cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hoplophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒpləˈfəʊbɪə/
Etymology: Firearms authority and writer Colonel Jeff Cooper claims to have coined the word in 1962: hoplo- (“weapon, arms”) + -phobia (“fear”).
Senses: examples: text: Gun control laws are proposed to control three basic areas: Crime, accidental shootings, and to calm those suffering from hoplophobia — these people generally align themselves with the first two so I won’t even consider that category.
ref: 1979: United States House of Representatives: Firearms Legislation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session, Part 7, page 2529
text: You'll be happy to learn that "hoplophobia" (irrational fear of weapons) has been recognized as an illness by the AMA, is treatable, and is now covered by most HMOs. Get thee to a psychiatrist!
ref: 1999, Barry B Wood, dfw.general (Usenet):
text: 2015: James Taranto, in "Best of the Web: The Left Loses Control," The Wall Street Journal
That the [New York] Times's gun-control crusade is motivated by hoplophobia, rather than a sincere concern about crime and terrorism, can be demonstrated by a comparison with other Times editorials that do not focus on guns.
glosses: The irrational fear of guns.
wikipedia: Jeff Cooper
Related terms: hoplophobe
hoplophobic
flotsam and jetsam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The remains of a shipwreck still floating in the water.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: That which has been discharged from a ship or boat, especially on the ocean or a sea, (flotsam unintentionally and jetsam intentionally).
glosses: A collection of miscellaneous items or fragments of little importance.
examples: text: The flotsam and jetsam of society were at the night club.
glosses: People considered to be of little worth.
Synonyms: sense: random assortment
word: bits and bobs
sense: random assortment
word: bits and pieces
sense: random assortment
word: dribs and drabs
sense: random assortment
word: odds and ends
sense: random assortment
word: odds and sods
sense: random assortment
word: bric-a-brac
sense: items or persons of little worth
word: dregs
ablutophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Latin ablutio (“a washing”) + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”) (equivalent to -phobia).
Senses: examples: text: Others, such as ablutophobia, or the fear of bathing, are just plain anti-social.
ref: 2008 October 1, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in The Daily Mail:
glosses: A pathological fear of washing or bathing.
Related terms: ablutophobic
ablutophobe
phobia
acarophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌækəɹəˈfəʊbi.ə/
Etymology: From acaro- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: His acarophobia was obvious from his reaction when I told him he had lice.
text: The term delusions of parasitosis was coined by Wilson and Miller (1946) dispelling earlier use of the word acarophobia (Thibierge 1894), entomophobia, and parasitophobia.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Dr. Gale E. Ridge, “Delusory parasitosis. The belief of being lived on by arthropods or other organisms”, in The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, page 1:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The fear of itching or of small crawling insects that cause itching, such as mites or lice.
achluophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀχλύς (akhlús, “darkness”) and -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: If you have a severe case of achluophobia (fear of the dark), for instance, you may want to wait at the mouth of the cave.
ref: 2007, Dave Smith, Backcountry Bear Basics: The Definitive Guide to Avoiding Unpleasant Encounters, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN:
text: When I was little, I had achluophobia and had to sleep with some kind light, any kind of light.
ref: 2013, Chris Island, Gunny's Short Stories and Life Lessons, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:
text: I'm not exactly sure when I was diagnosed with achluophobia—the fear of darkness—but I've always been afraid to be left alone in the dark.
ref: 2013, Si Robertson, Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle, Howard Books, →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: The fear of darkness.
Related terms: achluophobic
bacillophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From bacillo- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: The fear of microbes.
Synonyms: germophobia
botanophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Senses: glosses: The fear of plants.
brontophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From bronto- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: The fear of thunder and lightning.
atas
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑtɑs/
ipa: [ˈatas]
Forms: form: more atas
form: most atas
Etymology: From Malay atas.
Senses: glosses: High-class, fancy (elevated in status, esteem, prestige; exalted in rank, station, or character).
glosses: Arrogant, lofty.
cacophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From caco- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek κακός (kakós) + φόβος (phóbos).
Senses: glosses: The fear of ugliness or ugly people.
cainophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cainotophobia
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek roots καινός (kainós, “new”) or καινότης (kainótēs, “newness”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: It is not by means of a social xenophobia and cainophobia that we shall succeed in junking our sawdust goals but only by a sincere and passionate openness to new experience.
ref: 1962, Liberal Education, volume 48, page 518:
text: Sounds like a raging case of cainophobia with a large side helping of gnosiophobia.
ref: 2002 September 4, maf1029 [username], “Re: Homosexuals have phobias”, in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet):
text: The question to ask is whether this free text fixation is the result of report optimization, inertia, or cainophobia.
ref: 2009, Bruce I. Reiner, “The Challenges, Opportunities, and Imperative of Structured Reporting in Medical Imaging”, in Journal of Digital Imaging:
synonyms: neophobia
glosses: The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
catagelophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katagelophobia
Senses: examples: text: In response to the other July/August request, for a word to describe a "fear of inadvertently throwing something valuable out with the garbage," many, many phobias arrived. Evidently the readers who sent them in suffer from neither doxophobia (fear of expressing opinions) nor neophobia (fear of anything new or novel), and some would even seem to be remarkably free of catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed).
ref: 2001 December, Barbara Wallraff, “Word Fugitives”, in The Atlantic Monthly:
glosses: Fear of being ridiculed
celery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛl.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛl.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛl.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsel.ə.ɹi/
homophone: salary (in some accents)
Forms: form: celeries
form: cellery
form: sellary
Etymology: From French céleri, from Lombard sellero, from Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). Displaced English march (“celery, smallage”) and smallage (“wild celery”).
Senses: glosses: A European herb (Apium graveolens) of the carrot family.
examples: text: In eighteenth century France celery soup was a means of whetting the amorous appetite.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 58:
topics: food
lifestyle
vegetable
glosses: The stalks of this herb eaten as a vegetable.
glosses: A yellow-green colour, like that of a celery.
Derived terms: celeriac
celeried
celery cabbage
celeryless
celerylike
celery pine
celery root
celery salt
celery seed
celery vase
celtuce
Chinese celery
Indian celery
knob celery
leaf celery
sea celery
shrub celery
water celery
wild celery
ayo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.(j)oʊ/
Etymology: Combination of hey and yo.
Senses: examples: text: "Ayo, Red. It's the homie Spits on the jack for you, blood." "Ayo, homeboy," said Red as he excitedly picked up the telephone receiver. "What's up, fool?"
ref: 2004, Michael Daniel Baptiste, Cracked Dreams, page 73:
text: “Ayo, wassup, girl,” he said to Keisha as he continued to walk toward the back area where I stood. […] “Ayo, wassup, playa?
ref: 2007, Reginald L. Hall, In Love with a Thug, page 38:
text: Ayo Toine, you think they'd put me down?
ref: 2007, Tony J. Ward, Jr., I've Got to Make It to Heaven for Going Through Hell: Part 1, page 39:
text: "Ayo, fam, you a'ight down there?" Victorious's cell mate asked.
ref: 2007, Nikki Turner, Christmas in the Hood, page 289:
text: "Ayo, ma, where you going?" a dude asked her as she walked by him.
ref: 2008, Treasure Hernandez, Resurrection, page 106:
text: "Ayo, Kalil!" a man's voice said from amidst the crowd. Kalil looked up and saw his lil' man, Peanut, distributing packets of heroin and taking money from the fiends.
ref: 2008, Ashley JaQuavis, The Trophy Wife, page 103:
text: "Ayo, Cee, listen to this shit here," said Matt, passing him his cell.
ref: 2010, R Green Damon, Somethin' to Think about, page 197:
synonyms: hey
hi
yo
glosses: A greeting.
examples: text: Ayo, what'd you just say?
synonyms: hold up
glosses: Used to imply that what was said is inappropriate or "sus".
ayo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.(j)oʊ/
ipa: /ˈa.jo/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.(j)oʊ/
Etymology: From Yoruba ayò, an abridged form of ayò ọlọ́pọ́n.
Senses: glosses: A type of mancala strategy game played by the Yoruba.
Related terms: awari
ayoayo
oware
imperial system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the imperial system
form: imperial systems
Senses: glosses: A system of measurement in use in the United Kingdom and certain other countries.
wikipedia: English units of measurement
Synonyms: word: imperial
word: old money
word: Table of selected imperial units
word: mile
word: mi
word: = 8 furlongs
word: = 1.609344 km
word: = 1760 yards
word: = 5280 feet
word: furlong
word: = 10 chains
word: = 201.17 metres
word: = 220 yards
word: chain
word: = 4 rods
word: = 20.117 metres
word: = 22 yards
word: rod
word: = 5½ yards
word: = 5.029 metres
word: yard
word: yd
word: = 3 feet
word: = 0.9144 metre
word: foot
word: ft'
word: = 12 inches
word: = 30.48 cm
word: inch
word: in"
word: = 2.54 cm
word: acre
english: = 208.71 ft by 208.71 ft
translation: = 208.71 ft by 208.71 ft
word: 43
english: 1 chain by 1 furlong
translation: 1 chain by 1 furlong
word: 560 ft2
word: = 4
word: 046.8564224 m2
word: ton
word: = 160 stone
word: = 1015.7 kg
word: = 2240 pounds
word: hundredweight
word: cwt
word: = 8 stone
word: = 50.8 kg
word: = 112 pounds
word: stone
word: st
word: = 14 pounds
word: = 6.356 kg
word: pound
word: lb#
word: = 16 ounces
word: = 0.454 kg
word: ounce
word: oz
word: = 28.35g
Related terms: customary unit
decimal
metric system
Chaubunagungamaug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Nipmuck (Loup A) word, translated by Ives Goddard as "fishing place at the boundary" or "lake divided by islands".
Chaubunagungamaug is the form used by the US government and it occurs in the earliest local records, according to Goddard. In 1921, a local fancifully enlarged the name to Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
Senses: glosses: A small lake east of Webster, Massachusetts.
Synonyms: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchoggagogg
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug
Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamaug
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaug
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg
Lake Chargoggagogmanchaugagogchaubunagungamaug
Lake Chaugogagogmanchaugagogchaubunagungamaug
Lake Webster
Webster Lake
old money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They found, for example, a significant difference in emphasis as you moved from the “old money” rich, or true elite, to the “new money” rich, or unseasoned elite. The women of “old money” families tend to be relatively indifferent to swings in fashion; and their taste is oriented more to that of the British upper classes than to the French.
ref: 1959, Vance Packard, The Status Seekers, Pocket Books, published 1971, →ISBN, page 118:
text: That girl's a student athlete but she's never played a sport
Her parents had a seven-figure wedding and divorce
She's stolen from the CVS but her daddy's on the board
It's gotta be 'cause she's an old money bitch
ref: 2023, underscores, “Old money bitch”, in Wallsocket:
hypernyms: big money
glosses: Families that have been wealthy for generations or members of such families.
glosses: The monetary system used in the United Kingdom and Ireland before decimalisation in 1971 and consisting of pounds, shillings, pence and farthings.
examples: text: These scales say I weigh 72 kilograms; what's that in old money?
glosses: The imperial system of measurement or Fahrenheit, as opposed to the metric system or Celsius.
Synonyms: vieux riche
bagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagis
Senses: examples: text: The bar was deserted, but when Max Beauvoir and I entered the hounfour there were three of them, sitting with their backs to the ochre walls of the bagi.
ref: 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 89:
text: The various fronds are fixed in front of the doors of the bagi and the peristyle as well as to the potomitan […].
ref: 2013, Patrick Taylor, Frederick I. Case, editors, The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions: Volume 1, page 1065:
text: “This is a very important time for Vodou” Papa Baz tells me as he works in the bagi.
ref: 2015, Manbo Paula Wedo, Manbo Jumbo, page 370:
glosses: A voodoo sanctuary or sacred chamber.
irritable bowel syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: gastroenterology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: IBS
glosses: A functional disorder causing the nerves and muscles of the large intestine to be oversensitive, leading to symptoms such as cramp, bloating, flatulence, diarrhoea and constipation.
Related terms: Crohn's disease
hesitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛz.ɪ.teɪt/
ipa: /ˈhɛz.ə.teɪt/
ipa: /ˈhez.ə.tæɪt/
Forms: form: hesitates
form: hesitating
form: hesitated
form: hesitated
form: hæsitate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin haesitātus, perfect passive participle of haesitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), intensive of haereō (“to hesitate, stick fast; to hang or hold fast”). Displaced native Old English wandian. Compare French hésiter.
Senses: examples: text: He hesitated whether to accept the offer or not; men often hesitate in forming a judgment.
text: September 1, 1742, Alexander Pope, letter to Racine
I shall not hesitate to declare myself very cordially, in regard to some particulars about which you have desired an answer.
glosses: To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
glosses: To stammer; to falter in speaking.
examples: text: Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
ref: a. 1724, Alexander Pope, The Ms. at Longleat:
glosses: To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
Synonyms: sense: to stop respecting decision or action
word: demur
word: falter
word: mammer
word: scruple
word: waver
sense: to falter in speaking
word: balbucinate
sense: to falter in speaking
word: balbutiate
sense: to falter in speaking
word: falter
sense: to falter in speaking
word: hem
sense: to falter in speaking
word: haw
sense: to falter in speaking
word: stammer
sense: to falter in speaking
word: stutter
sense: to utter with hesitation
word: falter
word: boggle
word: wobble
word: deliberate
word: halt
word: waffle
word: dither
word: hesitate
word: hover
word: stand shilly-shally
word: stick
word: swither
Hypernyms: word: doubt
word: stop
word: pause
Derived terms: hesitant
hesitater
hesitating
hesitation
hesitative
hesitatory
Related terms: word: think twice
word: vacillate
waver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪvə/
ipa: /ˈweɪvəɹ/
homophone: waiver
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wavers
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English waveren (“to move back and forth, swing; to move unsteadily, totter; to shake, tremble; to wander; (figurative) to be changeable or unstable; to deviate”), and then possibly:
* from Old English (compare Old English wǣfre (“flickering, quivering, wavering; active, nimble (?)”)), related to Old English wafian (“to wave”) from Proto-West Germanic *wabbjan (“to cause to weave; to entangle; to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wabjaną (“to cause to weave; to entangle; to wrap”); and/or
* from Old Norse vafra (“to move unsteadily, flicker”), probably related to vefa (“to weave”);
both from Proto-Germanic *webaną (“to weave”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). Doublet of wave.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: No a bit butterflee on its silent waver, meeting the murmur of the straightforward bee.
ref: 1826 July, C[hristopher] N[orth] [pseudonym; John Wilson], “Noctes Ambrosianae. No. XXVII.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XX, number CXIV, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 90:
text: By turns she sat watching the waver of the candles in the draught, and walked to and fro between the bed and the washhand-stand to keep herself warm.
ref: 1902, Leonard Merrick, chapter IV, in When Love Flies out o’ the Window, London: C[yril] Arthur Pearson […], →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: An act of moving back and forth, swinging, or waving; a flutter, a tremble.
examples: text: I hear the soldiers talk as I ride by, "There goes the old man. All's right." Not a waver, doubt, or hesitation when I order, and men march to certain death without a murmur if I call on them, because they know I value their lives as much as my own.
ref: 1864 December 31 (date written), [William Tecumseh] Sherman, chapter VI, in Rachel Sherman Thorndike, editor, The Sherman Letters: Correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1894, →OCLC, pages 241–242:
glosses: A state of beginning to weaken or showing signs of weakening in resolve; a falter.
examples: text: "Does she mean to accept him?" asked Travice. "Well, she's on the waver. She does not dislike him, and she does not particularly like him. He's too old for her; he's twenty years older than Liz; but it's her first offer, and young women are apt to think when they get that, they had better accept it, lest they may never get another."
ref: 1865, Mrs. Henry Wood [i.e., Ellen Wood], “The Tables Turned”, in Mildred Arkell. […], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: A state of feeling or showing doubt or indecision; a vacillation.
waver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪvə/
ipa: /ˈweɪvəɹ/
homophone: waiver
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wavers
Etymology: From wave (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).
Senses: examples: text: I felt encouraged by all the enthusiastic wavers in the crowd.
text: The Fourth of July brings out all the flag wavers.
text: Johnny is such a little waver; everyone who passes by receives his preferred greeting.
text: The vast concourse of people swung their hats and shouted—the windows and house-tops in the wide vicinity burst into a snow-storm of waving handkerchiefs, and the wavers of the same mingled their cheers with those of the masses below. It was a stirring spectacle.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIII, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: One who waves their arms, or causes something to swing or wave.
topics: arts
crafts
hairdressing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A person who specializes in treating hair to make it wavy.
topics: arts
crafts
hairdressing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A tool used to make hair wavy.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: In full waver roller: a roller which places ink on the inking table of a printing press with a back and forth, waving motion.
examples: text: [N]o waver in Judgment, have I, though Gods mercy, ever been; but a conſtant aſſertor of, and ſufferer for my ſatisfiedneſs in, and adheſion to, the piety and probity of my breeding and belief, vvhich vvas ever, yet is, and I hope, through Gods grace, to death ſhall be, in point of Religion according to the Doctrine and Diſcipline of the Church of England.
ref: 1666 October 30 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Edward Waterhous[e], “To His Noble Friend and Kinsman, Sr. Edwarde Turno[u]r, Knight; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons in this Present Parliament”, in A Short Narrative of the Late Dreadful Fire in London: […], London: […] W. G. for Rich[ard] Thrale […], and James Thrale […], published 1667, →OCLC, pages 188–189:
glosses: Synonym of waverer (“one who feels or shows doubt or indecision; a vacillator”).
synonyms: word: waverer
extra: one who feels or shows doubt or indecision; a vacillator
Derived terms: flagwaver
flag-waver
sign waver
Related terms: first-waver
new waver
second-waver
third-waver
waver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪvə/
ipa: /ˈweɪvəɹ/
homophone: waiver
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wavers
Etymology: Origin uncertain, possibly from waive (“(obsolete) to disregard, overlook”). According to the Oxford English Dictionary the early forms waiver, wayver, weaver indicate that the word is probably not derived from wave (verb).
Senses: examples: text: It is a very ordinary Copſe vvhich vvill not afford three or four Firſts, that is, Beſts; fourteen Seconds; tvvelve Thirds; eight VVavers, &c. according to vvhich proportions the ſizes of young Trees in Copſing are to ſucceed one another.
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], “Of Copses”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 71:
text: In some parts of this County, considerable pains seem to be taken in the use of the Falling Axe[…], to form the stools or stumps left in the ground in Spring Woods, rather round at top, to shoot off the wet and preserve the butt from decay, where young shoots or wavers are expected from them: […] the sooner the young waver, or wavers especially, if more than one are left for Trees, attaches itself to and entirely depends on one of the healthy lateral roots[…], by the entire decay of the core or centre, the better is the future prospect of such wavers, as to making good Trees, […]
ref: 1813, John Farey, Sen., “Woods and Plantations”, in General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire; […], volume II, London: […] B. M‘Millan, […]; sold by G[eorge] and W[illiam] Nicol, […], →OCLC, section I (Copse Woods), page 232:
qualifier: obsolete except UK
glosses: A sapling or other young tree left standing when other trees around it have been felled.
falter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒltə/
ipa: /ˈfɔːltə/
ipa: /ˈfɔltəɹ/
ipa: [ˈfɔl.tɚ]
ipa: /ˈfɑltəɹ/
ipa: [ˈfɑl.tɚ]
ipa: /ˈfɔltə/
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: falters
form: faulter
Etymology: From Middle English falteren (“to stagger; be unsteady, tremble, quiver; to stammer; be entangled, get caught”), further origin unknown. Probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse faltrask (“to hesitate, be puzzled, be encumbered”). May also be a frequentative of fold, although the change from d to t is unusual.
Senses: examples: text: Tom, who isn't paying much attention, is suddenly caught by the falter in his voice as he reads the two lines—
ref: 2009, Ruth Cigman, Andrew Davis, New Philosophies of Learning, page 200:
glosses: An unsteadiness.
totter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒtə/
ipa: /ˈtɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: totters
form: tottering
form: tottered
form: tottered
Etymology: From Middle English totren, toteren, from earlier *tolteren (compare dialectal English tolter (“to struggle, flounder”); Scots tolter (“unstable, wonky”)), from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”).
Cognate with Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), Norwegian dialectal totra (“to quiver, shake”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Related to tilt.
Senses: examples: text: The baby tottered from the table to the chair.
text: The old man tottered out of the pub into the street.
text: The car tottered on the edge of the cliff.
text: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.
ref: 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:
glosses: To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
examples: text: […]the folly of this Iland, they ſay there's but fiue vpon this Iſle ; we are three of them, if th' other two be brain'd like vs, the State totters.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 11:
text: By the latter part of 1848, the throne of Hudson the Railway King who had been called in in 1845 as a superman to save the Eastern Counties Railway, was tottering to its fall, [...].
ref: 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
glosses: To be on the brink of collapse.
glosses: To collect junk or scrap.
Synonyms: sense: move unsteadily
word: reel
sense: move unsteadily
word: teeter
sense: move unsteadily
word: toddle
sense: move unsteadily
word: stagger
sense: move unsteadily
word: sway
Derived terms: teeter-totter
totterer
tottergrass
tottering
totteringly
tottersome
tottery
totter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒtə/
ipa: /ˈtɑtɚ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: totters
Etymology: From Middle English totren, toteren, from earlier *tolteren (compare dialectal English tolter (“to struggle, flounder”); Scots tolter (“unstable, wonky”)), from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”).
Cognate with Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), Norwegian dialectal totra (“to quiver, shake”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Related to tilt.
Senses: glosses: An unsteady movement or gait.
glosses: A rag and bone man.
Derived terms: merry-totter
Totter
crescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.zn̩t/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.sn̩t/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.sn̩t/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.zn̩t/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
rhymes: -ɛzənt
Forms: form: crescents
form: cres.
Etymology: From Middle English cressaunt, from Anglo-Norman cressaunt and Old French creissant (“crescent of the moon”) (French croissant), from Latin crēscēns, present active participle of crēscō (“arise, thrive”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow”). See Old Armenian սերիմ (serim, “be born”) and սերեմ (serem, “bring forth”), Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) and κούρος (koúros, “boy”), Latin creāre (“produce, create, bring forth”) and Ceres (“goddess of agriculture”). Doublet of croissant.
The pronunciation with /z/ is a comparatively recent innovation due to the influence of words such as pheasant and present.
Senses: glosses: The figure of the moon as it appears between its first or last quarter and the new moon, with concave and convex edges terminating in points.
glosses: Something shaped like a crescent, especially:
A curved pastry.
synonyms: crescent roll
croissant
glosses: Something shaped like a crescent, especially:
A curved street, often presenting a continuous façade, as of row houses.
examples: text: The Turkish flag features a white star and crescent on red base.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Something shaped like a crescent, especially:
A representation of a crescent, used as a symbol of Islam.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Something shaped like a crescent, especially:
The emblem of the waxing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
glosses: A crescent spanner.
examples: text: Sebastiani receives publicly the Sultan's thanks, and is decorated with the Order of the Crescent
ref: 1880, Elizabeth Stone, Sebastiani receives publicly the Sultan's thanks, and is decorated with the Order of the Crescent:
glosses: Any of three orders of knighthood conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services.
glosses: A crescentspot butterfly.
Derived terms: crescentchest
Crescent City
crescent fresh
crescentic
crescentiform
crescentlike
crescent moon
crescentoid
crescent roll
crescent-shaped
Crescent Springs
Crescent Valley
crescentwise
equicrescent
Fertile Crescent
Golden Crescent
La Crescent
Mornington Crescent
Red Crescent
semicrescent
Turkish crescent
yellow-crescent blister beetle
crescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.zn̩t/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.sn̩t/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.sn̩t/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.zn̩t/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
rhymes: -ɛzənt
Forms: form: cres.
Etymology: From Middle English cressaunt, from Anglo-Norman cressaunt and Old French creissant (“crescent of the moon”) (French croissant), from Latin crēscēns, present active participle of crēscō (“arise, thrive”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow”). See Old Armenian սերիմ (serim, “be born”) and սերեմ (serem, “bring forth”), Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) and κούρος (koúros, “boy”), Latin creāre (“produce, create, bring forth”) and Ceres (“goddess of agriculture”). Doublet of croissant.
The pronunciation with /z/ is a comparatively recent innovation due to the influence of words such as pheasant and present.
Senses: examples: text: For nature creſſant does not grovve alone / In thevvs and bulkes, but as this temple vvaxes, / The invvard ſervice of the minde and ſoule / Grovves vvide vvithal, […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
english: For a human being's vital functions, increasing, do not grow alone / In physical development and bulk, but as this "temple" [i.e., the body] waxes, / The inward operation of the mind and soul / Grows wide with them.
translation: For a human being's vital functions, increasing, do not grow alone / In physical development and bulk, but as this "temple" [i.e., the body] waxes, / The inward operation of the mind and soul / Grows wide with them.
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text: O, I see the crescent promise of my spirit hath not set.
ref: 1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC:
text: crescent problems which have to be faced by a large part of humanity
ref: 1928, Edward A. Ross, World Drift, New York; London: The Century Co., page v:
glosses: marked by an increase; waxing, like the Moon.
examples: text: Astarte, queen of heaven, with crescent horns.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, 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:
glosses: Shaped like a crescent.
crescent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.zn̩t/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.sn̩t/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.sn̩t/
ipa: /ˈkɹɛ.zn̩t/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
rhymes: -ɛzənt
Forms: form: crescents
form: crescenting
form: crescented
form: crescented
form: cres.
Etymology: From Middle English cressaunt, from Anglo-Norman cressaunt and Old French creissant (“crescent of the moon”) (French croissant), from Latin crēscēns, present active participle of crēscō (“arise, thrive”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁- (“to grow”). See Old Armenian սերիմ (serim, “be born”) and սերեմ (serem, “bring forth”), Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “girl”) and κούρος (koúros, “boy”), Latin creāre (“produce, create, bring forth”) and Ceres (“goddess of agriculture”). Doublet of croissant.
The pronunciation with /z/ is a comparatively recent innovation due to the influence of words such as pheasant and present.
Senses: examples: text: A dark wood crescents more than half the lawn
ref: 1809, Anna Seward, “Letter VI. 195”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: To form a crescent shape
glosses: To decorate with crescents.
bicephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + -cephalous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: dicephalous
bicephalic
coordinate_terms: monocephalous
tricephalous
quadricephalous
tetracephalous
pentacephalous
glosses: Having two heads.
Related terms: bicephalism
Fertile Crescent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜːtaɪl ˈkɹɛsənt/
ipa: /ˈfɝːtəl ˈkɹɛsənt/
Forms: form: the Fertile Crescent
Etymology: Coined by University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.
Senses: examples: text: This great semicircle, for lack of a name, may be called the fertile crescent.
ref: 1914, James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard, Outlines of European History: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece, and Rome:
text: The Fertile Crescent has always been in close touch with the other parts of the Middle East: Turkey, Iran, the Arabian peninsula, and Egypt.
ref: 1988, Charles Issawi, The Fertile Crescent, 1800-1914: A Documentary Economic History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: A crescent-shaped geographic region of fertile land in the Middle East in Western Asia, stretching from present-day Iraq through eastern Turkey to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt and Cyprus.
lunate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lunate
form: most lunate
Etymology: First attested in 1777; borrowed from Latin lūnātus (“crescent-shaped”), from lūna (“moon”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: a lunate beak
glosses: Shaped like a crescent.
lunate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunates
Etymology: First attested in 1777; borrowed from Latin lūnātus (“crescent-shaped”), from lūna (“moon”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The lunate bone.
Derived terms: capitolunate
lunate bone
lunated
lunately
lunate sigma
perilunate
postlunate
prelunate
radiolunate
scapholunate
semilunate
sublunate
semilunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + lunar.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a half-moon; crescent-shaped.
Derived terms: semilunar bone
semilunar ganglion
semilunar notch
semilunar valve
semilunar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semilunars
Etymology: From semi- + lunar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The lunate bone, or semilunar bone.
stammer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæmə/
ipa: /ˈstæmɚ/
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stammers
form: stammering
form: stammered
form: stammered
Etymology: From Middle English stameren, from Old English stamerian, from Proto-West Germanic *stamrōn, from Proto-Germanic *stamrōną (“to stammer”). Compare German stammeln, Dutch stameren, Old Norse stammr. Doublet of stumble.
Senses: synonyms: word: hacker
word: stutter
glosses: To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
examples: text: He blushed, and stammered a few words of apology.
text: The high school had a send-off in my honour. It was an uncommon thing for a young man of Rajkot to go to England. I had written out a few words of thanks. But I could scarcely stammer them out. I remember how my head reeled and how my whole frame shook as I stood up to read them.
ref: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi
glosses: To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.
Synonyms: word: balbucinate
word: balbutiate
word: croak
word: drawl
word: falter
word: gibber
word: hacker
word: hammer
word: haw
word: hesitate
word: hum and haw
word: jabber
word: mince
word: mouth
word: muffle
word: mumble
word: mump
word: mutter
word: splutter
word: sputter
word: stammer
word: stutter
Hypernyms: word: speak
stammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæmə/
ipa: /ˈstæmɚ/
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stammers
Etymology: From Middle English stameren, from Old English stamerian, from Proto-West Germanic *stamrōn, from Proto-Germanic *stamrōną (“to stammer”). Compare German stammeln, Dutch stameren, Old Norse stammr. Doublet of stumble.
Senses: examples: text: She said goodbye in a stammer.
glosses: The involuntary repetition of a sound in speech.
glosses: A speech defect whereby someone speaks with a stammer
stutter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌtɚ/
ipa: /ˈstʌtə/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stutters
form: stuttering
form: stuttered
form: stuttered
Etymology: From Middle English stutten, stoten (“stutter”); cognate with Dutch stotteren (“stutter”).
Senses: examples: text: He stuttered a few words of thanks.
synonyms: word: hacker
word: stammer
glosses: To speak (words) with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.
examples: text: I was stuttering after the marathon.
text: The engine of the old car stuttered going up the slope.
glosses: To expel a gas with difficulty.
stutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌtɚ/
ipa: /ˈstʌtə/
rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stutters
Etymology: From Middle English stutten, stoten (“stutter”); cognate with Dutch stotteren (“stutter”).
Senses: synonyms: stammer
glosses: A speech disorder characterized by stuttering.
examples: 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, London: William Lee, IV. Century, p. 103,
And many Stutters (we finde) are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the Tongue.
synonyms: stutterer
stammerer
glosses: One who stutters.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb stutter
word: covert stutter
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb stutter
word: interiorized stutter
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb stutter
word: pseudostutter
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb stutter
word: pseudostuttering
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb stutter
word: stutter edit
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb stutter
word: stutterer
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb stutter
word: stutter gun
weltanschauung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛltɑːnˌʃaʊʊŋ/
Forms: form: weltanschauungs
form: weltanschauungen
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Weltanschauung.
Senses: examples: text: Your background and experiences must give you a unique weltanschauung.
glosses: A person's or a group's conception, philosophy or view of the world; a worldview.
meaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈminɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Forms: form: meanings
Etymology: From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean + -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).
Senses: examples: text: Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
qualifier: expressions or symbols
glosses: The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
raw_tags: of words
qualifier: expressions or symbols
glosses: The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
raw_tags: of words
examples: text: the meaning of life
text: The number of persons attending the vigil had a lot of meaning to the families.
glosses: The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.
examples: text: It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand.
ref: c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War:
text: […] there was nothing in the house, what there was, was broken, the last people must have lived like pigs, what could the meaning of the landlord be?
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
glosses: Intention.
raw_tags: of a person's actions
Synonyms: sense: denotation of words etc.
word: acceptation
sense: denotation of words etc.
word: definition
sense: denotation of words etc.
word: parsing
sense: denotation of words etc.
word: sense
sense: connotation of words etc.
word: flavor
sense: connotation of words etc.
word: implication
sense: connotation of words etc.
word: import
sense: connotation of words etc.
word: insinuation
sense: connotation of words etc.
word: tone
sense: something beyond a thing's existence
word: purpose
sense: something beyond a thing's existence
word: significance
sense: of a person's actions
word: goal
sense: of a person's actions
word: aim
sense: of a person's actions
word: plan
sense: of a person's actions
word: intent
Hyponyms: proposition
Derived terms: antimeaning
double meaning
foremeaning
get the meaning
loan meaning
meaninged
meaningful
meaningless
meaninglessly
meaninglessness
meaning of life
nonmeaning
self-referential meaning
submeaning
take the meaning
undermeaning
meaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈminɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Etymology: From mean + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
ref: 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
glosses: present participle and gerund of mean
meaning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈminɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Forms: form: more meaning
form: most meaning
Etymology: From mean + -ing.
Senses: examples: Well/ill meaning.
glosses: Having a (specified) intention.
examples: text: I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
ref: 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
text: There was a meaning pause, broken by old Stein again clapping his hands.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 243:
text: [T]he new friends […] knew nothing and did not particularly care to hear about the beautiful mother with her long, meaning looks and liquid dresses and distant smile.
ref: 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 160:
glosses: Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
Derived terms: meaningly
meaningness
unmeaning
average
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăvʹ(ə)rĭj
ipa: /ˈæv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: averages
form: averaging
form: averaged
form: averaged
Etymology: From Middle French avarie, from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria (which is possibly from Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya, “damaged goods”), from عَوَار (ʕawār, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, “to lose an eye”)) + English suffix -age.
Senses: examples: text: If you average 10, 20 and 24, you get 18.
glosses: To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean.
examples: text: The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.
text: I averaged 75% in my examinations this year.
text: The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.
ref: 1961 November 24, “Talking of Trains: The roller-bearing A1s”, in Trains Illustrated, page 643:
text: This comes after the center topped the charts last year, becoming the first player at the position since four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal to win the scoring title and the first center to average over 30 PPG in 40 years – Embiid averaged 30.6.
ref: 2023 April 5, Thomas Schlacher, “Joel Embiid vs. Nikola Jokić vs. Giannis Antetokounmpo: What’s the latest in the race to become the NBA MVP?”, in CNN:
glosses: Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.
examples: text: to average a loss
glosses: To divide among a number, according to a given proportion.
examples: text: Gulls average much larger than terns, with stouter build […]
ref: 1872, Elliott Coues, Key to North American Birds:
glosses: To be, generally or on average.
Derived terms: average down
average out
average up
averageable
unaveraged
average
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăvʹ(ə)rĭj
ipa: /ˈæv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: averages
Etymology: From Middle English average, from Medieval Latin averagium, from aver (“horse or other beast of burden, service required from the same”) from Old English eafor (“obligation to carry goods and convey messages for one's lord”) from aferian (“to remove, take away”); + -age.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.
fluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfluːənt/
ipa: /ˈfluənt/
ipa: /ˈfljuːɛnt/
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /flɪu̯ənt/
rhymes: -ʊənt
Forms: form: more fluent
form: most fluent
Etymology: From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“I flow”).
Senses: examples: text: fluent handwriting
text: For time is a fleeting thing, and which appeareth as in a shadow, with the matter ever gliding, alwaies fluent, without ever being stable or permanent[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: That flows; flowing, liquid.
examples: text: She's fluent in French.
text: The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Able to use a language accurately, rapidly, and confidently.
examples: text: The payment processor offers a fluent API.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to a fluent interface.
Synonyms: sense: that flows
word: fluid
word: flowing
word: runny
Derived terms: disfluent
dysfluent
fluent interface
fluentness
hyperfluent
nonfluent
overfluent
socially fluent
subfluent
transfluent
Related terms: fluency
fluently
fluent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfluːənt/
ipa: /ˈfluənt/
ipa: /ˈfljuːɛnt/
note: Wales, Ottawa Valley
ipa: /flɪu̯ənt/
rhymes: -ʊənt
Forms: form: fluents
Etymology: From Latin fluens (“flowing”), present active participle of fluō (“I flow”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.