cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calibrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæl.ɪ.bɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæl.ə.bɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈkæl.ə.bɹæɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: calibrates
form: calibrating
form: calibrated
form: calibrated
Etymology: From caliber or calibre + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: Trent Alexander-Arnold was prominent in the early running, stepping up from right-back into midfield, calibrating his passing range. He had already teed up Harry Kane for a free header – the captain headed high – when he sent Anthony Gordon clean through.
ref: 2024 September 7, David Hytner, “Rice and Grealish start new England era with Nations League victory in Ireland”, in The Guardian:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.
Synonyms: sense: check or adjust by comparison with a standard
word: tune
Derived terms: autocalibrating
calibratable
calibrator
decalibrate
intercalibrate
miscalibrate
recalibrate
Related terms: caliber
calibre
calibration
optimum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑptɪməm/
ipa: /ˈɒptɪməm/
Forms: form: optima
form: optimums
Etymology: From New Latin, neuter of Latin optimus (“best, very good”), from the root in ops (“work”) or omnis (“all”).
Senses: glosses: The best or most favorable condition, or the greatest amount or degree possible under specific sets of comparable circumstances.
topics: biology
climatology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any long period of time marked by a persistently warm climate; a climatic optimum.
Synonyms: sense: the best under specific circumstances
word: pessimum
Derived terms: climatic optimum
global optimum
local optimum
suboptimum
Related terms: optimal
optimific
optimise
optimize
optimism
optimist
optimistic
optimum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑptɪməm/
ipa: /ˈɒptɪməm/
Etymology: From New Latin, neuter of Latin optimus (“best, very good”), from the root in ops (“work”) or omnis (“all”).
Senses: examples: text: optimum conditions for climbing
synonyms: best
ideal
optimal
glosses: The best or most advantageous; surpassing all others.
connectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connectivities
Etymology: From connective + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Since submitting our Strategic Outline Business Case to the DfT last summer, MPs, government ministers and even the new Prime Minister have started talking about our £2 billion proposals as the answer to poor rail connectivity between the East Midlands and the West Midlands.
ref: 2020 April 8, Maria Machancoses, “A boost from the Budget...”, in Rail, page 72:
glosses: The state of being connected
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The ability to make a connection between two or more points in a network
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a graph, a measure of concatenated adjacency (the number of ways that points are connected to each other)
Derived terms: biconnectivity
bioconnectivity
dysconnectivity
eigenconnectivity
hyperconnectivity
hypoconnectivity
infraconnectivity
interconnectivity
landscape connectivity
macroconnectivity
microconnectivity
neuroconnectivity
overconnectivity
reconnectivity
simple connectivity
underconnectivity
Related terms: connect
peercast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: peercasts
form: peercasting
form: peercast
form: peercast
form: peercasted
form: peercasted
Etymology: From peer + -cast.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To transmit streaming media via a peer-to-peer network.
taa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taas
Etymology: From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.
taa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taas
Etymology: From Arabic تَاء (tāʔ).
Senses: glosses: The letter ت in the Arabic script.
taa
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ta (“thanks”).
phyla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fī'lə
ipa: /ˈfaɪlə/
rhymes: -aɪlə
homophone: fila
homophone: filer (non-rhotic)
Senses: glosses: plural of phylum and phylon
Related terms: genus
species
subspecies
genera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕn'ə-rə
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnəɹə/
Etymology: From Latin genera (“clans”).
Senses: glosses: plural of genus
Related terms: phyla
species
pagoda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɡoʊ.də/
Forms: form: pagodas
form: pagod
form: pagode
Etymology: From Portuguese pagode, which is via Malayalam പകോതി (pakōti) from Sanskrit भगवती (bhagavatī, name of a goddess).
Senses: examples: text: On the journey southwards over the flat, fertile plains, paddy fields stretched away on each side of the line, and the landscape was broken only by wooden villages and stately pagodas.
ref: 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
glosses: A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.
qualifier: usually in form pagod
glosses: An image or carving of a god in South and Southeast Asia; an idol.
examples: text: [T]he Mahrattas having offered Alimerdy Khan his liberty for a lak of Pagodas; he does in the Nabob's name desire that the Governor of Madras would receive jewels and money to that amount into his custody, […]
ref: 1693 January 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), J. Talboys Wheeler, compiler, “Governorship of Mr. Nathaniel Higginson. 1692–1698.”, in Madras in the Olden Time: Being a History of the Presidency from the First Foundation of the Governorship of Thomas Pitt, Grandfather of the Earl of Chatham. 1639–1702. […], Madras: […] J. Higginbotham, […], by Graves and Co., Scottish Press, published 1861, →OCLC, page 262:
text: I, in about two hours, notwithstanding the utmost caution, found myself minus upwards of six hundred pagodas […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 240
glosses: A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties and colonial powers in southern India.
glosses: An ornamental structure imitating the design of the religious building, erected in a park or garden.
glosses: A pagoda sleeve.
Derived terms: word: Barbie pagoda
word: pagoda dogwood
word: pagodaed
taxonomic: Clerodendrum spp.
word: pagoda flower
word: pagodaless
word: pagoda-like
word: pagodalike
word: pagoda mast
word: pagodane
english: Blephilia
translation: Blephilia
word: pagoda plant
taxonomic: Styphnolobium japonicum
word: pagoda tree
word: pagodite
word: star pagoda
Related terms: stupa
wat
stupa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstuːpə/
rhymes: -uːpə
Forms: form: stupas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्तूप (stūpa). Doublet of tope.
Senses: examples: text: He mounded so much honey on the top of the buns that they looked like miniature stupas.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
text: I cupped her cheeks and thought of the lotus flowers at the thresholds of Buddhist stupas, their pale petals resting in the palms of the faithful.
ref: 2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 303:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.
Derived terms: ice stupa
Related terms: chedi
pagoda
wat
stupa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstuːpə/
rhymes: -uːpə
Forms: form: stupas
Senses: glosses: A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).
patio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæt.i.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈpæt.i.oʊ/
ipa: [ˈpæɾ.i.oʊ]
ipa: /ˈpæt.i.əʉ/
ipa: [ˈpæɾ.i.əʉ]
Forms: form: patios
Etymology: From Spanish patio, either from Old Occitan patu or pati (compare Occitan and Catalan pati), from Latin pactum (“pact, agreement, bargain”), hence a doublet of pact, or alternatively from Latin patēre (“to lie open”).
Senses: glosses: A paved outside area, adjoining a house, used for dining or recreation.
examples: text: The flat looks out on a patio on one side and a churro café on the other.
glosses: An inner courtyard typical of traditional houses in some regions of Spain.
Synonyms: terrace
terrasse
Derived terms: catio
patio chair
patio doors
patio dress
patioed
patio furniture
patiolike
patio process
Related terms: terrace
patio door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patio doors
Senses: glosses: A sliding door, usually made of glass, that opens onto a patio, deck or garden.
telly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛli/
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: tellies
head_nr: 1
form: tellys
head_nr: 1
form: tele
Etymology: Shortened form of tele(vision) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Not much on telly tonight, as usual!
text: You're from telly!
ref: 2007 August 24, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 1
text: [...] they were all in agreement: this stuff had to be on the telly.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How We Made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in Rail, number 934, page 48:
head_nr: 2
glosses: Television.
examples: text: We've got a new flat-screen telly.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A television set.
head_nr: 2
glosses: Telegraph.
head_nr: 2
glosses: Telephone.
head_nr: 2
glosses: Teleport.
head_nr: 2
glosses: Telecommunication.
Synonyms: word: tube
word: TV
Derived terms: telly tennis
telly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛli/
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: tellies
Etymology: Shortened form of (ho)tel and/or (mo)tel + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I'm staying at the telly this weekend.
qualifier: chiefly MTE
glosses: A hotel or motel.
telly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛli/
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: more telly
form: most telly
Etymology: From tell + -y, related to the writing advice show, don't tell.
Senses: examples: text: I think my problem with it is that it's
a) a little "telly" not "showy" in comparison to the rest […]
ref: 1999 November 21, sophie, “Squealer : first revision”, in alt.arts.poetry.comments (Usenet):
text: There's a way to make this more showy and less telly. It's like you're in a hurry to get on with the rest of the story.
ref: 2003 September 19, Patrick Null, “Failed Sept Challenge? (1409 words)”, in alt.fiction.original (Usenet):
text: story is too, too telly; need at least 3 showy scenes to improve showing:telling ratio
ref: 2009 May 18, @kimmcgowan, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: Six of Crows is very telly and little showy. You are constantly getting info dumps and mini-flashbacks to the characters past.
ref: 2016 February 12, Kelly, “Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo”, in Diva Booknerd, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: The only other objection I have—and again, it’s minor—is that the very last chapter feels very “telly” and rushed. I get why, but a smoother exit would have really made an otherwise wonderful book almost perfect.
ref: 2019 May 26, Chautona Havig, “This Book Gives New Meaning to “The Romance of the Rails””, in Chautona.com, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: Lee’s style of narration reads like an old-style fairy tale to an extent—it’s very telly, if that makes any sense. We get descriptions of character actions and we’re told about character motives as filtered through the third-person narrator, but we don’t actually get to read these characters’ thoughts.
ref: 2022 October 10, Brian Collins, “Short Story Review: “Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Fleu” by Tanith Lee”, in Science Fiction & Fantasy Remembrance, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: The ending felt rushed to me, and I wish it would have been more showy and less telly.
ref: 2024 July 1, pinkjamie, “Well...”, in BookishFirst, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
glosses: Inclined to telling (by explicitly stating facts), instead of showing (by conveying an impression so that events are described in the narrative).
raw_tags: of a literary work
bagwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bag + wash.
Senses: glosses: A type of laundry in which the washing was returned to the customer in a bag, undried and unpressed.
bambou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bambous
Etymology: From French bambou, from Portuguese bambu, from Malay bambu, from Kannada ಬಮ್ಬು (bambu).
Senses: examples: text: The Chowpaul is simply a very light bed or sofa, over which a large bambou forms an arch. But as this is not a sufficient defence against the sun, it is always attended by a servant carrying a chata or parasol.
ref: 1811, François Balthazar Solvyns, Les Hindoûs, Vol. III, Section 8, No. 2:
glosses: Alternative form of bamboo.
whirlybird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirlybirds
Etymology: From whirly + bird.
Senses: examples: text: ... and then this whirlybird that I headed for, I had my goggles off...
ref: 1988, R.E.M., “Orange Crush”, in Green:
glosses: A helicopter.
glosses: A samara.
glosses: A wind-powered roof turbine.
banc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
homophone: bank
Forms: form: bancs
Etymology: From Middle English bank, from Old French banc. Doublet of banco, bank, and bench.
Senses: glosses: A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment.
examples: text: all the banc business of each county must be done in that county
ref: 1822, House of Lords, The Sessional Papers 1801-1833, volume 137, page 91:
glosses: A tribunal or court.
Derived terms: en banc
in banc
court in banc
Related terms: banco
banc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæŋk/
rhymes: -æŋk
homophone: bank
Forms: form: bancs
Etymology: Respelling of bank.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Used to associate a non-banking affiliate of a bank with the bank's brand name without using the word bank
shoal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: shoaler
form: shoalest
form: sheld
form: shole
form: shoald
form: shold
form: shaul
form: shawl
form: shauld
form: schald
form: shaud
form: shawd
Etymology: From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.
Senses: examples: text: shoal water
text: But that part of the coast being shoal and bare, / And rough with reefs which ran out many a mile, / His port lay on the other side o' the isle.
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.19:
text: All told, we had scarce two miles to run; but the navigation was delicate, the entrance to this northern anchorage was not only narrow and shoal, but lay east and west, so that the schooner must be nicely handled to be got in.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
glosses: Shallow.
shoal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: shoals
form: sheld
form: shole
form: shoald
form: shold
form: shaul
form: shawl
form: shauld
form: schald
form: shaud
form: shawd
Etymology: From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.
Senses: examples: text: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: The god himself with ready trident stands, / And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, / Then heaves them off the shoals.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: bank
bar
glosses: A sandbank or sandbar creating a shallow.
examples: text: The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to sun themselves in and to lay their spawn.
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
text: Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, / And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: A shallow in a body of water.
Synonyms: sense: sandbank
word: sandbar
sense: sandbank
word: sandbank
Derived terms: Glenburnie-Birchy Head-Shoal Brook
James Shoal
Muscle Shoals
Panatag Shoal
Rocks and Shoals
Scarborough Shoal
shoaler
shoal grass
Shoal Harbour
shoaling wave
Truro Shoal
wave shoaling
shoal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: shoals
form: shoaling
form: shoaled
form: shoaled
form: sheld
form: shole
form: shoald
form: shold
form: shaul
form: shawl
form: shauld
form: schald
form: shaud
form: shawd
Etymology: From Middle English schold, scholde, from Old English sċeald (“shallow”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *skalidaz, past participle of *skaljaną (“to go dry, dry up, become shallow”), from *skalaz (“parched, shallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out”). Cognate with Low German Scholl (“shallow water”), German schal (“stale, flat, vapid”). Compare shallow.
Senses: glosses: To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area.
examples: text: Noting the rate at which she shoals her water -[…]
ref: 1859, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts:
glosses: To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of.
examples: text: The colour of the water shows where it shoals.
glosses: To become shallow.
shoal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: shoals
Etymology: 1570, presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English sċeolu, sċolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”).
Cognate with West Frisian skoal (“shoal”), Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Dutch school (“shoal of fishes”). Doublet of school.
Senses: examples: text: Shoals of tourists
text: great shoals of people
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Vicissitude of Things”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Any large number of persons or things.
examples: text: c. 1661, Edmund Waller, On St. James's Park
Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.
text: He came directly from the shoal which we had just before entered, and in which we had struck three of his companions, as if fired with revenge for their sufferings.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
glosses: A large number of fish (or other sea creatures) of the same species swimming together.
Synonyms: topics: fish
ichthyology
zoology
biology
natural-sciences
word: school
shoal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: shoals
form: shoaling
form: shoaled
form: shoaled
Etymology: 1570, presumably from Middle English *schole (“school of fish”), from Old English sċeolu, sċolu (“troop or band of people, host, multitude, division of army, school of fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skolu, from Proto-Germanic *skulō (“crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to divide, split, separate”).
Cognate with West Frisian skoal (“shoal”), Middle Low German schōle (“multitude, troop”), Dutch school (“shoal of fishes”). Doublet of school.
Senses: examples: text: The fish shoaled about the place.
glosses: To collect in a shoal; to throng.
basilic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsɪlɪk/
Forms: form: basilics
Etymology: From French basilique. Doublet of basilic (etymology 2) and basil.
Senses: glosses: A basilica.
basilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsɪlɪk/
ipa: /bəˈsɪlɪk/
ipa: /ˈbæsɪlɪk/
Forms: form: more basilic
form: most basilic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βασιλικός (basilikós). Doublet of basilic (etymology 1) and basil.
Senses: glosses: royal; kingly
glosses: basilican
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, such as the basilic vein.
Derived terms: basilican
brachiobasilic
Related terms: basilean
basileiolatry
basileus
basilica
basilicon
crypto-revisionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪptoʊɹɪˈvɪʒəˌnɪzəm/
Etymology: From crypto- + revisionism.
Senses: glosses: The political use of historical revisionism.
organisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ).ɡən.aɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɔɹɡənɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: organisations
form: organization
Etymology: From Middle French organisation, equivalent to organise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: […] a number of commentators have noted how, during meetings and in committees, for example, organisation members often experience an attack of the sillies by playing the fool and horsing around.
ref: 2003, Peter Gronn, The New Work of Educational Leaders:
text: We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards.
ref: 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in The Guardian:
text: Although excessive organisation began as a hobby of the ultra-wealthy (Shearer and Teplin once sorted Reese Witherspoon’s closet, and charge more than £200 an hour for their services), storage-stuffed homes are increasingly commonplace.
ref: 2023 February 4, Amelia Tait, “‘It’s a control thing’: why are we so fascinated by super-organised homes?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English and Australian standard spelling of organization.
Derived terms: intermicronational organisation
member organisation
micronational organisation
reorganisation
Related terms: disorganisation
organisational
organise
deceased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsiːst/
enpr: dē-sēst'
enpr: dĭ-sēst'
ipa: /diˈsist/
ipa: /dɪˈsist/
ipa: /diˈsist/
ipa: /dɪˈsist/
ipa: /diˈsizd/
ipa: /dɪˈsizd/
ipa: /dɪˈzizd/
homophone: diseased stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːst
Etymology: From decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French [Term?], from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”).
Senses: examples: text: 1969, Monty Python, Dead Parrot Sketch
That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
text: Publicity handouts from Dick's long-deceased record label would have us believe that he was born in Cleveland in 1952.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 272:
synonyms: word: asleep
word: at peace
word: at rest
word: dead
word: departed
word: late
word: gone
word: asleep
word: at rest
word: cadaverous
word: clay-cold
word: deceased
word: resting
word: decomposed
word: defunct
word: departed
word: expired
word: extinct
word: fey
word: gone
word: good
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: kaput
word: late
word: lifeless
word: living impaired
word: low
word: no longer with us
word: no more
word: perished
word: reposing
word: six feet deep
word: six feet under
word: stiff
word: wasted
word: whilom
word: with God
glosses: No longer alive; dead.
examples: text: The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.
glosses: Belonging to the dead.
topics: law
glosses: One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law, "the deceased" refers to the victim of a homicide.
examples: text: You look so good, I'm deceased!
text: I am deceased, my nuts have been busted.
ref: 2021, Penelope Scott, “7 O'Clock” (track 1), in Hazards, performed by Penelope Scott:
text: "So that's it? We're not going to talk anymore? I won't see you?" she asks through tears. "Oh, you'll see me," Deborah replies. "In court!" (OUCH.) Deborah walks away. And I am deceased.
ref: 2022 June 2, Nick Caruso, “Hacks Season 2 Finale Recap: [Spoiler] Gets Fired, as Deborah's Special Finally Gets Off the Ground — Grade It!”, in TVLine, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2022:
glosses: Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.
Derived terms: delebrity
undeceased
deceased
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsiːst/
enpr: dē-sēst'
enpr: dĭ-sēst'
ipa: /diˈsist/
ipa: /dɪˈsist/
ipa: /diˈsist/
ipa: /dɪˈsist/
ipa: /diˈsizd/
ipa: /dɪˈsizd/
ipa: /dɪˈzizd/
homophone: diseased stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːst
Forms: form: deceased
form: deceaseds
Etymology: From decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French [Term?], from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”).
Senses: examples: text: The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.
text: a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars
glosses: Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).
synonyms: word: dead
extra: those who have died
examples: text: Deceased had already made a will in his favour before her marriage, but—and Mr. Philips wagged an expressive forefinger—the prisoner was not aware of that. What had induced the deceased to make a fresh will, with the old one still extant, he could not say.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 153:
topics: law
glosses: One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.
Synonyms: sense: dead person
word: decedent
sense: dead person
word: departed
sense: dead person
word: late
sense: plural: dead people
word: decedents
word: departed
quantum leap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒntəm liːp/
Forms: form: quantum leaps
Etymology: Possibly calque of Danish kvantespring.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The discontinuous change of the state of an electron in an atom or molecule from one energy level to another.
examples: text: In the end, perhaps the practice of prayer effects a quantum leap of its own kind. It takes us, spontaneously and unexplainably, into the realm of spiritual energy.
ref: 2001, Helene Ciaravino, How to Pray: Tapping Into the Power of Divine Communication, page 33:
text: The beacon was a Prothean artifact unearthed on the Alliance colony of Eden Prime. Its resemblance to the Prothean data banks recovered on Mars provoked immediate interest from the Alliance and the Citadel Council. It proved to be a solid state data storage device, part of a galaxy-spanning comm network similar to the modern extranet. Intact Prothean 'paleo-technology' is rare; the beacon seemed to promise another quantum leap of technology, akin to the discovery of the mass effect drive and relays.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Beacon Codex entry:
text: However, if we reject any theory that falls short of this ideal, science will have to progress in quantum leaps, each with infinitesimal probability.
ref: 2010 December 18, Tim Stevenson, “Opinion: Letters”, in New Scientist:
glosses: An abrupt, extreme change.
examples: text: I was at the elections in Namibia. We had problems there, … But I would say that this is a quantum leap forward when you think of the Mengistu government and the horrible repression, the famine, the tyranny that existed under him, and you see this movement toward freedom and democracy over there. Although there, admittedly, have been problems, this is a giant step in the right direction.
ref: 1993, Mr Burton, before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Looking Back and Reaching Forward: Prospects for Democracy in Ethiopia : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, September 17, 1992, page 56
text: A GIANT LEAP FORWARD
Humanity is about to face a quantum leap forward. […]
ref: 1995, Eva Shaw, Eve of Destruction: Prophecies, Theories, and Preparations for the End of the World:
text: The addition of power from God through connectedness with the Holy Spirit results in a quantum leap in our ability to accomplish the will of God in our daily lives.
ref: 2010, Dan Wilson, Supernatural Marriage: The Joy of Spirit-Led Intimacy, page 187:
glosses: A large, massive, significant change.
Synonyms: quantum jump
Coordinate terms: step change
paradigm shift
Related terms: quantum entanglement
quantum mechanics
quantum physics
quantum superposition
quantum theory
quantum tunneling
quantum leap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒntəm liːp/
Forms: form: quantum leaps
form: quantum leaping
form: quantum leaped
form: quantum leaped
form: quantum leapt
form: quantum leapt
Etymology: Possibly calque of Danish kvantespring.
Senses: qualifier: esoteric attraction theory
glosses: To manifest, to forward the reality of.
abampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ă-bămʹpîr
ipa: /æˈbæmpɪɹ/
ipa: /æˈbæmpɪə/
Forms: form: abamperes
Etymology: From ab- (“absolute”) + ampere.
Senses: glosses: Unit of electrical current in electromagnetic and Gaussian cgs systems of units, equal to 10 amperes in SI units.
quantum mechanics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of physics which studies matter and energy at the level of atoms and other elementary particles, and substitutes probabilistic mechanisms in place of classical Newtonian ones.
synonyms: rocket science
glosses: Something overly complicated or detailed.
Derived terms: nonrelativistic quantum mechanics
on-relativistic quantum mechanics
quantum mechanical
relativistic quantum mechanics
Related terms: quantum physics
quantum theory
uncertainty principle
wavefunction
wave-particle duality
wave-particle duality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The concept applying to all matter and radiation, but most evident in light and particles such as the electron, that properties of waves and of particles are exhibited simultaneously
Related terms: complementarity
de Broglie wavelength
matter wave
quantum mechanics
wavicle
wavefunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪv.fʌŋ(k).ʃən/
Forms: form: wavefunctions
form: wave function
Etymology: From wave + function.
Senses: examples: text: The interpretation of the wavefunction was one of the thorny issues facing the early pioneers of quantum theory.
ref: 2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum World, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 41:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A mathematical function that describes the propagation of the quantum mechanical wave associated with a particle (or system of particles), related to the probability of finding the particle in a particular region of space.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: adjoint wave function
adjoint wavefunction
antisymmetric wave function
antisymmetric wavefunction
antisymmetrized wave function
antisymmetrized wavefunction
Dirac wave function
Dirac wavefunction
electron wave function
electron wavefunction
hybrid wave function
hybrid wavefunction
Lamé wave function
Lamé wavefunction
momentum wave function
momentum wavefunction
Schrödinger wave function
Schrödinger wavefunction
Derived terms: wavefunction collapse
Related terms: Hilbert space
orbital
quantum mechanics
orbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː.bɪt.əl/
ipa: /ɔː.bɪt.l̩/
ipa: /ɔɹ.bət.l̩/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis.
Senses: examples: text: The 1.2-meter-diameter (4-foot-diameter) telescope has set off on a monthlong journey to its orbital destination of the sun-Earth Lagrange point L2, which is nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from Earth and also home to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Euclid will keep pace with Earth as our planet orbits the sun.
ref: 2021 December 24, Don Lincoln, “The telescope that will replace Hubble will launch on Christmas. Here’s why it matters”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or relating to, or forming an orbit (such as the orbit of a moon, planet, or spacecraft).
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the eye socket (eyehole).
examples: text: The M25 is an orbital motorway around London.
text: The rail orbital routes outside of the M25 and South Coast are challenging. The corridors aren't particularly reliable, and in some places they don't exist. [...] But the reliability and journey times, particularly on the orbital routes: one train an hour from Gatwick Airport to Reading? Surely we can do better than that?
ref: 2019 October 23, Rail, pages 22, 23:
glosses: (of roads, railways) Passing around the outside of an urban area.
Derived terms: anteorbital
antorbital
biorbital
circumorbital
coorbital
cranioorbital
exorbital
extraorbital
frontoorbital
infraorbital
interorbital
maxilloorbital
midorbital
multiorbital
nonorbital
ocellorbital
orbital apex syndrome
orbital cavity
orbital defense platform
orbital element
orbital fissure
orbital forming
orbital index
orbitally
orbital mechanics
orbital motorway
orbital plane
orbital process
orbital ridge
orbital riveting
orbital sander
orbital symmetry
orbital velocity
orbito-
paraorbital
periorbital
postorbital
preorbital
retro-orbital
retroorbital
sidereal orbital period
sphenoorbital
sphenorbital
suborbital
superorbital
supraorbital
temporoorbital
transorbital
zygomatico-orbital
zygomaticoorbital
orbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː.bɪt.əl/
ipa: /ɔː.bɪt.l̩/
ipa: /ɔɹ.bət.l̩/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Forms: form: orbitals
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin orbitālis, from orbita (“a track or rut; a circuit, orbit”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to orbit + -al. Doublet of orbitalis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A specification of the energy and probability density of one or more electrons at any point in an atom or molecule, representable as a wave function.
glosses: Ellipsis of orbital motorway.
examples: text: As with most power tools, orbitals can be divided into light and heavy-duty categories.
ref: 1967, Popular Mechanics, volume 128, number 6, page 166:
glosses: Ellipsis of orbital sander.
Derived terms: inner orbital complex
intraorbital
molecular orbital theory
orbital quantum number
Related terms: quantum number
cahoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kə-ho͞otsʹ
ipa: /kəˈhuːts/
ipa: /kəˈhuts/
rhymes: -uːts
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱóm
From earlier cahoot + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns). Cahoot is probably borrowed:
* from French cahute (“hut, shack”), from Dutch kajuit (“cabin on a ship”), from Middle Low German kajüte, probably from Middle Dutch kayhute; further etymology uncertain, possibly borrowed from Old French *cahute, chahute (whence Middle French quahute), a blend of cabane (“cabin, hut, shack”) + hute (“hut”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to conceal, hide; to cover; hide, skin”)); or
* from French cohorte (“group of people supporting the same person or thing, cohort”), from Latin cohors (“cohort; crowd”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”) + *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”) (and if so, a doublet of cohort).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cahoot
quantum number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum numbers
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: One of certain integers or half-integers that specify the state of a quantum mechanical system (such as an electron in an atom).
Hilbert space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hilbert spaces
Etymology: Named after German mathematician David Hilbert (1862–1943).
Senses: qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: A generalized Euclidean space in which mathematical functions take the place of points; crucial to the understanding of quantum mechanics and other applications.
Hypernyms: inner product space
Hyponyms: Euclidean space
projective Hilbert space
Derived terms: isohilbert space
projective Hilbert space
Related terms: Banach space
Fréchet space
inner product space
linear algebra
metric space
normed space
pre-Hilbert space
topological vector space
vector space
vector space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vector spaces
Senses: examples: text: A vector space is a set of vectors which can be linearly combined.
text: Each vector space has a basis and dimension.
topics: algebra
geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A set of elements called vectors, together with some field and operations called addition (mapping two vectors to a vector) and scalar multiplication (mapping a vector and an element in the field to a vector), satisfying a list of constraints; equivalently, a module over a field.
Synonyms: linear space
Hypernyms: module
free module
Hyponyms: algebra over a field
Banach space
Euclidean space
inner product space
normed vector space
quadratic space
real vector space
Meronyms: linear subspace
subspace
vector
elementary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛlɪˈmɛntəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɛlɪˈmɛntɹi/
enpr: ĕl'ə-mĕn′tə-rē
enpr: -trē
ipa: /ˌɛləˈmɛntəɹi/
ipa: /ˌɛləˈmɛntɹi/
rhymes: -ɛntəɹi
rhymes: -ɛntɹi
Forms: form: elementaries
form: elementar
form: elem
Etymology: From Middle English elementare, from Latin elementārius (“elementary”), from elementum (“one of the four elements of antiquity; fundamentals”) + -ārius (adjective-forming suffix). Cognate with French élémentaire. By surface analysis, element + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: At Lakeside Elementary I learned to appreciate the forest.
text: He was my dentist. My mom took me to him back in elementary and junior high.
ref: 2011 May 3, Lee Livingston, “Cleveland – Summer of 1962”, in In the Rearview Mirror: A Road Trip into the Heart of Another Country – America 1961, Carthay Press, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: Ellipsis of elementary school.
examples: text: The demon (or elementary) of the South-West wind was particularly dreaded, as being the gini of fever and madness.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 45:
text: […] the spiritual man is either translated like Enoch and Elias to the higher state, or falls down lower than an elementary again […]
ref: 2003, H P Blavatsky, The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky, volume 1:
text: But, in Africa these became definite in their Egyptian Types, by means of which we can follow their development from the elementaries of Chaos and Space into Celestial Intelligencers […]
ref: 2007, Gerald Massey, The Natural Genesis, page 332:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A supernatural being associated with the elements.
subatomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌbəˈtɒmɪk/
ipa: /ˌsʌbəˈtɑːmɪk/
rhymes: -ɒmɪk
Etymology: From sub- + atomic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to particles that are constituents of the atom, or are smaller than an atom; such as proton, neutron, electron, etc.
examples: text: The electron microscope is able to resolve detail at the subatomic level.
glosses: Relating to something that is smaller in scale than the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
Related terms: atomic
subatomically
subatomic particle
take a dump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a dump
form: taking a dump
form: took a dump
form: taken a dump
Etymology: From slang use of dump in reference to an act of defecation.
Senses: examples: text: There's rarely, if ever, a good reason to interrupt a man while he's taking a dump. If the house isn't on fire, let a man crap.
glosses: To defecate.
Synonyms: take a shit
take the browns to the super bowl
defecate
mathematical economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A sub-field of economics which aims at expressing economic theories with mathematical formulae.
econometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌkɒn.əˈmɛt.ɹɪks/
ipa: /ɪˌkɑ.nəˈmɛt.ɹɪks/
ipa: /ɪˌkɔn.əˈmet.ɹɪks/
Etymology: An adaptation of the French économétrie. Coined by Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch in 1926. Compare the earlier German Oekonometrie (now generally spelt Ökonometrie), first used (in a different sense) by Polish economist Paweł Ciompa in 1910.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:econometrics.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The branch of economics that applies statistical methods to the empirical study of economic theories and relationships.
Derived terms: macroeconometrician
macroeconometrics
microeconometrics
Related terms: econometric
econometrical
econometrically
econometrician
econometrist
econometry
macroeconomics
also coined by Frisch
peonage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːənɪdʒ/
Forms: form: peonages
Etymology: From peon + -age.
Senses: examples: text: But there was work to be done down in the Salinas Valley where César Chávez was organizing the grape pickers and lettuce workers out of their state of un-unionized peonage.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 217:
text: "It wasn't just the crowds," Luis said softly. "I saw with my own eyes that Díaz's México is a Potemkin village, Miguel. The México profundo where the poor are so hungry they eat grass and bark. I met Indians whose land is being devoured by Díaz's cronies, entire towns swallowed up, and the people reduced to peonage. I talked to Mexican railroad workers who are paid a fraction of what the American owners pay their own countrymen for the same work."
ref: 2014, Michael Nava, The City of Palaces, Terrace Books, page 191:
glosses: The state of being a peon; the system of paying back debt through servitude and labour; loosely, any system of involuntary servitude.
Derived terms: antipeonage
servitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːvɪtʃuːd/
ipa: /-tjuːd/
ipa: /ˈsɝvɪtud/
Forms: form: servitudes
Etymology: From Middle French servitude, from Latin servitūdō, from Latin servus (“slave”). Equivalent to serve + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: In spite of the importance of this route it remained until a few years ago very insecure. Overhung almost its entire length by the inaccessible fastnesses of Lololand, the passing caravans dared journey only with convoy, and even then were frequently overwhelmed by raiders from the hills, who carried off both trader and goods into the mountains, the former to lifelong servitude.
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China:
text: Balfour, who had sought refuge in Argentina, was extradited, and sentenced to a long term of penal servitude at Parkhurst Prison in the Isle of Wight.
ref: 1948 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “The Isle of Wight Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 216:
text: The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.
ref: 1986, Piotr Buczkowski, Andrzej Klawiter, editors, Theories of Ideology and Ideology of Theories, Rodopi, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:
glosses: The state of being a slave; slavery; being forced to work for others or do their bidding without one's consent or against one's will, either in perpetuity or for a period of time over which one has little or no control.
topics: law
glosses: A qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property and attached to a superior property or to some person other than the owner; the most common form is an easement.
glosses: Service rendered in the army or navy.
glosses: Servants collectively.
examples: text: The usual routine of confections and pastry follows, after which a galore of fruits of all kinds, with a chassè of excellent Mocha, the immediate servitude of which, after good dining, is, I think, universally acknowledged to be a great exhiliration^([sic]).
ref: 1857, Journal of Australasia, volume 2, page 38:
glosses: The act of serving (food or drink, etc.); service.
Derived terms: ritual servitude
Related terms: servility
slavery
serfdom
acrolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acroliths
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀκρόλιθος (akrólithos). By surface analysis, acro- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Greek wooden statue furnished with a rupestral head and limbs.
Derived terms: acrolithan
acrolithic
fringe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: more fringe
form: fringer
form: most fringe
form: fringest
Etymology: From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
Senses: examples: text: So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe.
ref: 2015 September 7, Holland Cotter, “Exhibitions Where Moral Force Trumps Market Forces”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: nonmainstream
word: marginal
word: peripheral
word: alternative
word: fringy
glosses: Outside the mainstream.
Derived terms: fringe church
fringe meeting
fringe theory