cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
negro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniɡɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈnɪɡɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈnɪɡɹə/
ipa: /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/
Forms: form: negroes
form: negros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir.
Senses: examples: text: The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]
ref: 1867, Mayne Reid, Quadrupeds: what they are and where found, page 141:
text: What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 675:
text: There were two negros who were guilty of thieving; he went and had them both shot, and gave notice that he would put all to death who kept disturbing the property of the white people, and kept confusion in their land.
ref: 2003, Benjamin Hawkins, Howard Thomas Foster, The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810, page 259:
text: His parents had always said that the area he grew up in had been a nice place to live before 'those Negros invaded'.
ref: 2010, Ryan Acheson, Chalk, page 68:
glosses: A person of black African ancestry.
examples: text: We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and if it involved the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it.
ref: 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman, General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta:
glosses: A slave, especially one of African ancestry.
Synonyms: word: blackamoor
word: black
word: Black
word: African-American
Hypernyms: colored
colored person
person of color
Hyponyms: word: Afro-American
english: in the proper sense
translation: in the proper sense
word: African-American
word: negress
Derived terms: antinegro
benegro
house negro
incognegro
kneegrow
magical negro
magic negro
negress
negrification
negrify
negro ant
Negrobilia
negro bug
negro corn
negrodom
negro fatigue
negrofication
negrofy
negrohead
Negrohood
negro-house
negroid
negroish
negroism
negroization
negroize
Negroland
negrolatry
negro lethargy
negrolike
negrophile
negrophilia
negrophiliac
negrophilic
negrophilism
negrophilist
negrophobic
negro powder
negro spiritual
negro yam
New Negro
wash a negro white
white negro
Related terms: barro negro
mulatto
octaroon
quadroon
briskly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪskli/
rhymes: -ɪskli
Forms: form: more briskly
form: most briskly
Etymology: From brisk + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: `Now,' she said briksly, `you've heard all about the business. What type of personal service have you got in mind?'
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 82:
text: As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".
ref: 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Fast, quickly, swiftly.
economy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkɒ.nə.mi/
ipa: /əˈkɒ.nə.mi/
enpr: ĭkŏʹnəmē
enpr: əkŏʹnəmē
ipa: /iːˈkɑ.nə.mi/
ipa: /ɪˈkɑ.nə.mi/
ipa: /əˈkɑ.nə.mi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛko.nɔmi/
note: Indic
ipa: /iko.nɔmi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛ~ɪˈkɔnəmi/
rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: oeconomy
form: œconomy
Etymology: From Middle English yconomye, yconomy, borrowed via Old French [Term?] or Medieval Latin from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νέμω (némō, “distribute, allocate”). By surface analysis, eco- + -nomy. The first recorded sense of the word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery.
Senses: examples: text: He bought an economy car.
text: Economy size.
glosses: Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money; economical.
economy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkɒ.nə.mi/
ipa: /əˈkɒ.nə.mi/
enpr: ĭkŏʹnəmē
enpr: əkŏʹnəmē
ipa: /iːˈkɑ.nə.mi/
ipa: /ɪˈkɑ.nə.mi/
ipa: /əˈkɑ.nə.mi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛko.nɔmi/
note: Indic
ipa: /iko.nɔmi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛ~ɪˈkɔnəmi/
rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: oeconomy
form: œconomy
Etymology: From Middle English yconomye, yconomy, borrowed via Old French [Term?] or Medieval Latin from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νέμω (némō, “distribute, allocate”). By surface analysis, eco- + -nomy. The first recorded sense of the word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery.
Senses: examples: text: Numerous web sites have tips on how to fly economy.
glosses: In or via the part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares.
political party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political parties
Senses: examples: text: I told the Governors that I had never questioned the capacity or the sincerity or the ability of a man because he belonged to a different political party. No party had an overriding claim to patriotism. The times, I said, demanded that we put away our differences and close ranks in a determined effort to make our system of government function.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: A political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power through representation in government.
Synonyms: word: party
word: political party
Hypernyms: word: organization
word: person
word: member
word: politician
word: Member of Parliament
word: representative
word: backbencher
word: frontbencher
word: faction
word: club
word: secretariat
Related terms: word: donor
word: lobbyist
word: sponsor
word: voter
word: :Category:en:Organizations
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/64 § political party
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/58 § opposition party
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/15 § Communist Party
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/20 § Democratic Party
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/71 § Republican Party
word: Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/79 § Socialist Party
slave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: slāv
ipa: /sleɪv/
rhymes: -eɪv
Forms: form: slaves
form: slaving
form: slaved
form: slaved
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav.
An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”).
Senses: examples: text: MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved?
SOPHONISBA: No, free
ref: 1606, John Marston, The Wonder of Women:
text: The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving — Africans selling each other . . .
ref: 1908, James Wells, Stewart of Lovedale: The Life of James Stewart, D.D., M.D., Hon. F.R.G.S., page 88:
text: Despite these examples, the majority of enslaved Africans were not able to rely on rulers for help against slaving. Africans living in chiefdoms and villages ruled by allied African authorities were, however, able to use the legal system (Tribunal of Mukanos) in place in the regions under formal Portuguese control […]
ref: 2011, David Eltis, Keith Bradley, Paul Cartledge, The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 128:
text: With ready access to firearms through trade, the slaving Africans held a distinct upper-hand over the groups they preyed upon, which were often politically and socially weakened or destroyed by the trade.
ref: 2016, Thomas Arcaro, Rosemary Haskell, Chinedu Eke, Robert Anderson, Stephen Braye, Ann Cahill, Brian Digre, Anne Bolin, Mathew Gendle, Duane McClearn, Jeffrey Pugh, Laura Roselle, Jean Schwind, Kerstin Sorensen, Anthony Weston, Understanding the Global Experience: Becoming a Responsible World Citizen, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Significant impacts resulted from slaving; there is evidence of how communities dealt with the threat and benefits of slaving. Africans provided most of the slaves to European slavers. Most slaves were created either to settle debts or raise funds, through warfare, or as punishment for a real or perceived crime.
ref: 2016, Alistair Paterson, A Millennium of Cultural Contact, Routledge, →ISBN, page 117:
glosses: To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
examples: text: I was slaving all day over a hot stove.
glosses: To work hard.
examples: text: to slave a hard disk
text: Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[…]
ref: 2005, Simon Millward, Fast Guide to Cubase SX, page 403:
glosses: To place a device under the control of another.
Derived terms: slave away
wage-slave
campaign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæmˈpeɪn/
ipa: /kəmˈpeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: campaigns
form: campaigning
form: campaigned
form: campaigned
Etymology: From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.
Senses: examples: text: She campaigned for better social security.
text: But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
synonyms: boom
crusade
stump
glosses: To take part in a campaign.
examples: text: After modifying her for ocean racing, he campaigned her for three years, and in 1975, donated her to the U.S. Naval Academy.
ref: 1983 May, “Jack King: Merrythought”, in Yachting, volume 153, number 5, page 110:
text: The "more curious" were the affluent planters who bred and campaigned race horses in quarter races, the only form of racing practiced in the Virginia colony during the first 125 years of its existence.
ref: 1983, Alexander Mackay-Smith, The colonial quarter race horse, page 14:
text: Holman & Moody built more Mustangs than just the Mickey Thompson cars. One in that number was this red 302-powered 1969 Sportsroof. It was campaigned by David Pearson and Bobby Allison during the 1969 through 1972 seasons.
ref: 2002, John Albert Craft, Mustang Race Cars, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Ron campaigned the car for a couple seasons before selling it to Mark Danekas (Danekas blowers), who ran the car himself briefly before putting it on the market once again.
ref: 2014, Doug Boyce, chapter 1, in Drag Racing's Quarter-Mile Warriors: Then & Now, page 31:
glosses: Consistently ride in races for a racing season.
Derived terms: campaigner
outcampaign
recampaign
union
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.njən/
ipa: /ˈjuː.ni.ən/
rhymes: -uːnjən
Forms: form: unions
form: unioning
form: unioned
form: unioned
Etymology: From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: To combine sets using the union operation.
Related terms: intersection
union
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.njən/
ipa: /ˈjuː.ni.ən/
rhymes: -uːnjən
Forms: form: more union
form: most union
Etymology: From Middle English unyoun, from Old French union, from Late Latin ūniō, ūniōnem (“oneness, unity”), from Latin ūnus (“one”). Doublet of unio.
Senses: examples: text: Actors have to be union to get work here.
synonyms: unionized
antonyms: nonunion
glosses: Belonging to, represented by, or otherwise pertaining to a labour union.
examples: text: The union government of India
glosses: federal.
NGO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NGOs
Senses: examples: text: For instance, Philately is the most popular hobby of the world. Hence, introducing biophilately in the agenda of the concerned NGO will enhance its success in its aims. Spotting animals, birds, plants, insects, etc. on stamps may provide interested people with an efficient media of education […]
ref: 1990, Desh Bandhu, Harjit Singh, A. K. Maitra, editors, Environmental Education and Sustainable Development, New Delhi: Indian Environmental Society, page 486:
text: Often compared to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or associations, intergroups are also similar to lobbying groups because they receive external assistance in the form of financial and/or secretarial support.
ref: 2017, Stelios Stavridis, Davor Jancic, Parliamentary Diplomacy in European and Global Governance, page 102:
text: The announcement comes two years after they told NGOs to suspend the employment of Afghan women, allegedly because they didn’t wear the Islamic headscarf correctly. […] It’s the Taliban’s latest attempt to control or intervene in NGO activity.
ref: 2024 December 30, Associated Press, “The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women”, in CNN:
related: word: N.G.O.
word: N. G. O.
coordinate_terms: IGO
MNC
glosses: Initialism of non-governmental organization.
Hyponyms: ENGO
GONGO
INGO
quango
Derived terms: NGOification
NGO-isation
NGO-ization
investor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ɪnˈvɛs.tɚ/
ipa: /ɪnˈves.tə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: investors
Etymology: From invest + -or.
Senses: examples: text: […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
ref: 1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock:
text: Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
ref: 2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30:
text: So investors buy stablecoins not to make a profit but instead as a place to store money within the cryptocurrency infrastructure and to use when buying and selling other crypto assets. […] For example, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission asserted that for nearly four years Tether did not fully back its stablecoin with US dollars, meaning it did not have enough US dollars on hand to pay back every investor who potentially might cash out their Tether stablecoins.
ref: 2021 October 27, Jeanne Sahadi, “How stablecoin is different than other cryptocurrencies … and how it’s not”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who invests money in order to make a profit.
Derived terms: activist investor
angel investor
coinvestor
investomer
investorism
investorship
noninvestor
overinvestor
small investor
underinvestor
US dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: US dollars
form: U.S. dollar
Senses: glosses: The official currency of the United States.
ecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
note: of Canada
ipa: /iˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
note: of the US
ipa: /ɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ɪˈkɔl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /əˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: [əˈkɔ̟l.ə.d͡ʒi]
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: ecologies
form: oecology
form: œcology
Etymology: Calque of German Ökologie (coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, eco- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area. He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
ref: 1949, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides:
text: As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
ref: 2012 January 23, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2013, page 31:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
examples: text: social ecology
text: linguistic ecology
glosses: Any study of the relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
glosses: The totality or pattern of relationships of components of a system with their environment and with each other.
Hyponyms: agroecology
autecology
chemical ecology
chronoecology
cultural ecology
dendroecology
ethnoecology
geoecology
hydroecology
kincentric ecology
language ecology
linguistic ecology
macroecology
myrmecology
palaeoecology
paleoecology
photoecology
phytoecology
radioecology
restoration ecology
social ecology
socioecology
synecology
thermoecology
Derived terms: aeroecology
agroecology
anthecology
arcology
astroecology
autecology
bioecology
chemical ecology
chemoecology
chronoecology
cultural ecology
deep ecology
dendroecology
eco-
ecological
ecologism
ecologist
ecology block
ecosophy
ecosystem
ecotribe
ethnoecology
geoecology
human ecology
hydroecology
immunoecology
macroecology
microecology
myrmecology
neuroecology
paleoecology
pedoecology
photoecology
physioecology
psychoecology
radioecology
restoration ecology
socioecology
synecology
zooecology
Related terms: ecology block
juggernaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.ə.nɔːt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.ɚ.nɔt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.ɚ.nɑt/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.ə.nɔːt/
Forms: form: juggernauts
Etymology: Borrowed in the 17th century into British English in India, from Hindustani جگنّاتھ / जगन्नाथ (jagannāth) or Odia ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ (jagannātha), from Sanskrit जगन्नाथ (jagannātha, “Lord of the Universe”) (Jagannatha), a title for the Hindu deity Vishnu's avatar Krishna. The sense comes from witnessing the Rath Yatra (chariot parade) at Puri, Orissa, a huge annual procession which features a wagon of the idol of Jagannath; pulled with ropes by hundreds of devotees, the wagon develops considerable momentum and becomes unstoppable. The r was not originally pronounced: for non-rhotic dialects of British English, the spelling with -er- accurately suggests the Hindi pronunciation of the second vowel (a schwa); compare e.g. gorm. The spelling of the ending was influenced by the suffix -naut (“traveller, voyager”). Doublet of Jagannath.
Senses: examples: text: […] poor Johnny Tetterby staggering under his Moloch of an infant, the Juggernaut that crushes all his enjoyments.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.
In contrast, the Newcastle juggernaut rolls on.
ref: 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:
text: The fact that the juggernaut of Indian English rolls inexorably on, largely unconcerned by the academic arguments taking place about it, is in itself an indicator of an endonormative force in the variety, and this can be traced historically.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114:
text: It’s always fun when something massive comes along and sweeps the board, giving everything else a thoroughly good kicking – think Titanic, The Silence of the Lambs, or Lord of the Rings. There’s a sort of deranged, gluttonous feeling, a perverse glee in seeing so many dreams trampled on by a massive cultural juggernaut.
ref: 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: A literal or metaphorical force or object regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.
examples: text: I know I swing me Volvo all around you market square. I know you think that lorry drivers, we just don't care. But the streets are so narrow, built so many years ago. They were built for horses' carts, not juggernauts you know.
ref: 2019, “I love my juggernaut”, in The Pothole Song Album, performed by Richie Kavanagh:
glosses: A large, cumbersome truck or lorry, especially an artic.
glosses: An institution that incites destructive devotion or to which people are carelessly sacrificed.
morose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹəʊs/
ipa: /məˈɹoʊs/
ipa: /mɔɹˈoʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
rhymes: -oʊs
Forms: form: more morose
form: moroser
form: most morose
form: morosest
Etymology: From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
Senses: examples: text: If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him.
ref: 1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island:
synonyms: word: melancholy
word: sulky
word: crabby
word: glum
word: grouchy
word: gruff
word: moody
word: glum
word: gloomy
word: grouchy
word: gruff
word: ill-tempered
word: ill-humored
word: moody
word: morose
word: sulky
word: sullen
glosses: Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
Derived terms: morose delectation
unmorose
Related terms: morosely
moroseness
morosity
nexus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛksəs/
rhymes: -ɛksəs
ipa: /ˈnɛksuːs/
ipa: /ˈnɛksus/
Forms: form: nexuses
form: nexusses
form: nexus
Etymology: From Latin nexus (“connection, nexus; act of binding, tying or fastening together; something which binds, binding, bond, fastening, joint; legal obligation”), from nectō (“to attach, bind, connect, fasten, tie; to interweave; to relate; to unite; to bind by obligation, make liable, oblige; to compose, contrive, devise, produce”) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).
Senses: synonyms: word: bond
word: junction
word: link
word: tie
word: combination
word: composite
word: conjunction
word: fusion
word: junction
word: juncture
word: melding
word: merger
word: unification
word: union
word: unity
word: band
word: bond
word: connection
word: link
word: nexus
word: tie
word: vinculum
glosses: A form or state of connection.
topics: business
finance
law
synonyms: word: bond
word: junction
word: link
word: tie
word: combination
word: composite
word: conjunction
word: fusion
word: junction
word: juncture
word: melding
word: merger
word: unification
word: union
word: unity
word: band
word: bond
word: connection
word: link
word: nexus
word: tie
word: vinculum
glosses: A form or state of connection.
The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.
examples: text: Sunday's election pits Move Forward and the billionaire Shinawatra family's Pheu Thai against ruling parties backed by a nexus of old money, conservatives and generals with influence over key institutions involved in two decades of upheaval in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy.
ref: 2023 May 14, Panarat Thepgumpanat, Panu Wongcha-um, “Thailand's opposition opens up big election lead as army parties slide”, in Reuters:
glosses: A connected group; a network, a web.
synonyms: hub
junction
glosses: A centre or focus of something.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
topics: law
glosses: A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.
Derived terms: nexal
perinexus
jest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕst
ipa: /d͡ʒɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
enpr: jēst
ipa: /d͡ʒiːst/
ipa: /d͡ʒɛst/
ipa: /d͡ʒɛːst/
Forms: form: jests
Etymology: From Middle English geste (“idle tale”), from Old French geste (“acts, exploits”), from Latin gesta (“acts, deeds”). Doublet of gest.
Senses: examples: text: I made that comment in jest; it wasn't serious.
text: Alas poore Yorick, I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite Ieſt; […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:
glosses: An act performed for amusement; a joke.
examples: text: Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.
text: Why then make ſport at me, then let me be your ieſt, / I deſerue it[…]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 58, column 2:
glosses: Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
examples: text: the jests or actions of princes
ref: 1540, Thomas Elyot, Image of Governance:
glosses: A deed; an action; a gest.
examples: text: He promised us, in honour of our guest, / To grace our banquet with some pompous jest.
ref: c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
Synonyms: sense: joke
word: prank
sense: joke
word: gag
sense: joke
word: laughingstock
sense: joke
word: banter
sense: joke
word: crack
sense: joke
word: wisecrack
sense: joke
word: witticism
Derived terms: in jest
jestee
jesty
outjest
jest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕst
ipa: /d͡ʒɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
enpr: jēst
ipa: /d͡ʒiːst/
ipa: /d͡ʒɛst/
ipa: /d͡ʒɛːst/
Forms: form: jests
form: jesting
form: jested
form: jested
Etymology: From Middle English geste (“idle tale”), from Old French geste (“acts, exploits”), from Latin gesta (“acts, deeds”). Doublet of gest.
Senses: examples: text: Surely you jest!
glosses: To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
Synonyms: sense: to joke
word: banter
sense: to joke
word: kid
sense: to joke
word: mock
sense: to joke
word: tease
word: joke
word: jest
Hyponyms: word: have a lend of
word: josh
word: kid
word: play a joke
word: tell a joke
word: pull someone's leg
word: tease
word: trick
word: wind up
word: wisecrack
Derived terms: jestee
jester
jestingly
jesty
outjest
Related terms: word: jester
word: joker
jest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕst
ipa: /d͡ʒɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
enpr: jēst
ipa: /d͡ʒiːst/
ipa: /d͡ʒɛst/
ipa: /d͡ʒɛːst/
Senses: examples: text: So I jest called out to know what was up, and found it was Miss Vanholte's cowboys, who had been forced into the store by them rascally ruffins.
ref: 1890, Emma E. Hornibrook, Queen of the ranche; or, Life in the Far west, page 150:
text: "Jest like the Injian puzzle-boxes, ain't they?" said Dan, as the one boat dropped into the other.
ref: 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of just.
kleptomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌklɛp.təˈmeɪ.ni.ə
ipa: -ˈmeɪn.jə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Forms: form: kleptomanias
form: cleptomania
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”) + -mania, analyzed as klepto- + -mania.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.
Derived terms: bibliokleptomania
Related terms: kleptomaniac
kleptomaniacal
kleptolagnia
xenophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛ.nə.foʊb/
ipa: /ˈzi.nə.foʊb/
ipa: /ˈzɛ.nə.fəʊb/
Forms: form: xenophobes
Etymology: From xeno- + -phobe. From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”), + Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: glosses: One who hates or fears strangers or foreigners.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: One who hates or fears extraterrestial life.
Synonyms: word: xenophobiac
word: xenophobian
word: xenophobic
word: xenophobist
Related terms: xenophobia
xenophobic
xenophobical
xenophobically
bigot
racist
hilarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈlɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /hɪˈlɛ(ə)ɹi.əs/
ipa: /hɪˈlæɹ.i.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more hilarious
form: most hilarious
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ous, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”).
Senses: examples: text: a hilarious joke
text: Do you like Monty Python? I think they're hilarious.
synonyms: word: amusing
word: chucklesome
word: comedic
word: comic
word: comical
word: droll
word: filarious
word: frolicsome
word: funnisome
word: funny
word: gut-busting
word: hilarious
word: howlarious
word: humourful
word: humorous
word: hysterical
word: jocular
word: joculatory
word: jokes
word: jokesome
word: joky
word: laughable
word: laugh-out-loud
word: laughworthy
word: playful
word: rib-tickling
word: risible
word: screaming
word: sidesplitting
word: sniggersome
word: tattyfilarious
word: thalian
word: thigh-slapping
word: uproarious
word: wacky
word: zany
glosses: Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
examples: text: Rounding up the animals in the misty paddocks, with the blackbirds singing as the morning whitened, he felt hilarious, light-headed. He'd clap the cows on their rumps and shout "Come along, there! Come along there, me Irish darlint."
ref: 1944, Douglas Stewart, A Girl with Red Hair, and Other Stories, page 60:
text: Cold Doctor Pell here refused a very considerable fee. He could on occasion behave handsomely; but I can't learn that blustering, hilarious Doctor Rogerson ever refused his.
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: Full of hilarity; merry.
Derived terms: hilariously
hilariousness
hilarity
howlarious
sadlarious
unhilarious
Related terms: exhilarate
exhilaration
Hilary
damage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖæmeːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æmɪdʒ
Forms: form: damages
Etymology: From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed).
Senses: examples: text: The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
text: Great errors and absurdities many […]commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Friendship”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
examples: text: "What's the damage?" he asked the waiter.
glosses: Cost or expense.
Derived terms: attrition damage
brain damage
collateral damage
country damage
cryodamage
damage boost
damage control
damage feasant
damageful
damageless
damageous
loss and damage
microdamage
nanodamage
neurodamage
photodamage
radiation damage
splash damage
the damage is done
what's someone's damage
what's the damage
Related terms: damn
indemnity
damage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖæmeːd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æmɪdʒ
Forms: form: damages
form: damaging
form: damaged
form: damaged
Etymology: From Middle English damage, from Old French damage, from Vulgar Latin *damnāticum from Classical Latin damnum. Compare modern French dommage. Largely displaced native Middle English scath (whence unscathed).
Senses: examples: text: Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
text: Cold temperatures, heavy rain, falling rocks, strong winds and glacier movement can damage the equipment.
text: The building was erected in two years, at the parochial expence, on the foundation of the former one, which was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of Auguſt, 1712.
ref: 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of that Island, volume 2, book 2, chapter 7, 5:
text: He […] came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
synonyms: word: harm
word: injure
word: abuse
word: annoy
word: bewound
word: damage
word: damnify
word: dere
word: do damage to
word: do for
word: do ill
word: do violence to
word: forwork
word: grieve
word: harm
word: harrow
word: hurt
word: injure
word: maul
word: misdo
word: put someone in hospital
word: scaith
word: scathe
word: vulnerate
word: wet
word: wound
word: destroy
word: annihilate
word: aerosolize
word: atomize
word: benothing
word: bewreck
word: blot out
word: blotto
word: dash
word: decompose
word: demolish
word: desolate
word: devastate
word: diffuse
word: disintegrate
word: disperse
word: dissolve
word: eliminate
word: eradicate
word: erase
word: exterminate
word: extinguish
word: extirpate
word: fuck
word: harry
word: jazz
word: lay waste
word: level
word: liquidate
word: nuke
word: obliterate
word: pull down
word: pulverize
word: race
word: raze
word: ravage
word: remove
word: ruin
word: stamp out
word: total
word: unbreed
word: unexist
word: unmake
word: uproot
word: waste
word: wipe out
word: wipe off
word: wreck
glosses: To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
glosses: To undergo damage; to take damage.
examples: text: Did you damage the items that the customer returned yet?
glosses: To remove a damaged or unsalable item from the sales floor for processing.
Derived terms: damageability
damageable
damager
redamage
undamaged
slavery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsleɪvəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsleɪvɹi/
rhymes: -eɪvəɹi
rhymes: -eɪvɹi
ipa: /ˈslævəɹi/
ipa: /ˈslævɹi/
rhymes: -ævəɹi
rhymes: -ævɹi
ipa: /ˈsleɪvəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsleɪvɹi/
rhymes: -eɪvəɹi
rhymes: -eɪvɹi
Forms: form: more slavery
form: most slavery
Etymology: From slaver + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The giant snow bear, the wolf with slavery jaws or the claws of the silent great cats were all a part. Creatures of man's oldest nightmares were the other side of that face.
ref: 2014, Lisa Williamson, Echoes of Elder Times Collection:
glosses: Covered in slaver; slobbery.
share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛə/
ipa: /ʃɛɚ/
ipa: /ʃeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ʃeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ʃiə/
ipa: /ʃeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ʃɜː(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʃæ(ɾ)/
note: non-rhotic, also
ipa: /ʃeɾ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: shear (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: sheer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: shares
Etymology: From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English sċear, sċær (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Germanic *skaraz (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Dutch schaar (“ploughshare”), dialectal German Schar (“ploughshare”), Danish (plov)skær (“ploughshare”). More at shear.
Senses: examples: text: The golden harvest, of a mellow brown,
 Upturn'd so lately by the fearful share.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, The Task, Book IV:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
Derived terms: ploughshare
plowshare
sharebeam
share
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛə/
ipa: /ʃɛɚ/
ipa: /ʃeː/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ʃeə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ʃiə/
ipa: /ʃeɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ʃɜː(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ʃæ(ɾ)/
note: non-rhotic, also
ipa: /ʃeɾ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: shear (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: sheer (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: shares
form: sharing
form: shared
form: shared
Etymology: From Middle English share, schare, shaar, from Old English sċear, sċær (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Germanic *skaraz (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Dutch schaar (“ploughshare”), dialectal German Schar (“ploughshare”), Danish (plov)skær (“ploughshare”). More at shear.
Senses: examples: text: The shar'd visage hangs on equal sides.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
DML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Dimensional Markup Language.
examples: text: DML consists of four commonly used statements: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE.
ref: 2015, Miguel Cebollero, Michael Coles, Jay Natarajan, Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide, Apress, →ISBN, page 4:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Data Manipulation Language.
DML
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Doctor of Modern Languages, a terminal degree similar to both the D.A. (Doctor of Arts) and Ph.D. in Foreign Languages.
Related terms: DCL
DDL
Latvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlætvi.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɑːtvi.ən/
Etymology: From Latvia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Latvia, the Latvian people or the Latvian language.
Synonyms: Lettish
Derived terms: Latvian Gambit
Latvian horse
Latvian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlætvi.ən/
ipa: /ˈlɑːtvi.ən/
Forms: form: Latvians
Etymology: From Latvia + -an.
Senses: glosses: The official language of Latvia; Lettish.
glosses: A person from Latvia or of Latvian descent.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Lettish
word: Lett
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Latvian terms
yearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɪɹli/
ipa: /ˈjɪɚli/
ipa: /ˈjɪəɹli/
ipa: /ˈjɪəli/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)li
Etymology: From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly (adjectival suffix) or -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarliks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).
Senses: examples: text: Christmas is a yearly celebration.
text: We deep-clean the kitchen lustrally, on a five-yearly basis.
text: all of these services, including mSpy, function with the same kind of predatory subscription scheme, luring you in with free trials that autorenew as abhorrently expensive monthly or yearly subscriptions. canceling the service requires reaching out to support, so users are typically unable to avoid overrunning the trial.
ref: 2024 June 9, maia arson crimew, “israeli national police found trying to purchase stalkerware”, in maia blog:
glosses: Happening once every year.
examples: text: a yearly income
glosses: Over the course of one year
Synonyms: annual
per annum
perennial
Derived terms: half-yearly
quarter-yearly
semiyearly
twice-yearly
yearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɪɹli/
ipa: /ˈjɪɚli/
ipa: /ˈjɪəɹli/
ipa: /ˈjɪəli/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)li
Etymology: From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly (adjectival suffix) or -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarliks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).
Senses: glosses: Once a year.
examples: text: With a scanty supply of laws in Hellenic commonwealths or city states what an immense vista for an Aristotle, of that grand, complex, efficient machinery of law, turning out yearly thousands of laws and taboos for the paternalistic control and alleged welfare of the citizen!
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: Every year.
Synonyms: annually
perennially
yearly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɪɹli/
ipa: /ˈjɪɚli/
ipa: /ˈjɪəɹli/
ipa: /ˈjɪəli/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)li
Forms: form: yearlies
Etymology: From Middle English yeerly, yerely, from Old English ġēarlīċ, ġērlīċ (“yearly, of the year, annual”), equivalent to year + -ly (adjectival suffix) or -ly (adverbial suffix). Cognate with Scots yerelie (“yearly”), Saterland Frisian jierelk (“yearly”), West Frisian jierliks (“yearly”), Dutch jaarlijks (“yearly”), Afrikaans jaarliks (“yearly”), German jährlich (“yearly”), Danish årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Bokmål årlig (“yearly”), Norwegian Nynorsk årleg (“yearly”), Swedish årlig (“yearly”), Icelandic árlegur (“yearly”).
Senses: glosses: Something that is published once a year.
Related terms: frequency
transcendence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹæn(t)ˈsɛndəns/
Forms: form: transcendences
Etymology: From transcend + -ence.
Senses: glosses: The act of surpassing usual limits.
glosses: The state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
glosses: The state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.
examples: text: The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity as its controlling principle
ref: 1884, Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, The Continuity of Christian Thought:
glosses: Superior excellence; supereminence.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of being a transcendental number.
Derived terms: transcendence degree
Related terms: transcend
transcendency
transcendent
transcendental
transcendently
zoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: zoos
Etymology: Clipping of zoological garden or zoological park, now the usual form. See zoology.
Sense 5 is a clipping of zoophile or zoophilia.
Senses: examples: text: The London Zoo was built in 1828.
text: The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile. Only the city zoo offers greater species diversity.
ref: 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
glosses: A park where live animals are exhibited.
examples: text: The shopping center was a zoo the week before Christmas.
glosses: Any place that is wild, crowded, or chaotic.
examples: text: After his insightful book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Spoto published The Dark Side of Genius, a portrayal of the elderly director as a lonely man who was a veritable zoo of desires, suspicions, fears, and addictions (food, drink, romantic infatuation, and filmmaking).
ref: 1993, Neil P. Hurley, Soul in Suspense: Hitchcock's Fright and Delight, page xii:
text: From this point on, an entire zoo of possibilities arose: strange stars, different families of neutron stars, hybrid stars, etc.
ref: 2001, Antonino Zichichi, Theory and Experiment Heading for New Physics:
text: But powerful as the quark model and the electroweak theory were in describing the zoo of subatomic particles, this still left a huge gap.
ref: 2021, Michio Kaku, The God Equation:
glosses: A large and varied collection of something.
examples: text: I'm not all that unhappy about being out on an actual patrol, but there's a worried feeling wandering around the back of my mind, not exactly fear, more like a sort of lurking anxiety at being out in the dreaded jungle, the zoo, where the enemy hides.
ref: 2013 August 12, E. E. "Doc" Murdock, “My Vietnam War”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN, page 152:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The jungle.
examples: text: Zoophiles, or 'zoos,' are sexually and emotionally attracted to animals, as in a sexual orientation.
ref: 2013, Mark Hawthorne, Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering:
text: Bestiality or zoophilia—whatever we decide to call it—is one of the most pressing issues for all domesticated animals, […] From the scanty research available, the following picture emerges: the majority of zoos are male, though certainly not all; […]
ref: 2016, Jessica Pierce, Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets, page 129:
glosses: Clipping of zoophile.
glosses: Clipping of zoophile.
Pornographic material depicting actual animals or bestiality.
Derived terms: goo to you by way of the zoo
human zoo
like feeding time at the zoo
morning zoo
particle zoo
petting zoo
safari zoo
who's who in the zoo
zoo animal
zoo blot
zoo break
zoo format
zoo plane
zoothanasia
zoothanize
Related terms: zoo-
zooey
zooish
zoolike
zoologist
zoology
universalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːnəˈvɝsəlˌɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsəlˌɪzəm/
Forms: form: universalisms
Etymology: From universal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being universal; universality.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The belief that all souls can attain salvation.
glosses: Alternative form of Unitarian Universalism.
Related terms: universal
universalist
Universalist
universality
universally
universe
brain drain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brānʹ-drān
Forms: form: brain drains
Etymology: Coined by spokesmen for the Royal Society of London in the early 1950s to describe the outflow of scientists and technologists to the United States and Canada.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately, the often-discussed problem of "the brain drain" is not as serious in agriculture as in most other fields, particularly the "hard sciences."
ref: 1955, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Proceedings, Issues 6-12, page 60:
text: Former HS2 Ltd chairman Sir David Higgins provided a timely reminder of why Britain needs HS2 in a letter to The Times on September 25, in which he asked: "Why are so few FTSE 100 companies based outside the South East? Why is there such a brain drain of graduates from the North? Why do northern cities underperform compared with their European counterparts?
ref: 2023 October 4, Philip Haigh, “HS2's rising costs: government only has itself to blame”, in RAIL, number 993, page 53:
antonyms: brain gain
glosses: The migration of educated or talented people from less economically advanced areas to more economically advanced areas, especially to large cities or more developed nations.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A Jackson-Pratt drain.
Derived terms: reverse brain drain