cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːmaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹmaɪn/
Forms: form: carmines
Etymology: PIE word
 *kʷŕ̥mis
From French carmin, from irregular Medieval Latin carminium, itself from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) from Persian *کرمست (*kermest), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš (“worm”), plus or with influence from Latin minium. Compare crimson and kermes.
Senses: examples: 1967, Time, "The Case of the Dubious Dye," 6 January, 1967, https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101257/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,843172,00.html
Cases of cubana salmonellosis in three other states were traced to carmine red, and supplies were called in. […] But authorities have been checking other places for carmine red, knowing that it is a favorite coloring in candy, chewing gum, ice cream, cough syrups and drugs. Manufacturers like to use it because of a legal quirk: being a natural rather than a synthetic product, it does not have to be mentioned on labels.
glosses: A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives.
examples: text: He wore a great coat in midsummer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter XIV, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, page 347:
text: I am alive, I guess, / The branches on my hand / Are full of morning-glory, / And at my fingers' end / The carmine tingles warm,
ref: c. 1862, Emily Dickinson, “(please specify the chapter or poem)”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd and M[illicent] T[odd] Bingham, editors, Bolts of Melody, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, published 1945, page 140:
text: He pictured himself in an adobe house in Mexico, half-reclining on a rug-covered couch, his slender, artistic fingers closed on a cigarette while he listened to guitars strumming melancholy undertones to an age-old dirge of Castile and an olive-skinned, carmine-lipped girl caressed his hair.
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 5, in This Side of Paradise:
text: […] the dawn breaking behind the hill-tops in our rear, the first narrow streaks of gold, like swords slitting the darkness, and then the growing light and the seas of carmine cloud stretching away into inconceivable distances […]
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IV, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: The velvet I seen was brown, but in Boston they got all colors. Carmine. That means red but when you talk about velvet you got to say 'carmine.'
ref: 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 33:
glosses: A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment.
Synonyms: sense: pigment
word: crimson
sense: pigment
word: cochineal
sense: pigment
word: C.I. 75470
sense: pigment
word: E120
Derived terms: acetocarmine
azocarmine
carmalum
carminated
carmined
carmine red
carminic
indigo carmine
paracarmine
picrocarmine
carmine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːmaɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹmaɪn/
Etymology: PIE word
 *kʷŕ̥mis
From French carmin, from irregular Medieval Latin carminium, itself from Arabic قِرْمِز (qirmiz, “crimson, kermes”) from Persian *کرمست (*kermest), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kŕ̥miš (“worm”), plus or with influence from Latin minium. Compare crimson and kermes.
Senses: glosses: Of the purplish red colour shade carmine.
carnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: carnations
Etymology: From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a flower and its color, possibly instead from corruption in French of coronation (“crowning, crowned thing”) under the influence of carnation, from the flower's supposed resemblance to a crown.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
originally, Dianthus caryophyllus
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
other members of genus Dianthus and hybrids
glosses: The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
examples: text: And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 6:
glosses: A rosy pink colour
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
glosses: A scarlet colour.
Synonyms: sense: plant, flower
english: also called gillyflower
translation: also called gillyflower
word: clove pink
sense: plant, flower; ancestor of the carnation
word: Dianthus caryophyllus
sense: plant, flower
word: cottage pink
sense: plant, flower
word: Dianthus plumarius
Derived terms: carnationed
carnation-grass
carnationist
sea carnation
Related terms: carnal
carnassial
carnify
carnival
carnivore
carnosity
incarnadine
incarnate
carnation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a flower and its color, possibly instead from corruption in French of coronation (“crowning, crowned thing”) under the influence of carnation, from the flower's supposed resemblance to a crown.
Senses: glosses: Of a rosy pink or red colour.
glosses: Of a human flesh color.
Related terms: gypsophila
amethyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ə.θɪst/
Forms: form: amethysts
Etymology: From Middle English ametist, from Old French ametiste (French améthyste), from Ancient Greek ἀμέθυστος (améthustos, “not drunk”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μεθύω (methúō, “I am drunk”), from μέθυ (méthu, “wine”).
The name was based on the ancient belief that amethyst gemstones could prevent intoxication. People in ancient Greece and Rome would wear amethyst or drink from cups made of amethyst to ward off the effects of alcohol.
Senses: examples: text: The burning evening sun lighted with mellow gold the coats of the fierce little tiger-kittens — orange silk with stripes of black velvet — the broken amethysts and ruined emeralds of the poor bird's train cruelly scattered over the trampled grass
ref: 1894, Sir Edwin Arnold, Wandering Words, page 260:
text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref: 2012 March 23, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
glosses: A transparent purple to violet variety of quartz with traces of manganese, used as a gemstone.
glosses: A purple colour.
examples: text: The Field is Topaz, a Lion rampant Amethyst [...]
ref: 1726, John Guillim, The Banner Display'd, page 407:
text: Purple, on the arms of princes Mercury, of peers amethyst, and of commoners purpure, [is represented] by diagonal lines from the sinister chief to the dexter base.
ref: 1834, The Art of Heraldry; Explaining the Origin and Use of Arms and Armorial Bearings, Etc, page 14:
text: 1st & 4th grand Quarter alike viz. Field Pearl, on a bend Sapphire 3 Buckheads, coup'd topaz for Stanley. The 2d Quarter, Field Sapphire with an inverted Chief, amethyst. The 3d, A Checque topaz & Amethyst, this seems prior to Bosworth field, to have belong'd to Sr Robt Goushill whose Dr a Stanley married …
ref: 1906 (printed), The Beetham Repository, 1770 (eds. William Hutton, John Rawlinson Ford), page 115
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The tincture purpure, when blazoning by precious stones.
Derived terms: amethyst deceiver
amethyst gold
amethystic
amethystine
amethyst starling
ametrine
amethyst
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.ə.θɪst/
Forms: form: more amethyst
form: most amethyst
Etymology: From Middle English ametist, from Old French ametiste (French améthyste), from Ancient Greek ἀμέθυστος (améthustos, “not drunk”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + μεθύω (methúō, “I am drunk”), from μέθυ (méthu, “wine”).
The name was based on the ancient belief that amethyst gemstones could prevent intoxication. People in ancient Greece and Rome would wear amethyst or drink from cups made of amethyst to ward off the effects of alcohol.
Senses: glosses: Having a colour similar to that of the gemstone
buff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌf/
ipa: /bɐf/
ipa: /bʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: buffer
form: more buff
form: buffest
form: most buff
Etymology: From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).
Senses: glosses: Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
examples: text: The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
synonyms: buffed
buffed out
glosses: Unusually muscular.
examples: text: That's right: I'm taking driver's ed next semester. Hiring an interpreter for CHS and the deaf school outta my own hefty pockets. You're welcome. Oh, and I'm going to get really skinny and buff. All slim like a swimsuit model.
ref: 2011, Josh Berk, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Random House Digital, Inc., →ISBN, page 244:
glosses: Physically attractive.
Derived terms: buff-tip moth
buffly
buffster
buff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌf/
ipa: /bɐf/
ipa: /bʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: buffs
form: buffing
form: buffed
form: buffed
Etymology: From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).
Senses: examples: text: He was already buffing the car's hubs.
synonyms: wax
shine
polish
furbish
burnish
glosses: To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
examples: text: The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
text: I noticed that the pistols were buffed in the update.
topics: video-games
antonyms: debuff
nerf
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To make a character or an item stronger.
examples: text: "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" [...] They attempted to transfer her to urology by modifying her chart (buffing it) to request urine tests, but the doctors in urology sent (bounced) her back.
ref: 1996, Jeffrey E. Nash, James M. Calonico, The Meaning of Social Interaction: An Introduction to Social Psychology, page 139:
text: The implication of such an action is an invitation to buff the chart. The medical records department could have prevented the falsification by sending a copy of the chart to the attorney at the same time that they notified the hospital physician of the attorney's request for the chart.
ref: 2004, Gregory Davis, Pathology and Law, page 121:
qualifier: medical slang
glosses: To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
topics: arts
graffiti
visual-arts
glosses: To remove graffiti, particularly by someone who is not a graffiti writer.
Derived terms: buffable
buff down
buff out
buff the muffin
buff up
buff wheel
rebuff
unbuffed
buff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌf/
ipa: /bɐf/
ipa: /bʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: buffs
form: buffing
form: buffed
form: buffed
Etymology: From Old French bufer (“to cuff, buffet”). See buffet (“a blow”).
Senses: examples: text: Bravely run Red-hood, / There was a shock, / To have buff’d out the blood / From ought but a block.
ref: a. 1640, Ben Jonson, The Under-wood, page 277:
glosses: To strike.
buff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌf/
ipa: /bɐf/
ipa: /bʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: buffs
Etymology: From Old French bufer (“to cuff, buffet”). See buffet (“a blow”).
Senses: examples: text: Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 6:
text: A man must consider what a blind-man’s-buff is this game of conformity. If I know your sect I anticipate your argument.
ref: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”, in Essays: First Series:
glosses: A strike; a blow.
Derived terms: blind man's buff
counterbuff
rebuff
buff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌf/
ipa: /bɐf/
ipa: /bʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: buffs
form: buffing
form: buffed
form: buffed
Etymology: From Middle English buffen (“to stutter, stammer”), from Old English byffan (“to mumble, mutter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bubjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to fear, to be afraid”). More at bive (“tremble, shake”) and bever.
Senses: glosses: To stammer, stutter
buff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌf/
ipa: /bɐf/
ipa: /bʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: buffs
Etymology: Clipping of buffalo.
Senses: examples: text: […] diced buff (buffalo) meat, usually heavily spiced […]
ref: 2006, Bradley Mayhew, Joe Bindloss, Stan Armington, Nepal:
text: You will eat water buffalo meat and drink boiled water buffalo milk: buff burgers at Aunt Jane's restaurant, buff mo-mos which are the Tibetan won-tons, and buff steaks at The Globe.
ref: 1992, Marilyn Stablein, The Census Taker: Stories of a Traveler in India and Nepal, page 62:
glosses: A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
buff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌf/
ipa: /bɐf/
ipa: /bʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
Forms: form: buffs
Senses: examples: text: For they had helmets on their heads, fashioned like wild beast's necks, and strange beavers or buffs to the same, and wore on their helmets great high plumes of feathers, as they had been wings : […]
ref: 1899, Selected Lives (orig. by Plutarch), page 317
glosses: Alternative form of buffe (“face armor”).
beplaster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
-æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: beplasters
form: beplastering
form: beplastered
form: beplastered
form: beplaister
Etymology: From be- + plaster.
Senses: examples: text: Yet with talents like these, and an excellent heart,
The man had his failings, a dupe to his art;
Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread,
And beplaister’d with rouge, his own natural red.
ref: 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation: A Poem, London: G. Kearsly, page 14:
text: A starving man, however, little heeds conventional proprieties, especially on a South-Sea Island, and accordingly Toby and I partook of the dish after our own clumsy fashion, beplastering our faces all over with the glutinous compound, and daubing our hands nearly to the wrist.
ref: 1846, Herman Melville, Typee, New York: Wiley & Putnam, Part I, Chapter 10, p. 91:
text: He pelted straight on in his socks, beplastered with filth out of all semblance to a human being.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 25, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 273:
text: Even here, no movement of life is visible, but one who has lived and known towns like these feels for the first time an emotion of warmth and life as he looks at the gaudy, blazing bill-beplastered silence of that front.
ref: 1935, Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Book 1, Chapter 3, p. 32:
glosses: To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub (with something).
handily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more handily
form: most handily
Etymology: From handy + -ly. Compare Middle English hendily, hendiliche.
Senses: examples: text: As the mysteries of valetism are not very recondite or difficult to be acquired by an intelligent person, Lockwood, after a little practice, performed his functions handily enough; […]
ref: 1854, Catherine Crowe, Linny Lockwood, page 237:
glosses: In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.
examples: text: He won the election handily.
glosses: Effortlessly; readily.
unveil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈveɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: unveils
form: unveiling
form: unveiled
form: unveiled
form: unvail
Etymology: From Middle English *unveilen (suggested by past participle unveiled, vnueylyd (“unveiled”)). Equivalent to un- + veil. Ultimately from Latin velum (whence also English voile, English reveal, Russian вуа́ль (vuálʹ), Russian завуали́ровать (zavualírovatʹ) (compare typologically)).
Also compare typologically uncloak, unmask, Russian разобла́чать (razobláčatʹ) (akin to облаче́ние (oblačénije)).
Senses: examples: text: The Schools of Jurisprudence of Abu Hanifa, Al-Shafaii and Malik agree that the woman is permitted to unveil her face and hands in the streets in front of the strangers. However, if this display of the face does rouse temptation and charm, the woman has to veil her face as she does the rest of her body.
ref: 1996, Status of women in Islam, Status of women in Islam, page 91:
text: A sort of curtain, made of- mat, usually hung before them, which the natives were sometimes unwilling to remove ; and when they did consent to unveil them, they seemed to express themselves in a very mysterious manner.
ref: 1836, James Cook, The Three voyages of Captain Cook round the world, page 356:
text: Since, therefore, the science of natural philosophy is conversant about the works of the Almighty, and its investigations have a direct tendency to illustrate the perfections of his nature, to unveil the plan of his operations, to unfold the laws by which he governs the kingdom of universal nature, and to display the order, symmetry, and proportion, which reign throughout the whole.
ref: 1831, Thomas Dick, The works of Thomas Dick, page 102:
synonyms: word: expose
word: uncloak
word: bare
word: bewray
word: display
word: expose
word: find out
word: lay bare
word: luster
word: nake
word: open
word: reveal
word: show
word: uncloak
word: uncover
word: unfold
word: unveil
glosses: To remove a veil from; to uncover; to reveal something hidden.
examples: text: The car company are going to unveil the new sports car model next month.
text: The state of Colorado today unveiled its final plan to guide management of 4.2 million acres of roadless lands within the state's 11 national forests and submitted it for federal approval.
ref: 2010 April 6, Noelle Straub, “Colo. Submits Final Plan for 4.2M Acres of Roadless Lands”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2022:
text: In summer 2020, the trains were unveiled at Wimbledon depot, and given the name Arterio. The operator said this symbolised its role as an artery for connecting the capital and beyond.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Wait goes on for South Western Railway Arterios to start work”, in RAIL, number 948, page 9:
glosses: To show, especially for the first time.
glosses: To remove a veil; to reveal oneself.
upbind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌpˈbaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: upbinds
form: upbinding
form: upbound
form: upbound
Etymology: From up- + bind.
Senses: examples: text: All these the daughters of old Nereus were, / Which have the sea in charge to them assign'd, / To rule his tides, and surges to uprear, / To bring forth storms, or fast them to upbind, / And sailors save from wrecks of wrathful wind.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, published 1758, Canto XLI, page 149:
text: But when the night cast up her shade aloft, / And all earth's colors strange in sable dy'd, / He light, and as he could his wounds upbound, / And shook ripe dates down from a palm he found.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, Torquato Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne, or Jerusalem Delivered, Book X Stanza V:
text: 1834, William Sotheby, translator, Homer, Iliad, Book 18, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, volume 2, Nicol, page 223,
The reapers toil'd, the sickles in their hand, / Heap after heap fell thick along the land; / Three labourers grasp them, and in sheaves upbind; / Boys, gathering up their handfuls, went behind, / Proffering their load:
glosses: To bind up.
pyrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪɹəʊp/
Forms: form: pyropes
Etymology: From Latin pyrōpus, from Ancient Greek πυρωπός (purōpós, “fiery-eyed, fire-colored”), from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”); compare French pyrope.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of garnet, of a poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gemstone.
masquerade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæskəˈɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˈmæskəˌɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˌmɑːs-/
ipa: /ˈmɑːs-/
ipa: /ˌmæskəˈɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˈmæskəˌɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: masquerades
form: mascarade
form: maskerade
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Middle French mascarade, masquarade, masquerade (modern French mascarade (“masquerade, masque; farce”)), and its etymon Italian mascherata (“masquerade”), from maschera (“mask”) + -ata. Maschera is derived from Medieval Latin masca (“mask”): see further there. The English word is cognate with Late Latin masquarata, Portuguese mascarada, Spanish mascarada.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: I was invited to the masquerade party at their home.
text: What guards the purity of melting Maids, / In courtly Balls and midnight Maſquerades, / Safe from the treach'rous friend, and daring ſpark, / The glance by day, the whiſper in the dark; / [...] / 'Tis but their Sylph, the wiſe Celeſtials know, / Tho' Honour is the word with Men below.
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto I, page 125:
synonyms: word: masque
glosses: An assembly or party of people wearing (usually elaborate or fanciful) masks and costumes, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
glosses: The act of wearing a mask or dressing up in a costume for, or as if for, a masquerade ball.
examples: text: Verres in the youth of Cicero, Catiline and Clodius in his middle age, Mark Antony in his old age, have all been left to operate on the modern reader's feelings precisely through that masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome.
ref: 1842 July, [Thomas de Quincey], “Cicero”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LII, number CCCXXI, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 2, column 1:
glosses: An act of living under false pretenses; a concealment of something by a false or unreal show; a disguise, a pretence; also, a pretentious display.
glosses: An assembly of varied, often fanciful, things.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A cosplay event at which costumed attendees perform skits.
glosses: A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask or masque.
glosses: A Spanish entertainment or military exercise in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes.
Derived terms: masqueradish
Related terms: mask
masque
masqueradingly
costume party
masquerade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæskəˈɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˈmæskəˌɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˌmɑːs-/
ipa: /ˈmɑːs-/
ipa: /ˌmæskəˈɹeɪd/
ipa: /ˈmæskəˌɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: masquerades
form: masquerading
form: masqueraded
form: masqueraded
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Middle French mascarade, masquarade, masquerade (modern French mascarade (“masquerade, masque; farce”)), and its etymon Italian mascherata (“masquerade”), from maschera (“mask”) + -ata. Maschera is derived from Medieval Latin masca (“mask”): see further there. The English word is cognate with Late Latin masquarata, Portuguese mascarada, Spanish mascarada.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: I’m going to masquerade as an old-fashioned pilot. What are you going to dress up as?
text: There was a Freak took an Aſs in the Head, to Scoure abroad on the Ramble; and away he goes into the Woods, Maſquerading up and down in a Lyon's Skin.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Anianus, &c.] Fab[le] CCXXIV. An Ass in a Lyon’s Skin.”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 196:
glosses: To take part in a masquerade; to assemble in masks and costumes; (loosely) to wear a disguise.
examples: text: He masqueraded as my friend until the truth finally came out.
text: Ethan Hunt, the human missile of American intelligence that Tom Cruise has been popping back in to play for more than 20 years now, is masquerading as a mysterious terrorist, the perfectly named John Lark, to buy back some plutonium he’s lost to a cabal of doomsday extremists.
ref: 2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2018:
glosses: To pass off as a different person or a person with qualities that one does not possess; also, to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
glosses: To conceal (someone) with, or as if with, a mask; to disguise.
Derived terms: word: masquerader
word: masqueradingly
word: masquerading
word: unmasqueraded
marina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹinə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Forms: form: marinas
Etymology: From Latin marinus (“of the sea, marine”), by way of Italian marina and Spanish marina.
Senses: examples: text: It's a peaceful marina with not too many boats and yachts.
glosses: A harbour for small boats.
marinara
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian alla marinara (“sailor style”).
Senses: glosses: Prepared with tomatoes, or in a tomato sauce.
glosses: Of pasta: In a seafood sauce. Of pizza: With seafood topping.
marinara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marinaras
Etymology: From Italian alla marinara (“sailor style”).
Senses: glosses: A marinara sauce.
hamster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/
Forms: form: hamsters
form: hampster
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.
Senses: examples: text: The hamster stuffed his puffy cheeks with food.
text: Since the pregnancy interceptive agents or the menses regulators may also influence the development of either trophoblasts or the maternal cells (epithelial and stromal) at the embryo attachment site, another in vitro assay method using using trophoblast cells of hamster and mouse isolated from a preplacental organelle, the ectoplacental cone, has been developed.
ref: 2013, George deStevens, Ernst Jucker, V. Zingel, Progress in Drug Research, page 166:
glosses: Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
glosses: Any of various Old World rodent species belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae.
In particular, a rodent of the species Mesocricetus auratus (the golden hamster) or of a species of the genera Cricetiscus and Phodopus (the dwarf hamsters), often kept as a pet or used in scientific research.
glosses: Any of various other rodents of similar appearance, such as the maned hamster or crested hamster, Lophiomys imhausi, mouse-like hamsters of genus Calomyscus, and the white-tailed rat (Mystromys albicaudatus).
Synonyms: sense: golden hamster
word: Syrian hamster
Derived terms: antihamster
Chinese hamster
Chinese hamster ovary cell
Djungarian hamster
Dzungarian hamster
golden hamster
hammy
hamster ball
hamsterer
hamstering
hamsterization
hamsterless
hamsterlike
hamster style
hamster wheel
hamstery
idea hamster
mouse-like hamster
rationalisation hamster
rationalization hamster
Russian winter white dwarf hamster
Siberian dwarf hamster
Siberian hamster
winter white Russian hamster
Related terms: gerbil
guinea pig
mouse
rat
hamster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæm(p)stɚ/
Forms: form: hamsters
form: hamstering
form: hamstered
form: hamstered
form: hampster
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hamster (see for etymology). Displaced earlier term German rat.
Senses: examples: text: Probably the city government knew that without that hamstering half the city would starve and they somehow got the police to lay off. It was in the little stinky one-horse towns that you had all the trouble.
ref: 1974, Phyllis Knight, Rolf Knight, A Very Ordinary Life, page 43:
text: […] in his bedroom in neat stacks — he always hamstered them away upstairs as soon as the morning was done. This year the gifts sat ignored […]
ref: 2004, Sharon L. Pywell, What Happened to Henry, page 50:
text: […] eastern children frequently “hamstered,” smuggled, and begged across the boundary, especially after currency reform […]
ref: 2014, Edith Sheffer, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain:
synonyms: stash
glosses: To secrete or store privately, as a hamster does with food in its cheek pouches.
sob story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sob stories
Senses: examples: text: "Dis picture is called De Tale o' Two Cities, and it's de French revolution. It's about a feller vot takes anodder feller's place and gits his head cut off; and say, dere's a sob story in it vot's a vunder."
ref: 1922, Upton Sinclair, chapter 14, in They call Me Carpenter:
text: Mr. Martin objected at first to the bastardization of my talent, but I gave him a sob story about needing money for lessons.
ref: 2006, Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child, →ISBN, page 56:
glosses: A sad story, especially one intended to elicit sympathy.
Related terms: tale of woe
tearjerker
soap opera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊp ˌɑ.pɚ.ə/
ipa: /ˈsoʊp ˌɑ.pɹə/
Forms: form: soap operas
Etymology: From the soap and detergent commercials originally broadcast during the shows, which were aimed at the audience of women who were doing their cleaning; opera from the melodramatic character of the shows, as the earlier horse opera.
Senses: examples: text: This chapter considers the growing interest in the popular Welsh-language soap opera, Pobol Y Cwm (People of the Valley), and the extent to which discourses of Welshness and definitions of cultural and national identity contribute to the appeal and longevity of the soap.
ref: 2002, Robert C. Allen, To Be Continued...: Soap Operas Around the World, Routledge, →ISBN, page 81:
text: It also followed the very successful long-running soap opera, Neighbours.
ref: 2014, Frank J. Lechner, John Boli, The Globalization Reader, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 393:
synonyms: word: soap
word: daytime serial
word: story
word: serial
word: teleserye
word: telenovela
english: particularly Latin America
translation: particularly Latin America
word: sinetron
coordinate_terms: telenovela
glosses: A radio or television serial, typically broadcast in the afternoon or evening, about the lives of melodramatic characters, which are often filled with strong emotions, highly dramatic situations and suspense.
glosses: Such serials in general.
examples: text: Salal invented some soap opera about a mystery informant, and Meg sold it to the cops.
ref: 1989 May 6, Liz Galst, “Meet Meg Lacey, Private Heat”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
text: An' just lookit how things turned out! What a complete and utter soap opera
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:
glosses: Any story that is like a soap opera, as by being convoluted or melodramatic.
Derived terms: soap-operatic
Related terms: word: sudsy
snowplow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowplows
form: snow plow
form: snowplough
form: snow plough
Etymology: From snow + plow.
Senses: glosses: A motorized vehicle that is used to push snow off flat surfaces such as roads and parking lots.
glosses: A blade-like pushing device attached to a vehicle to enable it to be used for removing snow.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skating
skiing
sports
glosses: A maneuver in which the tips of the skis or skates point inwards and the back ends point outwards.
Derived terms: snowplough model
snowplow model
snowplough turn
snowplow turn
snowplow parent
snowplow parenting
snowplow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snowplows
form: snowplowing
form: snowplowed
form: snowplowed
form: snow plow
form: snowplough
form: snow plough
Etymology: From snow + plow.
Senses: glosses: To clear (roads, etc) using a snowplow.
glosses: To perform a snowplow in skiing.
Related terms: conga line
snowblower
scalene triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalene triangles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A triangle having each of its three sides of different lengths.
Coordinate terms: equilateral triangle
isosceles triangle
fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːt͡ʃuːn/
ipa: /ˈfoɹt͡ʃun/
ipa: /-t͡ʃən/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃuːn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃən
Forms: form: fortunes
form: fortuning
form: fortuned
form: fortuned
Etymology: From Middle English fortune, from Old French fortune, from Latin fortuna (“fate, luck”). The plural form fortunae meant “possessions”, which also gave fortune the meaning of “riches”.
Senses: glosses: To provide (someone) with a fortune.
glosses: To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.
examples: text: Thẽ the heerdmẽ⸝ fleed and went there ways into the cite⸝ and tolde every thinge⸝ and what had fortuned vnto them that were poſſeſſed of the devyls.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Mathew viij:[33], folios x, verso – xi, recto:
text: It fortuned one night that the Sultan purposed setting out on a journey next morning, […]
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Tale of Nu̇r al-Din Ali & His Son Badr al-Din Hasan”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 195:
glosses: To happen, to take place.
distinct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Forms: form: distincts
form: distincting
form: distincted
form: distincted
Etymology: From Middle English distincte, from Old French, from Latin distinctus, past participle of distinguere (“to distinguish”); see distinguish.
Senses: examples: text: Here every means is made use of to do away all distincting between federal and antifederal and I suspect with no very friendly design to the federal cause.
ref: 1788, James McHenry, letter to George Washington, 27 July, in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 2, ed. Gordon DenBoer, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984, page 109
glosses: To distinguish; to make a distinction.
mosque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑsk/
ipa: /mɒsk/
rhymes: -ɒsk
Forms: form: mosques
form: mosk
Etymology: From Middle French mosquée, from Italian moschea, ultimately from Arabic مَسْجِد (masjid, literally “place of prostration”). Doublet of masjid.
Senses: examples: text: There's a mosque near where I live.
text: The demolition of two mosques in India within days of each other has highlighted the deep religious divide in the country, months before voters head to the polls for a nationwide election that is expected to hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi a rare third term in power.
ref: 2024 February 15, Aishwarya S Iyer and Rhea Mogul, “‘Erasing a part of history’ – What a double mosque demolition tells us about India ahead of crucial election”, in CNN:
text: One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
ref: 2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: masjid
glosses: A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.
Coordinate terms: church
synagogue
temple
gurdwara
hof
fire temple
circle
mandir
jinja
House of Worship
Derived terms: antimosque
cybermosque
Farthest Mosque
inter-mosque
intermosque
megamosque
mosque affiliation
mosqued
mosqueful
mosque-goer
mosque-going
mosqueing
mosqueless
mosquelike
mosque swallow
mosque yard
mosquish
paramosque
supermosque
unmosqued
victory mosque
carsick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹˌsɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)sɪk
Forms: form: more carsick
form: most carsick
Etymology: From car + sick.
Senses: examples: text: But this whole world / It makes me carsick / Stop the meter, sir
ref: 2022, Regina Spektor, “Becoming All Alone”, in Home, Before and After:
glosses: Dizzy or feeling nauseated due to riding in a vehicle; suffering from motion sickness.
carsickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)ˌsɪk.nəs/
Forms: form: car sickness
Etymology: From car + sickness or carsick + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Motion sickness caused by riding in a motor car.
glosses: Motion sickness caused by riding in a railway carriage.
Hypernyms: motion sickness
Coordinate terms: airsickness
seasickness
trainsickness
gross domestic product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gross domestic products
Senses: examples: text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: GDP
coordinate_terms: gross national product
gross national income
glosses: A measure of the economic production of a particular territory in financial capital terms over a specific time period.
sequoia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkwɔɪ.ə/
ipa: /sɪˈkwɔɪ.ə/
rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə
Forms: form: sequoias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Sequoia.
Senses: glosses: Sequoiadendron giganteum, a coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genus Sequoia, now placed in Sequoiadendron.
glosses: Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia.
Synonyms: sense: Sequoiadendron giganteum
word: giant sequoia
sense: Sequoiadendron giganteum
word: Sierra redwood
sense: Sequoia sempervirens
english: in California
translation: in California
word: redwood
sense: Sequoia sempervirens
word: coast redwood
sense: Sequoia sempervirens
word: California redwood
Derived terms: metasequoia
Sequoia Crest
sequoia pitch moth
lupus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͝o'pəs
ipa: /ˈluːpəs/
ipa: /ˈlupəs/
ipa: /ˈlʉːpəs/
rhymes: -uːpəs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lupus (“wolf”). Doublet of lobo and wolf.
Senses: examples: text: You like the name quesalupa? That is a little like "case of lupus". I just keep thinking about that.
ref: 2015 January 21, 00:05:15 from the start, in Conan Visits Taco Bell (Conan), Conan O'Brien (actor), Team Coco:
text: Iberdomide, a cereblon modulator promoting degradation of the transcription factors Ikaros and Aiolos, which affect leukocyte development and autoimmunity, is being evaluated for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
ref: 2022 March 17, Joan T. Merrill, Victoria P. Werth, Richard Furie et al., “Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 386, number 11, →DOI, page 1034:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
Synonyms: word: wolf
Derived terms: lupiform
lupoid
lupus erythematosus
lupuslike
neurolupus
nonlupus
rhupus
forlorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fər-lôrnʹ
enpr: fôr-lôrnʹ
ipa: /fəˈlɔːn/
ipa: /fɔːˈlɔːn/
ipa: /fɚˈlɔɹn/
ipa: /fɔɹˈlɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: From Middle English forlorn, forloren, from Old English forloren (past participle of forlēosan (“to lose”)), from Proto-Germanic *fraluzanaz (“lost”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *fraleusaną (“to lose”), equivalent to for- + lorn. Cognate with West Frisian ferlern (“lost”), Saterland Frisian ferlädden (“lost”), Dutch verloren (“lost”), German Low German verloren (“lost”),
German verloren (“lost”), Swedish förlorad (“lost”). See further at lese/leese, lorn.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: past participle of forlese.
overweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/
enpr: ō'vər-wātʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəweɪt/
enpr: ōʹvər-wāt
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: overweights
Etymology: From over- + weight.
Senses: examples: text: […] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense; […]
ref: 1976, Acts of the Legislature, volume 1, Louisiana, page 445:
text: It is clear that a bird would certainly be grounded by overweight if it retained eggs in the body and discharged them in large numbers at one time, like a turtle[.]
ref: 1985, J.D. McDonald, Australian Birds: A Popular Guide to Bird Life, Sydney: Reed Books, page 66:
topics: law
transport
glosses: An excess of weight.
examples: text: SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT
ref: 2007, Josephine Martin, Charlotte Oakley, Managing child nutrition programs: leadership for excellence, page 462:
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: The condition of being overweight.
examples: text: The study provides up-to-date facts on the variety of diseases, vascular, metabolic, hepatic, and other, which are responsible for the excess mortality of overweights.
ref: 1951, Louis Israel Dublin, Mortality Among Insured Overweights in Recent Years, Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America, →OCLC, page 28:
text: Singh found that the normal weight figures were judged more attractive than the underweights‚ who were more attractive than the overweights.
ref: 1998, Adrian Furnham, Melanie Dias, Alastair McClelland, “The role of body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, and breast size in judgments of female attractiveness”, in Sex roles, volume 39, number 3, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 311–326:
text: Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.
ref: 2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men, SCIRJ:
glosses: An overweight person.
examples: text: Apple common stock is one of our overweights.
topics: business
finance
investment
glosses: A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
Synonyms: sense: of a person
word: adiposity
sense: of a person
word: obesity
overweight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/
enpr: ō'vər-wātʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/
ipa: /ˈəʊvəweɪt/
enpr: ōʹvər-wāt
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: overweights
form: overweighting
form: overweighted
form: overweighted
Etymology: From over- + weight.
Senses: examples: text: Such things are not for us to know. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and over-weight our feeble reason till it fell and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: By noon the fat, perspiring, and importantly busy merchant arrives, overweighted with red blood, fat, and responsibility, for a game of manille or dominoes with three or four old cronies.
ref: 1916, F[rank] Berkeley Smith, Babette: A Novel, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 240:
text: Throughout the country there were: rupture of telecommunications, resulting amongst other things from telegraph wires and posts overweighted by snow or struck down by gales; [...].
ref: 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158:
glosses: To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
examples: text: We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: Kinnel explained it, the problem at Select High Income was that it overweighted mortgage bonds and underweighted other types of corporate debt, a strategy that backfired when the mortgage market collapsed.
ref: 2009 January 11, Geraldine Fabrikant, “How Safe Is That Nest Egg, Anyhow?”, in New York Times:
glosses: To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
plaza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɑːzə/
ipa: /ˈplæzə/
rhymes: -ɑːzə
rhymes: -æzə
Forms: form: plazas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish plaza (“town-square or central place of gathering”), from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), clipping of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and place.
Senses: examples: text: Tourists gathered in the central plaza.
glosses: A town's public square.
glosses: An open area used for gathering in a city, often having small trees and sitting benches.
glosses: A strip mall.
glosses: A shopping mall.#
glosses: A shopping mall.#:
The hotel overlooks a busy shopping plaza.
The hotel overlooks a busy shopping plaza.
Synonyms: square
Hyponyms: circus
Coordinate terms: concourse
Derived terms: plazalike
service plaza
toll plaza
Related terms: plaza de soberania
plaza de soberanía
stamina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæmɪnə/
ipa: /ˈstæmənə/
rhymes: -æmɪnə
Forms: form: staminas
Etymology: From Latin stāmina, plural of stāmen.
Senses: examples: text: He has a lot of stamina. I suppose that's why he can run for a long time.
text: In the first five minutes muscles which he had not been aware that he possessed had started to ache like neglected teeth. His respect for the toughness and durability of artists' models was now solid. How they acquired the stamina to go through this sort of thing all day and then bound off to Bohemian revels at night was more than he could understand.
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter V, in Indiscretions of Archie:
text: Yes, gas, price of energy, food, even interest rates are rising, so that means tough times for households. It's often thought that Europeans or we Western people are used to, let's say, to a life which goes always to better and better and thus that we are very weak to face difficulties. But I would say that Ukrainians gave an excellent example that there is stamina amongst people when difficulties come. And difficulties which we are facing are minor if compared to those Ukrainians are meeting. So, I believe that we European people can take it and have resilience.
ref: 2022 September 25, 4:49 from the start, in 'He's all in': Finland's president predicts Putin's next move, spoken by Sauli Niinistö, CNN, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2022:
glosses: The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.
glosses: The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities.