cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
feint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪnt/
homophone: faint
rhymes: -eɪnt
Etymology: Borrowed from French feint, the past participle of feindre (“to fake, feign”): see etymology 1.
Senses: topics: boxing
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Of an attack or offensive movement: directed toward a different part from the intended strike.
examples: text: We force ourselves to be hypocrites, and hide our wrongs from them; we speak of a bad father with false praises; we wear feint smiles over our tears and deceive our children—deceive them, do we?
ref: 1855, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “Contains Two or Three Acts of a Little Comedy”, in The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: Feigned, counterfeit, fake.
feint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪnt/
homophone: faint
rhymes: -eɪnt
Etymology: A variant of faint (“barely perceptible; not bright, loud, or sharp”).
Senses: glosses: Of lines printed on paper as a handwriting guide: not bold; faint, light; also, of such paper: ruled with faint lines of this sort.
felicitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: felicitations
Etymology: From felicitate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The worthy Doctor, rejoicing at the information, determined to set off with all dispatch for the mansion of Mrs. Boville; there to tender in person his affectionate felicitations to Mrs. De Brooke on account of the delightful discovery of his being her cousin;[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXIV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 310:
glosses: The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.
feminization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛmɪnɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: feminizations
form: feminisation
Etymology: From feminize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The development of female sex characteristics.
glosses: The increasing in female population or participation.
Synonyms: femalization
Derived terms: hyperfeminization
overfeminization
refeminization
fend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: fends
form: fending
form: fended
form: fended
Etymology: From Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from dē- + *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“strike, kill”).
Senses: examples: text: 1990, Messrs Howley and Murphy, quoted in U.S. House Subcommittee on Labor Standards, Oversight hearing on the Federal Service Contract Act, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 40,
Mr. Howley. They are telling him how much they will increase the reimbursement for the total labor cost. The contractor is left to fend as he can.
Chairman Murphy. Obviously, he can’t fend for any more than the money he has coming in.
text: The planet was full of creatures in need, who could not really fend, and the law was at its best when it ensured that they were treated with dignity.
ref: 2003, Scott Turow, Reversible Errors, page 376:
glosses: To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being.
examples: text: With fern beneath to fend the bitter cold.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: He fends, he blocks, too skillful to be downed.
ref: 1999, Luo Guanzhong, translated by Moss Roberts, Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel, page 39:
text: “[…] My age is lot like yours. Lone women do not fare well. If I were not there to fend for you, you—”
ref: 2002, Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor, page 187:
qualifier: except as "fend for oneself"
glosses: To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).
Derived terms: fend and prove
fend away
fender
fend for oneself
fend off
forfend
fend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Etymology: From Middle English fenden (“defend, fight, prevent”), shortening of defenden (“defend”), from Old French deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from dē- + *fendō (“hit, thrust”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“strike, kill”).
Senses: glosses: Self-support; taking care of one's own well-being.
fend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: fends
Etymology: From Middle English fēnd, feond, from Old English fēond (“adversary, foe, enemy, fiend, devil, Satan”), from Proto-Germanic *fijandz, present participle of *fijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate”). More at fiend.
Senses: glosses: An enemy; fiend; the Devil.
fermentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɜː(ɹ)mənˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌfɜː(ɹ)mɛnˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fermentations
Etymology: From Middle English fermentacioun, from Latin fermentātiō, fermentātiōnem.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide
examples: text: [T]he Grace that is then given to us is like a piece of Leven put into a lump of dough, and Faith and Repentance do in all the periods of our life put it into fermentation and activity.
ref: 1678, Jeremy Taylor, “The History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […]. The First Part.”, in Antiquitates Christianæ: Or, the History of the Life and Death of the Holy Jesus: […], London: […] E. Flesher, and R. Norton, for R[ichard] Royston, […], →OCLC, ad section IX (Considerations upon the Baptizing, Fasting, and Temptation of the Holy Jesus by the Devil), discourse IV (Of Baptism), part II (Of Baptizing Infants), page 130:
text: The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs, which had gone on for four centuries under Roman rule, had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds, an universal fermentation of human thought and faith.
ref: 1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “Preface”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, pages xi–xii:
glosses: A state of agitation or excitement; a ferment.
Derived terms: alcoholic fermentation
autofermentation
biofermentation
bottom fermentation
cofermentation
fermentational
fermentation lock
gut fermentation syndrome
heterofermentation
homofermentation
homolactic fermentation
lactofermentation
malolactic fermentation
microfermentation
multifermentation
nonfermentation
overfermentation
photofermentation
postfermentation
prefermentation
refermentation
respirofermentation
secondary fermentation
semifermentation
top fermentation
underfermentation
Related terms: ferment
fertilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fertilizations
form: fertilisation
Etymology: From French fertilisation; equivalent to fertilize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of rendering fertile.
examples: text: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals.
glosses: The act of applying fertilizer to soil.
Synonyms: conception
fecundation
syngamy
impregnation
Derived terms: alternative fertilization
biofertilization
close fertilization
cross-fertilization
defertilization
external fertilization
fertilizational
heterofertilization
internal fertilization
in vitro fertilization
legitimate fertilization
overfertilization
postfertilization
prefertilization
refertilization
self-fertilization
underfertilization
fest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: fessed
homophone: -fest
Forms: form: fests
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fest (“feast, festival, party”), from Middle High German fest, from Latin festum, from which last are also English feast, festival, festivity (see these).
Senses: examples: text: a Renaissance fest
synonyms: festival
glosses: A gathering for a specified reason or occasion.
examples: text: That same trip would have to go down as the greatest dipping fest in Australian birding history. I had five target species and never saw one, despite spending a week looking for them.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 35:
glosses: An event in which the act denoted by the previous noun occurs.
Derived terms: afterfest
-fest
festgoer
fest-goer
fleshfest
flesh fest
fruitfest
glitchfest
glitch fest
Ren fest
sausagefest
sausage fest
taco fest
zest fest
Related terms: festschrift
fiduciary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈdjuːʃ.i.əɹ.i/
ipa: /fəˈduːʃ.i.eɹ.i/
Etymology: From Latin fīdūciārius (“held in trust”), from fīdūcia (“trust”).
Senses: examples: a fiduciary contract
a fiduciary duty
topics: law
glosses: Relating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.
examples: text: Indeed, currency would be more effective for not being gold and silver but fiduciary paper money.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 63:
glosses: Pertaining to paper money whose value depends on public confidence or securities.
glosses: Accepted as a trusted reference such as a point, value, or marker; fiducial.
Derived terms: fiduciarily
fiduciary duty
nonfiduciary
fiduciary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈdjuːʃ.i.əɹ.i/
ipa: /fəˈduːʃ.i.eɹ.i/
Forms: form: fiduciaries
Etymology: From Latin fīdūciārius (“held in trust”), from fīdūcia (“trust”).
Senses: examples: text: “We focus on sustainability not because we’re environmentalists, but because we are capitalists and fiduciaries to our clients,” Mr. Fink wrote.
ref: 2022 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Michael J. de la Merced, quoting Larry Fink, “It’s Not ‘Woke’ for Businesses to Think Beyond Profit, BlackRock Chief Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: law
synonyms: trustee
glosses: One who holds a thing in trust for another.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.
Derived terms: personal fiduciary
figuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭg'-yə-rāʹ-shən
enpr: fĭg'-ə-rāʹ-shən
ipa: /ˌfɪɡ.jəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌfɪɡ.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: figurations
Etymology: Late Middle English figuracion, from Middle French figuration, from Latin figūrō (“to form”). Equivalent to figurate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of giving figure or determinate form.
glosses: Form, outline or boundaries.
examples: text: […]a shift to modernist building typologies in the early 1950s led to the abandonment of symmetry, centrality, and figuration. Since the 1980s, big-box typologies, frosted with postmodern architectural veneer, have dominated.
ref: 2001, Stephen Fox, Rice University: An Architectural Tour, page 204:
glosses: Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
examples: text: Here and throughout, variation infuses the music, Chopin’s innovative, elastic figuration masking the underlying similarity of bars 23 and 25.
ref: 1997, John Rink, Chopin: The Piano Concertos, page 75:
glosses: Mixture of concords and discords.
examples: text: To recapitulate: consider the human form—skin, bone, and flesh. Consider the painting—surface, structure, and pigment. With a little license, the first gives us the ingredients for what might be called human or “figurative” figuration; the second gives us the ingredients for abstract or “nonfigurative” figuration.
ref: 1986, Frank Stella, Working Space, page 74:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Representation through visual forms.
examples: text: Figurations of interdependent people make up many webs of interdependence, which are characterized in part by different balances of power of many sorts, such as families, states, towns or simply groups.
ref: 2006, Grant Jarvie, Sport, Culture, and Society, page 26:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.
Derived terms: figurational
filtration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlˈtɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: filtrations
Etymology: From French filtration.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
set-theory
glosses: A totally ordered collection of subsets.
Derived terms: autofiltration
bifiltration
biofiltration
cryofiltration
defiltration
diafiltration
electrofiltration
enfiltration
haemofiltration
hemofiltration
hyperfiltration
hypofiltration
immunofiltration
leucofiltration
leukofiltration
membrane filtration
microfiltration
mycofiltration
nanofiltration
normofiltration
overfiltration
postfiltration
prefiltration
refiltration
ultrafiltration
Related terms: exfiltration
infiltration
finance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈnæns/
ipa: /ˈfaɪnæns/
ipa: /faɪˈnæns/
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: finances
Etymology: From Middle English finaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French finance, from finer (“to pay ransom”) (whence also English fine (“to pay a penalty”)), from fin (“end”), from Latin fīnis.
Original English sense that appeared c. 1400 was “ending”. The sense of “ending or satisfying a debt” originated from French influence: in the sense of “ransom” appeared in the mid 15th century, in the sense of “taxation” appeared in the late 15th century. In the sense of “manage money” first recorded c. 1770.
Senses: examples: text: And statesmen as well ought to know these things; for a state is often as much in want of money and of such devices for obtaining it as a household, or even more so; hence some public men devote themselves entirely to finance.
ref: 4th century BCE, Aristotle, Politics, volume book I, part XI; republished as John Alexander Smith, William David Ross, transl., The works of Aristotle translated into English, volume 10, 1908:
text: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref: 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
glosses: The management of money and other assets.
glosses: The science of management of money and other assets.
examples: text: Who's really in charge of a democracy's finances?
glosses: Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.
examples: text: Finance on all our new cars is provided by ABC Loans Ltd.
glosses: The provision of a loan, payment instalment terms, or similar arrangement, to enable a customer to purchase an item without paying the full amount straight away.
Hyponyms: corporate finance
cyberfinance
e-finance
nursery finance
personal finance
public finance
Derived terms: word: antifinance
word: climate finance
word: cofinance
word: decentralized finance
word: financeable
word: finance charge
word: financer
word: financescape
word: financial
word: financialist
word: financially
word: financist
word: finanscape
word: FinOps
word: fintech
word: geofinance
word: megafinance
word: microfinance
word: neurofinance
word: nonfinance
word: nonfinancial
word: overfinance
word: prefinance
word: structured finance
word: technofinance
Related terms: financier
finance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈnæns/
ipa: /ˈfaɪnæns/
ipa: /faɪˈnæns/
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: finances
form: financing
form: financed
form: financed
Etymology: From Middle English finaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French finance, from finer (“to pay ransom”) (whence also English fine (“to pay a penalty”)), from fin (“end”), from Latin fīnis.
Original English sense that appeared c. 1400 was “ending”. The sense of “ending or satisfying a debt” originated from French influence: in the sense of “ransom” appeared in the mid 15th century, in the sense of “taxation” appeared in the late 15th century. In the sense of “manage money” first recorded c. 1770.
Senses: glosses: To conduct, or procure money for, financial operations; manage finances.
glosses: To pay ransom.
examples: text: His parents financed his college education.
text: He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.
text: Therefore, when assets are examined together with other problems, such as one-sided contracts or delays in payment, the argument for financing construction projects is substantially weakened.
ref: 1995, A. D. F. Price, Financing International Projects, page 3:
text: 2000, G. Colombo, Sanctions and remedies in cases of illegal financing of political parties, Trading in Influence and the Illegal Financing of Political Parties, Third European Conference of Specialised Services in the Fight against Corruption, page 64,
Indeed, it is a crime to finance or make contributions in any form to political parties, their factions, parliamentary groups, i.e. members of the Italian parliament (if they are Italian) and the European parliament, regional, provincial and town councillors, candidates in such offices, party leaders: […] .
text: This is not a historical novel yet it is in a sense historical and contained within this book is a true story of how America was financed.
ref: 2011, Thomas W. Dombroski, How America Was Financed, page xi:
synonyms: fund
glosses: To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking.
glosses: To extort ransom from.
Derived terms: sense: verbs derived from “finance”
word: nonfinanced
sense: verbs derived from “finance”
word: part-finance
sense: verbs derived from “finance”
word: refinance
sense: verbs derived from “finance”
word: self-finance
sense: verbs derived from “finance”
word: self-financing
sense: verbs derived from “finance”
word: underfinance
sense: verbs derived from “finance”
word: underfinanced
sense: verbs derived from “finance”
word: unfinanced
firstly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜɹstli/
Forms: form: 1stly
Etymology: Coined before 1475, from Middle English fyrst-lyk, equivalent to first + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants. […] Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
text: We'll go into more depth with all the specs shortly so anyone less well versed in espresso speak will understand what I'm harping on about, but firstly let's just talk about using the machine.
ref: 2025 May 3, Kev, “Rocket Appartamento TCA Review”, in Coffee Blog:
glosses: In the first place; before anything else; first.
Synonyms: word: first
word: first of all
word: first up
word: 1stly
word: firstly
word: first off
word: in the first place
Related terms: word: at first
word: in the first place
word: :Category:English sequence adverbs
firth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜːθ/
ipa: /fɝθ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: firths
form: frith
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots firth, furth, from Northern Middle English fyrth, from either or both of Old English ford and Old Norse fjǫrðr (“firth, fjord”), from Proto-Germanic *ferþu, *ferþuz (“inlet, fjord”), from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to carry forth”) + *-tus (suffix forming action nouns from verb roots). The English word is a doublet of fjord, ford, port, and fjard.
Senses: examples: text: The descent continues, still more steeply to Dundee (Tay Bridge), and approaching from the bridge itself this sharp descent gives the curious appearance that the station is below the level of the firth.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
text: They drove on, every rise in the road lifting their sightline clear of the drystone dykes along the roadside, gifting glimpses of the firth and the islands, the blue peaks of Arran.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 440:
glosses: An arm or inlet of the sea; a river estuary.
Hypernyms: loch
sea loch
Derived terms: Beauly Firth
Cromarty Firth
Dornoch Firth
Firth of Clyde
Firth of Forth
Firth of Lorn
Firth of Tay
Firth of Thames
Moray Firth
Pentland Firth
Solway Firth
firth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜːθ/
ipa: /fɝθ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: firths
form: fyrth
Etymology: From Middle English fyrth, a metathetic variant of frith (“forest”), from Old English fyrhþe, fyrhþ (“forest, wooded country; game preserve, hunting ground”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi (“forest, woodland”), Proto-Germanic *furhiþją (“forest, wooded country”), *furhiþǭ, from *furhu (“fir; pine”), from *furahō, *furhō (“fir; pine; (fir or pine) forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *pérkus (“oak”), from *perkʷ- (“oak”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of frith (“a forest used for hunting; a (small) wood; wooded country; land covered mainly by brushwood”).
fixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪksˈeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fixations
Etymology: From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of fixing.
glosses: The state of being fixed or fixated.
glosses: The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
glosses: The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
glosses: In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
examples: text: Increasingly it is being realised that a modern conurbation's transport problems cannot be solved if there is a fixation on profit and loss in public transport—[...].
ref: 1962 October, “The Victoria Line”, in Modern Railways, page 218:
glosses: A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
glosses: A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
A sexual fetish or turn-on.
examples: text: In order to obtain copyright on a recording in the United States, the recording must have been reduced to fixation on or after February 15, 1972.
topics: law
glosses: Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.
topics: biology
cytology
histology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
glosses: preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
glosses: process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: maintaining of the gaze on a single location.
Synonyms: sense: state of being fixed
word: fixedness
Derived terms: carbon fixation
circumfixation
cryofixation
fixational
hyperfixation
immunofixation
interfixation
laterofixation
malfixation
nitrogen fixation
nonfixation
osteofixation
overfixation
postfixation
prefixation
quasifixation
refixation
session fixation
vaginofixation
ventrofixation
flabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflæb.i/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: flabbier
form: flabbiest
Etymology: From a variant of flappy, from flap (“to hang loose”). Compare English dialectal flapsy (“flabby”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a slap in the face; a fan-blade; a hair ribbon; a wagging tongue”), Middle Low German flabbe (“a gaping mouth; a chatterbox”), Danish flab (“the jaw; cheeks; a malapert”), Swedish flabb, fläff (“the hanging underlip of an animal; guffaw; driveller”), German Flabbe (“a gob; muzzle”).
Senses: examples: text: My attention was accidentally drawn to this aid, some five or six years ago, while attending a lady (multipara) in her confinement, who suffered from umbilical hernia, with large flabby abdomen.
ref: 1867 December 28, John Wades, “External Manual Pressure during Labour”, in The British Medical Journal, volume 2, page 601:
text: A neglected gap was all the gate it had, and the first glance at the place was enough to let you see the flabby devil was running that show.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 210:
text: The strings of some violins when up to pitch are loose and flabby; some are very taut and hard.
ref: 1961, The Violin Makers' Journal - Volume 5, page 71:
text: Chassis of 1950s-1970s bikes are flabby tubular structures, often weak to the point of lacking straight-line stability!
ref: 2008, Kevin Cameron, Sportbike Performance Handbook, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
examples: text: A flabby wine might be described as a wine in which nothing stands out.
ref: 1996, Emile Peynaud, Jacques Blouin, The Taste of Wine: The Art Science of Wine Appreciation, →ISBN, page 229:
text: An extremely hot region will give you flabby wine.
ref: 2008, Thomas Pellechia, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting and Running a Winery, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
raw_tags: of wine
examples: text: As you revise, focus on eliminating flabby expressions. This takes conscious effort. As one expert copyeditor observed, “Trim sentences, like trim bodies, usually require far more effort than flabby ones.
ref: 2014, Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy, Business Communication: Process and Product, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: overwrought.
raw_tags: of writing
examples: a flabby sheaf on a paracompact space
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.
Synonyms: sense: having a slight lack of acidity
word: flat
Derived terms: flab
flabbily
flabbiness
unflabby
flagellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: flagellations
Etymology: From French flagellation, from Latin flagellatio, from flagellare, from flagellum, diminutive of flagrum (“whip”).
Senses: examples: text: As a means of restoring vigor to the generative organs, flagellation was recommended by the ancient physicians as an effectual remedy, in accordance with the Hippocratic principle of ubi stimulus, ibi affluxus.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42:
glosses: Beating, or an instance of beating, consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.
Derived terms: necrohippoflagellation
Related terms: flagellant
flagellantism
flogging
self-flagellation
flagellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: flagellations
Etymology: From flagellum (“elongated filiform appendage”), itself a diminutive of Latin flagrum (“whip”), closely related to etymology 1.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement
Derived terms: deflagellation
hyperflagellation
reflagellation
flake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: flakes
form: flaking
form: flaked
form: flaked
Etymology: From Middle English flake (“a flake of snow”), from Old English flacca and/or Old Norse flak (“loose or torn piece”) (compare Old Norse flakna (“to flake or chip”)), from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Norwegian flak (“slice, sliver”, literally “piece torn off”), Swedish flak (“a thin slice”), Danish flage (“flake”), German Flocke (“flake”), Dutch vlak (“smooth surface, plain”) and vlok (“flake”), as well as with Latin plaga (“flat surface, district, region”) and Welsh llech (“slate, tablet”). Doublet of plage.
Senses: examples: text: The paint flaked off after only a year.
synonyms: word: fleak
glosses: To break or chip off in a flake.
examples: text: He said he'd come and help, but he flaked.
glosses: To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
examples: text: The line is flaked into the container for easy attachment and deployment.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
glosses: To hit (another person).
examples: text: When police decided to score gamblers, they would most often flake people with gambling slips, then demand $25 or $50 for not arresting them. Other times, they would simply threaten a flake and demand money.
ref: 1973, Knapp Commission, New York, The Knapp Commission Report on Police Corruption, page 83:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
examples: text: flake a fish
glosses: To lay out on a flake for drying.
Derived terms: beflake
flakeable
flake down
flake off
flake out
flake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Etymology: A name given to dogfish to improve its marketability as a food, perhaps from etymology 1.
Senses: glosses: Dogfish.
examples: text: Larger shark received about 10%/kg less than those in the 4-6 kg range. Most of the Victorian landed product is wholesaled as carcasses on the Melbourne Fish Market where it is sold to fish and chip shops, the retail sector and through restaurants as ‘flake’.
ref: 1999, R. Shotton, Case studies of the management of elasmobranch fisheries, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Part 1, page 746:
text: Susan said, ‘Get me a piece of flake and a serve of chips.’
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 72:
text: The local fish shop sold a bit of flake (shark) but most people were too spoiled to eat shark. The main item on the Kiwi table was still snapper, and there was plenty of them, caught by the Kiwis themselves, so no shortage whatsoever.
ref: 2007, Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer, page 141:
glosses: The meat of the gummy shark.
flake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: flakes
Etymology: Compare Icelandic flaki, Icelandic fleki, Danish flage, Dutch vlaak.
Senses: glosses: A paling; a hurdle.
examples: text: You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.
ref: 1613, Gervase Markham, English Husbandman:
glosses: A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
examples: text: Flake after flake ran out of the tubs, until we were compelled to hand the end of our line to the second mate to splice his own on to.
ref: 1898, Frank T. Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot: The Story of a New Bedford Whaler:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).
flaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪkiː/
rhymes: -eɪki
Forms: form: flakier
form: flakiest
form: flakey
Etymology: From flake + -y.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
examples: text: I have noticed that when hustlers upgrade themselves to models (as distinguished from models who have never hustled) they tend to continue being flaky about appointments. On my last trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, I was stood up twice.
ref: 2014, Joseph Itiel, A Consumer's Guide to Male Hustlers:
glosses: Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: I cannot enjoy the online game because of my flaky Internet connection.
text: Toeava went over unopposed to stretch his side's lead but Japan got on the scoreboard on 56 minutes, wing Hirotoki Onozawa intercepting an attempted offload from Slade, who had a rather flaky game, and running in from the All Blacks' 10m line.
ref: 2011 September 16, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction.
raw_tags: of a thing
Derived terms: flakily
flakiness
flaky pastry
nonflaky
unflaky
Related terms: cornflakey
flap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: flaps
form: flapping
form: flapped
form: flapped
Etymology: From Middle English flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”), related to Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German Low German flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”), Dutch flabberen (“to flit, flap”). Probably ultimately imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The crow slowly flapped its wings.
text: Startled, the wood pigeon flew off, its wings flapping noisily.
text: He could be flapping his tongue about you right this minute to anybody who'll bloody listen.
ref: 2004, Robert Jordan, New Spring, page 316:
glosses: To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
examples: text: The flag flapped in the breeze.
glosses: To move loosely back and forth.
examples: text: Former Turkey goalkeeper Rustu Recber flapped at his first Delap throw but was given a soft free-kick by referee Antony Gautier.
ref: 2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: For a goalkeeper to weakly attempt to play a flighted ball with the hands, failing to control it.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
raw_tags: of a resource or network destination
Derived terms: aflap
flap off
flap one's gums
flap one's lips
flapper
flapping hinge
flappingly
unflappable
flaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔː/
ipa: /flɔ/
ipa: /flɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: floor (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: flaws
Etymology: From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”).
Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).
Senses: glosses: A flake, fragment, or shiver.
glosses: A thin cake, as of ice.
examples: text: There is a flaw in that knife.
text: That vase has a flaw.
text: This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
glosses: A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
examples: text: Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
synonyms: vice
glosses: A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
synonyms: vice
glosses: A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
topics: law
synonyms: vice
glosses: A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
Derived terms: design flaw
flawful
flawless
flawsome
flawy
Persian flaw
tragic flaw
flaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔː/
ipa: /flɔ/
ipa: /flɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: floor (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: flaws
form: flawing
form: flawed
form: flawed
Etymology: From Middle English flawe, flay (“a flake of fire or snow, spark, splinter”), probably from Old Norse flaga (“a flag or slab of stone, flake”), from Proto-Germanic *flagō (“a layer of soil”), from Proto-Indo-European *plok- (“broad, flat”).
Cognate with Icelandic flaga (“flake”), Swedish flaga (“flake, scale”), Danish flage (“flake”), Middle Low German vlage (“a layer of soil”), Old English flōh (“a fragment, piece”).
Senses: glosses: To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
glosses: To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break.
flaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɔː/
ipa: /flɔ/
ipa: /flɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: floor (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
ipa: /ˈflɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
ipa: /flɔː/
ipa: /flɔ/
ipa: /flɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: floor (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: flaws
form: flawe
Etymology: From Middle English *flaugh, from Middle Dutch vlāghe or Middle Low German vlāge, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *flagā. Or, possibly of North Germanic origin, from Swedish flaga (“gust of wind”), from Old Norse flaga; all from Proto-Germanic *flagǭ (“blow, strike”). See modern Dutch vlaag (“gust of wind”).
Senses: examples: text: And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Yniol with that hard message went; it fell, / Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn: […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
glosses: A storm of short duration.
examples: text: And deluges of armies from the town / Come pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw.
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
synonyms: tumult
uproar
quarrel
glosses: A sudden burst of noise and disorder
fleck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: flecks
Etymology: From Middle English *flekk, *flekke (attested in Middle English flekked (“spotted, flecked”)), from Old Norse flekkr (“spot”), from Proto-Germanic *flekka-. Cognate with Dutch vlek, German Fleck, Swedish fläck.
Senses: examples: text: two flecks of Lard cut with your knife
ref: 1675, William Rabisha, The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, Taught and Fully:
glosses: A flake.
examples: text: With teeth they smooth their work, as on it slips,
And flecks of wool stick to their wither'd lips
ref: 1861, Theodore Martin, The poems of Catullus, translated into English verse:
text: A single fleck of wool from his sock got caught on a splintery floorboard and that was enough to convict him.
ref: 2015, Graham Masterson, Eye for an Eye: A Katie Maguire Short Story:
glosses: A lock, as of wool.
examples: text: So fret not, like an idle girl, / That life is dash'd with flecks of sin. / Abide: thy wealth is gathered in, / When Time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 74:
synonyms: mote
particle
speck
tittle
glosses: A small spot or streak; a speckle.
examples: text: a fleck of hope
text: a fleck of imagination
synonyms: word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small amount.
Derived terms: befleck
fleckless
flecky
pith fleck
snowfleck
sunfleck
fleck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: flecks
form: flecking
form: flecked
form: flecked
Etymology: From Middle English *flekk, *flekke (attested in Middle English flekked (“spotted, flecked”)), from Old Norse flekkr (“spot”), from Proto-Germanic *flekka-. Cognate with Dutch vlek, German Fleck, Swedish fläck.
Senses: examples: text: So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: The Names of the Moons of Mars is a frequently somber book, flecked through with optimism and humor.
ref: 1989 December 17, Nan Donald, “Broken Hearts, Messed Up Families, And New Beginnings”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 9:
synonyms: word: fleak
glosses: To mark (something) with small spots.
fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliːt/
ipa: /flit/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: fleets
Etymology: From Middle English flete (“bay, gulf”), from Old English flēot (“a bay, gulf, an arm of the sea, estuary, the mouth of a river”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleut, from Proto-Germanic *fleutą.
Cognate with Dutch vliet (“stream, river, creek, inlet”), German Fleet (“watercourse, canal”).
Senses: examples: text: a certain Flete [...] through which little Boats used to come to the aforesaid Town
ref: 1723, John Lewis, The History and Antiquities, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of the Isle of Tenet in Kent:
text: Together wove we nets to entrap the fish
In floods and sedgy fleets.
ref: 1628, A. Matthewes (translator), Aminta (originally by Torquato Tasso)
qualifier: obsolete outside of place names
glosses: An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
Synonyms: word: fleet
Hypernyms: word: group
Hyponyms: word: armada
word: convoy
word: flotilla
word: formation
word: motorcade
word: squadron
Meronyms: word: aircraft
word: automobile
word: spacecraft
word: vehicle
word: vessel
word: watercraft
Derived terms: Cargo Fleet
Fleet
Fleet Street
Northfleet
Related terms: word: weaponry
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fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliːt/
ipa: /flit/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: fleeter
form: more fleet
form: fleetest
form: most fleet
Etymology: From Middle English fleten (“float”), from Old English flēotan (“float”), from Proto-West Germanic *fleutan, from Proto-Germanic *fleutaną.
Senses: examples: text: In mail their horses clad, yet fleet and strong.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: […]it was not till the afternoon that they came out on the high-road, their first high-road; and there disaster, fleet and unforeseen, sprang out on them — disaster momentous indeed to their expedition[…]
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: Aye, the Chicopee, a fine-un, she were. Clean built and trig-lookin’! None more fleet in ‘64 than she...
ref: 2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe):
synonyms: nimble
fast
glosses: Swift in motion; light and quick in going from place to place.
examples: text: fleet Soil, and that 'tis mixed with a great quantity of Earth, Marle, Mud or Clay, &c.
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Light; superficially thin; not penetrating deep, as soil.
Derived terms: fleetfoot
fleetfooted
fleetly
fleetness
fleet of foot
fleet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fliːt/
ipa: /flit/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: fleets
Etymology: See flet.
Senses: examples: text: Fire and fleet and candle-lighte
ref: 1686, "Lyke Wake Dirge" as printed in The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900) p. 361
glosses: Obsolete form of flet (“house, floor, large room”).
Synonyms: word: fleet
Hypernyms: word: group
Hyponyms: word: armada
word: convoy
word: flotilla
word: formation
word: motorcade
word: squadron
Meronyms: word: aircraft
word: automobile
word: spacecraft
word: vehicle
word: vessel
word: watercraft
Related terms: word: weaponry
word: List of collective nouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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