cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
summon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmən/
rhymes: -ʌmən
Forms: form: summons
form: summoning
form: summoned
form: summoned
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: summon
form: summon
form: summoned
form: summon
form: summonest
form: summoned
form: summonedst
form: summons
form: summoneth
form: summoned
form: summon
form: summoned
form: summon
form: summoned
form: summon
form: -
form: summoning
form: summoned
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman somoundre, from Old French sumundre, from Latin summonēre, itself from sub + monēre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”).
Senses: examples: text: Silence is primary, summoning presence to itself; so it's a connection to the realm of origin.
ref: 2007, John Zerzan, Silence:
glosses: To call people together; to convene; to convoke.
examples: text: The cousins separated, and Nain Singh joined a caravan posing as a merchant. This time he crossed the border successfully. Singh eventually entered Jih-k’a-tse, the second-largest city in Tibet. It was in Jih-k’a-tse that he was summoned to meet the country’s second-highest religious authority, the Panchen Lama, who turned out to be only 11 years old.
ref: 1995, Explorers & Discoverers, volume 2, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 753:
glosses: To ask someone to come; to send for.
examples: text: You can summon groceries, alcohol and medicines to your home: chips and vodka on New Year’s Eve, say, and then aspirin on New Year’s Day.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To order (goods) and have delivered
examples: text: For securing the attainment of what he considered to be a most desirable end, he summoned all his abilities with a most praiseworthy energy and perseverance.
ref: 1866, Pierre Bigandet, The Life or Legend of Gaudama, the Buddha of the Burmese, with annotations and notice on the Phongyies or Burmese monks, page 396:
text: Joseph needed to summon all his reserve to keep his self-control, for no sooner had Asa voiced his request than Joseph recalled his remark to Aaron about a child being given to this couple in lieu of their giving Mary to him.
ref: 2011, Sister Louise Sweigart, cgs, Joseph: A Guiding Light, Inspiring Voices →ISBN, page 61
text: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.
synonyms: summon up
muster
muster up
draw
glosses: To rouse oneself to exert a skill.
examples: text: “Why won't you teach me to summon water? I can summon fire so easily, it's only logical that I should learn to put out my mistakes.”
ref: 2010, Kay Hooper, The Wizard of Seattle, Fanfare, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
glosses: To call a resource by magic.
topics: law
glosses: To summons; convene.
Derived terms: summons
summon up
summon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmən/
rhymes: -ʌmən
Forms: form: summons
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman somoundre, from Old French sumundre, from Latin summonēre, itself from sub + monēre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”).
Senses: examples: text: Conjuration magic in Baldur's Gate 3 allows players to summon a variety of helpful creatures […] These summons can assist players in combat and exploration, providing strategic advantages with their unique abilities.
ref: 2023 October 30, Nyah Payne, “Baldur's Gate 3: Best Summons, Ranked”, in Gamerant:
topics: video-games
glosses: A creature magically summoned to do the summoner's bidding.
examples: text: The deceased was 58 years of age, was the picture of health even five or six hours prior to his death, when suddenly the grim messenger came with a summon from a Higher Tribunal, calling him to duties above.
ref: quoted in 2013, Robin Sterling, People and Things from the Cullman, Alabama Tribune 1898-1913 (page 172)
glosses: call, command, order
summon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmən/
rhymes: -ʌmən
Forms: form: summons
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay saman (“fine, financial penalty”), which is itself borrowed from English summons (“notice summoning someone to appear in court”). This sense re-emerged in English as summon likely due to the erroneous belief that the original singular English word summons is plural. Doublet of summons and saman.
Senses: examples: text: You better pay off the parking summon tomorrow before you kena interest on it.
synonyms: summons
saman
glosses: A fine; a fee or monetary penalty incurred for breaking the law; usually for a minor offence such as a traffic violation.
glosses: A notice of an infringement of the law, usually incurring such a penalty; a citation or ticket.
Derived terms: summon auntie
summon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌmən/
rhymes: -ʌmən
Forms: form: summons
form: summoning
form: summoned
form: summoned
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay saman (“fine, financial penalty”), which is itself borrowed from English summons (“notice summoning someone to appear in court”). This sense re-emerged in English as summon likely due to the erroneous belief that the original singular English word summons is plural. Doublet of summons and saman.
Senses: examples: text: The police summoned the driver for speeding.
text: They kena summoned for littering.
glosses: To impose such a fine or penalty, or to issue a notice thereof.
benefactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnəˌfaktə/
enpr: bĕn'əfăktər
ipa: /ˈbɛnəˌfæktɚ/
Forms: form: benefactors
form: benefactour
Etymology: From Middle English benefactor, borrowed from Medieval Latin benefactor (“he who bestows a favor”), from Latin benefaciō (“benefit someone”), from bene (“good”) + faciō (“do, make”).
Senses: examples: text: anonymous benefactor
text: generous benefactor
text: chief benefactor
text: The orphanage was supported by a generous benefactor.
glosses: Somebody who gives a gift, often money to a charity.
glosses: Someone who performs good or noble deeds.
Derived terms: benefactorship
Related terms: word: benefactive
word: benefactress
word: benefactrix
word: beneficent
english: near antonym
translation: near antonym
word: beneficiary
word: benevolent
malefactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măʹləfăk'tər
ipa: /ˈmæləˌfæktɚ/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: malefactors
form: malefactour
Etymology: From Middle English malefactour, from Late Latin malefactor, from Latin malefaciō, from male (“evilly”) + factus (“made or done”), past participle of facio (“I make or do”).
Senses: glosses: A criminal or felon.
examples: text: "Pull yourself together, Bradshaw,” said the lawyer. “This suspense, I know, is telling upon all of you; but it is now our intention to make an end of it. Poole, here, and I are going to force our way into the cabinet. If all is well, my shoulders are broad enough to bear the blame. Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
text: Though your unseen malefactor’s actions may give the impression of confidence… Vaermina suspects he is terrified his plan will go astray.
ref: 2013, Kazerad, Katia: Try a few more things, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), April 23 2013
glosses: An evildoer.
Derived terms: malefactee
malefactress
Related terms: maleficent
detachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈtætʃəbl̩/
ipa: /diːˈtætʃəbl̩/
Etymology: From French détachable, detach + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Pique and linen also accented several coats and oftentimes were both detachable and formed an overcollar covering a collar made from the coat fabric.
ref: 1967, Ann Helen Stroup, An Investigation of the Dress of American Children from 1930 Through 1941 with Emphasis on Factors Influencing Change, page 195:
glosses: Designed to be unfastened or disconnected without damage.
Derived terms: detachableness
detachably
nondetachable
undetachable
undetachably
Related terms: demountable
dismantlable
detachable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈtætʃəbl̩/
ipa: /diːˈtætʃəbl̩/
Forms: form: detachables
Etymology: From French détachable, detach + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For the past few months, the red HP Pavilion X2 10-n055na has been my pick of the detachables at £249.99.
ref: 2015 November 5, Jack Schofield, “Which laptop should we buy for our child?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Any device that is designed so that it can be detached from something else.
amscray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæmskɹeɪ/
Forms: form: amscrays
form: amscraying
form: amscrayed
form: amscrayed
Etymology: Pig Latin version of scram; possibly the only Pig Latin phrase to enter common American English besides ixnay.
Senses: examples: text: Get out of here! Amscray!
text: "Brownie. (Backed to D.R.; looking from one to the other.) Sa-ay, am I interrupting anything?
Verona. (Smiling; lightly.) Yes, you are! Amscray!"
ref: 1945, – Anne Ferring Weatherly, Two Gentleman and a Verona: A Comedy in Three Acts, page 99:
text: It made her nervous. She considered wheeling on him with a glare and an icy whisper: “Amscray, Buster!”
ref: 1978, Shirley Nelson, The Last Year of the War, page 46:
text: Charlie nods. “Amscray. I got some sorting out to do myself […]”
ref: 1981, John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich:
glosses: To go away.
Synonyms: scram
Tartarus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑː(r)tərəs/
Etymology: From Latin Tartarus, from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).
Senses: examples: text: […] them with Fire and hoſtile Arms / Fearleſs aſſault, and to the brow of Heav'n / Purſuing, drive them out from God and bliſs, / Into thir place of puniſhment, the Gulf / Of Tartarus, which ready opens wide / His fiery Chaos to receave thir fall.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, 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, lines 50–55:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A dark and gloomy part of the realm of Hades, reserved for the damned and the wicked, such as the Titans; an equivalent of hell in Greek and Roman mythology.
examples: text: We lay there hour after hour in terror and misery of mind so deep that I will not attempt to describe it, and listened to the wild storm-voices of that Tartarus, as, set to the deep undertone of the spur opposite against which the wind hummed like some awful harp, they called to each other from precipice to precipice.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: After arranging a rendezvous, we separate. Mattie and Liz go off in one direction, and Em and I in another. From this our progress seems like a descent into Tartarus. Em pauses before a miserable-looking saloon, pushes open the low, swinging door, and we go in.
ref: 1890, William Booth, “Round the slums of New York”, in In Darkest England and the Way Out, page 161:
glosses: Any hellish place; a dark gloomy chasm or pit.
Related terms: Tartarean
Tartarian
Hades
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪdiːz/
ipa: /ˈheɪdiːz/
ipa: /ˈhadiːz/
rhymes: -eɪdiːz
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
glosses: In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.
glosses: Hell.
glosses: Hell.
Hell as a waiting place for damned souls before the Last Judgement, after which they may be cast in Gehenna.
qualifier: chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy
Related terms: alt: from Ancient Greek: γέεννα (géenna)
word: Gehenna
word: Hell
word: Pluto
alt: from Ancient Greek: Τάρταρος (Tártaros)
word: Tartarus
Sheol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃi.oʊl/
ipa: /ˈʃeɪ.oʊl/
ipa: /ˈʃiː.əʊl/
ipa: /ˈʃeɪ.əʊl/
rhymes: (General American) -ioʊl
rhymes: (GA) -eɪoʊl
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -iːəʊl
rhymes: (RP) -eɪəʊl
Forms: form: sheol
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שְׁאוֹל, שְׁאֹל (sheól, “abode of the dead, underworld, netherworld, etc.”).
Senses: qualifier: Old Testament
glosses: The realm of the dead, the common grave of mankind, Hell. In older English translations of the Bible, notably the Authorized Version or King James Bible, this word sheol is translated inconsistently and variously as grave (31 times), pit (3 times) or hell (31 times: e.g., De. 32:22; 2Sa. 22:6; Job 11:8; Ps. 9:17).
phallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfælɪk/
rhymes: -ælɪk
Etymology: From phallus (“penis”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A little later the phallic explanation of everything came into fashion. The deities were all polite names for the organs and powers of procreation.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 10:
text: The natural rhythm of the male is a phallic one of rise and fall, whether it involves towers, stock markets, or whole civilizations.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 128:
glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of the penis.
examples: text: My mother has a very phallic salt shaker.
text: For many first-time visitors, a common initial impression of the Washington Monument is that it is incredibly phallic.
ref: 1993, Joseph Downton, Washington D.C.: An Alternative Guide, page T-221:
text: The incinerator and a big smoke stack / It's a phallic symbol and it makes me laugh
ref: 2005, Mother Mother, “Verbatim”:
glosses: Shaped like an erect human penis.
examples: text: Opposing the war in El Salvador and opposing the phallic aggression everywhere.
ref: 1990 April 14, Jeremy Grainger, Read Weaver, “You Don't Gotta!”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: Relating to or exhibiting masculine or patriarchal traits, seen metaphorically as seated in the male genitalia.
Synonyms: ithyphallic
penislike
priapic
Coordinate terms: peniform
penile
Derived terms: antiphallic
diphallic
dolichophallic
ectophallic
endophallic
macrophallic
megalophallic
nonphallic
periphallic
phallically
phallicism
phallicist
phallicity
phallicize
phallicness
pseudophallic
unphallic
Related terms: vulvar
yonic
phallus
Tetragrammaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tetragrammata
form: Tetragrammatons
form: tetragrammaton
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετραγράμματον (tetragrámmaton, “four-letter word”), neuter gender of τετραγράμματος (tetragrámmatos, “having four letters”), formed from a combining form of τέτταρες (téttares, “four”) and γράμμα (grámma, “letter”).
Senses: examples: text: The starting point of this discussion was Origen’s much-debated comment to Psalm 2:2 concerning the Tetragrammaton in “ancient” Hebrew characters. A very approximate terminus a quo for this practice in LXX texts is the first century b. c. e., the date of the Cairo Papyrus Fouad 266, a revision of the Greek Torah from the second century b. c. e., in which the Tetragrammata are written in square Hebrew characters.
ref: 1971, Jonathan P. Siegel, “The Employment of Palaeo-Hebrew Characters for the Divine Names at Qumran in the Light of Tannaitic Sources”, in Hebrew Union College Annual, volume 42, page 160:
text: The Tetragrammatons are written out in such a way that the names of single letters are inscribed.
ref: 1982, Judaica Bohemiae, page 103:
text: According to R. Nehemiah, the double Tetragrammaton is one of Metatron’s 70 names: In gematria the consonants YHWH WHYH amount to 52. The two Tetragrammata do not leave any doubt as to the divine nature of the entities referenced here.
ref: 2007, Moshe Idel, Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 202:
text: A few coins and medals with Tetragrammata are found from the Netherlands at the end of the 16th century, but most are from the 17th century, with examples from Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as proud towns in the Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Hamburg, Magdeburg) and several from Saxony.
ref: 2015, Robert J. Wilkinson, “The Tetragrammaton in Vernacular Bibles, Popular Print, and Illustration”, in Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God: From the Beginnings to the Seventeenth Century, Leiden, S.H.; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, part 3 (The Rediscovery of the Name), page 377:
glosses: The word in four Hebrew letters יהוה (in transliteration as YHWH or JHVH) used as the ineffable name of God in the Hebrew Bible, variously rendered as Yahweh or Jehovah.
ist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: ists
Etymology: From the suffix -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Not the obsession with the isms and the ists of Balls, Miliband, Cooper and Alexander and their acolytes.
ref: 2009 March 29, Kevin McKenna, “That's enough men leaning on shovels”, in The Observer:
glosses: A practitioner or supporter of an ism.
foobar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːˌbɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: foobars
Etymology: Phonetic spelling of FUBAR, which is either an acronym for "Fucked up beyond all recognition", or derived from foo.
Senses: glosses: A serious mistake.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.
Related terms: foo
foo fighter
FUBAR
national
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaʃ.(ə).n(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈnæʃ.(ə).n(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈnaʃ.ə.n(ə)l/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈnæʃ.(ə).nəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈneʃ.(ə).nəl/
rhymes: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: nationals
Etymology: From Middle French national, corresponding to nation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The diplomats were advised not to interact with any foreign nationals except on official duty.
glosses: A subject of a nation.
examples: text: After winning the regional tournament, the team advanced to the nationals.
glosses: A tournament in which participants from all over the nation compete.
examples: text: I had a crush on Bardot / Fell in love with Monroe / Read about 'em in the nationals / All the juicy little scandals
ref: 1978, “Blondes (Have More Fun)”, performed by Rod Stewart:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A national newspaper.
topics: law
coordinate_terms: nationality
citizen
glosses: Somebody born under the authority of a given State.
tumultuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tumultuously
form: most tumultuously
Etymology: From tumultuous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But in the lovver Houſe ſome there vvere vvhich handled theſe things more tumultuouſly, namely, Bell and Monſon great Lavvyers, Dutton, Paul VVentvvorth, and others, vvhich rent the Authority of the Queenes Majeſty too much, […]
ref: 1635, William Camden, “The Ninth Yeere of Her Raigne. Anno Domini, 1566, and 1567.”, in R[obert] N[orton], transl., Annals, or, The Historie of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princesse Elizabeth, Late Queen of England. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Thomas Harper, for Benjamin Fisher, […], →OCLC, 1st booke, page 69:
text: But the greater truth may be that this is simply how generational and cultural change really comes to Washington—not in the flash of one man’s election, but gradually and tumultuously, with moments in which we lurch forward interrupted by stretches that drag us back.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a second term, [Barack] Obama will confront familiar headwinds”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: In a tumultuous manner.
concordance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkɔːdəns/
ipa: /kənˈkɔɹdəns/
Forms: form: concordances
form: concordaunce
Etymology: From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.
Senses: examples: text: John Sterling at Herstmonceux that afternoon, and his Father here in London, would have offered strange contrasts to an eye that had seen them both. Contrasts, and yet concordances.
ref: 1850, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, Part Second, Chapter I:
synonyms: accordance
agreement
consonance
glosses: Agreement; accordance; consonance.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: agreement
concord
coordinate_terms: government
regimen
rection
glosses: Agreement of words with one another; concord.
examples: text: c. 1857, Thomas Macaulay, "Paul Bunyan", contribution to the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
His knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An alphabetical verbal index showing the places in the text of a book where each principal word may be found, with its immediate context in each place.
topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A list of occurrences of a word or phrase from a corpus, with the immediate context.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The probability that a pair of individuals will both have a certain characteristic (phenotypic trait) given that one of the pair has the characteristic.
Derived terms: concordance cosmology
concordancer
concordantial
disconcordance
seroconcordance
Related terms: english: keyword in context
translation: keyword in context
word: KWIC
concordance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkɔːdəns/
ipa: /kənˈkɔɹdəns/
Forms: form: concordances
form: concordancing
form: concordanced
form: concordanced
form: concordaunce
Etymology: From Old French concordance, from Late Latin concordantia.
Senses: examples: text: Different from concordances of the Bible or classic works in the western tradition, which were basically complete concordances of a specific single book, the Chinese Lei Shu usually concordanced miscellaneous books.
ref: 2015, Wenzhong Li, Simon Smith, “Introduction”, in Bin Zhou, Simon Smith, Michael Hoey, editors, Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts (New Language Learning and Teaching Environments), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: To create a concordance from (a corpus).
paresthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹiːsθɪsɪs/
Forms: form: parestheses
form: paraesthesis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παραίσθησις (paraísthēsis, “misperception”). By surface analysis, para- + -esthesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Paresthesia.
concordancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈkɔːrdənsi/
Forms: form: concordancies
Etymology: Either concordance + -y or Borrowed from Late Latin concordāntia
Senses: glosses: agreement
concordable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concordable
form: most concordable
Etymology: Latin concordabilis
Senses: glosses: Capable of according; agreeing; harmonious
concordant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəŋˈkɔː(ɹ)dənt/
Forms: form: more concordant
form: most concordant
form: concordaunt
Etymology: French concordant, from Latin concordans, present participle of concordare. See concord.
Senses: examples: text: Even in the case of direct effect, different factors, such as light, temperature, turgor, and so on, are undergoing independent variations; it may thus happen that their reactions may sometimes be concordant and at other times discordant.
ref: 1918, Jagdish Chandra Bose, Life Movement in Plants:
text: Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: consonant
in keeping with
glosses: Agreeing or harmonious; consistent (with).
examples: text: Other forms of concordant intrusions, some of which will be commented upon in this chapter are shown in Fig. 3. 1(6).
ref: 1990, Neville J. Price, John W. Cosgrove, Analysis of Geological Structures, →ISBN, page 60:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Intruding parallel to the bedding.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Preserving the sign.
Derived terms: concordantly
disconcordant
immunoconcordant
seroconcordant
subconcordant
unconcordant
concordantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concordantly
form: most concordantly
Etymology: From concordant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
ref: 2003, The Wachowskis, The Matrix Reloaded, spoken by The Architect (Helmut Bakaitis):
glosses: In a concordant manner.
acontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acontias
form: acontium
Etymology: From the plural of New Latin acontium, from Ancient Greek ἀκόντιον (akóntion, “little dart”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Threadlike defensive organs, composed largely of nettling cells (cnidae), thrown out of the mouth or special pores of certain Actiniae when irritated.
Derived terms: acontial
adjuvant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒʊv(ə)nt/
enpr: 'ăj-ə-vənt
ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒəv(ə)nt/
Forms: form: more adjuvant
form: most adjuvant
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin adiuvant-, adjuvant- + English -ant (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘exhibiting a condition or process’; and forming agent nouns). Adiuvant-, adjuvant- are oblique stems of adiuvāns, adjuvāns (“assisting, helping”), the present active participle of adiuvō (“to assist, help; to be useful; etc.”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to; toward’”) + iuvō (“to aid, help; to save”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewH- (“to assist, help; to save”)).
Adjective sense 3 (“of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary”) and noun sense 1.4 (“additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug”) are possibly derived from French adjuvant (adjective, noun).
Senses: synonyms: assisting#Adjective
auxiliary#Adjective
complementary#Adjective
contributory#Adjective
helping#Adjective
supporting#Adjective
glosses: Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Enhancing the immune response to an antigen; also, containing a substance having such an effect.
examples: text: Adjuvant chemotherapy, [Paul] Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper. It would eradicate microscopic deposits of cancer left behind after surgery, thus extirpating any remnant reservoirs of malignancy in the body in early breast cancer— […]
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, “Halsted’s Ashes”, in The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 219:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary; specifically (oncology), of a cancer treatment: given after removal of a primary tumour.
Derived terms: adjuvance
adjuvancy
adjuvanticity
adjuvantly
Related terms: adjutant
aid
aidance
aidant
aide
adjuvant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒʊv(ə)nt/
enpr: 'ăj-ə-vənt
ipa: /ˈæd͡ʒəv(ə)nt/
Forms: form: adjuvants
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin adiuvant-, adjuvant- + English -ant (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘exhibiting a condition or process’; and forming agent nouns). Adiuvant-, adjuvant- are oblique stems of adiuvāns, adjuvāns (“assisting, helping”), the present active participle of adiuvō (“to assist, help; to be useful; etc.”), from ad- (“prefix meaning ‘to; toward’”) + iuvō (“to aid, help; to save”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ewH- (“to assist, help; to save”)).
Adjective sense 3 (“of a form of therapy or treatment: additional, supplementary”) and noun sense 1.4 (“additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug”) are possibly derived from French adjuvant (adjective, noun).
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: accessory#Noun
attendant#Noun
glosses: Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
An additive (often a separate product) that enhances the efficacy of a pesticide, but has little or no pesticidal effect itself.
examples: text: The well-known tropic action of immune serum as an adjuvant to phagocytosis suggested early in our studies that we might here be dealing with a similar phenomenon.
ref: 1914 November, Frederick P. Gay, Edith J[ane] Claypole, “Specific Hyperleukocytosis: Studies in Typhoid Immunization”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume XIV, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 662–670:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: accessory#Noun
attendant#Noun
glosses: Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
A substance enhancing the immune response to an antigen.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: accessory#Noun
attendant#Noun
glosses: Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
A form of therapy or treatment which is additional or supplementary to another, or which enhances the effectiveness of another.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: accessory#Noun
attendant#Noun
glosses: Someone or (more commonly) something that assists, facilitates, or helps; an aid, an assistant, a helper.
An additive which aids or modifies the action of the principal ingredient of a drug.
Derived terms: word: adjuvanted
word: adjuvant therapy
word: chemoadjuvant
word: coadjuvant
word: Freund's adjuvant
word: immunoadjuvant
word: neoadjuvant
word: postneoadjuvant
sissy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
homophone: cissy
Forms: form: sissies
form: cissy
Etymology: From sis (“clipping of sister”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: An effeminate boy or man.
examples: text: This was all part of football and if any man was such a sissy he could not stand it, then he had better seek the sidelines.
ref: 1963, Robert Smith, Pro Football: The History of the Game and the Great Players, page 144:
glosses: A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.
examples: text: I realised I still held my normal male clothes and dropped them to the floor under the desk, out of the way. […] Would it hurt? Yes, I knew it would from watching videos of sissies being spanked by their dominant mistresses.
ref: 2018, Paul Zante, Sissy Dreams: Motel Sissy, page 4:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A male crossdresser who adopts feminine behaviours.
examples: text: "I so glad - so glad the wicked thing not hurt my sissy!" and in that moment of thankful joy the two children embraced each other with fond affection.
ref: 1862, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Christian conquests, by A.L.O.E., page 61:
text: Her seven-year-old brother Justin sat on my lap beside her casket. I explained to him why we were staying with his sissy. He wouldn't leave; he stayed, too. He kissed her, touched her hand, told her he would miss her.
ref: 2008, Rita T. Kohn, William Lynwood Montell, Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians:
coordinate_terms: bubby
glosses: Sister; often used as a term of address
Synonyms: sense: effeminate man or boy
word: effeminate man
word: milksop
word: and Thesaurus:homosexual person
sense: timid or cowardly person
word: coward
sense: sister
word: sis
Derived terms: word: prissy
word: sissified
english: a passenger backrest for a motorcycle or bicycle
translation: a passenger backrest for a motorcycle or bicycle
word: sissy bar
word: sissygasm
word: sissy hypno
word: sissyphobia
english: a weightlifting exercise emphasizing knee extension
translation: a weightlifting exercise emphasizing knee extension
word: sissy squat
sissy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
homophone: cissy
Forms: form: sissier
form: sissiest
Etymology: From sis (“clipping of sister”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 26:
text: […] she’d decided the wrapping paper was too feminine. It had a viney pattern that wasn’t anything sissier than you’d see in the old Arabian Nights illustrations. But Richard might think they were flowers.
ref: 2000, Jeffery Deaver, Manhattan Is My Beat, revised edition, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Effeminate.
glosses: Cowardly.
sissy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
homophone: cissy
Etymology: Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to French pipi (“urine”). Compare piss; wee-wee.
Senses: examples: text: She has to make. She has to make sissy.
ref: 1997, Clark Moustakas, Relationship Play Therapy, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: Urination; urine.
sissy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
homophone: cissy
Forms: form: sissies
form: sissying
form: sissied
form: sissied
Etymology: Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to French pipi (“urine”). Compare piss; wee-wee.
Senses: examples: text: Joan recognized her as the girl whose son had sissied on her pants. She was still dabbing at her pantleg with a damp paper towel.
ref: 1979, Rhea Kohan, Save Me a Seat, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: To urinate.
sissy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
homophone: cissy
Forms: form: sissies
form: sissying
form: sissied
form: sissied
Etymology: Clipping of sissygasm.
Senses: glosses: To sissygasm (reach orgasm solely by penetration of the anus).
Tupi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: to͞oʹpĭ
enpr: to͞opēʹ
ipa: /ˈtuːpɪ/
ipa: /tuːˈpiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From Old Tupi tupi.
Senses: glosses: Several related indigenous nations of coastal Brazil.
Tupi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: to͞oʹpĭ
enpr: to͞opēʹ
ipa: /ˈtuːpɪ/
ipa: /tuːˈpiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From Old Tupi tupi.
Senses: glosses: Any of the Tupian languages, especially Old Tupi or Nheengatu.
Derived terms: Tupian
Tupi-Guarani
melissa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɪsə/
Forms: form: melissas
Etymology: From Late Latin melissa, from Ancient Greek μέλισσα (mélissa, “bee”), because the plant attracts bees.
Senses: examples: text: Meliſſa, Bawme, hath an excellent vertue to alter Melancholy, bee it ſteeped in our ordinary drinke, extracted, or otherwise taken.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Alternatiues, Hearbes, Other Creatures, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member 1, subsection 3, page 300:
glosses: A plant of the genus Melissa, especially lemon balm (Melissa officinalis), often used medicinally.
Synonyms: word: dropsywort
english: one sense
translation: one sense
word: honey plant
cloze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kləʊz/
ipa: /kloʊz/
homophone: close
homophone: clothes stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: clozes
Etymology: From closure in Gestalt therapy, 1950s.
Senses: examples: text: The clozes, at least those used in the examinations, have the distinct advantage that they expose the students to continuous and reasonably authentic text[…]
ref: 1994, Joseph Boyle, Peter Falvey, English Language Testing in Hong Kong, page 8:
text: this time the cloze is about the declination of adjectives
ref: 2013 March 13, “Lückentext - cloze”, in German Language Blog, retrieved 15 Mar 2013:
topics: education
glosses: A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text.
beth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bĕth
ipa: /bɛθ/
ipa: /bɛt/
rhymes: -ɛθ
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: beths
form: bet
form: beyt
form: beis
Etymology: From Middle Bronze Age picture of a house by acrophony, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”). Doublet of beta.
Senses: glosses: The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁
glosses: The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב
glosses: The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ
Derived terms: aleph-beth
beth midrash
Related terms: beth din
beth hamidrash
Gimel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʒiˈmɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Senses: glosses: A Swiss commune.
daleth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daleths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dalet.
vav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vavs
form: waw
form: vau
form: vov
Etymology: Hebrew וי״ו (vav). Doublet of wau.
Senses: glosses: The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ו.
Related terms: roman: w
word: و
vav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vavs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vaav (“stepwell”).
waw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
Forms: form: waws
form: wawing
form: wawed
form: wawed
Etymology: From Middle English wawen, waȝien, from Old English wagian (“to move, shake, swing, totter”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagōn, from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to move”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”).
Cognate with German wagen (“to venture, dare, risk”), Dutch wagen (“to venture, dare, also to move, stir”), Swedish våga (“to dare”).
Senses: glosses: To stir; move; wave.
waw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
Forms: form: waws
form: wawe
Etymology: From Middle English wawe, waȝe, waghe, from Old English wǣg (“motion, water, wave, billow, flood, sea”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāg, from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“wave, storm”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to drag, carry”).
Cognate with North Frisian weage (“water, wave”), German Wag, Woge (“wave”), French vague (“wave”), Swedish våg (“wave”).
Senses: examples: text: […] nigh it drawes
 All passengers, that none from it can shift:
 For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes,
 They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A wave.
waw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
Forms: form: waws
form: wo
form: waugh
Etymology: From Middle English wawe, wowe, waugh, wough, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”).
Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch, Saterland Frisian Wooge (“indoor wall, partition”).
Senses: examples: text: She hath been at London to call a strea a straw, and a waw a wall.
ref: 1678, John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs, section 75:
text: T'ootside waws was whitewesh't.
ref: 1886, Thomas Farrall, Betty Wilson's Cummerland Teals, section 41:
glosses: A wall.
waw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
ipa: /wɑːw/
ipa: /waʊ/
ipa: /wɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: war
Forms: form: waws
Etymology: From Arabic وَاو (wāw). Doublet of wau.
Senses: glosses: The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
examples: text: Rather, the waws of both fragments are demonstrably similar. What Cryer and Becking fail to note is that the style of waw used in Fragment B is also used in Fragment A.
ref: 2006, George Athas, The Tel Dan Inscription: A Reappraisal and a New Introduction, page 147:
glosses: Alternative spelling of vav.
vau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vav.
renege
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈnɛɡ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈnɪɡ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈneɪɡ/
ipa: /ɹiː-/
ipa: /ɹɪˈneɪɡ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈniːɡ/
rhymes: (US) -ɛɡ
rhymes: (US) -ɪɡ
rhymes: -eɪɡ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -iːɡ
Forms: form: reneges
form: reneging
form: reneged
form: reneged
form: renage
form: reneague
form: reneg
form: re-nig
form: renegue
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin renegō, from negō (“I deny”). Possibly influenced by renegotiate. Doublet of renay. See also renegade.
Senses: examples: text: Previously I promised not to proselytize miserism, but now I want to renege a little on that promise. If your family income is anywhere near average, you can scrimp and save and cut back for maybe two to four years […]
ref: 2010, Dolly Freed, Possum Living, page 149:
text: Clattenburg awarded Spurs a penalty for the third time after a handball in the area but he reneged after realising that the linesman had flagged Crouch offside in the build-up.
ref: 2011 February 5, Michael Kevin Darling, “Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To break one's commitment to follow suit when capable.
examples: text: His captaines heart, / Which in the ſcuffles of great fights hath burſt / The Buckles on his breaſt, reneages all temper, / And is become the bellowes and the Fan / To coole a Gypſies Luſt.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) / Against the truth and thee unholy leagued.
ref: 1608, Josuah Sylvester, The Sepmaines of Du Bartas:
glosses: To deny; to renounce
Related terms: word: abnegate
english: and its related terms
translation: and its related terms
word: negate
word: negative
word: neglect
word: négligée
word: negotiate
word: renegade
word: renegation
zayin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zayins
form: zain
form: zayn
form: zay
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew זַיִן (zayin).
Senses: glosses: The seventh letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
heth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛθ
Forms: form: heths
form: chet
form: cheth
form: ḥet
form: ẖet
form: hheth
form: het
form: khet
form: kheth
Senses: glosses: The eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
teth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teths
form: ṭēth
form: tet
Etymology: From Hebrew טֵית (ṭēth, “wheel”).
Senses: glosses: The ninth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
yodh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒd/
ipa: /jəʊd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: yodhs
form: jod
form: jodh
form: yod
form: yud
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew יו״ד (yo"d, “name of the tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *yad- (“hand”). That letter is used also in other Semitic alphabets; it represents the voiced palatal approximant /j/. Doublet of iota, jot, and yod.
Senses: glosses: The tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
glosses: A tool used to read a Torah.
kaph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːf/
ipa: /kæf/
rhymes: -ɑːf
rhymes: -æf
homophone: caf
Forms: form: kaphs
form: caph
form: kaf
form: kap
Etymology: From Hebrew כָּף (kaf, “kaph”), from Proto-Semitic *kapp- (“palm, hand”) (Akkadian 𒀉 (kappu(m)), Hebrew כַּף (kaf, “hand/foot”), Arabic كَفّ (kaff), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎔 (kp)) Doublet of kappa.
Senses: glosses: The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
koph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kophs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of qoph.
kaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kafs
Senses: glosses: The twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet. ك (k)
glosses: Alternative spelling of kaph.
Related terms: roman: l
word: Previous: ق. Next: ل
raw_tags: of the Arabic alphabet
Mersey sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mersey Sound
Senses: glosses: Merseybeat.
lamedh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːmɛd/
rhymes: -ɑːmɛd
Forms: form: lamedhs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lamed.
mem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: mems
form: meem
form: mim
Etymology: From Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /⁠mem⁠/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *maʾ- (“*maʾ-/*may-”). Doublet of mu.
Senses: glosses: The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
mem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: mems
Etymology: Clipping of memory.
Senses: examples: text: We can't BELIEVE it's been #9YearsofLittleMix?! Aside from the girls slaying every #BRITs look they've had, what's your fave mem? (we know it's a hard q!) 👀💖
ref: 2020 August 19, @BRITs, Twitter:
text: 6. Throw Away the Mems [chapter title] ¶ Now that you’ve got some theme music, it’s time to take that old teddy bear and V-Day card and toss ‘em in the dumpster.
ref: 2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Clipping of memory.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A memory access as part of processing.
Derived terms: memcomputer
memcomputing
Related terms: mim-mem
mem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: mems
Etymology: From Hindi मेम (mem, “wife of a colonial official; a white woman”), originally from English ma'am.
Senses: examples: text: With their husbands out all day, the mems had almost nothing to do, unless they were among the few prepared to interest themselves in local charities or community work.
ref: 2009, Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, John Murray, published 2010, page 277:
glosses: A white European woman, especially the wife of an official; a memsahib.
glosses: Alternative form of ma'am.
Derived terms: gori mem
samekh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samekhs
form: samech
form: samek
form: simketh
Senses: glosses: The 15th letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician. Aramaic. Hebrew. Syriac. And many others).
ayin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɪn/
other: /ˈɑ.jɪn/
rhymes: -aɪɪn
Forms: form: ayins
form: ain
form: ʿain
form: ʿayin
form: ayn
form: ƹayn
form: ayen
Etymology: From Proto-Semitic *ʿayn- (“eye”), particularly via Hebrew עַיִן (ʿáyin).
Senses: examples: text: Ayin is the most difficult of the faucals.
ref: 1883, Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet:
glosses: The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
tsade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(t)sɑːdi/
ipa: /ˈ(t)sɑːdeɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːdi
Forms: form: tsades
Senses: glosses: The eighteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).