cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
911
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnaɪn wʌn ˈwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: 911s
Etymology: Chosen by the United States in the 1960s in place of the older British 999 number as a better way to avoid accidental calls from push-button telephones. It is officially pronounced "nine-one-one" and not "nine-eleven," as the latter refers to the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. 9/11 is universally distinguished from 911 to refer the September 11 attacks. Officially written as 9-1-1 in regulations and materials from the United States National Emergency Number Association and Federal Communications Commission, which is also advocated by some media style guides.
Senses: examples: text: 911 is sending an ambulance.
qualifier: Liberia
glosses: Emergency services; emergency service personnel.
qualifier: Liberia
glosses: An emergency phone call.
qualifier: Liberia
glosses: An emergency.
911
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnaɪn wʌn ˈwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: 911s
form: 911ing
form: 911ed
form: 911ed
Etymology: Chosen by the United States in the 1960s in place of the older British 999 number as a better way to avoid accidental calls from push-button telephones. It is officially pronounced "nine-one-one" and not "nine-eleven," as the latter refers to the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. 9/11 is universally distinguished from 911 to refer the September 11 attacks. Officially written as 9-1-1 in regulations and materials from the United States National Emergency Number Association and Federal Communications Commission, which is also advocated by some media style guides.
Senses: examples: text: London hairstylist Rick Haylor for the John Frieda Salon—the man Nicole Kidman 911s when she wants her curly mop to lie down and look glamorous—tells you how to go straight.
ref: 1997 August 24, “50 New Fall Hair Looks”, in Cosmopolitan, volume 223, number 2, page 208:
qualifier: Liberia
glosses: To call emergency services.
911
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnaɪn wʌn ˈwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
ipa: /ˈnaɪn əˌlɛvən/
ipa: /ˌnaɪn wʌn ˈwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Etymology: Selected so as to be able to continue using most of the labelling from its former name 901 after its competitor Peugeot objected that it had the legal rights to 3-digit automotive model names with a central 0 in the French market. The name 901 had been selected since it was the first version of the 6th major design project after the earlier Porsche 356, which the 911 largely replaced. The name is pronounced "nine-eleven" by analogy with German Neunelfer.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A prominent family of sports cars manufactured by Porsche.
Synonyms: Porsche 911
Hyponyms: 901
Porsche 901
boy racer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy racers
Senses: examples: text: By this time in the evening, the city was mainly quiet, with one exception, boy racers; young men out to impress each other, as well as the city's young females, periodically tore along the street, in a variety of cars, booming out ‘musical’ bass rhythms, apparently oblivious of the speed limits and any concern for anybody else.
ref: 2006, Geoff Porter, Little Bites of Australia, page 240:
text: He and his boy racer mates used to spend every Friday and Saturday nights spreading diesel across the roads and racing their cars.
ref: 2006, Jan Colley, Melting the Icy Tycoon, page 51:
text: 2011, Andy Frankham-Allen, Seeker, Untreed Reads, unnumbered page,
The sound of music pumping from the arcades was one thing, this was a standard sound expected in a seaside resort, but the cacophony of the boy racers was not.
glosses: A young man who drives recklessly fast, especially one who participates in gatherings of car-culture enthusiasts and/or in illegal street racing.
Synonyms: sense: young, excessively fast driver
word: hoon
sense: young, excessively fast driver
word: petrolhead
Related terms: girl racer
emergency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɜː(ɹ).dʒən.si/
ipa: /ɪˈmɝ.d͡ʒən.si/
ipa: /iˈmɝ.d͡ʒən.si/
ipa: /əˈmɝ.d͡ʒən.si/
ipa: /əˈmɜː(ɹ).dʒən.si/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənsi
Forms: form: emergencies
form: emergence
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergens, present participle of emergo (“to emerge, arise, come forth”), equivalent to emergent + -cy or emerge + -ency. Doublet of emergence.
Senses: examples: text: Cardiac arrest is an emergency requiring medical attention.
text: We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.
ref: 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:
glosses: A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
examples: text: I've got a really bad disease
It's got me begging on my hands and knees
So take me to emergency
Cause something seems to be missing
ref: 2009, “Restless Heart Syndrome”, in 21st Century Breakdown, performed by Green Day:
glosses: The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
examples: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
Van Gaal responded by replacing Adnan Januzaj with Carrick and, in fairness, the emergency centre-half did exceedingly well given that he has not played since May.
glosses: A person brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
glosses: The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.
glosses: A critical urge to urinate or defecate.
Synonyms: sense: hospital department
word: ER
sense: hospital department
word: casualty
sense: hospital department
word: emerg
Derived terms: accident and emergency
climate emergency
emergency brake
emergency cord
emergency department
emergency dispatch center
emergency entrance
emergency escape
emergency exit
emergency goalie
emergency hammer
emergency landing
emergency light
emergency location transmitter
emergency location transponder
emergency locator transmitter
emergency locator transponder
emergency man
emergency medical service
emergency medical services
emergency medical technician
Emergency Medical Technician
emergency medicine
emergency orange
emergency parking bay
emergency passport
emergency physician
emergency position indicating radiobeacon
emergency position indicating radio-beacon
emergency position indicating radio beacon
emergency powers
emergency response
emergency room
emergency service
emergency services
emergency stairs
emergency stop
emergency transponder
emergency vehicle
emergency ward
it's an emergency
national emergency
nonemergency
peemergency
postemergency
state of emergency
The Emergency
Related terms: emerge
emergence
fire department
police
deletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈliːʃən/
rhymes: -iːʃən
Forms: form: deletions
Etymology: From Latin dēlētiōnem (“destruction, effacement”), from the past-participle stem of dēlēre (“to blot out, destroy, efface”). Equivalent to delete + -ion.
Senses: glosses: An item that has been or will be deleted.
examples: text: The file contained errors that required deletion.
glosses: The act of deleting.
examples: text: A genetic deletion caused the disorder.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome.
glosses: An act of killing or murder.
Derived terms: 13q deletion syndrome
1p36 deletion syndrome
22q13 deletion syndrome
2q37 deletion syndrome
9q34 deletion syndrome
autodeletion
codeletion
deletional
deletionism
deletionist
hard deletion
indel
left-edge deletion
megadeletion
microdeletion
nondeletion
schwa deletion
self-deletion
soft deletion
speedy deletion
subdeletion
transdeletion
undeletion
connective tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connective tissues
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of tissue found in animals whose main function is binding other tissue systems (such as muscle to skin) or organs and consists of the following three elements: cells, fibers and a ground substance (or extracellular matrix).
glosses: A framework within something, with which the whole may be cohesively reconstructed or reflected.
Coordinate terms: epithelium
nervous tissue
muscle
Derived terms: mixed connective tissue disease
Related terms: sinew
persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sənz/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.sənz/
Senses: examples: text: 2007 May 14: The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, Current Population Survey Frequently Asked Questions — Question 5: “Who is counted as unemployed?”
Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work.
text: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
ref: 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
text: Which persons are responsible for this mess?
topics: law
glosses: plural of person, used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group; contrast people
persons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sənz/
ipa: /ˈpɝ.sənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of person
extracellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + cellular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring or found outside of a cell.
Derived terms: extracellularly
extracellular matrix
dolphin hugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolphin huggers
Senses: glosses: An environmentalist who is considered to be too earnest.
glosses: A would-be marine biologist who wants to work with animals but has little interest in science and academia.
mockingbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒkɪŋbɜːd/
ipa: /ˈmɑkɪŋˌbɝd/
Forms: form: mockingbirds
Etymology: From mocking + bird, from the ability of the birds to mimic sounds and, in some cases, hum as a wake-up call.
Senses: synonyms: mocker
hypernyms: bird#Noun
<
animal#Noun
<
creature#Noun
glosses: Any of various long-tailed American songbirds of the genera Mimus and Melanotis, noted for their ability to mimic calls of other birds.
glosses: Synonym of tui (“a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand”).
synonyms: word: tui
extra: a species of honeyeater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, a bird which is endemic to New Zealand
Derived terms: taxonomic: Mimus gundlachii
word: Bahama mockingbird
taxonomic: Melanotis hypoleucus
word: blue-and-white mockingbird
taxonomic: Melanotis caerulescens
word: blue mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus dorsalis
word: brown-backed mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus saturninus
word: chalk-browed mockingbird
word: Charles mockingbird Mimus trifasciatus)
taxonomic: Mimus melanotis
word: Chatham mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus thenca
word: Chilean mockingbird
alt: Mimus macdonaldi (formerly Hood mockingbird)
word: Espanola mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus trifasciatus
word: Floreana mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus parvulus
word: Galapagos mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus macdonaldi
word: Hood mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus longicaudatus
word: long-tailed mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus polyglottos
word: northern mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus patagonicus
word: Patagonian mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus melanotis
word: San Cristobal mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus graysoni
word: Socorro mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus gilvus
word: tropical mockingbird
taxonomic: Mimus triurus
word: white-banded mockingbird
WikiProject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WikiProjects
form: Wikiproject
Etymology: Compound of wiki + project. Coined before 26 September 2001 (see quotations) by Wikipedian Manning Bartlett, creator of the concept earlier that month.
Senses: examples: text: This is the WikiProject page for SPORTS
ref: 2001 September 26, Manning Bartlett, “basic framework - lots more work needed”, in Wikipedia:
text: Through Wikiproject Medicine, some medical professionals (and other health-savvy Wikipedia editors) have taken it upon themselves to improve the quality of medical information available on the site.
ref: 2013 October 1, Julie Beck, “Should I Be Getting Health Information From Wikipedia?”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2023:
text: Wikipedia is made up of thousands of WikiProjects—groups of editors who work together to tackle articles on similar topics—but not all of them offer the same level of training that [Susan] Gerbic does.
ref: 2018 July 25, “The ’Guerrilla’ Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2023:
text: A WikiProject, among other things, includes a page of reliable sources for editors to pull from.
ref: 2020 August 7, Travis M. Andrews, “Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2023:
text: Some pages can be "locked" and cannot be changed until one of more than 200 volunteer editors on WikiProject Covid-19, many of whom are doctors or academics, review it.
ref: 2020 October 22, Donald G[erard] McNeil Jr., “Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2023:
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: A group of editors who work together on improving the coverage of a particular topic on a wiki, especially on Wikipedia.
static line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: static lines
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
parachuting
glosses: The cord attached from the parachute pack to the plane, used to automatically deploy the parachute.
Related terms: statichute
mimic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪm.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪmɪk
Forms: form: mimics
form: mimicking
form: mimicked
form: mimicked
form: mimick
Etymology: From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.
Senses: examples: text: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
ref: 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
mimic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪm.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪmɪk
Forms: form: mimics
form: mimick
Etymology: From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.
Senses: glosses: A person who practices mimicry; especially:
A mime.
glosses: A person who practices mimicry; especially:
A comic who does impressions.
synonyms: impressionist
glosses: An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
examples: text: Jess jumped slightly at hearing Tillyʼs extremely accurate mimic of her voice.
ref: 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 190:
glosses: An imitation.
topics: fantasy
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A fictional monster able to disguise itself as an inanimate object, commonly a treasure chest, often with the intent of luring adventurers into a trap.
Synonyms: mimicker
Derived terms: amimic
automimic
biomimic
mimical
mimic beetle
mimic function
mimic glass lizard
mimicism
mimic octopus
mimic thrush
Moloney's mimic bat
peptidomimic
phosphomimic
zoomimic
mimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪm.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪmɪk
Forms: form: mimick
Etymology: From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.
Senses: examples: text: I think every man is cloied and wearied, with seeing so many apish and mimicke trickes, that juglers teach their Dogges, as the dances, where they misse not one cadence of the sounds or notes they heare[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes / To imitate her.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands
Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth
Uplifted, he, as through an instrument,
Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls,
That they might answer him.
ref: 1800, William Wordsworth, There was a Boy:
glosses: Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
glosses: Mock, pretended.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
Related terms: mime
mimicable
mimicry
songbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒŋˌbɜːd/
ipa: /ˈsɔŋˌbɝd/
ipa: /ˈsɑŋˌbɝd/
Forms: form: songbirds
Etymology: From song + bird.
Senses: examples: text: Sweet little lady sings like a songbird / And she sings the opera like you ain't never heard
ref: 1976, Electric Light Orchestra, Rockaria!:
glosses: A bird having a melodious song or call.
synonyms: oscine
glosses: Any bird in the passerine suborder Passeri, which are distinguished by a more sophisticated vocal apparatus.
glosses: A person, especially a woman, with a melodious voice.
Synonyms: word: songbird
Hypernyms: word: passerine
word: bird
Hyponyms: word: songster
word: songstress
word: accentor
word: apostlebird
word: babbler
word: berrypecker
word: bird of paradise
word: bowerbird
word: bulbul
word: bunting
word: butcherbird
word: cardinal
word: chat
word: chickadee
word: cisticola
word: cowbird
word: crow
word: cuckoo shrike
word: currawong
word: dipper
word: emu-wren
word: estrildid finch
word: fairy-bluebird
word: fairy-wren
word: figbird
word: finch
word: flowerpecker
word: gerygone
word: gnatcatcher
word: grackle
word: grasswren
word: honeyeater
word: hypocoliu
word: iora
word: jay
word: kinglet
word: lark
word: leaf-warbler
word: leafbird
word: logrunner
word: long-tailed tit
word: longbill
word: lyrebird
word: magpie
word: martin
word: mockingbird
word: monarch flycatcher
word: nuthatch
word: olive warbler
word: oriole
word: pardalote
word: piopio
word: pipit
word: pitohui
word: rail-babbler
word: rockfowl
word: scrub bird
word: scrubwren
word: shrike-thrush
word: shrike
word: sittella
word: starling|sunbird}}
word: swallow
word: tanager
word: thornbill
word: thrasher
word: thrush
word: titmouse
word: tit
word: treecreeper
word: triller
word: true sparrow
word: vireo
word: wagtail
word: waxwing
word: whipbird
word: whistler
word: white-eye
word: woodswallow
word: wren
Derived terms: Asian songbird crisis
Related terms: word: Songbird on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
imitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmɪteɪt/
Forms: form: imitates
form: imitating
form: imitated
form: imitated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin imitātus, perfect active participle of imitor (“to copy, portray, imitate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French imiter.
Senses: examples: text: Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.
ref: 1870, Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste, page 170:
text: The room was dark and cool, lit with a dim red light. “This was designed to imitate a cave,” said Rosas.
ref: 2019 August 21, Tik Root, “Inside the Race to Build the World's First Commercial Octopus Farm”, in Time:
glosses: To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
Synonyms: word: ape
word: imitate
word: mimic
word: simulate
word: copy
word: ditto
word: echo
word: emulate
word: parallel
word: match
word: mime
word: mirror
word: mock
word: reproduce
Derived terms: counterimitate
imitatee
misimitate
overimitate
self-imitate
unimitated
unimitating
Related terms: word: imitation
word: imitative
word: imitable
word: imitator
word: decoy
word: fake
word: lie
axis of evil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axes of evil
Etymology: Coined by American political commentator David Frum in 2002 and first used publicly by President George W. Bush in the 2002 State of the Union Address. Possibly from a historical analogy to the German-Italian-Japanese axis. Extended to astrophysics by by Portuguese scientist João Magueijo in 2005.
Senses: examples: text: I discussed Iraq with Gerhard during his visit to the White House on January 31, 2002. In my State of the Union address two days earlier, I had outlined the threats posed by Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. “States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world,” I said. The media seized on the phrase “axis of evil.” They took the line to mean that the three countries had formed an alliance. That missed the point. The axis I referred to was the link between the governments that pursued WMD and the terrorists who could use those weapons. There was a larger point in the speech that no one could miss: I was serious about dealing with Iraq.
ref: 2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 233:
text: Communist China is on a mission for dominance. At the helm of the New Axis of Evil, China has indicated they will invade independent countries and destroy democratic leadership to achieve that end. My recent visit to Taiwan made it abundantly clear that the leaders in Taiwan want the United States and our allies to stand with them as they fight to keep their independence.
ref: 2022 September 9, Marsha Blackburn, “We must stand with Taiwan”, in Tullahoma News, Tullahoma, Tennessee, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2022:
glosses: A group of states accused by George W. Bush of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, originally defined as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
topics: astronomy
astrophysics
cosmology
natural-sciences
synonyms: AOE
glosses: An anomaly in the temperature of the cosmic microwave background as the result of a preferential axis which may have shaped the development of the universe.
Related terms: sense: used by supporters of Iran
word: axis of resistance
topics: astrophysics
word: dark flow
topics: astrophysics
word: CMB cold spot
diprotodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈpɹəʊtədɒn/
Forms: form: diprotodons
Etymology: From di- + proto- + -odon, due to its prominent two front teeth.
Senses: examples: text: It is rather hard to understand how animals so largo and heavy as the diprotodons and gigantic kangaroos could have existed there when the country was in the same state in which it is now,[…].
ref: 1882, Royal Society of New South Wales, Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, volume 15, page 51:
text: No fewer than eighty diprotodons are represented by the bones already unearthed, […]
ref: 1893, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, Isaac Kaufman Funk, William Seaver Woods, The Literary Digest, volume 7, page 638:
text: Soon we had a good view of the diprotodons, relatives of the present-day wombat but vastly larger.
ref: 1993, Lyon Sprague De Camp, Rivers of Time, page 248:
glosses: Any individual of the extinct marsupial genus Diprotodon, similar to a wombat in appearance but the size of a small elephant.
extinct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɪŋ(k)t/
ipa: /ɛk-/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Etymology: Either:
* from Latin extīnctus, exstīnctus, a noun use of the perfect passive participle of extinguō, exstinguō (see etymology 1); or
* from the verb (see etymology 2).
Senses: examples: text: [W]ho is he […] as vvould not euen in the glas of Lucreſias perſeuerãce (euẽ to the vttermoſt extinct of life) ſe the vvõder of bevvty, matched vvith the indiuiduat adiũt vnſoyled conſtancy.
ref: 1606, I. F. [i.e., John Ford], “To the Right Honorable the Earle of Pembroke. Third Position. Faire Ladie was Neuer False.”, in Honor Triumphant. Or The Peeres Challenge, by Armes Defensible, at Tilt, Turney, and Barriers. […], London: […] [George Eld] for Francis Burton, →OCLC, signature [D2], verso:
english: [W]ho is he […] as would not even in the glass of Lucretia’s perseverance (even to the uttermost extinction of life) see the wonder of beauty, matched with the individuate adjunct unsoiled constancy.
translation: [W]ho is he […] as would not even in the glass of Lucretia’s perseverance (even to the uttermost extinction of life) see the wonder of beauty, matched with the individuate adjunct unsoiled constancy.
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text: [W]ee have cauſe to feare the loſſe of our Kingdome, and you the extinct of the Engliſh nations renovvne; […]
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Ethelred Commonly Called the Unreadie, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book VII ([The Saxons] […]), paragraph 30, page 360, column 1:
glosses: Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”).
synonyms: word: extinction
extra: the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation
assistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪs.təns/
Forms: form: assistances
form: assistaunce
Etymology: From Middle English assistance, from Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assistō (“I stand at”).
Senses: examples: text: The volunteers offered assistance to the flood victims.
text: He asked for technical assistance with the computer.
text: Financial assistance is available for low-income families.
text: She could not have finished the project without his assistance.
text: The program provides legal assistance to immigrants.
glosses: Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.
Derived terms: anchimeric assistance
assistance animal
assistance dog
coassistance
medication assisted treatment
nonassistance
public assistance
teleassistance
welfare assistance
writ of assistance
DASD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DASDs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of direct access storage device, such as a USB drive or hard drive.
SWALK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: enpr: swôlk
ipa: /swɔːlk/
rhymes: -ɔːlk
Senses: hypernyms: SWAK
glosses: Acronym of sealed with a loving kiss, a term of endearment written across the seal of a love letter.
Related terms: SWAK
decortication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkɔːtɪˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: decortications
Etymology: From Latin dēcorticātiōn-, dēcorticātiō.
Senses: glosses: The removal of the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of anything
Derived terms: hemidecortication
Related terms: decorticate
decorticated
decorticate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɔːtɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: decorticates
form: decorticating
form: decorticated
form: decorticated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1611, the adjective in 1872; borrowed from Latin dēcorticātus, perfect passive participle of dēcorticō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dē- (“of, from”) + cortex (“bark”, oblique stem in cortic-) + -ō.
Senses: examples: text: […] but its striking white trunk, which changes to a bright pink in late spring or summer just before it decorticates, makes it a handsome species.
ref: 1962, Lindsay Dixon Pryor, Trees in Canberra, page 89:
synonyms: excorticate
delibrate
glosses: To peel or remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from something.
glosses: To surgically remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of an organ etc.
Derived terms: decorticated
decortication
decorticator
hemidecorticate
Related terms: cortex
excorticate
decorticate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɔːtɪkeɪt/
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1611, the adjective in 1872; borrowed from Latin dēcorticātus, perfect passive participle of dēcorticō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from dē- (“of, from”) + cortex (“bark”, oblique stem in cortic-) + -ō.
Senses: examples: text: visually decorticate
translation: having had the visual cortex removed
english: having had the visual cortex removed
synonyms: decorticated
glosses: Having had the cortex removed
decorticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɔːtɪkeɪtəd/
Senses: examples: text: visually decorticated
translation: having had the visual cortex removed
english: having had the visual cortex removed
text: An ingredient of animal feed is decorticated soybean.
synonyms: decorticate
glosses: Having had the cortex removed
Derived terms: hemidecorticated
undecorticated
decorticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɔːtɪkeɪtəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decorticate
secession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈsɛʃən/
Forms: form: secessions
Etymology: From Latin sēcessiō (“a withdrawing”).
Senses: examples: text: That year, secession was enacted on account of unreasonable policies.
synonyms: armed secession
secession war
war of secession
glosses: The act of seceding.
Derived terms: secessional
secessionism
secessionist
Secession War
Secession Winter
Related terms: secede
nbsp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nbsps
form: NBSP
Senses: examples: text: I also changed OutputToString and OutputToStream to check for an empty document when requesting plain text, in which case they'll return an empty string or stream. This fixes the bug where we'd send back an nbsp in the string.
ref: 1999 September 8, Simon Fraser, “fixes for empty doc testing and output”, in netscape.public.mozilla.editor (Usenet):
text: You need the nbsp in order for the cell to show like a regular cell (otherwise you get that "raised" looking space -- if you know what I mean).
ref: 2001 June 4, Fox, “Netscape: DIV within a table?”, in comp.lang.javascript (Usenet):
text: Incidentally - I noticed myself that GL doesn't automatically put a nbsp in table cells.
ref: 2003 June 6, "S Chapman", "Help me upgrade from PageMill !", in adobe.golive.windows, Usenet
glosses: Initialism of non-breaking space.
EEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Over the following decades, the EEC became the European Union, and expanded from the original six nations to today’s 27 members, from Finland in the north to Malta in the south.
ref: 2012 September 6, Bryony Jones, “Why is unity so important to Europe?”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of European Economic Community, forerunner of the European Community (EC) and the European Union (EU).
EEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ectrodactyly–ectodermal dysplasia–cleft, a rare form of ectodermal dysplasia.
Anzac Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænzæk ˌdeɪ/
Forms: form: Anzac Days
form: ANZAC Day
Senses: glosses: April 25, a public holiday in Australia and New Zealand that originally commemorated the sacrifices made by members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and now honours people from those countries who have served in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations.
wikipedia: Anzac Day
passed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːst/
ipa: /pæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
homophone: past
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass
passed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːst/
ipa: /pæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
homophone: past
Senses: glosses: That has passed beyond a certain point (chiefly in set collocations).
glosses: That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.
Derived terms: forepassed
passed pawn
unpassed
immediately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmiːdi.ətli/
ipa: /əˈmiːdi.ətli/
ipa: /ɪˈmiːdʒətli/
ipa: /əˈmiːdʒətli/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪˈmiɖ(ɪ)jəʈli/
Etymology: From Middle English immediatly, equivalent to immediate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I hope we can begin immediately.
text: His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Spain failed to move through the gears despite exerting control for lengthy spells and a measure of perspective must be applied immediately to the outcome.
ref: 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In an immediate manner; instantly or without delay.
examples: text: A tri-tone chime whistle, operated from the cab by a flexible cable passing down the right hand handrail, is mounted on the top of the smokebox immediately behind the chimney.
ref: 1951 June, “British Railways Standard Class "5" 4-6-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 399:
glosses: Without any intervening time or space.
Synonyms: word: forthwith
word: now
word: right away
word: straightaway
word: tout de suite
word: directly
word: anoon
word: ASAP
word: at once
word: by and by
word: forthwithal
word: instanter
word: instantly
word: no sooner said than done
word: on the nail
word: on the spot
word: on the spur of the moment
word: pronto
word: right now
word: right off
word: soon
word: stat
word: this instant
word: toot sweet
word: yesterday
Hypernyms: word: currently
Related terms: word: in no time
word: quickly
immediately
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmiːdi.ətli/
ipa: /əˈmiːdi.ətli/
ipa: /ɪˈmiːdʒətli/
ipa: /əˈmiːdʒətli/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪˈmiɖ(ɪ)jəʈli/
Etymology: From Middle English immediatly, equivalent to immediate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Immediately he saw the firm, he realised what he could do.
ref: 1921, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage 2008, p. 221
text: Immediately you transact on the Redemption and stop the impertinence of debate, God gives you the witness.
ref: 1924 (compiled and published posthumously), Oswald Chambers, "The Witness of the Spirit" (reading for Oct. 22), My Utmost for His Highest
glosses: As soon as, the moment that.
Synonyms: as soon as
directly after
immediately after
right after
response
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɒns/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspɑns/
rhymes: -ɒns
Forms: form: responses
Etymology: From Middle English respounse, respons, from Old French respons, respuns, responce, ultimately from the Latin respōnsum, a nominal use of the neuter form of respōnsus, the perfect passive participle of respondeō, from re (“again”) + spondeō (“promise”). Doublet of responsum.
Senses: glosses: An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
glosses: The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
glosses: An oracular answer.
glosses: A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
glosses: A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
glosses: A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
glosses: An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
examples: text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
glosses: A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
Synonyms: reaction
Derived terms: allergic response
alloresponse
armed response
autonomous sensory meridian response
autoresponse
bioresponse
call-and-response
call and response
call-response
canned response
cell-mediated immune response
chemoresponse
cold shock response
conditioned response
consultary response
counterresponse
crisis response team
debris response area
direct response
electroresponse
emergency response
fawn response
fencing response
flehmen response
fractal response time
Glomar response
graviresponse
host response
hunting response
hyperresponse
hyporesponse
immune response
immunoresponse
impulse response
interresponse
isoresponse
Koebner response
mechanoresponse
misresponse
multiresponse
neuroresponse
nonresponse
nuclear response function
orientating response
osmoresponse
overresponse
phonoresponse
photoresponse
piezoresponse
postresponse
pseudoresponse
quick response team
radioresponse
rapid response system
rapid response team
reflex response
responseless
response time
routine response behavior
routine response behaviour
seroresponse
stimulus-response time
surresponse
underresponse
vasoresponse
Related terms: respond
responsa
responsal
responsibility
responsible
responsion
responsive
responsively
responsiveness
responsorial
responsorium
responsory
responsure
collagen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒləd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈkɒləd͡ʒɪn/
Forms: form: collagens
Etymology: From French collagène, coined from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) and -γενής (-genḗs, “-forming”) (see -gen); it is the main substance that animal glues are derived from. Doublet of collage, colloid, and protocol.
Senses: examples: text: Science cannot yet account for the conversion of collagen into gelatin.
ref: 1843, R. F. Marchand, “On the Chemical Composition of the Bones”, in The Chemist, volume 4, page 57:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The main structural protein in the extracellular matrix of the connective tissues of many animals.
Derived terms: anticollagen
atelocollagen
azocollagen
collagenase
collagenated
collagenation
collagen disease
collageneous
collagenic
collagenization
collagenized
collagenolysis
collagenolytic
collagenoma
collagenopathy
collagenosis
collagenous
collectin
minicollagen
procollagen
protocollagen
tropocollagen
Boston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔstən/
ipa: /ˈbɒstən/
ipa: [ˈbɒːstɪn]
ipa: /ˈbɑstən/
ipa: /ˈbɒstən/
rhymes: -ɒstən
Forms: form: Bostons
Etymology: The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
glosses: A Boston lettuce.
glycoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoproteins
Etymology: From glyco- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein with covalently bonded carbohydrates.
Synonyms: word: glycoprotein
Hypernyms: word: protein
Hyponyms: word: asialoglycoprotein
word: chondroprotein
word: contactin
word: collectrin
word: dystroglycan
word: endoglin
word: fibrillin
word: glomalin
word: immunoglobulin
word: laminin
word: leucoagglutinin
word: lubricin
word: mucin
word: mucoid
word: neuropilin
word: paranodin
word: prothrombin
word: ovalbumin
word: sialopontin
word: selectin
word: sericin
word: thrombospondin
word: uteroferrin
Derived terms: acidoglycoprotein
asialoglycoprotein
galactoglycoprotein
glycoproteinaceous
glycoproteome
lipoglycoprotein
microglycoprotein
mucoglycoprotein
neoglycoprotein
ovoglycoprotein
phosphoglycoprotein
phospholipoglycoprotein
sialoglycoprotein
Related terms: glycopeptide
glycopolypeptide
sericin
slough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌf/
ipa: /slɐf/
ipa: /slʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: sloughs
form: sluff
Etymology: From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).
Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).
Senses: examples: text: That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
text: And without more ado she stood up and shook the white wrappings from her, and came forth shining and splendid like some glittering snake when she has cast her slough; ay, and fixed her wonderful eyes upon me - more deadly than any Basilisk's - and pierced me through and through with their beauty, and sent her light laugh ringing through the air like chimes of silver bells.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
examples: text: This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
glosses: Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
slough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌf/
ipa: /slɐf/
ipa: /slʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: sloughs
form: sloughing
form: sloughed
form: sloughed
form: sluff
Etymology: From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).
Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).
Senses: examples: text: This skin is being sloughed.
text: Snakes slough their skin periodically.
text: When Harper came back into the infirmary of the Hyperion, Alec was laboriously trying to pull on his pants. His burned skin had healed over the intervening day, the damaged layer sloughed off and quickly replaced thanks to SAM’s efforts, but the buildup of waste products in Alec’s body from the accelerated healing had left him with sore muscles and achy joints.
ref: 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 16, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 293:
glosses: To shed skin or outer layers.
examples: text: A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
text: The mud sloughed off her palms easily […]
ref: 2013, Casey Watson, Mummy’s Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl:
text: 1944 United States. Bureau of Mines · War Minerals Report 386. Google books
The adit penetrated the vug ... and at this level ... it was filled with material that had ... sloughed off the walls.
text: An avalanche sloughing off a Utah mountainside killed a state Department of Transportation avalanche forecaster while he was surveying snow levels near a popular winter recreation area, authorities reported.
ref: 2013 April 13, Michael Mello, “Avalanche forecaster killed in Utah avalanche”, in Los Angeles Times:
glosses: To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.
examples: text: East sloughed a heart.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To discard.
synonyms: ditch
glosses: To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
Derived terms: slough off
sloughage
slough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌf/
ipa: /slɐf/
ipa: /slʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
enpr: slou
ipa: /slaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
enpr: slou
enpr: slo͞o
ipa: /slaʊ/
ipa: /sluː/
rhymes: -aʊ
rhymes: -uː
ipa: /slʌf/
ipa: /slɐf/
ipa: /slʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: sloughs
form: slue
form: slew
Etymology: From Middle English slough (“muddy place; swamp; mire”), Old English slōh, probably from Proto-Germanic *slōhaz.
Senses: examples: text: "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: Notwithstanding this discrepancy, however, and though, taught by experience, I hastened to agree with her that the secret of her birth was not likely to be discovered in a moment, nor by so simple a process as the journey to Norwich, which I had been going to suggest, it was natural that we should often revert to the subject, and to her pretensions, and the hardship of her lot: and my curiosity and questions giving a fillip to her memory, scarcely a day passed but she recovered some new detail from the past; as at one time a service of gold-plate which she perfectly remembered she had seen on her father's sideboard; and at another time an accident that had befell her in her childhood, through her father's coach and six horses being overturned in a slough.
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter IV, in Shrewsbury:
glosses: A muddy or marshy area.
examples: text: We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
text: At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.
ref: 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, volume 2:
glosses: A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
examples: text: The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
glosses: A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
examples: text: John is in a slough.
glosses: A state of depression.
examples: text: Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.
glosses: A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
Derived terms: sloughgrass
slough hay
slough of despond
slough shark
slough thistle
sloughy