cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pissed off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pissed off
form: most pissed off
Senses: examples: text: You cant disagree with the adopted values of a bunch of people without they get pissed off at you^([sic])
ref: 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York: Charles Scribner, page 277:
text: 1984, Dorothy Nelkin and Michael Stuart Brown, Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace, page 103,
They don't like that kind of talk and that made me even more pissed off.
text: 2001, in The Year's Best Science Fiction, page 196,
When he'd cracked the tank and lifted Jesus the Rhesus out of the waters of rebirth, the monkey had seemed more pissed off at being sopping wet […]
text: It's better to be pissed off than be pissed on. Unless you have a snakebite or you're on fire.
ref: 2021, Mike J. Aronson, Whatever, page 164:
glosses: Very annoyed, upset, angry.
Synonyms: sense: annoyed, upset
word: browned off
sense: annoyed, upset
word: cheesed off
sense: annoyed, upset
word: peed off
sense: annoyed, upset
word: pissed
sense: annoyed, upset
word: PO'd
sense: annoyed, upset
word: p'd off
sense: annoyed, upset
word: teed off
sense: annoyed, upset
word: ticked off
sense: annoyed, upset
word: torqued off
pissed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of piss off
wilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: wilks
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Obsolete form of whelk.
character
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹɪktə/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkæɹ(ə)ktɚ/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkɛɹ(ə)ktɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkʰarəkʈə(r)/
note: Indic
ipa: /kʰəˈrækʈə(r)/
Forms: form: characters
form: charactering
form: charactered
form: charactered
Etymology: From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “type, nature, character”), from χαράσσω (kharássō, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.
Senses: examples: text: O Roſalind, theſe Trees ſhall be my Bookes, / And in their barkes my thoughts Ile charracter, / That euery eye, which in this Forreſt lookes, / Shall ſee thy vertue witneſt euery where.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
glosses: To write (using characters); to describe.
Related terms: codepoint
font
glyph
letter
symbol
rune
pictogram
clan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæn/
homophone: Klan
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: clans
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish clann (“offspring, children of the family”) and Scottish Gaelic clann, both from Old Irish cland, borrowed from Old Welsh plant, itself borrowed from Latin planta (“shoot, offspring”). Doublet of plant and planta.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: descent group
coordinate_terms: lineage
glosses: A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
glosses: A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.
examples: text: As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
ref: 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:
glosses: Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
topics: video-games
glosses: A group of players who habitually play on the same team in multiplayer games.
glosses: A badger colony.
Derived terms: clan control
clan endogamy
clanfellow
clanless
clan mate
clanmate
clannish
clannism
clannist
clanny
clansfolk
clanship
clansman
clanspeak
clansperson
clanswoman
interclan
intraclan
matriclan
multiclan
patriclan
subclan
Related terms: clan lab
triskelion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /trɑɪˈskɛ.li.ən/
ipa: /trɪˈskɛ.li.ən/
Forms: form: triskelions
form: triskelia
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τρισκέλιον (triskélion).
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: tetraskelion
text: Sicily and the Isle of Man use triskelia as their emblems.
synonyms: triskeles
triskele
glosses: A figure composed of three interlocked spirals (or three bent human legs), with threefold rotational symmetry.
tora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toras
Etymology: From Amharic [script needed] (tōrā).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tora hartebeest.
synonyms: word: tora hartebeest
Related terms: tora tora
lacerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæ.sɚ.ɛɪt/
ipa: /ˈlæ.sɚ.ət/
Forms: form: lacerates
form: lacerating
form: lacerated
form: lacerated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1425, the adjective in 1514; inherited from Middle English laceraten, borrowed from Latin lacerātus, perfect passive participle of lacerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed
ref: 2019, “Human Target”, performed by Thy Art Is Murder:
glosses: To tear, rip or wound.
examples: text: When the fixtures tumbled out of the computer for the start of a newly promoted season, Nigel Adkins must have wondered whether he had unknowingly broken any mirrors while walking under a ladder. Hot on the heels of a tough introduction to both Manchester clubs, a rampant Arsenal lacerated Southampton.
ref: 2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian:
glosses: To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.
Derived terms: lacerater
laceratingly
lacerative
lacerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæ.sɚ.ɛɪt/
ipa: /ˈlæ.sɚ.ət/
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1425, the adjective in 1514; inherited from Middle English laceraten, borrowed from Latin lacerātus, perfect passive participle of lacerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But as they detrected the doing of theyr duetie, so god euer graunted vnto this realme force to compell them thervnto within memory, not withstandyng any theyr interruption by resistence, which vnto the tyme of our progenitour Henry the VI. neuer indured so longe as it made intermission within tyme of mynde, wherby the possession myght seme to be enpaired: from the tyme of Henry the VI vnto the seuenth yere of our reigne, how our realme hathe ben for a season lacerate and torne by diuersitie of titles, tyl our time and syns by warre outwardly vexed and troubled, The story is so lamentable for some parte therof, as were tedious to reherse.
ref: 1542, Henry VIII, The Declaration of the just causes of the warre with the Scotts (as printed in the Grenville copy 5945 in the British Museum Library):
text: But who can gaze
Upon that other form, which on the rood
In agony is stretched?... his hands transfixed,
And lacerate with the body's pendent weight;
ref: 1805, Robert Southey, “Canto II. VIII.”, in Madoc, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A[rchibald] Constable and Co, […], by James Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, part I (Madoc in Wales), page 255:
glosses: Mangled, torn, lacerated.
examples: text: The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
Derived terms: lacerately
immolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/
Forms: form: immolates
form: immolating
form: immolated
form: immolated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb in 1548; borrowed from Latin immolātus, perfect passive participle of immolō (“to sacrifice”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks.
ref: 1957 December 24, “Wild Boars Charge French Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 840:
text: A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.
ref: 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden:
glosses: To kill as a sacrifice.
examples: text: She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To kill or destroy, especially by fire.
Derived terms: immolatory
self-immolate
self-immolation
Related terms: immolation
immolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb in 1548; borrowed from Latin immolātus, perfect passive participle of immolō (“to sacrifice”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Immolated, sacrificed.
raw_tags: used as a participle
flay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: flā
ipa: /fleɪ/
enpr: flē
ipa: /fliː/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: flays
form: flaying
form: flayed
form: flayed
form: fla
form: fley
form: flee
form: fly
form: fleg
form: flae
form: flea
Etymology: From Middle English flayen, flaien, fleien, from Old English *flīeġan ("to cause to fly, put to flight, frighten"; found only in compounds: āflīeġan), from Proto-Germanic *flaugijaną (“to let fly, cause to fly”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”).
Senses: glosses: To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
examples: text: If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape
ref: 1979, “The Trial”, in The Wall, performed by Pink Floyd:
glosses: To frighten; scare; terrify.
glosses: To be fear-stricken.
Derived terms: flaying
flay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flā
ipa: /fleɪ/
enpr: flē
ipa: /fliː/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: flays
form: fla
form: fley
form: flee
form: fly
form: fleg
form: flae
form: flea
Etymology: From Middle English flayen, flaien, fleien, from Old English *flīeġan ("to cause to fly, put to flight, frighten"; found only in compounds: āflīeġan), from Proto-Germanic *flaugijaną (“to let fly, cause to fly”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”).
Senses: glosses: A fright; a scare.
glosses: Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.
Derived terms: flaysome
flay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: flā
ipa: /fleɪ/
enpr: flē
ipa: /fliː/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: flays
form: flaying
form: flayed
form: flaid
form: flew
form: flayed
form: flaid
form: flew
form: flain
Etymology: From Middle English flen, from Old English flēan, from Proto-West Germanic *flahan, from Proto-Germanic *flahaną.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer flayed him as he had the bear, and so he had both bear-skin and fox-skin.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 113:
glosses: To strip the skin off; to skin.
glosses: To lash or whip.
Synonyms: sense: remove the skin of
word: fleece
sense: remove the skin of
word: flense
sense: remove the skin of
word: skin
Derived terms: beflay
flail
flayer
flay someone alive
unflayed
await
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: awaits
form: awaiting
form: awaited
form: awaited
Etymology: From Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”). More at English wait.
Senses: examples: text: I await your reply to my letter.
text: Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night;
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost:
text: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: In love, however, women are brave. How many clamber over rooftops of houses and palaces, and are still doing it, when their lovers await them!
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 47:
text: After 170416 heads into the bay platform (2) to be prepared for its next trip to 'Skeggy', there's time to grab a coffee and await the arrival of RAIL's next train - the 1144 Leicester-Grimsby Town.
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 57:
glosses: To wait for.
glosses: To expect.
examples: text: Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell.
text: Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire.
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
text: O Eve, some further change awaits us nigh.
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost:
glosses: To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
glosses: To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
glosses: To watch, observe.
glosses: To wait; to stay in waiting.
Synonyms: sense: wait for
word: wait for
word: anticipate
english: of a sound
translation: of a sound
word: listen
sense: serve or attend
word: attend to
word: service
Derived terms: awaitable
awaiter
awaitment
reawait
await
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: awaits
Etymology: From Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”). More at English wait.
Senses: glosses: A waiting for; ambush.
examples: text: Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte, as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
text: For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
apace
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Etymology: From Middle English apās (“step by step, slowly; quickly, rapidly; at once, promptly”), from Old French à pas (“at a quick pace”).
Senses: examples: text: Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace.
text: Gallop apace, you fiery footed ſteedes, / Towards Phœbus lodging, ſuch a Wagoner / As Phaeton would whip you to the weſt, / And bring in Cloudie night immediately.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 65:
text: Ow faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre / Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in / Another Moon[…]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 145:
text: (To one, it is ten years of years.
... Yet now, and in this place,
Surely she leaned o'er me—her hair
Fell all about my face. ...
Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves.
The whole year sets apace.)
ref: 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, The Germ; reprinted in Poems [Collection of British and American Authors; 1380], copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873, OCLC 933409239, page 2, lines 19–24
text: The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man, goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. […] Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements.
ref: 1943, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, “The Abolition of Man”, in The Abolition of Man […], New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published 1947, →OCLC, page 46:
text: Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west.
ref: 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
text: Despite efforts to prevent it, officials say, the radicalisation of young Muslims living in Europe proceeds apace.
ref: 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer:
glosses: Quickly, rapidly, with speed.
Synonyms: expeditiously
swiftly
Derived terms: ill news spreads apace
mort wap-apace
monitor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tə/
note: lot–cloth split, US
ipa: /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tɚ/
note: lot–cloth split, US
ipa: /ˈmɔn.ə.tɚ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nɪ.tɚ/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈmɑ.nɪ.ɾɚ]
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈmɑ.nə.tɚ/
note: of Canada
ipa: [ˈmɑ.nə.ɾɚ]
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈmɒn.ɪ.tɚ/
note: of the US
ipa: [ˈmɒn.ɪ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈmɔn.ɪ.tə/
ipa: [ˈmɔn.ɪ.ɾə]
ipa: /ˈmɒn.ə.tə/
ipa: [ˈmɔ̟n.ə.ɾə]
Forms: form: monitors
form: monitoring
form: monitored
form: monitored
form: monitour
Etymology: From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.
Senses: examples: text: Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
ref: 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide, World Health Organization, page 134:
text: During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO₂, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
ref: 1997, Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers, volumes 23-373, page 239:
text: 2002, Mark Baker, Garry Smith, GridRM: A Resource Monitoring Architecture for the Grid, in Manish Parashar (editor), Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop, Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268,
A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance monitoring, analysis, prediction and tuning.
text: The NOAA monitors global temperatures and records on a monthly and an annual basis, not daily. […] Various parts of the world have been experiencing heatwaves and on Thursday the EU’s climate monitoring service said the world had experienced its hottest June on record last month.
ref: 2023 July 7, “UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To watch over; to guard.
Synonyms: oversee
supervise
track
Derived terms: monitorable
SOB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs oʊ ˈbi/
Forms: form: SOBs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of son of a bitch.
glosses: Initialism of shortness of breath.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of souls on board.
glosses: Initialism of sum of best.
topics: business
antonyms: EOB
glosses: Initialism of start of business.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of share of business.
imbibe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: imbibes
form: imbibing
form: imbibed
form: imbibed
Etymology: From Middle English imbiben, from Latin imbibō, from im- + bibō (“to drink”) (whence also beverage), from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-, whence also potable, potion.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps in the case of the vodka-drinking peasant it is this weekly parboil which saves his life and postpones the dreadful day when the constant imbibing of unlimited quantities of the deadly liquor must be paid for.
ref: 1899, John A. Logan, Jr., In Joyful Russia, 2nd edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 185:
text: Without its sting, the common yellowjacket would be unable to steal ham from our sandwich or imbibe the sweet juice from our peach.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
examples: text: to imbibe knowledge
text: “Every minute,” continued M. Krempe with warmth, “every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost. You have burdened your memory with exploded systems, and useless names. Good God! in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies, which you have so greedily imbibed, are a thousand years old, and as musty as they are ancient? I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. My dear Sir, you must begin your studies entirely anew.”
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume I, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, pages 69–70:
text: To eradicate that error, already but too deeply imbibed, to subdue and triumph over human infirmity, was indeed difficult, but to Rosilia a derogation from virtue was still more so.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 144:
text: Like the late Dr Falk (d. 1782), Grabianka was a native of Podolia, where Sabbatian influences were strong among local Jews, and he imbibed many of their notions.
ref: 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 219:
text: If you’ve been imbibing Craig’s Kelly’s Covid monologues over the summer and wondering why Scott Morrison lets one of his own MPs regularly contradict the official public health advice without rebuke, let me try to answer your question.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian:
glosses: To take in; absorb.
glosses: To steep; to cause to absorb liquid.
Hypernyms: ingest
Derived terms: imbibable
imbibement
imbiber
imbibition
preimbibe
reimbibe
unimbibed
replete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: more replete
form: most replete
Etymology: From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.
Senses: examples: text: A kitchen replete with all the ultimate appliances.
text: A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway
His subjects with delight obey:
His tail was beauteous to behold,
Replete with goodly eyes and gold.
ref: 1730, Jonathan Swift, The Pheasant and the Lark:
text: I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.
ref: 1759, Samuel Johnson, “chapter 12”, in Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia:
text: "Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 44, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
text: History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.
ref: 1916, Elbert Hubbard, “Seneca”, in Little Journeys: Volume 8—Great Philosophers:
text: Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.
ref: 2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Abounding, amply provided.
examples: text: And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals […]
ref: 1901, Bret Harte, “Three Vagabonds of Trinidad”, in Under the Redwoods:
text: In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said[…]
ref: 1913, Jack London, “chapter15”, in The Valley of the Moon:
glosses: Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Isomorphism-closed: Inheriting all the isomorphisms of C. Formally: such that for any isomorphism f in C, if f 's source is in S, then f and f 's target is also in S.
raw_tags: of a subcategory S of C
Synonyms: sense: abounding
word: plentiful
sense: abounding
word: abundant
sense: gorged
word: stuffed
Related terms: repletion
complete
replete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: repletes
Etymology: From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.
Senses: glosses: A honeypot ant.
replete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: repletes
form: repleting
form: repleted
form: repleted
Etymology: From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.
Senses: glosses: To fill to repletion, or restore something that has been depleted.
P45
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P45s
Etymology: The form number designated by Britain's HM Revenue and Customs department.
Senses: examples: 2012, Forbes, Has Unconventional Oil Production Peaked?
Get any concessions wrong in advanced markets, and CEO’s know they’ll pay a very heavy price on stock markets. ‘P45’s’ all round, and that’s before we consider any national flags involved, or the small fact that host nations are piling on pressure to get pumps working, donkey’s nodding and receipts rolling in.
glosses: A form that an employee receives when they terminate their employment, detailing income for social security and taxation purposes for the current financial year.
wikipedia: HM Revenue and Customs
Related terms: P11D
P60
Bahá'í
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bahá'ís
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baháʼí.
Bahá'í
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Baháʼí.
blindworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blindworms
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blynde worme, equivalent to blind + worm due to its very small eyes. Cognate with Swedish blindorm, blindödla.
Senses: examples: text: […] we haue a blind worme to be found vnder logs in woods, and timber that hath lien long in a place, which some also doo call (and vpon better ground) by the name of [s]low worms, and they are knowen easilie by their more or lesse varietie of striped colours, drawen long waies from their heads, their whole bodies little excéeding a foot in length, & yet is there venem deadlie.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68197.0001.001 [(please specify the book title).] Chapter 6.]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, page 228:
text: You spotted snakes with double tongue,
Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,
Come not near our fairy queen.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: "But I'll give you a bit of advice! Take a blindworm - I'll find you one - and ram it into the barrel of your gun and then fire it, after that you may try what powder and shot will do."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:
glosses: Anguis fragilis (slowworm), a small species of legless lizard.
facile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: făsʹīl
ipa: /ˈfæs.aɪl/
enpr: făʹsəl
ipa: /ˈfæs.əl/
ipa: [ˈfæs.ɫ̩]
ipa: /ˈfä.sʌɪl/
rhymes: -æsəl
Forms: form: more facile
form: most facile
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French facile, from Latin facilis (“easy to do, easy, doable”), from Latin facere (“to do, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put”) Compare Spanish fácil (“easy”). First use appears c. 1484 in a translation by William Caxton.
Senses: examples: text: […] as he that is benummed with cold, sits still shaking, that might relieve himselfe with a little exercise or stirring, doe they complaine, but will not use the facile and ready meanes to doe themselves good; […]
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: Easy; contemptibly easy.
examples: text: His facile disposition made him many friends.
glosses: Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
examples: text: Her writing was facile and articulate.
text: we can learn the impression that he made upon a stranger and a foreigner at this period, thanks to the facile pen of Fannu Burney.
ref: 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 54:
text: The centenary of Bradshaw has proved further scope in the railway field for his facile pen to be devoted to an officially-sponsored work, and the "most famous guide in the world" is fortunate in its choice of a biographer.
ref: 1940 July, “Railway Literature: The History of Bradshaw. By G. Royde Smith. London: Henry Blacklock & Co., Bradshaw House, Surrey Street, Strand, W.C.2; … 76pp. Illustrated. Price 3s. 6d. net.”, in Railway Magazine, page 432:
text: "Discipline," Jorge Julio Saavedra was repeating, "is more necessary to me than to other more facile writers.
ref: 1974, Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul, New York: Pocket Books, page 54:
text: A facile and persuasive writer, he also turned out countless newspaper articles on Russian aims in Central Asia and how best these could be thwarted.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 372:
glosses: Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
examples: text: He arrived with a facile understanding of her works.
text: There is a facile view that our green commitments – to tackling climate change, avoiding air and water pollution, protecting natural habitats – are an obstacle to growth. The message of the commodity markets is surely different.
ref: 2012 May 3, Chris Huhne, “It's green growth or nothing”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Lazy, simplistic, superficial (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
examples: text: Decarboxylation of beta-keto acids is facile.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
Derived terms: facilely
facileness
facilization
facilize
overfacile
unfacile
Related terms: difficulty
facilitate
facilitation
facilitative
facilitator
facilitatory
facility
bilirubin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪlɪˈɹuːbɪn/
Forms: form: bilirubins
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from German Bilirubin. By surface analysis, bili- + rub- + -in. The German word was naturalized into other languages as international scientific vocabulary (e.g., bilirubin, bilirubine, bilirubina).
Senses: examples: text: The doctors said this was very common, just her new-born liver catching up with the rest of her — the build-up of bilirubin in her blood. The substance red blood cells produce when broken down.
ref: 2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 339:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bile pigment that is a product of the breakdown of the heme portion of hemoglobin (which occurs within macrophages as they digest red blood cells), and which is responsible for the yellowish color seen in bruises. Extremely high levels of bilirubin may cause jaundice.
wikipedia: international scientific vocabulary
Hypernyms: bile pigment
Coordinate terms: bilicyanin
biliverdin
Derived terms: azobilirubin
biliblanket
bilirubinaemia
bilirubinemia
bilirubinencephalopathy
bilirubinoid
bilirubinostasis
bilirubinuria
hydrobilirubin
mesobilirubin
Related terms: bilirubinate
bilirubinometer
bilirubinometry
hyperbilirubinemia
cabriolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæ.bɹi.əˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: cabriolets
Etymology: Borrowed from French cabriolet.
Senses: examples: text: Bodywise, the car suffers from the demon rust badly, too. Look at the wings, the door bottoms, boot, and, on cabriolets especially, the inner doors and door pillar rears.
ref: 2014, Porsche 356 Owners Workshop Manual 1957-1965:
synonyms: convertible
glosses: An automobile with a retractable top.
examples: text: Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.
ref: 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:
text: "I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 72:
synonyms: roadster
qualifier: originally
glosses: A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
Derived terms: cab
time travel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-travel
Etymology: time + travel
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Travel to the past or to the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The ability to access previous states of a database.
Derived terms: time travel debugging
time-traveler
time-traveller
time-traveling
time-travelling
autocannibalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + cannibalism.
Senses: examples: god damn it babies, you've got to involuntarily practice some degree of autocannibalism - alt text for Dinosaur Comics, February 15, 2012, http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2144
glosses: The eating of part of one's own body.
Synonyms: autophagy
Related terms: cannibal
cannibalism
ouroboros
time-traveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-travellers
form: time-traveler
form: time traveler
form: time traveller
Senses: glosses: One who engages in time travel.
duress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /djʊˈɹɛs/
ipa: /d͡ʒʊˈɹɛs/
ipa: /duˈɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).
Senses: examples: text: The agreements […] made with the landlords during the time of slavery, are only the effect of duress and force.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Harsh treatment.
examples: text: It is unclear when it was filmed and if she was under duress during filming.
ref: 2023 October 17, Kim Willsher, “Mother of French-Israeli hostage begs for her return as Hamas releases video”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Constraint by threat.
topics: law
glosses: Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
Derived terms: duress of circumstances
Related terms: endure
duress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /djʊˈɹɛs/
ipa: /d͡ʒʊˈɹɛs/
ipa: /duˈɹɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: duresses
form: duressing
form: duressed
form: duressed
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French duresse, from Latin duritia (“hardness”), from durus (“hard”).
Senses: examples: text: Someone was duressing her.
text: The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.
glosses: To put under duress; to pressure.
Derived terms: duressor
wormhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝmˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: wormholes
form: worm-hole
form: worme-hole
Etymology: First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.
Senses: examples: text: To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
text: But he had no sooner got through the worm-hole, than the lad put a small peg in the hole.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 36:
glosses: A hole burrowed by a worm.
examples: text: […]where there is a net flux of lines of force, through what topologists would call "a handle" of the multiply-connected space, and what physicists might perhaps be excused for more vividly terming a "wormhole".
ref: 1957 December, Charles W. Misner, John Archibald Wheeler, “Classical Physics as Geometry”, in Annals of Physics, volume 2, number 6, pages 525–603:
text: Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!
ref: 1979, Alan Dean Foster, Harold Livingston, directed by Robert Wise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, spoken by Commander Willard Decker (Stephen Collins):
text: I think the wormhole that we used to travel here passed directly through this planet's sun.
ref: 2001, Ron Wilkerson, “Red Sky”, in Martin Wood, director, Stargate SG-1, season 5, episode 5, spoken by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping):
qualifier: relativity
glosses: A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.
Synonyms: sense: a spacetime construct
word: Einstein-Rosen bridge
Related terms: sense: a spacetime construct
word: black hole
sense: a spacetime construct
word: white hole
sense: a spacetime construct
word: rabbit hole
wormhole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɝmˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: wormholes
form: wormholing
form: wormholed
form: wormholed
form: worm-hole
form: worme-hole
Etymology: First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.
Senses: glosses: To make porous or permeable through the formation of small holes or tunnels.
coordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: coördinate
form: co-ordinate
Etymology: From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, perfect passive participle of coōrdinō (“arrange together”), from co- + ōrdinō, equivalent to co- + ordinate. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. See also ordain and ordinate.
Senses: examples: text: two coordinate terms
text: whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co-ordinate powers presiding over each country
ref: 1745, Edmund Law, Considerations on the State of the World with regard to the Theory of Religion:
glosses: Of the same rank; equal.
Derived terms: hexacoordinate
incoordinate
nonacoordinate
noncoordinate
pentacoordinate
tetracoordinate
tricoordinate
coordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊˈɔɹdənət/
ipa: /kəʊˈɔːdɪnɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːdɪnɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɔɹdənɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹdənɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɔɹdənət/
ipa: /kəʊˈɔːdɪnɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːdɪnɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɔɹdənɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹdənɪt/
Forms: form: coordinates
form: coördinate
form: co-ordinate
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective, see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Compare French coordonné.
Senses: examples: text: Give me your coordinates and we'll come and rescue you.
text: What makes Doveland so fascinating is that there are no records of a town with such a name, the town was not renamed or altered its zoning, and there is no map of the state that includes the coordinates of a town called Doveland, Wisconsin. Yet people claim they remember the town, had friends or relatives who lived there, have visited it, and a few folks have souvenirs to prove they have been to Doveland.
ref: 2023 August 29, Lauren Dillon, “Doveland, Wisconsin: The Town That Wasn’t There”, in Historic Mysteries:
topics: astronomy
cartography
geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.
examples: text: These are coordinates; because each, in the sphere of its powers, is equal to, and independent of the others; and because the three united make the government.
ref: 1851, John C. Calhoun, A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United Statesᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ:
glosses: Something that is equal to another thing.
glosses: Coordinated clothes.
Derived terms: bicoordinate
brainordinate
Cartesian coordinate
chronocoordinate
color coordinate
color coordinate system
coordinate axis
coordinate bond
coordinate chart
coordinate clause
coordinate covalent bond
coordinate map
coordinate plane
coordinate system
coordinate term
coordinatewise
coordinatization
eigencoordinate
equicoordinate
geocoordinate
grayordinate
homogeneous coordinate
multicoordinate
paleocoordinate
Plücker coordinate
space polar coordinate
supercoordinate
Talairach coordinate
Related terms: axis
coordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊˈɔɹdəˌneɪt/
ipa: /kəʊˈɔːdɪˌneɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːdɪnˌneɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɔɹdəˌneɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹdəˌneɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɔɹdəˌneɪt/
ipa: /kəʊˈɔːdɪˌneɪt/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːdɪnˌneɪt/
ipa: /koʊˈɔɹdəˌneɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹdəˌneɪt/
Forms: form: coordinates
form: coordinating
form: coordinated
form: coordinated
form: coördinate
form: co-ordinate
Etymology: From Medieval Latin coōrdinātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French coordonner.
Senses: antonyms: subordinate
glosses: To place in the same order or rank.
examples: text: It can be difficult to coordinate movement of both legs after an operation.
text: I was playing tennis for the first time, and it was difficult to coordinate.
glosses: To synchronize (activities).
examples: text: The outfit you're wearing doesn't coordinate.
text: As a fashion editor, I pay obsessive attention to my appearance. Even when I pretend to look insouciant, each look has been painfully considered. The right earrings, coordinating shoes, the careful symmetry of a well-balanced look — these are things that please me. The gym has crushed my sartorial ambitions.
ref: 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:
glosses: To match (objects, especially clothes).
Derived terms: color-coordinate
color coordinate
colour-coordinate
colour coordinate
coordinating conjunction
coordinatingly
coordination
co-ordination
coordinatize
coordinator
co-ordinator
decoordinate
discoordinate
miscoordinate
nocoordinating
overcoordinate
pentacoordinating
Related terms: coordinately
coördinately
coordinateness
coördinateness
coordinative
coördinative
uncoordinated
uncoördinated
hypothetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl/
ipa: [ˌhaɪpəˈθɛɾɪkəɫ]
Forms: form: more hypothetical
form: most hypothetical
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποθετικός (hupothetikós).
Senses: examples: text: Such a subjunctive as appears in the principal clause (i.e. the apodosis) of a conditional sentence may be called a hypothetical subjunctive. An hypothetical subjunctive expresses an action¹ which, while its non-occurrence is implied, is yet supposed to occur, if some other action occur.
ref: 1882, Henry John Roby, chapter XVIII, in A Latin grammar for schools, London: MacMillan and Co., Book IV : Syntax or use of Inflexional Forms, page 258:
text: To establish standing under Article III, a plaintiff must satisfy the following three requirements: (1) "the plaintiff must have suffered an injury in fact - an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized, and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical"; ...
ref: 2006, ACLU v. NSA (District Court opinion):
glosses: Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: conditional; contingent upon some hypothesis/antecedent
Derived terms: antihypothetical
hypothetical baptism
hypothetical imperative
hypotheticality
hypothetically
hypothetical taxonomic unit
nonhypothetical
unhypothetical
hypothetical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpəˈθɛtɪkəl/
ipa: [ˌhaɪpəˈθɛɾɪkəɫ]
Forms: form: hypotheticals
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποθετικός (hupothetikós).
Senses: examples: text: These hypotheticals serve no purpose until we have more information.
text: He told ABC News: “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black sea.”
ref: 2022 October 2, Edward Helmore, quoting David Petraeus, “Petraeus: US would destroy Russia’s troops if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A possible or hypothetical situation or proposition
Related terms: hypothesis
hypothesize