cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
punctuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌŋktjuːeɪt/
ipa: [ˈpʌŋkʃuːeɪt]
Forms: form: punctuates
form: punctuating
form: punctuated
form: punctuated
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin punctuare (“to mark with points”), from Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”); see point, and compare punch and punctate.
Senses: examples: text: That occurrence of "its" needs to be punctuated as "it's".
glosses: To add punctuation to.
examples: text: My father punctuated his tirade with thumps on the desk.
text: Most soldiers would testify that the everyday experience of war is long stretches of boredom punctuated by sudden, terrifying spells of disorder.
ref: 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To add or to interrupt at regular intervals.
glosses: To emphasize; to stress.
Related terms: point
punctilious
punctual
punctuality
punctuation
punctuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌŋktjuːeɪt/
ipa: [ˈpʌŋkʃuːeɪt]
Forms: form: more punctuate
form: most punctuate
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin punctuare (“to mark with points”), from Latin punctus, perfect passive participle of pungō (“I prick, punch”); see point, and compare punch and punctate.
Senses: examples: text: […] with a punctuate wound of entrance and a small wound of exit, may very properly be treated with a dry dressing and not disturbed, and in a large proportion of the cases there will be little or no tissue reaction that will require[…]
ref: 1918, Franklin Henry Martin, Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, page 11:
text: […] with a punctuate eruption on the hard palate, and a peppery red punctuate rash becoming generalized within twenty-four hours can mean nothing else but scarlet fever. Add to this the circumoral pallor and the glandular enlargements[…]
ref: 1922, Medical Review of Reviews, page 315:
text: Positive HPV 16 hybridization signal in two cervical carcinomas. A punctuate signal (a) and a punctuate and diffuse signal (b).
ref: 2005 March 22, Tor Savidge, Charalabos Pothulakis, Microbial Imaging, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 16:
text: […] with a punctuate or “salt and pepper” chromatin pattern • Associated with focal epidermoid cyst or teratoma in 25% of cases • Lacks intratubular germ cell neoplasia Immunopathology (including immunohistochemistry)[…]
ref: 2012 January 25, Ming Zhou, George Netto, Jonathan I Epstein, Uropathology E-Book: A Volume in the High Yield Pathology Series, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 403:
text: […] with a punctuate wall calcification (arrow) along the right postcentral sulcus.
ref: 2012 November 8, Zoran Rumboldt, Mauricio Castillo, Benjamin Huang, Brain Imaging with MRI and CT: An Image Pattern Approach, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 344:
text: […] looking more punctuate. This mechanism is accompanied by a transient increase of mROS that could be inhibited by decreasing DRP1, thus decreasing DRP1/FIS1 association, and thus fission. In fasting animals, hypothalamic mitochondria appear[…]
ref: 2019 April 13, Beatrice Morio, Luc Penicaud, Michel Rigoulet, Mitochondria in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Comprehensive Review on Mitochondrial Functioning and Involvement in Metabolic Diseases, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 255:
glosses: Point-like; consisting of or marked with one or more points.
pester
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpɛstɚ/
ipa: [ˈpʰɛstɚ]
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pesters
form: pestering
form: pestered
form: pestered
Etymology: In the senses of “overcrowd (a place)” and “impede (a person)”: from Middle French and Old French empestrer (“encumber”), influenced by English pest. The modern sense is an extension of the sense “infest”. Comparable to English construction pest + -er (used to form frequentative verbs).
Senses: examples: text: He pestered me with questions.
text: She pestered him to help her.
synonyms: badger
beleaguer
bug
hound
plague
glosses: To bother, harass, or annoy persistently.
examples: text: That which eſpecialleſt nouriſht the moſt prime pleaſure in me, was after a ſtorme when they were driuen inſwarmes, and lay close peſtred together as thicke as they could packe; the next day following, if it were faire, they would cloud the whole skie with canuas, by ſpreading their drabled ſailes in the full clue abroad a drying, and make a brauer ſhew with them, then ſo many banners and ſtreamers diſplayed againſt the Sunne on a mountaine top.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:
synonyms: cattle up
crowd
flock
huddle
throng
glosses: To crowd together thickly.
Synonyms: word: badger
word: bait
word: bedevil
word: beleaguer
word: persecute
word: bug
word: beset
word: chevy
word: give someone grief
word: harass
word: harry
word: hound
word: pester
word: pick at
word: plague
word: vex
Hypernyms: word: annoy
Hyponyms: word: bepester
word: cyberharass
word: heckle
word: overharass
word: sexually harass
word: troll
Derived terms: bepester
pesterable
pesterer
pesteringly
pesterment
pesterous
pester power
pestersome
pestery
unpestered
Related terms: word: pest
word: pick on
pester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpɛstɚ/
ipa: [ˈpʰɛstɚ]
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pesters
Etymology: In the senses of “overcrowd (a place)” and “impede (a person)”: from Middle French and Old French empestrer (“encumber”), influenced by English pest. The modern sense is an extension of the sense “infest”. Comparable to English construction pest + -er (used to form frequentative verbs).
Senses: examples: text: By now I presumed I had become a real pester.
ref: 2017, Samuel J. Archer, Will There Be Another Lincoln, Nixon, Johnson or Kennedy?, page 15:
glosses: A bother or nuisance.
perhaps
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈhæps/
ipa: /pəˈɹæps/
ipa: /ˈpɹæps/
ipa: /pɚˈhæps/
ipa: /ˈpɹæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: perhap
Etymology: From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps John will come over for dinner.
text: There was a perhaps credible witness.
text: He was seriously wounded, perhaps fatally.
text: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
text: However, before most of this was experimentally and observationally discovered, they were perhaps best known for their “almost unique” ability to squirt ink when harangued, creating a smokescreen before jetting off to safety.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Possibly.
examples: text: […] will live until he dies perhaps, and then lie down in clover.
ref: c. 1850, “Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl”:
glosses: By chance.
Synonyms: bechance
belike
maybe
mayhap
mayhaps
peradventure
perchance
Derived terms: perhappenstance
perhapsy
Related terms: perhapser
perhaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈhæps/
ipa: /pəˈɹæps/
ipa: /ˈpɹæps/
ipa: /pɚˈhæps/
ipa: /ˈpɹæps/
rhymes: -æps
Forms: form: perhapses
form: perhap
Etymology: From Middle English perhappes, perhappous, variant of earlier perhap (“perhaps, possibly”), equivalent to per + hap (“chance, coincidence”) + -s, on model of Middle English parchaunce (modern perchance).
Senses: examples: text: I cannot conceive what atheism, or skepticism, or positivism could do for me now, with their negations, and endless and contradictory perhapses, and perhapses, and perhapses.
ref: 1870, The Missionary Herald, volumes 66-67, page 167:
glosses: An uncertainty.
maybe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: mā'bē
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.bi/
ipa: [ˈmeɪ̯.bi]
ipa: /mɛˈbiː/
rhymes: -eɪbi
Forms: form: mebbe
form: may-be
Etymology: From an ellipsis of Middle English it may be, equivalent to may + be. Compare mayhap.
Senses: examples: text: A small extra effort now can maybe save you much work later.
text: Maybe I was imagining it, but I could swear that the dog understood what I was saying.
glosses: Perhaps, possibly.
examples: text: Okay. See you later, maybe. — Maybe I’ll see you later.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).
raw_tags: as a pro-sentence
examples: text: Maybe not the best idea.
glosses: Certainly.
Synonyms: sense: perhaps
word: mayhaps
sense: perhaps
word: peradventure
sense: perhaps
word: perhaps
sense: perhaps
word: possibly
sense: as a pro-sentence
word: could be
sense: as a pro-sentence
word: mayhaps
sense: as a pro-sentence
word: might be
sense: as a pro-sentence
word: perhaps
sense: as a pro-sentence
word: possibly
sense: as a pro-sentence
word: that’s possible
Derived terms: and I don't mean maybe
maybe baby bias
maybe baby effect
maybeish
maybeness
maybeso
maybe type
maybe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mā'bē
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.bi/
ipa: [ˈmeɪ̯.bi]
ipa: /mɛˈbiː/
rhymes: -eɪbi
Forms: form: more maybe
form: most maybe
form: mebbe
form: may-be
Etymology: From an ellipsis of Middle English it may be, equivalent to may + be. Compare mayhap.
Senses: examples: text: Then add those may-be years thou hast to live
ref: 1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther, part III line 294:
glosses: Possible; uncertain.
maybe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mā'bē
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.bi/
ipa: [ˈmeɪ̯.bi]
ipa: /mɛˈbiː/
rhymes: -eɪbi
Forms: form: maybes
form: mebbe
form: may-be
Etymology: From an ellipsis of Middle English it may be, equivalent to may + be. Compare mayhap.
Senses: glosses: Something that is possibly true.
examples: text: The results of the poll were inconclusive. We got two yeses, three nos, and four maybes.
glosses: An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement.
examples: text: About your raise: it's a big maybe.
glosses: A future event that may or may not happen.
Synonyms: perhaps
Derived terms: definite maybe
debris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛbɹi/
ipa: /ˈdeɪbɹi/
ipa: /dəˈbɹiː/
rhymes: -ɛbɹi
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: débris
Etymology: Borrowed from French débris, itself from dé- (“de-”) + bris (“broken, crumbled”), or from Middle French debriser (“to break apart”), from Old French debrisier, itself from de- + brisier (“to break apart, shatter, bust”), from Frankish *bristijan, *bristan, *brestan (“to break violently, shatter, bust”), from Proto-Germanic *brestaną (“to break, burst”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrest- (“to separate, burst”). Cognate with Old High German bristan (“to break asunder, burst”), Old English berstan (“to break, shatter, burst”), German bersten (“to burst”). More at burst.
Senses: examples: text: His neighbors were still ripping out debris. But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding.
ref: 2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, in New York Times:
text: But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
synonyms: detritus
glosses: Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
examples: text: [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
ref: 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
synonyms: word: cultch
word: crap
word: debris
word: dreck
word: drek
word: garbage
word: junk
word: litter
word: pelf
word: piece of crap
word: piece of garbage
word: piece of shit
word: pile of crap
word: pile of shit
word: piece of trash
word: rubbish
word: refuse
word: roughage
word: service item
word: shit
word: stuff
word: trash
word: waste
glosses: Litter and discarded refuse.
glosses: The ruins of a broken-down structure.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
Synonyms: word: debris
word: detritus
word: remains
word: ruins
word: rubble
word: wreckage
Hypernyms: word: piece
word: remainder
Derived terms: biodebris
cellular debris
debris basin
debris field
debris mortar
debris response area
debrite
palynodebris
space debris
Related terms: word: broken
word: trash
Your Maj
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Your Majesty.
Related terms: Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Your Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Her Holiness
His Holiness
Your Holiness
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
Her Maj
His Maj
Her Majesty
His Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Your Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
Her Royal Majesty
His Royal Majesty
Your Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
Her Maj
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Her Majesty.
Related terms: Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Your Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Her Holiness
His Holiness
Your Holiness
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
His Maj
Your Maj
Her Majesty
His Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Your Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
Her Royal Majesty
His Royal Majesty
Your Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
His Maj
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: His Majesty.
Related terms: Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Your Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Her Holiness
His Holiness
Your Holiness
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
Her Maj
Your Maj
Her Majesty
His Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Your Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
Her Royal Majesty
His Royal Majesty
Your Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
maj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maj..
His Majesty
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: HM
form: H.M.
Senses: glosses: A title of respect used when referring to a king.
glosses: A sarcastic way of referring to any male who is (or is acting) pompous or bossy.
Derived terms: His Majesty's Opposition
Related terms: Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Your Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Her Holiness
His Holiness
Your Holiness
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
Her Maj
His Maj
Your Maj
Her Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Your Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
Her Royal Majesty
His Royal Majesty
Your Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
Her Majesty
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: A title of respect used when referring to a queen.
glosses: A sarcastic way of referring to any female who is (or appears) pompous or bossy.
Derived terms: at Her Majesty's pleasure
Related terms: Her Britannic Majesty
His Britannic Majesty
Your Britannic Majesty
Their Britannic Majesties
Her Excellency
His Excellency
Your Excellency
Their Excellencies
Her Highness
His Highness
Your Highness
Their Highnesses
Her Holiness
His Holiness
Your Holiness
Their Holinesses
Her Imperial Highness
His Imperial Highness
Your Imperial Highness
Their Imperial Highnesses
Her Imperial Majesty
His Imperial Majesty
Your Imperial Majesty
Their Imperial Majesties
Her Maj
His Maj
Your Maj
His Majesty
Your Majesty
Their Majesties
Her Royal Highness
His Royal Highness
Your Royal Highness
Their Royal Highnesses
Her Royal Majesty
His Royal Majesty
Your Royal Majesty
Their Royal Majesties
Her Serene Highness
His Serene Highness
Your Serene Highness
Their Serene Highnesses
too posh to push
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a woman or women, preferring to have a Caesarean section rather than undergo natural childbirth.
Caesarean section
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caesarean sections
Etymology: Likely corruption of the Latin phrase a caesō mātris uterō (“[born] from a cut in the mother’s womb”), supposedly the origin of Caesar's name. More at Caesar, at caedō, and at Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: synonyms: Caesarean
Cesarean
cesarean
C-section
antonyms: vaginal delivery
natural childbirth
glosses: Delivery of a baby through an incision in the womb.
wikipedia: Caesarean section
Caesarean_section#Etymology
C-section
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: C-sections
Senses: examples: 2011. San Francisco Chronicle
"C-section not necessarily end to vaginal delivery"
glosses: Synonym of Caesarean section.
synonyms: word: Caesarean section
cesarean section
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cesarean sections
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of Caesarean section.
Caesarean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːˈzɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /siːˈzɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: caesarean
form: Cæsarean
form: cæsarean
form: Caesarian
form: caesarian
form: Cæsarian
form: cæsarian
form: cesarean
form: Cesarean
form: Cesarian
form: cesarian
Etymology: From Caesarea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Caesarea.
Caesarean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːˈzɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /siːˈzɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Caesareans
form: caesarean
form: Cæsarean
form: cæsarean
form: Caesarian
form: caesarian
form: Cæsarian
form: cæsarian
form: cesarean
form: Cesarean
form: Cesarian
form: cesarian
Etymology: From Caesarea + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant/citizen of Caesarea.
Caesarean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːˈzɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /siːˈzɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Caesarean
form: most Caesarean
form: caesarean
form: Cæsarean
form: cæsarean
form: Caesarian
form: caesarian
form: Cæsarian
form: cæsarian
form: cesarean
form: Cesarean
form: Cesarian
form: cesarian
Etymology: From Caesar + -ean, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar or other Caesars.
Caesarean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːˈzɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /siːˈzɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Caesareans
form: caesarean
form: Cæsarean
form: cæsarean
form: Caesarian
form: caesarian
form: Cæsarian
form: cæsarian
form: cesarean
form: Cesarean
form: Cesarian
form: cesarian
Etymology: Shortening of Caesarean section; see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: A Caesarean section.
Synonyms: C-section
c-section
cesarean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Caesar + -ean, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: The text of the measure defines a born-alive infant as one that is delivered “at any stage of development” by “natural or induced labor, cesarean section, induced abortion, or another method” and “breathes, has a beating heart, or has definite movement of voluntary muscles.”
ref: 2022 October 28, Mara Silvers, “As election nears, doctors, nurses speak out against Born-Alive Infant referendum”, in Montana Free Press:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Cesarean.
Derived terms: postcesarean
cesarean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cesareans
Etymology: From Caesar + -ean, but see also Caesarean section § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Cesarean.
de-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /diː/
/də/
/dɪ/
Etymology: From Latin dē-, from the preposition dē (“of”, “from”). For sense development, compare Old English æf-, which was a similar prefix.
Senses: examples: text: de- + couple → decouple
text: de- + align → dealign
text: de- + ice → de-ice
text: de- + baptize → debaptize
glosses: reversal, undoing
examples: text: de- + bus → debus
text: de- + bark → debark
text: de- + benzylate → debenzylate
text: de- + arterialization → dearterialization
glosses: to remove from, removed
examples: text: de- + fraud → defraud
text: de- + complex → decomplex
text: de- + numerate → denumerate
text: de- + pauperize → depauperize
text: de- + prostrate → deprostrate
text: de- + specificate → despecificate
glosses: Intensifying
examples: text: de- + substantival → desubstantival
text: de- + verbal → deverbal
text: de- + mise → demise
glosses: derived from, of
examples: text: de- + scando → descend
text: de- + press → depress
glosses: down, downward
Synonyms: sense: undo
word: un-
sense: undo
word: dis-
sense: undo
word: in-
sense: remove
word: des-
sense: remove
word: un-
sense: from
word: off-
sense: from
word: out-
sense: from
word: ab-
sense: from
word: apo-
sense: from
word: away
sense: from
word: off
Derived terms: debar
debus
decouple
decrypt
deforestation
Related terms: an-
dis-
in-
non-
un-
di-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ/
ipa: /ˌdaɪ/
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
Borrowed from Latin di-, from Ancient Greek δι- (di-, “two”).
Senses: examples: text: diacetate
text: dialkene
text: diarchy
text: diactinal
glosses: Two.
examples: text: diglossia
text: dicatalectic
text: dichoree
glosses: Double, twice the quantity.
examples: text: diblock
text: dimeson
text: dijet
glosses: A pair.
examples: text: dikinetic
text: dialetheism
text: dianalytic
glosses: Both, possessing two distinct (possibly opposing) qualities.
Related terms: dwi-
twi-
di-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ/
ipa: /ˌdaɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dis-.
Senses: examples: text: divide
text: diverge
glosses: Alternative form of dis-: split, to split; shortened before l, m, n, r, s (followed by a consonant), and v; also often shortened before g, and sometimes before j.
diplo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: dipl-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from Ancient Greek διπλόος (diplóos), διπλοῦς (diploûs, “double”).
Senses: glosses: double
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Related terms: duplex
duplicate
bi-
di-
dipl-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of diplo- used before a vowel.
Related terms: diploid
dodeca-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: dodec-
form: duodeca-
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek δώδεκα (dṓdeka, “twelve”).
Senses: glosses: twelve
wikipedia: number prefix
Derived terms: dodecacycle
dodecad
dodecagon
dodecahedron
dodecaphony
dodecasyllable
Related terms: number
deka-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deca-.
dia-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /daɪə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek prefix δια- (dia-), from διά (diá, “through, across, by, over”).
Senses: synonyms: trans-
para-
per-
glosses: through, across
synonyms: inter-
mid-
glosses: between
Derived terms: sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: diabetes
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: diabotanum
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: diacaryon
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: diacopraegia
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: diagnosis
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: diagonal
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: dialectic
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: dialog[ue]
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: dialysis
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: diamagnetic
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: diaphragm
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: diapositive
sense: Derived terms and terms borrowed directly from Greek featuring the dia- element
word: dielectric
deutero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: deuter-
form: deuto-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεύτερος (deúteros, “second (of two)”).
Senses: examples: text: deutero- + -gamy → deuterogamy (“second marriage”)
glosses: Second or secondary.
examples: text: deutero- + benzene → deuterobenzene
glosses: Containing deuterium.
Coordinate terms: proto-
prot-
trito-
trit-
Derived terms: deuteroalbumose
deuterocasease
deuteroconid
deuterodome
deuteroelastose
deuteroexchange
deuterofibrinose
deuterogelatose
deuteroglobulose
deuteromycota
deuteroprism
deuteroproteose
deuterotype
deuterovitellose
Related terms: Deuteronomy
deuter-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deutero- used before a vowel.
Coordinate terms: prot-
trit-
Derived terms: deuterium
heavy hydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An atom of said isotope weighs about 2 daltons, about twice as much as an atom of light hydrogen.
Senses: coordinate_terms: light hydrogen
glosses: Synonym of deuterium.
synonyms: word: deuterium
Related terms: heavy water
dis-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: dis
homophone: diss
homophone: dys-
Forms: form: di-
form: dif-
Etymology: From Middle English dis-, borrowed from Latin dis-, from Proto-Indo-European *dwís. Piecewise doublet of bis-; further related to bi-, di-, and twi-.
Often confused with the etymologically unrelated prefix dys-.
Senses: examples: text: dis- + agree → disagree
text: dis- + connect → disconnect
text: dis- + satisfied → dissatisfied
text: dis- + interested → disinterested
text: dis- + honour → dishonour
synonyms: un-
non-
de-
in-
an-
a-
glosses: Not, the reverse of. (Especially forming words with a negative connotation)
examples: text: dis- + card → discard (“to throw out a card”)
text: dis- + bar → disbar (“to expel from the bar”)
text: dis- + franchise → disfranchise (“to remove one's franchise, to prevent from voting”)
glosses: Expressing separation or removal.
examples: text: dis- + embowel → disembowel
text: dis- + annul → disannul (“to annul”)
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
examples: text: dis- + function → disfunction
glosses: Alternative form of dys- (“incorrect”).
Related terms: anti-
contra-
counter-
mal-
mis-
ob-
para-
dys-
program
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: programme
enpr: prōʹgrăm'
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈproˌɡram/
note: Indic
ipa: /prɵˈɡram/
enpr: prōʹgrəm
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊɡɹəm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈproɡrəm/
Forms: form: programs
form: programming
form: programing
form: programmed
form: programmed
form: programed
form: programed
form: programme
Etymology: From French programme, from Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”), from προγράφω (prográphō, “I set forth as a public notice”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). Doublet of programma.
Senses: examples: text: He programmed the DVR to record his favorite show.
glosses: To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
examples: text: I programmed a small game as a demonstration.
glosses: To develop (software) by writing program code.
examples: text: Mary will program Tuesday’s festivities.
glosses: To put together the schedule of an event.
examples: text: We program for special audience groups, too, as shown by our Mexican language program each Sunday morning.
ref: 1956, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 5, page 2586:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
examples: text: The lab rat was programmed to press the lever when the bell rang.
text: My point was not to commend but to expose her, and her way of thinking. In another place a teenage character worries that her stomach is too big. I, the author don't think her stomach is too big—the character does, because she's been programmed that way.
ref: 1982 December 18, Andrea Loewenstein, “Soap Author Responds”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5:
glosses: To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.
Derived terms: programmable
programmatical
programmatically
programmer
Cali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæli/
rhymes: -æli
Etymology: Clipping of California. Compare Vietnamese Ca Li.
Senses: examples: text: We drove to Cali / And got drunk on the beach
ref: 2010, “Teenage Dream”, performed by Katy Perry:
text: "Why do I have to live here?" she asked for the umpteenth time, seeing no reason for the twentyfive-hundred-mile move from New York to Cali.
ref: 2012, Kelli London, Cali Boys, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Nickname for California: a state of the United States.
Derived terms: Cali or bust
Cali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæli/
rhymes: -æli
Etymology: From Spanish Cali, from Calima.
Senses: synonyms: Santiago de Cali
glosses: A city in western Colombia, southwest of Bogotá.
glosses: A river in Colombia which flows by the city.
Cali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæli/
rhymes: -æli
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Kali (“Hindu goddess”).
programme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊɡɹəm/
homophone: program
Forms: form: programmes
Senses: examples: text: Our programme for today’s exercise class includes swimming and jogging.
text: The programme about Greek architecture starts at 9:00 on Channel 4.
text: ITEC is the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme.
text: It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Thus once a computer programme has been prepared, vastly different conditions can be inserted and experimented with at the expense of a few hours of computer time.
ref: 1961, New Scientist, volume 9, number 226, page 679:
text: It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries.
ref: 2012, Kate Bassett, “Mid-Seventies Onwards: Operatic beginnings and The Body in Question”, in In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller, London: Oberon Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 219:
text: The bill extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and includes new spending for border security and the military. Republicans aimed to offset these costs with cuts to programmes such as Medicaid, food stamps and green-energy tax credits.
ref: 2025 June 3, David Smith, “Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill a ‘disgusting abomination’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2025:
glosses: British, New Zealand, and India standard spelling of program.
glosses: Alternative spelling of program (“computer program”).
Derived terms: counterprogramme
deprogramme
interprogramme
Langlands programme
metaprogramme
misprogramme
multiprogramme
nonprogramme
preprogramme
programmatic
programme-maker
programme parade
programmist
rolling programme
space programme
subprogramme
sustaining programme
teleprogramme
television programme
TV programme
programme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊɡɹəm/
homophone: program
Forms: form: programmes
form: programming
form: programmed
form: programmed
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of program.
Derived terms: reprogramme
dependent variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dependent variables
Senses: examples: text: In the equation z = x² + y, z is the dependent variable.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In an equation, the variable whose value depends on one or more variables in the equation.
topics: sciences
glosses: An outcome measured to see the effectiveness of the treatment.
Coordinate terms: control variable
independent variable
independent variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: independent variables
Senses: examples: text: In the equation z = x² + y, x and y are the independent variables.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: dependent variable
glosses: In an equation, any variable whose value is not dependent on any other in the equation.
topics: sciences
coordinate_terms: dependent variable
glosses: The variable that is changed or manipulated in a series of experiments.
Coordinate terms: control variable
dependent variable
Related terms: argument
parameter
syllogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlədʒɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: syllogisms
Etymology: From Old French silogisme (“syllogism”), from Latin syllogismus, from Ancient Greek συλλογισμός (sullogismós, “inference, conclusion”). Doublet of syllogismus.
Senses: examples: text: Ever since Aristotle, syllogism has occupied a central place in logic and cast a fateful shadow upon the power of reason. Recognized to be the great conveyor of rationality, allowing reason to reach conclusions of unparalleled universality and necessity, syllogism has equally been acknowledged to be beset by limits.
ref: 2006, Richard Dien Winfield, From Concept to Objectivity: Thinking Through Hegel's Subjective Logic, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN, page 107:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
meronyms: major premise
minor premise
glosses: An argument whose conclusion is supported by two premises, of which one contains the term that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other contains the term that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term that is excluded from the conclusion.
glosses: A trick, artifice; an extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument; a sophism.
Derived terms: disjunctive syllogism
horned syllogism
pro-syllogism
pseudosyllogism
Related terms: syllogismus
enthymeme
sorites
patient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪʃənt/
rhymes: -eɪʃənt
Forms: form: more patient
form: most patient
Etymology: From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient, from Old French pacient, from Latin patiens, present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate, hurt”).
Senses: examples: text: Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
text: Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nexus:
glosses: Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: patient endeavour
text: a patient wait
text: patient analysis
text: c. 1692, Sir Isaac Newton, letter to Dr. Richard Bentley
Whatever I have done […] is due to […] patient thought.
text: December 15, 2016, Hettie Judah in the New York Times, Beloved Children’s-Book Characters, in Their Own Immersive World
“Her personal life and her art were very intertwined: You can’t really separate them,” explains Sophia Jansson. “She mirrored her own a reality onto a fictional reality.” And this is perhaps the nub of the Moomin’s enduring appeal: a combination of adventuresome spirit and philosophy, all of which Jansson derived from close and patient observation, of human relationships and of the natural world alike.
text: In contrast, the Westminster Gazette in 1912 was much more positive about railway staff, praising the "...army of porters hustling and bustling hither and thither with barrows groaning under the weight of bags and baggage and... the ever-patient and long-suffering guards, courteously giving information and advice to the querulous passengers... to the porter the Christmas season means a continuous round of heavy labour, extremely tiring to both nerves and temper, and this fact the public too often seem either to forget or ignore."
ref: 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:
glosses: Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
examples: text: To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.
ref: 1661, John Fell, “Doctor Henry Hammond”, in Christopher Wordsworth, editor, Ecclesiastical Biography, volume 5, published 1810, page 380:
glosses: Physically able to suffer or bear.
Synonyms: composed
Derived terms: omnipatient
overpatient
patient as Job
patiently
unpatient
Related terms: passion
passionate
passive
passivity
patience
marry
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæɹ.i/
enpr: mărʹē
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.i/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmeɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈma.ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈma.ɹe/
rhymes: -æɹi
homophone: Mary
homophone: merry
homophone: Merry (all only in accents with the Mary–marry–merry merger)
Forms: form: mary
Etymology: From Middle English Marie, referring to Mary, the Virgin Mary. Mid-14th century.
Senses: examples: text: You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes?
ref: 1549 April 29 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Seuenth Sermon of Maister Hugh Latymer, which He Preached before King Edward [VI], the .19. Day of Aprill.”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 93, recto:
text: I have chequed him for it, and the young lion repents; marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk and old sack.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: I know too much: / I finde it, I; for when I ha liſt to ſleepe, / Mary, before your Ladiſhip I grant, / She puts her tongue alittle in her heart, / And chides with thinking.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 24:
english: I know, [she talks] too much: / I always find that when I have the desire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit / She keeps a little quiet, / And scolds me with her thoughts.
translation: I know, [she talks] too much: / I always find that when I have the desire to sleep. / Indeed, before your Ladyship I admit / She keeps a little quiet, / And scolds me with her thoughts.
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glosses: A term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!
Related terms: wed
stoic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈstoːɪk/
rhymes: -əʊɪk
Forms: form: stoics
form: Stoic
form: Stoick
form: stoick
form: Stoïc
form: Stoïck
form: stoïc
form: stoïck
Etymology: From Latin stōicus (noun via Middle English Stoycis pl), from Ancient Greek Στωϊκός (Stōïkós), from Ποικίλη Στοά (Poikílē Stoá, “the Stoa Poikile”, literally “painted portico”), the portico in Athens where Zeno of Citium was teaching.
Senses: examples: text: The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
examples: text: Even a Rolls-Royce owner, I began to feel, would be a stoic to travel across Europe by car when the "Rheingold" is on offer.
ref: 1959 August, G. Freeman Allen, “The German Federal Railway today: 1.—Impressions of a week-end visit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 379:
glosses: A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.
stoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈstoːɪk/
rhymes: -əʊɪk
Forms: form: more stoic
form: most stoic
form: Stoic
form: Stoick
form: stoick
form: Stoïc
form: Stoïck
form: stoïc
form: stoïck
Etymology: From Latin stōicus (noun via Middle English Stoycis pl), from Ancient Greek Στωϊκός (Stōïkós), from Ποικίλη Στοά (Poikílē Stoá, “the Stoa Poikile”, literally “painted portico”), the portico in Athens where Zeno of Citium was teaching.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
synonyms: apathetic
impassive
stoical
glosses: Not affected by pain or distress.
examples: text: It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture 2”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
synonyms: expressionless
impassive
glosses: Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.
Related terms: stoical
stoically
stoicism
Glagolitic alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The Glagolitic writing system, the oldest known Slavonic alphabet.
Synonyms: word: Glagolitic
word: Glagolitsa
word: Bukvitsa
word: Hieronymian
word: Illyrian
word: Slovenish
Related terms: Cyrillic alphabet
reincarnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːɪŋkɑː(ɹ)ˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reincarnations
Etymology: From reincarnate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: He is believed to be the reincarnation of Jesus.
text: Do you believe in reincarnation?
glosses: A rebirth of a soul, in a physical life form, such as a body.
examples: text: Kibbutz life is a present-day reincarnation of pioneer days' morality.
ref: 1974 February 9, Joe, “Reactions”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 33, page 6:
glosses: A fresh embodiment.
examples: text: a reincarnation of an old video game
glosses: A new, considerably improved, version.
Synonyms: word: rebirth (1, and to some extent 2)
sense: fresh embodiment
word: reembodiment
word: gilgul
word: reincarnation
word: rebirth
Hypernyms: word: birth
Derived terms: reincarnationism
reincarnationist
Related terms: carnal
incarnation
reincarnate
reincarnated
rebirth
transmigration
rebirth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈbɜːθ/
ipa: /ɹiˈbɝθ/
ipa: /ɹiːˈbɜːθ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)θ
Forms: form: rebirths
Etymology: From re- + birth.
Senses: examples: text: A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgitā which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes, […]
ref: 1989, Saral Jhingran, Aspects of Hindu morality, page 35:
glosses: Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.
examples: text: And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before, […]
ref: 2009, Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century:
glosses: Revival, reinvigoration.
examples: text: The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.
ref: 2000, Joseph Stoutzenberger, Celebrating Sacraments, page 132:
text: Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.
ref: 2011, Chad T. Pierce, Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ, page 233:
glosses: Spiritual renewal.
Derived terms: rebirthday
Related terms: reborn
reincarnation
renaissance
revival
metempsychosis
palingenesia