cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sīd
ipa: /saɪd/
ipa: /səɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: sighed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: sides
form: siding
form: sided
form: sided
Etymology: From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish and Norwegian side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).
The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. The sense was coined by analogy with top and bottom and based on the metaphor of a box which has a top, bottom, and sides.
Senses: examples: text: Which will you side with, good or evil?
text: All rising to great place is by a winding star; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self, whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
ref: 1597, Francis Bacon, “Of Great Place”, in Essays:
text: All side in parties, and begin the attack.
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto V:
text: How does it feel... to... side in with those who voted against you in 1947?
ref: 1958, Archer Fullingim, The Kountze [Texas] News, August 28, 1958:
glosses: To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
glosses: To lean on one side.
examples: text: His blind eye that syded Paridell.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:
glosses: To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
examples: 1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon
He had ure read more , and carried more about him , in his excellent Memory , than any Man I ever knew , my Lord Falkland only excepted , who I think ided him
glosses: To suit; to pair; to match.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
examples: text: to side a house
glosses: To furnish with a siding.
examples: text: Entrees are sided with a generous portion of vegetables, and some include little surprises […]
ref: 1995, Orange Coast Magazine, volume 11, number 8, page 166:
text: A chocolate cakelette, caramel percolating from its warm top, is sided with peanut butter chantilly cream.
ref: 2009 March 14, Corey Mintz, “Stop and cheer chefs' dedication to quality”, in Toronto Star:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
Synonyms: take side
Derived terms: side against
side with
siding
Related terms: ally
alliance
join in
side
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sīd
ipa: /saɪd/
ipa: /səɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: sighed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: more side
form: most side
Etymology: From Middle English side, syde, syd, from Old English sīd (“wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīd, from Proto-Germanic *sīdaz (“drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch zijd (“wide, vast”), Low German sied (“low”), Swedish sid (“long, hanging down”), Icelandic síður (“low hanging, long”).
Senses: examples: text: But when he perceaved that the sayd Pryest could not pourge himself of the foresayd crime he prively payed him his quarters wages before hande and suffered hym to departe without farther tryall of the sayd cryme: and now he jetteth in london wyth side gown and sarcenet typet as good a virgin priest as the best.
ref: c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, “That the general counsels withoute the worde of god are not sufficiente to make articles of fayth”, in A Confutation of Unwritten Verities:
text: Hiz gooun had syde sleeuez dooun to midlegge, slit from the shooulder too the hand, & lined with white cotten.
ref: 1575, Robert Laneham, “The auncient Minstrell described”, in F. J. Furnivall, editor, Robert Laneham’s Letter: Describing a Part of the Entertainment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenelworth in 1575, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1907, page 38:
text: What doe we make dost thou aske? why we make faces for feare: such as if thy mortall eyes could behold, would make thee water the long seames of thy side slops […]
ref: c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC, [lines 47-50]:
text: By my troth, ’s but a night-gown in respect of yours: cloth o’ gold, and cuts, and laced with silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel […]
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
glosses: Far; distant.
Derived terms: sidth
side
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: sīd
ipa: /saɪd/
ipa: /səɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: sighed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: more side
form: most side
Etymology: From Middle English side, syde, syd, from Old English sīd (“wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīd, from Proto-Germanic *sīdaz (“drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch zijd (“wide, vast”), Low German sied (“low”), Swedish sid (“long, hanging down”), Icelandic síður (“low hanging, long”).
Senses: glosses: Widely; wide; far.
side
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sīd
ipa: /saɪd/
ipa: /səɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: sighed (except Scotland)
Forms: form: sides
form: siding
form: sided
form: sided
Etymology: From Middle English side, syde, syd, from Old English sīd (“wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīd, from Proto-Germanic *sīdaz (“drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch zijd (“wide, vast”), Low German sied (“low”), Swedish sid (“long, hanging down”), Icelandic síður (“low hanging, long”).
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;
ref: 1883, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle - Volume 1, page 292:
text: Now side everything away. The medicines too —put them in the cupboard.
ref: 1897, Sir Hall Caine, The Manxman - Volume 2, page 304:
text: As it had done then, Clare's heart, in a constant state of stress these days, missed a beat now, and she turned hastily to the table where she was siding the dinner things, doing her best to hide her expression which surely would give her away.
ref: 2001, Audrey Howard, The Seasons Will Pass:
glosses: To clear, tidy or sort.
Chichewa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈt͡ʃɛwə/
Forms: form: Chicheŵa
Etymology: From Chichewa Chicheŵa, from chi- (“language”) + Cheŵa.
Senses: glosses: The Bantu language of the Chewa tribe belonging to the Bantu linguistic family and one of Malawi’s national tongues promoted as the country’s lingua franca.
Synonyms: Nyanja
Chewa
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Chichewa terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/nya
word: ny
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/nya
word: nya
word: nya ⁠
sloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: slo͞op
ipa: /sluːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: sloops
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.
Senses: examples: text: 1789, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,
I stayed in this island for a few days; I believe it could not be above a fortnight; when I and some few more slaves, that were not saleable amongst the rest, from very much fretting, were shipped off in a sloop for North America.
text: And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones—so goes the story—to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
Derived terms: Friendship sloop
lobster sloop
masthead sloop
Muscongus Bay sloop
sloop-of-war
mast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mäst
ipa: /mɑːst/
ipa: /mæst/
homophone: massed (/mæst/)
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: masts
Etymology: From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”).
Cognate with Dutch mast, German Mast, and via Indo-European with Latin mālus, Russian мост (most, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
communication
communications
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter).
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A non-judicial punishment ("NJP"); a disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.
Hyponyms: cage mast
foremast
lattice mast
mainmast
military mast
mizzenmast
pagoda mast
pole mast
topmast
tripod mast
Derived terms: admiral's mast
before the mast
captain's mast
flag mast
foremast
half-mast
jiggermast
jury mast
lash oneself to the mast
mack
mainmast
mast bumping
mast-cell
mast climbing
mast coat
mast foot
masthead
masthouse
mastless
mastlike
mastman
mastrope
mastspore
mast step
mastwood
meritorious mast
mizenmast
mizzen-mast
nail one's colors to the mast
nail one's colours to the mast
neuromast
overmast
remast
royal mast
spankermast
supermast
tie oneself to the mast
unmast
mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mäst
ipa: /mɑːst/
ipa: /mæst/
homophone: massed (/mæst/)
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: masts
form: masting
form: masted
form: masted
Etymology: From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”).
Cognate with Dutch mast, German Mast, and via Indo-European with Latin mālus, Russian мост (most, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.
Senses: glosses: To supply and fit a mast to (a ship).
Derived terms: demast
dismast
Related terms: sense: other terms
word: boom
sense: other terms
word: column
sense: other terms
word: crow's nest
sense: other terms
word: flagpole
sense: other terms
word: pole
sense: other terms
word: pylon
sense: other terms
word: spar
sense: other terms
word: top
sense: other terms
word: maintop
sense: other terms
word: foretop
sense: other terms
word: mizzentop
sense: other terms
word: tower
mast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mäst
ipa: /mɑːst/
ipa: /mæst/
homophone: massed (/mæst/)
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: masts
Etymology: From Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”) and mæstan (“to fatten”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.
Senses: examples: text: She ſhut them ſtraight in ſties; and gaue them meate / Oke-maſt, and beech, and Cornell fruite, they eate, […]
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Tenth Booke of Homers Odysses”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC, page 151:
text: The Winter comes, and then the falling Maſt, / For greedy Swine, provides a full repaſt.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 93, lines 755–756:
text: [T]hey feed and grovel like Swine under an Oak, filling themſelves with the Maſt, but never ſo much as looking up, either to the Bows that bore, or the Hands that ſhook it down.
ref: 1715, Robert South, “A Sermon on Proverbs i. 32.”, in Twelve Sermons Preached at Several Times, and upon Several Occasions, volume IV, London: […] G. James, for Jonah Bowyer […], →OCLC, pages 73–74:
text: He […] would begin to pick up the seed-cases or mast, squeeze each one with his fingers to see if it were fertile, and drop it if it were not.
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 162:
glosses: The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.
Derived terms: beechmast
beech mast
buckmast
mastage
mastless
mast seeding
masty
mast year
mast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mäst
ipa: /mɑːst/
ipa: /mæst/
homophone: massed (/mæst/)
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: masts
form: masting
form: masted
form: masted
Etymology: From Old English mæst (“fallen nuts, food for swine”) and mæstan (“to fatten”), from West Germanic; probably related to meat.
Senses: glosses: To feed on forest seed or fruit.
raw_tags: of swine and other animals
examples: text: Any individual tree which masted in a generally non-mast year would be subjected to the exclusive attention of the seed predators and so would be selected against.
ref: 1985, Michael Fenner, Seed ecology, page 33:
text: However, if this were true, all or most masting species (e.g., Fagus and Quercus) in a forest would have to mast in synchrony to be effective against generalist herbivores.
ref: 2004, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Christian Körner, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems, page 28:
text: Because dipterocarp seeds are winged and spin gracefully as they fall, the dispersal of millions of dipterocarp seeds during a masting event is one of the greatest spectacles that you can see on planet Earth.
ref: 2008, Chris Rowthorn, Muhammad Cohen, China Williams, Borneo, page 50:
topics: agriculture
biology
business
ecology
forestry
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: To produce a very large quantity of fruit or seed in certain years but not others.
raw_tags: of a population of plants
mast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mäst
ipa: /mɑːst/
ipa: /mæst/
homophone: massed (/mæst/)
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -æst
Etymology: Clipping of Masteron.
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The anabolic steroid drostanolone propionate, also known as Masteron
mast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mäst
ipa: /mɑːst/
ipa: /mæst/
homophone: massed (/mæst/)
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: masts
Etymology: From French masse, with -t probably after Etymology 1, above.
Senses: examples: text: Godfrey thus conquered, pretended to lose his temper, curs'd his own ill luck, swore that the table had a cast, and that the balls did not run true, changed his mast, and with great warmth challenged his enemy to double his sum.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball.
Related terms: mast cell
luff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌf/
ipa: /lɐf/
ipa: /lʊf/
Forms: form: luffs
Etymology: From Old French lof. Collins English Dictionary states that this word is ultimately derived from Middle Dutch loef. Ellert Ekwall's Shakspere's Vocabulary: its etymological elements (1903) related this verb and loof instead to the East Frisian verb lofen, lufen, which would make it cognate to the French term lover.
Senses: examples: text: By easing the halyard, the luff of the sail was made to sag to leeward.
text: "The man at the helm was watching the luff of the sail and whistling away gently to himself."
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The roundest part of a ship's bow.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
Derived terms: choke the luff
spring the luff
luff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌf/
ipa: /lɐf/
ipa: /lʊf/
Forms: form: luffs
form: luffing
form: luffed
form: luffed
Etymology: From Old French lof. Collins English Dictionary states that this word is ultimately derived from Middle Dutch loef. Ellert Ekwall's Shakspere's Vocabulary: its etymological elements (1903) related this verb and loof instead to the East Frisian verb lofen, lufen, which would make it cognate to the French term lover.
Senses: examples: text: I thought how my life is like a little boat and I must hold the tiller steady against the buffeting of wind and waves, and how sometimes, like this morning, I lose my hold somehow and the sail luffs helplessly and the little vessel wallows, turning this way and that in the swell.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
raw_tags: of a sail
examples: text: "Helm there! Luff, luff a point! So; steady, man, steady!"
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To bring the ship's head up closer to the wind. (Alternatively luff up)
raw_tags: of sailing vessels
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.
examples: text: The tower is mounted on a slewing platform, which also carries the power plant and the counterweights, while the jib is supported and luffed by fixed pendant ropes.
ref: 1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and Derricks, →ISBN, page 95:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
Derived terms: luff alee
luffing crane
luff round
luff tackle
luff up
luff upon luff
accustomable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From accustom + -able.
Senses: examples: 1538, Hugh Latimer, letter to Cromwell http://books.google.com/books?id=y5nVKvA2KoAC&pg=PA387&dq=accustomable+inauthor:Latimer&hl=en&ei=YvluTfjzN8iatwfw0pnFCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=accustomable%20inauthor%3ALatimer&f=false
and the rest I commit to your accustomable goodness
glosses: Habitual; customary; wonted.
Related terms: accustomably
accustomably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /əˈkʌstəməbli/
Forms: form: more accustomably
form: most accustomably
Etymology: From accustomable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The third principal matter wherewith in his prayers he was occupied was, to pray for the preservation of the queen's Majesty that now is; whom in his prayer accustomably he was wont to name
ref: 1552, Hugh Latimer, Certain Sermons Made by the Right Reverend Father in God Master Doctor Latimer, before the Right Virtuous and Honourable Lady, Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, in the Year of Our Lord 1552.:
glosses: According to custom; ordinarily; customarily.
accustomance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accustomances
form: accustomaunce
Etymology: From Middle English acustumaunce, from Old French accoustumance (Modern French accoutumance). By surface analysis, accustom + -ance.
Senses: glosses: Custom; habitual use.
accustomary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more accustomary
form: most accustomary
Etymology: From accustom + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Chriſt in the fifth of Matthew forbiddeth not all kind of ſwearing, but the ordinary and accuſtomary ſwearing then in uſe among the Jewes, and allowed by the Scribes and Phariſees, who erroneouſly conceived, that ſwearing by heaven and earth, or Ieruſalem, or any creature, was no taking Gods name in vain, becauſe in ſuch oaths Gods name was not uſed.
ref: 1647, Daniel Featley, The dippers dipt. Or, The Anabaptiſts Duck’d and Plung’d over Head and Ears, at a Diſputation in Southwark […], 5th edition, London: […] N.B. and Richard Royſton […], page 134:
text: Of every accomplishment accustomary to my sex, I was Mistress.
ref: 1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
glosses: Usual; customary.
Derived terms: accustomarily
accustomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌs.təmd/
Etymology: From accustom + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of accustom
accustomedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌs.təmd.nɪs/
Etymology: From accustomed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: if we caught the mystery of life and knew the origin of things , should we not have the same feeling of satiety from the accustomedness of knowledge as we have now from the accustomedness of emotion ?
ref: 1910, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, The Second Youth of Theodora Desanges:
text: Those who do not depend upon reason must grow into feeling by accustomedness
ref: 1912, R. G. Badger et al., Psychotherapeutics:
glosses: Habituation; the quality of being used to something.
accustomarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: əkŭstəmârəlē
Forms: form: more accustomarily
form: most accustomarily
Etymology: From accustomary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: customarily
multicultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌltiˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹəl/
Forms: form: more multicultural
form: most multicultural
Etymology: From multiculture + -al or multi- + cultural.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: polycultural (several or many)
text: Viewed from the boardrooms of Britain, the market is becoming more multicultural than could have been imagined just five years ago.
ref: 2001 October 31, “Embracing multicultural Britain”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2022:
text: The literary landscape of London is as varied as the city itself. According to the 2011 census, 40 percent of residents identified as “Asian, Black, Mixed or Other.” While this is no multi-culti utopia, it is undeniably an intensely multicultural metropolis where more than 300 languages are spoken.
ref: 2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 May 2023:
coordinate_terms: monocultural
bicultural
tricultural
glosses: Relating or pertaining to several different cultures.
examples: text: Bedgood, whose father is African American and mother is Caucasian, says he's struggling to deal with such hatred. He grew up in Santa Clarita and says he could not have imagined something like this happening in a quiet community with many multicultural families.
ref: 2011 March 22, “Santa Clarita man apparent target of hate crime”, in ABC13, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2021:
glosses: Relating or pertaining to groups, households or families involving persons with different or mixed ethnicities or races.
Derived terms: antimulticultural
multicult
multiculti
multicultist
multiculturalise
multiculturalism
multiculturalist
multiculturalistic
multiculturality
multiculturalization
multiculturalize
Multicultural London English
multiculturally
multicultural Marxism
Related terms: acultural
aculture
alethocultural
alethoculture
anticultural
anticulture
bicultural
biculture
countercultural
counterculture
demicultural
demiculture
ethnocultural
ethnoculture
intercultural
interculture
intracultural
intraculture
metacultural
metaculture
monocultural
monoculture
multiculture
noncultural
nonculture
pluricultural
pluriculture
polycultural
polyculture
pseudocultural
pseudoculture
quadricultural
quadriculture
quasicultural
quasiculture
religiocultural
religioculture
semicultural
semiculture
sociocultural
socioculture
subcultural
subculture
supercultural
superculture
supracultural
supraculture
technocultural
technoculture
transcultural
transculture
tricultural
triculture
uncultural
unculture
unicultural
uniculture
porthole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)t.həʊl/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)thəʊl
Forms: form: portholes
Etymology: From port + hole.
Senses: glosses: A gunport; an opening in the hull of a ship through which cannon are fired.
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: word: bullseye
word: scuttle
glosses: A circular window set in the hull of a ship.
Derived terms: portholed
portholelike
portholing
gunport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunports
Etymology: From gun + port.
Senses: glosses: A hatch in the hull of a ship through which a cannon is fired.
BBL
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /biː biː ˈɛl/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of be back later; also bbl.
BBL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biː biː ˈɛl/
Forms: form: BBLs
Senses: examples: text: The estimated death rate from fat embolism may be as high as one in 3,000 for BBLs. A 2015 study of deaths from BBL surgery concluded that they probably occur as a result of gluteal blood vessels becoming damaged during the procedure, allowing fat to enter the bloodstream.
ref: 2018 August 29, “Why butt lifts can be so dangerous”, in CNN:
text: At an average cost of £3,000 abroad and £8,000 in the UK, the BBL uses liposuction to extract fat from a patient’s thighs to then inject it into their buttocks, but less invasive treatments proliferate.
ref: 2018 November 18, Eva Wiseman, The Observer:
text: Catera Northup, 20, an exotic dancer from Providence, R.I., and Treneishyia Phillips, 27, from Waynesboro, Georgia, recovered from B.B.L.s at at^([sic]) Enchantress. […] Dream Body Recovery is just one of countless recovery houses that have cropped up in Miami, which has become the heartbeat of the B.B.L. boom in the United States. The average price of a B.B.L. nationwide is around $5,000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
ref: 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 19 May 2022:
text: Traditional BBLs are risky because of the dangers should injected fat end up in blood vessels.
ref: 2024 September 30, Nicola Davis, “What are Brazilian butt lifts, and should they be banned?”, in The Guardian:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Initialism of Brazilian butt lift.
BBL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /biː biː ˈɛl/
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of British Basketball League.
topics: banking
business
glosses: Initialism of Bank Brussels Lambert, now part of the ING Group
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Big Bash League.
switch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: swĭch
ipa: /swɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: Pertaining to riding with the front and back feet swapped round compared to one's normal position.
qualifier: freestyle skiing
glosses: Pertaining to skiing backwards.
Coordinate terms: goofy
regular
Related terms: switch off
switch on
jib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: jibs
form: jibe
Etymology: Attested since the 1660s, of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to jib (“shift or swing around”) (see below).
Senses: examples: text: Release the line by pulling down and unfurl the jib by pulling on the two jibsheets.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “RS Quest Rigging Instructions”, in California State University, Sacramento, page 2:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
raw_tags: with a modifier
Derived terms: cut of one’s jib
flying jib
genoa jib
inner jib
jib boom
jibhead
jib-headed
jib header
jib topsail
outer jib
storm jib
jib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: jibs
form: jibbing
form: jibbed
form: jibbed
Etymology: Attested since the 1680s (also spelled jibe and gybe), perhaps from Dutch gijben (a variant of gijpen (“to turn sails suddenly”), whence certainly the form jibe) or else from Danish gibbe (“jib, jibe”), related to Swedish gippa (“jib, jibe, jerk, make jump”). Compare also Middle High German gempeln (“to spring”), Swedish guppa (“to move up and down”), Swedish gumpa (“to jump, spring”). See jump.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To shift, or swing around, as a sail, boom, yard, etc., as in tacking.
Related terms: asymmetrical spinnaker
blooper
deck sweeper
drifter
genoa
jib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: jibs
Etymology: Attested since the 1660s, of uncertain origin, perhaps a shortening of gibbet.
Senses: synonyms: gibbet
glosses: The projecting arm of a crane.
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
glosses: An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
examples: text: Whipping around I saw Herman with a stunned expression on his jib.
ref: 2017, Al Kent, Custodians of the Hummingbird, page 491:
glosses: A person's face.
jib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: jibs
form: jibbing
form: jibbed
form: jibbed
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps related to jib (“shift or swing around”) (see above).
Senses: examples: text: “Who calls, who calls?” cried Essper; a shout was the only answer. There was no path, but the underwood was low, and Vivian took his horse, an old forester, across it with ease. Essper’s jibbed.
ref: 1826, Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey, London: Henry Colburn, published 1827, Volume 4, Book 6, page 73:
text: Then he got fever, and had to be carried in a hammock slung under a pole. As he weighed sixteen stone I had no end of rows with the carriers. They jibbed, ran away, sneaked off with their loads in the night—quite a mutiny.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
text: The lama jibbed at the open door of a crowded third-class carriage. ‘Were it not better to walk?’ said he weakly.
ref: 1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 2, in Kim:
text: "Where are we going?" she asked, jibbing capriciously in the descent.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 119:
text: “Juno has a kindly gait. She neither jibs nor shies, though she will take a fence no more. […]”
ref: 1989, Jack Vance, chapter 8, in Madouc:
synonyms: balk
glosses: To stop and refuse to go forward (usually of a horse).
examples: text: “What say you to the young lady herself?” said Craigengelt; “the finest young woman in all Scotland, one that you used to be so fond of when she was cross, and now she consents to have you, and gives up her engagement with Ravenswood, you are for jibbing. I must say, the devil’s in ye, when ye neither know what you would have nor what you would want.”
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, chapter 28, in The Bride of Lammermoor:
text: Some of us began to jib when the family began to collect portraits of their new son to decorate their walls [...].
ref: 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, pages 401–2:
text: The Parlement scarcely jibbed.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 318:
glosses: To stop doing something, to become reluctant to proceed with an activity.
Derived terms: jibber
jib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: jibs
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps related to jib (“shift or swing around”) (see above).
Senses: glosses: One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
glosses: A stationary condition; a standstill.
jib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Senses: glosses: Crystal meth.
jib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: jibs
form: gib
Etymology: From Middle English gibbe (“a swelling or protrusion in the body”), from Old French gibbe and/or Medieval Latin gibba (“hump”).
Senses: examples: text: They needa’ watch they jibs.
qualifier: especially African-American Vernacular
glosses: The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
jib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: jibs
Senses: examples: text: Forgetting that the jibs, whom they insulted, were afterwards to grow into the influential men […]
ref: 1840, The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, page 133:
text: [I]n a healthy environment, young Mahoney might have taken the risk, both with University and, in part, with entering the Aula for the jibs dance.
ref: 2014, Peter Guy, As Mirrors Are Lonely, page 115:
glosses: A first-year student at the University of Dublin.
Related terms: jib out
address book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: address books
Senses: glosses: A small book for keeping other people's addresses and phone numbers.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computerized storage area for contact information such as e-mail addresses.
Related terms: little black book
simultaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪm.əlˈteɪ̯.ni.əs/
ipa: /ˌsɪm.əlˈteɪ̯.njəs/
ipa: /ˌsaɪ̯.məlˈteɪ̯.ni.əs/
ipa: /ˌsaɪ̯.məlˈteɪ̯.njəs/
rhymes: -eɪniəs
rhymes: -eɪnɪəs
Etymology: From Medieval Latin simultaneus, from simultim (“at the same time, extended”), from Latin simul (“together, at the same time”); compare similar.
Senses: examples: text: As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4:
glosses: Happening at the same moment.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To be solved for the same values of variables.
raw_tags: of a set of equations
Synonyms: word: coincident
word: coincidental
word: concomitant
word: concurrent
word: homochronous
word: isochronous
word: simultaneous
word: synchronal
word: synchronical
word: synchronous
Derived terms: simulcast
simultaneity
simultaneous death
simultaneous equations
simultaneous interpretation
simultaneous interpreting
simultaneously
Related terms: word: simultaneously
word: simultaneousness
word: correspondent
simultaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/
ipa: /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/
Etymology: From simultaneous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The cradle-rocking and the song would cease simultaneously for a moment, and an exclamation at highest vocal pitch would take the place of the melody.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 29:
text: Numa was about to charge—there was little time in which to compare various methods or weigh the probable results of any. And then a number of things happened, almost simultaneously—the lion sprang from his ambush toward the retreating black—Tarzan cried out in warning—and the black turned just in time to see Numa halted in mid-flight by a slender strand of grass rope, the noosed end of which had fallen cleanly about his neck.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 123:
text: The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
glosses: Occurring at the same time.
Synonyms: word: at a time
word: at one time
word: at the same time
word: concomitantly
word: concurrently
word: contemporaneously
word: cotemporally
word: during
word: in parallel
word: simultaneously
word: together
word: then
word: therewhile
word: while
Related terms: word: simultaneity
word: concurrently
word: simultaneous
word: simultaneousness
simultaneity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪməltəˈniːɪti/
ipa: /ˌsaɪməltəˈniɪti/
rhymes: -iːɪti
Forms: form: simultaneities
Etymology: From simultane(ous) + -ity. Compare French simultanéité.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: More than one complete musical texture occurring at the same time. This first appeared in the music of Charles Ives, and is common in the music of Conlon Nancarrow, and others.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: concurrentness
raw_tags: of being simultaneous
word: synchroneity
word: simultaneousness
Related terms: simultaneous adj
simultaneously adv
pitch simultaneity noun
simultaneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From simultaneous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneity.
Synonyms: word: concurrentness
word: synchroneity
word: coincidence
word: simultaneousness
word: simultaneity
word: synchronicity
word: synchronism
word: synchronization
word: synchronousness
Related terms: word: simultaneous
word: simultaneously
jip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Senses: glosses: Ejaculated semen.
jip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: jips
form: jipping
form: jipped
form: jipped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gyp.
jibe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: jibes
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from Old French giber (“to engage in horseplay; to play roughly in sport”). Compare English jib (“usually of a horse: to stop and refuse to go forward”), Old Norse geipa (“to talk nonsense”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.
text: Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Come, come, we / All are Friends, nor have we Time for Jibe, / Or Anger now, but 'gainſt our common Foes, / The French and Scot; there let your Pray'rs, and Jeſts, / And Blows, be levell’d.
ref: 1746, [Charles Macklin], King Henry the VII: Or the Popish Impostor. A Tragedy. […], London: Printed for R. Francklin, […]; R[obert] Dodsley, […]; and J. Brotherton, […], →OCLC, act II, scene i, page 24:
text: She ran and ran / As if she feared some goblin man / Dogged her with gibe or curse / Or something worse: […]
ref: 1862, Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market”, in Goblin Market and Other Poems, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; London: Macmillan & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:
text: He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls.
ref: 1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of Alexander Crummell”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC, page 226:
text: He had written two novels: one of them violently anti-Catholic, just before his conversion, and five years later another, in which he had attempted to turn all his clever jibes against Catholics into even cleverer innuendoes against Episcopalians.
ref: 1920 April, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “Amory, Son of Beatrice”, in This Side of Paradise, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book I (The Romantic Egotist), page 26:
text: [George] Carlin's opening-night monologue included some blunt gibes at organized religion which would almost certainly have been cut out of any other network show.
ref: 1975 October 27, Jeff Greenfield, “Ragged but Funny”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, New York, N.Y.: New York Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65, column 3:
glosses: A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.
Synonyms: sideswipe
jibe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: jibes
form: jibing
form: jibed
form: jibed
form: gibe
form: gybe
Etymology: Origin unknown; perhaps related to chime (“to cause to sound in harmony”).
Senses: examples: text: That explanation doesn’t jibe with the facts.
text: [T]here is something wrong with your figures. They do not jibe with experience. They do not jibe with prices. They do not jibe with what we know.
ref: 1926 May 13, Henry H. Glassie (witness), “Statement of Henry H. Glassie, Member of United States Tariff Commission”, in Investigation of the Tariff Commission: Hearings before the Select Committee on Investigation of the Tariff Commission, United States Senate, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session […] Part 1 […], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 529:
text: This did not jibe with the objectivist view that metaphor is of only peripheral interest in an account of meaning and truth and that it plays at best a marginal role in understanding.
ref: 1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 27, in Metaphors We Live By:
glosses: To accord or agree.
Related terms: vibe
jibe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: jibes
Etymology: See gybe.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative spelling of gybe.
jibe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: jibes
form: jibing
form: jibed
form: jibed
Etymology: See gybe.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative spelling of gybe.
requiem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛ.kwi.əm/
ipa: /ˈɹɛ.kwi.ɛm/
Forms: form: requiems
Etymology: From Middle English requiem, from Latin requiem, the first word of the introit for the traditional requiem mass, an alternative accusative case of Latin requiēs (“rest, repose”), from re- (“again”) + quiēs (“rest, quiet”).
Senses: glosses: A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
glosses: A musical composition for such a mass.
glosses: A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
glosses: Rest; peace.
Coordinate terms: word: dirge
word: elegy
english: funeral songs
translation: funeral songs
word: threnody
Derived terms: requiem mass
Related terms: requiescat
related terms of quiet
requiem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛ.kwi.əm/
ipa: /ˈɹɛ.kwi.ɛm/
Forms: form: requiems
Etymology: From French requin, altered by association with Etymology 1, above.
Senses: examples: text: Any man-eater is called a requiem.
ref: 1973, Patrick Buchanan, A Requiem of Sharks:
glosses: A large or dangerous shark, specifically, (zoology) a member of the family Carcharhinidae.
Derived terms: requiem shark
grapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪps/
rhymes: -eɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of grape
grapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹeɪps/
rhymes: -eɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grape
aceldama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aceldamas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aceldama.
acentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: more acentric
form: most acentric
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”, privative prefix) + κέντρο (kéntro, “a point, a center”). By surface analysis, a- + centric.
Senses: glosses: Not centered; without a centre
Derived terms: acentric factor
acentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: acentrics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”, privative prefix) + κέντρο (kéntro, “a point, a center”). By surface analysis, a- + centric.
Senses: glosses: A segment of a chromosome that lacks a centromere
acephal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acephals
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos, “headless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”). Compare French acéphale, Late Latin acephalus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Acephala.
Derived terms: acephalist
acephalan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈsɛ.fə.lən/
Forms: form: acephalans
Etymology: Acephala + -n
Senses: glosses: Acephal.
acephalan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈsɛ.fə.lən/
Etymology: Acephala + -n
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Acephala.
acephali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈsɛf.ə.laɪ/
ipa: /əˈsɛf.ə.laɪ/
ipa: /eɪˈsɛf.ə.li/
ipa: /əˈsɛf.ə.li/
Etymology: From Late Latin, plural of Latin acephalus. See acephal.
Senses: glosses: plural of acephalus
glosses: A people reported by Herodotus and Josephus to have no heads or removable heads.
topics: ecclesiastical
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
religion
sciences
glosses: The Eutychians, a Christian sect in the year 482 without a leader. See http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01100c.htm.
topics: ecclesiastical
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
religion
sciences
glosses: Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
glosses: A class of levelers in the time of King Henry I.