cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
acceptilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: acceptilations
Etymology: From Latin acceptilatio (“entry of a debt collected, acquittance”), from past participle of accipere (compare accept) + latio (“a carrying”), from latus, past participle of ferre (“to carry”).
Senses: qualifier: civil law
glosses: Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The doctrine, laid down by Duns Scotus and maintained by the Arminians, that the satisfaction rendered by Christ was not in itself really a true or full equivalent, but was merely accepted by God, through his gracious goodwill, as sufficient.
Derived terms: acceptilate
acception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: exception
Forms: form: acceptions
Etymology: From Middle English accepcioun, from Middle French accepcion (Modern French acception) and Latin acceptiō, acceptiōnis (“acceptance”). By surface analysis, accept + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Acceptation; received meaning.
glosses: acceptance
Derived terms: acception of persons
acception of faces
Related terms: accept
acceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɛp.tɪv/
Forms: form: more acceptive
form: most acceptive
Etymology: From accept + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Fit for acceptance.
glosses: Ready to accept.
glosses: Receptive.
Derived terms: acceptivity
acceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛptə(ɹ)/
ipa: /əkˈsɛp.tɚ/
ipa: /ækˈsɛp.tɚ/
Forms: form: acceptors
form: acceptour
Etymology: From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.
Senses: glosses: One who accepts.
topics: business
commerce
law
glosses: One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
Derived terms: acceptorless
acceptress
alloacceptor
isoacceptor
phosphoacceptor
photoacceptor
accessarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more accessarily
form: most accessarily
Etymology: From accessary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of an accessary.
accessariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accessary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being accessary.
accessary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ækˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: accessaries
form: accessory
Etymology: From Middle English accessarie, axcessary, excercary, from Medieval Latin accessārius.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Someone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
Derived terms: sense: accessary after the fact (legal)
word: one who
sense: accessary after the fact (legal)
word: after an offense
sense: accessary after the fact (legal)
word: assists
sense: accessary after the fact (legal)
word: shelters the offender
sense: accessary after the fact (legal)
word: not being present at the commission of the offense
sense: accessary before the fact (legal)
word: one who commands
sense: accessary before the fact (legal)
word: counsels an offense
sense: accessary before the fact (legal)
word: not being present at its commission
word: accessaryship
accessary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ækˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: more accessary
form: most accessary
form: accessory
Etymology: From Medieval Latin accessārius.
Senses: examples: text: To both their deaths ſhalt thou be acceſſary.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature B2, verso:
topics: law
glosses: Accompanying as a subordinate; additional; accessory; especially, uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See accessory.
Derived terms: accessarily
accessariness
accessibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [əkˌsɛs.əˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈæksəsɪb(ɪ)lɪʈi/
Forms: form: accessibilities
Etymology: From accessible + -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.
Senses: examples: text: He says the company's FLIRT design, in particular its retractable steps, provides greater accessibility, while the technology is highly innovative and reliable.
ref: 2021 May 19, David Clough, “Swiss precision meets UK growth”, in RAIL, number 931, page 57:
antonyms: inaccessibility
glosses: The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.
examples: text: The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]
ref: 2007, Accessibility of WVU Websites for Individuals with Vision Impairments, ProQuest, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
synonyms: a11y
glosses: Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.
Derived terms: bioaccessibility
immunoaccessibility
unaccessibility
accessible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛs.ɪ.bəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈæksəsɪbl̩/
Forms: form: more accessible
form: most accessible
Etymology: First attested in 1400, from French, from Late Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”), equivalent to access + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: an accessible town or mountain
text: At first sight it would seem that the deep interior of the sun and stars is less accessible to scientific investigation than any other region of the universe.
ref: 1926, A[rthur] [S]tanley Eddington, “Survey of the Problem”, in The Internal Constitution of the Stars, page 1:
synonyms: approachable
glosses: Easy of access or approach.
examples: text: an accessible website
text: accessible public transport
text: As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.
ref: 2023 November 1, Nick Brodrick talks to Jason Cocker, “A station that "oozes" customer service...”, in RAIL, number 995, pages 52-53:
glosses: Built or designed as to be usable by people with disabilities.
synonyms: easy-going
friendly
welcoming
glosses: Easy to get along with.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Minds accessible to reason.
ref: 1890, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of Herodotus:
glosses: Open to the influence of.
examples: text: The materials, however, which are at present accessible, are sufficient for the construction of a narrative not to be read without shame and loathing.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: Obtainable; to be got at.
examples: text: But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles. The sound was electro, and bass-laced synthetic dance pop would soon start streaming in from producers in Paris, dizzying the twenteens of Britain with its accessible, anthemic funk.
ref: 2015, Rose Bretécher, Pure, →ISBN:
topics: art
arts
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Easily understood or appreciated.
glosses: Capable of being used or seen.
Derived terms: accessibility
accessibleness
accessible tourism
accessibly
bioaccessible
handicapped-accessible
immunoaccessible
nonaccessible
unaccessible
wheelchair accessible
accessibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɛs.ə.bli/
Forms: form: more accessibly
form: most accessibly
Etymology: From accessible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an accessible manner.
Related terms: access
accessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɛʃ.nəl/
ipa: /ækˈsɛʃ.ən.əl/
ipa: /ækˈsɛʃ.ən.l/
Etymology: From accession + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to accession; additional.
accessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more accessive
form: most accessive
Senses: glosses: additional.
glosses: Relating to an act of access.
Derived terms: accessively
accessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of excessive.
accessorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æk.səˈsɔɹ.i.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From accessory + -al.
Senses: examples: text: accessorial agency; accessorial guilt
glosses: Of or pertaining to an accessory, e.g. to a crime.
examples: text: The pope sits upon a draped throne chair, robed in full pontificals, holding the keys in one hand, and giving the benediction with the other. His action is dignified and natural, and the accessorial ornaments about the marble background, and upon the large console which supports the statue, are tasteful, and carefully sculptured.
ref: 1868, Charles Callahan Perkins, Italian sculptors, page 121:
glosses: Of or relating to an accession.
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Assessorial.
Derived terms: accessorially
accessorial service
accessorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æk.səˈsɔɹ.i.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: accessorials
Etymology: From accessory + -al.
Senses: qualifier: logistics
glosses: An assessorial charge.
accessorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more accessorily
form: most accessorily
Etymology: From accessory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of an accessory; auxiliarily.
accessoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accessory + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.
acciaccatura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌt͡ʃɑkəˈtʊɹə/
ipa: /əˌt͡ʃækəˈtjʊəɹə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: acciaccaturas
form: acciaccature
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian acciaccatura, from the verb acciaccare (“to crush”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A short grace note (theoretically taking no time at all), occurring on the beat occupied by the main note to which it is prefixed, one scale-step higher or lower than that main note. (Sometimes equivalent, therefore, to a short appoggiatura, but in Baroque music interpreted differently and more strictly.) Written as a note lighter in appearance, typically a quaver (eighth note), with an oblique stroke through the stem.
accidental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛn.tl̩/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more accidental
form: most accidental
form: accidentall
Etymology: From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
glosses: Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
examples: text: The way to trueth is but one and simple, that of particular profit and benefit of affaires a man hath in charge, double, uneven and accidentall [translating fortuite].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, translation of original in French, III.1:
glosses: Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
Synonyms: sense: not essential
word: circumstantial
word: incidental
sense: happening by chance
word: adventitious
word: casual
word: contingent
word: fortuitous
word: occasional
word: serendipitous
word: accidental
word: accidentary
word: by accident
word: by the by
word: causeless
word: chanceable
word: lippening
word: random
word: unforeseen
word: unintended
word: unintentional
word: unplanned
Hyponyms: word: lucky
word: risky
word: unlucky
Derived terms: accidental abortion
accidental chord
accidental chords
accidental color
accidental colors
accidental colour
accidental death
accidental gap
accidentalism
accidentalist
accidental light
accidental lights
accidentally
accidentalness
accidental point
accidental property
nonaccidental
pseudoaccidental
unaccidental
Related terms: word: accident
word: accidentally
accidental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛn.tl̩/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: accidentals
form: accidentall
Etymology: From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.
Senses: examples: text: He conceived it just that accidentals ... should sink with the substance of the accusation.
ref: 1662, Fuller, Worthies of England:
glosses: A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
qualifier: painting
glosses: Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
coordinate_terms: substantive
glosses: Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
accidentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/
enpr: ăk-sĭ-dĕntʹ(ə)lē
Forms: form: more accidentally
form: most accidentally
form: accidently
Etymology: From accidental + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.
synonyms: casually
fortuitously
glosses: In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.
examples: text: He accidentally exposed the bacteria to mold spores.
text: As I arrived at the foot of the hill I overtook two ladies, whom I passed. As I did so, I brushed one of them accidently on the arm.
ref: 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part I”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 15:
text: Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.
ref: 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Unintentionally.
Synonyms: word: accidentally
word: by accident
word: by chance
word: casually
word: fortuitously
word: inadvertently
word: involuntarily
word: on accident
word: unexpectedly
word: unintentionally
word: unwittingly
Hyponyms: word: as luck would have it
word: fortunately
word: luckily
word: unfortunately
word: unluckily
Derived terms: accidentally on purpose
Related terms: word: accident
word: accidental
accidie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.sɪ.di/
ipa: /ˈæk.sə.di/
Forms: form: acedia
Etymology: From Middle English accidie, from Anglo-Norman accidie, Old French accide, accidie, from Late Latin accīdia, alteration of acēdia (“sloth, torpor”), from Ancient Greek ἀκήδεια (akḗdeia, “indifference”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κῆδος (kêdos, “care”). Doublet of acedia.
Senses: examples: text: Underneath the surface excitements the demon of accidie had her by the hair.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 363:
glosses: Sloth, slothfulness, especially as inducing general listlessness and apathy.
accipient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɪpiənt/
Forms: form: accipients
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin accipiēns (“receiving”, stem: accipient-), the present active participle of accipiō (“I receive”), whence accept.
Senses: examples: text: Instances sometimes occur of Species, or Varieties, gaining partial possession of the bodies of one another[…]Such instances, however, are very rare, and probably never take place between Varieties belong to the same Primary Species: for although it is an occurrence that evinces an intimate affinity between the plant that confers its distinctions, and that which is the accipient, yet the existence of the conferent in an entire state, would induce us to conclude that there exists a disparity between them which we cannot reasonably suppose to exist between Varieties that have sprung from the same Species.
ref: 1829, David Bishop, Causal Botany, page 145:
text: He penned voluminous epistles, to complain of "a trivial oversight in her otherwise irreproachable system of philanthropy," or to convey a "father's acknowledgments for the soul-elevating teachings of which his beloved offspring were accipients;" and when they were unnoticed, his visits were frequent.
ref: 1855, Marion Harland, Alone, page 344:
text: […]these grave and not over-eager accipients of the invitation to the festivity[…]
ref: 1880, James F. Hunnewell, “"Peveril of the Peak"”, in The Lands of Scott, page 366:
text: “[…]God is the author of salvation, Free will only is susceptible. None but God is able to give it; none but Free will is able to lay hold of it. Therefore it is given by God alone, and given to Free will alone. On the one hand it cannot exist without the consent of the accipient, and on the other hand not without the grace of the giver.[…]”
ref: 1905 October, J. W. Richard, “The Old Lutheran Doctrine of Free-Will”, in The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 35, pages 459–460:
glosses: Someone who, or something which, accepts (willingly receives).
accipiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɪp.ə.tɚ/
Forms: form: accipiters
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin accipiter (“hawk”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any hawk of the genus Accipiter.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Any hawk formerly classified in the genus Accipiter, such as Tachyspiza and Astur.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.
Derived terms: accipitral
accipitrine
accipitrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɪp.ə.tɹaɪn/
ipa: /ækˈsɪp.ə.tɹɪn/
Forms: form: accipitrines
Etymology: * accipiter + -ine
* Compare French accipitrin
Senses: glosses: A hawk or a hawk-like bird.
accipitrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɪp.ə.tɹaɪn/
ipa: /ækˈsɪp.ə.tɹɪn/
Forms: form: more accipitrine
form: most accipitrine
Etymology: * accipiter + -ine
* Compare French accipitrin
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Like or belonging to the Accipitriformes; raptorial; hawklike.
accismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɪzməs/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin accismus, from Ancient Greek ακκισμός (akkismós, “prudery”).
Senses: examples: text: On this account, mothers, fathers, men, and even youths, are their best companions; on the contrary, girls connected with other girls of a similar age, as in schools, provoke one another to an exchange of foibles, rather than of excellences, to a love of dress, admiration, and gossip, even to the forgetting of accismus.
ref: 1866, Jean Paul, Levana: Or, The Doctrine of Education, page 194:
text: The keen eye of the ancient comedians detected this weakness in Athenian demagogues who declined office with a view to making their election surer, and Philippides gave it the name accismus.
ref: 1888 March 8, The Nation, number 1184, page 188:
glosses: The feigning of disinterest in something while actually desiring it.
Related terms: neg
play hard to get
accite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: accites
form: acciting
form: accited
form: accited
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin accitō (“summon”), from Classical Latin acciō (“call forth”), formed from ad + cieō (“summon, call”). The sense “excite, induce” is likely from or reinforced by conflation with excite.
Senses: examples: text: He by the senate is accit'd home
From weary wars against the barbarous Goths
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Our heralds now accited all that were
ref: 1598, George Chapman, verse translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 11
roman: Endamag'd by the Elians ...
glosses: To summon.
glosses: To cite, quote.
examples: text: And what accites your most worshipful thought to think so?
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To excite, to induce.
acclamation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æk.ləˈmeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
homophone: acclimation
Forms: form: acclamations
Etymology: * First attested in 1541.
* Borrowed from Latin acclāmātiō, acclāmātiōnis (“calling, exclamation, shout of approval”), from acclamo (“shout approval or disapproval of, shout out at”), from ad (“toward”) + clamo (“cry out”)
* Compare French acclamation.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes a member nominates a chairman and no vote is taken, the assembly signifying their approval by acclamation.
ref: 1876, Henry Martyn Robert, Robert’s Rules of Order, Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co., p. 100, Article IX, Section 46, note:
text: On such a day, a holyday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children:..it must be a scramble among the mountains, and I must accompany them; […]
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “Colloquy VI. Walla Crag.—Owen of Lanark.”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 118:
synonyms: acclaim#Noun
glosses: A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
examples: See also: uncontested, by default
With no one running against her, she won by acclamation.
glosses: The act of winning an election to a post because there were no other candidates.
examples: text: The medals on which laudatory acclamations are recorded are called by antiquaries acclamation medals.
ref: 1826, James Elmes, A General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.
topics: government
politics
synonyms: voice vote
glosses: An oral vote taken without formal ballot and with much fanfare; typically an overwhelmingly affirmative vote.
acclimatation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æklɪˈmeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: acclimatations
Etymology: From French acclimatation.
Senses: glosses: Acclimatization.
acclimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈklaɪ.mət/
ipa: /ˈæk.lɪ.meɪt/
ipa: /əˈklaɪ.mət/
Forms: form: acclimates
form: acclimating
form: acclimated
form: acclimated
Etymology: 1792, from French acclimater.
Senses: glosses: To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
glosses: To adjust to a new environment; not necessarily a wild, natural, earthy one.
glosses: To become accustomed to a new climate or environment.
Synonyms: acclimatise
acclimatize
accommodate
acculture
accustom
climatize
conform
get used to
habituate
harden
season
toughen
adjust
Derived terms: acclimatable
acclimatation
acclimatement
acclimation nonacclimating
acclimator
deacclimate
photoacclimate
reacclimate
Related terms: acclimatize
climate
acclimature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acclimate + -ure.
Senses: examples: text: From this we must except the attack of fever, denominated acclimature or seasoning, to which they are usually subject in the first or second summer after their arrival.
ref: 1823, Charles Caldwell, “Thoughts on the probable destiny of New Orleans”, in The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences, volume 6, page 3:
glosses: The act of acclimating, or the state of being acclimated.
acclive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈklaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: more acclive
form: most acclive
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin acclīvis.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of acclivous (“sloping upwards”).
synonyms: word: acclivous
extra: sloping upwards
acclivitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈklɪvɪtəs/
Forms: form: more acclivitous
form: most acclivitous
Senses: examples: text: shut in on both sides and behind by an acclivitous half-circle of rugged summits
ref: 1831, Isaac Taylor, The Temple of Melekartha:
glosses: Acclivous
acclivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈklɪv.ə.ti/
Forms: form: acclivities
Etymology: First attested in 1614. From Latin acclīvitās, from acclīvis (“ascending”), from ad + clīvus (“slope”).
Senses: examples: text: how gaily vineyards and olives alternately chequer the acclivities
ref: 1797, Ann Radcliffe, The Italian:
text: she would walk […] as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
text: Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
acclivous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin acclivis and acclivus.
Senses: glosses: sloping upward; rising like a hillside.
accloy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈklɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: accloys
form: accloying
form: accloyed
form: accloyed
Etymology: From Middle English acloyen, from Old French encloyer, encloer (“to drive in a nail”), from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in- + clavus (“nail”).
Senses: glosses: To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
glosses: To overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full.
examples: text: At the well head the purest streames arise: / But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, / And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
glosses: To clog, clog up; to block.
glosses: To be disgusting to.
accoast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkəʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: accoasts
form: accoasting
form: accoasted
form: accoasted
Senses: examples: text: […] whether high towering or accoasting low […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
glosses: Obsolete form of accost (“sail along the coast or lie alongside”).
accolade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæk.əˌleɪd/
ipa: /ˌæk.əˈlɑd/
Forms: form: accolades
form: accolading
form: accoladed
form: accoladed
Etymology: First use appears c. 1591 in the publications of Thomas Lodge, borrowed from French accolade, from Occitan acolada (“an embrace”), from acolar (“to embrace”), from Italian accollato, from Vulgar Latin *accollō (“to hug around the neck”), from Latin ad- + collum (“neck”) (English collar).
Senses: glosses: To embrace or kiss in salutation.
glosses: To confer a knighthood on.
examples: text: an accoladed novel
glosses: To confer praise or awards on.
accombination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: accombinations
Etymology: From Latin; the first part is equivalent to ad; the second part to combination.
Senses: glosses: A combining together.
accommodable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒmədəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more accommodable
form: most accommodable
Etymology: From Middle French accomodable.
Senses: examples: text: who besides that, should also bee of a fit and accommodable condition for such a dignitie.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., Essayes, page 222:
glosses: That may be accommodated; suitable.
Derived terms: accommodableness
unaccommodable
accommodately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more accommodately
form: most accommodately
Etymology: From accommodate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: suitably; fitly
accommodateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accommodate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Fitness.
accommodating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/
Forms: form: more accommodating
form: most accommodating
Etymology: From accommodate + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Richard DeLongpre: I have to say, we were surprised that Principal Gottlieb wasn't more accommodating.
Judith Gottlieb: Oh, for God's sake, he's a child. I'm not gonna date him.
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
text: The staff were very accommodating and made sure we had everything we needed.
text: He’s always been an accommodating neighbor, offering to help with anything.
text: She was extremely accommodating when it came to changing her schedule.
glosses: Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful.
glosses: Pliable; easily corrupted.
Derived terms: accommodating dependent
accommodatingly
nonaccommodating
overaccommodating
superaccommodating
unaccommodating
underaccommodating
accommodating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪ.tɪŋ/
Etymology: From accommodate + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accommodate
accommodator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪt.ɚ/
ipa: [əˈkɑmədeɪtɚ]
ipa: [əˈkɒmədeɪtə]
Forms: form: accommodators
Etymology: From accommodate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who accommodates.
accompt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒmpt/
rhymes: -ɒmpt
Forms: form: accompts
Etymology: From Middle English accompt.
Senses: examples: text: You muſt make an accompt of balance on the next void leaf or folio of your ledger to your other accompts; but after ſo done, do not venture to draw out the accompt of balance in the ſaid folio, till you have made it exact on a ſheet of paper, ruled and titled for that purpoſe, becauſe of miſtakes or errors that may occur or happen in the courſe of ballancing your ledger; […]
ref: 1778, “Method of Balancing Accounts at the Year’s End”, in Kearsley’s Gentleman and Tradesman’s Pocket Ledger, for the Year 1778: …, London: Printed for G. Kearsley, […], →OCLC, page 184:
text: This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]
ref: 1821, Bank of England, The Bank - The Stock Exchange - The Bankers ..., page 64:
glosses: Account.
accompt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒmpt/
rhymes: -ɒmpt
Forms: form: accompts
form: accompting
form: accompted
form: accompted
Etymology: From Middle English accompt.
Senses: examples: text: Watch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 21:36:
glosses: To account.
accordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [əˈkʰɔrɾəbɫ̩]
Forms: form: more accordable
form: most accordable
Etymology: From Middle English acordable, from Anglo-Norman acordable.
Senses: glosses: Able to be given or dispensed.
glosses: Reconcilable; in accordance
Derived terms: unaccordable
accordancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔː(ɹ)dənsi/
Forms: form: accordancies
Senses: examples: text: This mention of alms and offerings certainly brings the narrative in the Acts nearer to an accordancy with the epistle […]
ref: 1790, William Paley, Horae Paulinae, or the Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul:
glosses: accordance
accordant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔɹd.ənt/
Forms: form: more accordant
form: most accordant
Etymology: From Middle English acordaunt, equivalent to accord + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: The breach of this law, even when the breach is known to be strictly accordant with true morality, has caused many a man more agony than a real crime.
ref: 1871, Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man:
text: And now his voice accordant to the string.
ref: 1836, Oliver Goldsmith, The Captivity An Oratorio:
synonyms: concordant
;
consonant
harmonious
corresponding
conformable
conforming
antonyms: discordant
;
dissonant
glosses: In agreement; agreeing.
examples: text: From the accordant strings of Michael's melodious fiddle
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: Harmonious.
Derived terms: accordantly
disaccordant
inaccordant
unaccordant
accordantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔːdəntli/
ipa: [əˈkʰɔɹɾɨ̞nʔɫi]
Forms: form: more accordantly
form: most accordantly
Etymology: From accordant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably.
accorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accorders
Etymology: From accord + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who accords.
according
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔː.dɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ/
Forms: form: accourding
Etymology: From accord + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Let knowledge grow from more to more,
⁠But more of reverence in us dwell;
⁠That mind and soul, according well,
May make one music as before,
But vaster. […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Prologue”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of accord
according
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔː.dɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ/
Forms: form: more according
form: most according
form: accourding
Etymology: From accord + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This according voice of national wisdom.
glosses: Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.
according
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔː.dɪŋ/
ipa: /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ/
Forms: form: more according
form: most according
form: accourding
Etymology: From accord + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: That apprehends no further than this world, / And squarest thy life according.
ref: 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, V.i:
glosses: Accordingly; correspondingly.
Derived terms: according as
accordingly
according to
unaccording
accordingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔɹ.dɪŋ.li/
ipa: /əˈkɔː(ɹ).dɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more accordingly
form: most accordingly
Etymology: From Middle English acordingli, equivalent to according + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.
text: We may the number of ships behold, and so proceed accordingly.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ix]:
text: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
ref: 1895, H. G. Wells, chapter X, in The Time Machine:
text: From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 5:
topics: manner
glosses: Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably
examples: text: Our preparations were all finished. Accordingly, we set sail.
text: Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose, - there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead, - came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
glosses: In natural sequence; consequently; so.
Synonyms: consequently
therefore
wherefore
hence
so
accordion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔ(ɹ).diˌən/
ipa: /əˈkɔɹ.di.ən/
Forms: form: accordions
form: accordioning
form: accordioned
form: accordioned
form: accordeon
form: accordian
Etymology: First attested in 1831. From German Akkordeon, from Akkord (“harmony”), from French accord, from Old French acorder, based on Italian accordare (“to tune”). See also accord.
Senses: examples: text: I slit the wrapping with my pocketknife and the clothesline accordioned out in stiff loops.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
text: Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.
ref: 2000 December 29, Charles Dickinson, “Qi”, in Chicago Reader:
text: It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came free[…].
ref: 2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town:
glosses: To fold up, in the manner of an accordion
accordment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accordments
Etymology: From Middle English accordement, from Old French acordement.
Senses: glosses: Agreement; reconcilement.
accostable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accostable
form: most accostable
Etymology: Originally from French accostable, in later usage partly recoined from accost + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Old soldiers, I know not why, seem to be more accostable than old sailors. One is apt to hear a growl beneath the smoothest courtesy of the latter.
ref: 1876, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home:
text: Online communities becoming increasingly accostable to their users does not always lead to higher overall activity.
ref: 2019, Patrick Kasper et al., “Modeling User Dynamics in Collaboration Websites”, in Dynamics on and of Complex Networks III: Machine Learning and Statistical Physics Approaches, →ISBN, page 117:
text: “I always felt that I knew what to do in those circumstances,” she continued. “I didn’t feel … accostable. I never felt that I was being insulted, demeaned. I didn’t recognize it as that.[…]”
ref: 2019 September 3, Jocelyn Silver, “Renée Zellweger Says Those Mean Tweets About Her Face Made Her Stronger Than Ever”, in W:
glosses: Approachable; affable; willing to be accosted.
Derived terms: unaccostable
accoucheur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.kuˈʃɝ/
ipa: /ˌæ.kuˈʃɜː/
Forms: form: accoucheurs
Etymology: Attested since 1727. Borrowed from French accoucheur, from accoucher (“to go to childbed, be delivered”), from Old French culcher (“to lie”), from Latin collocō (“I place, put, set in order, assign”), from con- + locō (“I put, place, set”). See accouchement.
Senses: examples: text: And lastly, obstetrical chairs seemed most natural to the accoucheurs of the middle ages.
ref: 1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98:
text: Family story: on the day of his birth the accoucheur approached his father, the baby wrapped in a cloth.
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 163:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person, especially a man, who delivers a baby (in childbirth).
Synonyms: word: midwife
word: man-midwife
Coordinate terms: accoucheuse
Derived terms: accoucheurship
Related terms: collocation
couch
midwife
obstetrician
obstetrics
accountableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊn.tə.bəl.nəs/
Etymology: From accountable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
Related terms: account
accountantship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊnt.əntˌʃɪp/
Forms: form: accountantships
Etymology: From accountant + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The office or employment of an accountant.
accoy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: accoys
form: accoying
form: accoyed
form: accoyed
Etymology: From Middle French acoyer, from coy (“quiet, calm”). By surface analysis, a- + coy.
Senses: examples: text: Of faire Pæana I received was,
 And oft imbrast, as if that I were hee,
 And with kind words accoyd, vowing great love to mee.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
glosses: To soothe, to calm; to assuage, to subdue.
accrementitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to accrementition.
accrementition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accrementitions
Etymology: See accresce, increment.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.
accresce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkrɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: accresces
form: accrescing
form: accresced
form: accresced
Etymology: From Latin accrescere. Doublet of accrease. See accrue.
Senses: glosses: To accrue.
glosses: To increase; to grow.
accroach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹəʊtʃ/
ipa: /əˈkɹoʊtʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: accroaches
form: accroaching
form: accroached
form: accroached
Etymology: From Middle English acrochen, from Old French acrochier (“to hook in”), from a + croche (“hook”).
Senses: glosses: To hook, or draw to oneself as with a hook.
examples: text: They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power.
ref: 1874-1878, William Stubbs, Constitutional History of England:
glosses: To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.
glosses: To encroach.
Derived terms: accroachement
accroachment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accroachments
Etymology: Compare French accrochement.
Senses: glosses: An encroachment; usurpation.
accrual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹuːəl/
Forms: form: accruals
Etymology: From accrue + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The effect of her alcoholism wasn't over, of course, and our relationship continues well past her death. What did change was that the accrual of new events stopped. I didn't have to worry about her anymore. She would never drink again.
ref: 1984 August 11, Janice Irvine, “Secrets of Fear, Shame, and Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 5, page 9:
glosses: The act or process of accruing; accumulation.
examples: text: The finding out of the source accrual or arisal of income is not material as the incidence of charge is dependent on the place of accrual or arisal of income.
ref: 1985, Medury Bhaskara Rao, Foreign Collaboration Agreements: Some Issues: an Intensive Study of Income-tax, Foreign Exchange & Other Related Problems, page 104:
glosses: An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: from the creditor's viewpoint, a charge incurred in one accounting period that has not been, but is to be, paid by the end of it.
topics: health
medicine
sciences
glosses: Recruitment (of participants) to a clinical trial.
Synonyms: sense: an increase
word: accretion
sense: an increase
word: arisal
topics: accounting
finance
business
word: deferral
Derived terms: accrual basis
accrual bond
nonaccrual
accruer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accruers
Etymology: From accrue + -er.
Senses: examples: title by accruer
topics: law
glosses: The act of accruing; accretion.
accrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accruments
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of accruement.
accumulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjum.jəˌleɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /əˈkjum.jəˌlə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more accumulative
form: most accumulative
Etymology: From accumulate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: At the back of it all was a nebulous, accumulative foreboding; a gathering together in the cumulus sky; a mounting excitement in the heart of secrecy […]
ref: 1959, Mervyn Peake, chapter 88, in Titus Alone, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
synonyms: cumulative
additional
glosses: Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass
glosses: Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
Derived terms: accumulatively
accumulativeness
accumulativity
bioaccumulative
nonaccumulative