cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lockup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockups
form: lock-up
Etymology: Deverbal from lock up.
Senses: examples: text: He's in lockup for 30 days for drunk and disorderly.
coordinate_terms: jail
prison
glosses: A jail cell; a period of incarceration in such a cell; a facility containing such cells.
examples: text: Joe keeps his other car in a lockup downtown.
glosses: A storage unit with a door secured by a padlock or deadbolt; a garage.
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A condition in which one or more of a vehicle's wheels suddenly cease to rotate due to the application of excessive brake torque, causing the affected wheel(s) to skid.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A condition where a system stops responding to inputs; a freeze.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A device for locking type into position for printing.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A fixed layout involving one or more logos and possibly related text.
Derived terms: lockup house
logistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /lɒd͡ʒˈɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /loʊˈd͡ʒɪs.tɪk/
Etymology: From French logistique, from Ancient Greek λογιστικός (logistikós, “practiced in arithmetic; rational”), from λογίζομαι (logízomai, “I reason, I calculate”), from λόγος (lógos, “reason, computation”), whence English logos, logic, logarithm, etc.; modern mathematical use influenced by related logarithmic.
Sense of “logistic function” by Pierre François Verhulst (1845) in French, then borrowed into English. Verhulst does not explain his choice of naming, but he contrasts it with the logarithmic curve (also from λόγος (lógos)), and it is presumably by analogy with arithmetic and geometric (other divisions of mathematics), as his discussion of arithmetic growth and geometric growth precede his discussion of logistic growth.
The term logistic and logistical also found occasional mathematical use in English prior to 1800, from the same Greek origin.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to symbolic logic.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Relating to the logistic function.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Using sexagesimal fractions, especially in arithmetic or logarithms.
examples: text: If we compare the calculus of a triangle, by the logistic logarithms …
ref: 1730 July, J. P. Biester, “Decreasing Logarithms”, in The Present State of the Republick of Letters, volume 6, page 103:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to basic arithmetic.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Skilled in calculating.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Proportional.
Derived terms: autologistic
hyperlogistic
logit
log-logistic
multilogistic
logistic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /lɒd͡ʒˈɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /loʊˈd͡ʒɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: logistics
Etymology: From French logistique, from Ancient Greek λογιστικός (logistikós, “practiced in arithmetic; rational”), from λογίζομαι (logízomai, “I reason, I calculate”), from λόγος (lógos, “reason, computation”), whence English logos, logic, logarithm, etc.; modern mathematical use influenced by related logarithmic.
Sense of “logistic function” by Pierre François Verhulst (1845) in French, then borrowed into English. Verhulst does not explain his choice of naming, but he contrasts it with the logarithmic curve (also from λόγος (lógos)), and it is presumably by analogy with arithmetic and geometric (other divisions of mathematics), as his discussion of arithmetic growth and geometric growth precede his discussion of logistic growth.
The term logistic and logistical also found occasional mathematical use in English prior to 1800, from the same Greek origin.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A logistic function or graph of a logistic curve.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The art of calculation.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Sexagesimal arithmetic.
logistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /lɒd͡ʒˈɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /loʊˈd͡ʒɪs.tɪk/
Etymology: From French logistique, from loger (“to lodge”) or logis (“lodging place”).
Senses: qualifier: operations
glosses: Relating to logistics.
Derived terms: logistical
logistically
logistician
logistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈdʒɪ.stɪ.k(ə)l/
ipa: /lɒ-/
ipa: /ləˈdʒɪ.stɪ.k(ə)l/
ipa: /lɑ-/
rhymes: -ɪstɪkəl
Senses: examples: text: Feeding all those people will be a logistical nightmare.
text: "Maintaining social distancing on trains and the Tube is a massive logistical exercise that requires planning, resources and the protection of staff managing the flows of passengers. [...]"
ref: 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: More trains... but advice is not to use public transport”, in Rail, page 7:
glosses: Relating to logistics.
glosses: Alternative form of logistic
Derived terms: logistically
logistical nightmare
nonlogistical
logotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logotypes
Etymology: From logo- + type.
Senses: synonyms: logo
glosses: A symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of an institution or other entity, usually referred to as a logo.
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: ligature
glosses: A single type combining two or more letters (as a ligature or otherwise).
Derived terms: logotypic
Related terms: logogram
logograph
logogrammic
logographic
logographical
logographically
logography
on-looker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: on-lookers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of onlooker.
jeopardise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jeopardises
form: jeopardising
form: jeopardised
form: jeopardised
Etymology: From jeopardy + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: MIT professor behind influential letter says unchecked development is allowing a few AI firms to jeopardise society’s future.
ref: 2023 October 26, Dan Milmo, Edward Helmore, “Humanity at risk from AI ‘race to the bottom’, says tech expert”, in The Guardian (Usenet):
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of jeopardize.
lookers-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looker-on
lopsidedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lopsidedly
form: most lopsidedly
Etymology: From lopsided + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The jay fell all lopsidedly and threshing, as though it were having a fit. The ground killed it.
ref: 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41:
glosses: In a lopsided manner.
lopsidedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lopsidednesses
Etymology: From lopsided + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being lopsided.
loquaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loquacious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or property of being loquacious.
Synonyms: loquacity
lowermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lower + -most.
Senses: examples: text: It's in the lowermost drawer, which sticks because it rubs against the floor.
antonyms: uppermost
glosses: lowest
Georgina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɔː(ɹ)ˈdʒiːnə/
ipa: /dʒɔː(ɹ)ˈdʒaɪnə/
Etymology: Feminine form of George (+ -ina).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A town in Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Georgina gidgee
Georgina poisoning
Georgina River disease
low-grade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lower-grade
form: lowest-grade
form: low grade
form: lowgrade
form: lower grade
form: lowest grade
Senses: examples: text: Were the possibilities of improving the efficiency of British Railways' steam locomotives by making the best use of the reasonably satisfactory low-grade lump coal available today, and thereby saving more high-grade locomotive coal, borne in mind when it was decided to go ahead rapidly with replacement of steam traction?
ref: 1961 September, “Talking of Trains: Greater scope for steam”, in Modern Railways, page 517:
glosses: Of inferior quality.
examples: text: These studies have identified a novel role for MLKL in aging, revealing a delay in the age-related reduction in circulating lymphocytes and a protection from chronic, low-grade, sterile inflammation in female Mlkl^(–/–) aged mice.
ref: 2023 February 8, Emma C. Tovey Crutchfield; Sarah E. Garnish; Jessica Day; Holly Anderton; Shene Chiou; Anne Hempel; Cathrine Hall; Komal M. Patel; Pradnya Gangatirkar; Katherine R. Martin; Connie S. N. Li Wai Suen; , Alexandra L. Garnham; Andrew J. Kueh; Ian P. Wicks; John Silke; Ueli Nachbur; Andre L. Samson, James M. Murphy; Joanne M. Hildebrand, “MLKL deficiency protects against low-grade, sterile inflammation in aged mice”, in Cell Death & Differentiation, volume 30, →DOI, pages 1059–1071:
text: Elevated cytokine levels in chronic viral infections are attributed to a number of stimuli. In HIV infection, chronic activation has been linked to ongoing low-grade viral replication, presence of opportunistic infections, and microbial translocation.
ref: 2023 June 29, Elizabeth S. Mayne, Jaya A. George, Susan Louw, “Assessing Biomarkers in Viral Infection”, in Application of Omic Techniques to Identify New Biomarkers and Drug Targets for COVID-19, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 159–173:
text: Clinical Presentation
Patients with septic arthritis or osteomyelitis classically present acutely with localized pain and swelling, joint stiffness, low-grade fever, chills, anorexia, and malaise.
ref: 2024 May 31, Shuliang Ge, Jinhang Wen, Swee-Tian Quek, Wilfred C. G. Peh, “Imaging of Shoulder Infection”, in Medical Radiology, Springer, →DOI, pages 1–22:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Minor.
Derived terms: low-grade fever
low grade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of low-grade.
consultancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsʌltənsi/
Forms: form: consultancies
Etymology: From consultant + -cy or consult + -ancy.
Senses: examples: text: For a PR campaign like never before, one needs a consultancy of unprecedented scope and power.
glosses: A consultant or consulting firm.
examples: text: I've been doing IT consultancy for three years.
glosses: The services offered by a consultant.
Derived terms: e-consultancy
GK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GKs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of goalkeeper.
positivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positivists
Etymology: Perhaps borrowed from French positiviste. Equivalent to positive + -ist, after positivism.
Senses: examples: text: The English mind is prone to positivism and kindred forms of materialistic philosophy, and we must expect the derivative theory to be taken up in that interest. We have no predilection for that school, but the contrary. If we had, we might have looked complacently upon a line of criticism which would indirectly, but effectively, play into the hands of positivists and materialistic atheists generally.
ref: 1886, Thomas H. Huxley, Science and Morals:
text: By discouraging what they conceive to be the weakness of their master, the English Positivists have broken the strength of their religion. A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool.
ref: 1905, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, “Christmas and the Æsthetes”, in Heretics, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane; The Bodley Head, →OCLC, page 97:
text: A modern intellectual comes in and sees a poker. He is a positivist; he will not begin with any dogmas about the nature of man, or any day-dreams about the mystery of fire. He will begin with what he can see, the poker; and the first thing he sees about the poker is that it is crooked.
ref: 1912, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Man Who Thinks Backwards”, in A Miscellany of Men:
text: Shall we erect the mystery into an Unknowable, like Spencer, and call ourselves Agnostics with a capital letter, like Huxley? Shall we follow Frederic Harrison, making an inadequate divinity out of our impotence? I have read the books of the "Positivists", and attended their imitation church in London, but I did not get any satisfaction from them.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, “The Knowable”, in The Profits of Religion […] , book 7:
text: However vigorously he may assert that he is a pure positivist, who has long left behind him supernatural tendencies and weaknesses, and now accepts only what is immediately certain, he will never be free of the secret uncertainty whether positivism really has the last word.
ref: 2007 May 11, Ross Douthat, quoting Joseph Ratzinger, “Be Not Afraid?”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: Freedom of expression tends to be associated primarily with nineteenth-century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, whose treatise On Liberty is most frequently reached for by freedom of expression positivists, although it did not mention any “free marketplace” of ideas.
ref: 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, chapter 4, in After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
synonyms: Comtist
glosses: A believer in positivism.
Derived terms: antipositivist
logical positivist
nonpositivist
postpositivist
positivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Perhaps borrowed from French positiviste. Equivalent to positive + -ist, after positivism.
Senses: examples: text: The positivist tradition contains some rigorous, well-argued and stimulating methodological discussions; such material should be required reading for qualitative researchers wishing to enhance the quality of their practice.
ref: 1999, Clive Seale, The Quality of Qualitative Research, page 34:
text: Making use of the conceptual vocabulary of science to exclude a possibility that in a present state of knowledge—or a former one—that vocabulary would seem to exclude, has been the mission of positivist thinking since Auguste Comte declared scientific knowledge effectively complete.
ref: 2010 June 4, Marilynne Robinson, “Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries?”, in The Guardian:
text: While a positivist view of history—the 19th-century notion that history was akin to a science, and that the accumulation of historical facts would eventually lead to an objective understanding of events—fell out of favor long ago, this idea seems to remain the operative assumption behind traditional history curricula that emphasize content, chronology, and comprehensiveness.
ref: 2016 February 8, Christine Gross-Loh, “How to Make History Exciting”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Related to positivism, positivistic.
Derived terms: neopositivist
goal shooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goal shooters
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: A player allowed in the goal third including the shooting circle.
goal attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goal attacks
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: A player allowed in the centre third, goal third including the shooting circle.
wing attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wing attacks
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: A player allowed in the centre third and goal third, but not the shooting circle.
wing defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wing defences
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: A player allowed in the centre third, defensive goal third, but not the shooting circle.
goal defence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: A player allowed in the centre third and the defensive goal third, including the shooting circle.
goal keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goal keepers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goalkeeper.
shooting circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shooting circles
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: One of two semicircles in the goal thirds, radius 4.9 metres, in which the goal shooter and goal attack can shoot.
goal third
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goal thirds
Senses: examples: text: The playing court is divided into thirds, a 'centre third' sandwiched between two 'goal thirds', with a D shaped area in both of the goal thirds and restrictions on which players are allowed in each section.
ref: 2012, Sandy Green, Encouraging Early Sports Skills, page 16:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: One of two thirds of a netball court nearest the goal ring.
Related terms: centre third
centre third
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centre thirds
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: The central third of a netball court.
Related terms: goal third
bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊlz/
ipa: /boʊlz/
rhymes: -əʊlz
Senses: glosses: plural of bowl
bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊlz/
ipa: /boʊlz/
rhymes: -əʊlz
Senses: glosses: A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.
glosses: A ball used in the game of bowls
Derived terms: carpet bowls
crown green bowls
lawn bowls
bowls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊlz/
ipa: /boʊlz/
rhymes: -əʊlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bowl
anonymously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɒnəməsli/
Etymology: From anonymous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: LJ’s spnanonhaven is an anon meme community where fans comment anonymously on posts related to all aspects of Supernatural fandom.
ref: 2014, Joseph Brennan, 'Fandom is full of pearlclutching old ladies' : Nonnies in the online slash closet, volume 17, number 4:
glosses: In an anonymous manner; without a name.
examples: text: The tapestrylike pictures have a sweetly personal poetry unlike the more anonymously stylized look of the exhibition’s other works.
ref: 2007 December 10, Ken Johnson, “From Tibet, Art of Enlightenment”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an anonymous manner; without individuality.
anonymousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɒn.ɪ.məs.nəs/
Etymology: From anonymous + -ness. First attested in the early 19th century.
Senses: synonyms: anonymity
glosses: The state or quality of being anonymous.
Related terms: anon
anonym
anonymal
anonymize
anonymosity
anonymous
anonymously
overjoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈd͡ʒɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈd͡ʒɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overjoy
instructor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɹʌktɚ/
Forms: form: instructors
form: instructour
Etymology: From Latin instructor, equivalent to instruct + -or.
Senses: examples: text: According to the National Centre for Education Statistics' most recent numbers (2012), 50% of instructors at degree-granting institutions in the US are part-time. […] Through teaching as an adjunct instructor while still a graduate student, I've had the luxury of developing my career: testing out teaching strategies, exploring innovative courses, and developing relationships with students – all while working on my dissertation.
ref: 2014 March 14, Jacqueline Taylor, “Life without tenure: how I've found fulfilment in US academia”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who instructs; a teacher.
Synonyms: english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: instructer
Hyponyms: word: instructress
word: instructrix
Derived terms: drill instructor
instructoress
instructorish
instructorship
teleinstructor
Related terms: instruct
anonymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See anonymous.
Senses: glosses: Anonymous
Related terms: anon
anonym
anonymity
anonymize
anonymosity
anonymous
anonymously
anonymousness
anonymize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anonymizes
form: anonymizing
form: anonymized
form: anonymized
form: anonymise
Etymology: From anonymous + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data[.]
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
synonyms: deidentify
depersonalize
glosses: To make or render anonymous (especially to remove personally identifying data).
Derived terms: anonymizable
anonymization
anonymizer
deanonymize
de-anonymize
unanonymize
Related terms: anon
anonym
anonymal
anonymity
anonymosity
anonymous
anonymously
anonymousness
anonymise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anonymises
form: anonymising
form: anonymised
form: anonymised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anonymize.
Derived terms: anonymisable
deanonymise
unanonymise
anonymosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being anonymous.
Related terms: anon
anonym
anonymal
anonymity
anonymize
anonymous
anonymously
anonymousness
Lyons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old French Lyons (nominative of Lyon), from the Roman name, Latin Lugdūnum (“fort of Lug”), named after Lugus, a Celtic deity, from Proto-Celtic *Lugus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lyon: the capital city of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Boulder County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Toombs County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village and township in Cook County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington Township, Greene County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Mills County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Rice County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village and township in Ionia County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Lyon County, Minnesota, apparently named after Lyon in France.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Wadena County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Burt County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Wayne County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Lyons, Wayne County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Royalton Township, Fulton County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Linn County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A borough in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place and township in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Burleson County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, named after Joseph Lyons.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A northern suburb of Darwin, Northern Territory.
glosses: A place in Australia:
A rural locality in the City of Logan, Queensland.
glosses: A surname.
Lyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lions
form: Lyons
Etymology: From French Lyon (supplanting earlier Lyons, derived from the Old French nominative form), from the Roman name, Latin Lugdūnum (“fort of Lug”), named after Lugus, a Celtic deity, from Proto-Celtic *Lugus.
Senses: examples: text: Lyon was not a very cheerful town at night. It was a big, heavy, solid-money town, probably fine if you had money and liked that sort of town. For years I had heard about the wonderful chicken in the restaurants there, but we had eaten mutton instead.
ref: 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 152:
glosses: The third largest city in France; the capital of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
glosses: A metropolitan authority in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, outside of Rhône department, which includes the city of Lyon and most of its suburbs; in full, the Metropolis of Lyon.
glosses: A town in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States, named after the French city.
Derived terms: Lyonese
Lyon taco
Lyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English lyon (“lion”), as a nickname, or from a sign often used outside of roadside inns and adopted as a family name by those who lived there (compare Bush). Doublet of Leo, leu, lev, and lion.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: An unincorporated community and township in Franklin County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Lyon Township.
Derived terms: Lyon County
Lyon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Glen Lyon, Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland, which joins the River Tay; in full, the River Lyon.
Derived terms: Glen Lyon
scundered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈskʌndəɹd/
Forms: form: more scundered
form: most scundered
Etymology: Alteration of scunnered.
Senses: examples: text: I'm scundered. I'm going home.
glosses: Fed up; not content, not satisfied.
examples: text: I'm scundered. I just asked a lady out and she said no.
text: She uses the word ‘scundered’, which is a Northern Irish colloquialism for a mixture of being caught off guard and embarrassment:
‘[…]So the day I went in, I was paying £19 and the teacher said to me, “Are you sure you can afford it?” I was scundered, so I was, because his teachers know I don't have a job.[…]’
ref: 2015, Mary Daly, Grace Kelly, Families and Poverty: Everyday Life on a Low Income, Policy Press, →ISBN, page 155:
text: ‘My face actually hit the pavement.’
‘Scundered!’ I said.
‘Exactly!’ Meg laughed.
ref: 2017, Shirley-Anne McMillan, The Unknowns, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: Embarrassed; caught off guard.
griddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪdəl/
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: griddles
Etymology: From Middle English gridil, from Anglo-Norman gredil, variant of Old French greil, from Latin crāticulum, diminutive of crātis. Doublet of grill (“grid of wire”), from the same Old French and Latin sources.
Senses: examples: text: Such a clatter as the little spoon made, and such a beating as the batter got, it quite foamed, I assure you; and when Daisy poured some on to the griddle, it rose like magic into a puffy flapjack that made Demi's mouth water.
ref: 1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “chapter 5”, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: Some people when making scones do not trouble to light the oven but use the frying pan: of course if you have a griddle it is better than oven or pan, but very few people possess this useful utensil.
ref: 1894, Lance Rawson, “Australian enquiry book of household and general information”, in Cookery:
glosses: A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.
Derived terms: antigriddle
griddle cake
griddlecake
griddler
like a hen on a hot griddle
McGriddle
Related terms: grid
gridiron
griddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪdəl/
rhymes: -ɪdəl
Forms: form: griddles
form: griddling
form: griddled
form: griddled
Etymology: From Middle English gridil, from Anglo-Norman gredil, variant of Old French greil, from Latin crāticulum, diminutive of crātis. Doublet of grill (“grid of wire”), from the same Old French and Latin sources.
Senses: glosses: To cook on a griddle.
invisibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From invisible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, then, to put it in a nutshell," said the Chief Voice, "we've been waiting for ever so long for a nice little girl from foreign parts, like it might be you, Missie—that would go upstairs and go to the magic book and find the spell that takes off the invisibleness, and say it. […]"
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
glosses: The state of being invisible; invisibility.
Related terms: invisibility
invisible
invisibly
Hebrews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Heb.
glosses: The nineteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle to the Hebrews.
Hebrews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hebrew
grizzly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzli/
rhymes: -ɪzli
homophone: grisly
Forms: form: grizzlier
form: grizzliest
Etymology: From grizzle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Grey-haired, greyish.
examples: text: The walls were entirely hidden by bookshelves, or by cases containing rare specimens of fossil bones and reptile skeletons. Here was a grizzly crocodile, its teeth white and sharp as when they glistened in the waters of the Nile;...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 10:
text: This after Taliban militants led a grizzly campaign of attacks, including beheadings, kidnappings and the destruction of dozens of girls' schools.
ref: 2009 February 5, Campbell Brown, “Commentary: Pakistan gives in to terrorists”, in CNN:
glosses: Misspelling of grisly.
Synonyms: sense: grey-haired
word: grizzled
word: grisly
word: hoary
word: elderly
Derived terms: grizzly bear
Related terms: silver-haired
silvery-haired
white-haired
grizzly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzli/
rhymes: -ɪzli
homophone: grisly
Forms: form: grizzlies
Etymology: From grizzle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Shotgun blast kills charging grizzly!
glosses: A grizzly bear.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A grating used to sieve stones by size, so as to keep stones out of the sluices (in hydraulic mining) or to control stone size in the feed to the ore crusher.
Derived terms: grolar
mama grizzly
pizzly
prizzly
grizzly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzli/
rhymes: -ɪzli
homophone: grisly
Forms: form: grizzlier
form: grizzliest
Senses: examples: text: a grizzly baby
glosses: Crying or whingeing in a bad-tempered or irritable way.
Derived terms: grizzliness
invidiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more invidiously
form: most invidiously
Etymology: From invidious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You ask too much, for a man who himself has no occasion to play the hero. I don't say that invidiously; it's your disposition, and you can’t help it.
ref: 1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., chapter XIII, in Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC; republished as Roderick Hudson (EBook #176), U.S.A.: Project Gutenberg, 18 September 2016:
text: Tess gazed desperately at the pile of furniture. The cold sunlight of this spring evening peered invidiously upon the crocks and kettles, upon the bunches of dried herbs shivering in the breeze, upon the brass handles of the dresser, upon the wicker-cradle they had all been rocked in, […]
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Which country are we to toast in an impassioned and half-informed way? Which country are we to compare invidiously with our own?
ref: 2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22:
glosses: In an invidious manner.
Derived terms: uninvidiously
Related terms: invidious
invidiousness
invidiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invidiousnesses
Etymology: From invidious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes she caught him looking at her with a louring invidiousness that she could hardly bear.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 20, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
glosses: Malevolent provocation of dislike or resentment; the state or quality of being invidious.
Related terms: invidious
invidiously
danseuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danseuses
Etymology: From French danseuse.
Senses: glosses: A female dancer
Related terms: première danseuse
invigilance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + vigilance.
Senses: glosses: Lack of vigilance; neglect of watching.
Synonyms: invigilancy
invigilancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lack of vigilance; neglect of watching.
Synonyms: invigilance
invigilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: invigilations
Senses: examples: text: (Despite present-day "fail-safe" electronic equipment no railway authority will risk operating main-line passenger-carrying trains without human invigilation.)
ref: 1963 May, R. K. Evans, “Development of un-manned trains by London Transport”, in Modern Railways, page 342:
glosses: The act of watching or invigilating.
Alsace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈseɪs/
ipa: /ælˈsæs/
ipa: /ˈæl.seɪs/
ipa: /ˈæl.sæs/
rhymes: -eɪs
rhymes: -æs
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Alsatia, from Old High German ali sazzo (“inhabitant of the other”) (referring to the opposite bank of the Rhine), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *sittjan (“to inhabit”, literally “to sit”).
Senses: glosses: A cultural region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est. It has changed hands between France and Germany several times throughout history.
Derived terms: Alsace-Lorraine
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Senses: glosses: A state in northeastern Germany.
adaptability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədæptəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /əˌdæptəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [əˌdæp.təˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: adaptabilities
Etymology: From adaptable + -ity or adapt + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: But the real test of my adaptability came senior year, when I became chapter president of DKA.
ref: 2020 June 30, Spencer Wright, “My fraternity taught me the secret to surviving a pandemic”, in CNN:
synonyms: adaptableness
coordinate_terms: adaptiveness
adaptivity
glosses: The quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.
examples: text: Typically, tarantulas are either terrestrial or arboreal, but the Chilobrachys natanicharum can live in both enivronments^([sic]), the researchers said, demonstrating its adaptability.
ref: 2023 September 26, Hafsa Khalil, “Electric blue tarantula species discovered in Thailand”, in CNN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions; susceptibility of an organism to that variation whereby it becomes suited to or fitted for its conditions of environment; the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances.
Derived terms: maladaptability
pathoadaptability
unadaptability
Related terms: adapt
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
adaptableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adaptable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being adaptable; adaptability.
adaptably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adaptably
form: most adaptably
Etymology: From adaptable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adaptable manner.
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
extinguished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The cowboys extinguished the fire.
glosses: simple past and past participle of extinguish
extinguished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extinguished
form: most extinguished
Senses: examples: text: The cowboys buried their trash next to the extinguished fire.
glosses: Having been quenched or eliminated.
Derived terms: unextinguished
adaptational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adaptation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating or pertaining to adaptation, or the adjustment of one thing to another; adaptive
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Applied to physiological or functional modifications of parts or organs, as distinguished from morphological or structural changes.
Derived terms: adaptationally
coadaptational
photoadaptational
polyadaptational
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
adaptative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adaptative
form: most adaptative
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to adaptation; adaptive.
Synonyms: adaptive
Derived terms: adaptatively
adaptativeness
maladaptative
mechanoadaptative
pathoadaptative
preadaptative
radioadaptative
Related terms: adapt
adaptable
adapted
adaptive
adaptly
adaptorial
adaptatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adaptatively
form: most adaptatively
Etymology: From adaptative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adaptative manner.
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
phenom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛ.nəm/
ipa: /ˈfiː.nɒm/
rhymes: -ɛnəm
Forms: form: phenoms
Etymology: Clipping of phenomenon (“remarkable occurrence”). American English, c. 1890s.
Senses: examples: text: Managed and shortstopped by George Wright and full of league stalwarts—Joe Start, Paul Hines, and Jim O'rourke—they also had 1-year-old phenom Monte Ward as primary moundsman (teams now generally used multiple pitchers).
ref: 2017, Brandon Isleib, Playing for a Winner, page 77:
text: It is the first all-teen final since 1999 – when neither was born – which saw Serena Williams, 17, beat an 18-year-old Martina Hingis. Teen phenoms were relatively commonplace back then, especially on the women’s side, occasionally on the men’s.
ref: 2021 September 11, Tim Lewis, “Focused, fearless, unflappable – the teenage stars taking sport by storm”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone or something that is phenomenal, especially a promising young player in sports like baseball, American football, basketball, tennis, and golf.
examples: text: Jones is a pop-culture phenom whose bold antics, outlandish personality, and dazzling looks defied all norms.
ref: 2013, Ytasha L. Womack, Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: One who is hip and fashionable.
Related terms: child prodigy
adaptativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adaptative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Adaptability.
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
adaptedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adaptednesses
Etymology: From adapted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being adapted; suitableness; fitness.
glosses: The result of being adapted.
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
adaptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adaptional
form: most adaptional
Senses: glosses: Relating or pertaining to adaptation, or the action of adapting.
examples: text: adaptional swellings
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Applied to the process by which an organism is fitted or adapted to its environment
Derived terms: adaptionally
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
adaptitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adaptitudes
Etymology: Circa 1800 adapt + -itude
Senses: glosses: Adaptedness; special aptitude.
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
adaptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adaptively
form: most adaptively
Etymology: From adaptive + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: fittingly
glosses: In an adaptive manner; with adaptation; in a fitting manner
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
adaptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adaptivenesses
Etymology: From adaptive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: adaptability, adaptableness
text: With female adaptiveness she fell in with his humour, and looked at the world through his eyes.
ref: 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Doings of Raffles Haw:
synonyms: adaptativeness
adaptivity
coordinate_terms: adaptedness
adaptitude
glosses: The state or quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.
Related terms: adapt
adaptable
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptive
adaptively
adaptly
adaptness
adaptorial
adaptly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adaptly
form: most adaptly
Etymology: From adapt + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a suitable or convenient manner; aptly; fitly.
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptness
adaptorial
adaptness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adapt + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: adaptness of the sound to the sense
glosses: The state of being fitted; adaptation; aptness
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptorial
adaptorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adaptorial
form: most adaptorial
Senses: glosses: Tending to adapt or fit; adaptive.
Related terms: adapt
adaptability
adaptable
adaptableness
adaptably
adaptation
adaptational
adaptative
adaptatively
adaptativeness
adaptedness
adapter
adaption
adaptional
adaptitude
adaptive
adaptively
adaptiveness
adaptly
adaptness
suitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suitablenesses
Etymology: From suitable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, the modern argument in favour of the supernatural origin of the Christian religion, drawn from its suitableness to our needs and its divine response to our aspirations, must be admitted by every candid person resorting to it to be of exactly equal force in the mouth of a Mahometan or a fire-worshipper or an astrolater.
ref: 1871, John Morley, Voltaire:
synonyms: fitness
propriety
agreeableness
glosses: The state or quality of being suitable, adapted or accommodated; suitability
glosses: The result of being suitable.
agreeableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agreeablenesses
Etymology: From agreeable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: douceur
pleasantness
glosses: The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.
glosses: The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency.
glosses: Resemblance; concordance; harmony.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A personality trait characterized by the adjectives kind, sympathetic, cooperative, warm and considerate.
aptness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæptnəs/
Forms: form: aptnesses
Etymology: From apt + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A regular supply of coking slack is sent from Durham to the Scunthorpe area, in view of its special aptness for steelmaking processes, [...].
ref: 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128:
glosses: Suitability; the quality of being apt or suitable.
examples: text: the aptness of men to follow example
glosses: Disposition of the mind; propensity.
examples: text: An aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.
glosses: Speed or readiness in learning; docility.
examples: text: the aptness of iron to rust
glosses: Proneness; tendency.
proneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronenesses
Etymology: From prone + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The proneness of animals is opposed to the erect posture of human beings.
antonyms: supineness
glosses: The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward.
glosses: The state of lying with the face down.
examples: text: the proneness of a hill
glosses: Descent; declivity.
examples: text: proneness to self-gratification
glosses: Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition.
Related terms: error-proneness
propension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈpɛnʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: propensions
Etymology: From French propension, and its source, Latin prōpēnsiō, from the participle stem of prōpendeō.
Senses: examples: text: But I aſſeſt the gods, your full conſent, / Gaue vvings to my propenſion, and cut off / All feares attending on ſo dire a proiect, […]
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], signature D3, recto:
text: As for me, my tast is strangely distasted to it's propensions, which in us are produced without the ordinance and direction of our judgement.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: affinity
word: bag
word: bent
word: cup of coffee
word: cup of joe
word: cup of tea
word: fancy
word: liking
word: partiality
word: penchant
word: predilection
word: predisposition
word: preference
word: proclivity
word: propension
word: propensity
word: shine
word: taste
word: thing
glosses: Propensity.