cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
barber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː.bə/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Forms: form: barbers
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.
Senses: examples: text: There's also a barber's shop and that staple of railway stations up and down the UK - a WH Smith.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Eastbourne”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:
synonyms: word: haircutter
word: hairdresser
word: hairstylist
word: tonsor
word: cutbeard
glosses: A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.
glosses: A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
glosses: A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.
Derived terms: barber beats
barber chair
barber-chair
barberess
barberfish
barberish
barber itch
barberly
barbermonger
barber paradox
barber pole
barber's pole
barber pole effect
barber's block
barber's clerk
barbershop
barber shop
barber's itch
barber's rash
barber's sign
barber surgeon
conceited as a barber's cat
jack-knife barber
never ask the barber if you need a haircut
poor as a barber's cat
sleeping barber problem
thin as a barber's cat
barber
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑː.bə/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Forms: form: barbers
form: barbering
form: barbered
form: barbered
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰardʰéh₂
From Middle English barbour, from Anglo-Norman barbour, from Old French barbeor, from barbe (“beard”), from Latin barba.
Senses: glosses: To cut the hair or beard of (a person).
examples: text: ‘I shouldn't ought to barber with you. But when I like a guy, the ceiling's the limit.’
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 29:
glosses: (US, slang) To chatter, talk.
Derived terms: unbarbered
bassoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈsuːn/
enpr: bə-so͞onʹ
ipa: /bəˈsun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: bassoons
Etymology: Borrowed from French basson.
Senses: examples: text: Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
text: The most convenient and natural order is, perhaps, the following: the upper staff may have the flute-part, because it has the highest notes, and, therefore, requires most room above the staff; then follow the parts for the hautboys, clarinets, horns, bassoons, tromboni, trumpets, and drums; the upper half of the page thus containing the wind-instruments: the lower half belongs to the violins, viola, voices, violoncello, and double base.
ref: 1834, Arnold Merrick, transl., Methods of Harmony, Figured Base, and Composition, translation of original by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, page 303:
text: After another alternation of the two elements, there is a more playful episode, in which flute and bassoon take up the first element, with swooping glissando on the ondes Martenot.
ref: 2018, Robert Philip, The Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 465:
synonyms: word: fagotto
glosses: A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
Derived terms: bassoonist
bassooner
contrabassoon
French bassoon
sausage bassoon
tenoroon
tromboon
bassoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈsuːn/
enpr: bə-so͞onʹ
ipa: /bəˈsun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: bassoons
form: bassooning
form: bassooned
form: bassooned
Etymology: Borrowed from French basson.
Senses: glosses: To play the bassoon.
glosses: To make a bassoon-like sound.
idolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈdɒl.ə.tɹiː/
enpr: ī-dŏ'lə-trē
ipa: /aɪˈdɑ.lə.tɹi/
Forms: form: idolatries
form: idololatry
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ydolatrie, from Old French idolatrie, from Ecclesiastical Latin īdōlatrīa, from Late Latin īdōlolatrīa, from Ancient Greek εἰδωλολατρίᾱ (eidōlolatríā, “worship of idols”), back-formation from εἰδωλολάτρης (eidōlolátrēs), from εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “idol”) & λάτρις (látris, “worshipper”) or λατρεύω (latreúō, “I worship”), from λάτρον (látron, “payment”). Equivalent to idol + -latry. Cognate with Modern French idolâtrie, Italian idolatria, Occitan ydolatria, Portuguese idolatria, and Spanish idolatría. Displaced native Old English dēofolġield (literally “devil worship”).
Senses: examples: text: The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Now the great obstacle in tracing the identity of any of the basic forms of worship lies in the vast number of names which appear in the ancient idolatries and mythologies, creating the illusion of a miscellany of gods, whereas many of these different names refer to the same deity. Thus the sun has been personified and worshipped under as many different names as there are nations on the surface of the earth.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 20:
topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: avodah zarah
glosses: The worship of idols.
synonyms: adoration
reverence
worship
glosses: The excessive admiration of somebody or something.
Derived terms: Japanolatry
Related terms: idol
idolater
idolatrisation
idolatrise
idolatrization
idolatrize
idolatrizer
idolatrous
idolatrously
idolatrousness
-latry
lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔːjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlɔɪ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlɔɪ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈlɔ.jɚ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɔɪ.əɹ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈlɔɪ.ɐ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈlɔjə(ɾ)/
note: father-bother merger
ipa: /ˈlɑjə(ɾ)/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː.jə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lawyers
form: lawyering
form: lawyered
form: lawyered
form: lawer
Etymology: From Middle English lawiere, lawier, lawer, equivalent to law + -yer.
Senses: glosses: To practice law.
glosses: To perform, or attempt to perform, the work of a lawyer.
glosses: To make legalistic arguments.
examples: text: You've been lawyered!
glosses: To barrage (a person) with questions in order to get them to admit something.
Related terms: lawyer up
barrister
solicitor
farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɑː.mə/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
Forms: form: farmers
Etymology: From Middle English fermour (“a steward, bailliff, collector of taxes”), from Old French fermier (“a farmer, a lessee, husbandman, bailliff”), from Medieval Latin firmarius (“one to whom land is rented, a collector of taxes, deputy”), from firma; equivalent to farm + -er. Compare Old English feormere (“a purveyor of a guild, a supplier of food, a grocer, farmer”). More at farm.
Senses: examples: text: A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
ref: 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: Someone or something that farms, as:
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm.
glosses: Someone or something that farms, as:
More specifically, a farm owner, as distinguished from a farmworker or farmhand as a hired employee thereof.
coordinate_terms: farmworker
farmhand
qualifier: strictly
examples: text: a farmer of the revenues
glosses: One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.
glosses: A regular person; someone who did not receive a prestigious scholarship.
glosses: A baby farmer (operator of a rural orphanage).
Synonyms: word: farmer
word: husbandman
word: neif
word: serf
word: villein
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: crofter
word: metayer
word: sharecropper
Derived terms: afternoon farmer
antifarmer
aquafarmer
aura farmer
baby-farmer
book-farmer
chicken farmer
Chinese farmer
click farmer
clip farmer
cockatoo farmer
dairy farmer
dirt farmer
drama farmer
farmer cheese
Farmer City
farmeress
farmerette
farmer-general
farmerhood
farmer in the dell
farmerish
farmerless
farmerlike
farmerly
farmer sausage
farmership
fish farmer
gentleman farmer
gold farmer
gong farmer
hog farmer
karma farmer
marginal farmer
microfarmer
nonfarmer
pig farmer
Pitt Street farmer
sharefarmer
sheep farmer
suitcase farmer
tenant farmer
truck farmer
underfarmer
wind farmer
Related terms: word: farm
word: farmboy
word: farmgirl
word: farmhand
word: farmland
word: farmman
word: farmwoman
word: agriculturalist
word: agriculturist
word: agripreneur
word: agronomist
word: botanist
gris-gris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gris-gris
form: greegree
form: gri-gri
form: grigri
form: grisgris
Etymology: Unknown. Compare juju (“a fetish or charm”); compare also Mande gerregery or Mandingo gregory, an amulet or curse-object.
Senses: examples: text: A horn, or rude image, is sometimes made use of as a means of preserving the medicines of defense, and is worn as an amulet. These images, horns, or other articles, called greegrees, or jeujeus, are not held sacred for a moment after the medicine is found to have lost its power […].
ref: 1865, David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone, Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries:
text: The Bambara were not Muslim, but they knew how to make gris-gris.
ref: 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 61:
glosses: An African, or Afro-American, charm or talisman.
Related terms: word: conjuration
word: conjure
word: hoodoo
stepson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɛpsʌn/
rhymes: -ɛpsʌn
Forms: form: stepsons
form: step-son
Etymology: From Middle English stepsone, stepsune, from Old English stēopsunu (“stepson”), from Proto-Germanic *steupasunuz (“stepson”), equivalent to step- + son.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifsuun (“stepson”), West Frisian styfsoan (“stepson”), Dutch stiefzoon (“stepson”), German Low German Steevsöhn (“stepson”), German Stiefsohn (“stepson”), Danish stedsøn (“stepson”), Swedish styvson (“stepson”), Icelandic stjúpsonur (“stepson”).
Senses: glosses: The son of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
Hypernyms: stepchild
stepfamily
Hyponyms: stepbrother
Related terms: stepbrother
stepdaughter
stepfather
stepmother
stepsister
stepdaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepdaughters
form: step-daughter
Etymology: From Middle English stepdoughter, stepdoghter, steopdohter, from Old English stēopdohtor (“stepdaughter”), from Proto-Germanic *steupaduhtēr (“stepdaughter”), equivalent to step- + daughter.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäifdochter (“stepdaughter”), West Frisian styfdochter (“stepdaughter”), Dutch stiefdochter (“stepdaughter”), German Low German Steevdochter (“stepdaughter”), German Stieftochter (“stepdaughter”), Danish steddatter (“stepdaughter”), Swedish styvdotter (“stepdaughter”), Icelandic stjúpdóttir (“stepdaughter”).
Senses: glosses: The daughter of one's spouse from a previous relationship.
Hypernyms: stepchild
meniscus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɪs.kəs/
ipa: /mɛˈnɪs.kəs/
Forms: form: meniscuses
form: menisci
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μηνίσκος (mēnískos, “crescent”), from μήνη (mḗnē, “moon”). Piecewise doublet of moonish.
Senses: examples: text: And from Crabbe's own forehead sweat dripped or gathered into a kind of meniscus to be scooped off.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 554:
text: He opened wide both casements; they gave on a parking place four floors below; the thin meniscus overhead was too wan to illumine the roofs of the houses descending toward the invisible lake [...].
ref: 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, page 19:
glosses: A crescent moon, or an object shaped like it.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other, being crescent-shaped in cross-section.
glosses: The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of two parts of the human knee that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion.
Derived terms: meniscal
meniscectomy
meniscoid
meniscotomy
meniscus midge
Related terms: lunette
salubrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈl(j)uː.bɹi.əs/
enpr: sə-lo͞o'brē-əs
ipa: /səˈlu.bɹi.əs/
Forms: form: more salubrious
form: most salubrious
Etymology: From Latin salūbris (“healthy”) + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: healful
healthful
healthy
salutary
antonyms: insalubrious
insalutary
glosses: Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.
Related terms: salubriously
salubriousness
salubrity
panacea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: păn'-ə-sēʹ-ə
ipa: /ˌpæn.əˈsiː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: panaceas
form: panaceae
form: panaceæ
form: panacaea
form: panacæa
Etymology: From Latin panacēa, from Ancient Greek πανάκεια (panákeia), from πανακής (panakḗs, “all-healing”), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”).
Senses: synonyms: heal-all
glosses: A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
examples: text: A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
text: When busy he was better, and appeared to think perpetual motion a panacea for his unnamed and un-nameable complaint; and so much were they hurried from place to place, after their arrival at Genoa, that both sisters were thankful when they embarked again, as the sea appeared a resting-place...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 53:
text: Podson was seated on the bed, going through such turf forecasts as he could find in the papers; his panacea for correcting the mistakes of fortune.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 206:
text: Hydrogen is not a panacea for reaching the zero net emissions target by 2050, but it can grow to become "a big niche" fuel in particular sectors and applications, claims a new report.
ref: 2023 January 11, “Network News: MPs seek clarity on hydrogen's role”, in RAIL, number 974, page 13:
text: But dollarization is not a panacea for Argentina’s crisis-stricken economy, analysts say.
ref: 2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business:
synonyms: chicken soup
glosses: A solution to all problems.
examples: text: There, whether it diuine Tobacco were, / Or Panachæa, or Polygony, / She found, and brought it to her patient deare […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The plant allheal (Valeriana officinalis), believed to cure all ills.
Synonyms: sense: remedy to cure all disease
word: catholicon
sense: remedy to cure all disease
word: cure-all
sense: remedy to cure all disease
word: elixir
sense: remedy to cure all disease
word: wonder drug
sense: remedy to cure all disease
word: miracle cure
sense: remedy to cure all disease
word: theriac
sense: remedy to cure all disease
word: balm of Gilead
sense: solution to all problems
word: miracle
sense: solution to all problems
word: magic bullet
sense: solution to all problems
word: silver bullet
sense: plant
word: allheal
sense: plant
word: woundwort
Hyponyms: sense: remedy to cure all disease
english: universal antidotes
translation: universal antidotes
word: mithridate and theriac
Derived terms: panacean
panaceist
Related terms: nostrum
gift horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gift horses
Etymology: From the economics of horse ownership, in which an aging horse of declining value continues to require feeding and stabling. Possibly influenced by the proverb don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Senses: examples: text: Having now, as he thought, balanced this little account of friendship, the captain was about to shift his saddle to this noble gift-horse when the affectionate patriarch plucked him by the sleeve, and introduced to him a whimpering, whining, leathern-skinned old squaw, that might have passed for an Egyptian mummy, without drying. "This," said he, "is my wife; she is a good wife--I love her very much.--She loves the horse--she loves him a great deal--she will cry very much at losing him.--I do not know how I shall comfort her--and that makes my heart very sore."
ref: 1837, Washington Irving, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville:
text: To human beings, on the other hand, each meme vehicle is a potential friend or foe, bearing a gift that will enhance our powers or a gift horse that will distract us, burden our memories, derange our judgment.
ref: 1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's dangerous idea: evolution and the meanings of life, page 352:
text: "Don't worry. You can keep them. You don't have to pay for them." / Well, a gift horse and all that. I took the sneakers.
ref: 1990 Fall, Daniel Tyree McElrath, “Abusing the Privilege”, in Ploughshares, volume 16, number 2/3, page 154:
text: The woman on the telephone in the science-faculty office found me an address for Timothy Butler in no time at all. Full marks for information retrieval. Zero for security. If I had been consulted, I would have insisted that callers produce something more compelling than a vague interest in locating a student before his address could be handed over. Still, what it is they say about a gift horse?
ref: 2000, Michelle Spring, Running for Shelter, page 164:
text: You know what they say about a gift horse, man. This is free help. Don't take it for granted.
ref: 2009, John Hart, The last child:
glosses: An apparent gift, that has substantial associated costs or drawbacks, especially a gift that does not fit perfectly with the recipient's wants or needs.
Related terms: Trojan horse
white elephant
don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Gaul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːl/
ipa: /ɡɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
homophone: gall
Etymology: Borrowed from French Gaule (“Gaul”), from Middle French Gaule (“Gaul”), from Old French Gaule, Waulle (“Gaul”, a term used to translate unrelated Latin Gallia (“Gaul”)), from Frankish *Walha(land) (“Gaul, Land of the Romans, foreigners”), from Proto-West Germanic *walh (“foreigner, Roman, Celt”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“an outlander, foreigner, Celt”), probably of Celtic origin, from the same source as Latin Volcae (name of a Celtic tribe in South Germany, which later emigrated to Gaul).
Akin to Old High German Walh, Walah (“a Celt, Roman, Gaul”), Old English Wealh, Walh (“a non-Germanic foreigner, Celt/Briton/Welshman”), Old Norse Valir (“Gauls, Frenchmen”). More at Wales/Welsh, Cornwall, Walloon, and Vlach/Wallachia.
Despite their similar appearance, Latin Gallia is not the origin of French Gaule. During the evolution from Latin to French, stressed initial /ˈɡa-/ yielded /dʒa/ > /ʒa/ (cf. Latin gamba > French jambe), while unstressed final /-lia/ yielded /ʎə/ > /j/ (cf. Latin filia > French fille). Thus, the regular outcome of Latin Gallia is /ʒaj/ ⟨Jaille⟩, which is attested in several French toponyms: La Jaille-Yvon, Saint-Mars-la-Jaille, etc.
Senses: hypernyms: Celtic Gaul
Belgic Gaul
Aquitaine
Cisalpine Gaul
Transalpine Gaul
Gallia Narbonensis
glosses: A historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine.
Gaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːl/
ipa: /ɡɑl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
homophone: gall
Forms: form: Gauls
Etymology: From Middle English Gall, from Latin Gallus. The change in spelling is due to the influence of the place-name Gaul, which is thought to be etymologically unrelated (see above).
Senses: examples: text: […] Gauls used the suffix -acus, Etruscans -nas or -na, Umbrians -enus, -ienus.
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France.
Related terms: Gaulish
Gallic
axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'səz
enpr: ăk'sĭz
ipa: /ˈæksəz/
ipa: /ˈæksɪz/
rhymes: -æksɪz
Etymology: ax + -es, axe + -s
Senses: glosses: plural of ax
glosses: plural of axe
axes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'səz
enpr: ăk'sĭz
ipa: /ˈæksəz/
ipa: /ˈæksɪz/
rhymes: -æksɪz
Etymology: ax + -es, axe + -s
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ax (all etymologies and senses)
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of axe (all etymologies and senses)
axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăk'səz
enpr: ăk'sĭz
ipa: /ˈæksəz/
ipa: /ˈæksɪz/
rhymes: -æksɪz
enpr: ăk'sēz
ipa: /ˈæksiːz/
enpr: ăk'sēz
ipa: /ˈæksiz/
rhymes: (UK) -æksiːz
rhymes: (US) -æksiz
enpr: ăk'səz
enpr: ăk'sĭz
ipa: /ˈæksəz/
ipa: /ˈæksɪz/
rhymes: -æksɪz
Etymology: From Latin axēs.
Senses: glosses: plural of axis
ax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăks
ipa: /æks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: axes
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of axe.
Derived terms: axhandle
axhead
axless
axlike
axman
axstone
axwoman
give the ax
ax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăks
ipa: /æks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: axes
form: axing
form: axed
form: axed
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of axe.
ax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăks
ipa: /æks/
rhymes: -æks
Forms: form: axes
form: axing
form: axed
form: axed
Etymology: From Middle English axen, aksen, axien, from Old English ācsian and āxian, showing metathesis from āscian. Ax/aks was common in literary works until about 1600.
Senses: examples: text: When they were come togedder, they axed off hym, sayinge: Master wilt thou at this tyme restore agayne the kyngdom of israhel?
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
text: Dolly: And if so be, why did you ax me to keep you company? Housekeeper wants me below to pick raisins.
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Alienated Manor, act 4:
text: Ar try who'l ax em the hardest riddle,
Ar soonest vind out oone put us, true...
ref: 1879, William Barnes, “The Welshnut Tree”, in Complete Poems, volume 1, page 106:
text: Richard Dauntless: "But, axin' your pardon, miss, might I be permitted to salute the flag I'm a-goin' to sail under?"
ref: 1887, Gilbert and Sullivan, Ruddigore, act 1:
text: ‘I axed him if he knowed the way and he said he had not fergitten the lay of the land.’
ref: 1979, Verna Mae Slone, What My Heart Wants to Tell, page 18:
text: Wise: Your boy left here a while ago
Johnson: I ain' lookin' for him. He at his granmother's. I wanted to ax you somethin'.
ref: 2006 Sept. 17, David Mills, "Soft Eyes", The Wire, 00:19:01
text: He's cool. Does triathlons dahn de Sahn. Don't drink. Ax me if I want a lift to de beach — he hurd it's a dahnce goin on dahn thurr.
ref: 2013 September 5, James Burton, The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular; MLE and Bermuda; especially African-American Vernacular; MLE and Bermuda
glosses: Alternative form of ask.
flightless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: flīt'lĭs
Etymology: From flight + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: apterous, wingless
text: The indigenous fauna of Australia and New Zealand featured an especially interesting array of flightless birds.
text: America has its bald eagle and New Zealand has its kiwi, a flightless brown bird.
ref: 2010, Alexander Elder, Straying from the Flock: Travels in New Zealand:
glosses: Unable to fly.
Describing kinds of birds that normally cannot fly, such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu.
synonyms: nonflying
nonvolant
antonyms: flying
volant
coordinate_terms: flighted
unflighted
examples: text: The animal shelter has a flightless sparrow named Shiny, who seems to make up for his disability by being an avid runner.
glosses: Unable to fly.
Describing an individual bird that normally would be able to fly but in this case cannot, such as an injured sparrow.
examples: text: Oh great, some wind is blowing in Chicago, so now I'm flightless in Seattle, because this airline can't cope!
glosses: Unable to fly.
Suddenly deprived of a scheduled (airline) flight by its cancellation.
Derived terms: flightless cormorant
flightlessly
flightlessness
New Guinea flightless rail
semiflightless
Related terms: unflightworthy
unflyable
unflying
featherless
castrato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kăsträʹtō
ipa: /kæsˈtɹɑː.təʊ/
Forms: form: castratos
form: castrati
Etymology: From Italian castrato, from Latin castrō (“to castrate”), likely from caedō (“to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: A castrato stepped forward, a slender / young man with earnest grey eyes.
ref: 2001, Bernardine Evaristo, The Emperor's Babe, Penguin Essentials (2020), page 170:
glosses: A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice.
glosses: A male soprano or alto voice produced by castration of the treble singer before puberty, intended to conserve his voice; the singer.
castrato
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kăsträʹtō
ipa: /kæsˈtɹɑː.təʊ/
Etymology: From Italian castrato, from Latin castrō (“to castrate”), likely from caedō (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: Castrated; especially castrated prepubescently.
glosses: Having, using or containing the voice of a castrato (noun).
examples: text: Nowadays, either women or countertenors take the castrato roles.
glosses: Originally composed for a castrato.
Related terms: castrate
castratism
contratenor
contratenor altus
countertenor
eunuch
sopranista
soprano
reptile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛpˈtaɪl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛp.taɪəl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Forms: form: reptiles
Etymology: From Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).
Senses: glosses: Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of Reptilia, including birds.
synonyms: herptile
herp
glosses: A reptile or amphibian.
examples: text: This work may, indeed, be considered as a great creation of our own; and for a little reptile of a critic to presume to find fault with any of its parts, without knowing the manner in which the whole is connected, and before he comes to the final catastrophe, is a most presumptuous absurdity.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: "That reptile," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: […] If I pitied you for crying and looking so very frightened, you should spurn such pity. Ellen, tell him how disgraceful this conduct is. Rise, and don’t degrade yourself into an abject reptile—don’t!
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XXVII, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A mean, grovelling, loathsome or repulsive person.
Synonyms: word: creeper
word: reptile
Hypernyms: sense: vertebrate of class Reptilia
word: amniote
sense: vertebrate of class Reptilia
word: sauropsid
word: vertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: snake
word: lizard
word: chameleon
word: turtle
word: tortoise
word: crocodile
word: alligator
word: caiman
word: dinosaur
word: archosaur
word: tuatara
word: gecko
word: skink
word: iguana
Related terms: word: mammal-like reptile
word: Reptilia
word: reptilian
word: reptilianness
word: reptiloid
word: reptilologist
word: reptilology
word: reptoid
word: reptologist
word: :Category:Reptiles
word: reptilelike
reptile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛpˈtaɪl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛp.taɪl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛp.taɪəl/
rhymes: -aɪl
Etymology: From Middle English reptil, from Old French reptile, from Late Latin rēptile, neuter of reptilis (“creeping”), from Latin rēpō (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *rep- (“to creep, slink”) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).
Senses: glosses: Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
examples: text: a reptile race or crew    reptile vices
text: There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.
ref: 1795–1797, Edmund Burke, “(please specify |letter=1 to 4)”, in [Letters on a Regicide Peace], London: [Rivington]:
text: My herald shall appoint a week, / And let the recreant traitors seek / My tournay court—that there and then / I may dislodge their reptile souls / From the bodies and forms of men!
ref: 1800, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Christabel. Part II.”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 34:
glosses: Grovelling; low; vulgar.
Synonyms: sense: creeping, crawling
word: reptilious
sense: creeping, crawling
word: creeping
sense: creeping, crawling
word: crawling
sense: creeping, crawling
word: reptitious
sense: contemptible
word: despicable
Related terms: herpetology
herpetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɜː.pɪˈtɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: herpetologies
Etymology: Derived from French herpétologie, from Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “reptile”) + -logie (suffix indicating a field of study or work), equivalent to herpet- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The branch of biology dealing with reptiles (Reptilia) and amphibians (Amphibia).
Hypernyms: zoology
Hyponyms: amphibiology
ophiology
paleoherpetology
reptiliology
reptilology
reptology
Related terms: herp
herper
herpes
herpesian
herpetologic
herpetological
herpetologically
herpetologist
herptile
countertenor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countertenors
form: counter-tenor
form: counter tenor
Etymology: From Latin contrātenor. By surface analysis, counter- + tenor.
Senses: glosses: An adult male singer who uses head tone or falsetto to sing far higher than the typical male vocal range.
examples: text: The term countertenor first appeared in England during the mid 17th century. However, the style of singing originated in Elizabethan cathedral choirs, eventually falling out of favour during the Romantic period.
ref: 2014 August 8, Rupert Christiansen, “The truth about falsettos [print version: 12 August 2014, p. R8]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: A male singing voice far higher than the typical male vocal range.
glosses: A part or section performing a countermelody against the tenor or main part.
Coordinate terms: sense: voice types
word: soprano
sense: voice types
word: mezzo-soprano
sense: voice types
word: contralto
sense: voice types
word: tenor
sense: voice types
word: baritone
sense: voice types
word: bass
Related terms: contratenor
contratenor altus
contratenor bassus
electronic game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronic games
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A game played on an electronic device.
Synonyms: word: electronic game
Hypernyms: word: software
word: game
word: creative work
Hyponyms: word: arcade game
word: computer game
word: mobile game
word: video game
word: adventure game
word: platform game
word: platformer
word: shoot 'em up
word: first-person shooter
word: third-person shooter
word: kinetic novel
word: visual novel
word: eroge
kingfisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪŋˌfɪʃə/
Forms: form: kingfishers
form: king's fisher
Etymology: Originally king's fisher, from Middle English kyngys fyschare; equivalent to king + fisher. So named for obscure reasons.
Senses: glosses: Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.
glosses: Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.
common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Lacedo pulchella
word: banded kingfisher
taxonomic: Todiramphus saurophagus
word: beach kingfisher
taxonomic: Megaceryle alcyon
word: belted kingfisher
taxonomic: Alcedo euryzona
word: blue-banded kingfisher
taxonomic: Actenoides hombroni
word: blue-capped kingfisher
taxonomic: Alcedo meninting
word: blue-eared kingfisher
word: brown kingfisher
taxonomic: Alcedo atthis
word: common kingfisher
taxonomic: Ispidina lecontei
word: dwarf kingfisher
taxonomic: Alcedo atthis
word: Eurasian kingfisher
taxonomic: Alcedo atthis
word: European kingfisher
word: giant kingfisher
word: great brown kingfisher
word: jackass kingfisher
taxonomic: Felicia bergeriana
word: kingfisher daisy
word: kingfisherlike
word: kingy
word: Leach's kingfisher
word: moustached kingfisher
taxonomic: Tanysiptera spp.
word: paradise kingfisher
taxonomic: Ceryle rudis
word: pied kingfisher
word: ringed kingfisher
english: Alcedinidae, especially, Alcedo atthis
translation: Alcedinidae, especially, Alcedo atthis
word: river kingfisher
word: sacred kingfisher
english: Halcyoninae
translation: Halcyoninae
word: tree kingfisher
english: Cerylinae
translation: Cerylinae
word: water kingfisher
taxonomic: Halcyon smyrnensis
word: white-throated kingfisher
Related terms: halcyon
kookaburra
blacksmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blacksmith
blacksmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The pigs had set aside the harness-room as a headquarters for themselves. Here, in the evenings, they studied blacksmithing […]
ref: 1945, George Orwell, chapter III, in Animal Farm:
glosses: the business of a blacksmith
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSE
Senses: examples: text: The outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) have limited some traditional uses of cattle for food, for example the eating of brains or spinal cords.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.
Synonyms: mad cow disease
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Hypernyms: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
jersey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɜːzi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɝzi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛrze/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛrzɪ/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛrzi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒøːzi/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeːzi/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛːzi/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)zi
Forms: form: jerseys
Etymology: From a typical fisherman's sweater used on the island of Jersey.
Senses: synonyms: jumper
pullover
sweater
glosses: A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.
examples: text: A young boy was wearing a Manchester City Erling Haaland jersey.
synonyms: word: guernsey
word: shirt
glosses: A shirt worn by a member of an athletic team, usually oversized, typically depicting the athlete's name and team number as well as the team's logotype.
glosses: A type of fabric knit.
Derived terms: green jersey
jersey chaser
jerseyed
jersey wall
pink jersey
shirsey
yellow jersey
Alderney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːldə(ɹ)ni/
Etymology: Of obscure origin, see Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: The third-largest island of the Channel Islands.
Alderney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːldə(ɹ)ni/
Forms: form: Alderneys
Etymology: Of obscure origin, see Wikipedia.
Senses: glosses: A type of milk cow from Alderney.
Related terms: Auregnais
Sark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːk/
enpr: särk
ipa: /sɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Etymology: Unknown, but see Wikipedia. Richard Coates has suggested derivation from a Proto-Semitic cognate of Arabic شرق (“east, Orient”) , although this is considered unlikely.
The river-name is probably derived from Proto-Brythonic *serch, of uncertain meaning and etymology but associated with "circularity".
Senses: glosses: One of the Channel Islands; notable inter alia for its local government containing one of the last vestiges of feudalism in Europe.
examples: text: I have often been amused by travellers pointing out, first the Eden, just north of the station, and then the Esk, which young Lochinvar swam, as the Border; the real boundary is, of course, the little river Sark, just south of the Caledonian station at Gretna; […].
ref: 1953 August, Basil M. Bazley, “Carlisle in 1905”, in Railway Magazine, page 507:
glosses: A minor river in Dumfries and Galloway council area and Cumbria, forming part of the border between Scotland and England, which flows into the tidal Esk at Gretna; in full, the River Sark.
Related terms: Sercquiais
Herm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)m
Etymology: Perhaps from Old Norse armr (“arm”), because of its shape.
Senses: glosses: One of the Channel Islands and part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
glosses: A commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in south-western France.
Saint Helier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛliəɹ/
Forms: form: St Helier
form: St. Helier
Senses: glosses: A town, the capital of Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom.
Saint Peter Port
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Peter + port, referring to Saint Peter the Apostle.
Senses: glosses: A town, the capital of Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom.
wikipedia: Saint Peter
Saaremaa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The largest island of Estonia, and Saare County which contains it.
glosses: Historical Estonian eldership.
Hebrides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛbɹədiːz/
Etymology: From Latin Hebudes or Haebudes, with u likely turned to ri by scribal error. Earlier origin unknown. Compare Ancient Greek Ἕβουδαι (Héboudai), islands mentioned by Ptolemy and Pliny, likely the Hebrides.
Senses: glosses: The islands off the west coast of Scotland, divided into the Inner Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides.
glosses: A sea area that is centred on these islands.
Derived terms: Hebridean
Inner Hebrides
Outer Hebrides
Sea of the Hebrides
graphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæfaɪt/
Forms: form: graphites
Etymology: Borrowed from German Graphit (A. G. Werner 1789), from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).
Senses: examples: text: Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 4, in Well Tackled!:
glosses: An allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely, that is used as a dry lubricant, in "lead" pencils, and as a moderator in some nuclear reactors.
examples: text: Modern tennis racquets are made of graphite, fibreglass and other man-made materials.
glosses: Graphite-reinforced plastic, a composite plastic made with graphite fibers noted for lightweight strength and stiffness.
glosses: A grey colour, resembling graphite or the marks made with a graphite pencil.
Synonyms: sense: allotrope of carbon
word: plumbago
sense: allotrope of carbon
word: black lead
sense: composite plastic
word: carbon fiber reinforced plastic
sense: composite plastic
word: carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer
sense: composite plastic
word: graphite composite
sense: composite plastic
word: CFRP
sense: composite plastic
word: CRP
Derived terms: aerographite
electrographite
Graphalloy
graphene
graphite bomb
graphite fluoride
graphitelike
graphitic
graphitization
graphitize
graphitoid
nanographite
nongraphite
graphite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹæfaɪt/
Forms: form: graphites
form: graphiting
form: graphited
form: graphited
Etymology: Borrowed from German Graphit (A. G. Werner 1789), from Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).
Senses: glosses: To apply graphite to.
Related terms: diamond
Inner Hebrides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnə ˈhɛbɹɪdiːz/
Senses: glosses: The islands of the Hebrides along the west coast of Scotland, separated from the Outer Hebrides by the Little Minch.
Outer Hebrides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊtə ˈhɛbɹɪdiːz/
Forms: form: the Outer Hebrides
Senses: glosses: An archipelago of the Hebrides in Scotland, separated from the Inner Hebrides by the Little Minch.
Synonyms: Western Isles
Orkney Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: This matters because after the tragicomedies of Brexit and Grexit, the world has been enjoying the spectacle of “Orkxit”. This month it was suggested that the Orkney Islands might like to secede from Britain and become a self-governing territory of Norway.
ref: 2023 July 13, “Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2023:
glosses: An island group off north-east Scotland, Great Britain island.
glosses: A region of Scotland, British Isles comprising these islands.
glosses: A council area of Scotland, United Kingdom.
Synonyms: Orkney
the Orcades
the Orkneys
Derived terms: Orkxit
South Orkney Islands
Related terms: Orcadian
Shetland Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Shetland.
Senses: glosses: An archipelago and council area of Scotland, roughly north-east of the Orkney Islands; the northernmost part of Scotland and the United Kingdom.
wikipedia: + Council
Derived terms: sense: resident
word: Shetlander
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Shetlandic
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Shetlandish
word: Shitland Islands
Zetland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Spelling pronunciation of Middle Scots Ȝetland with the letter ⟨ȝ⟩ confused with ⟨z⟩.
Senses: examples: text: That long, narrow, and irregular island, usually called the Main-Land of Zetland, because it is by far the largest of that Archipelago, terminates, as is well known to the mariners who navigate the stormy seas which surround the Thule of the ancients, in a cliff of tremendous height, entitled Sumburgh-Head, which presents its bare scalp and naked sides to the weight of a tremendous surge, and forms the extreme point of the isle to the south-east.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Pirate. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Until 1974, the official name for the Shetland Islands.
glosses: An inner southern suburb of the City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, named after Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland.
Scilly Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪli ˈaɪləndz/
Forms: form: the Scilly Islands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Isles of Scilly.
Synonyms: Isles of Scilly
Scillies
Derived terms: Scillonian
Scilly Islander
rhombus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒmbəs/
ipa: /ˈɹɑːmbəs/
Forms: form: rhombi
form: rhombuses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “rhombus, spinning top”). Doublet of rhomb and rhumb.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A parallelogram having all sides of equal length.
The rhombus diamond, as one of the suits seen in a deck of playing cards ( or ).
examples: text: The Greeks also used an instrument called a rhombus, or witches' wheel. As the wheel spun round, it was thought that influence was gained over certain people or circumstances.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 58:
glosses: In early Greek religion, an instrument whirled on the end of a string similar to a bullroarer.
examples: text: the greedy Tuberon or Shark arm'd with a double row of venemous teeth pursues them, directed by a little Rhombus, Musculus or pilot-fish that scuds to and fro to bring intelligence [...].
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of several flatfishes, including the brill and turbot, once considered part of the genus Rhombus, now in Scophthalmus.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Snails, now in genus Conus or family Conidae.
Synonyms: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
english: not in technical use
translation: not in technical use
word: diamond
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
word: rhomb
Hyponyms: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
english: if not square
translation: if not square
word: lozenge
Derived terms: rhombus star
Related terms: rhombic
rhomboid
monitoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑnɪtɚɪŋ/
Etymology: From monitor + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of monitor
monitoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑnɪtɚɪŋ/
Forms: form: monitorings
Etymology: From monitor + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: NR is already 'on the case' here - its man in Inverness was trained some time ago (at his request, incidentally - good man!) in drone monitoring, which enables much longer aerial patrols than are possible on foot.
ref: 2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4:
glosses: The carrying out of surveillance on, or continuous or regular observation of, an environment or people in order to detect signals, movements or changes of state or quality.
Derived terms: biomonitoring
immunomonitoring
neuromonitoring
radio monitoring
seromonitoring
xenomonitoring