cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pretender
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈtɛndəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pretenders
form: pretendering
form: pretendered
form: pretendered
Etymology: From pre- + tender.
Senses: examples: text: The LPM coordinates closely with the EPM and the case attorney throughout the pretendering period. The Licensing Assistant (LA) in the assigned project branch requests that a project number be assigned by the Records Facilities[…]
ref: 1979, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1980: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, page 1016:
text: Long-term delivery items were pretendered and purchased by the Government of the Northwest Territories in early 1975. Pretendered items included the polyethylene pipe and Victaulic couplings, a portable gasoline engine driven pump[…]
ref: 1979, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, volume 6:
text: The prime contractor is then required to incorporate this pretendered work into his project schedule. In a similar fashion, the owner may want direct control over special materials needed on his project.
ref: 1980 September 8, H. N. Ahuja, Successful Construction Cost Control, John Wiley & Sons, page 177:
text: These included pretendered "direct call-off" contracts covering over 50,000 products and services; the "Pathfinder" service for larger or more complex procurements; and direct sales and spot buying, where TBA coordinates volume[…]
ref: 1999 11, Bernard L. Ungar, Procurement Reform: How Selected Countries Perform Certain Gsa Activities, DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 17:
text: The expanded pretendering activities will be initiated about 9 months prior to the proposed tendering of an application and will be designed to provide additional guidance and direction to the applicant during the preparation of its[…]
ref: (Can we date this quote?), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Standards Development, Regulatory Guide, page 12:
glosses: To tender (a bid, etc.) in advance.
gargoyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑːɡɔɪl/
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹɡɔɪl/
Forms: form: gargoyles
Etymology: From Old French gargouille, from Latin, and native Old English swillan (“to gargle”), from Proto-West Germanic *swilljan, from Proto-Germanic *swiljaną (“to gulp, swallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to drink, gulp, swallow”). Doublet of gargle. The Académie Française suggests the first attestation as gargoule in 1294.
Senses: examples: text: As we went, however, I took the precaution of noting our route as well as I could; and this was not so very difficult, owing to the extraordinary and most fantastic shape of the rocks that were strewn about, many of which in that dim light looked more like the grim faces carven upon mediæval gargoyles than ordinary boulders.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: From between set teeth came now a flow of oaths and imprecations as steady as the flow of water from the gargoyle overhead.
ref: 1906, Rafael Sabatini, The Trampling of the Lilies, page 110:
glosses: A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
examples: text: The long-closed G.W.R. station alongside has a decidedly derelict-looking frontage, with eight gargoyles or figureheads still clinging to the portico.
ref: 1952 February, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Wessex”, in Railway Magazine, page 131:
glosses: Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
examples: text: Almost immediately one of the gargoyles swept down from the sky and attacked him. The gargoyle's momentum drove them both over the side.
ref: 2005, Mel Odom, The Secret Explodes, page 200:
glosses: A fictional winged monster.
examples: text: Above all, in what reckless moment had she encouraged that person and her gargoyle of a mother to move to Mayfair, and set up house around the corner?
ref: 2011, Emma Donoghue, Life Mask:
glosses: An ugly woman.
Synonyms: sense: any decorative carved grotesque figure
word: grotesque
sense: any decorative carved grotesque figure
word: hunky punk
sense: ugly woman
word: crone
sense: ugly woman
word: hag
Derived terms: gargoyled
gargoyle gecko
gargoyleish
gargoylelike
gargoylesque
gargoyley
gargoylish
gargoylism
disassembler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disassemblers
Etymology: From disassemble + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that examines another computer program and attempts to generate assembly language source code that would, in theory, reproduce the target program.
Related terms: assembler
assembly
disassemble
compiler
decompile
reverse engineering
Usenet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːz.nɛt/
Etymology: From USENIX, a group of computer programmers using the operating system Unix, from users of Unix. See net (“network”).
Senses: examples: text: And as the Carnegie Mellon study is careful to point out, pornographic image files, despite their evident popularity, represent only about 3% of all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, while the Usenet itself represents only 11.5% of the traffic on the Internet.
ref: 2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2023:
glosses: A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups that are classified hierarchically by subject.
Derived terms: Usegroup
Usenetard
Usenet Death Penalty
UDP
Usenetdom
Usenetese
Usenetian
Usenetiquette
Usenetism
Usenetite
Usenetizen
Usenetspeak
Usenetter
Useneter
Usenetty
Usenetverse
assembler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛmb(ə)lɚ/
Forms: form: assemblers
Etymology: From assemble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
ref: 1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 10, page 35:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A program that reads source code written in assembly language and produces executable machine code, possibly together with information needed by linkers, debuggers and other tools.
examples: text: I wrote that program in assembler.
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Assembly language.
examples: text: Our father worked as an assembler in a radio factory that would go out of business in the early 1960s, […]
ref: 2014, Howard Waldrop, Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader:
glosses: One who assembles items.
examples: Assembler (nanotechnology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
topics: engineering
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nanodevice capable of assembling nanodevices, possibly including copies of itself, according to a plan.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: assembly
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: assembly language
Derived terms: absolute assembler
assembler language
cross assembler
disassembler
macroassembler
microassembler
molecular assembler
Related terms: assemble
assembly
compiler
source code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: source codes
form: sourcecode
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Human-readable instructions in a programming language, to be transformed into machine instructions by a compiler, assembler or other translator, or to be carried out directly by an interpreter.
Synonyms: code
source
Related terms: english: the act of writing source code
translation: the act of writing source code
word: coding
word: SLOC
word: source control
desirableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desirablenesses
Etymology: From desirable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To me she is fractious, tiresome, and a faggot. Yet the subtle desirableness is in her, for me. As it is in the brown hen, or even a sow.
ref: 1925, D. H. Lawrence, Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays: .. Love Was Once a Little Boy:
glosses: The quality of being desirable.
Synonyms: english: more usual
translation: more usual
word: desirability
desireableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desireable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile the desireableness of an interview with Carwin again returned, and I finally resolved to seek it.
ref: 1798 [1991], Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland, http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140390790&id=JZj06GGRZCMC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&sig=q87L1jFXE3DuFSs9QsZAEy9X5NE (not in Project Gutenberg's edition)
text: The lesson Naess attempts to preach is that even deep ecologists, who detest economic growth, need to be able to discuss it because those attempting to degrade the environment often refer to the necessity and desireableness of economic growth to support themselves.
ref: 1998, Philip F Cramer, Deep Environmental Politics:
text: 2001, Mark S. Weiner, “Teutonic Constitutionalism,” in Foreign in a Domestic Sense, Christina Duffy Burnett, Burke Marshall edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0822326981&id=lgXaZnpwDwoC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&sig=zXqi0SVPd5Z2N_37GGOyprRl8yg
“Patriotic and intelligent men may differ widely as to the desireableness of this or that acquisition,” asserted Justice Brown, “but this is solely a political question. …”
glosses: nonstandard form of desirableness.
desirably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪ(j)əɹəbli/
Forms: form: more desirably
form: most desirably
Etymology: From desire + -ably.
Senses: glosses: in a manner likely to arouse desire
desireful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desireful
form: most desireful
Etymology: From desire + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Filled with desire; eager.
Derived terms: desirefulness
desirefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desireful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess.
desireless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desireless
form: most desireless
Etymology: From desire + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from desire.
Derived terms: desirelessness
desirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: desirers
Etymology: From desire + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who desires, asks, or wishes.
desirous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈzæɹəs/
ipa: /dɪˈzaɪəɹəs/
ipa: /dɪˈzaɪɹəs/
rhymes: -aɪəɹəs
Forms: form: more desirous
form: most desirous
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French desirrous, from desirrer + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
synonyms: solicitous
covetous
glosses: Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; eager to obtain.
Derived terms: desirously
desirousness
nondesirous
overdesirous
undesirous
desirously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more desirously
form: most desirously
Etymology: From desirous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With desire; eagerly
desirousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desirous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being desirous.
desist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪst/
ipa: /dɪˈzɪst/
rhymes: -ɪst
Forms: form: desists
form: desisting
form: desisted
form: desisted
Etymology: From Middle French desister.
Senses: examples: text: Please desist from telephoning me at this number.
text: One Ear was uttering quick, eager whines, lunging at the length of his stick toward the darkness, and desisting now and again in order to make frantic attacks on the stick with his teeth.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter I, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1 (The Wild):
text: After hearing[,] an order was entered requiring respondent to cease and desist the practice complained of under section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission act.
ref: 1921, Annual Report of the Federal Trade Commission, page 173:
text: Desist the kind of thinking that gets you into trouble. Thinking is in itself fine, but grabbing onto thoughts and images of your self will bring you suffering. Once you learn how to desist, how to let go of your ego-grasping mind, then cease thinking ...
ref: 2005, Gerry Shishin Wick, The Book of Equanimity: Illuminating Classic Zen Koans, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 307:
glosses: To cease to proceed or act; to stop (often with from).
Synonyms: word: absist
word: belay
topics: nautical
transport
word: blin
word: break off
word: cease
word: cess
word: cheese it
word: come to an end
word: desist
word: discontinue
word: forbear
word: give up
word: halt
word: have done with
word: hold
word: leave off
word: let up
word: rest
word: stanch
word: staunch
word: stay
word: stop
word: surcease
word: terminate
Hypernyms: word: end
Hyponyms: word: arrest
word: call it quits
word: stem the tide
word: stop short
word: stop talking
word: surrender
word: quit
word: call it a day
word: call it a night
word: draw stumps
word: pull up stumps
word: deactivate
word: power down
word: shut off
word: switch off
word: turn off
Derived terms: desistance
desistive
desistor
undesisting
Related terms: word: cease and desist
word: delay
word: hang fire
word: intermit
word: interpel
word: pause
word: wait
word: avast
desistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desistances
Etymology: From desist + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: If the writings now sent be seriously perused concerning the common defence, besieging of Bantam, their desistance from the trade of Moluccas, Amboyna, and Banda, their complaints against Declell, and answers to the writings of the Dutch, are confident that the advantage will not appear so great.
ref: 1622-1624, Great Britain Public Record Office, Calendar of State Papers, Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Record Office, H.M.S.O., Vaduz : Knaus Reprint, page 203:
text: This entire decisive desistance from the accustomed resort, has the effect in a few days, to weaken the appetite.
ref: 1822, Paul Brown, An Enquiry Concerning the Nature, End and Practicability of a Course of Philosophical Education, J. Gideon Jr., page 131:
text: In 1767, the crown for the first time set forward claims on the territory and revenues of India; but the Company purchased its desistance by a subsidy equivalent to ten or twelve millions of francs.
ref: 1835, Emmanuel Augustin Dieudonné, Comte de Las Cases, The Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, H. Colburn, R. Bentley, page 91:
text: [O]n one side she was defended by the wall of the room and on the other rendered inaccessible by Miriam's mother, who clung to her with a quickly-rooted fidelity, showing no symptom of desistance.
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
glosses: The act or state of desisting; cessation.
desition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desitions
Senses: glosses: An end, ending or conclusion
desk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛsk/
rhymes: -ɛsk
Forms: form: desks
form: desking
form: desked
form: desked
Etymology: From Middle English deske, desque, from Medieval Latin desca, modified from Old Italian desco, from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos. See also German Tisch, "table".
Senses: glosses: To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
examples: text: But also that the said Chapell be desked, and the windowes of our said Chapell be glased, with Stores, Ymagies, Armes, Bagies ami Cognossaunts, as is by us redily divised, and in picture delivered to the Priour of Saunt Bartilmews besid Smythfel, maistre of the works of our said Chapell;
ref: 1775, Henry VII (King of England), The will of king Henry vii [ed. by T. Astle.]., page 6:
text: The teaching accommodation is to be as follows ;— Senior Mixed Department—Five rooms of equal area, four of which are each to be desked for forty scholars and one to be desked for thirty-two scholars
ref: 1914, The Builder - Volume 106, page 528:
text: Each row of desked benches was stepped up a step from the other until the top row of desked benches seemed to hit its high ceiling.
ref: 2001, Bonnie M Gulan, A Collection of Nodding Off Stories, page 64:
glosses: To equip with a desk or desks.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: To reject (an article submitted to a newspaper or academic journal etc.) on initial receipt, without reviewing it further.
deskwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desk work
Etymology: From desk + work.
Senses: glosses: Work done at a desk, as by an office worker.
Related terms: deskworker
desk job
desmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεσμός (desmós, “chain, bundle”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a bundle.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Fibrous; having closely interwoven fibres in bundles.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament or fibre; ligamentous, fibrous.
desmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desmoids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεσμός (desmós, “chain, bundle”) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A fibrous tumour.
assembly language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assembly languages
Senses: examples: text: A skilled programmer can write very fast code in assembly language.
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programming language in which the source code of programs is composed of mnemonic instructions, each of which corresponds directly to a machine instruction for a particular processor.
Synonyms: assembler
Related terms: conditional assembly language
machine code
macro language
desponsory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desponsories
Senses: glosses: A written pledge of marriage.
drivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driver
desponsation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desponsations
Senses: glosses: A betrothing; betrothal
desponsate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desponsates
form: desponsating
form: desponsated
form: desponsated
Senses: glosses: To betroth.
desponsage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin desponsus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of betrothal.
synonyms: word: betrothal
despondingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more despondingly
form: most despondingly
Etymology: From desponding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a desponding manner.
desponder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desponders
Etymology: From despond + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who desponds.
despond
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɒnd/
note: rare, noun usage
ipa: /ˈdɛspɒnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Forms: form: desponds
form: desponding
form: desponded
form: desponded
Etymology: From Latin dēspondeō (“give up, abandon”), from dē (“from”) + spondeō (“promise”).
Senses: examples: text: Yet still despond not, but proceed
Along the path where fate may lead.
ref: 1867, John Conington, Aeneid, translation of original by Virgil, page 176:
text: October 16, 1820, Thomas Scott, letter to the Rev. G. Knight, Harwell
I should despair, or at least despond.
text: Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.
ref: a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, →OCLC:
text: June 17, 1825, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument
We wish that […] desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong.
glosses: To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.
Derived terms: despondence
desponder
despond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɒnd/
note: rare, noun usage
ipa: /ˈdɛspɒnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
Etymology: From Latin dēspondeō (“give up, abandon”), from dē (“from”) + spondeō (“promise”).
Senses: synonyms: word: despair
word: desperation
word: despair
word: desperation
word: despond
word: despondency
word: hopelessness
word: unhope
word: wanhope
glosses: Despondency.
Related terms: slough of despond
despair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈspɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: dispair
Forms: form: despairs
form: despairing
form: despaired
form: despaired
Etymology: From Middle English dispeir, from Anglo-Norman despeir and Old French desperer (from Latin dēspērō, dēspērāre), or desesperer, from des- (“dis-”) + esperer (“hope”). See also desperate. Displaced native Old English ormōdnes (“despair”) and Old English ortrīewan (“to despair”).
Senses: examples: text: I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
text: I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men.
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
examples: text: Thinking of what I was despairing about despaired me further
ref: 2019, Tim Dee, Landfill:
glosses: To cause to despair.
examples: text: We despaired even of life.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 1:8:
glosses: To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
Derived terms: compare and despair
despairer
despair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈspɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: dispair
Forms: form: despairs
Etymology: From Middle English dispeir, from Anglo-Norman despeir and Old French desperer (from Latin dēspērō, dēspērāre), or desesperer, from des- (“dis-”) + esperer (“hope”). See also desperate. Displaced native Old English ormōdnes (“despair”) and Old English ortrīewan (“to despair”).
Senses: examples: text: He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive.
text: My daughter's behavior drives me to despair.
synonyms: word: desperation
word: despondency
word: hopelessness
word: despair
word: desperation
word: despond
word: despondency
word: hopelessness
word: unhope
word: wanhope
antonyms: hope
respair
glosses: Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
glosses: That which causes despair.
glosses: That which is despaired of.
Derived terms: climate despair
counsel of despair
death of despair
despairful
disease of despair
pit of despair
self-despair
desparple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desparples
form: desparpling
form: desparpled
form: desparpled
Etymology: From Old French desparpeillier.
Senses: glosses: To scatter, to disparkle.
despect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Etymology: From Middle English despect (“contempt, spite”), from Latin dēspectus (“a looking down upon, contempt”), from dēspicere (“to look down upon, despise, scorn”), from dē (“down”) + specere (“to look at, behold”), equivalent to de- + -spect.
Senses: examples: text: In 488 A.D. the then very young, energetic, clever and deceitful king Kavadh succeeded to the throne. The rule was actually in the hands of the most powerful nobleman, Sokhra of the Karen family, who had won fame in the war against the Huns. Sokhra treated the young king with despect as a boy. The king's anger over Sokhra's treatment of him was exploited by another nobleman, Shapur of the Mihran family, who helped Kavadh to remove the regent.
ref: 1960, New Orient, Prague: Czechoslovak Society for Eastern Studies, →OCLC, page 24:
text: The majority of the most famous botanists of the 17th century raised their eyebrows in despect of this hypothesis of sex in plants as a new chimera and a ridiculous mental abortion of some persons who wanted to impress and delude the learned world.
ref: 1991, Chr[istian] Gorm Tortzen, quoting Johan Gustaf Wahlbom, “Male and Female in Peripatetic Botany”, in Classica et Mediaevalia: Revue Danoise de Philologie et d'Histoire, volume XLII, Copenhagen: Librarie Museum Tusculanum, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 107:
text: Interpretative potential of the Middle Paleolithic, a type of industry too widely distributed over large surfaces of the North African desert landscapes, is usually considered with despect in the archaeological literature.
ref: 2004, Anthropologie, volume 42, Brno: Ústav Anthropos, Moravské zemské muzeum, →ISSN, page 240:
glosses: Contempt, derision.
Related terms: despection
despective
despicable
despise
despite
despect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: despects
form: despecting
form: despected
form: despected
Etymology: From Middle English despect (“contempt, spite”), from Latin dēspectus (“a looking down upon, contempt”), from dēspicere (“to look down upon, despise, scorn”), from dē (“down”) + specere (“to look at, behold”), equivalent to de- + -spect.
Senses: examples: text: [Act II, scene ii, page 72] Nay, but with patience, Sir, we that are Officers / Muſt 'quire the ſpeciall markes, and all the tokens / Of the deſpected parties, or perhaps – elſe, / Be nere the nere of our purpoſe in 'prehending 'hem.
[Act III, scene i, page 79] Faith Goſſip Turfe, you have, you ſay, Remiſſion / To comprehend all ſuch, as are diſpected: / Now, would I make another privie ſearch / Through this Towne, and then you have zearch'd two towns.
ref: c. 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy Composed by Ben: Iohnson. … London, Printed M.DC.XL [1640], in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. Containing these Playes, viz. 1 Bartholomew Fayre. 2 The Staple of Newes. 3 The Divell is an Asse, volume II, London: Printed for Richard Meighen, published 1640, OCLC 221338962, pages 72 and 79
text: The holy Logos, condeſcending to aſſume the fleſh, voluntarily ſo diveſted himſelf of all apparent dignity, that he was therein conſidered as a meer man, incomparably inferior to, and distinct from, the prieſt offering him; and hence the features of correlation in them became indeed ſo effaced, that the Logos ſingly and of himſelf was deſpected for an abject and forlorn ſinner, devoted to wretchedneſs as an offender, lying under the curſe and condemnation divine juſtice, and deſerving its vengeance for guilt by tranſgreſſion and iniquity.
ref: 1790, [anonymous; attributed to James Stonhouse], “[The Spirit of Jesus Christ the Melchisedecal Priest, evinced from […]] A View of the priestly office”, in Apostolical Conceptions of God, Being the Second Part of an Antecedent Publication, and is More Especially Addressed to the Favourers of the Arian and Socinian Persuasions, Bristol: Printed for the Author; And sold by G. Herdsfield, Aldersgate-Bars, London; and T. Mills, Wine-Street, Bristol, →OCLC, pages 76–77:
text: […] wears, like our little friend of Karta-pu, an eared baby-bunting bonnet, sewn and embroidered to represent the mask of a tiger if looked down on from above; so that the jealous gods, despecting, see a beast and not a baby, and pass it by accordingly.
ref: 1917, Reginald [John] Farrer, On the Eaves of the World, volume II, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 68:
glosses: To hold in contempt, to despise, to look down on, to scorn.
acondylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: acondylose
Etymology: From ἀ- (a-, “not”) + κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “joint”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Without joints; jointless.
despeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: despeeds
form: despeeding
form: desped
form: desped
Etymology: From de- + speed.
Senses: glosses: To send hastily.
aconital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aconital
form: most aconital
Etymology: From aconite + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, or derived from aconite.
desperately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsp(ə)ɹətli/
Forms: form: more desperately
form: most desperately
Etymology: From desperate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She desperately grabbed at the nearby branches as she heard the branch she was standing on start to snap.
text: I could desperately do with some coffee right now.
text: I just need you miserably
Broken man come to me
I just need you desperately
Just want to change your mind
ref: 1999, “Stately Lover”, performed by Lacuna Coil:
text: The patient, who lumbers painfully, has a question: She desperately wants a knee replacement, but doesn’t understand why three doctors have rejected her. Ms. Purdie translates doctorspeak.
ref: 2007 August 21, Jan Hoffman, “Soldiering On, Home to Home, in a Squeezed Health System”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.
examples: text: The race for silver medal was desperately close, they needed a photo finish to separate the runners.
text: They would be surprised to discover that we're all actually fighting for the same thing; that is, the sacredness of human love. The trouble is, they have almost every one of their facts totally and desperately wrong. Those who would lecture us on the "immorality" of our lives don't know the first thing about how we actually live them.
ref: 1991 February 11, Jeffery R. Nickel, “Going To The Chapel”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 9:
glosses: extremely
aconite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.kə.naɪt/
Forms: form: aconites
Etymology: From French aconit, from Latin aconītum, from Ancient Greek ἀκόνιτον (akóniton).
Senses: examples: text: Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
text: Rampion grown in the cottage garden made the children of the house quarrelsome; breathing deeply into a handful of mint refreshed your senses, but aconite could cause your death.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 254:
glosses: The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous.
topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.
Synonyms: sense: herb
word: wolfsbane
sense: herb
word: monkshood
Derived terms: aconital
aconitic
aconitic acid
aconitine
Indian aconite
winter aconite
aconitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aconite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aconite.
glosses: Of or pertaining to aconitic acid.
Derived terms: aconitate
citraconic
glutaconic acid
kewl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːl/
ipa: /kjuːl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: kewler
form: kewlest
Etymology: Respelling of cool to represent a pronunciation with fronting of /u/ to [ʉ], which is characteristic of California English among other accents.
Senses: examples: text: Janes^([sic]) Addiction is some KEWL stuff.
ref: 1990, Dangerous AL, “Janes Addiction”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal (Usenet):
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of cool.
wikipedia: California English
Derived terms: kewl beans
despicability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Thoſe in accio and ozzo, indicate bigneſs as well as wickedneſs and deſpicability.
ref: 1778, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti, A Grammar of the Italian Language, J. Nourse, pages 38–39:
text: Its short hind legs give a most ungainly gait, though it runs with surprising speed when pursued. Its unearthly howl adds to its despicability.
ref: 1901, Wallace Rice, Animals: a Popular Natural History of Wild Beasts, Duffield and Co., published 1909, page 112:
text: Because it wasn’t quite clear what the parameters of the list were — Hotness? Naughtiness? Sexuality? Purity? — everyone was left to ponder, in their own way, how to get more popular, by balancing the various strands of admiration, fascination, respect, and despicability that comprise modern celebrity.
ref: 2010 May 5, Darren Franich, “Every Now and Then I Fall Apart”, in Entertainment Weekly:
glosses: Despicableness.
despicableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: despicablenesses
Etymology: From despicable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: meanness
vileness
worthlessness
glosses: The quality of being despicable
despicably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more despicably
form: most despicably
Etymology: From despicable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly
onomasticon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒ.nəʊˈmæs.tɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˌɑː.noʊˈmæs.tɪkən/
ipa: /ˌɑː.nəˈmæs.tɪkən/
Forms: form: onomasticons
form: onomastica
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικόν (onomastikón), neuter form of ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós, “belonging to names”), from ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).
The term onomastikón (collection of names, from ὄνομα/ónoma, ‘name’) describes learned works that are not arranged alphabetically but juxtapose synonyms and terms relating to the same semantic field. This principle of ordering is very old (it was already known in Near Eastern culture in the 2nd millennium BC; Lists) and undoubtedly was the most common one up to the Augustan period. Source: Onomastikon — Brill
Senses: examples: text: We looked up the origin of her name in an onomasticon.
glosses: A book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people.
Related terms: onomastic
onomastics
despisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more despisable
form: most despisable
form: despiseable
Etymology: From Middle English despisable, from Old French.
Senses: examples: text: c. 1530, uncredited translator, The Dialoges of Creatures Moralysed, Dialogue 110,
And forasmoche as we be so Noble of owr natyf kynde / let vs pursewe such beastis as be vyle & despisable.
text: the Jewish Nation, though scattered through the whole World, are not therefore a despisable people, but as a Plant worthy to be planted in the whole world
ref: 1641, Manasseh ben Israel, To His Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Common-wealth […] in behalfe of the Jewish Nation, London, page 5:
text: […] Meekness, Condescension, Forbearance, are so far from being despisable Qualities in our Sex, that they are the Glory of it.
ref: 1741, Samuel Richardson, Letters Written To and For Particular Friends: on the Most Important Occasions, London: C. Rivington, Letter 146, p. 203:
text: 1821, James Fenimore Cooper, The Spy, London: G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822, Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 297,
“but now he is nothing more than despisable, or what’s the same thing, a pedlar without house, pack, or money.”
glosses: Worthy to be despised.
Synonyms: contemptible
despicable
Derived terms: despisableness
despisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more despisingly
form: most despisingly
Etymology: From despising + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Contemptuously; with scorn.
motel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /moʊˈtɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: motels
Etymology: Blend of motor + hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).
Senses: glosses: A type of hotel or lodging establishment, often located near a major highway, which typically features a series of rooms whose entrances are immediately adjacent to a parking lot to facilitate convenient access to parked automobiles.
glosses: A low-cost short-stay hotel, often with hourly rates rather than daily rates, and notorious for permitting illicit sexual activities; love hotel.
Derived terms: graybar motel
hot-sheet motel
motelier
no-tell motel
roach motel
telly
Related terms: hotel
inn
motor court
tourist court
motel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /moʊˈtɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: motels
form: motelling
form: motelled
form: motelled
Etymology: Blend of motor + hotel, from the original Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo in California, USA, established in 1925 by Arthur Heineman (1878–1974).
Senses: glosses: To stay in a motel or motels.
fried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fry
bored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːd/
ipa: /bɔɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /bo(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /boəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: board
homophone: baud
homophone: bawd (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: From bore + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bore
bored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːd/
ipa: /bɔɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /bo(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /boəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: board
homophone: baud
homophone: bawd (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: more bored
form: boreder
form: most bored
form: boredest
Etymology: From bore + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He was feeling bored so he decided to play Minecraft.
text: The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.
text: [Y]ou know you’re not the only one around who is bored and sian and tired of being bored and sian.
ref: 2006 October 3, Serene Luo, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3:
glosses: Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
glosses: Perforated by a hole or holes.
Derived terms: be bored
boredly
boredness
smoothbored
unbored
bored out of one's brains
bored out of one's mind
bored out of one's tree
bored stiff
bored shitless
bored to tears
Related terms: bore
bore out
boredom
boring
unbore
ennui
ennuyé
boring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔː.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboɹ.ɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈboː.ɹɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈboɹ.ɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈboə.ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Forms: form: borings
Etymology: From Middle English boryng (“making a hole”); equivalent to bore + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: turning and boring
text: fine boring with a boring head on a boring mill
hypernyms: machining#Noun
coordinate_terms: drilling#Noun
reaming#Noun
;
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;
milling#Noun
broaching#Noun
shaping#Noun
planing#Noun
grinding#Noun
glosses: The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
examples: text: It is common in urban areas that a great many borings exist from prior construction work.
ref: 1992, J. Patrick Powers, Construction dewatering: new methods and applications, page 191:
glosses: A pit or hole which has been bored.
synonyms: chip#Noun
coordinate_terms: sawdust
glosses: One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
Derived terms: macroboring
microboring
boring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔː.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈboɹ.ɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈboː.ɹɪŋ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈboɹ.ɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈboə.ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English boryng (“making a hole”); equivalent to bore + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bore
Derived terms: tunnel boring machine
boredom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔː.dəm/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹ.dəm/
Forms: form: boredoms
Etymology: From bore + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: […]only last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being bored.
examples: text: If we are seeking a more original conception of boredom then we must also correspondingly endeavour to envisage a more original form of boredom, thus presumably a boredom in which we become more bored than in the situation we have characterized.
ref: 1995, Martin Heidegger, William McNeill, Nicholas Walker, transl., The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude, page 107:
text: Yet that earlier characterization was of a kind of boredom that can be portrayed as resembling acedia; that is, a boredom that I can be held responsible for, either in its genesis or its persistence.
ref: 1999, Michael L. Raposa, Boredom and the Religious Imagination, page 58:
text: See more citations at boredoms.
glosses: An instance or period of being bored; a bored state.
Synonyms: sense: state of being bored
word: ennui
sense: state of being bored
word: tedium
Derived terms: microboredom
moredom
Related terms: bore
bored
boring
accidie
acedia
ennui
singe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: singes
form: singeing
form: singed
form: singed
Etymology: From Middle English sengen, from Old English senġan, sænċġan (“to singe, burn slightly, scorch, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *sangijan (“to burn, torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *senk- (“to burn”). Cognate with West Frisian singe, sinzje (“to singe”), Saterland Frisian soange (“to singe”), Dutch zengen (“to singe, scorch”), German Low German sengen (“to singe”), German sengen (“to singe, scorch”), Icelandic sangur (“singed, burnt, scorched”).
Senses: examples: text: made combustible by Flame They treat of, we have pretty Game, For they their own Tail Singe, to save Us
ref: 1702, Sir Roger L’Estrange, “The Firﬆ Viſion of the Algouazil (or Catchpole) Poſſeﬆ”, in The Viſions of Dom Franciſco de Quevedo-Villegas'^([21]):
glosses: To burn slightly.
glosses: To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
glosses: To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
Synonyms: scorch
Derived terms: singe one's wings
singe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: singes
Etymology: From Middle English sengen, from Old English senġan, sænċġan (“to singe, burn slightly, scorch, afflict”), from Proto-West Germanic *sangijan (“to burn, torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *senk- (“to burn”). Cognate with West Frisian singe, sinzje (“to singe”), Saterland Frisian soange (“to singe”), Dutch zengen (“to singe, scorch”), German Low German sengen (“to singe”), German sengen (“to singe, scorch”), Icelandic sangur (“singed, burnt, scorched”).
Senses: glosses: A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
singe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: singes
form: singing
form: sange
form: sunge
Senses: examples: text: Then ſange Iudith this ſonge vnto the LORDE: Begynne vnto the LORDE vpon the tabrettes, ſinge vnto the LORDE vpon the cymbals.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Judith xvj:[1–2], folio xxix, verso:
text: Lo I the man, whoſe Muſe whilome did maske, / As time her taught in lowly Sheapards weeds, / Am now enforſt a far unfitter taske, / For trumpets ſterne to change mine oaten reeds, / And ſinge of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds[…]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 1:
text: [H]ere’s a couple of Syrenicall raſcals ſhall inchaunt yee: What ſhall they ſinge my good Lorde?
ref: c. 1603 (date written), Iohn Marston, The Malcontent, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for William Aspley, […], published 1604, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv:
glosses: Obsolete form of sing.
macaco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkeɪkəʊ/
ipa: /məˈkɑːkoʊ/
Forms: form: macacos
form: macacoes
Etymology: From Portuguese macaco (“monkey”). Doublet of macaque.
Senses: glosses: A macaque, or similar monkey.
macaco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkeɪkəʊ/
ipa: /məˈkɑːkoʊ/
Forms: form: macacos
form: macacoes
form: macauco
form: maucaco
Etymology: From French mococo, probably ultimately from Malagasy maka, maki (“lemur”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of lemur, including the white-headed lemur, ruffed lemur, and ring-tailed lemur.
Derived terms: ring-tailed macaco
ring-tailed macauco
crowned macauco
copyleft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copylefts
Etymology: A pun on copyright, which refers to using copyright laws for purposes that are in some ways contrary to copyright's original intent.
Senses: examples: text: They believe in copyleft because they want their software to be used freely by anyone.
glosses: The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.
examples: text: I have placed my program under copyleft.
text: The GNU General Public License is a copyleft licence.
glosses: A software license that follows this philosophy.
Derived terms: copyleftist
copyleft symbol
strong copyleft
weak copyleft
copyleft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copylefts
form: copylefting
form: copylefted
form: copylefted
Etymology: A pun on copyright, which refers to using copyright laws for purposes that are in some ways contrary to copyright's original intent.
Senses: examples: text: Linus Torvalds copylefted the Linux kernel.
glosses: To license under a copyleft license.
Related terms: 🄯
alektorophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀλέκτωρ (aléktōr, “rooster”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: The fear of chickens.
agrizoophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Greek words αγρός (agrós) meaning field, ζώο (zoo) meaning animal, and φοβία (fovía or phobia) meaning fear.
Senses: glosses: Fear of wild animals.
Related terms: zoophobia