cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eigen-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Borrowed from German eigen (“own”). Many of the compounds represent partial translations from German, e.g. eigenvalue from German Eigenwert. Doublet of own.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Forms terms pertaining to or related to eigenvectors, eigenvalues; especially for naming mathematical objects which are not affected by a given linear transformation except for by scalar multiplication.
Derived terms: eigenbootstrap
eigenbundle
eigencomposition
eigenconclusion
eigenexcitation
eigenket
eigenmobility
eigenmovement
eigenportfolio
eigenposture
eigensection
eigentranslation
electro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Initially from French électro- and Latin electro-, ultimately from electrum, from Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, “amber”). Equivalent to and later based upon electric, electricity, &c. + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Combining form of electricity.
glosses: Combining form of electric and electrical.
glosses: Combining form of electronic.
Synonyms: english: dated or specific applications
translation: dated or specific applications
word: galvano-
em-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: See en- § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: The form taken by en- before the labial consonants b and p, as it assimilates place of articulation.
Related terms: disembodiment
embankment
embed
embitter
emblazon
embodiment
embody
embolden
emboss
embus
emplane
empower
en-
im-
in-
Macau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: Macao
form: Amacao
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Macau, from Hokkien. See Portuguese Macau for more info.
Senses: examples: text: Open 24 hours a day and seven days a week, Macau's 35 casinos entertain around 30 million visitors each year, making over 30 billion euros in revenue. These are figures which make the US gambling city of Las Vegas look like a desert village.[…]
Macau is the only place in China where gambling is officially permitted. Until the end of 1999, the peninsula was a Portuguese colony. Since it was handed back to China, the city of 600,000 people located at the mouth of the Pearl River has been a largely autonomous Special Administrative Region (SAR).
ref: 2015 September 12, Jochen Faget, “Crisis in China's gambling paradise”, in DW News, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2015:
text: At the height of the Covid wave, some mainland residents ventured across the border to the Chinese territory of Macau to find foreign-made mRNA vaccines.
ref: 2023 March 22, Nicole Hong, Alexandra Stevenson, “China Approves an mRNA Covid Vaccine, Its First”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Mar 2023, Business:
glosses: A city, special administrative region, and peninsula in China, west of Hong Kong.
examples: text: When you depart from Macau to ye other coaſt, you must put out at the Eaſt chanel, if the wind bee Northweſt, if not, then you cannot paſſe, that way, but you muſt ſayle thorough the ſouthweſt chanel, which is a good way to paſſe out, running from the point of Varella, right unto the land on the other ſide of Macau,[…]
ref: 1598, “24 Of the courſe out of the Hauen of Macau in China to the Iſland of Pulo Tymon, & the ſtraight of Sincapura.”, in W. P., transl., The Nauigation of the Portingales into the Eaſt Indies, London: John Wolfe, page 349:
text: SOuthward from the County of Quancheufu, lie many ſmall Iſlands in the Sea ; on one of which, being a little hanging Iſle, or rather a Rock, joyn'd to a great Iſland, lieth the City Makao, otherwiſe call'd Amacao, Machao, and Makau, poſſeſs'd by the Portugueſe, on a Promontory, ſo naturally Fortifi'd, that it is almoſt invincible.
ref: [1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Chinensis, London: Tho. Johnson, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 531:
text: Within 20 years, Macau had become an international city and one of the richest places on earth, thanks to investment in the cargoes shipped through the port.
ref: 1990, Shann Davies, Macau, Passport Books, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 10:
glosses: a former Portuguese colony in modern southern China between 1557 and 1999.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Aomen
raw_tags: in the Chinese media
Derived terms: Macanese
equi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: æqui-
form: aequi-
Etymology: From Latin aequi-, from aequus. See also equ-.
Senses: glosses: Equal, equally.
Synonyms: sense: equivalent
word: iso-
sense: equivalent
word: pari-
Related terms: sense: identical
word: homo-
sense: similar
word: homeo-
sense: different
word: hetero-
word: allo-
endo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon, “inner; internal”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of end-.
Synonyms: sense: inside
word: in-
sense: inside
word: intra-
sense: inside
word: en-
sense: inside
word: em-
sense: inside
word: im-
sense: inside
word: end-
sense: inside
word: ento-
Derived terms: endosemantic
ento-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐντός (entós).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of end-.
synonyms: word: end-
Related terms: exo-
in-
ethno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛθnoʊ/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔθνος (éthnos, “a company, later a people, nation”).
Senses: glosses: race; ethnicity (in the sense of classification of human beings).
château
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ʃæˈtoʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃætəʊ/
ipa: /ʃæˈtəʊ/
Forms: form: châteaus
form: châteaux
form: chateau
Etymology: Originated 1730–40. Unadapted borrowing from French château, from Old French chastel, from Latin castellum. Doublet of cashel, castell, castellum, and castle.
Senses: glosses: A French castle, fortress, manor house, or large country house.
glosses: Any stately residence imitating a distinctively French castle.
glosses: An estate where wine is produced and often bottled, especially in Bordeaux.
Derived terms: alt: Château Migraine, château migraine, chateau migraine
word: Chateau Migraine
chateau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: chateaus
form: chateaux
Senses: examples: text: What he had formerly been in France I had not a notion. All I knew was that he was said to possess a chateau.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter III, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/III):
glosses: Alternative spelling of château.
Derived terms: chateaulike
Chateau Migraine
till
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭl
ipa: /tɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: 'til
form: til
Etymology: From Middle English til, from Northern Old English til, from or akin to Old Norse til (“to, till”); both from Proto-Germanic *til (“to, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“planned point in time”). Not a contraction of until; rather, until comes from till with the prefix un- (“against; toward; up to”) also found in unto. Cognate with Old Frisian til (“to, till”), Danish til (“to”), Swedish till (“to, till”), Icelandic til (“to, till”). Also related to Old English til (“good”), German Ziel (“goal”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌻 (til, “something fitting or suitable”).
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
text: I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes, and by the hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till she please.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 2:7:
text: She twirled round and round, / Till she sunk underground, […]
ref: 1846, Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense:
text: And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.
ref: 1912, anonymous, Punky Dunk and the Mouse, P.F. Volland & Co.
synonyms: word: 'til
word: till
word: until
word: unto
word: while
word: whilom
glosses: Until, until the time that.
till
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭl
ipa: /tɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: tills
Etymology: From Middle English tylle (“till”), possibly from Middle English tillen (“to draw”) from Old English *tyllan (“to draw, attract”) (as in betyllan (“to lure, decoy”) and fortyllan (“to draw away”); related to *tollian > Middle English tollen). Cognate with Albanian ndjell (“I lure, attract”).
Alternatively, Middle English tylle is from Anglo-Norman tylle (“compartment”), from Old French tille (“compartment, shelter on a ship”), from Old Norse þilja (“plank”).
Senses: examples: text: I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.
ref: 2005, Michael Winner, Winner Takes All, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: A cash register.
examples: text: Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.
text: When you've finished serving that customer could you jump off please? We need to take the till.
text: That said, and I'll put this down to its newness, the bin lid was a bit snappy, like Arkwright's till (google that if you're a youngster).
ref: 2023 July 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 59:
glosses: A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
examples: text: My count of my till was 30 dollars short.
glosses: The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
glosses: A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
glosses: A tray or drawer in a chest.
Derived terms: have one's fingers in the till
have one's hand in the till
till money
till point
till-tapper
till
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭl
ipa: /tɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: tills
form: tilling
form: tilled
form: tilled
Etymology: From Middle English tilyen, from Old English tilian.
Senses: glosses: To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
examples: text: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:23:
glosses: To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
glosses: To cultivate soil.
examples: text: Nor knowes a trappe nor snare to till
ref: 1614, William Browne, The Shepherd's Pipe:
glosses: To prepare; to get.
till
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭl
ipa: /tɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Etymology: Unknown, but possibly via etymology 3 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.
Senses: glosses: glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
glosses: manure or other material used to fertilize land
Derived terms: glacial till
till
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭl
ipa: /tɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: tills
Etymology: From Middle English tylle; shortened from lentile (English lentil).
Senses: glosses: A vetch; a tare.
denture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛntjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɛntʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɛnt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛntʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dentures
Etymology: From French denture (“set of teeth”), from Latin dens, dentis (“tooth”) + -urus, -ura, -urum, a suffix implying a set.
Senses: glosses: A set of teeth, the teeth viewed as a unit.
examples: text: After the mouth surgery, she was fitted with a denture.
glosses: An artificial replacement of one or more teeth.
glosses: A complete replacement of all teeth in a mouth.
Synonyms: sense: artificial teeth
word: choppers
sense: artificial teeth
word: false teeth
Derived terms: denture adhesive
denture cleaner
denture cleanser
denture cream
denture powder
denturism
denturist
overdenture
ambidexterity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Dating from the 17th century C.E.; ambidexter + -ity, from Medieval Latin adjective ambidexter (“utilising both hands normally”), from Latin ambi- + dexter (“right, handy, opportune”).
Senses: glosses: The property of being equally skillful with each hand.
glosses: Superior cleverness or adaptability.
Related terms: ambidextrous
dexter
dexterity
dextrous
sinister
chemotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkiːməʊˈθɛɹəpi/
Forms: form: chemotherapies
Etymology: From chemo- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
qualifier: most common usage
glosses: chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.
Derived terms: biochemotherapy
chemotherapeutic
chronochemotherapy
electrochemotherapy
immunochemotherapy
monochemotherapy
nonchemotherapy
photochemotherapy
polychemotherapy
postchemotherapy
prechemotherapy
radiochemotherapy
Atkins Nutritional Approach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Atkins Nutritional Approach
Etymology: Named after American medical doctor Robert Atkins.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Atkins diet.
synonyms: word: Atkins diet
email
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːmeɪl/
ipa: /ˈiˌmeɪl/
rhymes: -iːmeɪl
Forms: form: emails
form: e-mail
Etymology: The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. First attested in the 1970s. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).
Senses: examples: text: He sent me his details via email.
text: The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.
text: Please stop sending me “constructive criticisms” via email, or telling me that “ I feel you are being defensive”, especially just after I have told you “you’re loved”. “Rewards” like that are horrible.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: mail
antonyms: mail
post#Noun
snail mail
glosses: A system for sending messages and datas by means of computers connected together in a network.
examples: text: I am searching through my old email.
text: My inbox used to allow only 50 MB of email at a time until last year, when they upgraded it to 2 GBs!
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: mail
antonyms: mail
post#Noun
snail mail
glosses: The quantity of messages sent through an email system.
examples: text: He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.
text: I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: mail
antonyms: mailpiece#Noun
glosses: A message being sent through email.
examples: text: What’s your email?
text: In this system, your username is your email.
text: Don’t send personal messages to my work email.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An email address.
Derived terms: cold email
e-barrassment
email account
e-mail address
email bankruptcy
email bomb
email client
emailee
emailer
Emailgate
email ID
email list
email reader
email storm
emailware
freemail
junk email
play-by-email
registered email
email
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːmeɪl/
ipa: /ˈiˌmeɪl/
rhymes: -iːmeɪl
Forms: form: emails
form: emailing
form: emailed
form: emailed
form: e-mail
Etymology: The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. First attested in the 1970s. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).
Senses: examples: text: She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To send an email or emails to.
examples: text: I’ll email you the link.
text: He emailed the file out to everyone.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To send (data) through email.
examples: text: Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails.
Related terms: webmail
email
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːmeɪl/
ipa: /ˈiˌmeɪl/
rhymes: -iːmeɪl
enpr: ĕ-mālʹ
ipa: /ɛˈmeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
ipa: /ˈiːmeɪl/
ipa: /ˈiˌmeɪl/
rhymes: -iːmeɪl
Forms: form: emails
form: emayle
form: e-mail
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)), from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.
Senses: examples: text: Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!
ref: 1579 January 11, George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades [No. 15; believed to have been presented to Elizabeth I of England on 1 January 1579 (Julian calendar)]”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poësy (Miscellanea Poetica Anglicana Antiqua; 1), volume I, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], published 1811, →OCLC, page xxxiv:
text: It is reported, that the Pope long ſince gaue them [the people of Iceland] a diſpenſation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inſomuch as for their vnceſſant froſts there, no wine but was turned to red emayle, as ſoone as euer it came amongſt them.
ref: 1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones, […], →OCLC, signature Diii; republished in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Four Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London; Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Printed [by Hazell, Watson, and Viney] for private circulation only, 1883–1884, →OCLC, pages 242–243:
text: Another part of this Earth being mixt with an equal part of its Salt, and put on the Fire to melt, in part pierc'd thro the Crucible, which was found on the outside, as it were, lin'd with a Brown Email, and the inside of the Crucible was cover'd with a Clear-Red Email.
ref: 1684, [Samuel] Du Clos, “The Eighth Class. Of Cold Waters somewhat Aigre and Vinous, which Participate of a Salt Resembling the Nitre of the Ancients.”, in Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, Made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences, […] Now Made English, London: Printed for Henry Faithorne, and John Kersey […], →OCLC, pages 96–97:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).
Derived terms: word: email ink
word: emailled
Related terms: email ombrant
webmail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webmails
Etymology: From web + mail.
Senses: examples: text: Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are well-known webmail services.
glosses: A service for sending, receiving, and/or storing email, usually on a remote web server, in such a way that it is accessible through a web browser.
examples: text: I'm going to check my webmail.
glosses: The email thus stored.
Related terms: email
oaken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ōk'ən
ipa: /ˈəʊk.ən/
rhymes: -əʊkən
Etymology: From Middle English oken (also eken), from Old English ācen, ǣċen (“of oak”), from Proto-Germanic *aikīnaz, equivalent to oak + -en (adjectival suffix). Cognate with Dutch eiken (“oaken”), German eichen (“oaken”), Icelandic eikinn (“oaken”).
Senses: examples: text: Captain Jemmy, taking up three bottles one after another and finding them all empty, ordered up three more, and drew his chair up to the hearth, where he sat kicking the oaken logs viciously with his long legs.
ref: 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Blue Pavilions:
glosses: Made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness.
Derived terms: oaken towel
hero
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ/
ipa: [ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ]
ipa: /ˈhɪɹ.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈhiɹ.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹ.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ
Forms: form: heroes
form: heros
form: heroing
form: heroeing
form: heroed
form: heroed
Etymology: From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t think so.” He grinned hugely, revealing smoker’s teeth and halitosis that would fell a rhino. “I don’t think you want to be heroing off just yet. I don’t think you've had a good time in ages.”
ref: 2009, Kessler, Jackie (Jackie H.), Black and white, page 39:
glosses: To act as a hero (brave person; role model; or protagonist).
glosses: To praise or laud.
glosses: To bring attention to; to highlight; to spotlight.
Synonyms: sense: sandwich
word: sub
Coordinate terms: english: hero (female)
translation: hero (female)
word: heroine
Derived terms: action hero
an hero
antihero
anti-hero
Byronic hero
Clitar Hero
cult hero
culture hero
cyberhero
dark hero
folk hero
go from zero to hero
have-a-go hero
hero ball
hero city
hero complex
herodom
heroess
herohood
heroic
heroics
heroify
heroise
heroize
heroism
heroization
heroless
herolike
heroness
heroship
hero shooter
hero shot
hero shrew
hero syndrome
hero worship
local hero
megahero
monarchical hero
never meet your heroes
nonhero
North Hero
shero
solar hero
subhero
superhero
tragic hero
unsung hero
ur-hero
war hero
Related terms: kamikaze
martyr
shaheed
shakuhachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃɑkuˈhɑt͡ʃiː/
Forms: form: shakuhachis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 尺八 (しゃくはち, shakuhachi), from 尺 (tsyhek, an archaic measure of length approximately equal to 30 centimeters) + 八 (peat, “eight”), corresponding to the standard length of the instrument (approximately 55 centimeters).
Senses: examples: text: Sampled shakuhachi sounds on the E-mu Emulator II were heard in the 1980s in TV ads and also appeared prominently in popular songs, as in the opening section of Peter Gabriel's 1986 “Sledgehammer,”[…]
ref: 2019, W. Anthony Sheppard, Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 419:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale and is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute.
print
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: prĭnt
ipa: /pɹɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Etymology: From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of emprinten, enprinten (“to impress; imprint”) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (“to imprint”), Middle Low German prenten (“to print; write”), Danish prente (“to print”), Swedish prenta (“to write German letters”). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).
Senses: examples: text: a print edition of a book
glosses: Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
dactylography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From dactylo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The science of using fingerprints to uniquely identify people.
glosses: The study of finger rings.
Synonyms: sense: science of identification by fingerprints
word: fingerprint analysis
Derived terms: dactylographic
Related terms: fingerprint
fingerprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/
Forms: form: fingerprints
form: finger-print
Etymology: From finger + print.
Senses: glosses: The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
examples: text: Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.
ref: 1974, Patricia Highsmith, chapter 7, in Ripley's Game:
text: The crime scene investigator has the responsibility of collecting latent fingerprints.
ref: 2012, Christopher C. Harmon, Criminal Investigation, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
examples: text: acoustic fingerprint
text: Most pharmacopoeial monographs of medicinal plants include TLC as method for identification based on a chromatographic fingerprint, which consists of a sequence of characteristic substance zones.
ref: 2008, Monika Waksmundzka-Hajnos, Joseph Sherma, Teresa Kowalska, Thin Layer Chromatography in Phytochemistry, →ISBN, page 40:
text: The set of all location fingerprints and coordinates constitutes the location fingerprint database.
ref: 2010, Christoph Steiner, Location Fingerprinting for Ultra-wideband Systems, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
examples: text: And continue to ask yourself the question, could the incredible complexity of the human body with its multitudinous specialized functions have come into being completely by chance or is it another fingerprint of God?
ref: 1999, Arvin S. Gibson, Fingerprints of God, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.
Hyponyms: thumbprint
Derived terms: chemical fingerprint
clickprint
fingerprintability
fingerprintable
fingerprint analysis
fingerprinter
fingerprinting
fingerprint powder
fingerprint recognition
latent fingerprint
Rabin fingerprint
writeprint
Related terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: hash
fingerprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡɚˌpɹɪnt/
Forms: form: fingerprints
form: fingerprinting
form: fingerprinted
form: fingerprinted
form: finger-print
Etymology: From finger + print.
Senses: examples: text: The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
text: Too often, the union says, farmers feel the police response is inadequate and the sentencing too lenient. It’s a view seemingly shared by one of the latest victims of bee rustling, Norfolk bee keeper Simon Greenwood, who told the Observer that police had taken some photos of the scene, fingerprinted a can and then sent him a letter to say no further action was being taken.
ref: 2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer:
glosses: To take somebody's fingerprints.
examples: text: Analytical results from this combination of leach tests are tools that allow the investigator to quantify (fingerprint) which geochemical components could be expected in runoff from these piles if they were leached by a cloudburst...
ref: 2004, Philip L. Hageman, Use of Short-Term (5-Minute) and Long-Term (18-Hour) Leaching Tests to Characterize, Fingerprint, and Rank Mine-Waste Material from Historical Mines in the Deer Creek, Snake River, and Clear Creek Watersheds in and around the Montezuma Mining District, Colorado, →ISBN, page 1:
text: A significant disadvantage of DNA fingerprinting that excludes conventional methods of population genetic analysis is an absence of genetic interpretation of hybridization fragment origin.
ref: 2006, Marina May Read, Focus on DNA Fingerprinting Research, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.
Related terms: dactylography
biometrics
possessive adjective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: possessive adjectives
Senses: examples: text: "My", "its" and "his" are possessive adjectives.
glosses: An adjective expressing possession.
Synonyms: possessive determiner
pornographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɔː(ɹ)nəˈɡɹæfɪk/
rhymes: -æfɪk
Forms: form: more pornographic
form: most pornographic
Etymology: From pornography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Trying to write honestly about pornographic films is like trying to tie one's shoe while walking: it's practically impossible without sacrificing stride and balance and a certain amount of ordinary dignity, the sort one uses with bank tellers who question a signature.
ref: 1973 January 21, Vincent Canby, “What Are We To Think of ‘Deep Throat’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The intent to make the "MMR question" as serious as possible resulted in an almost pornographic obsession with suffering children.
ref: 2021 May 26, Harry Brewis, 33:33 from the start, in Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2024:
synonyms: pornographical
X-rated
glosses: Containing an explicit depiction of sexual activity.
Synonyms: word: 18+
word: adult
word: blue
word: graphic
word: mucky
word: pornographic
word: pornographical
word: rude
word: X-rated
word: XXX
word: XXXX
Hypernyms: word: obscene
word: NSFM
word: NSFW
Hyponyms: word: porny
word: spicy
word: R-rated
word: red band
Derived terms: antipornographic
nonpornographic
parapornographic
pornographically
pornographico-devotional
pseudopornographic
quasipornographic
semipornographic
unpornographic
Related terms: word: amatory
word: arousing
word: erotic
word: sensual
word: sexy
word: pornography
pornographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pornographically
form: most pornographically
Etymology: From pornographic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: When I talk of men producing and using pornography and women being portrayed in pornography, I do not suggest that all men use pornography, that no woman produces pornography or that only women are ever portrayed pornographically.
ref: 1991, Adelaide law review, Volumes 13-14, page 164:
text: Westwood inevitably succumbed to the allure of the dress, but her vision was in latex, cut indecently low in the neck and pornographically short in hem.
ref: 2008, Jane Eastoe, Sarah Gristwood, Fabulous Frocks, page 37:
glosses: In a pornographic manner.
examples: text: That movie is pornographically violent.
glosses: Having extreme or explicit content, whether or not the content is sexual in nature.
pornographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔː(ɹ)ˈnɒɡɹəfə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pornographers
Etymology: From pornography + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, if pornographers could still use the name without any sexual connotation in the late-nineteenth century, it is likely that many conventional writers in this period were completely unaware that fanny carried a sexual meaning.
ref: 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 112:
glosses: One who is involved in the creation or dissemination of pornography.
Synonyms: pornographist
Derived terms: antipornographer
Related terms: porn star
porn
porno
pornographically
pornographic
pornography
pornosexual
porno
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːnəʊ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nəʊ
Etymology: Clipping of pornographic or pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.
Senses: examples: text: That's a porno film.
text: For reasons that still baffle me, “Deep Throat” became the one porno film in New York chic to see and to seen at, even before the court case, even before Earl Wilson wrote about it.
ref: 1973 January 21, Vincent Canby, “What Are We To Think of ‘Deep Throat’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: […]ultra-risqué pictures verging on the pornographic (the most porno of the last-named have not yet made it to the TV screen, but they are getting there fast—witness the storm of protests over the situation comedy “Soap”).
ref: 1978, Mario Pei, Weasel Words: The Art of Saying what You Don't Mean, page 15:
glosses: Pornographic.
Synonyms: porn
porno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːnəʊ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nəʊ
Forms: form: pornos
Etymology: Clipping of pornographic or pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.
Senses: examples: text: In any case, porno is littered—porno is heaped—with the deaths of feelings.
ref: 2004, Martin Amis, Vintage Amis, page 190:
glosses: Pornography.
examples: text: They watched a few pornos.
glosses: A pornographic film.
Derived terms: gorno
pornhua
pornhwa
porno chic
pornocore
pornogrind
porno mag
pornosexual
Related terms: porn
pornographer
pornographic
pornographically
pornography
broom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bro͞om
enpr: bro͝om
ipa: /bɹuːm/
ipa: /bɹʊm/
rhymes: -ʊm
rhymes: -uːm
homophone: brume
Forms: form: brooms
form: brooming
form: broomed
form: broomed
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of bream (“to clean a ship's bottom”).
broom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: bro͞om
enpr: bro͝om
ipa: /bɹuːm/
ipa: /bɹʊm/
rhymes: -ʊm
rhymes: -uːm
homophone: brume
Senses: examples: text: I'm in me mum's car, broom broom
glosses: Alternative form of brrm (“sound of a car engine”) (often used reduplicatively)
Related terms: boom
radical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹædɪkəl/
homophone: radicle
Forms: form: more radical
form: most radical
Etymology: PIE word
 *wréh₂ds
Inherited from Middle English radical, from Latin rādīcālis (“of or pertaining to the root, having roots, radical”).
Senses: examples: text: His beliefs are radical.
glosses: Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a root (of a plant).
examples: text: The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: fundamental
antonyms: ignorable
trivial
glosses: Pertaining to the basic or intrinsic nature of something.
examples: text: The spread of the cancer required radical surgery, and the entire organ was removed.
text: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
ref: 2012 January 24, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012, page 70:
glosses: Thoroughgoing; far-reaching.
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the root of a word.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
coordinate_terms: coronal
dorsal
labial
laryngeal
glosses: Produced using the root of the tongue.
raw_tags: of a sound
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Involving free radicals.
examples: text: a radical quantity; a radical sign
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a radix or mathematical root.
examples: text: That was a radical jump!
synonyms: rad
glosses: Excellent; awesome.
Synonyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
sense: in reference to words
word: primitive
topics: politics
government
word: Jacobin
topics: politics
government
word: Jacobinic
topics: politics
government
word: Jacobinical
Derived terms: radical anion
radical axis
radical cation
radical center
radical centrism
radical centrist
radical chic
radical empiricism
radical empiricist
radical feminism
radical feminist
radical hysterectomy
radical ion
radical Islam
radicality
radicalize
radical left
radical line
radically
radical mastectomy
radicalness
radical plane
radical pluralism
radical prostatectomy
radical reform
radical right
radical vinegar
Related terms: radix
root
radical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹædɪkəl/
homophone: radicle
Forms: form: radicals
Etymology: PIE word
 *wréh₂ds
Inherited from Middle English radical, from Latin rādīcālis (“of or pertaining to the root, having roots, radical”).
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: 19th-century Britain
glosses: A member of the most progressive wing of the Liberal Party; someone favouring social reform (but generally stopping short of socialism).
qualifier: early 20th-century France
glosses: A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
glosses: A person with radical opinions.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: A root (of a number or quantity).
examples: text: The boy recognised the Chinese characters, though the calligraphy looked a bit strange, as if drawn by someone who had seen them and copied them out radical by radical without knowing what they meant.
ref: 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 9:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In logographic writing systems such as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its meaning, as opposed to phonetic.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Celtic languages, the basic, underlying form of an initial consonant which can be further mutated under the Celtic initial consonant mutations.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Semitic languages, any one of the set of consonants (typically three) that make up a root.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A group of atoms, joined by covalent bonds, that take part in reactions as a single unit.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A free radical.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: commutative algebra; ring theory; commutative algebra; ring theory
glosses: Given an ideal I in a commutative ring R, another ideal, denoted Rad(I) or √, such that an element x ∈ R is in Rad(I) if, for some positive integer n, xⁿ ∈ I; equivalently, the intersection of all prime ideals containing I.
raw_tags: of an ideal
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: Given a ring R, an ideal containing elements of R that share a property considered, in some sense, "not good".
raw_tags: of a ring
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: The intersection of maximal submodules of a given module.
raw_tags: of a module
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The product of the distinct prime factors of a given positive integer.
Derived terms: aminoxyl radical
aminyl radical
Artinian radical
Baer radical
Bring radical
Brown–McCoy radical
free radical
Jacobson radical
Kangxi radical
Köthe radical
Levitzki radical
lower radical
lower radical operator
radical class
radical ideal
radical sign
singular radical
strong radical
upper nil radical
Related terms: nilradical
radically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹædɪkli/
Forms: form: more radically
form: most radically
Etymology: From radical + -ly or radix (“root”) + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: two radically different political groups
text: The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
ref: 2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.
examples: text: "Clot" and "clod" are radically the same word.
text: This [Algonquian] language [family] is spoken by all the Indians throughout New England. Every tribe, as that of Stockbridge, that of Farmington, that of New London, &c. has a different dialect [i.e. language], but the language [family] is radically the same.
ref: 1788, Jonathan Edwards, in a report to the Connecticut Society of Arts and Sciences
glosses: At the root.
Derived terms: radically centrist
Related terms: radical
root
tech
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛk/
ipa: [tʰɛk]
rhymes: -ɛk
homophone: TEK
Forms: form: techs
form: teching
form: teched
form: teched
Etymology: Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).
flash mob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash mobs
form: flashmob
Etymology: Perhaps from flash crowd, a term coined by Larry Niven in Flash Crowd (1973), a story about cheap teleportation in the future.
Senses: examples: text: Called into being on short notice by Web sites and e-mail distribution lists, flash mobs meet at an appointed time, engage in some organized spontaneity for a few minutes, then rapidly disperse. The activities are innocent, if mysterious, and tend to bring together loose groupings of surprisingly conventional looking young adults.
ref: 2003 August 4, Otto Pohl, “Berlin Journal; What: Mob Scene. Who: Strangers. Point: None.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse.
wikipedia: Flash Crowd
Larry Niven
Derived terms: flash mobber
flash rob
iced cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iced creams
Senses: glosses: Dated form of ice cream.
Derived terms: ice cream
Atkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætkɪnz/
Forms: form: Atkinses
Etymology: From Atkin + -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name meaning "son of Atkin (Adam)".
glosses: Abbreviation of the Atkins diet.
glosses: Abbreviation of the Atkins Nutritional Approach.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Pope County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Benton County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Morrill County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Smyth County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Hiles, Forest County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Atkins diet
Tommy Atkins
Atkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætkɪnz/
Etymology: From Atkin + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Atkin
Related terms: Adkins
Atkinson
diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪət/
ipa: /ˈdiːət/
rhymes: -aɪət
rhymes: -iːət
Forms: form: diets
form: diët
form: diate
Etymology: From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Senses: examples: text: The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
text: It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month.
ref: 2013, Martin D Buckland, Lynda Hall, Alan Mowlem, A Guide to Laboratory Animal Technology, page 56:
glosses: The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
examples: text: He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.
glosses: A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
examples: text: He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
text: Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet.
ref: 2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Any habitual intake or consumption.
Derived terms: 5:2 diet
antidiet
Atkins diet
Atlantic diet
balanced diet
carnivore diet
crash diet
desert the diet
dietarian
dietary
dietary fiber
Diet Coke
dieter
dietetics
dietic
dietitian
dietless
dietology
dietwise
diety
don't diet, try it
elimination diet
fad diet
hypoglycemic diet
keto diet
ketogenic diet
lion diet
liquid diet
Maduro diet
Mediterranean diet
misdiet
mono diet
nondiet
Okinawa diet
palaeodiet
Paleo diet
paleodiet
prediet
road diet
South Beach Diet
Stillman diet
Stone Age diet
superdiet
Western pattern diet
Zone diet
Related terms: word: dieting
diet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪət/
ipa: /ˈdiːət/
rhymes: -aɪət
rhymes: -iːət
Forms: form: diët
form: diate
Etymology: From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Senses: examples: text: diet soda
text: Many grocery chains offer premium-priced lean or diet hamburger; but the fat content is usually at least 10 percent, sometimes 15 percent or more.
ref: 1982, Consumer Guide, Dieter's Complete Guide to Calories, Carbohydrates, Sodiums, Fats & Cholesterol, page 18:
text: The difference in weight (mass) of the regular and the diet drink of the same brand roughly equals to the amount of sugar in the regular drink.
ref: 1998, Andy Sae, Chemical Magic from the Grocery Store:
text: Diet Light (Pizarro 724; snacks S2-7; 9:30am-10pm)
This perennially busy place serves not-very-diet, but yummy nonetheless, ice cream (S2 to S5) and whopping servings of mixed fruit (S3) – with ice cream.
ref: 2010, Lonely Planet Peru, →ISBN, page 347:
glosses: Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
raw_tags: of a food or beverage
examples: text: You folks reduce it to the bible only as being authoritative, impoverishing the faith. "Christianity Lite", diet Christianity for those who can't handle the Whole Meal.
synonyms: lite
glosses: Having certain traits subtracted.
diet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪət/
ipa: /ˈdiːət/
rhymes: -aɪət
rhymes: -iːət
Forms: form: diets
form: dieting
form: dieted
form: dieted
form: diët
form: diate
Etymology: From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.
Senses: examples: text: I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight.
glosses: To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
examples: text: they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
text: When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked.
ref: 1887, Medical Press and Circular, volume 94, page 461:
text: As illustrating the belief that the Baptism by Blood was accompanied by a real regeneration of the devotee, Frazer quotes an ancient writer who says that for some time after the ceremony the fiction of a new birth was kept up by dieting the devotee on milk, like a new-born babe.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 45:
glosses: To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
examples: text: Let him[…]diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Travel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To eat; to take one's meals.
examples: text: But partly led to diet my revenge […].
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To cause to take food; to feed.