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor:
glosses: To flow.
examples: text: “We also predestine and condition. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future …” He was going to say “future World controllers,” but correcting himself, said “future Directors of Hatcheries,” instead.
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To remove (a clone or other artificially-gestated baby) from its chamber, vat, or artificial womb.
glosses: To rehouse people while their buildings are being refurbished or rebuilt.
Derived terms: decantable
decantation
decanter
double-decant
Related terms: canthus
defier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfaɪ(j)ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: defiers
Etymology: From defy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She droops not; and her eyes rising so high might be hidden by distance; but, being what they are, they cannot be hidden; through the treble veil of crape which she wears, the fierce light of a blazing misery, that rests not for matins or for vespers, for noon of day or noon of night, for ebbing or for flowing tide, may be read from the very ground. She is the defier of God. She is also the mother of lunacies, and the suggestress of suicides.
ref: c. 1859, Thomas de Quincey, Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow:
glosses: Agent noun of defy; one who dares and defies
defter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of deft: more deft
defter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defters
Etymology: From Turkish defter, from Arabic دَفْتَر (daftar), from Aramaic דהפתּיר (defter), from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra). Doublet of letter.
Senses: glosses: A type of tax register that was used in the Ottoman Empire.
Related terms: defterdar
degum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɡʌm/
ipa: /diːˈɡʊm/
rhymes: -ʌm
rhymes: -ʊm
Forms: form: degums
form: degumming
form: degummed
form: degummed
Etymology: From de- + gum.
Senses: examples: text: Degumming involves the removal of phospholipids and other non-triglyceride materials.
ref: 2011, Lou Honary, Erwin Richter, Biobased Lubricants and Greases: Technology and Products:
glosses: To remove gum from.
Derived terms: degummer
delft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɛɫft]
Etymology: After the Dutch city of Delft.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Delft (“style of earthenware”).
delft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɛɫft]
Forms: form: delfts
Senses: examples: text: The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could […] keep them dry.
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A delf; a mine, quarry, pit or ditch.
delver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delvers
Etymology: From Middle English delvere, from Old English delfere (“a digger”), equivalent to delve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.]
ref: 1866, Charles Kingsley, chapter 28, in Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 386:
glosses: One who digs or delves, as with a spade.
demit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: demits
form: demitting
form: demitted
form: demitted
Etymology: From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).
Senses: glosses: To let fall; to depress; to yield.
glosses: To relinquish an office, membership, authority, etc.; to resign, as from a Masonic lodge.
Related terms: demise
demission
mission
demit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: demits
Etymology: From Latin dēmittō (“send or bring down, let fall”).
Senses: glosses: The act of demitting.
glosses: A document certifying that a person has (honourably) demitted, as from a Masonic lodge.
denude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈnjuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: denudes
form: denuding
form: denuded
form: denuded
Etymology: From Middle French dénuder, from Latin dēnūdāre, from dē- + nūdus (“bare”).
Senses: examples: text: He denuded himself of his clothes.
text: Widespread deforestation has led to lands being denuded.
text: But King Piko had been long harassed with the thought, that the unobstructed and indefinite increase of his browsing subjects might eventually denude of herbage his portion of the island.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
text: They not only visit adultery on the guilty man himself by beating him, but the men proceed en masse to the house of his parents and denude it of all furniture, stores of grain, and merchandise.
ref: 1898, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, In the Forbidden Land:
glosses: To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip.
examples: text: Their property was seized, denuded and confiscated.
text: The service was denuded of its capacity to deliver.
text: And Louisa, a niece of Pierre, claimed his inheritance on the death of Suzanne. Thus, in her cruel anger, she hoped to denude the Constable of the whole of the heritage of his dead wife.
ref: 1886, A. Mary F. Robinson, Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre:
glosses: To remove (something or someone) of their possessions or assets.
Derived terms: denudatory
denudement
denuder
Related terms: denudation
disrobe
uncover
derate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɹeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: derates
form: derating
form: derated
form: derated
Etymology: From de- + rate.
Senses: examples: text: The derated engine sold at a lower price, but had the same components as the standard model.
glosses: To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material.
Related terms: underclock
detent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛnt/
ipa: /ˈdiːtɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: detents
Etymology: From French détente, from Latin tendō (“to stretch”).
Senses: examples: text: A UHF tuner having 70 detent positions with fine tuning capability at all locations. Coarse tuning is accomplished via a toothed, detented disk and a spirally-extending rim having a follower lever operable therewith.
ref: 1972, Mayer et al., United States Patent 3760640, abstract
glosses: That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch (stopping mechanism), pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.
Related terms: détente
detent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛnt/
ipa: /ˈdiːtɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: detents
form: detenting
form: detented
form: detented
Etymology: From French détente, from Latin tendō (“to stretch”).
Senses: glosses: The action of locking or unlocking movement by way of a detent mechanism