cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈæktɚ/
ipa: /ɹiːˈæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
homophone: reacter
Forms: form: reactors
Etymology: From react + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Altman seees his characters as total reactors; everything they do and say is in response to their environment. They do not seem to exist with lives or qualities of their own.
ref: 1983 December 31, Michael Bronski, “A Sharply Focused Film”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 17:
synonyms: reacter
glosses: A person who responds to a suggestion, stimulation or other influence.
topics: chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions.
examples: text: It limits the rights of nonweapon countries to develop an export business in civilian reactor technology.
ref: 1972, Robert L Pfaltzgraff, Politics and the international system:
text: It is hoped that a competition to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) will drive billions of pounds of investment into the technology, which the government hopes will be cheaper and quicker to build than traditional large nuclear power plants.
ref: 2023 July 18, Joe Middleton, “Shapps announces £157m in grants at launch of new UK nuclear body”, in The Guardian:
text: The second is whether the federal agency has the power to license such facilities away from reactor sites where the waste was generated. […] The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled the NRC does not have the authority to issue licenses to store nuclear fuel away from reactors.
ref: 2025 March 4, John Fritze, “Supreme Court wades into decades-old impasse over how to store nuclear waste”, in CNN:
synonyms: nuclear reactor
atomic reactor
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A device which uses atomic energy to produce heat.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical substance which responds to the presence of, or contact with, another substance.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrical component with reactance
Derived terms: atomic reactor
breeder reactor
chemical reactor
fast-breeder reactor
fast-neutron reactor
fast reactor
fusion reactor
hot reactor
light water reactor
nuclear reactor
pebble-bed reactor
pressurized water reactor
reactor scram
saturable reactor
criminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪm.ɪ.nəl/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪm.ə.nəl/
Forms: form: more criminal
form: most criminal
Etymology: From Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”).
Senses: examples: text: Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves.
ref: 1711 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, March 19, 1710–1711”, in The Spectator, number 16; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: Against the law; forbidden by law.
examples: text: The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God.
ref: a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation:
glosses: Guilty of breaking the law.
examples: text: His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man.
text: The officers and servants of the crown, violating the personal liberty, or other right of the subject […] in some cases, were liable to criminal process.
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to crime or penal law.
examples: text: Printing such asinine opinions is criminal!
text: [...] I think it represents exceptional value for money and I think it would be criminal not to go ahead and build it."
ref: 2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: Abhorrent or very undesirable.
Synonyms: crimeful
illegal
delictuous
Derived terms: age of criminal responsibility
anticriminal
archcriminal
certificate of no criminal conviction
criminal code
criminal conversation
criminaldom
criminalese
criminaless
criminalisation
criminalise
criminalish
criminalism
criminalist
criminalistic
criminalistics
criminality
criminalization
criminalize
criminal law
criminal lawyer
criminally
criminal negligence
criminalness
criminal offence
criminal offense
criminaloid
criminal procedure
criminal prosecution
criminal prosecutor
criminal psychologist
criminal psychology
criminal record
criminal science
criminal scientist
criminal tool
criminal tribe
criminigger
criminogenic
criminology
crimmigrant
crimmigration
District of Criminals
medicocriminal
noncriminal
pseudocriminal
quasicriminal
semicriminal
subcriminal
supercriminal
uncriminal
criminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪm.ɪ.nəl/
ipa: /ˈkɹɪm.ə.nəl/
Forms: form: criminals
Etymology: From Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: lawbreaker
offender
perpetrator
glosses: A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
Synonyms: word: criminal
word: crook
word: committer
word: culprit
word: delinquent
word: desperado
word: double-dealer
word: felon
word: hoodlum
word: lawbreaker
word: lowlife
word: malefactor
word: malfeasant
word: offender
word: outlaw
word: perpetrator
word: public enemy
word: scofflaw
word: undesirable
Hypernyms: word: person
word: sinner
word: transgressor
word: wrongdoer
Hyponyms: word: arsonist
word: bank robber
word: blackmailer
word: burglar
word: criminal leader
word: crimo
word: damber
word: gallows bird
word: gangbanger
word: gangster
word: kidnapper
word: killer
word: mobster
word: pickpocket
word: prostitute's client
word: racketeer
word: robber
word: terrorist
word: sex offender
word: thief
word: war criminal
Derived terms: word: arch-criminal
word: criminal-like
word: cybercriminal
word: e-criminal
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: career criminal
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: climate criminal
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: criminal against humanity
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: November criminal
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: petty criminal
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: thought criminal
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: war criminal
Related terms: word: absconder
word: con
word: convict
word: fugitive
word: prisoner
word: villain
word: troublemaker
word: jerk
factor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæk.tə/
ipa: /ˈfæk.tɚ/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: factors
form: factoring
form: factored
form: factored
form: factour
Etymology: From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
Senses: glosses: To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
glosses: To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
glosses: To be a product of other objects.
raw_tags: of a number or other mathematical object
topics: business
commerce
commercial
glosses: To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
Derived terms: factor in
factor out
refactor
cable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.bəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: cables
form: cabling
form: cabled
form: cabled
Etymology: Recorded since c.1205 as Middle English cable, from Old Northern French cable, from Late Latin capulum (“lasso, rope, halter”), from Latin capiō (“to take, seize”). Use of the term "cable" to refer to the USD/GBP exchange rate originated in the mid-19th century, when the exchange rate began to be transmitted across the Atlantic by a submarine communications cable.
Senses: glosses: To provide (something) with cable(s).
glosses: To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
glosses: To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
examples: text: Details of a bottle fight in El Morocco were cabled all over the world.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 89:
text: On 8th November Anthony cabled them, ‘Your great-grandson Randal Lewis Casson arrived to-day. Both well,’ and we sent, ‘Congratulations on becoming great-grandparents.’
ref: 1972, John Casson, “‘When We Are Old, Are Old’”, in Lewis & Sybil: A Memoir, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 320:
glosses: To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
glosses: To communicate by cable.
topics: architecture
glosses: To ornament (something) with cabling.
examples: text: You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
ref: 2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: To create cable stitches.
funeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːnəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈfjuːnɹəl/
ipa: /ˈfjunəɹəl/
rhymes: -uːnəɹəl
rhymes: -uːnɹəl
Forms: form: funerals
form: funerall
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437.
Displaced native Old English līcþeġnung (literally “dead body service”).
Senses: examples: text: Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.
text: The taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Perſons muſt be taken to Heart, APPLIED IN A SERMON AT THE FUNERALLS OF Mʳⁱˢ ANNE-MARY CHILD. Wife of THOMAS CHILD Eſq. of North-wick in the Pariſh of Blockley. Worceſter-ſhire.[…]TO THE Exemplarily Vertuous Gentle-woman, his much honoured friend, Mʳˢ ANNE CHILD, Eldeſt daughter of THOMAS CHILD of Northwicke Eſquire. AS I mean not an exerciſe for your modeſty by a flattering Epiſtle, ſo neither doe I intend the renewing of your ſorrows, by preſenting you with the plaine Sermon preach’t at the funerals of your bleſſed Mother.
ref: 1661, Giles Collier, The Taking Away of Righteous & Merciful Persons Must Be Taken to Heart, Applied in a Sermon at the Funeralls of Mʳⁱˢ Anne-Mary Child. […], Oxford: […] William Hall:
glosses: A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
glosses: A funeral sermon.
Derived terms: arrange someone's funeral
cyberfuneral
funeral biscuit
funeral celebrant
funeral director
funeral doom
funeral door
funeral-goer
funeralgoer
funeral home
funeralist
funeralize
funeral march
funeral parlor
funeral parlour
funeral pie
funeral potatoes
funeral procession
funeral pyre
funeral rite
funeral store
it's one's funeral
it's someone's funeral
jazz funeral
mass funeral
Mormon funeral potatoes
nonfuneral
pauper's funeral
paupers' funerals
postfuneral
prefuneral
public health funeral
state funeral
the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
the corpse at every funeral
you'll be late for your own funeral
Related terms: funerary
funereal
funeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːnəɹəl/
ipa: /ˈfjuːnɹəl/
ipa: /ˈfjunəɹəl/
rhymes: -uːnəɹəl
rhymes: -uːnɹəl
Forms: form: more funeral
form: most funeral
form: funerall
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French funerailles pl (“funeral rites”), from Medieval Latin fūnerālia (“funeral rites”), originally neuter plural of Late Latin fūnerālis (“having to do with a funeral”), from Latin fūnus (“funeral, death, corpse”), origin unknown, perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“to die”). Singular and plural used interchangeably in English until circa 1700. The adjective funereal is first attested 1725, by influence of Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus, from funus. First attested in 1437.
Displaced native Old English līcþeġnung (literally “dead body service”).
Senses: examples: text: All was funeral gloom and hope never whispered its cheering promises there.
ref: 1852, Benson John Lossing, The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution, page 367:
text: Indeed I felt it altogether beautiful; and, as the "dying day-hymn stole aloft," the dim sun-beams fell, through a vista of naked motionless trees, upon the coffin, which was borne with a slower and more funeral pace than before, in a manner that threw a solemn and visionary light upon the whole procession.
ref: 1869, William Carleton, Tubber Derg: Or, The Red Well, page 166:
text: There was something dramatic and theatrical in the very funeral ceremonies with which Demetrius was honored.
ref: 1888, Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's - Volume 5, page 153:
text: The very funeral pageantry disguised behind-the-scenes struggles for control over Sidney's image.
ref: 1998, Lisa M. Klein, The Exemplary Sidney and the Elizabethan Sonneteer, page 15:
glosses: Alternative spelling of funereal.
Related terms: celebration of life
cemetery
mortuary
obsequy
obsequies
rhetoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɒɹɪk/
Forms: form: rhetorick
Etymology: From Middle English rethorik, from Latin rēthoricus, rhētoricus, from Ancient Greek ῥητορῐκός (rhētorĭkós). By surface analysis, rhetor + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of rhetorical.
synonyms: word: rhetorical
rhetoric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɒɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹɛtəɹɪk/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɒɹɪk/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɒɹɪk/
Forms: form: rhetorics
form: rhetorick
Etymology: From Middle English rethorik, rhetoric, from Old French rhetorique, from Latin rhētorica, from Ancient Greek ῥητορική (rhētorikḗ), ellipsis of ῥητορικὴ τέχνη (rhētorikḕ tékhnē), from ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “concerning public speech”), from ῥήτωρ (rhḗtōr, “public speaker”).
Senses: examples: text: Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
text: “As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters. We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, echoing his long-standing advocacy for use of the death penalty, which was part of his tough-on-crime rhetoric during the 2024 campaign.
ref: 2024 December 24, Aaron Pellish, “Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘vigorously pursue the death penalty’”, in CNN:
glosses: The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
examples: text: It’s only so much rhetoric.
glosses: Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.
Synonyms: speechcraft
wordcraft
Derived terms: current-traditional rhetoric
deep rhetoric
public rhetoric
rhetorical
rhetorician
Related terms: preterition
intermarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intermarriages
Etymology: From inter- + marriage.
Senses: examples: text: During the 1960s, some Georgians opposed the intermarriage of blacks and whites.
text: Because whites are by far the nation’s largest racial group, marriage between whites and minorities were the most common type of intermarriage, even though the intermarriage rate for whites is relatively low compared to other races or ethnicities, the study said.
The state where most intermarriages took place was Hawaii, where more than four in 10 newlyweds (42.4%) were intermarried.
ref: 2012 February 16, Ashley Hayes, “Study: Interracial marriage, acceptance growing”, in CNN:
text: "The extinction of these languages is also a result of intermarriage.
ref: 2024 March 8, Antara, “11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry”, in Jakarta Globe:
glosses: Marriage between people belonging to different groups, such as different racial, ethnic, or religious groups; mixed marriage.
Synonyms: word: exogamy
word: extramarriage
word: heterogamy
word: intermarriage
word: mixed marriage
word: outmarriage
Hyponyms: word: interfaith marriage
word: interracial marriage
word: miscegenation
Derived terms: intermarriageability
intertwine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈtwaɪn/
ipa: /ˌɪntəɹˈtwaɪn/
ipa: [-ɾəɹ-]
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: intertwines
form: intertwining
form: intertwined
form: intertwined
Etymology: From inter- + twine.
Senses: examples: text: You see, no doubt, that yet again, thanks to this intertwining, our many-headed sophist has forced us against our will to admit that what is not is in a way.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 240c:
synonyms: entwine
coordinate_terms: interweave
tangle
glosses: To twine (things) together.
glosses: To connect (things) closely.
glosses: To become twined together.
glosses: To become mutually involved.
Derived terms: word: intertwinement
word: intertwiner
word: intertwingle
english: probably
translation: probably
word: intertwingle
word: intertwiningly
internal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-tûr′nəl
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜː.nəl/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɝ.nəl/
enpr: ĭn′tûr′-nəl
ipa: /ˈɪnˌtɝ.nəl/
enpr: ĭn′tər-nəl
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪɳˈʈɜ(r)nəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɪɳʈə(r)nəl/
Forms: form: more internal
form: most internal
form: internall
Etymology: From Middle English internall, internalle, borrowing from New Latin internālis (“of or pertaining to the inner part”), from internus (“inward, internal”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, intern + -al.
Senses: examples: text: We saw the internal compartments of the machine.
glosses: Of or situated on the inside.
examples: text: Her bleeding was internal.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or situated on the inside.
Within the body.
examples: text: The nation suffered from internal conflicts.
text: the minister of internal affairs
glosses: Of or situated on the inside.
Concerned with the domestic affairs of a nation, state or other political community.
examples: text: An internal investigation was conducted.
glosses: Of or situated on the inside.
Concerned with the non-public affairs of a company or other organisation.
examples: text: an internal stimulus
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or situated on the inside.
Present or arising within an organism or one of its parts.
examples: text: an internal remedy
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of or situated on the inside.
Applied or intended for application through the stomach by being swallowed.
examples: text: internal feelings
glosses: Experienced in one's mind; inner rather than expressed.
synonyms: intrinsic
inherent
glosses: Of the inner nature of a thing.
topics: education
glosses: Attending a university as well as taking its examinations.
raw_tags: of a student
Synonyms: inner
inly
interior
intern
interne
Derived terms: anterointernal
antero-internal
complete internal reflection
dorsointernal
internal acoustic meatus
internal affairs
internal angle
internal auditory artery
internal auditory canal
internal auditory meatus
internal carotid artery
internal carotid plexus
internal combustion
internal combustion engine
internal condom
internal conflict
internal diameter
internal ear
internal energy
internal exclusion
internal exile
internal fertilization
internal genitalia
internal iliac artery
internalism
internalist
internalistic
internality
internalization
internalize
internalise
internal jugular vein
internal link
internally
internal maxillary artery
internal medicine
internal migration
internal monologue
internalness
internal oblique
internal oblique muscle
internal occipital protuberance
internal organ
internal passport
internal reconstruction
internal refugee
Internal Revenue Code
internal rhyme
internal sandhi
internal stress
noninternal
posterointernal
total internal reflection
total internal reflexion
rhetorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɒɹ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɒɹ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔɹɪkəl/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɔɹɪkəl/
Etymology: From Middle English rethorycal, rethoricalle, rethorycall, from rethorik, rhetoric (noun) or Latin rēthoricus, rhētoricus, from Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “concerning public speaking”). By surface analysis, rhetoric + -al.
Senses: examples: text: A rhetorical question is one used merely to make a point, with no response expected.
glosses: Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
examples: text: Unfortunately, she has used the attack as a launch pad for a bizarre and undercooked exercise in rhetorical bothsidesism, in which she argues that American Jews should be just as worried about college students who overzealously criticize Israel as they are about the aspiring Einsatzgruppen who shoot up shuls.
ref: 2019 September 6, Jordan Weissman, “How Not to Fight Anti-Semitism”, in Slate:
glosses: Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.
Derived terms: rhetorical device
rhetorical induction
rhetorically
rhetorical mode
rhetorical question
Related terms: rhetoric
rhetorical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɒɹ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɒɹ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɔɹɪkəl/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɔɹɪkəl/
Forms: form: rhetoricals
Etymology: From Middle English rethorycal, rethoricalle, rethorycall, from rethorik, rhetoric (noun) or Latin rēthoricus, rhētoricus, from Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós, “concerning public speaking”). By surface analysis, rhetoric + -al.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A study or exercise in rhetoric.
interior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: interiour
Etymology: From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).
Senses: examples: text: the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball
glosses: Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
examples: text: the interior parts of a region or country
glosses: Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
Derived terms: interior angle
interior crest
interior decoration
interior design
interior designer
interiority
interiorization
interiorize
interiorly
interior Mexican
interior monologue
interiorness
interiorscape
interior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: interiors
Etymology: From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).
Senses: examples: text: The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.
glosses: The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: backcountry, upcountry, hinterland
text: Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.
hypernyms: land#Noun
;
country#Noun
;
area#Noun
;
region#Noun
;
place#Noun
;
location#Noun
glosses: The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The set of all interior points of a set.
exterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɪəɹɪə/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɪəɹɪə/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɪɹiɚ/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɪɹiɚ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: exteriour
Etymology: From Latin exterior.
Senses: examples: text: the exterior part of a sphere
text: Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
examples: text: the exterior relations of a state or kingdom
glosses: Being from outside a country; foreign.
glosses: Outdoor.
Derived terms: exterior angle
exterior derivative
exteriorisation
exteriority
exteriorization
exteriorize
exteriorise
exteriorly
exteriorness
exterior product
exterior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɪəɹɪə/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɪəɹɪə/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɪɹiɚ/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɪɹiɚ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Forms: form: exteriors
form: exteriour
Etymology: From Latin exterior.
Senses: examples: text: The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package
text: Before dissecting a shark to see how it manages to function so effectively, let us first examine its exterior.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 31:
text: [I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
antonyms: inside
interior
glosses: The outside part, parts or surface of something.
examples: She is our new minister of the exterior
antonyms: interior
glosses: Foreign lands.
Related terms: external
explorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈsplɔːɹə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: explorers
Etymology: From explore + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who explores something
examples: text: Though now extinct, the rachni once threatened every species in Citadel space. Over 2000 years ago, explorers foolishly opened a mass relay to a previously-unknown system and encountered something never seen before or since: a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Rachni Codex entry:
glosses: A person who by means of travel (notably an expedition) searches out new information.
glosses: Any of various hand tools, with sharp points, used in dentistry.
examples: text: For example, Vista includes a document explorer that shows just the documents in a location without considering all of the other files that might appear there.
ref: 2007, Mark Minasi, John Paul Mueller, Mastering Windows Vista Business: Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A visual representation of a file system etc. through which the user can navigate.
Derived terms: nonexplorer
sexplorer
urban explorer
Related terms: exploration
explorative
exploratory
ranger
scout
central
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɹəl/
rhymes: -ɛntɹəl
Forms: form: centrals
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.
Senses: glosses: center
comic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɑmɪk/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒmɪk
rhymes: (General American) -ɑmɪk
Forms: form: more comic
form: most comic
Etymology: From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).
Senses: examples: text: comic genius
text: a comic stereotype
glosses: Pertaining to comedy, as a literary genre.
examples: text: There is a quartet of comic musicians, who perform on instruments of an inconceivable bassness […]
ref: 1954, Canadian Saturday Night: A Magazine of Business & National Affairs:
glosses: Using the techniques of comedy, as a composition, performer etc; amusing, entertaining.
examples: text: As there was something excessively comique in the distress of the landlord and his wife […], I could not forbear staying a little to be amused with it.
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 262:
glosses: Unintentionally humorous; amusing, ridiculous.
Synonyms: topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
word: comedic
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
word: comical
Related terms: comedian
comedy
comical
comicality
comically
comicalness
comic cut
comicness
comiconomenclaturist
comic opera
comic relief
comicry
comic strip
comic timing
heroicomic
noncomic
semicomic
tragicomic
uncomic
comic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɑmɪk/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒmɪk
rhymes: (General American) -ɑmɪk
Forms: form: comics
Etymology: From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).
Senses: examples: text: She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30.
glosses: A comedian.
glosses: A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
glosses: A children's magazine.
Derived terms: comic-adjacent
comicana
comic book
comicdom
comicsn
comic strip
comicverse
film comic
minicomic
momic
photocomic
prop comic
rage comic
scienticomic
scientificomic
stand-up comic
webcomic
comical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑmɪkəl/
Forms: form: more comical
form: most comical
Etymology: From Middle English comicalle, from Latin cōmicus + Middle English -alle (modern -al). By surface analysis, comic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It was a comical performance.
glosses: Originally, relating to comedy.
examples: text: The tutor excelled in comical scoldings.
glosses: Funny, whimsically amusing.
examples: text: He's just put salt in his tea instead of sugar. What a comical error!
text: Mr. Sanders has scored some rhetorical points against Mrs. Clinton for her longstanding ties to Wall Street, but she has responded well, and it would be comical to watch any of the Republican candidates try to make that case, given that they are all virtually tied to, or actually part of, the business establishment.
ref: 2016 January 30, “Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination”, in The New York Times, retrieved 30 Jan 2016:
glosses: Laughable; ridiculous.
Synonyms: topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
word: comic
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
word: comedial
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
word: comedic
Derived terms: comicality
comically
comicalness
heroicomical
semicomical
uncomical
Related terms: comic
ablen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ablens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ablet (freshwater fish)
ideal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdɪəl/
ipa: /aɪˈdi(ə)l/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈajɖɪjəl/
rhymes: -iːəl
Forms: form: more ideal
form: most ideal
Etymology: From French idéal, from Late Latin ideālis (“existing in idea”), by surface analysis, idea + -al, from Latin idea (“idea”); see idea.
In mathematics, the noun ring theory sense was first introduced by German mathematician Richard Dedekind in his 1871 edition of a text on number theory. The concept was quickly expanded to ring theory and later generalised to order theory. The set theory and Lie theory senses can be regarded as applications of the order theory sense.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
examples: text: The idea of ghosts is ridiculous in the extreme; and if you continue to be swayed by ideal terrors —
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 256:
text: Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], “Chapter 4”, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: At first, he began to doubt the reality of his adventures, but the acute pain in his shoulders when he attempted to rise, assured him that the kicking of the goblins was certainly not ideal.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
glosses: Optimal; being the best possibility.
examples: 1751 April 13, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, Number 112, reprinted in 1825, The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Volume 1, Jones & Company, page 194,
There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence; […] .
glosses: Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
examples: text: the ideal theory or philosophy
glosses: Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
examples: text: ideal point
text: An ideal triangle in the hyperbolic disk is one bounded by three geodesics that meet precisely on the circle.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
Synonyms: sense: optimal
word: best
sense: optimal
word: optimal
sense: optimal
word: optimum
sense: flawless
word: flawless
sense: of ideas
word: conceptual
sense: of ideas
word: notional
sense: existing only in mind
word: conceptual
sense: existing only in mind
word: imaginary
Derived terms: coideal
counterideal
hyperideal
ideal gas
ideal gas law
ideal mixture
idealness
ideal number
ideal point
ideal polyhedron
ideal-seeking behavior
ideal solution
ideal triangle
ideal-typical
idele
nonideal
non-ideal gas
unideal
Related terms: idealism
idealistic
ideality
idealize
idealless
ideally
benzyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnzɪl/
ipa: /ˈbɛnzaɪl/
Forms: form: benzyls
Etymology: From benz- + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical C₆H₅-CH₂- related to toluene and benzoic acid
Derived terms: ambenonium
benderizine
benzalkonium
benzethonium
benzyladenine
benzyl alcohol
benzylamine
benzylated
benzylating
benzylation
benzyl bromide
benzyl cellulose
benzyl chloride
benzyl cyanide
benzyldimethylhexadecylammonium
benzylhydantoin
benzylhydroxylamine
benzylic
benzylisoquinoline
benzylmorphine
benzyloxy
benzyloxycarbonyl
benzylpenicillin
benzylpyrrole
benzylsulfamide
bephenium
bepridil
bibenzonium
bibenzyl
bisbenzyl
bisbenzylisoquinolinium
bromobenzyl
cefprozil
chlorobenzyl
dibenzyl
donepezil
fenbenicillin
fluorobenzyl
halobenzyl
hydroxybenzyl
methoxybenzyl
monobenzyl
N-benzyl-N-isopropylpivalamide
pentafluorobenzyl
phenoxybenzamine
pirbenicillin
polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride
sulbenicillin
Related terms: benzylene
bepaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: bepaints
form: bepainting
form: bepainted
form: bepainted
Etymology: From be- + paint.
Senses: examples: text: Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.
inflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈflɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: inflections
form: inflexion
Etymology: From older inflexion, borrowed from Middle French inflexion, itself borrowed from Latin inflexiōnem (“alteration”, literally “bending”). The English spelling with ⟨ct⟩ is due to influence from inflect or related words like correction.
Senses: examples: text: In English, word order often does the work that inflection did in Latin.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
examples: text: The second-person imperative is a verbal inflection found in many Indo-European languages.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
Any specific type of morphological variation, which applies to a given class of terms.
examples: text: English's regular inflection for number in plural nouns is the suffix -s.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
An affix representing a given variation.
examples: text: Recite every inflection for each of these words.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The linguistic phenomenon of morphological variation, whereby terms take a number of distinct forms in order to express different grammatical features.
Any specific morphological form of a particular term, such as the principal parts for any given stem; any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
glosses: A change in pitch or tone of voice.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
examples: text: inflection from the rules
glosses: A turning away from a straight course.
glosses: Diffraction.
Synonyms: flection
flexion
Hyponyms: comparison
conjugation
declension
declination
desinential inflection
Derived terms: word: inflectional
word: inflectionless
english: point of inflection
translation: point of inflection
word: inflection point
word: overinflection
word: transflection
Related terms: inflect
inflected
inflected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inflected
form: most inflected
Senses: glosses: Deviating from a straight line.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word).
examples: (An inflected language is one in which words change form when their function changes.)
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having inflected word forms; fusional.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: bent or curved inward or downward
Derived terms: inflectedness
noninflected
uninflected
inflected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inflect
spell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕl
ipa: /spɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: spells
Etymology: From Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to tell”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to speak, to sound”) with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”).
Senses: examples: text: He cast a spell to cure warts.
synonyms: cantrip
incantation
glosses: Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
examples: text: under a spell
text: Skies are not so black / Mary took me back / Mary has broken your spell
ref: 1962, Marty Robbins, “Devil Woman”:
text: I believe your love has placed its spell on me
ref: 2020, Deftones, The Spell of Mathematics:
synonyms: cantrip
glosses: A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
glosses: Speech, discourse.
Derived terms: binding spell
bind spell
byspel
Gospel
magic spell
money spell
spellbind
spellbound
spellmaster
spellwork
staring spell
tet spell
under a spell
spell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕl
ipa: /spɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: spells
form: spelling
form: spelled
form: spelled
Etymology: From Middle English spell, spel, from Old English spell (“news, story”), from Proto-Germanic *spellą (“speech, account, tale”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to tell”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to speak, to sound”) with the s-mobile prefix. Cognate with dialectal German Spill, Icelandic spjall (“discussion, talk”), spjalla (“to discuss, to talk”), guðspjall (“gospel”) and Albanian fjalë (“word”).
Senses: examples: text: Vnchaine your spirits now with spelling Charmes,
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 115, column 2:
text: […] although the Kings Jealousie was thus particular to her, his Affection was as general to others […] Above all, for a time he was much speld with Elianor Talbot […]
ref: 1647, George Buck, The History and Life and Reigne of Richard the Third, London, Book 4, p. 116:
text: 1697, John Dryden (translator), Georgics, Book 3 in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 109, lines 444-446,
This, gather’d in the Planetary Hour,
With noxious Weeds, and spell’d with Words of pow’r
Dire Stepdames in the Magick Bowl infuse;
text: But when, O Wells! thy roses came to me
My sense with their deliciousness was spell’d:
ref: 1817, John Keats, “To a Friend who sent me some Roses”, in Poems, London: C. & J. Ollier, page 83:
glosses: To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
spell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕl
ipa: /spɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: spells
form: spelling
form: spelled
form: spelled
form: spelt
form: spelt
Etymology: From Middle English spelen, from Old English spelian (“to represent, take or stand in the place of another, act as a representative of another”), akin to Middle English spale (“a rest or break”), Old English spala (“representative, substitute”).
Senses: examples: to spell the helmsman
glosses: To work in place of (someone).
examples: text: They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
glosses: To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
glosses: To rest from work for a time.
Derived terms: spell off
spell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕl
ipa: /spɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: spells
Etymology: From Middle English spelen, from Old English spelian (“to represent, take or stand in the place of another, act as a representative of another”), akin to Middle English spale (“a rest or break”), Old English spala (“representative, substitute”).
Senses: glosses: A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
examples: text: A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: I had a job in the great North Woods / Workin' as a cook for a spell / But I never did like it all that much / And one day the ax just fell
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”:
text: Despite his ill-fated spell at Anfield, he received a warm reception from the same Liverpool fans he struggled to win over before being sacked midway through last season.
ref: 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A definite period (of work or other activity).
examples: text: Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spells. [...] When he had spoken, Mina's long spell of silence made me look at her.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 24, in Dracula, HTML edition:
text: So after a short spell in the brass foundry the wisest course was to follow with a similar period in the steel foundry, where much important work was done, including the manufacture of centres for wheels.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
text: [...] Class 37s became synonymous with the depot, and over the years more than a third of the class had a spell allocated to the shed.
ref: 2020 June 17, John Crosse, “Thornaby's traction transition”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
glosses: A period of rest; time off.
glosses: A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
Derived terms: breathing spell
cold spell
dry spell
hot spell
set a spell
visit a spell
spell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕl
ipa: /spɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: spells
Etymology: From Middle English spel (“a thin piece of wood”), from Old Norse [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: To swadle a bowe much about wyth bandes, verye seldome dothe anye good, excepte it be to kepe downe a spel in the backe.
ref: 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC:
glosses: A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
glosses: The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
Derived terms: northern spell
shirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɜːt/
ipa: /ʃɜɹt/
ipa: /ʃəːʈ/
ipa: /ʃəːɾʈ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: shirts
form: shirting
form: shirted
form: shirted
Etymology: From Middle English sherten, shirten (also shorten), from the noun (see above).
Senses: examples: 1691, King Arthur, by John Dryden, act II, scene I.
Ah! for so many souls, as but this morn / Were clothed with flesh, and warm’d with vital blood / But naked now, or shirted just with air.
glosses: To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
spelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛlɪŋ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈspɛlˑɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Etymology: 1400s, from spell (verb) + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [p 88] A persuasive theory about the authority of the quarto or Folio texts might shed light on how Shakespeare actually spelt these names in a particular manuscript, but, since Shakespeare seemed capable of spelling his own name differently on different occasions, how reliable a guide would such evidence be?
ref: 2006, Wm. Shakespeare, Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, eds., Hamlet, London: Arden Shakespeare
glosses: present participle and gerund of spell