cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
salting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltings
Senses: glosses: The act of sprinkling salt, either on food, or on an icy road.
examples: text: Saltings ringing with the redshank's cry.
ref: 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41:
glosses: A salt marsh.
glosses: The act of tampering with an investigation site by adding bogus evidence.
glosses: The celebration of the Eton montem.
Hyponyms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: password salting
Derived terms: salting out
salting out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The precipitation of a solute by the addition of an electrolyte.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A technique for the separation of proteins by differential precipitation in a solution of sodium chloride or ammonium sulphate.
salting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salt out
salt mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt mines
form: saltmine
Senses: glosses: Any mine used for the extraction of salt.
glosses: Any laborious work situation, especially in a confined space.
examples: text: The fan forum was an absolute salt mine after the football team's loss to the last-place team in its division.
glosses: An abundance of indignation felt by one person or a group of people due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, disappointment, or defeat; a gold mine (sense 3) of salt (noun sense 11).
Related terms: coalface
salt the mine
salt water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt waters
form: saltwater
form: salt-water
Senses: glosses: Any water containing dissolved salt; brine.
Hypernyms: water
Hyponyms: seawater
saltwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltwaters
Etymology: From Middle English saltwater, salte water, equivalent to salt + water. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Soaltwoater (“saltwater”),
West Frisian sâltwetter (“saltwater”), Dutch zoutwater (“saltwater”), German Low German Soltwater (“saltwater”), German Salzwasser (“saltwater”), Danish saltvand (“saltwater”), Swedish saltvatten (“saltwater”), Icelandic saltvatn (“saltwater”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salt water.
Hypernyms: water
Hyponyms: seawater
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rachicallis americana
word: saltwater bush
word: saltwater crocodile
word: saltmarsh sparrow
word: saltwater taffy
saltwater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English saltwater, salte water, equivalent to salt + water. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Soaltwoater (“saltwater”),
West Frisian sâltwetter (“saltwater”), Dutch zoutwater (“saltwater”), German Low German Soltwater (“saltwater”), German Salzwasser (“saltwater”), Danish saltvand (“saltwater”), Swedish saltvatten (“saltwater”), Icelandic saltvatn (“saltwater”).
Senses: examples: text: Sweetwater and Saltwater economists tend to differ on policy issues.
ref: 2004, Arnold Kling, Learning Economics, 1st edition, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 29:
text: These findings suggest that the divide between fresh and saltwater departments has all but disappeared. The ideological battle is over.
ref: 2007, David Colander, The Making of an Economist, Redux, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 228:
text: 2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86.
Despite their often heated debates, saltwater and freshwater economists agreed on one fundamental point: that macroeconomic analysis must be based on the foundations of neoclassical microeconomics.
text: In the US, economists were said to be from sweetwater departments – from Chicago and Minnesota, where they were new classical – and from saltwater departments – MIT, Harvard and Yale, where they continued to be Keynesians who did not concede the ground totally to the new classical economists.
ref: 2015, Meghnad Desai, Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One, 1st edition, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 191:
text: A tax rate of say, 91 per cent – as suggested by the very saltwater Nobel Prizewinner, economist Paul Krugman – would force Americans to hand over a much larger proportion of their income than most are comfortable with.
ref: 2016, Philippa Malmgren, Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
related: word: salt-water
glosses: New Keynesian or Keynesian, in reference to macroeconomics and economics departments on the East Coast and West Coast of the United States of America.
sameness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪmnəs/
Forms: form: samenesses
Etymology: From same + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All of them agreed that the working-classes must be kept in their place; and all of them perceived that American Democracy did not imply any equality of wealth, but did demand a wholesome sameness of thought, dress, painting, morals, and vocabulary.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXIV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 391:
text: However strange it may sound, it always seemed to me […] that Adrian's laughter-filled friendship with Schildknapp had something to do with the sameness of their eye color
ref: 1997, Thomas Mann, chapter XX, in John E. Woods, transl., Doctor Faustus, New York: Vintage, published 1999, page 182:
glosses: The quality of being the same; identity.
synonyms: word: egality
word: equality
word: equation
word: equivalence
word: evenness
word: par
word: parity
word: sameness
glosses: The state of being equivalent; equality.
examples: text: […] in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,—it is then that despair threatens […]
ref: 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter II:
text: O to sail to sea in a ship! / To leave this steady unendurable land, / To leave the tiresome sameness of the streets, the sidewalks and the houses, / To leave you O you solid motionless land, and entering a ship, / To sail and sail and sail!
ref: 1892, Walt Whitman, “A Song of Joys”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], →OCLC, page 148:
synonyms: word: acedia
word: boredom
word: monotony
word: sameness
word: tediousness
word: tiresomeness
word: tedium
word: wearisomeness
glosses: A tiring lack of variety; monotony.
Synonyms: word: identicalness
word: identity
word: sameliness
word: sameness
word: uniformity
Hyponyms: word: tedium
word: similarity
sanatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænətəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsænətɹi/
ipa: /ˈsænəˌtɔɹi/
homophone: sanitary stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more sanatory
form: most sanatory
Etymology: From Latin sānātōrius. See sanable.
Senses: examples: text: Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc.
ref: 1846, Thomas De Quincey, On Christianity, as an Organ of Political Movement:
text: And now, at the period of Lucy's visit, no step had been taken to procure a nurse, Mr. Crawley having resolved to take upon himself the duties of that position. In his absolute ignorance of all sanatory measures, he had thrown himself on his knees to pray; […]
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
glosses: producing health; healing or curative
Synonyms: sanative
Related terms: sanatorium
sand bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sand bars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sandbar.
sandbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsændˌbɑɹ/
Forms: form: sandbars
form: sand bar
Etymology: From sand + bar.
Senses: synonyms: sandbank
hypernyms: bank
bar
shoal
glosses: A ridge of sand caused by the action of waves along a shore.
Derived terms: sandbar shark
sandbank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandbanks
Etymology: From sand + bank. Compare Dutch zandbank (“sandbank, shoal”), German Sandbank (“sandbank, sandbar, shoal”), Swedish sandbank (“sandbank, bar”).
Senses: synonyms: sandbar
sandridge
hypernyms: bar
shoal
glosses: A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.
sanicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanicles
Etymology: From Latin sanare (“to heal”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, of the genus Sanicula, having palmate compound leaves and small flowers arranged in umbels; the snakeroot.
sanies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪni.iːz/
Forms: form: sanies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sanies.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a thin mixture of pus and blood serum discharged from a wound; ichor
sanious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəs
Forms: form: more sanious
form: most sanious
Etymology: From sanies + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, I touched with the pure solution the most sanious portions, especially the portions of the bones.
ref: 1860 January, The American Medical Monthly, volumes 13-14, page 32:
text: The ulcers are then, also, more sanious and humid.
ref: 1861, Charles Caillault, translated by Robert Howarth Blake, A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin in Children, page 198:
text: The discharge from the nose associated with the presence of a fibrous polypus is as a rule more scanty, and thinner, more sanious, and more liable to become foul and ozamic than the mucous discharge usually associated with the presence of the softer growths.
ref: 1870, Arthur E. Durham, “Diseases of the Nose”, in Timothy Holmes, editor, A System of Surgery: Theoretical and Practical, volume 4, page 308:
glosses: Of, relating to, or discharging sanies; ichorous.
sanitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsanɪtərɪst/
Forms: form: sanitarists
Etymology: From sanitary + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a sanitarian
sanitarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæn.ɪˈtɛəɹ.i.əm/
Forms: form: sanitariums
form: sanitaria
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of sanitary + sanatorium. Coined by John Harvey Kellogg.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.
ref: 1908 February 19, Jack London, “The Bishop”, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 188:
text: Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Treatment in tuberculosis sanitariums at the expense of the public might be warranted.
ref: 1954 February 15, Henry E. Michelson, “The Syndrome of Lupus Erythematosus”, in Modern Medicine, volume 22, number 4, Minneapolis, Minn.: Modern Medicine Publications, Inc., page 98:
glosses: Alternative form of sanatorium.
wikipedia: John Harvey Kellogg
sanitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsænɪˌtɛɹi/
ipa: [ˈsɛənɪˌtɛɹi]
ipa: /saniˈtaɾi/
Forms: form: more sanitary
form: most sanitary
Etymology: 19th century, borrowed from French sanitaire, formed from Latin sanitas (“health”). Analysable as sanity + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to health.
glosses: Clean and free from pathogens; hygienic.
Derived terms: hydrosanitary
insanitary
phytosanitary
rural sanitary district
sanitary cordon
sanitary district
sanitary engineer
sanitary engineering
sanitary landfill
sanitary napkin
sanitary pad
sanitary science
sanitary sewer
sanitary towel
sanitary ware
sociosanitary
unsanitary
zoosanitary
Related terms: sane
sanity
sanitize
sanitary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsænɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsænɪˌtɛɹi/
ipa: [ˈsɛənɪˌtɛɹi]
ipa: /saniˈtaɾi/
Forms: form: sanitaries
Etymology: 19th century, borrowed from French sanitaire, formed from Latin sanitas (“health”). Analysable as sanity + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: When I made evening rounds, I saw women with their hair rolled, using the sanitaries for rollers.
ref: 1996, Tekla Dennison Miller, The Warden Wore Pink, page 117:
text: Women... bleed all over everything because of no proper sanitary protection for disposal and no tampons are issued, bloody unwrapped sanitaries are in every dorm john, every trash can, and blood on every faucet handle...and everywhere imaginable.
ref: 2002, Jael Silliman, Anannya Bhattacharjee, Angela Yvonne Davis, Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization, →ISBN, page 21:
text: But sanitaries are the worst. The prison only brings out two packs of sanitaries for everybody, and that's like 240 of sanitaries every month for all the women.
ref: 2004, LaVerne McQuiller Williams, Women, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Sanitary towel.
Sanscrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In common with every other tongue now spoken in India, modern Teloogoo abounds with Sanscrit words […]
ref: 1849, Alexander Duncan Campbell, A Grammar of the Teloogoo Language, Commonly Called the Gentoo:
glosses: Dated form of Sanskrit.
fursuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ˌsuːt/
ipa: /ˈfɜɹˌsuːt/
ipa: /ˈfɜːˌsʉːt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)suːt
Forms: form: fursuits
Etymology: From fur + suit.
Senses: hyponyms: partial
glosses: An anthropomorphic animal costume used in the furry subculture.
fursuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)ˌsuːt/
ipa: /ˈfɜɹˌsuːt/
ipa: /ˈfɜːˌsʉːt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)suːt
Forms: form: fursuits
form: fursuiting
form: fursuited
form: fursuited
Etymology: From fur + suit.
Senses: glosses: To wear a fursuit.
Derived terms: word: fursuiter
word: fursuitable
word: fursuited
word: suit
portajohn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portajohns
Etymology: From porta- + john.
Senses: glosses: A portable restroom.
Synonyms: portapotty
solidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɪdɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsolɪɖɪʈi/
note: Indic
ipa: /sɵlɪˈɖɪʈi/
Forms: form: solidities
Etymology: From solid + -ity, from Middle French solidité, from Latin soliditās.
Senses: examples: text: If colours, sounds, tastes, and smells be merely perceptions, nothing we can conceive is possest of a real, continu'd, and independent existence; not even motion, extension and solidity, which are the primary qualities chiefly insisted on.
ref: 1739, David Hume, “Book 1, part 4, section 4”, in Treatise of Human Nature:
glosses: The state or quality of being solid.
glosses: Moral firmness; validity; truth; certainty.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The solid contents of a body; volume; amount of enclosed space.
Synonyms: compactness
consistency
density
fullness
hardness
massiveness
solidness
soundness
strength
moha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: German millet
glosses: foxtail millet (a kind of millet, Setaria italica
Related terms: moha moha
nara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of naras.
warily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more warily
form: most warily
Etymology: From wary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She walked through the dark alley, warily glancing around to make sure she wasn't being followed.
text: That her little Tarzan could destroy a great bull gorilla she knew to be improbable, and so, as she neared the spot from which the sounds of the struggle had come, she moved more warily and at last slowly and with extreme caution she traversed the lowest branches, peering eagerly into the moon- splashed blackness for a sign of the combatants.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
synonyms: cautiously
vigilantly
carefully
prudently
glosses: In a careful and guarded manner, especially to avoid potential danger or harm.
examples: text: He listened to the salesman's pitch warily, sensing a potential scam.
text: The new king is viewed warily by Bangkok's elites, who have sometimes worried that he sympathises with populist politicians whom the army has twice kicked from power.
ref: 2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist:
synonyms: suspiciously
distrustfully
skeptically
glosses: Without trust; in a manner showing a lack of trust.
midcareer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-career
Etymology: From mid- + career.
Senses: glosses: In the middle of one's career.
midcareer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midcareers
form: mid-career
Etymology: From mid- + career.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh! my dear, you hurt me!" This was enough to check the tender respectful boy even in his midcareer
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: The middle point of one's career.
samadhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈmɑːdi/
Forms: form: samadhis
Etymology: From Sanskrit समाधि (samādhi, “placing together”), from सम (sama, “together”) + आ (ā) prefix + धा (dhā, “to place”).
Senses: examples: text: She had seated herself cross-legged in the samadhi position and simply ceased to be.
ref: 2005, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, Vintage, published 2006, page 227:
glosses: A state of transcendent union supposed to be assumed by a holy man or yogi at his death.
examples: text: The yogi, or disciple, who has by these means overcome the obscurations of his lower nature sufficiently, enters into the condition termed samâdhi, and ‘comes face to face with facts which no instinct or reason can ever know.’
ref: 1902, William James, The Varities of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 340:
glosses: The highest state of meditation, at which complete unity is reached.
glosses: The tomb of a holy person or saint in India.
locos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loco
locos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of loco
rasa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasas
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit रस (rasa, literally “juice; essence”). Doublet of rasam.
Senses: glosses: An essential mental state; the dominant emotional theme of a work.
Derived terms: rasabox
rasic
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: tabula rasa
viscidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viscidities
Etymology: From viscid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: An adhesive quality.
glosses: A glutinous consistency.
Related terms: viscosity
Shambhala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shambala
form: Shamballa
Etymology: From Sanskrit शम्भल (śambhala, “Sambhal, a city in India”), from Sanskrit शम्भु (śambhu).
Senses: glosses: A mythical, mystic sacred realm in Tibetan Buddhism.
wikipedia: Sambhal
ptarmic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑɹmɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɑːmɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪk
Forms: form: ptarmics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πταρμός (ptarmós, “sneeze”) + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: sternutatory
glosses: A substance, such as pepper or snuff, that causes sneezing.
ptarmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑɹmɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɑːmɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πταρμός (ptarmós, “sneeze”) + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: sternutatory
glosses: Relating to a substance that causes sneezing.
Related terms: photoptarmosis
ptarmoscopy
puerperal fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puerperal fevers
Senses: examples: text: It was the rise of penicillin, not improved hygiene, that finally conquered puerperal fever.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 344:
topics: medicine
obstetrics
pathology
sciences
glosses: A fever, following childbirth or abortion, due to infection of the uterus.
Synonyms: childbed fever
sepsis puerperalis
colas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cola
magpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Maybe next month. Right now, he's got President Kennedy waiting on the line, so y'all fall back!"
They fell back, chattering like magpies.
ref: 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 766:
glosses: plural of magpie
magpies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of magpie
oyster sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyster sauces
Senses: glosses: A rich viscid sauce made from oysters and brine, used in Chinese cooking.
mackerel sky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mackerel skies
Etymology: From mackerel + sky.
Senses: examples: text: 1717, Dictionarium Rusticum, Urbanicum & Botanicum, London: J. Nicholson et al., 2nd edition, “CLOUDS,”
[…] in a fair day, if the Sky seem to be dappled with white Clouds, which is usually termed, A Mackerel-Sky, it commonly predicts rain:
text: The clouds were of the fleecy kind, which sailors denominate a mackerel sky.
ref: 1823, John Franklin, Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, London: John Murray, Appendix 3, p. 562:
text: The sky was what is called a mackerel sky, rows and rows of faint down-plumes of cloud, just tinted with the midsummer sunset.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: Heinemann, Book 1, Chapter 13, p. 111:
text: The clouds came racing over the ridge from the south as they had on the May evening when Hazel first climbed the down. But now they were higher and smaller, settling at last into a mackerel sky like a beach at low tide.
ref: 1972, Richard Adams, Watership Down, Penguin, published 1974, Part 2, Chapter 25, p. 217:
glosses: A sky filled with a regular pattern of altocumulus clouds somewhat resembling the skin of a mackerel.
Derived terms: mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails
parataxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɹəˈtaksɪs/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈtæksɪs/
Forms: form: parataxes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παράταξις (parátaxis, “placement side by side”), from παρα- (para-) + τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”); equivalent to para- + taxis.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: hypotaxis
glosses: Speech or writing in which clauses or phrases are placed together without being separated by conjunctions, for example "I came; I saw; I conquered".
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The juxtaposition of two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar, without a clear connection.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A coalition or "partisan camp" in the Ancient Greek political system.
Derived terms: para-hypotaxis
paratactic
paratactical
paratactically
Related terms: asyndeton
hypotaxis
juxtaposition
syntaxis
plantains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plantain
postcards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postcard
postcards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of postcard
flights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flaɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of flight
flights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flaɪts/
rhymes: -aɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flight
demagogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛməˌɡɒɡi/
ipa: /ˈdɛməˌɡɒd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈdɛməˌɡɑɡi/
ipa: /ˈdɛməˌɡɑd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒdʒi
rhymes: -ɒɡi
rhymes: -əʊdʒi
Forms: form: demagogies
form: demagoguy
form: demogogy
form: demogoguy
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek δημαγωγία (dēmagōgía). By surface analysis, demagogue + y.
Senses: glosses: Rule by demagogue.
glosses: A polity ruled by a demagogue.
synonyms: demagoguery
demagogism
glosses: The quality of being a demagogue.
synonyms: demagoguery
demagogism
glosses: The actions of a demagogue.
Derived terms: demagogic
demagogical
demagogically
demagogism
demagogueric
demagoguery
Related terms: demagogue
ochlagogy
pedagogy
wounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woundings
Senses: glosses: The act of inflicting a wound.
examples: text: Who is there of mine goes to this war that I should grieve for his wounding or look for his return?
ref: 1911, Mary Hunter Austin, The Arrow Maker:
glosses: An instance of being wounded.
wounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wound
high heels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high heel
Senses: examples: text: I look sexier in high heels.
qualifier: footwear
glosses: High-heeled shoes.
examples: text: Avoid standing for prolonged periods of time, and avoid standing in shoes with high heels.
ref: 2009, Cathy Mahon, Rescue Your Back, page 106:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, heel.
Synonyms: heels
Related terms: high-heel
high-heeled
demagogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demagoguism
Etymology: From demagogue + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practices and principles of a demagogue; a pandering to the multitude for selfish ends.
Synonyms: demagoguery
demagogy
demagoguism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of demagogism.
demonstrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɛmənˈstɹeɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of demonstration
cold sores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold sore
Golden Horde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Golden Horde
Etymology: A reference to the gold-hung palace-tent (orda) of the Great Khan, whence all power was derived.
Senses: examples: text: In that year all the sons of Juchi except Tuka Timur went to assist at the inauguration of Ogotai Khan, and he was left behind in charge of the Golden Horde.
ref: 1880, H. H. Howorth, History of the Mongols: From the 9th to the 19th Century, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 199:
text: As the last Khan of the Golden Horde watched in senile befuddlement, the great silver bird issued a terrible battlecry and began to move.
ref: 1970, Norman Spinrad, The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde, Doubleday, →ISBN:
meronyms: Blue Horde
White Horde
glosses: A medieval Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire; at its maximum extent covering large parts of modern Russia as well as modern Ukraine.
Related terms: orda
peg-leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peg-legs
form: peg leg
form: pegleg
Senses: glosses: A wooden leg, usually tapered, strapped onto the stump of an amputated leg.
glosses: The user of a wooden leg.
peg-leg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peg-legs
form: peg-legging
form: peg-legged
form: peg-legged
form: peg leg
form: pegleg
Senses: examples: text: "Don't forget to bring the gun back tomorrow morning," Peg-leg said, peg-legging it back into the morgue.
ref: 2014 -, Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster, →ISBN, page .41:
glosses: To limp or hobble (having or imitating having a wooden leg).
examples: text: With the wire line, except at great depths, the nearest parallel to the lift of a manila cable in a dry hole is "peg-legging" (alternate hitting and missing of the tools). Tools will peg-leg with the wire line, but should not be permitted to do so in a dry hole under ordinary conditions.
ref: 1919, Bulletin - Volumes 179-183, page 185:
text: Typically high velocity lithological units like salt, anhydrites or basalts are the dominating monolithic units where they occur. The chances of energy bouncing peg legging within them is a long shot.
ref: 2017, Enwenode Onajite, Practical Solutions to Integrated Oil and Gas Reservoir Analysis, →ISBN:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To appear or detect in a discontinuous fashion.
peg leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peg legs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peg-leg.
peg leg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peg legs
form: peg legging
form: peg legged
form: peg legged
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peg-leg.
ice lolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice lollies
Senses: examples: text: I prefer lime ice lollies to lemon ones.
text: [T]he sun was shining on a happy crowd. It shone on white hats and red faces. It shone on ice lollies and melted them.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 23:
glosses: Frozen fruit juice on a stick.
Synonyms: sense: frozen fruit juice
word: ice lol
sense: frozen fruit juice
word: icy pole
sense: frozen fruit juice
word: paddle pop
sense: frozen fruit juice
word: iceblock
sense: frozen fruit juice
english: Liverpool
translation: Liverpool
word: lolly ice
sense: frozen fruit juice
word: popsicle
capiche
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of capisce.
slippier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slippy: more slippy
thymotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθaɪ.mɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈθaɪ.mɑ.tɪk/
ipa: [ˈθaɪ.mɑ.ɾɪk]
ipa: /ˈθɑɪ.mɔt.ɪk/
Senses: examples: text: As thymotic acid is extremely difficult to obtain, it was found advisable to follow the method of Claus and Krause (J. p. Chem., 1891, [ii], 43, 347), and to prepare 2-bromothymol by decomposing 2-bromothymol-6-sulphonic acid with hydrochloric acid in a sealed tube […]
ref: 1908, Philip Wilfred Robertson, “Orthobromophenols and some bromonitrophenols”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, volume 93, page 788:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, related to, or derived from thymotic acid or thymol.
examples: text: The truth of humanity, in other words, has arisen from conflicts that are essentially 'thymotic', that is, concerned with the conditions of ethical, political, and moral recognition.
ref: 2013, Ross Abbinnett, Politics of Happiness: Connecting the Philosophical Ideas of Hegel, Nietzsche and Derrida to the Political Ideologies of Happiness:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, of related to the thymos.
flote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: float
Senses: glosses: simple past of flite.
flote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: float
Forms: form: flotes
Etymology: Compare French flot, Latin fluctus; also compare float (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Ar. […]and for the reſt o'th' Fleet
 (Which I diſpers'd) they all haue met againe,
 And are vpon the Mediterranean Flote
 Bound ſadly home for Naples,
 Suppoſing that they ſaw the Kings ſhip wrackt,
 And his great perſon periſh.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:
glosses: A wave.
flote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fləʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
homophone: float
Forms: form: flotes
form: floting
form: floted
form: floted
Senses: examples: text: seald their Milk before they flote it
ref: 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:
glosses: To fleet; to skim.
flota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flotas
Etymology: From Spanish. See flotilla.
Senses: glosses: A fleet, especially a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain products from Spanish America.
spongy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspʌnd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ʌndʒi
Forms: form: spongier
form: spongiest
form: spongey
Etymology: From spong(e) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones
text: Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I
As far as toucheth my particular,
Yet, dread Priam,
There is no lady of more softer bowels,
More spongy to suck in the sense of fear,
More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows?'
Than Hector is:
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: […] there were times when she would lie looking at her, with such a still, watchful, almost dangerous expression, that Helen would sigh, and change her place, as persons do whose breath some cunning orator had been sucking out of them with his spongy eloquence, so that, when he stops, they must get some air and stir about, or they feel as if they should be half-smothered and palsied.
ref: 1861, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 28, in Elsie Venner, volume 2, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, page 246:
text: It was easy to realise, too, the need for the overall 40 m.p.h. speed limit; apart from the spongy nature of much of the track bed, the [West Highland] line suffered considerably in the Arctic conditions of last winter, from which it has not yet fully recovered.
ref: 1964 January, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 52:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.
examples: text: Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Her who still weepes with spungie eyes,
And her who is dry corke, and never cries;
I can love her, and her, and you and you,
I can love any, so she be not true.
ref: 1633, John Donne, “The Indifferent”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, page 200:
text: […] I was quite tired, and very glad, when we saw Yarmouth. It looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river […]
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
text: It rains […] most of the fall and winter and much of the spring. It’s a spongy sky you’ll be wearing on your head.
ref: 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, page 21:
glosses: Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
glosses: Drunk.
Synonyms: sense: characteristics of a sponge
word: spongelike
sense: soaked and soft
word: wet
sense: drunk
word: drunk
Derived terms: spongily
sponginess
spongy body
spongy lead
spongy moth
spongy platinum
argumentum ad nauseam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: The false proof of a statement by (prolonged) repetition, possibly by different people.
generalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒen.(ə.)ɹə.lɑez/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒen.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/
ipa: [ˈd͡ʒen.(ə.)ɹə.lɑe̯z]
Forms: form: generalizes
form: generalizing
form: generalized
form: generalized
form: generalise
Etymology: From general + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.
examples: text: Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the motion of a stone through the air.
ref: 1795, William Nicholson, A Dictionary of Chemistry:
glosses: To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
glosses: To spread throughout the body and become systemic.
examples: text: A mere conclusion generalized from a great multitude of facts.
ref: August 24, 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Truth and Maxims:
glosses: To derive or deduce (a general concept or principle) from particular facts.
Synonyms: word: generalize
word: genericize
Hyponyms: word: blandify
word: beat around the bush
word: circumlocute
word: go around the houses
word: hedge
word: mince matters
word: mince words
word: pussyfoot
word: prevaricate
word: ramble
word: waffle
word: overgeneralize
word: undergeneralize
Derived terms: degeneralize
generalist
generalizability
generalisability
generalizable
generalisable
generalization
generalisation
generalizer
generaliser
misgeneralize
overgeneralize
regeneralize
undergeneralize
Related terms: general
lineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪni.əl/
ipa: /ˈlɪniːəl/
Etymology: From Old French lineal, from Latin līneālis, from līnea (“a line”) + -ālis (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, line + -al. Doublet of linear.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to lines; consisting of lines.
examples: text: the prime and ancient right of lineal succession
ref: 1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 1, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC:
text: Oh that your Brows my Laurel had ſuſtain'd, / Well had I been depos'd, if You had Reign'd! / The Father had deſcended for the Son; / For only you are lineal to the Throne.
ref: 1693 (first performance), John Dryden, “To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve, on His Comedy, Call’d, The Double-Dealer”, in The Double-Dealer. A Comedy, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1735, →OCLC, Act I,:
topics: anthropology
history
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: Relating to aspects of lineage, such as descent, succession, inheritance or consanguinity.
examples: text: lineal magnitude
synonyms: linear
glosses: In the direction of a line; measured or ascertained by a line.
examples: text: lineal designs
topics: art
arts
glosses: Line-drawn; composed of lines.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Sans serif.
raw_tags: of a typeface
Coordinate terms: sense: of a line
word: areal
sense: of a line
word: spacial
sense: of a line
word: spatial
Derived terms: ambilineal
bilineal
lineality
lineally
matrilineal
multilineal
nonlineal
patrilineal
polylineal
rectilineal
unilineal
unlineal
Related terms: line
linear
lineage
game plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game plans
Etymology: From the strategies used in sports.
Senses: examples: text: So what is the game plan? We need to get everyone out of this alive, and I am clueless.
text: But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan.
ref: 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times:
text: Southgate's decision to select two defensively-minded midfield men once more in Declan Rice and Kalvin Phillips was another strong indicator that this will be his preferred formation at the Euros this summer.
It is a game plan which has looked stodgy on occasions, particularly in two Uefa Nations League games against Denmark, a goalless draw in Copenhagen and a defeat at Wembley, and leaves Southgate open to accusations of over-caution.
ref: 2021 March 28, Phil McNulty, “Albania 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Any strategy devised to reach a given objective.
Related terms: master plan
gabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæb.i/
homophone: Gabby
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: gabbier
form: gabbiest
Etymology: From gab + -y.
Senses: glosses: Inclined to talk too much, especially about trivia.
Synonyms: sense: inclined to talk too much
word: chatty
sense: inclined to talk too much
word: garrulous
sense: inclined to talk too much
word: loquacious
sense: inclined to talk too much
word: talkative
Derived terms: gabbiness
curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːvz/
ipa: /kɚvz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vz
Senses: glosses: plural of curve
curves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜːvz/
ipa: /kɚvz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of curve
sweety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweeties
Etymology: From sweet + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Ses I, "My sweety, see how I'll fetch you down in less than no time."
ref: 1976, Henry A. Hawken, Trumpets of Glory, page 158:
text: "Yes, dear," he tells her. "You're right, dear. Of course, honey. I'll take care of everything, sweety."
ref: 1998, Jed Diamond, Male Menopause, Sourcebooks, page 269:
text: 'He's my sweety pie, my darling man, my honey pot. ...
ref: 2003, James Riordan, The Cello, Oxford University Press, page 54:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sweetie.
reciprocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɪpɹəˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: reciprocates
form: reciprocating
form: reciprocated
form: reciprocated
Etymology: From Latin recīprocātus, perfect passive participle of recīprocō (“to move back and forth”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from reciprocus (“back an forth, reciprocal, alternating”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), itself possibly from a phrase such as reque proque (“back and forth”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”). See also reciprocal. Compare French réciproquer.
Senses: examples: text: The USTR isn't reciprocating actual tariffs. It's just placing the biggest tariffs on the countries running the biggest trade surpluses.
ref: 2025 April 3, Felix Salmon, “How to read the White House's tariff formula”, in Axios:
glosses: To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.
examples: text: I gave them apples from my tree; they reciprocated with a pie and some apple jelly.
text: Nugget appreciates the generosity! Nugget will reciprocate with a Monstermon card!
ref: 2019, Con Man Games, SmashGames, quoting Nugget, Kindergarten 2, SmashGames:
glosses: To give something else in response (where the "thing" may also be abstract, a feeling or action) To make a reciprocal gift.
examples: text: a reciprocating engine
text: One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, / And draws and blows reciprocating air.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To move backwards and forwards, like a piston.
glosses: To counter, retort or retaliate.
Synonyms: word: give as good as one gets
word: reciprocate
word: respond in kind
Hyponyms: word: counter
word: counterchange
word: exchange
word: interchange
word: retaliate
Derived terms: word: reciprocating
Related terms: reciprocal
reciprocality
reciprocatory
reciprocitarian
reciprocity
oldies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oldie
learner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɜɹnəɹ/
ipa: [ˈlɝ.nɚ]
ipa: /ˈlɜːnə/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: learners
Etymology: From learn + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She’s still a learner, so she’s prone to making mistakes.
text: Cambridge University Press has released a new series aimed at young learners with epilepsy.
glosses: One who is learning; one receiving instruction.
glosses: A scholar.
Synonyms: word: learner
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: abecedarian
word: apprentice
word: cadet
word: chela
word: crammer
word: disciple
word: educatee
word: fresher
word: freshman
word: frosh
word: goliard
word: homeschooler
word: intern
word: mentee
word: monitor
word: pennal
word: postgraduate
word: pupil
word: resident
word: scholar
word: schoolboy
word: schoolchild
word: schoolgirl
word: schoolkid
word: seminarian
word: seminarist
word: sophomore
word: student
word: studier
word: teacher's pet
word: trainee
word: undergraduate
word: upperclassman
Derived terms: adult learner
distance learner
e-learner
language learner
learner permit
learnership
learner's license
learner's permit
metalearner
nonlearner
superlearner
telelearner
Related terms: word: student
word: alumnus
word: autodidact
word: collegian
word: dropout
word: graduate
word: protege
word: education
word: attendant
word: beginner
grrr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Elongated form of grr.
Derived terms: grrrl
dirtbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəːtbaɡ/
Forms: form: dirtbags
Etymology: From dirt + bag.
Senses: examples: text: I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby. Listen to Iron Maiden, baby...with me.
ref: 2000, Brendan B. Brown, “Teenage Dirtbag”, Brendan B. Brown (music), performed by Wheatus:
glosses: A dirty, grimy, sleazy, or disreputable person.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A poor climber, alpinist, skier or other outdoorsman who lives cheaply, without normal employment, and with few amenities in order to spend as much time on their sport as possible.
Derived terms: dirtbaggery
dirtbag left
Related terms: hosebag
scumbag
sleazebag
scumbucket
scuzzball
scuzzbucket
critique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪˈtiːk/
ipa: /kɹɪˈtik/
ipa: /kɹɪˈtiːk/
ipa: /kɹəˈtiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: critiques
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”), feminine of criticus (“critical”); see critic.
Senses: glosses: The art of criticism.
examples: text: I ſhould as ſoon expect to ſee a Critique on the Poſie of a Ring, as on the Inſcription of a Medal.
ref: a. 1720 (date written), [Joseph Addison], “Dialogue III. A Parallel between the Ancient and Modern Medals.”, in Dialogues upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals. […], [London]: [s.n.], published 1726, →OCLC, page 153:
text: I did not always agree with Malcolm X, specifically his critiques of Dr [Martin Luther] King and of the philosophy of nonviolent resistance.
ref: 2015 February 20, Jesse Jackson, “In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2017:
text: The Department for Transport has conceded that the instruction to the train operators under its control (either through direct management or a contractual relationship) to close ticket offices will be withdrawn, following a devas[ta]ting critique by Transport Focus on the proposal's shortcomings.
ref: 2023 November 15, Industry Insider [pseudonym], “Outbreak of Common Sense”, in RAIL, number 996, page 68:
glosses: An essay in which another piece of work is criticized, reviewed, etc.
examples: text: Bob liked most of my presentation, but offered three minor critiques.
glosses: A point made to criticize something.
Derived terms: immanent critique
self-critique
transcendental critique
Related terms: critic