cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪlt/
rhymes: -ɪlt
Forms: form: killt
Etymology: From Middle English kilt, equivalent to kill + -t.
Senses: examples: text: that unspotted Lamb,
That for the Sins of all the World was kilt
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: But tweren’t so awful long before Marse Hampton got kilt in de big battle, and Marse Thad, too. Dey was both kilt in de charge, right dere on de breastworks, with de guns in dey hands, dem two young masters of mine, right dere in dat Gettysburg battle […] And I was eighteen in dat October after dat big fight what Marse Thad and Marse Hampton got kilt in.
ref: 1970 (reprinted 1999) Norman R. Yetman (ed.), Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives, Courier Corporation, p. 160
text: She could fight, too, when I got snuffy. […] Once I come home from elk camp so drunk I couldn't hardly sit my horse, and Sylvie near to kilt me, she fought me so hard.
ref: 2014, Howard Frank Mosher, North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland:
qualifier: especially Ireland or African-American Vernacular
glosses: Nonstandard form of killed: simple past and past participle of kill.
picturesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɪkt͡ʃəˈɹɛsk/
Forms: form: more picturesque
form: most picturesque
form: picture-skew
Etymology: From picture + -esque, a calque of French pittoresque, from picture (“a picture, painting”).
Senses: examples: text: We looked down onto a beautiful, picturesque sunset over the ocean.
text: A two minutes' walk brought Warwick—the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him—to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, “A Stranger from South Carolina”, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: A dear old lady said she thought the ancient castle at Conway most picturesque, but that it was a pity they put it so close to the railway!
ref: 1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 71:
text: The Australian teens, both from Melbourne, were enjoying a backpacking trip when they became ill after a night out in Vang Vieng.
The picturesque rural town in northern Laos has long been a popular backpacking spot.
ref: 2024 November 21, Helen Regan, Isaac Yee and Eve Brennan, “Australian teens among six tourists dead as countries warn of suspected methanol poisonings in Laos”, in CNN:
glosses: Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting; having the qualities of a picture or painting; pleasingly beautiful.
examples: text: picturesque language
glosses: Strikingly graphic or vivid; having striking and vivid imagery.
Synonyms: quaint
scenic
Derived terms: picturesquely
picturesqueness
picturesquish
unpicturesque
SAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SATs
Senses: qualifier: atmospheric sciences
glosses: Initialism of surface air temperature.
examples: text: take the SAT
text: take an SAT
text: The SATs have gotten harder.
text: AIs are no longer just producing passable five-paragraph essays. Now they’re excelling at the SAT, “earning” a score of 1410. […] To score a 1410 on the SAT says something about your capacities and prospects—maybe you can get into Stanford.
ref: 2023 March 21, Ian Bogost, “Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2023:
glosses: Ellipsis of SAT Reasoning Test, formerly acronyms Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test: a national exam taken annually by high school juniors and seniors.
glosses: Acronym of Scholastic Aptitude Test.
glosses: Acronym of Statutory Assessment Test, a national curriculum assessment, or exam.
meritorious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛɹɪˈtɔɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹɪˈtoʊɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌmɛɹɪˈtɔːɹɪ.əs/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəs
Forms: form: more meritorious
form: most meritorious
Etymology: From Middle English meritorious, borrowed between 1375 and 1425 from Latin meritōrius (“earning money”), from meritus, past participle of mereō (“to earn”).
Senses: examples: text: The policeman received the Award of Meritorious Service from his grateful department.
glosses: Deserving of merit or commendation; deserving reward.
Synonyms: meedful
meritious
Derived terms: meritoriously
meritorious mast
meritoriousness
nonmeritorious
unmeritorious
tremendous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪˈmɛndəs/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /tɹəˈmɛndəs/
rhymes: -ɛndəs
Forms: form: more tremendous
form: most tremendous
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin tremendus (“fearful, terrible”, gerundive of tremō (“to tremble”)) + -ous. Doublet of tremend.
Senses: examples: text: This she spoke with so commanding an air, standing with her back to the fire, with one hand behind her, and a pinch of snuff in the other, that I question whether Thalestris, at the head of her Amazons, ever made a more tremendous figure.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: Awe-inspiring; terrific.
examples: text: Van Beethoven's ninth symphony is a tremendous piece of music.
glosses: Notable for its size, power, or excellence.
examples: text: There was a tremendous outpouring of support.
text: The tremendous tragedy in which he had been involved - it was evident he was a fugitive from Weybridge - had driven him to the very verge of his reason.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 113:
glosses: Extremely large (in amount, extent, degree, etc.) or great
Derived terms: tremendously
tremendousness
suture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/
ipa: /ˈs(j)uː.tjʊə/
ipa: /ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -uːtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sutures
Etymology: From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) + -tūra (forms action nouns).
Senses: examples: text: Although the sutures are difficult to trace, the supraoccipital contacts the parietal anteriorly at a tight interdigitated suture, and contacts the ophistotic posterolaterally at a straight suture.
ref: 2016 February 6, “Cranial Anatomy and Palaeoneurology of the Archosaur Riojasuchus tenuisceps from the Los Colorados Formation, La Rioja, Argentina”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
glosses: Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
examples: text: It is also generally marked above by flexuose anastomosing black, indented lines, whence it appears as if insculpt with rivulose sutures.
ref: 1894, James M. Crombie, A Monograph of Lichens Found in Britain, page 329:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
examples: text: The suture of science and philosophy constitutes an identification of philosophical thought and scientific objectivity that is unfortunately typical of contemporary so-called ‘analytic’ philosophy. […] Yet, the over-identification of philosophical tasks with science itself signifies a veritable retreat from philosophy itself.
ref: 2011, Tzuchien Tho, “Introduction: One Divides into Two? Dividing the Conditions”, in Alain Badiou, The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic, →ISBN, page xix:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.
Derived terms: coaptation suture
coronal suture
frontal suture
glover's suture
lambdoid suture
metopic suture
osteosuture
sagittal suture
squamosal suture
squamous suture
sutural
suture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/
ipa: /ˈs(j)uː.tjʊə/
ipa: /ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -uːtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sutures
form: suturing
form: sutured
form: sutured
Etymology: From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) + -tūra (forms action nouns).
Senses: glosses: To sew up or join by means of a suture.
noseeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊˈsi.əm/
enpr: nōsēʹəm
ipa: /nəʊˈsiː.əm/
enpr: nōsēʹəm
Forms: form: noseeums
form: no-see-em
form: no-see-um
Etymology: Shortened no see them.
Senses: examples: text: Noseeums will go right through a tent screen.
ref: 1983, Bob Cary, The big wilderness canoe manual:
text: The minges and noseeums had found her now, so many of them buzzing around her head that her vision seemed to dance with black specks.
ref: 1999, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon:
glosses: A biting midge, a small flying insect that harasses people outdoors, particularly in warm weather after sunset.
hypertension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hīpətĕnʹshən
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pəˈtɛn.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈtɛn.ʃən/
Forms: form: hypertensions
Etymology: From hyper- + tension.
Senses: examples: text: Once stroke was classified by a risk factor-free method, the stronger relationship between hypertension and lacunar versus nonlacunar infarction patients disappeared.
ref: 2016 March 3, “Comparison of Risk Factor between Lacunar Stroke and Large Artery Atherosclerosis Stroke: A Cross-Sectional Study in China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A state of abnormally high blood pressure of arterial blood (arterial hypertension) or of the intra-ocular fluid.
examples: text: The opportunity for which she had been tensely waiting was upon her. In a few minutes, as this hypertension and ruthlessness faded in her, it would be gone.
ref: 1913, John Masters, The Lotus and the Wind, Michael Joseph Ltd., published 1916, page 101:
glosses: A state of great (nervous or emotional) tension.
Synonyms: word: high blood pressure
Derived terms: antihypertension
arterial hypertension
atenolol
hypertensive
idiopathic intracranial hypertension
intracranial hypertension
portal hypertension
pregnancy-induced hypertension
prehypertension
pseudohypertension
pulmonary hypertension
white coat hypertension
hypotension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypotensions
Etymology: From hypo- + tension.
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The disease or disorder of abnormally low blood pressure.
Derived terms: antihypotension
hypotensive
Related terms: hypovolemia
orthostatic hypotension
diabetes mellitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz/
ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtɪs/
ipa: /ˌməˈlaɪtəs/
ipa: /ˈmɛlɨtəs/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin diabetes mellitus (“diabetes of the sweet type”) (from the fact that in centuries past, physicians sometimes tasted a patient's urine to help diagnose the illness).
Senses: examples: text: Patients initially may seek medical attention for diabetes mellitus, which becomes clinically manifest a few years after the onset of pancreatalgia.
ref: 2018, Isidor Segal, Digestive Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Changes and Challenges, page 98:
synonyms: word: sugar diabetes
coordinate_terms: diabetes insipidus
glosses: A medical disorder commonly called diabetes, characterized by varying or persistent hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels), especially after eating. It is classified in two types, which are different etiologically but similar in clinical effects: type 1 and type 2.
Related terms: melliferous
mellifluous
dehydration
insulin
diabetes insipidus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin diabetes insipidus (“tasteless diabetes”), as opposed to diabetes mellitus (“sweet diabetes”) because of the absence of glucose in urine in the former.
Senses: coordinate_terms: diabetes mellitus
glosses: A disease characterized by excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, which cannot be reduced when fluid intake is reduced.
diabetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈbɛtɪk/
ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈbɛtɪk/
ipa: [ˌdaɪəˈbɛɾɪk]
ipa: /dɑɪəˈbetɪk/
ipa: [dɑɪəˈbeɾɪk]
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more diabetic
form: most diabetic
Etymology: From diabetes + -ic. Doublet of diabatic.
Senses: examples: text: diabetic complications
text: the diabetic foot
glosses: Of or pertaining to diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.
examples: text: diabetic patients (patients with diabetes)
text: He turned diabetic in his thirties.
glosses: Having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.
examples: text: diabetic socks
text: I also have learned to slip a couple of my diabetic cookies in my purse […] and take them along with me when we are invited out for afternoon coffee.
ref: 2002, Mabel Cavaiani, The New Diabetic Cookbook, Fifth Edition, page 347:
glosses: Suitable for one having diabetes, especially diabetes mellitus.
Derived terms: antidiabetic
diabetically
diabetic bearded woman syndrome
diabetic cheiroarthropathy
diabetic crisis
diabetic embryopathy
diabetic ketoacidosis
diabetic sock
diabetic stiff hand syndrome
nondiabetic
prediabetic
prodiabetic
diabetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈbɛtɪk/
ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈbɛtɪk/
ipa: [ˌdaɪəˈbɛɾɪk]
ipa: /dɑɪəˈbetɪk/
ipa: [dɑɪəˈbeɾɪk]
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: diabetics
Etymology: From diabetes + -ic. Doublet of diabatic.
Senses: glosses: A person with diabetes, usually diabetes mellitus.
arteriosclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˌtɪəɹɪəʊskləˈrəʊsɪs/
ipa: /ɑɹˌtɪɹioʊskləˈroʊsəs/
Forms: form: arterioscleroses
Etymology: From arterio- + sclerosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Hardening, narrowing or loss of elasticity in arteries or blood vessels.
Derived terms: antiarteriosclerosis
Related terms: atherosclerosis
glaucoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɔːˈkəʊmə/
ipa: /ɡlɔːˈkoʊmə/
ipa: /ɡlaʊˈkoʊmə/
ipa: /ɡlɑˈkoʊmə/
Forms: form: glaucomas
form: glaucomata
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek γλαύκωμα (glaúkōma, “an opacity of the crystalline lens”), derived from γλαυκός (glaukós, “blue-green”).
Senses: examples: text: Professor Rosas, in his last work on Diseases of the Eye (Lehre von den Augenkrankheiten, Wien, 1834, p. 326), distinguishes three kinds of glaucoma, viz. glaucoma of the hyaloid, glaucoma of the retina, and glaucoma of the choroid. He makes no mention of lenticular glaucoma, which is much more common than any of the three which he particularizes. Indeed, vitreous, retinal, and choroidal glaucomata, are, to say the least of them, rare diseases.
ref: 1838, William Mackenzie, “Remarks on Lenticular Glaucoma”, in The London Medical Gazette; Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences, volume II, London: […] Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], page 105, column 2:
text: Nearly all of the so-called noncongestive glaucomata are of Types 1, 2, and 3.
ref: 1948 June, Edward J. Curran, “Advances in the Treatment of Glaucoma: The Joseph Schneider Foundation Eye Presentation”, in Postgraduate Medicine, volume III, number VI, page 409, column 2:
text: The term primary glaucoma designates that group of glaucomata, the cause of which is not yet known, in contrast to secondary glaucoma, which is due to some obvious cause.
ref: 1952, The West Indian Medical Journal, page 180:
text: The development of latent glaucomata is usually slow and chronic, following the rhythm of primary glaucomata.
ref: 1960, Premier Congrès de la Société Européenne d’Ophtalmologie, page 28:
text: Unfortunately, most of the older data are of limited value because the distinction between the various forms of glaucoma was often difficult and thus unreliable and because glaucomata are diseases of advanced age.
ref: 1962, Werner Kalow, “[Human Hereditary Defects With Altered Drug Response] Angle-Closure Glaucoma”, in Pharmacogenetics: Heredity and the Response to Drugs, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: W. B. Saunders Company, →LCCN, page 193, column 2:
text: Oh, I got the glaucoma, real bad.
ref: 2013 January 15, Dave Andron, “Where's Waldo?”, in Justified, season 4, episode 2:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness.
Derived terms: anal glaucoma
antiglaucoma
glaucomatocyclitic
glaucomatous
glaucomic
nonglaucoma
teleglaucoma
dynamically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dynamically
form: most dynamically
Etymology: From dynamic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: An averager of the sort described earlier would operate such that, as the frequency of sinusoidal variation of ITD was increased, more and more samples of the dynamically varying ITD would fall within the averaging window and the effective ITD would tend toward their mean of zero.
ref: 2014, Robert Gilkey, Timothy R. Anderson, Binaural and Spatial Hearing in Real and Virtual Environments:
glosses: Of a dynamic nature; variable or constantly changing nature.
Derived terms: phylodynamically
potentiodynamically
dynamically-typed
Louis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.i/
homophone: Louie
homophone: looey
ipa: /ˈlu.ɪs/
ipa: /ˈlu.əs/
homophone: Lewis
homophone: Lewes
ipa: /ˈlʉː.i/
ipa: /ˈlʉ.əs/
rhymes: -uːi
rhymes: -uːɪs
Forms: form: Louises
Etymology: From French Louis, from Middle French Loïs, Loïc, &c., from Old French Looïs, Luis, Lodhuvigs, Lodevis, Lodhwig, &c., from Latin Ludovicus, from Clodovicus, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (“loud; famous”) + *wīgą (“battle”).
Doublet of Lewis (which is inherited since the Middle Ages) and, more remotely, Aloysius, Luis, Ludwig, Luigi, and Clovis.
Senses: examples: text: 'It is hardly a week since you called me your future husband, and treated me as such; now I am once more the tutor for you: I am addressed as Mr. Moore, and Sir; your lips have forgotten Louis.'
 "'No, Louis, no: it is an easy, liquid name; not soon forgotten.'
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Written in the Schoolroom”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 295:
glosses: A male given name from French.
glosses: A female given name.
examples: text: Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis have been marching to their own choreographic drummer for a long time now.
ref: 1992 January 30, Jennifer Dunning, “Review/Dance; Premiere Opens Season For Nikolais and Louis”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bay St. Louis
Louisburg
Saint Louis
Related terms: word: Louie
word: Lou
sense: feminine forms
word: Louise
sense: feminine forms
word: Louisa
Louis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.i/
homophone: Louie
homophone: looey
ipa: /ˈlu.ɪs/
ipa: /ˈlu.əs/
homophone: Lewis
homophone: Lewes
ipa: /ˈlʉː.i/
ipa: /ˈlʉ.əs/
rhymes: -uːi
rhymes: -uːɪs
Forms: form: Louises
Etymology: From French Louis, from Middle French Loïs, Loïc, &c., from Old French Looïs, Luis, Lodhuvigs, Lodevis, Lodhwig, &c., from Latin Ludovicus, from Clodovicus, from Frankish *Hlūdawīg, from Proto-Germanic *hlūdaz (“loud; famous”) + *wīgą (“battle”).
Doublet of Lewis (which is inherited since the Middle Ages) and, more remotely, Aloysius, Luis, Ludwig, Luigi, and Clovis.
Senses: examples: text: It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones’s hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, […]
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of louis: various gold and silver coins issued by the French kings.
believer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈlivɚ/
ipa: /bɪˈliːvə/
rhymes: -iːvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: believers
Etymology: From Middle English bilevar, bileever, belever, equivalent to believe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She's a believer in life after death.
text: But the other two were, comparatively speaking, clean shaved, which of course gave the enemy a larger extent of open country to operate on, though in Mahomed's case the mosquitoes, recognising the taste of a true believer, would not touch him at any price.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who believes; especially regarding religion.
Synonyms: word: believer
word: devotee
word: devotionalist
word: pietist
word: religioner
word: religionist
word: religtard
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: By religion
word: African traditionalist
word: animist
word: Asatruar
word: Baháʼí
word: Buddhist
word: Caodaiist
word: Christian
word: Confucian
word: Confucianist
word: deist
word: Druid
word: Eckist
word: folk religionist
word: freethinker
word: Gnostic
word: heathen
word: Hindu
word: humanist
word: Jain
word: Jew
word: Jucheist
word: LaVeyan
word: Luciferian
word: Muslim
word: mysticist
word: New Ager
word: New Thoughter
word: occultist
word: Odinist
word: pagan
word: Raëlian
word: Rastafarian
word: religious humanist
word: Santerían
word: Satanist
word: Scientologist
word: shamanist
word: Shintoist
word: Sikh
word: spiritist
word: Taoist
word: Tenrikyoist
word: Thelemite
word: theosophist
word: Unitarian
word: Unitarian Universalist
word: Wiccan
word: Yoruban
word: Zoroastrian
word: Abelian
word: Abelite
word: Abelonian
word: Amish
word: Anabaptist
word: Anglican
word: Augustinian
word: Baptist
word: Calvinist
word: Catholic
word: Covenanter
word: Dominican
word: Franciscan
word: Hutterite
word: Lutheran
word: Mennonite
word: Methodist
word: Monophysite
word: Mormon
word: Nicolaitan
word: Protestant
word: Puritan
word: Quaker
word: Shaker
word: Shi'a
word: Sufi
word: Sunni
word: By position
word: imam
word: kerygmatist
word: minister
word: monk
word: nun
word: priest
word: rabbi
word: saint
word: votary
word: General
word: theist
word: catechumen
word: churchgoer
word: churchman
word: communicant
word: convert
word: crusader
word: cultist
word: fanatic
word: fideist
word: Gospel grinder
word: jihadist
word: neophyte
word: proselyte
word: worshipper
word: zealot
Coordinate terms: word: agnostic
Derived terms: Belieber
believerdom
believerhood
co-believer
crypto-believer
disbeliever
prebeliever
priesthood of all believers
true believer
true-believer syndrome
true believer syndrome
wanbeliever
Related terms: word: antireligious
word: religism
votes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊts/
ipa: /voʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
rhymes: -oʊts
Senses: glosses: plural of vote
votes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊts/
ipa: /voʊts/
rhymes: -əʊts
rhymes: -oʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vote
changing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: a changing world
text: the changing scene
glosses: present participle and gerund of change
changing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: changings
Senses: examples: text: And stand steadfast in the unchangeable life and seed of God, which was before changings and alterings were; and which will remain when they all are gone.
ref: 1654, George Fox, epistle LXXVI:
glosses: Change; alteration.
Derived terms: baby-changing
baby changing station
changing bag
changingly
changingness
changing note
everchanging
game-changing
lifechanging
life-changing
nonchanging
self-changing
unchanging
ruling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, rule + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the ruling monarch
text: a ruling passion
text: Zhou Zhongxiao, 30, an executive at an online dating site in Beijing, said his participation in the China Democratic League had provided an outlet for promoting his pet project: the preservation of traditional wedding rituals. “We provide a useful service by helping the ruling party govern the country,” he said, adding with impatience, “Why does a party always have to be seeking political power?”
ref: 2013 March 12, Andrew Jacobs, Patrick Zuo, Shi Da, quoting Zhou Zhongxiao, “Non-Communist Parties Lend China an Air of Pluralism, Without the Mess”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2013, Asia Pacific:
synonyms: word: govern
word: regnant
english: of a monarch
translation: of a monarch
word: reigning
english: of a monarch
translation: of a monarch
word: in power
english: of a government; used after the noun
translation: of a government; used after the noun
glosses: That rules; predominant; chief; reigning; controlling.
Derived terms: ruling class
ruling grade
ruling gradient
ruling planet
ruling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Forms: form: rulings
Etymology: By surface analysis, rule + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: These orders are now cancelled as a result of the Minister's ruling.
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment: Minister hamstrings BR workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 291:
glosses: An order or a decision on a point of law from someone in authority.
Synonyms: commandment
edict
order
rule
Derived terms: letter ruling
preliminary ruling
ruling pen
ruling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, rule + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rule
forcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).sɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.sɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪŋ
Forms: form: forcings
Etymology: By surface analysis, force + -ing.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory. See forcing (mathematics).
examples: text: orbital / astronomical forcing (effect on climate of slow changes in the tilt of Earth's axis and shape of its orbit)
ref: 1991, Alfred George Fischer, Orbital forcing and sedimentary sequences: a special issue:
text: […] in improving the transfer function of these proxy data and in modelling the response of the climate system to the astronomical forcing over the last 3 Ma with a particular attention paid to the phase relations between insolation,[…]
ref: 1991, Frederik Johan Hilgen, Astronomical Forcing and Geochronological Application of Sedimentary Cycles in the Mediterranean Pliocene-Pleistocene, Faculteit Aardwetenschappen Der Rijksuniversiteit Te Utrecht:
text: Franz Kuhnert, 18881 2.1 WHY ASTRONOMICAL FORCING? In the 1840s, James Croll assumed that the ice ages were driven by changes in the orbit of the Earth. The astronomical origin was likewise taken as natural by Milutin Milankovitch,[…]
ref: 2002 August 26, Richard A. Muller, Gordon J. MacDonald, Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes: Data, Spectral Analysis and Mechanisms, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 19:
text: The astronomic forcing of climate In the course of its 4.5 billion-year history, Earth's climate has been relatively warm for about 90% of the time. Climate has changed on long time scales in response to the evolution of the Sun and[…]
ref: 2006 March 30, Martin Beniston, Climatic Change and Its Impacts: An Overview Focusing on Switzerland, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 53:
text: […] the 100,000-yr periodicity observed in climate fluctuations may result from the combined effect of a weak (deterministic) astronomic forcing and background environmental noise in a complex, nonlinear system with internal feedbacks.
ref: 2011 June 20, Luca Ridolfi, Paolo D'Odorico, Francesco Laio, Noise-Induced Phenomena in the Environmental Sciences, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 156:
ref: 2017, Caroline Louise Prescott, Orbital Forcing and Its Importance in Understanding the Warm Pliocene:
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.
Derived terms: approach-forcing
forcing function
forcing house
full-line forcing
preforcing
radiative forcing
ramified forcing
third-line forcing
unramified forcing
forcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).sɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.sɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, force + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of force
forcing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).sɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ.sɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)sɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, force + -ing.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: Pertaining to a bid which requires partner to continue bidding rather than pass.
Derived terms: forcingly
nonforcing
margin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːd͡ʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɑːɹd͡ʒ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒɪn
Forms: form: margins
form: margining
form: margined
form: margined
Etymology: From Middle English margyn, from Latin marginem (possibly via Old French margin), accusative of margō (“edge, brink, border, margin”). Doublet of marge and margo.
Senses: glosses: To add a margin to.
glosses: To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.
examples: text: This sounds easy, but bear in mind that margined portfolios decline faster than cash portfolios in a bear market.
ref: 2011, Richard Lehman, Lawrence G. McMillan, Options for Volatile Markets, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 90:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To trade (securities etc.) on margin (collateral).
previously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːvi.əsli/
ipa: /ˈpɹivi.əsli/
Etymology: From previous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I must, however, previously remark, that the power of generalizing ideas, to any great extent, is not very common amongst men or women.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
glosses: First; beforehand, in advance.
raw_tags: with present-tense constructions
examples: text: The discovery of a previously unknown species had taken place nearly two years previously.
text: Pliny the Elder, the Roman encyclopedist, declares that to urinate in a spot where a dog has previously done so results in loss of virility.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 239:
text: In the lawsuit, Giuffre claimed she was forced to have sex with a “large amount of people,” some of whom had not previously been named including New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson […].
ref: 2019 August 10, Julie Brown, Veronica Penney, Daniel Chang, Sarah Blaskey, “Jeffrey Epstein is gone, but allegations against powerful associates linger”, in Tampa Bay Times:
glosses: At an earlier time; already.
raw_tags: with past-tense constructions
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series.
Derived terms: as previously mentioned
previously disadvantaged
Related terms: before
previous
prior
yesteryear
atherosclerosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæθɚoʊskləˈɹoʊsəs/
Forms: form: atheroscleroses
Etymology: From athero- + sclerosis.
Senses: examples: text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The clogging or hardening of arteries or blood vessels caused by plaques (accumulations of fatty deposits, usually cholesterol).
Derived terms: antiatherosclerosis
atherosclerotic
atherosclerotically
neoatherosclerosis
proatherosclerosis
Related terms: arteriosclerosis
economic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk/
ipa: /ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪk/
ipa: /ˌikəˈnɑmɪk/
ipa: /ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk/
ipa: /ˌiːkəˈnɔmɪk/
ipa: /ˌekəˈnɔmɪk/
ipa: /ˌiːkɔˈnɒmɪk/
ipa: /ˌɛkɔˈnɒmɪk/
rhymes: -ɒmɪk
Forms: form: more economic
form: most economic
form: economick
form: œconomic
form: œconomick
Etymology: From Middle French economique, from Latin oeconomicus, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομικός (oikonomikós, “skilled with household management”).
Senses: examples: text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
text: There is much talk of tyranny in the political realm, but little is said about the tyrannies in the economic realm, a primary one being the tyranny of high costs: high costs crush the economy from within and enslave those attempting to start enterprises or keep their businesses afloat.
ref: 2021 January 7, Charles Hugh Smith, The Tyranny Nobody Talks About:
glosses: Pertaining to an economy.
glosses: Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical.
glosses: Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.
examples: text: And doth employ her Oeconomick Art, and buisy Care, her Houshold to preserve
ref: 1714 [1599], John Davies, edited by Nahum Tate, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul, 2nd edition, London: Hammond Banks, page 64:
glosses: Pertaining to the management of a household
Derived terms: agro-economic
agroeconomic
antieconomic
bioeconomic
clinicoeconomic
countereconomic
economical
economic blockade
economic capital
economic corridor
economic crisis
economic cybernetics
economic determinism
economic emigrant
economic equilibrium
economic freedom
economic growth
economic human
economic immigrant
economic indicator
economic liberalism
economic man
economic migrant
economic moat
economic mobility
economic nationalism
economicology
economic output
economic plunder
economic rationalism
economic refugee
economic rent
economics
economic scenario generator
economic science
economic substance
economic terrorism
economic warfare
exclusive economic zone
genoeconomic
geoeconomic
hydroeconomic
macro-economic
macroeconomic
medicoeconomic
mesoeconomic
microeconomic
mixed economic
nanoeconomic
neuroeconomic
noneconomic
non-economic
pharmacoeconomic
political-economic
politicoeconomic
politico-economic
pseudoeconomic
psychoeconomic
quasieconomic
sexuo-economic
socio-economic
socio-political-economic
special economic zone
subeconomic
technoeconomic
techonomic
thermoeconomic
uneconomic
Related terms: economise
economize
drive-in
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from drive in.
Senses: examples: drive-in church; drive-in funeral parlor
coordinate_terms: drive-through#Adjective
glosses: Providing service to patrons who remain in their automobiles and partake while parked.
raw_tags: of an establishment
glosses: motel; motor inn
Derived terms: drive-in movie
drive-in theatre
drive-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drive-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from drive in.
Senses: examples: text: Owners and sponsors of the drive-ins feel that in three-quarters of their patrons they have tapped a practically prehistoric strain of human—the hitherto non-movie-goer.
ref: 1975, David Manning White, Popular Culture, page 154:
text: This fact may seem surprising since the major movie studios, reluctant to risk cheapening their images by releasing first-run films to drive-ins, made only older movies affordable to drive-in operators.
ref: 2000, Mary Alampi, Dun & Bradstreet/Gale Group Industry Handbook, page 26:
text: At the end of June 1997, there were 325 cinema sites and 28 drive-in sites in Australia.
ref: 2000, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2000 Year Book Australia, page 346:
glosses: An outdoor cinema where movies are projected onto a large screen and patrons watch from inside their vehicles, listening either by a speaker or a designated radio frequency.
examples: text: The teenagers went down to the drive-in to order some hamburgers and fries.
text: 1965 May 7, Don Moser, The nightmare of life with Billy, LIFE, page 101,
glosses: A restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles to consume their meals; the meal may be ordered and delivered to one's vehicle by a carhop waiter; or may require patrons to use a service counter. The cars in the parking lot serve as the patrons' dining room, there being a lack of dining rooms and tables.
examples: text: Even before franchising genius Ray A. Kroc approached Mac and Dick McDonald to become the licensing agent for their small San Bernardino (Calif.) restaurant, scores of drive-in operators had begun copying McDonald′s speedy burger-fries-and-shake menus. Love contends that Kroc′s success came largely from his commitment to automating the preparation of drive-in meals.
ref: 1986, Business Week, numbers 2967-2978, page 136:
text: For during the fabled Indiana blizzard of ′78, Tom found himself trapped inside the kitchen of the drive-in for three days before his family, and—more to the point—his customers, could reach him.
ref: 2006, Reid Duffy, Reid Duffy's Guide to Indiana's Favorite Restaurants: With a Recipe Sampler, page 135:
glosses: A drive-through restaurant where patrons remain in their vehicles and order food and beverages via a speaker phone; the meal is delivered by a service window accessible by car.
Synonyms: sense: outdoor cinema
word: drive-in cinema
sense: outdoor cinema
word: drive-in movie
sense: outdoor cinema
word: drive-in theater
sense: outdoor cinema
word: drive-in theatre
sense: drive-in restaurant
word: drive-in restaurant
Hyponyms: sense: drive-in restaurant
word: drive-through
sense: drive-in restaurant
word: drive-through restaurant
Related terms: car hop
primarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /praɪˈmɛrəli/
ipa: /pɹaɪˈmɛɹəli/
ipa: /ˈpɹaɪmɛɹəli/
Etymology: From primary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of fitting a crane to an engine for shunting duties, primarily in works yards, appears to have originated with the North London Railway engine in 1872.
ref: 1951 October, H. C. Casserley, “Crane Engines”, in Railway Magazine, page 660:
text: But now a study has shown that most cancers are primarily caused by bad luck rather than poor lifestyle choices or defective DNA.
ref: 2015 January 1, Sarah Knapton, “Most cancers are caused by bad luck not genes or lifestyle, say scientists”, in The Telegraph:
text: Zika virus disease is caused by a virus transmitted primarily by Aedes mosquitoes, which bite during the day.
ref: 2018 July 20, “Zika virus”, in World Health Organization:
text: Some Gold Cups are won primarily with class, others with stamina.
ref: 2019 March 15, Keith Melrose, “Our leading tipsters give their fancy for the Cheltenham Gold Cup”, in The Racing Post:
glosses: Of a primary or central nature, first and foremost.
Synonyms: by and large
chiefly
for the most part
mostly
above all
double-click
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-clicks
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The action of pushing the button on a mouse twice in quick succession in order to perform a different task that would be performed from a single-click or triple-click.
double-click
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-clicks
form: double-clicking
form: double-clicked
form: double-clicked
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To push the button on a mouse twice in quick succession in order to perform a different task than would be performed from a single-click or triple-click.
fave
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: fav
Etymology: From favorite or favourite, by shortening.
Senses: examples: text: At stlmag.com this month
Select articles from this issue
An editors' podcast
A Google Map of our Best Dressed winners' fave shops
ref: 2010 September, St. Louis magazine, volume 16, number 9, →ISSN, page 8:
text: “She's entered the privacy phase. The rebellion has started, Jenny. Violet is lost to us!” “Oh, don't be so dramatic. She's still our little girl. Watch this. Vi, 90-Day Beyoncé is coming on. Fave garbage-y reality show. Want to watch ironically... while I watch unironically?” “Nope, bye.” “See?”
ref: 2020 September 27, Christy Stratton & Jeremy Rowley, “Violet's Secret” (: from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Jenny Hart (Kristen Wiig):
glosses: Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
Derived terms: favelet
fave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: faves
form: fav
Etymology: From favorite or favourite, by shortening.
Senses: glosses: Favorite (US) or favourite (UK)
fave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: faves
form: faving
form: faved
form: faved
form: fav
Etymology: From favorite or favourite, by shortening.
Senses: glosses: Favorite (US) or favourite (UK)
favouritism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favouritisms
form: favoritism
Etymology: From favourite + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Heidi Alexander has experience of London. As Transport Secretary, she will also be under pressure not to show favouritism to the capital.
ref: 2024 December 27, Tom Edwards, “Network News: Can success in the capital transfer to the wider stage?”, in RAIL, number 1025, page 19:
glosses: The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
Etruscan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈtɹʌskən/
enpr: ĭ-trŭs'kən
Forms: form: more Etruscan
form: most Etruscan
Etymology: From Latin Etruscus (which see for more) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the region and culture of Etruria, a pre-Roman civilization in Italy.
Synonyms: Etrurian
Derived terms: Etruscan bear
Etruscan shrew
Etruscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈtɹʌskən/
enpr: ĭ-trŭs'kən
Forms: form: Etruscans
Etymology: From Latin Etruscus (which see for more) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: […] Gauls used the suffix -acus, Etruscans -nas or -na, Umbrians -enus, -ienus.
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
glosses: An inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
Synonyms: Etrurian
Etruscan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈtɹʌskən/
enpr: ĭ-trŭs'kən
Etymology: From Latin Etruscus (which see for more) + -an.
Senses: glosses: The extinct language of Etruria, which has no known relation to any other language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Etruscan terms
favoritism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favoritisms
Etymology: From favorite + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: A distinction is ingroup favoritism versus outgroup negativity or derogation.
ref: 2020 June 6, Lisa Selin Davis, “Children aren’t born racist. Here’s how parents can stop them from becoming racist.”, in CNN, spoken by May Ling Halim:
glosses: Alternative spelling of favouritism.
fool's gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the idea that the mineral fools people (especially those who are fools) into mistakenly thinking that they have found gold. Regarding minerals that were named for deceptive appearance that prompts confusion with others, compare also apatite.
Senses: glosses: A mineral or other substance often mistaken for gold; mainly iron pyrite.
examples: text: Although many dot-com dreams turned to fool's gold in a short time, in reality, there are a number of entrepreneurial ventures that not only survived but thrived during and after the dot-com crash.
ref: 2011, Ellen A. Ensher, Susan E. Murphy, Power Mentoring, page 50:
glosses: Something worthless that deceptively seems valuable.
blood vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood vessels
Senses: examples: text: As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.
ref: 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A component of the circulatory system, such as an artery, capillary, or vein, that carries blood.
Synonyms: word: edder
word: blood vessel
Hyponyms: word: vein
word: artery
word: capillary
word: arteriole
word: venule
word: veinlet
word: microvessel
Derived terms: burst a blood vessel
Related terms: word: circulatory system
word: vessel
911
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnaɪn wʌn ˈwʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
Forms: form: 9-1-1
form: nine-one-one
form: nine one one
Etymology: Chosen by the United States in the 1960s in place of the older British 999 number as a better way to avoid accidental calls from push-button telephones. It is officially pronounced "nine-one-one" and not "nine-eleven," as the latter refers to the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. 9/11 is universally distinguished from 911 to refer the September 11 attacks. Officially written as 9-1-1 in regulations and materials from the United States National Emergency Number Association and Federal Communications Commission, which is also advocated by some media style guides.
Senses: examples: text: When you call 911 in the United States, a local dispatcher usually answers the phone with "911" or "911. What's your emergency?"
text: After witnessing what was possibly a robbery, she called 911.
text: I don't know why they couldn't just keep it as it was! How hard is it to remember 911?
You mean 999...
I mean 999!
That's the American one!
Yeah!
ref: 2006 Feb. 3, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 1, Episode 2
roman: You berk.
text: Well, look, I wear a mask, I try not to be a maskhole about it. If I see — if I see somebody who doesn't have a mask, I don't call 911.
ref: 2021 March 18, John Kennedy, quotee, “SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA) IS INTERVIEWED ON FOX NEWS”, in Political Transcript Wire, Lanham:
text: Many still assume that “you call 988 and — much like 911 — that means someone is going to be dispatched to you,” said Hannah Wesolowski, NAMI’s chief advocacy officer. “For the vast majority — almost all callers — that’s not actually the case.”
ref: 2023 July 13, Christina Caron, “Is the New 988 Suicide Hotline Working?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The telephone number for emergency services in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Liberia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Anguilla, Palau, and Tonga.
Coordinate terms: word: 000
sense: Mongolia
word: 105
word: 110
word: 111
word: 112
word: 119
word: 999
word: emergency services
word: 311
word: 411
word: 811
word: other short telephone numbers
Related terms: E911