cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
N.N.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation of Latin nōmen nesciō (“I do not know the name”)
Senses: glosses: Used as a substitute for an unknown name or one that the writer wishes not to reveal.
commissar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmɪˈsɑː/
ipa: /ˈkɑ.məˌsɑɹ/
Forms: form: commissars
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian комисса́р (komissár), from German Kommissar (“commissioner”), from Latin commissarius, from commissus, past participle of committō (“to commit, entrust to”). Doublet of commissary.
Senses: examples: text: On Monday, state media named Wang Houbin as commander of the Rocket Force and Xu Xisheng as the political commissar of the force in a report highlighting their promotion to the rank of general by Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
ref: 2023 August 2, Brad Lendon, Simone McCarthy and Wayne Chang, “China replaces elite nuclear leadership in surprise military shake-up”, in CNN:
glosses: An official of the Communist Party, often attached to a military unit, who was responsible for political education.
qualifier: early Soviet Union
glosses: The head of a commissariat.
examples: text: There is a dangerous censoriousness pulsing through American society. In small towns and big cities alike, would-be commissars are fighting, in the name of a distinct minority of Americans, to stifle open discussion and impose their views on the community at large. Dissenters, when they speak out, are hounded, ostracized and sometimes even forced from their jobs.
ref: 2022 February 18, Jamelle Bouie, “Opinion: You Just Can’t Tell the Truth About America Anymore”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 May 2023:
glosses: A political functionary whose job is to push the party or government line.
Derived terms: commissarial
commissariat
political commissar
dietary supplement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dietary supplements
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any substance, such as a vitamin or mineral, taken as a supplement to food to replace nutrients that would otherwise be missing in a person's diet.
immission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: immissions
Senses: antonyms: emission
glosses: The act of immitting; injection or infusion.
vice-president
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice-presidents
Etymology: From vice- + president.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vice president.
rodomontade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɒ.də.mɒnˈtɑːd/
ipa: /ˌɹɒ.də.mɒnˈteɪd/
ipa: /ˌɹɑ.də.mənˈteɪd/
ipa: /ˌɹɑ.dəˌmɑnˈteɪd/
ipa: /ˌɹɑ.də.mənˈtɑd/
ipa: /ˌɹɑ.dəˌmɑnˈtɑd/
Forms: form: more rodomontade
form: most rodomontade
form: rhodomontade
Etymology: From French rodomontade, a reference to Rodomonte, a boastful character in the Italian Renaissance epic poems Orlando innamorato (1483) and its sequel Orlando furioso (1506–1532). Doublet of rodomontado.
Senses: glosses: Pretentiously boastful.
rodomontade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɒ.də.mɒnˈtɑːd/
ipa: /ˌɹɒ.də.mɒnˈteɪd/
ipa: /ˌɹɑ.də.mənˈteɪd/
ipa: /ˌɹɑ.dəˌmɑnˈteɪd/
ipa: /ˌɹɑ.də.mənˈtɑd/
ipa: /ˌɹɑ.dəˌmɑnˈtɑd/
Forms: form: rodomontades
form: rodomontading
form: rodomontaded
form: rodomontaded
form: rhodomontade
Etymology: From French rodomontade, a reference to Rodomonte, a boastful character in the Italian Renaissance epic poems Orlando innamorato (1483) and its sequel Orlando furioso (1506–1532). Doublet of rodomontado.
Senses: glosses: To boast, brag or bluster pretentiously.
raphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raphides
form: raphis
form: rhaphide
form: rhaphis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥαφίς (rhaphís).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A crystal of calcium oxalate, shaped like a needle, which forms as a metabolic byproduct in some plant cells.
Related terms: biraphid
monoraphid
raphidiferous
sphaeraphis
chitinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪtɪnəs/
Forms: form: more chitinous
form: most chitinous
Etymology: From chitin + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Not to mention you were too much of a scaredy cat to kill one of those chitinous shit-heads with your axe, my grandmother is less of a pussy than you and she’s gotten several painful diseases!
ref: 2012, Xevious, quoted in: Kazerad, ==>, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), April 13 2012
glosses: Made of, pertaining to, or resembling chitin.
Derived terms: nonchitinous
pseudochitinous
sike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: psych
homophone: cyc
Forms: form: sikes
form: syke
form: syke
Etymology: From Northern Middle English sike, from Old English sīċ (see sitch), possibly also from or related to Old Norse sík; both from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; trickle”). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare Scots sheuch.
Senses: examples: text: The swankies lap thro' mire and syke, Wow as their heads did birr!
ref: 1809, John Skinner, Amusements of Leisure Hours, or Poetical Pieces, chiefly in the Scottish dialect, page 41:
text: [...] a great gathering o' their folk at the Miry-sikes, […]
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord: 2nd Series, Collectd and Arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseud.], page 6:
text: It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh;[…]
ref: 1859, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review, page 278:
text: The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. Bedoven in dankès deep was every sike;[…]
ref: 1876, Rosaline Orme Masson, Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick, A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512, page 160:
text: […] hills and mountains, moss or mure, bank or syke, sea or shore,[…]
ref: 1937, Scottish History Society, Publications of the Scottish History Society:
text: The march of that herding is to come from the Rispie syke to the point at Blood syke Bottom to the stone syke-head.
ref: 1952 [1776], Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Transactions and Journal of Proceedings:
glosses: A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer; the marshy ground or ditch through which such a stream flows.
sike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: psych
homophone: cyc
Forms: form: sikes
form: siking
form: siked
form: siked
form: syke
Etymology: From Middle English siken, from Old English sīcan (“to sigh”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan (“to sigh”). Doublet of sigh.
Senses: glosses: To sigh or sob.
sike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: psych
homophone: cyc
Forms: form: sikes
form: syke
Etymology: From Middle English siken, from Old English sīcan (“to sigh”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīkan (“to sigh”). Doublet of sigh.
Senses: glosses: A sigh.
sike
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: psych
homophone: cyc
Forms: form: syke
Senses: examples: text: She macks sike warke.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Such.
sike
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: psych
homophone: cyc
Forms: form: syke
Etymology: Pronunciation respelling of psych.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psych.
archaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.keɪ.ɪz.əm/
ipa: /ɑːˈkeɪ.ɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.kiˌɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.keɪˌɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈaː.kæɪ.ɪz.əm/
Forms: form: archaisms
form: archaicism
form: archæism
form: archaeism
Etymology: 17th century, from New Latin archaismus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχαϊσμός (arkhaïsmós, “an antiquated phrase or style”), from ἀρχαίζω (arkhaízō, “to model one's style upon that of ancient writers”), from ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “old, ancient”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning”), from ἄρχω (árkhō, “I begin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin, rule, command”).
Senses: glosses: The adoption or imitation of archaic words or style.
examples: text: In this text, the word "methinks" appears to be a deliberate archaism.
text: He had the fastidiousness, the preciosity, the love of archaisms, of your true decadent.
ref: 1902, Robert Langton Douglas, A History of Siena:
glosses: An archaic word, style, etc.
Synonyms: gadzookery
Hyponyms: sense: poor and high-flown use in writing
word: tushery
Derived terms: archaist
hyperarchaism
pseudoarchaism
Related terms: archaic
abscissae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɪsˌi/
ipa: /æbˈsɪsˌiː/
Forms: form: abscissas
form: abscissæ
Senses: glosses: plural of abscissa
icing on the cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We went out for dinner and dancing and the icing on the cake was when my boyfriend proposed to me as we danced.
text: With such advantages as these, the superior thermal efficiency of the diesel becomes no more than the icing on the cake.
ref: 1957 August 24, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 564:
text: “I'm happy right now. I don't need to test-drive a bunch of lemons to get me there. But happily ever after? That's a trip worth taking. The pièce de résistance. The crème de la crème. The—” “The icing on the cake,” Dana said. Michelle raised her glass in a toast. “Exactly.”
ref: 2013, Alison Kent, The Icing on the Cake, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Something that intensifies the appreciation of something already good (or bad in an ironic sense depending on the context).
Synonyms: cherry on the cake
cherry on top
frosting on the cake
walls have ears
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: "But it is well to remember that walls have ears, and therefore to whisper."
ref: 1915, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 20, in Steve Yeager:
text: “We're talking about everything you can't discuss in Damascus, because there the walls have ears,” Mr. Taieb said.
ref: 2015 July 15, Thanassis Cambanis, “A Syrian Parody Features the Civil War, and Is Stalked by It”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2020, retrieved 27 Sep 2017:
glosses: There is always a risk of being overheard, so one should be careful about what one says.
Related terms: little pitchers have big ears
debit card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛbɪt ˌkɑɹd/
Forms: form: debit cards
Senses: topics: banking
business
synonyms: word: uncredit card
hypernyms: payment card
bank card
coordinate_terms: credit card
glosses: A card similar to a credit card, but which withdraws funds directly from the bank account, rather than borrowing the funds from the issuer of the card.
painkiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪnˌkɪlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: painkillers
form: pain killer
Etymology: From pain + killer.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: analgesia
text: While taking one pill and dying is rare, dying accidentally after using painkillers inappropriately is common. […] The prescription painkiller Emily Jackson took is a respiratory depressant that slows breathing. That in combination with the alcohol, another respiratory depressant, overwhelmed her brain, which stopped giving her heart and lungs the signal to keep functioning.
ref: 2012 November 15, Maxwell Newfield, “Prescription drug deaths: Two stories”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: PK
analgesic#Noun
glosses: A drug that numbs the pain in the body.
Related terms: word: painkilling
word: analgesic
overbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)baɪt/
ipa: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈbaɪt/
Forms: form: overbites
Etymology: From over- + bite.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.
overbite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)baɪt/
ipa: /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈbaɪt/
Forms: form: overbites
form: overbiting
form: overbit
form: overbitten
Etymology: From over- + bite.
Senses: glosses: To use excessive acid in an etching process, so that the result is too deep.
Related terms: crossbite
underbite
mutilate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuː.tɪˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈmjuː.tɪ.lət/
ipa: /ˈmjuː.tɪ.lɪt/
Forms: form: mutilates
form: mutilating
form: mutilated
form: mutilated
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mutilātus, the perfect passive participle of mutilō (“to mutilate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), itself from mutilus (“maimed”).
Senses: examples: text: mutilated currency
glosses: To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
glosses: To destroy beyond recognition.
examples: text: For two reasons then it is right to be content with that which happens to thee; the one, because it was done for thee and prescribed for thee, and in a manner had reference to thee, originally from the most ancient causes spun with thy destiny; and the other, because even that which comes severally to every man is to the power which administers the universe a cause of felicity and perfection, nay even of its very continuance. For the integrity of the whole is mutilated, if thou cuttest off anything whatever from the conjunction and the continuity either of the parts or of the causes. And thou dost cut off, as far as it is in thy power, when thou art dissatisfied, and in a manner triest to put anything out of the way.
ref: 1862, George Long (translation of Marcus Aurelius), Meditations, Book V:
glosses: To render imperfect or defective.
Synonyms: maim
mangle
Derived terms: genitally mutilate
mutilatee
mutilater
mutilation
mutilative
mutilator
mutilate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuː.tɪˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈmjuː.tɪ.lət/
ipa: /ˈmjuː.tɪ.lɪt/
Forms: form: mut.
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mutilātus, the perfect passive participle of mutilō (“to mutilate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), itself from mutilus (“maimed”).
Senses: examples: text: mutilate and semi-bodies
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
glosses: Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, like a cetacean does.
mutilate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuː.tɪˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈmjuː.tɪ.lət/
ipa: /ˈmjuː.tɪ.lɪt/
Forms: form: mutilates
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mutilātus, the perfect passive participle of mutilō (“to mutilate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), itself from mutilus (“maimed”).
Senses: glosses: Something that has been mutilated.
Related terms: amputate
amputation
castrate
castration
circumcise
circumcision
molester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛstɚ/
ipa: /məˈlɛstə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: molesters
Etymology: From molest + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who molests.
Derived terms: Chester
Chester the molester
child molester
chomo
molestability
molestable
molestache
molestee
molester
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛstɚ/
ipa: /məˈlɛstə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: molesters
form: molestering
form: molestered
form: molestered
Etymology: From molest + -er.
Senses: examples: 2000, "The Wacky Molestation Adventure" (season 4, episode 16), South Park
Kyle: I wish I didn't have any parents!
Cartman: Well, you could make them go away for a while.
Kyle: How?
Cartman: Well, I mean, you could call the police and have them take your parents away.
Stan: The police?
Cartman: Yeah! I saw it on TV. All you gotta do is call the police, and say that your parents both molestered you.
Kyle: What's that?
Cartman: I don't know, but it works. When I wanted to get rid of my mom's last boyfriend, I just called the police, and said he was molestering me, and I haven't seen him for three months.
glosses: Alternative form of molest.
misprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹprĭnt
ipa: /ˈmɪspɹɪnt/
enpr: mĭs-prĭntʹ
ipa: /mɪsˈpɹɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: misprints
Etymology: From mis- + print.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: typo; lapsus calami, lapsus plumæ
text: There is a misprint in the first print run: On page 42 where the character yells, "You're going to catch a cod if you spend all night fishing", the dialogue was meant to say, "You're going to catch a cold if you spend all night fishing."
coordinate_terms: writo
glosses: An accidental mistake in print.
misprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹprĭnt
ipa: /ˈmɪspɹɪnt/
enpr: mĭs-prĭntʹ
ipa: /mɪsˈpɹɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: misprints
form: misprinting
form: misprinted
form: misprinted
Etymology: From mis- + print.
Senses: examples: text: I misprinted his name on the invitation. He's called James, not Jambes.
text: [...] the northbound trains involved are the 8.15 a.m. (not p.m. as misprinted last month) and 10.15 a.m. from Buchanan Street - [...].
ref: 1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 638:
glosses: To make a misprint.
incomparable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɒmp(ə)rəbəl/
ipa: /ɪŋkəmˈpærəbəl/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɑmp(ə)ɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪŋkəmˈpɛɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more incomparable
form: most incomparable
Etymology: From Middle English incomparable, from Middle French incomparable, from Old French [Term?], from Latin incomparābilis. By surface analysis, in- + comparable.
Senses: synonyms: noncomparable
uncomparable
antonyms: comparable
glosses: Not comparable.
examples: text: I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
ref: c. 1905, Oscar Wilde, edited by Robert Baldwin Ross, De Profundis, published 1909, page 112:
synonyms: matchless
unsurpassed
glosses: So much better than another as to be beyond comparison.
Derived terms: incomparability
incomparableness
incomparably
Related terms: priceless
incomparable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkɒmp(ə)rəbəl/
ipa: /ɪŋkəmˈpærəbəl/
ipa: /ɪŋˈkɑmp(ə)ɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪŋkəmˈpɛɹəbəl/
Forms: form: incomparables
Etymology: From Middle English incomparable, from Middle French incomparable, from Old French [Term?], from Latin incomparābilis. By surface analysis, in- + comparable.
Senses: glosses: Something beyond compare; a thing with which there is no comparison.
hungover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌŋˌəʊ.və(ɹ)/
ipa: /hʌŋˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/
ipa: /hʌŋˈoʊvɚ/
Forms: form: more hungover
form: most hungover
form: hung over
form: hung-over
Senses: glosses: Suffering from a hangover.
Derived terms: unhungover
heaviest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of heavy: most heavy
headshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headshots
Etymology: From head + shot.
Senses: examples: text: I went home, I changed, I went to Walgreens and printed out a headshot of me and signed it ‘from your favorite local news reporter,’ and I sat in the parking lot for four hours until she said, ‘Hey, your passes to go backstage are at will-call’.
ref: 2023 November 6, Chris Willman, quoting Bryan West, “Gannett’s Taylor Swift Reporter, Revealed: Meet Bryan West, the First Full-Time Swiftie Journalist”, in Variety:
glosses: A portrait for branding or social media.
examples: text: Smelling victory amongst the gunpowder Graeme started shooting off his mouth. “True Counter-Strikers like me don’t even count kills unless they’re headshots or a knife in the back of the nut…”
ref: 2004 April 24, Computer and Video Games, number 271, page 24:
glosses: A gunshot to the head.
glosses: A one-page, double-sided resume of an actor, consisting of the actor's photograph (usually of the head and shoulders) on one side and their curriculum vitae on the other.
headshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: headshots
form: headshotting
form: headshotted
form: headshotted
Etymology: From head + shot.
Senses: examples: text: SCOUTMASTER / HEADSHOTTED A SCOUT WITH THE BREECHSHOT.
ref: 2013, Doug Walsh, Gears of War: Judgment, collector’s edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: DK/BradyGames, →ISBN, page 336:
text: Everybody knows someone who feels left out when video games are being played. Maybe your girlfriend is bad at headshotting newbs in “Halo 4” or racing against you in “Gran Turismo,” but she could definitely play this.
ref: 2013 May 1, Matt Grippi, “Battleblock Theater is insane, hilarious fun”, in Daily 49er, volume LIX, number 601, Long Beach, Calif.: California State University, Long Beach, page 5, column 3:
text: Workplace bouts of Novalogic’s tactical firstperson shooter Delta Force 2 further seeded the sense that cover was neglected. “We all were playing that after work when we were having the debate about cover and first- or thirdperson,” [Chris] Esaki says. “I remember very vividly getting headshotted when I thought I was behind a piece of cover, but it was clear in the replay afterwards that my head was above the piece of stone. I couldn’t tell, and that was the reason why we went thirdperson with Kill Switch.”
ref: 2015 December, Tristan Donovan, “The Making of… Kill Switch”, in Edge, number 286, →ISSN, page 97:
topics: video-games
glosses: To kill (someone) by shooting them in the head.
emulsifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪi.mʌl.sɪf.aɪ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /əˈmʌl.sɪf.aɪ.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: emulsifiers
Etymology: From emulsify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The lecithin in egg yolks is often used as an emulsifier.
glosses: A substance that helps an emulsion form, or helps keep an emulsion from separating.
Derived terms: bioemulsifier
phacoemulsifier
juvenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).
Senses: glosses: Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.
Derived terms: postjuvenal
juvenal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juvenals
Etymology: From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).
Senses: glosses: A juvenal bird.
examples: text: How canſt thou part ſadnes and melancholy, my tender Iuuenall?
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature B2, recto, line 8:
glosses: A youth.
Related terms: juvenile
laggardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more laggardly
form: most laggardly
Etymology: From laggard + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They are in virtual contact above with the liver on the right side and the spleen on the left and move laggardly and to a slight degree with respiration.
ref: 1917, Charles Lyman Greene, Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner, page 732:
text: But none the less, he moved stiffly to the door in order to comply. His legs moved laggardly. Something within him repelled this motion of obedience.
ref: 1917, Waldo David Frank, The Unwelcome Man: A Novel, page 108:
text: Eager as we were to reach Ellsworth, the boss men made us keep those longhorns moving at a leisurely pace. Leisurely. [...] So it was a good thing Mr. Justus and the major kept us moving laggardly.
ref: 2016, Johnny D. Boggs, Summer of the Star: A Western Story, Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: In the manner of a laggard; sluggishly; slowly.
laggardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laggardly
form: most laggardly
Etymology: From laggard + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For the most part the early adopters, early majority, and later majority can function in either an innovative system, laggardly system, or a system that has a combination of both.
ref: 1986, James C. McCroskey, Virginia P. Richmond, Robert Allen Stewart, One on One: The Foundations of Interpersonal Communication, Prentice Hall:
text: It is extremely important to discover why a county such as West Glamorgan, which is still home to a great number of native Welsh speakers, is more laggardly in its provision of Welsh language teaching than South Glamorgan ...
ref: 1992, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) : House of Commons official report:
text: Britain has considerable interest in completing the Single Market in services that has made much more laggardly progress than the free movement of persons and visible goods.
ref: 2016, David Gowland, Britain and the European Union, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: Slow in manner; taking more time than is necessary; lagging behind.
lakefront
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪkˌfɹʌnt/
Etymology: From lake + front.
Senses: examples: text: Lakefront property is very expensive because many people want access to the water for recreation.
glosses: Adjacent to a lake. Usually used to describe real estate.
lakefront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪkˌfɹʌnt/
Forms: form: lakefronts
Etymology: From lake + front.
Senses: examples: text: Property on the lakefront is very expensive.
glosses: Land or an area which is adjacent to a lake.
lambency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambencies
Etymology: From lambent + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: [B]ecause of the centuries he has spent dormant in the tumulus, there is a foundedness as well as a lambency about him.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xix:
glosses: The property of being lambent, brightness.
Synonyms: lambience
lamebrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪmˌbɹeɪn/
Forms: form: lamebrains
Etymology: From lame + brain.
Senses: examples: text: You lamebrain! How could you do something so stupid?
glosses: A fool.
lamebrain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪmˌbɹeɪn/
Forms: form: more lamebrain
form: most lamebrain
Etymology: From lame + brain.
Senses: examples: text: We're not going to introdce the lame brain legislation [NGTF] is talking about. We want solid stuff. We want to talk about opening up billions of dollars of funding into mental health and social services, for all alternative lifestyles not just gays.
ref: 1979 February 3, Tommi Avicolli, Bob Kunst, “Defeat as Victory”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 27, page 8:
glosses: lamebrained, foolish
lamplight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlæmplaɪt/
Forms: form: lamplights
Etymology: From Middle English lampe lyght, laumpe-lyth, lombe-lyȝt, equivalent to lamp + light. Compare West Frisian lampeljocht (“lamplight”), Dutch lamplicht (“lamplight”), German Lampenlicht (“lamplight”), Danish lampelys (“lamplight”), Swedish lampljus (“lamplight”), Icelandic lampaljós (“lamplight”).
Senses: examples: text: We sat around reading by lamplight all night.
text: I turned my head, and as I lay gasping in the throes of that awful struggle I could see that Leo was off the rock now, for the lamplight fell full upon him.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: The light emitted by a lamp.
Hypernyms: light
footsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtsi/
homophone: FTSE
homophone: Footsie
Forms: form: footsies
form: footsy
form: footy
Etymology: From foot + -sie.
Senses: examples: text: Play “footsie” with him while dining out together.
ref: 1995, David and Anne Frahm, How to Make Love With Your Clothes On, Tulsa, Okla.: Honor Books, →ISBN:
text: The only downside to this is that you can’t play footsie. The table gets in the way. You'll have to come up with something fresh if you want to invite that wonderful person to finish the evening at your side for a stroll along the banks of the Seine.
ref: 2010, Thierry Soufflard, The best places to kiss in Paris, Parigramme, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: A flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude.
examples: text: “Mother — Mother will you tie up my shoeies?” Susan’s lisping voice interrupted their conversation. / “Put a footsie up here,” Babs sang out. “’At’s a girl.”
ref: 1956 June 16, Dulce E. Waller, “Your Family and You”, in The Hamilton Spectator, volume CXI, number 140, Hamilton, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:
text: One of the boys was seated on my white chaise-lounge. I put my five foot five down on the end of the chaise and said, “Move your footsies, Honey, Mother needs to park her tired ass.”
ref: 1964, Kenneth Marlowe, “I Was a Problem”, in Mr. Madam: Confessions of a Male Madam, Los Angeles, Calif.: Sherbourne Press, →LCCN, page 25:
text: Dear God, I am thankful for ears that can wiggle For lips that can pucker and bellies that jiggle. For legs that can gallop and gambol and mosey. And thanks for each hair and each footsie and toesie.
ref: 2014, Jean Fischer, A Star for Me:
glosses: A foot.
glosses: A selfie (self-taken photograph) of one's feet.
Derived terms: footsie-wootsies
Related terms: feetsy
landsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landsmen
form: landman
Etymology: From land + -s- + man. In meanings 3 and 4, influenced by Yiddish לאַנדסמאַן (landsman). Compare also German Landsmann, Norwegian landsmann. Doublet of lantzman.
Senses: examples: text: So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Leg and Arm. The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 486:
text: If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: “James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please”; but put the mate in his place, and he would roar out: “Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! Lively, now! What're you about!..."
ref: 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi:
text: When I returned again to life, the same uproar, the same confused and violent movements, shook and deafened me; and presently, to my other pains and distresses, there was added the sickness of an unused landsman on the sea.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
antonyms: seaman
glosses: A person who does not go to sea, who lacks the skills of a sailor or who is uncomfortable on ships or boats.
qualifier: oil and gas industry
glosses: A person who negotiates leases, contracts and other business deals between producers and landowners.
glosses: A fellow Jew who comes from the same district or town, especially in Eastern Europe
glosses: Someone of a similar heritage or belief system
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A military rank given to naval recruits
Coordinate terms: sense: opposite of a seaman
word: landlubber
landsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landsman
expectant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛktənt/
Forms: form: more expectant
form: most expectant
Etymology: From Old French expectant, from Latin expectans.
Senses: examples: text: the expectant hush before the performance
glosses: Marked by expectation.
examples: text: an expectant mother
text: After seeing all the beautiful little wardrobe of the mother expectant, praising her delicate needlework, and inwardly regretting their own inability to add to it, they got a hearty lunch, intended for a dinner, and returned homewards,...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Pregnant.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
Derived terms: expectancy
expectantly
inexpectant
overexpectant
unexpectant
expectant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛktənt/
Forms: form: expectants
Etymology: From Old French expectant, from Latin expectans.
Senses: glosses: A person who expects or awaits something.
landwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From land + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: We sailed landwards, hoping to gain the shelter of the cove before the storm hit.
glosses: Towards land.
seawards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: seaward
Etymology: From sea + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: We sailed seawards, away from land and straight towards the open sea.
glosses: Towards the sea.
esophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌsɒfəˈd͡ʒiːəl/
Forms: form: oesophageal
form: œsophageal
Etymology: From Latin oesophāgeus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, activation of Wnt signaling has been reported efficient for intestinalization of human esophageal keratinocytes in vitro [20].
ref: 2015 August 18, Orestis Lyros et al., “Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Activation beyond Robust Nuclear β-Catenin Accumulation in Nondysplastic Barrett’s Esophagus: Regulation via Dickkopf-112”, in Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.), volume 17, →DOI:
synonyms: word: esophagean
word: esophagic
word: esophagical
glosses: Of or pertaining to the esophagus.
Derived terms: aortoesophageal
atrioesophageal
cervicoesophageal
circumesophageal
cricoesophageal
duodenoesophageal
endoesophageal
esophageal cancer
esophageal ulcer
extraesophageal
gastroesophageal
hepatoesophageal
intraesophageal
lower esophageal sphincter
midesophageal
nonesophageal
oropharyngoesophageal
paraesophageal
periesophageal
pharyngoesophageal
postesophageal
retroesophageal
subesophageal
supraesophageal
tracheoesophageal
transesophageal
upper esophageal sphincter
lecherousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lecherous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being lecherous.
lingerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lingerers
Etymology: From linger + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who lingers.
almucantar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælməˈkæntə/
ipa: /ælməˈkæntɚ/
Forms: form: almucantars
form: almacantar
form: almicantar
form: almucanter
Etymology: From Middle English almicanteras, French almicantarat, almucantarat, from Medieval Latin almicantarath, almucantarath, from Arabic المقنطرات (almuqanṭarāt, “circles of celestial latitude”), from قَنْطَرَة (qanṭara, “arch”).
Senses: examples: text: Almucantars, or parallels of altitude, are circles parallel to the horizon, or whose poles are the zenith and nadir. All the points of any one almucantar are at equal altitudes above the horizon.
ref: 1816, Olinthus Gregory, “On Projections of the Sphere”, in Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, London: Baldwin, page 119:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small circle on the celestial sphere, parallel to the horizon, that is used in astronomy and navigation to show altitude of a star or any other heavenly body.
examples: text: A wide field of work appears open in the application of photography to meridian instruments, or to the almucantar. The sensitive plate should be substituted for the reticule, and the position marked by a graver attached to the tail-piece of the telescope.
ref: 1886 March 10, Edward Charles Pickering, “Stellar Photography”, in Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume XI, number IV, page 204:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross such a circle.
Derived terms: almucantar staff
small circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small circles
Senses: glosses: a circle formed by a plane that cuts a sphere not through its centre
Related terms: great circle
liquidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪkwɪdeɪt/
ipa: /ˈlɪkwəˌdeɪt/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin liquidātus (“liquid; clear”, adjective) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and forming adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by [the specified things]’). Liquidātus is the perfect passive participle of liquidō (“to turn into a liquid, melt; to make clear”), from Latin liquidus (“fluid, liquid; clear, transparent”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); while liquidus is from liqueō (“to be fluid or liquid; to be clear or transparent”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to make wet; moist”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives). By surface analysis, liquid (adjective) + -ate.
Sense 1.2.3 (“to kill; to abolish or eliminate”) is a semantic loan from Russian ликвиди́ровать (likvidírovatʹ); while sense 1.2.4 and sense 2 (business-related senses) were influenced by French liquider and Italian liquidare, all ultimately from Latin liquidus (see above).
Senses: examples: text: I A. B. [here name and design the Granter] grant me to have instantly borrowed and received C. D. [here name and design the Creditor] the Sum of [insert the Sum] Sterling; which Sum I bind myself and my Heirs, Executors, and Representatives whomsoever, without the Necessity of discussing them in their Order, to repay […] with a Fifth Part more of liquidate Penalty in case of Failure, […]
ref: 1847 June 25, “[10 & 11 Vict.] Cap. L. An Act to Facilitate the Constitution and Transmission of Heritable Securities for Debt in Scotland, and to Render the Same More Effectual for the Recovery of Debts. Schedule (A).”, in A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the Tenth and Eleventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, 1847, London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, […]; and published […] by W. Benning & Co, […], →OCLC, page 521:
topics: law
glosses: Of an amount of money: ascertained, determined, fixed.
hexamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛk.səˌmin/
Forms: form: hexamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Contraction of hexamethylenetetramine.
Derived terms: hexamine stove
pentaethylenehexamine
adamantane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædəˈmænteɪn/
Forms: form: adamantanes
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “diamond”) + -ane (suffix indicating an alkane).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polycyclic hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₁₆, having a cagelike structure similar to a portion of the diamond lattice; any of its derivatives
Derived terms: adamantanethiol
adamantanoid
adamantanyl
adamantone
adamantyl
amantadine
amantocillin
azaadamantane
azidoadamantane
bromoadamantane
chloroadamantane
haloadamantane
iodoadamantane
spiroadamantane
Related terms: adamantadine
adamantanol
diamondoid
gawp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gôp
ipa: /ɡɔːp/
ipa: /ɡɔp/
ipa: /ɡɑp/
rhymes: -ɔːp
Forms: form: gawps
form: gawping
form: gawped
form: gawped
form: gaup
Etymology: Variation of gape.
Senses: examples: text: “I have tickets for the train to New York tonight. Hurry up, Molly! Don’t stand there gawping.”
ref: 1961, John Steinbeck, Molly Morgan:
text: The lady looked around to see that there were hundreds of sets of eyes staring back at her. Even the screaming toddlers had momentarily stopped screaming and were gawping.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.
Derived terms: gawper
gawp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gôp
ipa: /ɡɔːp/
ipa: /ɡɔp/
ipa: /ɡɑp/
rhymes: -ɔːp
Forms: form: gawps
form: gaup
Etymology: Variation of gape.
Senses: examples: text: Come in for a gawp at the sweets and pastries that run three rows deep at this rustically contemporary (or contemporarily rustic) cake shop.
ref: 2019, The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget:
glosses: A stupefied or amazed stare.
diamondoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamondoids
Etymology: From diamond + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several polycyclic hydrocarbons whose cagelike structure resembles part of the diamond crystal lattice.
Related terms: adamantane
cyclohexamantane
diamantane
iceane
super-adamantane
triamantane
skateboard deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skateboard decks
Senses: glosses: The flat part of a skateboard, on which the rider stands.
AMHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Automated Message Handling System.
glosses: Initialism of Alaska Marine Highway System.
MMHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Military Message Handling System.
sulphur dioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur dioxide.
Synonyms: E220 when used as a food preservative
sulfur dioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphur dioxide
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic gas, of molecular formula SO₂ that is found in the emissions of volcanos and those of burning coal or petroleum; dissolves in water to form sulfurous acid and, in the presence of oxygen, sulfuric acid, and is thus responsible for acid rain.
blueline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluelines
Etymology: From blue + line.
Senses: glosses: A reproduction of the material submitted for printing, computer-generated or printed from film, provided to the customer for approval before the material is printed.
sodium sulphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium sulphites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sodium sulfite.
Synonyms: E221 when used as a food preservative
DMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DMSs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Destroyer MineSweeper.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of Driver Monitoring System.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of DiMethyl Sulfide.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Document Management System.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Database Management System.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Degree-Minute-Second (a method of writing angles).
topics: science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Dynamic Mechanical Spectroscopy.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of Digital Multiplex System.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of Donors Message Service.
Coordinate terms: sense: angles
word: DD
sense: angles
word: gradian
sense: angles
word: HMS
sense: angles
word: mil
sense: angles
word: radian
sense: dimethyl sulfide
word: DMDS
sense: dimethyl sulfide
word: DMSP
DMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Daimler Mono Standee (a type of British bus)
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Decoration for Meritorious Services.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Defense Message System.
sodium sulfite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium sulfites
form: sodium sulphite
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sodium salt of sulfurous acid, Na₂SO₃, used as a food preservative, in photography and in many industrial applications.
sodium bisulphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sodium bisulfite.
Synonyms: E222 when used as a food preservative
sodium hydrogen sulphite
sodium bisulfite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium bisulphite
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mono sodium salt of sulfurous acid, NaHSO₃, used as a food preservative and as a reagent in organic synthesis.
Synonyms: sodium hydrogen sulfite
fried eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fried egg
lees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: From Old French lies, from Medieval Latin lias (“lees, dregs”) (descent via winemaking common in monasteries), from Gaulish *ligyā, *legyā (“silt, sediment”) (compare Welsh llai, Old Breton leh (“deposit, silt”)), from Proto-Celtic *legyā (“layer”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”).
Senses: examples: text: Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 7:
text: Kipper drained his glass to the lees and seemed to become calmer.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
glosses: The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
Synonyms: sense: sediment
word: dregs
Derived terms: leesy
Related terms: lie
lees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: plural of lee
legalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːɡəlaɪz/
Forms: form: legalizes
form: legalizing
form: legalized
form: legalized
form: legalise
Etymology: From legal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: There is a debate whether or not to legalize some of the softer drugs.
text: This is true despite the fact that in 1986, the federal government legalized the cashability of RRSP annuities.
ref: 1987, Dian Cohen, Money, page 155:
text: Legislative reform campaigns aimed at restricting foreign immigration, mandating state institutionalization of the biologically unfit, and legalizing eugenical involuntary sterilization.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 71:
text: But now a legislative battle looms over the gun lobby’s brazen counterinitiative to legalize concealed weapons on campus.
ref: 2007 August 22, “Virginia’s Gun Market”, in The New York Times:
text: State lawmakers approved a bill on Tuesday that legalizes the drug for adults 21 and older and moves toward the creation of a potential $4.2 billion industry that could become one of the nation’s largest markets.
ref: 2021 September 23, Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Troy Closson, “New York Has Legalized Marijuana. Here’s What to Know.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
Derived terms: delegalize
legalizable
legalization
legalizer
nonlegalized
relegalize
unlegalized
decriminalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɹɪmɪnəlaɪzɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decriminalize To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.