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accession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɛʃ.ən/
ipa: /əˈsɛʃ.ən/
ipa: /ækˈseʃ.ən/
ipa: /əˈseʃ.ən/
Forms: form: accessions
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
Senses: examples: text: a king's accession to a confederacy
glosses: A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined.
examples: text: The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the first century of the Christian Aera, was the province of Britain.
ref: 1776–1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter 1, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 5:
text: 1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, p. xli,
[…] armed vessels being provided, their crews were soon recruited by accessions from the needy or adventurous, the discontented or the bold.
glosses: Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
glosses: Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without.
Such augmentation that adds to the collections of a museum or archive; a thing thus added.
antonyms: deaccession#Noun
deacquisition#Noun
topics: law
glosses: A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species).
topics: law
glosses: The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
examples: text: her accession to the throne
text: This is the 6 ft. 4-6-0 engine No. 8301, Springbok, the second design produced by Mr. Edward Thompson since his accession to office as Chief Mechanical Engineer.
ref: 1943 March and April, “L.N.E.R. New Mixed-Traffic 4-6-0 Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 104:
text: Charles will be formally proclaimed King at a historic Accession Council in an ancient ceremony at St James’s Palace on Saturday, it has been announced.
ref: 2022 September 9, Caroline Davies, “Charles to be proclaimed King at St James’s Palace on Saturday”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit or paroxysm.
glosses: Agreement.
glosses: Access; admittance.
glosses: A group of plants of the same species collected at a single location, often held in genebanks.
glosses: Complicity, concurrence or assent in some action.
Derived terms: accessional
accession country
accessioner
accession number
nonaccession
reaccession
accession
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɛʃ.ən/
ipa: /əˈsɛʃ.ən/
ipa: /ækˈseʃ.ən/
ipa: /əˈseʃ.ən/
Forms: form: accessions
form: accessioning
form: accessioned
form: accessioned
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin accessiō(n), from accēdō (English accede). Cognate to French accession. First attested in 1646.
Senses: antonyms: deaccession#Verb
coordinate_terms: acquire#Verb
glosses: To make a record of (additions to a collection); to add (something) to a collection (usually a museum's or archive's collection).
Derived terms: unaccessioned
Related terms: ascension
accessory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ækˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
homophone: accessary
Forms: form: more accessory
form: most accessory
form: accessary
Etymology: From Medieval Latin accessōrius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.
Senses: examples: text: accessory garments
text: Surprise parties succeed with the help of accessory neighbors or colleagues.
text: Amongst many secondary, and accessory causes that support Monarchy, these are not of least reckning, […]
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, page 48:
glosses: Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; contributing or being contributory.
examples: text: Her actions were clearly accessory because they helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.
topics: law
hypernyms: accomplice
coordinate_terms: principal
glosses: Assisting a crime without actually participating in committing the crime itself; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal.
examples: text: accessory mineral
glosses: Present in a minor amount, and not essential.
Synonyms: sense: having a secondary function
word: accompanying
sense: having a secondary function
word: contributory
sense: having a secondary function
word: auxiliary
sense: having a secondary function
word: subsidiary
sense: having a secondary function
word: subservient
sense: having a secondary function
word: additional
sense: having a secondary function
word: acceding
accessory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ækˈsɛs(ə)ɹi/
homophone: accessary
Forms: form: accessories
form: accessary
Etymology: From Middle English accessorie, from Medieval Latin accessōrius, from Latin accessor (“helper, subordinate”), from accessus. Compare access, from same root.
Senses: examples: text: the accessories of a mobile phone
text: the aspect and accessories of a den of banditti
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Something that belongs to part of another main thing; something additional and subordinate, an attachment.
examples: text: One of the first of a wave of American women contemporary designers who emerged in the 1990s, she [Kate Spade] built a brand on the appeal of clothes and accessories that made shoppers smile.
ref: 2018 June 5, Jonah Engel Bromwich, Vanessa Friedman, Matthew Schneier, “Kate Spade, whose handbags carried women into adulthood, is dead at 55”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2018:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: An article that completes one's basic outfit, such as a scarf or gloves.
examples: text: She was an accessory to the murder because she helped him commit and probably also conceal the crime.
text: “You can be an accessory before the fact, or an accessory after the fact. It doesnʼt matter if itʼs before or after; either way youʼd be in for it.”
ref: 2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 150:
topics: law
glosses: A person who is not present at a crime, but contributes to it as an assistant or instigator.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Something in a work of art without being indispensably necessary, for example solely ornamental parts.
Synonyms: sense: something that belongs to part of another main thing
word: accompaniment
word: addition
word: attachment
word: supplement
sense: one who assists in or instigates an offense
word: abettor
sense: one who assists in or instigates an offense
word: accomplice
sense: one who assists in or instigates an offense
word: ally
sense: one who assists in or instigates an offense
word: coadjutor
sense: one who assists in or instigates an offense
word: accessary
Derived terms: accessorial
accessorily
accessoriness
accessorist
accessorize
accessory after the fact
accessory battery
accessory before the fact
accessory breathing
accessory cloud
accessory equipment
accessory fruit
accessory gonadal structure
accessoryless
accessory mineral
accessory nerve
accessory pigment
accessoryship
accessory shoe
accessory spleen
Cambodian accessory
nonaccessory
sexcessory
unaccessory
vagoaccessory
eo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 어 (eo).
Senses: glosses: A Korean wooden percussion instrument in the shape of a tiger with a serrated back, played by running a bamboo whisk across the serrations.
affix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.ɪks/
ipa: /əˈfɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: affixes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere), equivalent to ad- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: A prefix is an affix that joins to the beginning of another word. Depending on the prefix, it can slightly or significantly alter the meaning of a word. For example, the English prefix “un-” changes a word into its opposite, as from “do” to “undo,” altering its meaning entirely.
ref: 2020 March 14, Lindsay del Valle, “36 Spanish Prefixes That Will Increase Your Vocabulary Times 100!”, in Homeschool Spanish Academy:
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
synonyms: afformative
antonyms: nonaffix
hypernyms: formative
formant
formans
glosses: A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem, such as a prefix or suffix.
synonyms: word: addition
word: supplement
word: accessory
word: accompaniment
word: addition
word: add-on
word: adjunct
word: affix
word: annex
word: apanage
word: appendage
word: appendix
word: extra
word: increase
word: increment
word: supplement
glosses: That which is affixed; an appendage.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The complex number a+bi associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates (a,b).
qualifier: decorative art
glosses: Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.
Coordinate terms: clitic
Derived terms: affixal
affixation
affixhood
affixive
affixoid
separable affix
affix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.ɪks/
ipa: /əˈfɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: affixes
form: affixing
form: affixed
form: affixed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere), equivalent to ad- + fix.
Senses: examples: text: to affix a stigma to a person
text: to affix ridicule or blame to somebody
text: Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food […]
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: join
word: put together
word: unite
word: accouple
word: affix
word: assemble
word: associate
word: attach
word: bewed
word: bind
word: clasp
word: clinch
word: combine
word: conglomerate
word: conglutinate
word: conjoin
word: connect
word: construct
word: couple
word: entwine
word: fay
word: fix
word: graft
word: hitch
word: hook
word: inosculate
word: interlink
word: join
word: joint
word: knit
word: knot
word: link
word: marry
word: piece together
word: piecen
word: pinion
word: put together
word: splice
word: unite
word: wed
word: yoke
glosses: To attach.
examples: text: to affix a syllable to a word
text: to affix a seal to an instrument
text: to affix one’s name to a writing
glosses: To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
examples: text: eyes affixed upon the ground
text: Look thou no further, but affix thine eye/On that bright, shiny, round, still moving mass,/The house of blessed gods, which men call sky,/All sow'd with glist'ring stars more thick than grass...
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty:
glosses: To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.
Derived terms: affixable
affixer
affixion
affixment
reaffix
bio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbaɪoʊ/
rhymes: -aɪəʊ
Forms: form: bios
Senses: examples: text: Pics from outside of Survivor, vidcaps, bios, descriptions (how friggin' TALL are these guys, exactly?).
ref: 2006, Henry Jenkins, Convergence culture: where old and new media collide:
glosses: Clipping of biography.
examples: text: To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram.
text: Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past.
ref: 2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter:
text: She doesn’t position herself as a biblical scholar or a prophet. She’s a humble “wifey & mommy,” according to her Instagram bio—even if her 2019 wedding did garner almost 2.5 million views on YouTube.
ref: 2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: biopage
qualifier: social media
glosses: A short section of a user profile that contains information about the user, especially one which can be customised; the about me section.
glosses: A biographical sketch.
examples: text: I've got a bio exam in the morning.
text: It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us.
ref: 2015 June 9, Lilah Raptopoulos, quoting Reed Shapiro, “Young people speak out about their fears and hopes on climate change”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Clipping of biology.
examples: text: Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio.
ref: 1995, HerStoriA: South African women's journal, volumes 1-3, page 31:
glosses: Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).
bio
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbaɪoʊ/
rhymes: -aɪəʊ
Senses: examples: text: a bio detergent
text: my bio family
text: We only purchase vegetables at the bio food shop.
glosses: biological.
Derived terms: bio box
bio break
bio energy
bio female
bio male
bio queen
non-bio
Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: grēk
ipa: /ɡɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: Greeks
form: Gr.
form: Greeke
Etymology: Inherited from Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō, from Latin Graecus of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym Γραῖα (Graîa) or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii.
Greek in any case has the cognate Γραικός (Graikós), the mythological ancestor of the Γραίοι (Graíoi, “Graecians”). Germanic cognates include Dutch Griek, German Grieche. The ⟨g⟩ in English and Germanic cognates was restored under influence from French grec and classical Latin Graecus. The adjective dates to 14th-century Middle English, replacing Old English Grēċisċ (“Greekish”) and earlier Middle English Gregeis. In reference to fraternities and sororities, a clipping of earlier Greek-letter in reference to their usual names being initialisms of mottos in the Greek language. In reference to terms used to analysize financial derivatives, from their usual names consisting of Greek letters.
Senses: examples: text: For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not only difference of race and tongue but a tremendous breach of tradition. All the more strange, then, is it that we should wish to know Greek, try to know Greek, feel for ever drawn back to Greek, and be for ever making up some notion of the meaning of Greek, though from what incongruous odds and ends, with what slight resemblance to the real meaning of Greek, who shall say?
ref: 1925, Virginia Woolf, “On Not Knowing Greek”, in [Leonard Woolf], editor, Collected Essays, volume I, London: Hogarth Press, published 1966, →OCLC, page 1:
text: It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, by the age of 12, I could speak German, Greek and English, so languages became my passion and my hobby.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
glosses: The language spoken by people of Greece, particularly, depending on context, Ancient Greek or Modern Greek.
glosses: The written form of these languages.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Aeolic Greek
Ancient Greek
Arcadocypriot Greek
Archaic Greek
Attic Greek
Byzantine Greek
Cappadocian Greek
Classical Greek
Demotic Greek
Doric Greek
Epic Greek
Greekless
Greeklish
Hellenistic Greek
Homeric Greek
Indo-Greek
Ionic Greek
it's all Greek to me
Koine Greek
Late Greek
Mariupol Greek
medical Greek
Medieval Greek
Middle Greek
Modern Greek
Mycenaean Greek
Neo-Greek
New Greek
Old Greek
Pre-Greek
Protogreek
St. Giles's Greek
Related terms: Griko
Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: grēk
ipa: /ɡɹiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: Greeks
form: Greeking
form: Greeked
form: Greeked
form: Gr.
form: Greeke
Etymology: Inherited from Old English Grēcas (“Greeks”), variant of Crēcas, from Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō, from Latin Graecus of uncertain origin, perhaps derived from the toponym Γραῖα (Graîa) or from other Paleo-Balkanic forms from a tribal name Graii.
Greek in any case has the cognate Γραικός (Graikós), the mythological ancestor of the Γραίοι (Graíoi, “Graecians”). Germanic cognates include Dutch Griek, German Grieche. The ⟨g⟩ in English and Germanic cognates was restored under influence from French grec and classical Latin Graecus. The adjective dates to 14th-century Middle English, replacing Old English Grēċisċ (“Greekish”) and earlier Middle English Gregeis. In reference to fraternities and sororities, a clipping of earlier Greek-letter in reference to their usual names being initialisms of mottos in the Greek language. In reference to terms used to analysize financial derivatives, from their usual names consisting of Greek letters.
Senses: examples: text: A discovery of Greeking at Brighton, has made considerable noise this month in the sporting world.
ref: 1817, Sporting Magazine, number 50, page 284:
glosses: To cheat at cards.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of greek.
Related terms: sense: Other headwords of interest
word: Dimotiki
sense: Other headwords of interest
word: Dhimotiki
sense: Other headwords of interest
word: Hellenic
sense: Other headwords of interest
word: Hellenism
sense: Other headwords of interest
word: Hellenistic
sense: Other headwords of interest
word: Hellenize
sense: Other headwords of interest
word: Katharevousa
sense: Other headwords of interest
word: Koine
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Greek terms
english: the Rosetta Edition.
translation: the Rosetta Edition.
urls: https://web.archive.org/web/20060420040952/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Greek-english/
https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200902/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/
word: Greek–English Dictionary: from Webster’s Dictionary
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/ell
word: el
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/ell
word: ell
word: ell ⁠
lapidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæpɪˈdeɪʃən/
Forms: form: lapidations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lapidātiō.
Senses: examples: text: The five women on trial were almost all activists for the full repeal (not just a moratorium) of lapidation, ie stoning, from Iran’s law books.
ref: 2007 March 6, “International Women’s Day, another day of repression for women”, in 亚州新闻:
topics: law
glosses: The practice or act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death, as punishment
Related terms: dilapidated
lapidate
XXXX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːɹˈɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Etymology: From the (Australian) XXXX brand of lager, which was named after the practice of using repetitions of X, such as XXX, to indicate the strength of an alcoholic beverage, and which was advertised with the slogan "Australians couldn't give a XXXX for any other lager."
Senses: examples: text: Allied does not give a XXXX for Elders.
ref: 1985 September 6, in the Times of London, quoted in 2009 by Jesse Sheidlower in The F-Word, page 269
text: Quite a few of the party's MPs don't give a XXXX for the whole affair […] .
ref: 1988 June 10, in the Guardian, quoted in 2009 by Jesse Sheidlower in The F-Word, page 269
text: Most of the world couldn't give a XXXX about it, something that has long rankled with the marketing men […] .
ref: 1996, in the December (1995) / January (1996) Arena, volume 59, number 1, quoted in 2009 by Jesse Sheidlower in The F-Word, page 269
glosses: A fuck / damn.
XXXX
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːɹˈɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
ipa: /kwɔˈdrupəlˌɛks/
ipa: /ˌɛksɛksɛksˈɛks/
ipa: /fɔːɹˈɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Etymology: From X chromosome.
Senses: glosses: Tetrasomy X, a rare chromosomal disorder affecting females, caused by the presence of four X chromosomes instead of two present in the usual human karyotype.
XXXX
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːɹˈɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
ipa: /kwɔˈdrupəlˌɛks/
ipa: /ˌɛksɛksɛksˈɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
ipa: /fɔːɹˈɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
ipa: /kwɔˈdrupəlˌɛks/
ipa: /ˌɛksɛksɛksˈɛks/
Etymology: From X (“motion picture "adult" rating”).
Senses: glosses: X-rated, pornographic; XXX.
Synonyms: pornographic
X-rated
XXX
WYSIWYG
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪz.iˌwɪɡ/
ipa: /ˈwɪz.ə.wɪɡ/
Forms: form: Wysiwyg
form: wysiwyg
Etymology: Coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of what you see is what you get.
WYSIWYG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪz.iˌwɪɡ/
ipa: /ˈwɪz.ə.wɪɡ/
Forms: form: WYSIWYGs
form: Wysiwyg
form: wysiwyg
Etymology: Coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: WYSIWYGs are helpful tools in that they enable you to create pages much more quickly
ref: 2003, James H. Pence, How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML, page 132:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of software that maintains a close correspondence between the screen image and the printed image.
Derived terms: WYSIATI
WYSIWYM
UFO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːɛfˈəʊ/
ipa: /ˈjuːfəʊ̯/
ipa: /ˌjuˌɛfˈoʊ/
ipa: /ˈjufoʊ̯/
ipa: /ˈʌfoʊ̯/
rhymes: -əʊ
rhymes: -uːfəʊ
Forms: form: UFOs
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Senses: examples: text: After the case had been reported in the newspapers, Mrs. Gracindo de Souza, wife of a member of the local stock exchange, told police that she and her daughter had been driving down Alameda Sao Boaventura when they had seen an^([sic]) UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.
ref: 1967, Brad Steiger, Joan Whritenour, “Someone Up There May Not Like Us”, in Flying Saucers Are Hostile, Tandem Publishing, published 1975, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:
text: To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed—and, by the way, unexplained—sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “THEY CAME FROM OUT OF THE SKY”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:
synonyms: UAP
coordinate_terms: USO
glosses: Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft.
examples: text: UFOs differ from WIPs in that a WIP is a project one is actively pursuing, while a UFO runs the risk of never getting finished.
ref: 2007, Kerry Wills, The Close-knit Circle: American Knitters Today, page 107:
glosses: An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of ultrared flattened object.
Derived terms: sense: unidentified flying object
word: UFObow
sense: unidentified flying object
word: UFOer
sense: unidentified flying object
word: ufologist
sense: unidentified flying object
word: ufology
sense: unidentified flying object
word: UFO nest
sense: unidentified flying object
word: UFO peach
sense: unidentified flying object
word: UFO religion
Related terms: sense: unidentified flying object
word: flying saucer
sense: unidentified flying object
word: IFO
smiley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmaɪli/
rhymes: -aɪli
Forms: form: smilier
form: smiliest
form: smilie
form: smily
Etymology: From smile + -y (adjectival suffix). The noun is from the adjective, after smiley face.
Senses: examples: text: have a smiley demeanor
text: a very smiley girl
glosses: Cheerful and happy; smiling.
glosses: Having one's throat slit from side to side.
smiley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmaɪli/
rhymes: -aɪli
Forms: form: smileys
form: smilies
form: smilie
form: smily
Etymology: From smile + -y (adjectival suffix). The noun is from the adjective, after smiley face.
Senses: synonyms: smiley face
glosses: A simplified representation of a smiling face.
examples: text: How do you type the angry smiley?
synonyms: emoticon
glosses: A sequence of text characters used to represent a mood, especially :) or :-) or other depictions of smiling.
glosses: An improvised street weapon consisting of a length of chain with padlocks and other heavy objects affixed to one end.
glosses: A roasted sheep's head.
examples: text: Smiley/Scrumper and Frowny Smiley and scrumper are both names for a piercing of the upper frenulum that attaches the center of the lip to the gums.
ref: 2011, Elayne Angel, The Piercing Bible: The Definitive Guide to Safe Body Piercing, Crossing Press, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: The type of piercing of the upper frenulum (upper lip).
accost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔst/
ipa: /əˈkɑst/
ipa: /əˈkɒst/
rhymes: -ɒst
Forms: form: accosts
form: accosting
form: accosted
form: accosted
Etymology: From Middle French accoster, acoster, from Old French acoster (“to stand beside”) (whence Medieval Latin accostare), from Old French a- + coste (“side, flank”).
Senses: examples: text: A beggar accosted me as soon as I stepped outside.
glosses: To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
glosses: To join side to side; to border.
glosses: To sail along the coast or side of.
examples: text: You mistake, knight. ‘Accost’ is front / her, board her, woo her, assail her.
ref: c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act 1, scene 3, lines 53–54:
glosses: To approach; to come up to.
examples: text: Him, Satan thus accosts.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost, line 653:
text: She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."
ref: 1847, Charlotte Bronte, chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre:
text: I quickly followed suit, and descending into the bar-room accosted the grinning landlord very pleasantly.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To speak to first; to address; to greet.
examples: text: For all the Shores, which to the Sea accost
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V”, in The Faerie Queene, canto 2, stanza XLII:
text: Lapland hath since been often surrounded (so much as accosts the sea) by the English.
ref: 1662, Thomas Fuller, “Derby-shire”, in History of the Worthies of England:
glosses: To adjoin; to lie alongside.
examples: text: The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991.
ref: 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
text: Surveillance video of the incident shows the man and woman being accosted by a man armed with and assault-style handgun.
ref: 2017 June 21, Glenn E. Rice, “Police seek two gunmen who accosted Kansas City couple”, in The Kansas City Star:
glosses: To assault.
examples: text: Gladstone's initial tone of disinterested philanthropy also characterized his first encounters with prostitutes in London once he has moved there to undertake his parliamentary duties. Accosted in a London park in 1837 by two women, Gladstone merely reported of them that "both ... had taken to their miserable calling from losing their livelihood by the death of their husbands."
ref: 1997, Travis L. Crosby, The Two Mr. Gladstones:
glosses: To solicit sexually.
Synonyms: waylay
Derived terms: accostable
accostment
accost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɔst/
ipa: /əˈkɑst/
ipa: /əˈkɒst/
rhymes: -ɒst
Forms: form: accosts
Etymology: From Middle French accoster, acoster, from Old French acoster (“to stand beside”) (whence Medieval Latin accostare), from Old French a- + coste (“side, flank”).
Senses: examples: text: A man does not seize a woman by the sleeve and ask, "Is it you?" without some reason for an address so destitute of ordinary courtesy; and Lucilla was sufficiently versed in such matters to know that so rude and startling an accost could be only addressed to some one whose presence set the speaker's heart beating, and quickened the blood in his veins.
ref: 1866, Margaret Oliphant, chapter XXIII, in Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford):
text: Anne liked to accost foreigners in their own tongue , but , being ignorant of Spanish , asked M. de Grignaux to teach her a sentence of polite accost in his own language, wherewith to welcome an ambassador from Spain.
ref: 1871, Henry Morley, Clement Marot:
text: Great was my amazement to find the unconquerable Mr. Sim thaw immediately on the accost of this strange gentleman, who hailed him with a ready familiarity, proceeded at once to discuss with him the trade of droving and the prices of cattle, and did not disdain to take a pinch from the inevitable ram's horn.
ref: 1897, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Drovers”, in St. Ives:
glosses: Address; greeting.
examples: text: At last, when I was already within reach of her, I stopped. Words were denied me; if I advanced I could but clasp her to my heart in silence; and all that was sane in me, all that was still unconquered, revolted against the thought of such an accost.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Olalla”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables:
glosses: An attack.
accountability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: /əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [əˌkaʊn.təˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /əˌkæɔn.təˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [əˌkæɔn.təˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: accountabilities
Etymology: From accountable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American Democracy. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future.
ref: 1946, Winston Churchill, Sinews of Peace:
glosses: The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account or give an explanation; liability to be held responsible or answerable for something.
examples: text: Just think about that: 1 in 4 had an error, and 1 in 20 was seriously wrong. And that is not good. If every 20th Frosty that Wendy’s sold turned out to be a cup of warm goat semen, we would want some accountability and we’d want it fast! At least freeze it!
ref: 2016 April 10, “Credit Reports”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 8, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
text: Levying a charge will not, by itself, guarantee accountability: witness the millions of dissatisfied customers of the private sector travel agents who book the wrong holiday, solicitors who over-charge, builders who do shoddy work, garages that misrepair cars, estate agents who mislead, shops that sell defective goods and refuse refunds, etc.
ref: 2000, Neil Bateman, Advocacy Skills for Health and Social Care Professionals, page 53:
glosses: An open determination of one's responsibility for something and imposition of consequences.
examples: text: As the biggest rail player, Network Rail was usually held accountable for failings, but had no authority to change anything to solve the problems. The DfT had been given that authority in 2004 - but consistently ducked accountability.
ref: 2021 March 10, Nigel Harris, “It's time to get on with it!”, in RAIL, number 926, page 3:
text: The erosion of accountability doesn't seem to matter now, but it will matter when things start unraveling.
ref: 2023 October 18, Charles Hugh Smith, Our Mutually Reinforcing Crises: Not All Polycrises Are Equal:
glosses: An acceptance of good faith of one's responsibility for something and of its consequences.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The obligation imposed by law or regulation on an officer or other person for keeping an accurate record of property, documents, or funds.
Synonyms: accountableness
Derived terms: accountability buddy
accountability partner
nonaccountability
unaccountability
Related terms: hold to account
responsibility
accountable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊntəbl̩/
Forms: form: more accountable
form: most accountable
Etymology: * First attested around 1400.
* account + -able
Senses: examples: text: Everyone is accountable to God for their conduct.
text: You will be held accountable for your misdemeanors.
text: "Because the railway is economically and socially vital, it receives large amounts of public money and must therefore ultimately be accountable to government. [...]
ref: 2020 April 22, Philip Haigh, “Labour's blueprint for the future of Britain's railways”, in Rail, page 28:
glosses: Obliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.
glosses: Obliged to keep accurate records (of property or funds).
glosses: Liable to be called on to render an account.
examples: text: True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden but a privilege.
ref: 1703, Benjamin Whichcote, Moral and Religious Aphorisms:
glosses: Capable of being accounted for; explicable; explainable.
Synonyms: amenable
responsible
liable
answerable
Derived terms: accountability
accountable depot
accountable disbursing officer
accountable mail
accountableness
accountable officer
accountably
nonaccountable
unaccountable
Related terms: hold to account
accountancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊnt.ən.si/
Forms: form: accountancies
Etymology: From account + -ancy.
Senses: examples: text: professional accountancy
text: chartered accountancy
text: accountancy firm
text: She studied accountancy before joining a firm.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The function of compiling and providing financial information primarily by reports referred to as financial statements, including bookkeeping, systems design, analysis and interpretation of accounting information.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A company or organisation that performs such a function.
Derived terms: forensic accountancy
accountant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊn.tənt/
ipa: [əˈkæʊn.ʔn̩ʔ]
Forms: form: accountants
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
Senses: glosses: One who renders account; one accountable.
glosses: A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s).
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
examples: text: Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis
When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this
50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa
Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
Phone bill about two G's flat
No need to worry, my accountant handles that
And my whole crew is loungin'
Celebratin' every day, no more public housin'
ref: 1994, 2:40 from the start, in Juicy (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
glosses: A sex worker, particularly one who does not want to be publicized as one
Derived terms: accountant general
accountantlike
accountantship
certified accountant
Certified National Accountant
certified public accountant
chartered accountant
forensic accountant
management accountant
nonaccountant
subaccountant
turf accountant
Related terms: account
accountant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊn.tənt/
ipa: [əˈkæʊn.ʔn̩ʔ]
Forms: form: more accountant
form: most accountant
Etymology: From Middle English, from Middle French acuntant. Equivalent to account + -ant. First attested in the mid 15th century.
Senses: glosses: Accountable.
raw_tags: with to
accredit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹɛd.ɪt/
Forms: form: accredits
form: accrediting
form: accredited
form: accredited
Etymology: * First attested in the 1610s.
* From French accréditer, from à (“to”) + to credit, from crédit (“credit”).
* See credit.
Senses: examples: text: Nationalisms often accredit all the unemployment issues to immigration.
glosses: To ascribe; attribute; credit with.
examples: text: February 17, 1793, William Cowper, letter to Samuel Rose, Esq.
His censure will […] accredit his praises.
text: these reasons […] which accredit and fortify mine opinion.
ref: 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.
examples: text: Beton […] was accredited to the Court of France.
ref: 1856–1870, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.
examples: text: He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.
ref: 1820, Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley; and Rise and Progress of Methodism:
text: The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.
ref: 1855, George Cornewall Lewis, Enquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History:
text: He spoke as if he saw the Truth, and, persisting in it so long, he was accredited by those who did not understand him, and silenced them that did.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
glosses: To believe; to put trust in.
glosses: To enter on the credit side of an account book.
examples: text: The school was an accredited college.
glosses: To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.
glosses: To recognize as outstanding.
glosses: To credit.
Derived terms: accreditable
accreditation
accredited
accredition
accreditive
accreditment
accredit with
deaccredit
disaccredit
reaccredit
accreditation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ə-krěd'ĭ-tāʹshən
ipa: /əˌkɹɛd.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /əˌkɹɛd.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [əˌkɹɛɾ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən]
ipa: /əˌkɹɛd.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [əˌkɹɛɾ.əˈteɪ.ʃən]
ipa: /əˌkɹed.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [əˌkɹeɾ.əˈtæɪ.ʃən]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: accreditations
Etymology: First attested in 1806, from accredit + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The giving of credentials.
examples: text: letters of accreditation
text: Remus Chen, head of Taiwan's Foreign Ministry's Department of European Affairs, told reporters that the new Lithuanian representative Paulius Lukauskas had arrived in Taipei earlier this month, and on Monday had formally applied for his accreditation.
ref: 2022 September 13, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan says new Lithuanian office in Taipei begins operations”, in Michael Perry, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Sep 2022, Asia Pacific:
glosses: The act of accrediting.
topics: education
glosses: The granting of approval to an institution of higher learning by an official review board after the school has met certain requirements.
Derived terms: accreditational
accreditation mill
deaccreditation
nonaccreditation
preaccreditation
reaccreditation
accrue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹuː/
ipa: /əˈkɹu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: accrues
form: accruing
form: accrued
form: accrued
Etymology: First attested in mid 15th century. From Middle English acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accrēsco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + crēscō (“to grow”).
Senses: examples: text: And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To increase, to rise
examples: text: Environmental benefits that accrue to the area.
text: 1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE
Interest accrues to principal.
text: The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press
ref: 1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface:
glosses: To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
examples: text: The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
examples: text: He has accrued nine sick days.
text: We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part,
In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart,
Which to that other Mortal shall accrew,
Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.
ref: 1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew
glosses: To accumulate.
topics: law
synonyms: inure
glosses: To become an enforceable and permanent right.
Synonyms: sense: increase
word: rise
word: accrete
word: increase
sense: accumulate
word: add up
word: accumulate
Derived terms: accruable
accrual
accruement
accruer
reaccrue
Related terms: accretion
accresce
accrete
crescent
accrue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɹuː/
ipa: /əˈkɹu/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: accrues
Etymology: First attested in mid 15th century. From Middle English acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accrēsco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + crēscō (“to grow”).
Senses: glosses: Something that accrues; advantage accruing
accumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /əˈkju.mjəˌleɪt/
Forms: form: accumulates
form: accumulating
form: accumulated
form: accumulated
Etymology: First attested c. 1487; from Middle English accumylaten, borrowed from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“to amass, pile up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“to heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French accumuler.
Senses: examples: text: He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
synonyms: word: amass
word: heap
word: hoard
word: store
word: accumulate
word: agglomerate
word: amass
word: build up
word: cumulate
word: heap
word: heap up
word: mound
word: pile
word: pile up
word: rack up
word: stack
word: stack up
word: upheap
glosses: To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent.
examples: text: With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
text: Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, / Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
ref: 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, lines 17–18:
synonyms: aggregate
amound
collect
gather
glosses: To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
topics: education
glosses: To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
Synonyms: word: accrue
word: accumulate
word: add up
word: amound
word: gather
word: garner
word: heap up
word: mount up
word: stack up
Hypernyms: word: assemble
word: increase
word: receive
Hyponyms: word: clock up
word: collect
word: corrade
word: culch
word: foredeal
word: glean
word: hutch
word: lay by
word: lay up
word: packrat
word: pile up
word: put aside
word: put by
word: run up
word: save
word: save up
word: snudge
word: sock away
word: squirrel away
word: stockpile
word: store
word: tuck away
word: feather one's nest
word: line one's pockets
word: hyperaccumulate
word: overaccumulate
word: reaccumulate
Derived terms: accumulable
accumulative
bioaccumulate
hyperaccumulate
hyperaccumulating
misaccumulated
nonaccumulating
overaccumulate
preaccumulated
reaccumulate
reaccumulated
unaccumulate
unaccumulated
Related terms: word: amass
accumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /əˈkju.mjəˌleɪt/
Etymology: First attested c. 1487; from Middle English accumylaten, borrowed from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“to amass, pile up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“to heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French accumuler.
Senses: glosses: Collected; accumulated.
Related terms: accumulation
accumulator
cumulus
accumulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkjuːm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: accumulations
Etymology: From Middle English acumulacyon, from Middle French accumulation and its etymon, Latin accumulātiō, accumulātiōnis. By surface analysis, accumulate + -ion. First attested in the late 15th century. Doublet of accumulatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
examples: text: an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, or of honors
glosses: The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
examples: text: After such an accumulation of mistakes in the treatment of lexical items, it comes as no surprise that the section on word formation on p. 133 is equally poor.
ref: 1989 January 23, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 129:
glosses: A mass of something piled up or collected.
topics: law
glosses: The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
topics: education
glosses: The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.
Synonyms: topics: accounting
finance
business
word: retained earnings
Derived terms: accumulational
accumulation point
antiaccumulation
bioaccumulation
coaccumulation
deaccumulation
geoaccumulation
hydroaccumulation
hyperaccumulation
lymphoaccumulation
misaccumulation
myeloaccumulation
nonaccumulation
overaccumulation
photoaccumulation
phytoaccumulation
preaccumulation
reaccumulation
Related terms: accumulate
accumulator