cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
status
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪ.təs/
ipa: /ˈstæt.əs/
ipa: [ˈstæɾ.əs]
note: Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, many accents
ipa: /ˈstɛː.təs/
note: Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, many accents
ipa: /ˈsteː.təs/
rhymes: -eɪtəs
rhymes: -ætəs
Forms: form: statuses
form: status
Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate.
Senses: examples: text: Superstition is highly correlated with economic status.
glosses: A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
examples: text: The king has status in his kingdom, and the pauper has status within his immediate group of peers.
ref: 1957, Gladys Sellew, Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service, Saunders, page 81:
text: It is no secret that the military was a bastion of racism and sexism keeping blacks and women in the housekeeping and other non-status jobs.
ref: 1979 April 28, Mary A. Lowry, “Those Wonderful Women in Their Flying Machines (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
glosses: Prestige or high standing.
examples: text: What's the status of the investigation?
text: New York is known for its status as a financial center.
text: If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets, […]. Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast's status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
ref: 2014 March 15, “Turn It Off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:
glosses: A situation or state of affairs.
topics: law
glosses: The legal condition of a person or thing.
examples: text: He is a status Indian.
topics: law
glosses: The legal condition of a person or thing.
The state (of a Canadian First Nations person) of being registered under the Indian Act.
raw_tags: used to modify another noun
examples: text: I'm just about to update my status to "busy".
text: I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight
ref: 2012, “Facebook Drama”, performed by Northern Cree:
qualifier: social media
glosses: A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Short for status epilepticus or status asthmaticus.
Derived terms: achieved status
ascribed status
civil status
flight status
high-status
in status nascendi
low-status
marital status
master status
non-status Indian
relationship status
senior status
social status
status absolutus
status ailment
status bar
status conference
status constructus
status dramaticus
status effect
status group
status Indian
status in quo
status line
status mixtus
status offender
status offense
status quo
status quo ante
status quoism
status quoist
status rectus
status report
status strip
status symbol
status zer0
status zero
domestic servant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domestic servants
Senses: glosses: A servant employed in a grand or middle class household.
Related terms: butler
cook
valet
chamber maid
kitchen maid
scullery maid
maid of all work
MSG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSGs
Senses: examples: text: “We use it in drinks. We use it in desserts. We use it in savory food. It’s in almost everything. Salt, sugar and MSG – I always joke that they’re the Chinese Trinity of seasonings.”
ref: 2024 January 2, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “MSG is the most misunderstood ingredient of the century. That’s finally changing”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of monosodium glutamate.
glosses: Any chemically free glutamate.
Derived terms: MSG symptom complex
MSG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Madison Square Garden.
air raid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air raids
Senses: examples: text: Air raids on London, which first began on an intensive scale on September 7, occasioned a certain amount of disorganisation to transport services of all kinds.
ref: 1940 December, “Railways and the War—III”, in Railway Magazine, pages 629–630:
text: The L.N.E.R. locomotive damaged beyond repair in the air raid on York, on April 29, 1942, was No. 4469, Sir Ralph Wedgewood, a class "A 4" Pacific.
ref: 1946 November and December, “The Why and The Wherefore: Destruction of Locomotive No. 4469, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 391:
text: 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.
glosses: An attack on a surface target by aircraft.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A passing-heavy offensive scheme based on a shotgun formation with four wide receivers and a single running back.
Derived terms: air raiding
air-raid shelter
air raid siren
air-raid tea
Related terms: air strike
external
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɜː.nəl/
ipa: /ɛkˈstɝ.nəl/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɝ.nəl/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/
ipa: /ekˈstɜː.nəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəl
Forms: form: externals
form: externall
Etymology: From Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin externus (“outward, external”), from exter/exterus (“on the outside, outward”).
Senses: examples: text: To a non-Christian who has never experienced but only observed the externals of Christianity, it appears to be merely another spiritual system, but to a person who has left one of the other religions and embraced the Christian faith, it is most definitely The Way, and all else pales to insignificance.
ref: 1979 December 22, S. J. Harris, “Life And Spirit”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 5:
glosses: The exterior; outward features or appearances.
Inessential or superficial features.
examples: text: They had been such declared, such personal enemies, that, even in a court, it seemed wonderful how a decent external could be given to their reconciliation.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 298:
glosses: The exterior; outward features or appearances.
Outward appearance.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A variable that is defined in the source code but whose value comes from some external source.
raw_tags: in the C language
families
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family
fire watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire watches
form: firewatch
Senses: synonyms: fire-watching
glosses: The act of watching for the occurrence of fires, for example during wartime bombing raids or in forested areas in hot and dry conditions.
synonyms: firewatcher
glosses: A person designated to keep a lookout for fire.
Related terms: fire lookout tower
Pacific Ocean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Pacific Ocean
Etymology: cf. Pacific. Portuguese explorer Magellan called the ocean pacífico (“peaceful”) (in c. 1519) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters.
Senses: glosses: An ocean, the world's largest body of water, to the east of Asia and Australasia and to the west of the Americas.
Synonyms: the Pacific
pacific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɪfɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more pacific
form: most pacific
form: pacifick
Etymology: From Middle French pacifique.
Senses: examples: text: The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. […] Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate and artful movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye adown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart form and slight swagger, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace.
ref: 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “After Twenty Years”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 214:
synonyms: word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Calm, peaceful.
examples: text: The long-continued hostilities which had for centuries divided the south and the north divisions of the Island of Britain, had been happily terminated by the succession of the pacific James I, to the English crown.
ref: 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 3:
synonyms: word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: dovish
word: nonviolent
word: anti-bellicist
word: dovelike
word: dovish
word: irenic
word: irenical
word: non-violent
word: pacific
word: pacifist
word: pacifistic
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: unaggressive
antonyms: bellicose
hawkish
martial
militant
violent
glosses: Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence.
Derived terms: nonpacific
pacifically
pacificism
pacificist
pacificity
Pacific Ocean
unpacific
Related terms: pacify
pacifism
pacifist
Manila hemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Manilla hemp
Etymology: Manila + hemp
Senses: glosses: The fibre of the abaca.
Synonyms: sense: fiber of the abaca
word: abaca
sense: fiber of the abaca
word: abacá
sense: fiber of the abaca
word: abaka
sense: fiber of the abaca
word: abaca fibre
sense: fiber of the abaca
word: manila hemp fibre
asperge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈspɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: asperges
form: asperging
form: asperged
form: asperged
Etymology: From Latin aspergō (compare aspersion from the same verb).
Senses: examples: text: First let him go up to the principal Altar and asperge it on every side.
ref: 1877, John David Chambers, Divine worship in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries contrasted and adapted to that of the nineteenth:
glosses: To sprinkle.
asperge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈspɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: asperges
Senses: glosses: An aspergillum.
canonical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kɫ̩]
ipa: /kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kəl/
ipa: [kəˈnɑ.nɪ.kɫ̩]
ipa: /kəˈnɔn.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [kəˈnɔn.ɪ.kɫ̩]
ipa: /kəˈnɒn.ə.kəl/
ipa: [kəˈnɔ̟n.ə.kɫ̩]
Forms: form: canonicals
Etymology: From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard.
ref: 1857, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857:
text: Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals, was not altogether a common one.
ref: 1891, Emily Sarah Holt, The White Lady of Hazelwood:
text: When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will in canonicals, I do still deny him and repudiate him.
ref: 1915, H. G. Wells, The Research Magnificent:
glosses: The formal robes of a priest.
examples: text: Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.
ref: 2015, Simon Kloostra, Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance, page 63:
glosses: A URL presented in canonical form.
noncanonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-canonical
Etymology: From non- + canonical.
Senses: synonyms: non-canonic
uncanonic
uncanonical
glosses: Not canonical.
Derived terms: noncanonically
canonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canonic
form: most canonic
Etymology: From Late Latin canonicus (“canonic”).
Senses: glosses: canonical
Derived terms: canonicity
non-canonic
uncanonic
mangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: mangles
form: mangling
form: mangled
form: mangled
Etymology: From Middle English mangelen, manglen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.
Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English *mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.
Senses: examples: text: mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage
when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel
glosses: To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
Derived terms: bemangle
manglement
manglingly
mingle-mangle
mismangle
unmangle
mangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: mangles
Etymology: Ca. 1700, from Dutch mangel, from Early Modern German Mangel (15th c.), enhanced form (by analogy with other tool names in -el) of Middle High German mange, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Doublet of mangonel.
Senses: synonyms: mangler
glosses: A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
examples: text: There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
Derived terms: mangleman
put through the mangle
mangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: mangles
form: mangling
form: mangled
form: mangled
Etymology: Ca. 1700, from Dutch mangel, from Early Modern German Mangel (15th c.), enhanced form (by analogy with other tool names in -el) of Middle High German mange, from Medieval Latin manga, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Doublet of mangonel.
Senses: glosses: To wring laundry.
mangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: mangles
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mangle, mangue, probably from an Arawak language (such as Taíno), or a Cariban language.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mangrove.
Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
glosses: Synonym of mangrove.
A forest of such trees.
glosses: Synonym of mangrove.
Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.
proximal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒksɪməl/
Forms: form: more proximal
form: most proximal
Etymology: From Latin proximus, superlative form of prope (“near, nigh”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: distal
glosses: Closer to the point of attachment or observation.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Facing toward another tooth. The proximal surfaces of a tooth are those that touch or are close to neighboring teeth.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Closer to the speaker.
Derived terms: word: anteroproximal
word: caudoproximal
word: cranioproximal
word: distoproximal
word: dorsoproximal
word: interproximal
word: lateroproximal
word: medioproximal
word: mesioproximal
word: mesoproximal
word: midproximal
word: nonproximal
word: occlusoproximal
word: posteroproximal
word: proximal convoluted tubule
word: proximality
word: proximally
word: proximalmost
english: proximal phalanx
translation: proximal phalanx
word: proximal phalange
word: ventroproximal
word: zone of proximal development
Related terms: proximate
coffin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒfɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɔfɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑfɪn/
homophone: coughing
rhymes: -ɒfɪn
rhymes: -ɒfən
Forms: form: coffins
form: coffining
form: coffined
form: coffined
form: cophin
form: coffyn
Etymology: From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer.
Senses: examples: text: Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 19, in Klee Wyck:
text: The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.
ref: 2007, Barbara Everett, “Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances”, in London Review of Books, 29:6, page 21:
glosses: To place in a coffin.
Synonyms: encoffin
coffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒfɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɔfɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑfɪn/
homophone: coughing
rhymes: -ɒfɪn
rhymes: -ɒfən
Forms: form: coffins
form: coffan
form: coffen
form: goffin
form: goffan
form: goffen
form: cophin
form: coffyn
Etymology: Borrowed from Cornish koghyn (“exploratory trench”), with spelling likely influenced by etymology 1.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: An exploratory trench used when first digging a mine.
glosses: A deep ditch.
oblong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈɑblɔŋ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑblɑŋ/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈɔblɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟blɔ̟ŋ]
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: more oblong
form: most oblong
Etymology: From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Senses: examples: text: The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: Having a length and width that are different; not square or circular.
examples: text: Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid.
ref: 1902, A. W. Peart, “Blackberries: Notes by A. W. Peart”, in Annual Report, page 41:
glosses: Roughly rectangular or elliptical.
examples: text: Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music.
ref: 1971, Donald William Krummel, Oblong Format in Early Music Books, page 316:
text: Mass cycles and motets had never been presented in small oblong format, so far as we can tell.
ref: 2017, Sean Gallagher, Secular Renaissance Music: Forms and Functions:
glosses: Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
Derived terms: oblongish
oblongly
oblongness
oblong number
suboblong
Related terms: oblongate
oblong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈɑblɔŋ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑblɑŋ/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈɔblɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟blɔ̟ŋ]
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: oblongs
Etymology: From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Senses: glosses: Something with an oblong shape.
examples: text: Jessamy looked round her in a puzzled way, but there was nothing to see but the pale oblong of what looked like a star-pierced sky behind the bars of the nursery window.
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: A rectangle with length and width that are different.
glosses: An ellipse with minor and major axes that are different.
oblong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˈɑblɔŋ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑblɑŋ/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈɔblɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈɒblɒŋ/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟blɔ̟ŋ]
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: oblongs
form: oblonging
form: oblonged
form: oblonged
Etymology: From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus.
Senses: examples: text: […]; by John Denmans hom lot on the north sid the front by a salt crek the reare to the comon which hom lot with all the upland oblonging to it conteining to about fourtie acers more or lese with about one acer & half of salt medo liing before the said house[…]
ref: 1670, John Bull, signed sealed and delivered in the psents of Antony Waters [/] Rachell (X) Waters; republished as “Town Minutes”, in Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688 (Transcriptions of Early Town Records of New York; […]), volume 1, New York, N.Y.: The Historical Records Survey, 1940 June, pages 181–182:
text: That the Gilbert tract, according to his opinion and the law, ought to have been oblonged up the creek. That by oblonging it across the creek, it afforded Elijah Robertson, who superintended the surveying, an opportunity of laying a warrant not located there, for himself, and thereby takes 5,000 acres.
ref: 1818, John Haywood, “Childress versus Holland. Whyte, Judge, delivered the opinion of himself and Judge Roane.”, in Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of Tennessee, from the Year 1816 to 1817, volume III, Knoxville, Tenn.: […] Heiskell & Brown, page 276:
glosses: To extend so as to form an oblong shape.
examples: text: A. Why, by dropping them off of cars or dropping them off of trucks or some way it would oblong them .
ref: 1928, New York Supreme Court, page 2149:
text: His silhouette: broad shoulders, big legs, a square face oblonged by a crest of thick hair and almost lantern jaw.
ref: 2006, Nancy Zafris, Lucky Strike, page 165:
text: And there were suddenly berries where there had been none before, bright red and bright blue, all with a careless water drop oblonging their form.
ref: 2008, Gary D. Schmidt, Trouble, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, →ISBN, page 287:
text: […] the venue (a private country club nestled in the woods outside Cincinnati, with a dance hall whose ceilings went straight to the moon), to the ice cubes (truly cubed, not oblonged or crushed, and king-sized cubes for the bourbon rocks),
ref: 2020, Elizabeth Ames, The Other's Gold:
glosses: To give an oblong shape to.
Related terms: oblate
obloid
prolate
rectangle
prolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /pɹəʊˈleɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: more prolate
form: most prolate
Etymology: From Latin prolatum, past participle of proferre (“to extend, lengthen”).
Senses: examples: text: A cigar is a prolate spheroid.
glosses: Elongated at the poles.
Related terms: proffer
equidimensional
prolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /pɹəʊˈleɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: prolates
form: prolating
form: prolated
form: prolated
Etymology: From Latin prolatum, past participle of proferre (“to extend, lengthen”).
Senses: examples: text: Prolate it right.
ref: 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The New Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To utter; to pronounce.
spheroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spheroid
form: most spheroid
form: sphæroid
Etymology: From sphere + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of a shape similar to a squashed sphere.
spheroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spheroids
form: sphæroid
Etymology: From sphere + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: UFOs are reported as being either oblate (saucer-shaped) or prolate (cigar-shaped) spheroids.
glosses: A solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis.
Hyponyms: oblate spheroid
prolate spheroid
Derived terms: amylospheroid
hemispheroid
heterospheroid
homospheroid
hyperspheroid
interspheroid
microspheroid
nanospheroid
neurospheroid
osteospheroid
spheroidene
spheroidic
spheroidical
spheroidism
spheroidite
spheroidity
spheroidize
subspheroid
solid of revolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solids of revolution
Senses: examples: text: A cylinder is a solid of revolution generated by rotating a rectangle about one of its axes.
glosses: A solid produced by taking a particular two-dimensional curve and rotating it through 360° about an axis. The curve will sweep out a surface, and the region inside the surface defines a solid.
indoors
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɔːz/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɔɹz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Etymology: From in + doors, originally two words, representing earlier within doors.
Senses: examples: text: We stayed indoors to avoid the brutal heat.
text: We went indoors when it started to rain.
glosses: Inside, into, or within a building.
Derived terms: 'er indoors
her indoors
indoorsman
indoors voice
indoorsy
indoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɔːz/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɔɹz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Etymology: From in + doors, originally two words, representing earlier within doors.
Senses: examples: text: I prefer the indoors to the outdoors.
glosses: The interior of a building; the space inside buildings generally.
indoor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndɔː/
ipa: /ˈɪndoɹ/
Etymology: From (with)in + door, first attested 1711.
Senses: examples: text: These fireworks are not for indoor use!
antonyms: outdoor
glosses: Situated in, or designed to be used in, or carried on within, the interior of a building.
Derived terms: indoor baseball
indoor lacrosse
indoorness
indoor plant
indoor relief
indoor rowing
indoors
indoor soccer
indoor voice
outdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊtˈdɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Etymology: From out- + door.
Senses: examples: text: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: alfresco
open-air
out-of-door
outside
antonyms: indoor
inside
glosses: Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
examples: text: Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 395:
glosses: Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution.
Derived terms: outdoor centre
outdoor education
outdoorish
outdoorness
outdoor officer
outdoor play
outdoor relief
outdoor voice
outdoorwear
Related terms: outdoors
outdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊtˈdɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: outdoors
form: outdooring
form: outdoored
form: outdoored
Etymology: From out- + door.
Senses: glosses: To publicly display a child after it has been named
raw_tags: in some African communities
dashing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæʃɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more dashing
form: most dashing
Etymology: From Middle English daschande, equivalent to dash + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
examples: text: All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.
glosses: Chic, fashionable.
Derived terms: dashingly
dashingness
geodashing
undashing
dashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæʃɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English daschande, equivalent to dash + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dash
dashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæʃɪŋ(ɡ)/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Forms: form: dashings
Etymology: From Middle English dasshyng, dasshynge, equivalent to dash + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to dash.
Derived terms: geodashing
tourist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʊəɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɔːɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈtʊɹ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹ.ɪst/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪst
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪst
rhymes: -ɜːɹɪst
Forms: form: tourists
form: touristing
form: touristed
form: touristed
Etymology: From tour + -ist. Doublet of turista.
Senses: examples: text: “You can’t go touristing anymore like you used to, but weekends away — traditionally crammed into sneaking out of work slightly early on a Friday in a dash to have some repose — now mean heading out on a Wednesday night, logging on to work and coming back Monday night,” said Tom Caton, the co-founder and chief revenue officer of AirDNA […]
ref: 2020 November 4, Sarah Firshein, “Forget Long Weekends: During the Pandemic It’s All About Short Weeks”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To travel as a tourist.
tourist trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourist traps
form: tourist-trap
Senses: examples: text: As for Will Deverill, less critical of Nature’s handicraft, he found the inns over-civilised; the Post and the Bräu were too fine for his taste: they had come thus far in search of solitude and Alpine wilds, and they lighted instead on a sort of miniature Grindelwald, with half-a-dozen inns, a respectable café, experienced (or in other words extortionate) guides, and a regular tourist-trap for the sale of chamois-horns and carved models of châlets.
ref: 1900, Grant Allen, chapter 1, in Linnet:
text: For fifteen minutes they walked morosely and in silence through the steep streets where the shops are tourist-traps, alluringly baited with corals and trinkets.
ref: 1911, Charles Neville Buck, chapter XX, in The Lighted Match:
glosses: An establishment, such as a shop or display, where tourists are encouraged to spend money on goods or services not necessarily of good value.
Derived terms: tourist-trappy
Related terms: sucker trap
did not bat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: DNB
coordinate_terms: not out
glosses: Denotes a player who did not bat in an innings played by their side.
DNB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of did not bat.
qualifier: sports betting
glosses: Initialism of draw, no bet, which means that if there is a tie you get your money back.
DNB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNBs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: post-nominal title
glosses: Initialism of Diplomate of National Board.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of drum and bass.
East Sussex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county in south east England bordered by Kent, Surrey, West Sussex and the English Channel.
Related terms: Essex
Mid Sussex
Wessex
West Sussex
West Sussex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county in south-east England, bordered by East Sussex, Hampshire, Surrey and the English Channel.
Related terms: East Sussex
Essex
Mid Sussex
Wessex
Greater London
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative region of England, combining the City of London and 32 London boroughs, including the City of Westminster, 3 Royal Boroughs and 28 London Boroughs.
glosses: A ceremonial county of England, combining all of the administrative region except the City of London, which is its own ceremonial county.
Related terms: GLA
GLC
Barking and Dagenham
Barnet
Bexley
Brent
Bromley
Camden
City of London
City of Westminster
Croydon
Ealing
Enfield
Greenwich
Hackney
Hammersmith and Fulham
Haringey
Harrow
Havering
Hillingdon
Hounslow
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kingston upon Thames
Lambeth
Lewisham
Merton
Newham
Redbridge
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark
Sutton
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Hereford and Worcester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A county in the West Midlands of England, formed from the short-lived merger of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
raw_tags: from 1974 to 1998
Humberside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌm.bə(ɹ)ˌsaɪd/
Etymology: From Humber + -side.
Senses: glosses: A former county in northeastern England created from parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Replaced in 1996 by the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
raw_tags: from 1974 to 1996
Isle of Wight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌaɪl ə(v)ˈwaɪt/
Forms: form: the Isle of Wight
Etymology: From Old English Wiht, Wihte iegland, from Proto-Celtic *Wextā, compare Welsh Ynys Wyth and Latin Vectis (c.150).
Senses: glosses: An island, county, and unitary authority off the south coast of England, in the English Channel opposite Southampton.
glosses: An unincorporated community, the county seat of the Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States.
Synonyms: IOW
IoW
I.W.
Vectis
Derived terms: Isle of Wight County
Isle of Wight disease
Isle of Wighter
Related terms: Vectensian
caulkhead
Merseyside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː.ziˌsaɪd/
note: Liverpool
ipa: [ˈmeː.ziˌsaɪð̠]
Etymology: From Mersey + -side.
Senses: examples: text: United were second-best for long periods as they struggled to adapt to an unfamiliar line-up and were ultimately fortunate to leave Merseyside with their unbeaten league run still intact.
ref: 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A metropolitan county in northwestern England bordering Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.
North Yorkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial county in northeastern England, formed in 1974 and bordering the East Riding of Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria and County Durham.
glosses: A unitary authority of the county of North Yorkshire, England.
glosses: North Riding of Yorkshire.
Related terms: North York
South Yorkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A metropolitan county in northeastern England bordering West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, and Nottinghamshire.
raw_tags: from 1974
Tyne and Wear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the two main rivers in the county.
Senses: glosses: A metropolitan county in the north-east of England, bordering County Durham and Northumberland.
West Yorkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A metropolitan county in northern England bordering Derbyshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester.
raw_tags: from 1974
glosses: West Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unitary authority and ceremonial county in the north east of England.
glosses: A historical division of the former county or Yorkshire England.
Synonyms: East Riding
East Yorkshire
North Riding of Yorkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A historical division of the former county of Yorkshire in England, abolished in 1974 in favor of the ceremonial county and local government district of North Yorkshire.
West Riding of Yorkshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government district and ceremonial county in the north east of England.
glosses: A historical division of Yorkshire.
Synonyms: West Yorkshire
Wrexham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛksəm/
rhymes: -ɛksəm
Etymology: From Old English personal name Wryhtel + -es + Old English hamm (“water meadow”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Wrexham borough county borough, in northeastern Wales, United Kingdom.
glosses: A county borough in northeastern Wales, United Kingdom, named after the town, formerly belonging to Denbighshire and Clwyd.
Derived terms: Wrexhamite
gaseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæsiəs/
ipa: /ˈɡæʃəs/
ipa: /ˈɡeisiəs/
rhymes: -æsiəs
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more gaseous
form: most gaseous
Etymology: From gas + -eous.
Senses: examples: text: gaseous state
text: gaseous emissions
text: gaseous substance
text: At room temperature, oxygen remains in a gaseous state.
text: The mixture produced a gaseous vapor when heated.
glosses: Relating to, or existing as gas (matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma).
glosses: Of a liquid containing bubbles: gassy.
examples: text: Her gaseous explanations left everyone confused.
glosses: Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
Synonyms: word: aeriform
word: aereous
word: aerial
word: airy
word: ethereal
word: gaseous
word: pneumatic
word: vaporlike
word: vaporous
word: wafty
Hyponyms: word: evaporable
word: nebulous
word: volatile
Derived terms: gaseously
gaseousness
gaseous phase
nongaseous
pseudogaseous
ultragaseous
ungaseous
Related terms: word: insubstantial
aliphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælɪˈfætɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλειφαρ (áleiphar, “oil, ointment”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a class of organic compounds in which the carbon atoms are arranged in an open chain.
Derived terms: alicyclic
aliphaticity
aliphatic PVA
cycloaliphatic
haloaliphatic
nitroaliphatic
nonaliphatic
aliphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælɪˈfætɪk/
Forms: form: aliphatics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλειφαρ (áleiphar, “oil, ointment”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A compound of this type.
glosses: A petroleum fraction containing no aromatic compounds
Related terms: alicyclic
aromatic
alicyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ælɪˈsaɪklɪk/
/-ˈsɪklɪk/
/æləˈ-/
Etymology: Blend of aliphatic + cyclic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a class of organic compounds having both aliphatic (chain) and cyclic (ring) structure
Derived terms: polyalicyclic
alicyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ælɪˈsaɪklɪk/
/-ˈsɪklɪk/
/æləˈ-/
Forms: form: alicyclics
Etymology: Blend of aliphatic + cyclic
Senses: glosses: Such an organic compound
cyclohexane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīklōhĕks'ān
ipa: /ˌsaɪkloʊˈhɛkseɪn/
Forms: form: cyclohexanes
Etymology: From cyclo- + hexane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₆H₁₂, consisting of a ring of six carbon atoms; a volatile liquid.
Derived terms: bicyclohexane
cyclohexanedione
cyclohexanehexone
cyclohexannulated
cyclohexannulation
cyclohexanol
cyclohexanone
cyclohexyl
dicyclomine
dicycloverine
dodecylcyclohexane
hexachlorocyclohexane
propylhexedrine
spirocyclohexane
tranexamic acid
venlafaxine
Related terms: cycloalkane
hexane
benzene
shorten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɔːtən/
ipa: /ˈʃɔɹtən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tən
Forms: form: shortens
form: shortening
form: shortened
form: shortened
Etymology: From Middle English shortnen, schortenen, equivalent to short + -en (verbal suffix). In some senses, a continuation (in altered form) of Middle English schorten (“to make short, shorten”), from Old English sċortian (“to become short”), from Proto-Germanic *skurtōną (“to shorten”).
Senses: examples: text: York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself, one hole I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “Earlshall”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 105:
glosses: To make shorter; to abbreviate.
glosses: To become shorter.
examples: text: Spoiled of his nose, and shorten'd of his ears.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
glosses: To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
examples: text: to shorten an allowance of food
text: Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.
ref: 1699, John Dryden, Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond:
text: My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang of shorters, and sometimes shortened money, […]
ref: 1858, George Borrow, The Romany Rye, volume 2, page 128:
glosses: To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
examples: text: Corn flour makes delicious pie crust, and needs less lard to shorten it.
ref: 1894, Helen M. Laughlin, The Journal of Agriculture Cook Book, Journal of Agriculture Co., page 212:
topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To make crumbly.
raw_tags: of pastries
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To take in the slack of (a rope).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
examples: text: Anne and Leslie had another cry the next week when they shortened Little Jem. Anne felt the tragedy of it until evening when in his long nightie she found her own dear baby again.
ref: 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams:
text: In January Jims was five months old and Rilla celebrated the anniversary by shortening him.
ref: 1921, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside:
glosses: to dress (a baby) in a short (rather than long) gown
Synonyms: word: abbreviate
word: abridge
word: chop down
word: chop off
word: compress
word: condense
word: curt
word: curtail
word: lop off
word: make shorter
word: pare
word: prune
word: reduce in length
word: shorten
word: trim
word: truncate
word: saw off
Derived terms: shorten down
shortening
shorten up
bobbitt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bobbitts
form: bobbitting
form: bobbitted
form: bobbitted
Etymology: From the surname of John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife cut off his penis during his sleep.
Senses: examples: text: Watch out: she might bobbitt you as you sleep.
glosses: To cut off the penis of (a man).
Derived terms: pull a Bobbitt
assassination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsæs.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: assassinations
Etymology: From assassinate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The assassination of the king occurred at night.
text: Liu's agents pursued him and he escaped assassination only by throwing his clothing away by the Chʻien-tʻang River near Hangchow, thus suggesting suicide.
ref: 1963, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxiv:
glosses: The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.
Derived terms: assassination market
assassination marketplace
character assassination
counterassassination
royal assassination
Related terms: assassin
targeted killing
de-ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: de-ices
form: de-icing
form: de-iced
form: de-iced
Etymology: From de- + ice.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deice.
quaternary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwəˈtɜː.nə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːt.ən.(ə.)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.tɚˌnɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.tɚˌnɛə.ɹi/
Etymology: Derived from Latin quaternārius (“containing or consisting of four”), from quaternī (“four each”, “four at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French quaternaire.
Senses: examples: text: the quaternary stress in a pronounced word
glosses: Of fourth rank or order.
glosses: Of a mathematical expression containing e.g. x⁴.
glosses: Relating to or in number base four.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: quaternary ammonium.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Composed of four elements.
Synonyms: word: quartal
word: quartary
Derived terms: bisquaternary
pseudoquaternary
quaternary ammonium
quaternary care
quaternary healthcare
quaternary industry
quaternary moon
quaternary number
quaternary sector
quaternary sector of the economy
quaternary structure
quaternary twin
Related terms: word: quaternion
word: primary (1st)
word: unary
sense: Of fourth rank or order.
word: unitary
word: secondary (2nd)
sense: Of a mathematical expression containing e.g. x⁴.
word: binary
word: tertiary (3rd)
word: ternary
sense: Relating to or in number base four.
word: trinary
word: quartary (4th)
sense: quaternary ammonium.
word: tetranary
sense: Composed of four elements.
word: quinary
word: senary
word: septenary
word: octonary
word: nonary (9th)
word: novenary
word: denary
word: duodenary
word: vicenary
word: tricenary
word: sexagenary
word: centenary (100)
quaternary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwəˈtɜː.nə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːt.ən.(ə.)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.tɚˌnɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.tɚˌnɛə.ɹi/
Forms: form: quaternaries
Etymology: Derived from Latin quaternārius (“containing or consisting of four”), from quaternī (“four each”, “four at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French quaternaire.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A quaternary compound.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Quaternary period or the system of deposits laid down during it.
census
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnsəs/
Forms: form: censuses
form: censusses
form: census
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.
Senses: examples: text: As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few wandering here and there in the desert. My Lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet: that the Fremen exist in vast numbers- vast- and it is they who control Arrakis.
ref: 1984, 43:03 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Reverend Mother Ramallo, →OCLC:
glosses: An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
examples: text: In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Count, tally.
glosses: A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.
topics: cellular-automata
computing
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glosses: A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
Derived terms: anticensus
census area
census-designated place
census tract
intercensus
microcensus
noncensus
postcensus
precensus
recensus
Related terms: headcount