cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
manifestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænɪfɛˈsteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmænɪfəˈsteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: manifestations
Etymology: From Middle English manifestacion, manyfestacion, manyfestacioun, from Late Latin manifestātiō. In the political sense, a semantic loan from French manifestation. By surface analysis, manifest + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago.
text: Rather, the genuinely historical lies in the appearing of the phenomenalizing cogitatio, an appearing that does not refer back to pregivennesses; that is, the genuinely historical lies in the manifestation of noetic-noematic consciousness.
ref: 2012, W. Mckenna, R.M. Harlan, L.E. Winters, Apriori and World, page 101:
glosses: The act or process of becoming manifest.
examples: text: This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying.
text: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref: 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
glosses: The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
glosses: A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration or to prevent people from accidentally walking into it.
examples: text: The nationalist parties were also busy during the whole of April preparing a manifestation for the 3rd of May, the centennial anniversary of the “constitution of 1791.”
ref: 1891 June 24, “Russian Chronicle”, in Free Russia, number 11, page 16:
text: “The Printers Union published a communique branding General Radescu and those who took part in the manifestation as ‘fascists.’”
ref: 1949, Reuben H. Markham, Rumania Under the Soviet Yoke, page 458:
text: There were anti-Semitic riots at several of the High Schools and manifestations among the unemployed graduates emerging from those institutions.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 134:
glosses: A political demonstration or protest.
examples: text: I don't believe in manifestation.
qualifier: initially occult
glosses: Willing something into existence (see manifest (verb)).
Derived terms: manifestational
nonmanifestation
remanifestation
mediopassive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: medio-passive
Etymology: From medio- + passive.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the function of the passive voice is to remove the agent from the discussion of a transitive activity, the function of the mediopassive voice is to discuss an event in a way which explicitly denies the involvement of an initiating agent.
ref: 1989, Jon Philip Dayley, University of California publications in linguistics: volume 115, →ISBN:
text: Until about 1900 the r-element attached to mediopassive endings was merely regarded as a marginal feature peculiar to Halo-Celtic; it was taken as evidence for Italo-Celtic because it was supposed to be an innovation of these two groups.
ref: 1990, Kazuhiko Yoshida, The Hittite Mediopassive Endings in -ri, →ISBN, page 103:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a voice of a transitive verb that is both middle voice and passive voice or reflexive and passive voice.
Derived terms: mediopassively
mediopassive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediopassives
form: medio-passive
Etymology: From medio- + passive.
Senses: examples: text: A systematic study of mediopassive sell in the BNC (Figure 6) confirms that – at least for this verb – the constraint seems to hold: the vast majority of mediopassives with sell contain some kind of modification, namely 92.2%.
ref: 2014, Antoinette Renouf, Andrew Kehoe, The Changing Face of Corpus Linguistics, →ISBN, page 177:
text: More importantly, it is highly context dependent: (a) certain text types (such as advertising copy) seem to license bare mediopassives more than others (see Section 6.4.1), (b) contextually implied contrast may enable an inherent property reading of a bare mediopassive (see Sections 6.4.2.1 and 6.4.2.2), or the verb itself might foster bare mediopassive use (this seems to be the case with denominal verbs like zip, button, bolt, or clamp, see Goldberg and Ackerman 2001: 806).
ref: 2014, Marianne Hundt, Late Modern English Syntax, →ISBN, page 107:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A mediopassive construction; a phrase that uses the mediopassive voice.
Synonyms: word: middle voice
Derived terms: medio-passivization
rumination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹuːmɪˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: ruminations
Etymology: From Latin rūminātio (“chewing the cud”); see ruminate.
Senses: glosses: The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud.
examples: text: Amid these internal battles is a clear vision of the chaotic world outside, too; ‘Bless The Bold Future’ is a nuanced rumination on the dangers of bringing new life onto a planet in turmoil
ref: 2025 July 3, Fred Garratt-Stanley, “Kae Tempest – ‘Self Titled’ review: an inspiring reflection on identity and self-discovery”, in NME:
synonyms: word: cogitation
word: contemplation
word: deliberation
word: mulling
word: musing
word: pondering
word: meditation
word: reflection
word: rethinking
word: reconsideration
word: rumination
word: thought
glosses: Deep thought or consideration.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An eating disorder characterized by repetitive regurgitation of small amounts of food from the stomach.
Derived terms: rumination syndrome
Related terms: rumen
ruminant
ruminate
ruminator
mediasphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediaspheres
Etymology: From media + -sphere.
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: The collective ecology of the world's media, including newspapers, journals, television, radio, books, novels, advertising, press releases, publicity and the blogosphere; any and all media both broadcast and published.
meridional ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meridional rays
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A ray that passes through the axis of the optical fiber.
mixed inhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed inhibitions
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mode of enzyme inhibition that includes components of both competitive and uncompetitive inhibition.
morphic unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphic units
Senses: glosses: A unit of form, organization or arrangement of any size.
MYA
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: related: word: Mya
word: mya
glosses: million years ago: megayears ago.
Related terms: alt: kiloyear ago
word: kya
english: thousand years ago: 10³
translation: thousand years ago: 10³
word: tya
alt: gigayear ago
word: gya
english: billion years ago: 10⁹
translation: billion years ago: 10⁹
word: bya
word: My
english: megayear: million years
translation: megayear: million years
word: Myr
pantology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From panto- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: A systematic view of all branches of human knowledge or a work of universal information
Derived terms: pantologic
pantological
pantologist
parage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: parages
Etymology: From Middle English parage, from Old French parage, perage, from pair (“equal”) + -age. Doublet of peerage.
Senses: examples: text: at souper the knyght sat syr Beumayns afore the damoisel / Fy fy said she syr knyghte ye are vncurtoys to sette a kechyn page afore me hym bysemeth better to stycke a swyne than to sytte afore a damoysel of hyhe parage / thenne the knyght was ashamed atte her wordes / and took hym vp / and sette hym at asyde bord / and sette hym self afore hym / and soo al that nyght they had good chere and mery reste
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII:
glosses: Lineage, parentage; rank, especially as high or noble.
glosses: A feudal institution that recognizes equality of rights and status between two rulers, and equality in the portions of an inheritance.
glosses: A woman's marriage portion or dowry.
projecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: prə-jĕktʹĭng
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: I caught and tore my coat on the projecting nail.
glosses: Sticking out.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Giving an outward appearance, in order to avoid a direct connection or to disguise or inflate the real essence.
projecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prə-jĕktʹĭng
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of project
projecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prə-jĕktʹĭng
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/
Forms: form: projectings
Senses: examples: text: The movie projector here is, of course, an analog of Soul, and its projectings (abstracting from the movie screen on which they fall) analogs of Soul's ontically generative activities.
ref: 2008, Michael F. Wagner, The Enigmatic Reality of Time: Aristotle, Plotinus, and Today, page 15:
glosses: The act by which something is projected.
examples: text: The sombre shadows, cast by those huge houses of which it is composed, and the streams of faint light cutting the darkness here and there, where the entrance to some fantastic alley pierces the sable mass of building—the strange projectings, recedings, and windings […]
ref: 1820, John Gibson Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, page 20:
glosses: A projecting part.
protraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protractions
Senses: glosses: The condition of being protracted.
glosses: The act of protracting.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The lengthening of a short syllable.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An anterior movement on the horizontal plane; The forward movement of the tongue or of a limb.
glosses: The act of making a plot on paper.
Synonyms: sense: act of protracting: extending in duration
word: prolongation
sense: act of protracting: putting off to a distant time
word: deferral
word: procrastination
word: deferment
Related terms: protractor
proxy representative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proxy representatives
Senses: glosses: a person authorized to act on behalf of another
install
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɔːl/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ɪnˈstɔl/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ɪnˈstɑl/
note: of the US
ipa: /ɪnˈstɒl/
ipa: /ɪnˈstoːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: installs
form: enstall
form: instal
Etymology: From Middle English installen, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin īnstallō (“to install, put in place, establish”), from in- + stallum (“stall”), from Frankish *stall (“stall, position, place”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz (“place, position”), from Proto-Indo-European *stel-, *stAlǝn-, *stAlǝm- (“stem, trunk”). Cognate with Old High German stal (“location, stall”), Old English steall (“position, stall”), Old English onstellan (“to institute, create, originate, establish, give the example of”), Middle High German anstalt (“institute”), German anstellen (“to conduct, employ”), German einstellen (“to set, adjust, position”), Dutch aanstellen (“to appoint, commission, institute”), Dutch instellen (“to set up, establish”). More at in, stall.
Senses: examples: text: The install takes a long time, but you can run it in the background while working on other things.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An installation: the process of installing a software application.
examples: text: I've customized my local install; the out-of-the-box version looks a bit different.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An installation: a software application that has been installed.
pung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: pungs
Etymology: Shortened form of tom-pung, from the same Algonquian etymon as toboggan.
Senses: examples: text: […] they all crowded into the big pung sleigh, among straw and furry robes.
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, page 213:
glosses: A low box-like sleigh designed to be pulled by one horse.
pung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: pungs
form: pong
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 碰 (pung³).
Senses: topics: board-games
games
mahjong
synonyms: triplet
three-of-a-kind
glosses: A set of three identical tiles.
topics: board-games
games
mahjong
synonyms: pon
glosses: A call for forming such a set using a discarded tile.
Coordinate terms: chow
kong
pung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ping
lemniscate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛmˈnɪs.kɪt/
ipa: /lɛmˈnɪs.kət/
Forms: form: lemniscates
Etymology: First attested in 1781; borrowed from New Latin lēmniscāta (figūra), substantivized from lēmniscātus (“decorated with ribbons”), from lēmniscus (“a sort of ribbon”).
Senses: synonyms: infinity
infinity symbol
glosses: A closed curve having the shape of a figure eight or an infinity symbol (∞).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The lemniscate of Bernoulli
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a variety of quartic functions producing similar figure-of-eight closed curves.
Hyponyms: hippopede
lemniscate of Bernoulli
lemniscate of Booth
lemniscate of Gerono
lemniscate of Huygens
Derived terms: lemniscate case
lemniscate constant
lemniscate function
lemniscate inverse curve
lemniscate of Bernoulli
lemniscate of Booth
lemniscate of Gerono
lemniscate of Huygens
lemniscatic
sheriff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛɹɪf/
ipa: /ˈʃɛɹəf/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪf
rhymes: -ɛɹəf
Forms: form: sheriffs
form: sherriff
form: shrieve
Etymology: From Middle English shirreve, from Old English sċīrġerēfa, corresponding to shire + reeve. There is no etymological connection to Sharif (شَرِيف (šarīf)), an Arabic title of honour that has cognates in other languages including Hindi, Urdu, Portuguese, etc.
Senses: qualifier: except Scotland
glosses: (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.
glosses: A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.
glosses: A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in their county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.
Derived terms: high sheriff
sheriffalty
sheriffdom
Sheriff Hutton
sheriffry
sheriffship
sheriffwick
there is a new sheriff in town
sheriff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛɹɪf/
ipa: /ˈʃɛɹəf/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪf
rhymes: -ɛɹəf
Forms: form: sheriffs
form: sheriffing
form: sheriffed
form: sheriffed
form: sherriff
form: shrieve
Etymology: From Middle English shirreve, from Old English sċīrġerēfa, corresponding to shire + reeve. There is no etymological connection to Sharif (شَرِيف (šarīf)), an Arabic title of honour that has cognates in other languages including Hindi, Urdu, Portuguese, etc.
Senses: glosses: To carry out the duties of a sheriff.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: hatti-sherif
word: bailiff
word: constable
word: justice of the peace
word: marshal
word: police
infancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfənsi/
Forms: form: infancies
Etymology: From Middle English infancie, from Latin īnfantia (“infancy, early childhood; childishness”), equivalent to infant + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The earliest period of childhood (crawling rather than walking).
glosses: The state of being an infant.
examples: text: Space tourism is still in its infancy.
text: It was in November, 1932, in an endeavour to reduce working costs, that the first diesel railcar was introduced, and it was a far-sighted move on the part of Mr. D. N. McClure, for diesel propulsion on railways was then more or less in its infancy.
ref: 1941 May, Voyageur, “The Clogher Valley Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 195:
glosses: An early stage in the development of anything.
topics: law
glosses: The state of being a minor.
Synonyms: infanthood
babyhood
babyship
Derived terms: infancy gospel
severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy
wariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warinesses
Etymology: From wary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: vigilance or the condition of being alert
glosses: precautionary forethought to avoid harm or risk
warlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔɹlaɪk/
ipa: /ˈwɔːlaɪk/
Forms: form: more warlike
form: most warlike
Etymology: From war + -like. Compare the older warly.
Senses: glosses: Hostile and belligerent.
examples: text: Doubt not my Lord and gratious Soueraigne,
But Tamburlaine, and that Tartarian rout,
Shall either periſh by our warlike hands,
Or plead for mercie at your highneſſe feet.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
text: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: Martial, bellicose or militaristic.
warm-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warm-hearted
form: most warm-hearted
form: warmhearted
Senses: synonyms: word: affectionate#Adjective
word: affectionate
word: caring
word: cordial
word: fond
word: friendly
word: goodhearted
word: good-natured
word: heartfelt
word: hearty
word: kind
word: kindhearted
word: kindsome
word: loving
word: softhearted
word: warm
word: warm-hearted
word: tender
word: tenderhearted
glosses: Amicable and friendly.
synonyms: goodhearted#Adjective
kind-hearted#Adjective
kindhearted#Adjective
glosses: Kind, sympathetic, and generous.
Derived terms: warm-heartedly
warm-heartedness
Related terms: heart-warming
warm someone's heart
warm the cockles of someone's heart
warmhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This new play by Gunnar Branson and Marc Silvia has a lot going for it--a warmhearted and detailed script about a 1940 radio broadcast (much like The 1940's Radio Hour), a sharp and energetic ten-member cast, and the right screwball pacing to make it work.
ref: 1988 February 19, Lawrence Bommer, “The Radio Play”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of warm-hearted.
warmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈwoɹˌmɑŋ.ɡɚ/
ipa: /-ˌmʌŋ.ɡɚ/
Forms: form: warmongers
form: war-monger
form: war monger
Etymology: From war + monger.
Senses: examples: text: Wham! Overnight he [Dwight D. Eisenhower] became a warmonger.
ref: 1952 September 22, “Since Stevenson Prefers 'Compromise', Foreign Policy Is Squarely in the Campaign”, in LIFE, volume 33, number 12, Time Inc., →ISSN, page 30:
text: Do you hear revolution's call? / Time to fight our own denial / Warmongers keep us locked in fear / Invoke the past, a moment of tears / An ugly truth put forth by our youth / Under the threat of patriotic brute / So use your rage / It is a weapon we now must engage / Let trumpets sound our call / Or by their lies we will fall
ref: 2007, “Clenching the Fists of Dissent”, in Robb Flynn (lyrics), The Blackening, performed by Machine Head, Track 1:
text: “He’s not the only one doing this,” Rohrabacher answered. “But it seems to me like what we’ve got are warmongers claiming other people are war criminals. This is the wrong kind of tone. That type of rhetoric is leading us to a point where we will be in conflict and the Russians will think that we are out to get them.”
ref: 2017 January 13, Andrey Kaczynski, quoting Dana Rohrabacher, “GOP congressman: ‘Warmongers’ in Congress are wrong to call Putin a ‘war criminal’”, in CNN:
text: “He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said. “He is the very reason that MAGA started in the first place, and we only have to look at 2016 when he was a vehement Trump hater. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.”
ref: 2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina”, in CNN:
synonyms: bellicist
hawk
jingoist
war hawk
glosses: Someone who advocates war; a militarist.
examples: text: With that, out of his bouget forth he drew
Great ſtore of treaſure, therewith him to tempt;
But he on it lookt ſcornefully askew,
As much diſdeigning to be ſo miſdempt,
Or a war-monger to be baſely nempt;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 550:
glosses: A mercenary soldier.
Derived terms: warmongery
Related terms: english: and its other derived terms
translation: and its other derived terms
word: monger
word: war profiteer
word: merchant of death
warmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː.mʌŋ.ɡə/
ipa: /ˈwoɹˌmɑŋ.ɡɚ/
ipa: /-ˌmʌŋ.ɡɚ/
Forms: form: warmongers
form: warmongering
form: warmongered
form: warmongered
form: war-monger
form: war monger
Etymology: From war + monger.
Senses: examples: text: Harmsworth's Daily Mail had warmongered for over twenty years.
ref: 2002, Robert Colls, Identity of England:
glosses: To advocate war.
warpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warpaths
Etymology: From war + path.
Senses: examples: text: He went often to visit the spot where the women had buried her, and sat musing there, when, it was thought, by some of his friends, he would have done better to try to amuse himself in the chase, or by diverting his thoughts in the war-path.
ref: 1856, Henry R. Schoolcraft, The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends:
glosses: The route taken by a party of Native Americans going on a warlike expedition.
glosses: A course of action that leads to battle or hostility.
watch tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watch towers
Senses: examples: text: For my part, who can now no longer build chateaux even en Eſpagne, I find that Mowbray Caſtle, Graſmere Abbey, the caſtle of Rock-March, the caſtle of Hauteville, and Rayland Hall, have taken ſo many of my materials to conſtruct, that I have hardly a watch tower, a Gothic arch, a cedar parlour, or a long gallery, an illuminated window, or a ruined chapel, left to help myſelf.
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, “Avis au Lecteur”, in The Banished Man. […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, pages iii–iv:
text: They were interrupted by the entrance of a youth from one of the watch towers of the castle, who communicated intelligence that the army of the Yorkists was in sight.
ref: 1858, [Louisa Matilda Spooner], Gladys of Harlech; an Historical Romance, volume I, London: Charles J. Skeet, […], page 37:
text: The walls, moats, gates, and watch towers of the castle remain, but the main keep has not been rebuilt; […]
ref: 1931 July 13, Commerce Reports, number 28, page 112, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of watchtower.
watchtower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchtowers
form: watch tower
form: watch-tower
Etymology: From watch + tower.
Senses: examples: text: A "watchtower" Website, keeping track of paedophile groups around the world, is expected to be up and running next year. The campaign will also liaise with law enforcement agencies around the world and share information on suspected Internet paedophiles.
ref: 1999 June, “Unesco steps up fight against Internet paedophiles”, in BBC News:
text: Redcap - A malevolent goblin easily distinguishable by their namesake red cap, fiery red eyes, claws and iron boots. They often appear as little old men, but can run very fast despite the boots. They reside in castles and watchtowers along the English-Scottish border, but will move their residence to avoid detection.
ref: 2002, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Ill-Made Mute: The Bitterbynde:
text: Residents of Tungyin, a frontline islet under Taiwan’s Matsu islands cluster, said they spotted an unidentified aircraft flying overhead at 2.45pm on February 5, while video footage from the watchtower monitor showed an aircraft crossing the skies and flying out towards the east.
The military commanding centre of Tungyin confirmed that “a fixed-wing twin-propeller aircraft [had] briefly entered the airspace and soon left”.
ref: 2022 November 2, Minnie Chen, “Was it Beijing testing Taiwan’s defences with unidentified Matsu island flyover?”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2022, China Military:
synonyms: lookout tower
glosses: An observation tower in which a lookout keeps watch over prisoners, or looks out for fires, etc.
religious leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religious leaders
Senses: glosses: Someone who is recognized by a religious body as having some authority within that body.
glosses: The leader of a religious order.
glosses: In Catholicism, any of a number of individuals, including priests, cardinals, bishops, and the supreme pontiff.
dwarves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Then said Þriði: They took also his skull and made thereof heaven and set it up over the earth with four sides, and under each corner they set dwarves: they hight thus Austri, Vestri, Norþri, Suþri.
ref: 1842, George Webbe Dasent, transl., The Prose Or Younger Edda Commonly Ascribed to Snorri Sturluson, page 8:
text: The belief in Dwarves as inhabitants of the interior of the earth and especially of large isolated rocks, was likewise a direct offshoot of the Asa-Mythology.
ref: 1854, Rudolph Keyser, translated by Barclay Pennock, The Religion of the Northmen, page 299:
text: When the human magi arrived, Dunner was the dwarf responsible for arbitrating between them and the dwarves as to location and the hundreds of other minor quibbles that seemed likely to turn into major battles, owing to simple misunderstandings of each other's ways.
ref: 2001, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Well of Darkness, HarperCollins, page 139:
glosses: plural of dwarf
Synonyms: dwarfs
significance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/
Forms: form: significances
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English significaunce, from Middle French significance, from Old French significance, from Latin significantia. Doublet of signifiance.
Senses: examples: text: As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
text: Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: The extent to which something matters; importance
examples: the significance of a gesture
glosses: Meaning.
Synonyms: import
portent
portentousness
Derived terms: act of independent significance
Tukey's honest significance test
Related terms: topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: Significance level
word: Statistical significance
insert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnsûtʹ
ipa: /ɪnˈsɜːt/
enpr: ĭnsûrtʹ
ipa: /ɪnˈsɝt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: inserts
form: inserting
form: inserted
form: inserted
Etymology: From Latin insertus, past participle of inserō, from in- + serō (“join, bind together, connect, entwine, interweave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Compare exsert.
Senses: examples: text: In order to withdraw money from a cash machine, you have to insert your debit card.
text: To make your proof easier to understand, I recommend you insert a few more steps.
glosses: To put in between or into.
Synonyms: sense: put in between or into
word: enter
sense: put in between or into
word: inset
sense: put in between or into
word: introduce
sense: put in between or into
word: put in
sense: put in between or into
word: put inside
Derived terms: diaper insert
disinsert
insertable
insertee
inserter
insertive
insertor
outsert
preinsert
reinsert
self-insert
upsert
insert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnʹsût
ipa: /ˈɪnsɜːt/
enpr: ĭnʹsûrt
ipa: /ˈɪnsɝt/
Forms: form: inserts
Etymology: From Latin insertus, past participle of inserō, from in- + serō (“join, bind together, connect, entwine, interweave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Compare exsert.
Senses: glosses: An image inserted into text.
examples: text: This software can print compact disc inserts if you have the right size of paper.
glosses: A promotional or instructive leaflet inserted into a magazine, newspaper, tape or disk package, etc.
examples: text: a threaded insert
glosses: A mechanical component inserted into another.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An expression, such as "please" or an interjection, that may occur at various points in an utterance.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of DNA inserted into another DNA molecule.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A pre-recorded segment included as part of a live broadcast.
examples: text: […] close-ups of her legs on the escalator, an insert of the emergency stop button (ARRET D'URGENCE), intercut close-ups of her glance and the cinema sign, […]
ref: 2013, David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film, page 316:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A close-up shot used to draw attention to a particular element of a larger scene.
glosses: A diaper insert.
qualifier: audio effects
glosses: A plug-in that adds an effect to an audio track.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A key to toggle between text insert mode and overwrite mode
Derived terms: bra insert
diaper insert
insertless
insert song
microinsert
misinsert
nappy insert
outsert
self-insert
shoe insert
snake insert
vinyl insert
Related terms: insertion
hyphenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪf(ə)ˌneɪt/
Forms: form: hyphenates
form: hyphenating
form: hyphenated
form: hyphenated
Etymology: From hyphen + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line.
examples: text: you have to hyphenate his surname as it's double-barrelled
glosses: to join words or syllables with a hyphen.
Derived terms: hyphenated
hyphenator
mishyphenate
multihyphenate
multihyphenated
rehyphenate
unhyphenate
unhyphenated
hyphenate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪf(ə)ˌneɪt/
ipa: /ˈhaɪfənət/
ipa: /ˈhaɪf(ə)ˌneɪt/
Forms: form: hyphenates
Etymology: From hyphen + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
examples: text: We seem to have settled on African-American, and at first glance it certainly does seem logical. […] Not to mention what happens when hyphenates marry other hyphenates and have baby hyphenates.
ref: 2006, Nick Adams, Making Friends With Black People, page 15:
glosses: A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".
inflict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈflɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: inflicts
form: inflicting
form: inflicted
form: inflicted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin īnflīctus, past participle of īnflīgō, from in- + flīgō (“strike”).
Senses: examples: text: They inflicted terrible pains on her to obtain a confession.
text: The enemy's artillery inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy forces.
text: Now Azaēlos, the king of Syria, made war on the Israelites and their king Jehu, and ravaged the eastern parts of the country across the Jordan […] spreading fire everywhere and plundering everything and inflicting violence on all who fell into his hands.
ref: 1937, Josephus, Ralph Marcus, transl., chapter VIII, in Josephus: With an English Translation (Loeb Classical Library), volume VI (Jewish Antiquities), London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, published 1958, →OCLC, book IX, paragraph 1, page 87:
text: This allowed me to continue inflicting this injury on myself long after I otherwise could have beared^([sic]), I think.
ref: 2011 June 15, Tony White, Working with Suicidal Individuals: A Guide to Providing Understanding, Assessment and Support, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: To thrust upon; to impose.
Synonyms: exact
visit
wreak
Derived terms: inflictable
inflicter
inflictive
inflictment
inflictor
noninflicted
reinflict
self-inflicted
uninflicted
Related terms: infliction
amorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorists
form: amourist
Senses: glosses: Someone who is in love.
glosses: Someone who writes about love.
Derived terms: amoristic
profunda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profundae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A deep-seated artery, as of the arm, neck, or leg.
Derived terms: profunda femoris artery
pomo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of postmodern.
pomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of postmodernism.
Derived terms: pomophobe
pomophobia
pomophobic
pomosexual
arriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrivers
Etymology: From arrive + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Kaminsky tells precisely the same story — except with Mr. Beekman as the late arriver.
ref: 2007 January 7, “Gerard Beekman and Michael Kaminsky”, in New York Times:
synonyms: arrival
arrivant
glosses: One who arrives; usually, one who arrives in a specified way.
sanguinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/
Forms: form: more sanguinary
form: most sanguinary
Etymology: From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.
Senses: examples: text: We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
ref: 1625, Francis Bacon, "Unity in Religion" (Google preview)
text: "[…] every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."
ref: 1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter XIII, in Allan Quatermain:
text: It was not merely distaste for court life at Ch’ang An that urged the emperor to make war upon this country. China had substantial grievances against the peninsula kingdom. In the year a.d. 642 P’ing Jang, the Korean capital, had been convulsed by a revolution more sanguinary and more successful than that which had menaced the Chinese court.
ref: 1933, “The Korean War and the Closing Years a.d. 645–50”, in Son of Heaven: A Biography of Li Shih-Min, founder of the T’ang Dynasty, Cambridge University Press, published 1971, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:
synonyms: bloody
gory
glosses: Involving bloodshed.
raw_tags: of an event
examples: text: Passion […] makes us brutal and sanguinary.
ref: c. 1730, William Broome
text: "The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; […]"
ref: 1877, Samuel Green, The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens with Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia, page 126:
synonyms: bloodthirsty
bloody-minded
butcherous
slaughterous
glosses: Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies […], that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.
ref: 1913, H. G. Wells, Little Wars, Section VI:
text: We reached the Point just as a flood of sunset light was dripping from the heavens, staining the lagoon an ominous, sanguinary hue.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 117:
synonyms: bloodsoaked
bloody
gory
glosses: Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
Derived terms: sanguinary ant
Related terms: exsanguinate
sanguine
sanguineous
sanguinary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæŋɡwɪnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsæŋɡwɪnɛɹi/
Forms: form: sanguinaries
Etymology: From Middle English sanguinarie, from Latin sanguinārius.
Senses: glosses: A bloodthirsty person.
glosses: The plant common yarrow, or herba sanguinaria (Achillea millefolium).
jours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of jour
laine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laines
Senses: qualifier: Sussex
glosses: an area of arable land at the foot of a hill
Related terms: mousseline de laine
satin de laine
plena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plenas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish plena.
Senses: examples: text: This eclectic group is dedicated to preserving the Puerto Rican traditions of bomba and plena, two drum-focused (and African-derived) forms of traditional dance music.
ref: 2009 January 23, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of Puerto Rican music having a highly syncopated rhythm and often satirical lyrics.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A song in this style.
plena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plenum
roto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊtəʊ/
Forms: form: rotos
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of rotogravure.
examples: text: "But that's just not an exciting quote, so they put on that roto baseball guy saying disparaging things about fantasy football," Emil concedes, referring to a roto baseball expert that HBO interviewed for the piece[…]
ref: 2004, Mark St. Amant, Committed: confession of a fantasy football junkie:
text: Looking to find someone who has a comprehensive list of rules and regulations for Roto baseball.
ref: 1997, BGI bill, “Looking for Rules and Regulations for roto baseball league”, in pdaxs.sports.baseball (Usenet):
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of rotisserie baseball.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of rotisserie sports.
roto
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊtəʊ/
Forms: form: rotos
form: rotoing
form: rotoed
form: rotoed
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of rotoscope.
roto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊtəʊ/
Forms: form: rotos
Etymology: From Spanish roto.
Senses: glosses: A Chilean, especially a common man or lower-class Chilean.
ses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hit the West, smoke some of that ses, you’ll probably pass out when it reach your dome.
ref: 2003 June 3, “My Block 2 Yo Block”, in That Hella-Thurl Sh!#, performed by Da Hol’ 9:
text: [GDP] And I rest all day. And I stress all day. Smoke ses all day. I’m depressed all day.
ref: 2013 July 16, “Mascara”, in Holla, performed by GDP (musician),Wicca Phase Springs Eternal:
text: Just deserts get served. And that’s the word. I smoke ses in my street. No big bird.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Raw”, in High Five, performed by Hitman:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sess (sensimilla)
ses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of se
incertitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incertitudes
Etymology: From Middle French incertitude.
Senses: glosses: uncertainty, doubt, insecurity
unrequited love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To her mind, a girl who would tell of the unrequited love of a man for herself, was unspeakably base.
ref: 1912, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 27, in Miss Billy's Decision:
glosses: Love that is not reciprocated, even though reciprocation is desired.
revolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/
ipa: /ˌɹɛvəˈluːʃənɹi/
ipa: /-ˈljuː-/
Forms: form: more revolutionary
form: most revolutionary
Etymology: Compare French révolutionnaire; equivalent to revolution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: revolutionary war
text: revolutionary measures
text: revolutionary agitators
text: In 1885, one hundred and ten years after the American Declaration of Independence, a young Chinese medical doctor named Sun Yat-sen began preaching his revolutionary principles. Ten years later, in 1895, he founded in Honolulu the first Chinese revolutionary party with what then must have seemed an unbelievably ambitious aim of overthrowing the monarchical system of government which had been in continuous existence in China for forty centuries.
ref: 1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), “Introduction”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution
examples: text: a revolutionary new tool
glosses: Of or pertaining to something that portends of great change; overthrowing a standing mindset
topics: sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to something that revolves.
Synonyms: sense: political revolution
word: Jacobinic
sense: political revolution
word: Jacobinical
revolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛvəˈluʃənɛɹi/
ipa: /ˌɹɛvəˈluːʃənɹi/
ipa: /-ˈljuː-/
Forms: form: revolutionaries
Etymology: Compare French révolutionnaire; equivalent to revolution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: "The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.
ref: 1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
glosses: A revolutionist; a person who revolts.
Derived terms: word: antirevolutionary
word: café revolutionary
word: counterrevolutionary
word: French Revolutionary Time
word: permanent revolutionary
word: prerevolutionary
word: pseudorevolutionary
word: revolutionary site
Pixar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪks.ɑːɹ/
ipa: /ˈpɪks.ɑː/
Etymology: Conceived as a faux-Spanish word meaning “to make pictures”. See pix (“pictures”) and Spanish -ar (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Pixar Animation Studios, a computer-generated imagery (CGI) company known for its animated films.
Derived terms: Pixarify
externship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: externships
Senses: glosses: An experiential learning opportunity, usually offered by a school, similar to an internship, but generally shorter in duration.
press card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press cards
Senses: glosses: A press or media credential issued as identification to newsgatherers who work professionally in media. The principal occupations covered are reporters and writers, photographers, film and video camera operators and crews and other broadcasting workers such as producers and researchers.
ultraism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultraisms
Etymology: From ultra + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We glory in such ultraism—the ultraism which says that “all men are created equal—[…]the ultraism which treats man as an intelligent and immortal being, and not as an article of merchandize and traffic—[…]
ref: 1838, Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, Fourth Annual Report of the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society, page 26:
text: With all that tendency to ultraism said to prevail at present, it may be doubted whether evangelists might not even now be found who, though in health, would require no such license for such a liberty; […]
ref: 1847, Eliphalet Nott, Lectures on Temperance, A.M. Moffat, published 1858, page 176:
glosses: Radicalism or political extremism.
examples: text: The eight young signers of this “Ultra manifesto” could not have known at the time how accurate and prescient their declaration was. Spanish ultraism, born as a movement with that document, would be distinguished, ironically, by its indiscriminate and eclectic borrowings from the other European vanguard tendencies.
ref: 1981, Thorpe Running, Borges' Ultraist Movement and its Poets, Lathrup Village, Mich.: International Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A Spanish poetic movement opposed to modernism.
grr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɡɚːː]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: grrr
form: grrrr
form: grrrh
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Sound of an animal growl.
examples: text: Grr, life is not fair.
glosses: Expression of anger or disappointment.
Derived terms: riot grrrl