cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭp
ipa: /kɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: kips
form: kipp
form: kippe
form: kyppe
Etymology: 1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip (“pack, bundle of hides”).
Senses: glosses: The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
glosses: A bundle or set of such hides.
glosses: A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
examples: text: 'Stockings, madam? Shoes?'
'Yes, your Honor — both.'
'Yarn, perhaps? Morocco?'
'Yarn, your Honor. And kip.'
ref: 1902, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), A Double Barrelled Detective Story:
glosses: The leather made from such hide.
Derived terms: kipskin
kip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭp
ipa: /kɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: kips
Etymology: 1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove.
Senses: glosses: A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
examples: text: I’m just going for my afternoon kip.
glosses: Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
glosses: A very untidy house or room.
glosses: A brothel.
Derived terms: kip-shop
kipsy
kip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭp
ipa: /kɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: kips
form: kipping
form: kipped
form: kipped
Etymology: 1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove.
Senses: examples: text: Don’t worry, I’ll kip on the sofabed.
text: "Steady on, mate. How was I to know this was your gaff? I was lookin' for somewhere to kip."
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 56:
text: He took off his thick black coat and threw it to Harry.
"You can kip under that," he said. "Don' mind it if wriggles a bit, I think I still got a couple o' dormice in one o' the pockets."
ref: 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, published 1998, page 60:
synonyms: word: crash
glosses: To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
Derived terms: kip down
kip in
kip out
kip up
kip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭp
ipa: /kɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: kips
form: kipping
form: kipped
form: kipped
Etymology: From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”) or Middle Dutch kippen (“to grasp, seize, catch”). Cognate with Norwegian kippe (“to snatch”), Swedish kippa (“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch”). Perhaps conflated with some senses of Middle English kepen (“to keep, observe, guard, take possession of, snatch”) (see keep).
Senses: glosses: To snatch; take up hastily; filch
glosses: To hold or keep (together)
glosses: To conduct oneself; act
kip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭp
ipa: /kɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: kips
Etymology: 1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.
Senses: glosses: A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
glosses: A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
glosses: A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
kip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭp
ipa: /kɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: kip
Etymology: 1950–55, from Lao ກີບ (kīp).
Senses: glosses: The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
kip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭp
ipa: /kɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: kips
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air. Or else, perhaps related to German Kippe (“stub”).
Senses: examples: text: Again Turk placed the pennies on the kip. He took his time, deliberate over the small action, held the kip for a long breathless moment, then jerked his wrist and the pennies were in the air.
ref: 1951, Jon Cleary, The Sundowners, published 1952, page 208:
text: Money was laid on the floor for bets on the heads or tails finish of two pennies tossed high into the air from a small wooden kip.
ref: 2003, Gilbert Buchanan, Malco Polia - Traveller, Warrior, page 52:
text: Jack discarded a length of wood, two twists of wire, his two-up kip and a spanner.
ref: 2010, Colin McLaren, Sunflower: A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue, page 101:
topics: games
qualifier: two-up
glosses: A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
kip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭp
ipa: /kɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: kips
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
glosses: A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
Derived terms: glide kip
kip-up
kip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kĭp
ipa: /kɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: kips
form: kipping
form: kipped
form: kipped
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To perform the kip maneuver.
entire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪə/
ipa: /ənˈtaɪə/
ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/
ipa: /ənˈtaɪɚ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: intire
Etymology: From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.
Senses: examples: text: We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
text: No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
ref: 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:
synonyms: complete
total
utter
antonyms: partial
incomplete
glosses: Whole; complete.
examples: text: Spores tetrahedral, paraphyses mastoid-claviform, scales smooth, entire.
ref: 1899, Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, volumes 6-8, page 192:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
topics: complex-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
raw_tags: of a complex function
examples: text: On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
ref: 2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423:
glosses: Not gelded.
raw_tags: of a male animal
examples: text: See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: Morally whole; pure; sheer.
examples: text: Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire
ref: 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:
glosses: Internal; interior.
Synonyms: word: complete
word: entire
word: holo-
word: one
word: overall
word: total
word: whole
Hyponyms: word: full-fledged
Derived terms: entire function
entirely
entireness
entirety
go the entire animal
go the entire swine
subentire
unentire
Related terms: word: integrate
word: integrity
word: completely
word: entirety
word: intact
entire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪə/
ipa: /ənˈtaɪə/
ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/
ipa: /ənˈtaɪɚ/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: entires
form: intire
Etymology: From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.
Senses: examples: text: In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
ref: 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:
text: ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 19:
glosses: The whole of something; the entirety.
examples: text: He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
ref: 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 124:
glosses: An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
glosses: Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
poke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pōk
ipa: /pəʊk/
enpr: pōk
ipa: /poʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: pokes
Etymology: From Middle English poke, from Anglo-Norman poke (whence pocket), from Frankish *poka. More at pocket. Doublet of pouch.
Senses: examples: text: And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, ‘It is ten o'clock[…]’
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: When the Pig is proffered, hold vp the poke.
ref: 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276
text: And suddainly vntyes the Poke,
Which out of it sent such a smoke,
As ready was them all to choke,
So greeuous was the pother […]
ref: 1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia
text: … and as to shape, a nightmare has as much. Under the poke and the muff-box, the face sometimes entirely disappears …
ref: 1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573
text: In the summertime they'd reach out and snatch your straw hat right off your head, and if you were fool enough to go after it your poke was bound to be lighter when you came out.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 91:
text: She did not eat blood-oranges. Her maw gived her one in a poke and she was going to throw it in the bin, Oh it is all black.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 138:
glosses: A sack or bag.
synonyms: poke sleeve
glosses: A long, wide sleeve.
glosses: An ice cream cone or a bag of chips
Derived terms: buy a pig in a poke
holy poke
meal-poke
pig in a poke
pocket
pokeful
shitepoke
poke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pōk
ipa: /pəʊk/
enpr: pōk
ipa: /poʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Etymology: Clipping of pocan (“pokeweed”) or directly borrowed from Powhatan pocan. See pocan for more.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen rodents were scarce they ate chestnuts and rhubarb and poke and other wild food[.]
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 103:
glosses: Pokeweed, and its berries.
Synonyms: the list at pokeweed
Derived terms: pokeberry
pokeroot
poke salad
pokeweed
poke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pōk
ipa: /pəʊk/
enpr: pōk
ipa: /poʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
ipa: /ˈpoʊkeɪ/
ipa: /ˈpoʊki/
rhymes: -əʊkeɪ
rhymes: -əʊki
enpr: pōk
ipa: /pəʊk/
enpr: pōk
ipa: /poʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: poké
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian poke (literally “to cut crosswise into pieces”).
Senses: examples: text: Though I'd often eaten sashimi, poke was then completely new to me—delicious rubies of cubed fish dressed in light sesame oil, garnished with minced bits of reddish-brown seaweed and the ground centers of kukui nuts (see recipe, next page).
ref: 2004 October 17, Garrett Hongo, “Poke”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The fishmonger offered the poke in plastic tubs, without ceremony, just as I had always known it in Honolulu, where I grew up and where some of the best poke is sold at a liquor store, Tamura’s. Then, a few years back, poke started appearing on stray restaurant menus, sometimes identified as Hawaiian crudo or ceviche.
ref: 2016 February 4, Ligaya Mishan, “Poke Reaches the Shores of Manhattan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
Derived terms: poke bowl
poke salad
Related terms: ceviche
crudo
pokey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊ.ki/
rhymes: -əʊki
homophone: pokie
Forms: form: poky
Senses: examples: text: He loved the little pokey kitchen, where men’s boots tramped, and the dog slept with one eye open for fear of being trodden on; where the lamp hung over the table at night, and everything was so silent.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 9”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: of small volume, cramped (of a room, house)
glosses: slow
glosses: fast
raw_tags: of a car
pokey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊ.ki/
rhymes: -əʊki
homophone: pokie
Forms: form: pokeys
form: poky
Senses: glosses: prison.
examples: text: Grip my pokey, ching down these punks
ref: 2018 August 25, (1011) Eleven X (Splash) Russ X Taze, “Anti”, 1:35:
synonyms: jooka
ying
bassy
rambo
glosses: knife.
Synonyms: in the poke
Related terms: Hokey Pokey
pokeweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpoʊkˌwid/
Forms: form: pokeweeds
Etymology: From poke + weed. The first element is from Powhatan pocan.
Senses: examples: text: Native Americans introduced whites and slaves to several edible greens including marigold, milkweed, and pokeweed (Whit 2007). Slaves boiled pokeweed and often mixed it with turnip greens because it was thought that the two vegetables enhanced each other's flavor.
ref: 2009, Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach, What the Slaves Ate, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: A poisonous North American plant, Phytolacca americana, with reddish stems, broad leaves, clusters of white flowers, and dark purple berries.
Synonyms: poke
pokeberry
pokeroot
poke salad
American pokeweed
Virginian poke
pocan
American nightshade
cancer root
garget
inkberry
pigeonweed
skokeberry
scoke
coakum
Related terms: poke salad
poke salet
poke salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pōk săʹləd
ipa: /ˌpoʊk ˈsæləd/
ipa: /ˌpoʊk ˈsælɪt/
Forms: form: poke salads
form: poke salet
form: poke sallet
form: poke salat
form: polk salad
Etymology: poke (“pokeweed”) + salad or sallet. “Poke salad” and “poke sallet” mean the same thing—carefully boiled pokeweed. Uncooked pokeweed is poisonous. Given that “salad” connotes “raw,” many speakers favor the original “sallet” which connotes “cooked greens.”
Senses: examples: text: The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee.
ref: 1921, T. S. Stribling, Birthright:
text: Whereas to most people, “salad” is made with raw greens, “poke salad” shoots and greens must be cooked, the cooking water changed and discarded several times. […] There are many documented deaths from eating improperly prepared “poke salad.”
ref: 2013, Carole J. Skelly, Dictionary of Herbs, Spices, Seasonings, and Natural Flavorings, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Despite the fact that the kudzu-like Phytolacca americana sprouts up all across North America, poke sallet, a dish made from the plant’s slightly-less-toxic leaves, is a regional thing, popular only to Appalachia and the American South.
ref: 2019 October 3, Abby Carney, “How Did This Poisonous Plant Become One of the American South’s Most Long-Standing Staples?”, in Saveur, retrieved 06 Jun 2023:
glosses: A food made from boiled pokeweed leaves, which are poisonous unless cooked properly.
examples: text: If some of ya'll never been down south too much / I'm gonna tell you a little bit about this / So that you'll understand what I'm talking about / Down there we have a plant that grows out in the woods, and the fields / And it looks something like a turnip green / Everybody calls it polk salad
ref: 1968, Tony Joe White, “Polk Salad Annie”, in Black and White:
text: (see more at pokeweed)
synonyms: poke
pokeweed
pocan
glosses: Pokeweed, the leafy plant used to make such a dish.
poke salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pōk săʹləd
ipa: /ˌpoʊk ˈsæləd/
ipa: /ˌpoʊk ˈsælɪt/
enpr: pō'kā săʹləd
ipa: /ˌpoʊ.keɪ ˈsæləd/
enpr: pōk săʹləd
ipa: /ˌpoʊk ˈsæləd/
ipa: /ˌpoʊk ˈsælɪt/
Forms: form: poke salads
form: poké salad
Etymology: poke (“cubed raw fish”) + salad
Senses: examples: text: […] a wide range of creative seafood dishes (the Hawaiian-style poke salad with ahi tuna is a local favorite).
ref: 2017, Fodor's Southern California: with Los Angeles, San Diego, the Central Coast & the Best Road Trips, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN:
synonyms: poke bowl
glosses: A Hawaiian food made from diced raw fish, seasoning, diced fruit and vegetables, and sometimes rice.
Hypernyms: salad
wasteland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/
ipa: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/
ipa: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlænd/
ipa: /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/
ipa: /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɛnd/
ipa: /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɘnd/
Forms: form: wastelands
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old English weste land (“wasteland”); equivalent to waste + land.
Senses: examples: text: Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.
text: 2007, Kai Hansen, "To Mother Earth", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free II.
Here create another wasteland / On and on 'til nothing's there / Here it comes, the devastation / Poisoning the air
glosses: A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
examples: text: After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.
text: Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
ref: 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:
glosses: Any barren or uninteresting place.
examples: text: Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
text: How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?
ref: 2014, Randall Munroe, anonymous quotee, “Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #7”, in What If?, New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 157:
text: Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: A devastated, uninhabitable area.
examples: text: Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.
ref: 2023 September 20, “National Rail Awards 2023”, in RAIL, page 82:
glosses: Unused land.
Related terms: anecumene
wilderness
optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒptɪks/
ipa: /ˈɑptɪks/
Forms: form: opticks
Etymology: From Medieval Latin opticus (“optic, optical”), from Ancient Greek ὀπτικός (optikós), equivalent to optic + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: a PhD in the optics of liquid crystals
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The physics of light and vision: basic optical science.
examples: text: defense R&D investments in both optics and electronics
glosses: Technology that makes use of such physics: applied optical science; business lines making use of such technology.
examples: text: the optics of liquid crystals under certain laboratory conditions
text: The optics of this telescope are particularly good.
text: Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…].
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
glosses: The light-related aspects of a device.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: appearances, spectacle, theatrics; choreography
text: His policy prescription was sound, but the optics of its discussion were horrible.
text: […] I'd be interested to know whether US authorities proffered any "advice" on the optics: Ixnay on the torture dungeon, […]; if you have to have victims' loved ones present, go for the widows and photogenic orphans rather than Moqtada's boys.
ref: 2007 January 1, Mark Steyn, “Blowing a 'hinge moment' of history”, in The Jerusalem Post:
text: When President Obama responded to the failed Christmas airliner bombing while on vacation in his native state of Hawaii, some Republicans claimed it was “bad optics.” “Hawaii to many Americans seems like a foreign place,” the Republican strategist Kevin Madden told CNN.
ref: 2010 March 4, Ben Zimmer, “Optics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: "There's also a gentle nod to the Vatican and Italy, which shows the Pope is not above playing a little optics - I'm sure he and the CEO of Fiat have met."
ref: 2015 September 28, Vanessa Barford, quoting Dan Neil, “Pope Francis and the little black car”, in BBC News:
text: “The optics weren’t good. Next time tell them not to bring guns”
ref: 2021 February 9, David D. Kirkpatrick, Mike McIntire, quoting Mike Shirkey, “‘Its Own Domestic Army’: How the G.O.P. Allied Itself With Militants”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: This is a trickier one for the king. The optics are bad: a disgraced prince living in the luxury of a huge crown estate property.
ref: 2025 October 20, Caroline Davies, “Dealing with ‘Andrew problem’ could help ease William’s accession to the throne”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Perception, image, public relations, especially in politics.
Derived terms: acoustooptics
adaptive optics
biooptics
conformal optics
electrooptics
fiber optics
fiber-optics
fibre-optics
fibre optics
folded optics
heteroptics
magnetooptics
nanooptics
neutron optics
orthoptics
spinoptics
optics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒptɪks/
ipa: /ˈɑptɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of optic
foo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: -fu
Forms: form: foos
Etymology: From Mandarin 府 (fǔ).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fu: an administrative subdivision of imperial China; the capital of such divisions.
foo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: -fu
Etymology: From Chinese 福 (fú, “fortunate; prosperity, good luck”), via its use as 福星 (Fúxīng, “Jupiter”) in Chinese statues of the Three Lucky Stars, picked up from c. 1935 as a nonsense word in Bill Holman's Smokey Stover comic strip, whence it was picked up by Pogo, Looney Tunes, and others. Used by Jack Speer as the name of a mock god of mimeography in the 1930s.
Popularized in computing contexts by the Tech Model Railroad Club's 1959 Dictionary of the TMRC Language, which incorporated it into a parody of the Hindu chant om mani padme hum, possibly under the influence of WWII military slang FUBAR, which had been repopularized by Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
Senses: examples: text: Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the series, and followed immediately by bar.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Foo (“placeholder god”).
Derived terms: foobar
Related terms: FUBAR
foo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: -fu
Etymology: A minced form of fuck.
Senses: examples: text: Oh foo – the cake burnt!
glosses: Expression of disappointment or disgust.
Synonyms: sense: expression of disgust
word: darn
sense: expression of disgust
word: drat
foo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: -fu
Forms: form: foos
form: foo'
Senses: examples: text: [page 10:] "I knew you'd be scared," Reggie laughed. "What are you doin', foo? You must be crazy. You don't scare me." "Then why did you almost fall out of that chair? I scare everyone."
[page 38:] "This is coo," said Fred. "It's almost like being there." "We are there, foo!" said Reggie as the boys slapped palms.
ref: 2020, J. Lewis Johnson, A Dark Night in the Fieldhouse:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of fool.
Related terms: sense: Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
word: foo dog
sense: Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
word: foo fighter
sense: Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
word: foo-foo
sense: Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
word: foo-foo band
sense: Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
word: foo-foo juice
sense: Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
word: foo lion
sense: Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
word: foo young
sense: Multiword terms containing "foo" (probably unrelated to the above etymologies)
word: foo yung
spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈspiɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪɹɪt
Forms: form: spirits
form: spiriting
form: spirited
form: spirited
form: spir't
Etymology: From Middle English spirit, from Old French espirit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus (“breath; spirit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Compare inspire, respire, transpire, all ultimately from Latin spīrō (“I breathe, blow, respire”). In this sense, displaced native Middle English gast (from Old English gāst), whence modern English ghost. Doublet of spiritus, spirytus, sprite, spright, and esprit.
Senses: examples: text: I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of felicity.
ref: 1835, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Pencillings by the Way:
text: When I was young and full of grace, I sprited a rattlesnake.
When I was young, a fever fell my spirit; I will not tell.
You're on your honor not to tell.
ref: 1986 July 28, R.E.M., “I Believe”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:
text: God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel’s persuasive idea of hell.
ref: 2009 February 8, Dave Kehr, “Buñuel at His Wildest, in Circulation Again”, in New York Times:
glosses: To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
examples: text: Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.
text: [H]e left behind many Officers and private Men, vvho novv ſpirit-up and aſſiſt thoſe obſtinate People to continue in their Rebellion.
ref: 1714 February, [Jonathan Swift], The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set forth in Their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis: […], London: […] [John Barber] for John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: Sometimes followed by up: to animate with vigour; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit.
Derived terms: spirit away
spirit off
voces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vox
Derived terms: voces nihili
in spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I can’t make it to the party, but I’ll be there in spirit.
text: For I in spirit saw thee move
⁠Thro’ circles of the bounding sky;
⁠Week after week: the days go by:
Come quick, thou bringest all I love.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: Non-physically; in one's thoughts only.
examples: text: The newer works differ from the older ones in spirit.
glosses: In mood or manner.
seed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēd
ipa: /siːd/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: cede
homophone: sede
Forms: form: seeds
form: seeding
form: seeded
form: seeded
form: sede
Etymology: ]
From Middle English seed, sede, side, from Old English sēd, sǣd (“seed, that which is sown”), from Proto-West Germanic *sād, from Proto-Germanic *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to sow, throw”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Säid (“seed”), West Frisian sied (“seed”), Dutch zaad (“seed”), Low German Saad (“seed”), German Saat (“seed; sowing”), Danish sæd (“seed”), Swedish säd (“seed”), Icelandic sæði (“seed”), Latin satiō (“seeding, time of sowing, season”). More at sow.
Senses: examples: text: I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.
glosses: To plant or sow an area with seeds.
examples: text: These poppies have not seeded themselves yet.
glosses: To shed seeds (refers to plants)
examples: text: […] AGRYPNIA, or Vigilance, in yellovv, a ſable mantle, ſeeded vvith vvaking eies, and ſiluer fringe: […]
ref: 1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “The Pegme at Fen-church”, in B. Jon: His Part of King James His Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through His Honorable Cittie of London, Thurseday the 15. of March. 1603. […], London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] [and George Eld] for Edward Blount, published 1604, →OCLC, signature B, recto:
glosses: To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
examples: text: A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
text: The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
text: The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.
glosses: To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
examples: text: Everybody likes to second‐guess computers, including who seed the pros. Nothing could have better exposed the vulnerability of the computer seeding than the spectacle of clay‐court experts looking like weekend hackers on grass.
ref: 1979 July 2, “Reflection on the Seedings Fills Pause at Wimbledon”, in The New York Times:
topics: games
gaming
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
glosses: To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
examples: text: The tennis player seeded into the quarters.
glosses: To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
examples: text: A number of clouds were seeded to help provide rain to a drought-stricken area.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
glosses: To produce seed.
glosses: To grow to maturity.
glosses: To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
Derived terms: overseed
self-seed
seed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sēd
ipa: /siːd/
rhymes: -iːd
homophone: cede
homophone: sede
Etymology: From see + -d (“past tense suffix; variant of -ed”).
Senses: examples: text: Presently a rioting noise was heard without. Starting up, the landlord cried, "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship. Hurrah, boys; now we'll have the latest news from the Feegees."
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: simple past and past participle of see
spirit away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹ.ɪt əˌweɪ/
Forms: form: spirits away
form: spiriting away
form: spirited away
form: spirited away
Senses: examples: text: The paintings were spirited away under cover of darkness.
glosses: To remove without anyone's noticing.
examples: text: "But far up in the country, in the mountain districts, we still often hear of fairies having been seen, of their spiriting people away into the mountains, and such like.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 156:
glosses: To carry off through the agency of a spirit or through some magical means.
root
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ro͞ot
ipa: /ɹuːt/
ipa: /ɹʉt/
ipa: /ɹʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -ʊt
homophone: route (some pronunciations)
homophone: rute
Forms: form: roots
form: rooting
form: rooted
form: rooted
Etymology: PIE word
 *wréh₂ds
From Middle English rote, root, roote (“the underground part of a plant”), from late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót (Icelandic rót), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); Doublet of wort, radish, and radix.
Senses: examples: text: The cuttings are starting to root.
text: In deep grounds the weeds root the deeper.
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: Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.
ref: 2014 October 26, Jeff Howell, “Is the Japanese knotweed threat exaggerated? Our troubleshooter calls for calm about Japanese knotweed in the garden – and moss on the roof”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), archived from the original on 21 Jan 2015, [print version: Don't panic about an overhyped invasion, 25 October 2014, p. P13]:
glosses: To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
examples: text: We rooted some cuttings last summer.
glosses: To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
examples: text: If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misapprehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment.
ref: 1823, Gilbert Burnet, The Life of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt., Sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of King's-Bench:
text: Small theater companies come and go very quickly — many times after one show — but community response to Triangle has been strong, and there is a good chance that they will make it through those early growing stages and firmly root.
ref: 1981 April 18, Michael Bronski, “Good Production — Bad Play”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
text: Massacres that take place during war often seem to be rooted in irrational emotion.
ref: 2020 October 15, Frank Pasquale, “‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To fix firmly; to establish.
examples: text: We rooted his box and planted a virus on it.
text: I want to root my Android phone so I can remove the preinstalled crapware.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: jailbreak
english: mobile phone
translation: mobile phone
glosses: To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
root
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ro͞ot
ipa: /ɹuːt/
ipa: /ɹʉt/
ipa: /ɹʊt/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -ʊt
homophone: route (some pronunciations)
homophone: rute
Forms: form: roots
form: rooting
form: rooted
form: rooted
Etymology: Possibly an alteration of rout (“to make a loud noise”), influenced by hoot.
Senses: examples: text: I'm rooting for you, don't let me down!
text: Let me root, root, root for the home team,
ref: 1908, Jack Norworth, Take Me Out to the Ball Game:
synonyms: word: barrack
word: cheer on
glosses: To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
raw_tags: with "for" or "on"
functional root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functional roots
Senses: examples: x²+1 is the functional 2nd root of x⁴+2x²+2.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function which, when applied a given number of times, equals another given function.
lattice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæt.ɪs/
rhymes: -ætɪs
Forms: form: lattices
form: latticing
form: latticed
form: latticed
form: lettice
Etymology: From Middle English latis, from Middle French lattis (“lathing”), from Old French lattis, from latte (“a lath”), from Frankish *lattā, *lattu (“a lath”), from Proto-Germanic *lattǭ, *lattō, *laþþō (“board; plank; ledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)latn-, *(s)lat- (“beam; log”). Cognate with Old High German latta (“lath”), (German Latte), Old English lætt (“lath”), Middle Low German lāde (“plank, counter, sales counter”), German Laden (“shop”). More at lath.
Senses: examples: text: to lattice timbers
glosses: To make a lattice of.
examples: text: to lattice a window
glosses: To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.
cancer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænsə/
ipa: /ˈkæːnsə/
ipa: /ˈkænsɚ/
rhymes: -ænsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more cancer
form: most cancer
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cancer (“crab”), a calque of Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab; ulcer; cancer”) (possibly cognate), applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab. Doublet of canker and chancre.
Senses: examples: text: I used to love this game, but the new meta is straight up cancer.
synonyms: word: cancerous
word: AIDS
glosses: Extremely unpleasant and annoying.
Related terms: alt: benignity
word: benignancy
word: leukemia
word: lymphoma
word: malignancy
word: melanoma
Capricornus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæpɹɪˈkɔːnəs/
ipa: /ˌkæpɹɪˈkɔːɹnəs/
Forms: form: ♑︎
form: Capricorn
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Latin Capricornus, from capra (“goat”) and cornū (“horn”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a goat.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Capricorn, one of the signs.
Synonyms: word: Capricornus
word: Capricorn
word: Goat
Hypernyms: word: constellation
Meronyms: word: Prima Giedi
word: Secunda Giedi
word: Nashira
word: Deneb Algedi
word: Alshat
Derived terms: Capricornian
Tropic of Capricorn
Related terms: Capricorni
regulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reguli
form: reguluses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin regulus.
Senses: glosses: An impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores.
rego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛdʒəʊ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒəʊ
Forms: form: regos
Etymology: From registration + -o (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The police pulled me over for driving with an expired rego.
text: You might give these people a badge or some livery for their boat and you can give them a discount on the rego of their boat.
ref: 2003, Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 18057:
text: They gave us permission to drive in Australia under the British rego, meaning we still had our GB number plates.
ref: 2007, Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer, page 223:
text: When you come to buy or sell a car, every state has its own regulations, particularly with rego (registration).
ref: 2008, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Peter Dragicevich, Justin Flynn, Paul Harding, East Coast Australia, page 501:
glosses: Registration for a motor vehicle.
examples: text: David couldn′t drive his car as he hadn′t paid his rego.
glosses: The fee required for such registration.
examples: text: “They also got the regos of the cars. There were two commercial travelers whose cars were trapped inside by the pickets, and they got hit with writs.[…]”
ref: 1984, Renfrey Clarke, The Picket: Tasmanian Mine Workers Defend Their Jobs, page 84:
text: A line of cars was parked along one side, presumably belonging to the sex workers and their clients. ‘Get their regos,’ Borghini said to one of his people.
ref: 2010, Alex Palmer, The Labyrinth of Drowning, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page:
glosses: The registration number of a motor vehicle, used by police to access registration details such as the identity of the owner.
Derived terms: rego plate
toad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /toʊd/
ipa: /təʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
homophone: toed
homophone: towed
Forms: form: toads
form: toading
form: toaded
form: toaded
form: tode
form: twoad
Etymology: From Middle English tode, toode, tadde, tade, from Old English *tāde, a shortened variant of Old English tādie, tādiġe (“toad”).
Cognate with Scots tade, taid, taed, ted (“toad”). Compare also Danish tudse (“toad”), possibly originally from the same prehistoric root; also Swedish tåssa, tossa (“toad”), Old English tāxe (“toad”), Old English tosca (“toad”) by contrast.
Senses: glosses: To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.
frog and toad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frog and toads
Senses: examples: I'm just going down the frog and toad to see my old china Dave. (= I'm just going down the road to see my friend Dave.)
glosses: Road.
piglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡ.lət/
rhymes: -ɪɡlət
Forms: form: piglets
Etymology: From pig + -let (diminutive suffix). Attested from 1855. Displaced Old English fearh.
Senses: examples: text: Very little was this piglet,
And of course was not a big pig,
ref: 1855 December 10, “Mother Goose in Trochaics”, in Buffalo Morning Express, Buffalo, NY, page 4:
synonyms: bonham
hog-babe
pigling
shoat
glosses: A young pig.
Derived terms: guinea piglet
moss piglet
niglet
niglette
sheepfold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃiːp.fəʊld/
rhymes: -iːpfəʊld
Forms: form: sheepfolds
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English shepefald, perhaps from Late Old English sċēapa falde (literally “sheep's fold”), equivalent to sheep + fold.
Senses: examples: text: If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180:
glosses: An enclosure for keeping sheep.
glosses: A flock of sheep.
tramp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trămp
ipa: /tɹæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: tramps
form: tramping
form: tramped
form: tramped
Etymology: From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp.
Cognate with Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap.
Senses: glosses: To walk with heavy footsteps.
examples: text: We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.
glosses: To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
glosses: To hitchhike.
glosses: To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
examples: text: to tramp the country
glosses: To travel or wander through.
examples: text: Soak them [blankets, etc.], add to the water in which the linens were washed some soap, and also some of the preparation to produce a strong lather; rub or tramp them, then rinse and dry.
ref: 1842, Catherine Esther Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy:
glosses: To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
examples: text: She hesitated, “be off—tramp, march,” he exclaimed, in a tone which the poor girl dared not disobey. She left the room, and Edward followed her to the door.
ref: 1838 November, Francis Purcell [pseudonym; Sheridan Le Fanu], “Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess. […]”, in The Dublin University Magazine […], volume XII, number LXXI, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; London: Samuel Holdsworth, →OCLC, page 509, column 1:
text: Tramp, my lad. Bundle out of this, please, hand over hand, and double quick.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Silver’s Embassy”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part IV (The Stockade), page 164:
glosses: To scram; begone.
glosses: To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
Derived terms: trample
tromp
tramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trămp
ipa: /tɹæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: tramps
Etymology: Clipping of trampoline (ultimately related to the verb via German trampeln).
Senses: glosses: Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
first-degree murder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-degree murders
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The criminal offence of murder in a form considered by law to be the most serious; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves premeditation, or the choice of victim or other circumstances being regarded as especially blameworthy.
topics: law
glosses: An act that constitutes the crime of first-degree murder.
Synonyms: murder in the first degree
murder one
Hyponyms: felony murder
Related terms: murder
second-degree murder
murder in the first degree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murders in the first degree
Senses: glosses: Synonym of first-degree murder.
synonyms: word: first-degree murder