cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
broker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹəʊkə/
ipa: /ˈbɹoʊkɚ/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: brokers
form: brokering
form: brokered
form: brokered
Etymology: From Middle English broker, brokour, brocour, from Anglo-Norman brocour (“small trader”) (compare also abroker (“to act as a broker”)), from Old Dutch *brokere (“one who determines the usages of trade, manager”), from broke, bruyck, breuck (“use, usage, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūkī (“use, custom”), from Proto-Germanic *brūkiz (“use, custom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to use, enjoy”), equivalent to brook + -er.
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German brukere (“a broker”), Danish bruger (“a broker, user, handler”), Swedish bruk (“use, custom, trade, business”), Old English broc (“use, profit, advantage, foredeal”). Compare also French brocanter (“to deal in second-hand goods”) from the same Germanic source. More at brook.
Senses: synonyms: broke#Etymology 3
glosses: To act as a broker; to mediate in a sale or transaction.
examples: text: When you first arrived on Menae, I had a hard time seeing how you flying off with one of our best generals would benefit our fight against the Reapers. However, as I now watch turian and krogan fighters working together to take down a Reaper destroyer, I must admit I am impressed. You've brokered an alliance that many thought impossible.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Impressive work:
text: In Armando Iannucci’s sitcom The Thick of It, government spin doctor Malcolm Tucker brokers a peace with his opposition counterpart.
ref: 2018 July 16, Kate Maltby, Ava Etemadzadeh, “Harassment is parliament’s dirty cross-party secret. Is it about to change?”, in The Guardian:
text: "To help Eurostar survive, we brokered an agreement with the ORR and Department for Transport to defer part of their charging regime, and that helped its liquidity... that was the only way that it could survive.
ref: 2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 44:
text: He would be well advised to be cautious, despite the fragile ceasefire that the US President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar brokered. Though President Trump reportedly told Israel not to kill Iran's supreme leader, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not rule it out.
ref: 2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC:
glosses: To act as a broker in; to bring about through brokering or negotiation; to arrange or negotiate.
Derived terms: unbrokered
gloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːm/
ipa: /ɡlum/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: glooms
Etymology: From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōm, from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”), Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”).
Senses: examples: text: the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
text: Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom, I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
text: On December 13, Maritime-liveried 66051 powers out of the early morning gloom with three repatriated Class 66s, on the 0809 Dollands Moor Sidings-Scunthorpe Redbourne Siding.
ref: 2022 January 12, “News in pictures: Repatriated '66s' return home”, in RAIL, number 948, page 20:
glosses: Darkness, dimness, or obscurity.
examples: text: A sudden little river crossed my path / As unexpected as a serpent comes. / No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms— / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof—to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 19, page 142:
text: Although it's always crowded
You still can find some room
For broken-hearted lovers
To cry there in their gloom.
ref: 1956, “Heartbreak Hotel”, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:
glosses: A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
examples: text: A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
ref: 1770, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents:
glosses: Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
glosses: A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
Derived terms: begloom
doom and gloom
engloom
gloomcore
gloomful
gloomies
gloomily
gloomish
gloomleader
gloomless
gloomsome
gloomster
gloomth
gloomward
gloomy
June gloom
outgloom
overgloom
semigloom
undergloom
ungloomed
Related terms: gloam
gloom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluːm/
ipa: /ɡlum/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: glooms
form: glooming
form: gloomed
form: gloomed
Etymology: From Middle English *gloom, *glom, from Old English glōm (“gloaming, twilight, darkness”), from Proto-West Germanic *glōm, from Proto-Germanic *glōmaz (“gleam, shimmer, sheen”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). The English word is cognate with Norwegian glom (“transparent membrane”), Scots gloam (“twilight; faint light; dull gleam”).
Senses: examples: text: Here, while the proud their long drawn pomps diſplay, / There the black gibbet glooms beſide the way.
ref: 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC, page 17:
text: Around all the dark forest gloomed.
ref: 1891, Charles Egbert Craddock [pseudonym; Mary Noailles Murfree], In the "Stranger People's" Country, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 323:
glosses: To be dark or gloomy.
examples: text: Her face gathers, furrows, glooms; arching eyebrows wrinkle into horizontals, and a tinge of bitterness unsmooths the cheek and robs the lip of sweetened grace. She is evidently perturbed.
ref: 1882, W. Marshall, Strange Chapman: A North of England Story, volume 2, London: Hurst and Blackett, →OCLC, page 170:
text: Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
ref: a. 1930, D. H. Lawrence, The Lovely Lady:
text: "Is Maggie then astonishing too?"—and he gloomed out of his window.
ref: 1904 November 10, Henry James, chapter XVI, in The Golden Bowl, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, 1st book (The Prince), 3rd part, page 283:
text: He gloomed for some moments above the round-topped table[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85:
synonyms: word: grieve
word: mourn
word: aggrieve
word: besorrow
word: condole
word: engrieve
word: erme
word: gloom
word: grieve
word: grieven
word: bleed
word: lament
word: moan
word: mourn
word: regret
word: rue
word: sigh
word: sorrow
word: wayment
word: yearn
glosses: To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
examples: text: A black yew gloom'd the stagnant air.
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Letters”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
examples: text: For see you not, dear love, / Such a mood as that, which lately gloom'd / Your fancy when you saw me following you, / Must make me fear still more you are not mine, […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 110:
text: Good Heaven! What ſorrows gloom'd that parting day, / That called them from their native walks away; […]
ref: 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
glosses: To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
outreach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: outʹrēch
ipa: /ˈaʊtɹiːtʃ/
enpr: out-rēchʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈɹiːtʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: outreaches
Etymology: From out- + reach.
Senses: glosses: The act of reaching out; the act of raising awareness.
glosses: The extent or length of one's reach.
examples: text: He is involved in social outreach, education and environmental initiatives.
text: Perhaps the most significant role for Katrina and her team is their outreach work with those who would otherwise have a barrier to travel.
ref: 2021 January 27, Paul Stephen, “Compassion and a community spirit”, in RAIL, number 923, page 50:
glosses: The act or practice of visiting and providing services (of a charity, church, or other organization) to people who might not otherwise have access to those services.
outreach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: outʹrēch
ipa: /ˈaʊtɹiːtʃ/
enpr: out-rēchʹ
ipa: /aʊtˈɹiːtʃ/
rhymes: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: outreaches
form: outreaching
form: outreached
form: outreached
Etymology: From out- + reach.
Senses: glosses: To reach further than.
glosses: To surpass or exceed.
glosses: To go too far.
glosses: To provide charitable or religious services to people who would otherwise not have access to those services.
normative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.mə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈnoɹ.mə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈnoɹ.mə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈnoː.mə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈnoː.mə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈnoː.mə.təv/
ipa: [ˈnoː.mə.ɾəv]
Forms: form: more normative
form: most normative
Etymology: From Latin norma + -ative. Compare French normatif.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
examples: text: normative behaviour
glosses: Conforming to a norm or norms.
examples: text: normative grammar
glosses: Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
Hyponyms: prescriptive
proscriptive
Derived terms: ablenormative
amatonormative
antinormative
Ashkenormative
binormative
cisheteronormative
cisnormative
counternormative
dianormative
endonormative
exonormative
heteronormative
homonormative
internormative
metronormative
mononormative
neuronormative
nonnormative
normative economics
normative ethics
normative forecasting
normative grammar
normatively
normativeness
normative science
normative state
normative statement
normative system
normativism
normativist
normativity
normativization
normativize
pornonormative
queernormative
repronormative
transnormative
Related terms: norm
normal
normative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.mə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈnoɹ.mə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈnoɹ.mə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈnoː.mə.tɪv/
ipa: [ˈnoː.mə.ɾɪv]
ipa: /ˈnoː.mə.təv/
ipa: [ˈnoː.mə.ɾəv]
Forms: form: normatives
Etymology: From Latin norma + -ative. Compare French normatif.
Senses: examples: text: Most important are the so-called economic normatives. They either specify the minimal efficiency of productive resources utilization or regulate the distribution of the enterprises revenue.
ref: 1990, Czechoslovak Economic Papers, number 28, page 42:
glosses: A regulation imposed to preserve a norm.
Quorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɔːn/
ipa: /k(w)ɔɹn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: Shortened from earlier Quorndon, from Old English cweorndun, from cweorn (“millstone; quern”) + dun (“hill”). The fox hunt, the meat substitute and the town in Australia are named after the village in Leicestershire.
Senses: examples: text: The House of More has a pretty Georgian paneling through most of the rooms, but in the dining room the walls are level and painted a dull stone color. […] Some photographs of the Quorn hung over the mantelpiece, and five or six drab ancestors filled up the remaining space.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Watcher by the Threshold:
text: I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: A famous fox hunt (one of the world's oldest, established in 1696) in Leicestershire.
glosses: A village and civil parish (formerly Quorndon) in Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5616).
glosses: A town in Flinders Ranges council area, South Australia.
examples: text: It is now easier for a vegetarian to eat sufficient protein because of products such as Quorn, tofu and textured vegetable protein.
ref: 2004, J. L. Clarke, Mary Dougherty Riley, Veronica Dougherty, OCR National Certificate in Health and Social Care: Level 2, page 384:
text: April brings the main course: a medley of asparagus tips, shiitake mushrooms, and the featured ingredient, an unlikely hybrid of life-giving wholesomeness and bio-industrial hubris known as Quorn.
ref: 2006 October 20, Julian Dibbell, “The Ultra-Extreme Calorie Restriction Diet Test”, in New York Magazine:
text: For a vegetarian option, use Quorn pieces instead of prawns.
ref: 2011, Rosemary Conley, Rosemary Conley's Amazing Inch Loss Plan, page 257:
text: I opted for the vegan breakfast (£4.57), which comes with two Quorn sausages, baked beans, two hash browns, mushroom, tomato, a slice of toast and a vegan spread.
ref: 2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:
glosses: A mycoprotein-based food product used as a substitute for meat.
ambos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambo
oilcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilcloths
Etymology: From oil + cloth.
Senses: examples: text: Ignatius pounded a paw into the oilcloth on the kitchen table.
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 9, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 184:
text: When the Lincolns moved into the White House, it was not furnished, there was oilcloth on the floor in the State Rooms because of the overflow from the spittoons.
ref: 1995, Barbara Bush, Barbara Bush: A Memoir, page 346:
synonyms: American cloth
linoleum
leathercloth
waxcloth
glosses: A fabric or cloth treated on one side with a waterproof covering, especially one made from linseed oil etc.; used for flooring, tablecloths, kitchen shelves and sometimes furniture covering.
Derived terms: oilclothed
islet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.lət/
homophone: eyelet
rhymes: -aɪlət
Forms: form: islets
Etymology: From Middle French islette. By surface analysis, is(le) + -let. Mostly displaced native Middle English eyt, eit and Middle English holm, holme (See eyot and holm for more).
Senses: examples: text: There is an islet on the other side of this body of water.
synonyms: eyot
holm
glosses: A small island.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function.
Derived terms: interislet
intraislet
isleted
islet of Langerhans
neoislet
pseudoislet
Related terms: islets of Langerhans
virii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvaɪɹaɪ/
/ˈvaɪɹaɪˌaɪ/
/ˈvɪɹiːˌiː/
Senses: glosses: plural of virus
clinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈklɪŋkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clinkers
form: klinker
Etymology: From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).
Senses: examples: text: She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XXXII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 581:
synonyms: Dutch clinker
glosses: A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
glosses: A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
examples: text: The coal was terrible stuff—Indian, Abdul told me. The "dart" was used often and I saw some monster clinkers.
ref: 1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:
text: Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Dew and Alarm Clocks”, in The House of All Sorts:
glosses: Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
glosses: An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
examples: text: This wall of rock, which had no doubt once formed the lip of the crater, was about a mile and a half thick, and still covered with clinker.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10:
glosses: Hardened volcanic lava.
glosses: A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
Derived terms: clinker block
clinkerer
clinker-work
clinkery
Dutch clinker
clinker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈklɪŋkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clinkers
form: clinkering
form: clinkered
form: clinkered
form: klinker
Etymology: From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).
Senses: examples: text: This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member.
ref: 1923, United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 748, page 125:
text: The use of coal with a low ash fusion temperature (1204°C, or 2200°F) caused frequent clinkering on the grate during initial tests. The clinkering stopped when the coal was replaced with one having a higher fusion temperature […]
ref: 1981, David W. Schultz, Municipal solid waste, resource recovery: Proceedings of the seventh annual research symposium at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 16-18:
glosses: To convert or be converted into clinker.
clinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈklɪŋkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: clinkers
form: klinker
Etymology: From clink + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that clinks.
glosses: fetters.
clinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈklɪŋkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: klinker
Etymology: From clincher.
Senses: examples: clinker planking; a clinker dinghy
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
Synonyms: lapstrake
Derived terms: clinker-built
clinkerwise
Bogota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌboʊɡəˈtɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From Spanish Bogotá, from Chibcha.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bogotá: the capital city of Colombia.
wikipedia: Bogotá
Bogotá
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌboʊɡəˈtɑː/
ipa: /ˌbɒɡəˈtɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: Bogota
Etymology: From Spanish Bogotá, from Chibcha.
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Colombia.
amazonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amazonian
form: most amazonian
Etymology: From Amazon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Amazonian
Related terms: amazon
Atlanta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ætˈlæntə/
ipa: [ætˈlæɾ̃ə]
ipa: [ætˈlænə]
Etymology: Supposedly the feminine form of Atlantic.
Senses: examples: text: As far as I know, Atlanta doesn’t have any famous buildings. You might even say that there are no skyscrapers. Sky reachers maybe, not sky scrapers. Regardless, the city is as enchanting as my mother’s face.
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 232:
text: In Tucker, another Atlanta suburb, an undocumented man attending church was arrested after ICE agents arrived, pastor Luis Ortiz told CNN. He said he was in the middle of his sermon when he noticed a couple of members of his church escort the man out.
ref: 2025 January 26, Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, “Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz”, in CNN:
glosses: The capital and largest city of Georgia, United States and the county seat of Fulton County, Georgia.
glosses: A community in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A community in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Columbia County, Arkansas, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in San Joaquin County, California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Elmore County, Idaho, United States.
glosses: A small city in Logan County, Illinois.
glosses: A small town in Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana.
glosses: A tiny city in Cowley County, Kansas.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Laurel County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: A village in Winn Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A census-designated place, the county seat of Montmorency County, Michigan.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A tiny city in Macon County, Missouri.
glosses: A village in Phelps County, Nebraska.
glosses: A hamlet in the town of Cohocton, Steuben County, New York.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A city in Cass County, Texas.
glosses: A small town in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Atlantan
Apelanta
Muscat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌskæt/
Etymology: From Arabic مَسْقَط (masqaṭ).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Oman.
electromagnetic wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromagnetic waves
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Electromagnetic radiation, such as light and radio waves.
Related terms: electromagnetic spectrum
electromagnetic spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromagnetic spectra
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The entire range of wavelengths of all known electromagnetic radiations extending from gamma rays, to X-rays through visible light, infrared, to radio waves.
Hypernyms: spectrum
Hyponyms: cosmic ray spectrum
gamma ray spectrum
infrared spectrum
microwave spectrum
radio spectrum
ultraviolet spectrum
visible spectrum
X-ray spectrum
Related terms: cosmic ray
gamma ray
X-ray
ultraviolet
visible light
infrared radiation
microwave
radio wave
infrared radiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength approximately between 1 micrometre and 1 millimetre; perceived as heat.
visible light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The part of the electromagnetic spectrum, between infrared and ultraviolet, that is visible to the human eye.
Related terms: optical spectrum
optical spectrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical spectrums
form: optical spectra
Senses: glosses: The colours of the rainbow.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The distribution of colours produced when white light passes through a prism.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The range of frequencies of visible light.
white light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white lights
Senses: glosses: Light, having a mixture of frequencies, being perceived as having no specific colour; such as sunlight.
glosses: A white-coloured light or lamp
glosses: The believed entrance to the afterlife, as occasionally reported of near-death experiences.
raw_tags: as the white light
Hypernyms: light
unkept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + kept.
Senses: glosses: Not kept (especially of promises).
unkept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Reanalysis of obsolete kempt to kept, keep in the sense “maintain (a coiffure)”. Compare uncombed.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of unkempt.
Jolly Roger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒɒli ˈɹɒdʒə/
ipa: /ˌdʒɑli ˈɹɑdʒɚ/
Forms: form: Jolly Rogers
Etymology: Possibly from jolly + Roger (“dialectal nickname for the Devil”).
Senses: examples: text: A Day or two after they parted, [Francis] Spriggs was choſe Captain by the reſt, and a black Enſign was made, which they called Jolly Roger, with the ſame Device that Captain [Edward] Low carried, viz. a white Skeliton in the Middle of it, with a Dart in one Hand ſtriking a bleeding Heart, and in the other, an Hour Glaſs; when this was finiſhed and hoiſted, they fired all their Guns to ſalute their Captain and themſelves, and then looked out for Prey.
ref: 1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Spriggs and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, pages 411–412:
text: The Hispaniola still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger—the black flag of piracy—flying from her peak.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Narrative Resumed by Jim Hawkins; the Garrison in the Stockade”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part IV (The Stockade), page 151:
text: Havana was closely guarded by the dual castles; the more famous of them being the Morro Castle. The castles' purpose long since disregarded, stood as a reminder to the Cubans to keep foreigners at bay. Years ago to accomplish just that—keeping foreigners at bay, chains had been hung between the two castles to keep marauding pirates out. But over the years, money and greed had been able to seep through these chains, and now the pirates no longer came in their schooners, flying jolly Rogers, but as capitalistic businessmen carrying the almighty dollar. During [Fulgencio ] Batista's regime, these United States capitalists were welcomed with open arms and left to loot the Cubans of their lands and properties.
ref: 2003, Donna Marie Robie, chapter 53, in The Cuban Connection: Operation Sugar Cane, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 241:
text: [I]t is a documented fact that pirates captured treasures of jewels and gold while Jolly Rogers or bloody flags flew atop their mainmasts (although they were more likely to capture a "treasure" of socks, molasses, and flour).
ref: 2005, Michele Torrey, “Author’s Note”, in Voyage of Plunder: Chronicles of Courage, New York, N.Y.: Yearling, Random House Children's Books, published March 2007, →ISBN, page 184:
synonyms: Roger
glosses: The traditional flag used on European and American pirate ships, and, more recently, by submarine crews, often pictured as a white skull and crossbones on a black field; the blackjack.
Related terms: 🏴☠️
maye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mighte
Senses: examples: text: It is no part of my purpose to make gain from this work. I had hoped to publish it in permanent form and distribute it among my friends as a present but it has grown to such proportions that that will not be practicable and I do hope that I maye be able to sell enough copies at about cost to materially assist in the publication.
ref: 1915, Laban Miles Hoffman, “Preface”, in Our Kin, Being a History of the Hoffman, Rhyne, Costner, Rudisill, Best, Hovis, Hoyle, Wills, Shetley, Jenkins, Holland, Hambright, Gaston, Withers, Cansler, Clemmer and Lineberger Families, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., published 1980, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of may.
goldeneye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊldənaɪ/
Forms: form: goldeneyes
Etymology: From golden + eye.
Senses: glosses: Any of several seaducks, of the genus Bucephala, having black and white plumage.
glosses: Any of several lacewings of the family Chrysopidae.
glosses: Any of several flowering plants of the subtribe Helianthinae.
Synonyms: sense: seaduck
word: whistler
sense: seaduck
word: rattlewings
sense: fly
word: green lacewing
Derived terms: Barrow's goldeneye
Bucephala islandica
common goldeneye
Bucephala clangula
auguste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /aʊˈɡuːst/
/ɔːˈɡuːst/
/ɔːˈɡəst/
/-(ˈ)ɡʊst/
Forms: form: augustes
Etymology: From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.
Senses: examples: text: It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.
ref: 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 93:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
seaduck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seaducks
form: sea duck
Etymology: From sea + duck.
Senses: glosses: Any large duck found in coastal waters, especially those of the subfamily Merginae.
sea duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea ducks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seaduck.
Carib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹɪb/
rhymes: -æɹɪb
enpr: kărʹĭb
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkæɹɪb/
rhymes: -æɹɪb
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkɛɹɪb/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkeɹɪb/
Forms: form: Caribs
form: Carib
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Caribe, likely from a Kalinago term corresponding to karifuna (“Kalinago person”) in modern Kalinago, a borrowing from a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *karipona (“person”). Compare Kari'na karìna (“Carib person”). Doublet of cannibal, caribe, Carijona, Galibi, Garifuna, and Kari'na.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Dougherty had intended to make the outing with his unwonted wife an inconspicuous one. Uxoriousness was a weakness that the precepts of the Caribs did not countenance.
ref: 1903–1906, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Dougherty’s Eye-opener”, in The Voice of the City, complete edition, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1908, →OCLC, pages 32–33:
glosses: A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
examples: text: Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.
ref: 2009 January 8, Thomas Streissguth, Suriname in Pictures, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
A member of the mainland or ‘proper’ Caribs (Kari'na), a Cariban people who inhabit the north coast of South America, in parts of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
glosses: A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
A member of the Kalinago people of the Lesser Antilles, an Arawakan people who took heavy cultural influence from the mainland Caribs and so were formerly known as Island Caribs.
glosses: A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
A member of the Garifuna people of Honduras, historically known as Black Caribs, descendants of mixed Kalinago people and Africans who were deported to the Central American mainland in the 18th century.
Derived terms: Caribbean
Island Carib
Carib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæɹɪb/
rhymes: -æɹɪb
enpr: kărʹĭb
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkæɹɪb/
rhymes: -æɹɪb
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkɛɹɪb/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈkeɹɪb/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Caribe, likely from a Kalinago term corresponding to karifuna (“Kalinago person”) in modern Kalinago, a borrowing from a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *karipona (“person”). Compare Kari'na karìna (“Carib person”). Doublet of cannibal, caribe, Carijona, Galibi, Garifuna, and Kari'na.
Senses: glosses: Any of the languages of these people.
The Kari'na or Carib language proper, a Cariban language.
glosses: Any of the languages of these people.
The Kalinago or Island Carib language, an unrelated Arawakan language.
glosses: Any of the languages of these people.
The Garifuna language, an offshoot of Kalinago.
Derived terms: Cariban
Galibi Carib
hangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hanger
friable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: frī'ə-bəl
ipa: /ˈfɹaɪəbl̩/
rhymes: -aɪəbəl
homophone: fryable
Forms: form: more friable
form: most friable
Etymology: Borrowed from French friable, from Latin friābilis (“friable”), from friō (“I crumble”).
Senses: examples: text: Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
ref: 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve:
text: This light, friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Avignon Quintet edition, Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1020:
glosses: Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
examples: text: So while two men under his directions were digging the grave with sticks in the friable granitic soil, he superintended the costume of the other actors in the drama.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
examples: text: It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.
ref: April 1987, Old-House Journal:
topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.
Synonyms: sense: easily broken into small fragments
word: crumbly
Derived terms: friability
friableness
friably
nonfriability
nonfriable
semifriable
unfriable
Related terms: brittle
tribunal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈbjunəl/
ipa: /tɹəˈbjunəl/
ipa: /tɹaɪˈbjuːnəl/
ipa: /tɹɪˈbjuːnəl/
rhymes: -uːnəl
Forms: form: tribunals
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Old French tribunal, from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”), from tribus (“tribe”).
Senses: examples: text: Having now so amply declared unto thee most of the principal things of this thrice-renowned and illustrious city, I will briefly by way of an epitome mention most of the other particulars thereof, and so finally shut up this narration: there are reported to be in Venice and the circumjacent islands two hundred churches in which are one hundred forth-three pairs of organs, fifty-four monasteries, twenty-six nunneries, fifty-six tribunals or places of judgment, seventeen hospitals, six companies or fraternities, whereof I have before spoken; one hundred and sixty-five marble statues of worthy personages, partly equestrial, partly pedestrial, which are erected in sundry places of the city, to the honour of those that either at home have prudently administered the commonweal, or abroad valiantly fought for the same.
ref: 1611, Thomas Coryate, Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c:
topics: law
glosses: An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
glosses: A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.
Derived terms: drumhead tribunal
employment tribunal
industrial tribunal
military tribunal
impressionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹɛʃənɪzəm/
Forms: form: impressionisms
Etymology: From French impressionnisme.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An art movement characterized by visible brushstrokes, ordinary subject matter, and an emphasis on light and its changing qualities.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style that avoided traditional harmony, and sought to invoke the impressions of the composer.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A style that used imagery and symbolism to portray the poet's impressions.
Derived terms: neoimpressionism
neo-impressionism
post-impressionism
postimpressionism
transpressionism
freeform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freeform
form: most freeform
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of free-form.
freeform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeforms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of free-form.
ekki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Refurbishment was carried out during a ten-day blockade. It entailed replacing timber elements with ekki hardwood, and more than 300 metal straps or bolts with stainless steel components.
ref: 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 52:
glosses: The hard timber of the tree Lophira alata.
finna
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪn(n)ə/
rhymes: -ɪnə
Etymology: Reduction of fixing to.
Senses: examples: text: I'm finna go to the store.
text: Aw, dude, you finna get yo' ass whooped, mufucka.
ref: 1999, Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class, →ISBN:
text: I don't ask for much, but enough room to spread these wings / And the world finna know my name, now listen to me
ref: 2002, “The Seed (2.0)”, in Phrenology, performed by The Roots:
text: I ain't talkin' about what you did homie, I'm talkin' about what's finna happen.
ref: 2012, Cam Rascoe, Restless for Retribution: A Series of Short Stories, →ISBN, page 121:
qualifier: African-American
glosses: A modal used to express a desire or future action.
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
Related terms: gonna
tryna
body politic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodies politic
form: body politique
Etymology: From body + politic (postpositive adjective), calque of Latin corpus polīticum.
Senses: examples: text: In Bodies Politique the power of the Repreſentative is alwaies Limited: And that which preſcribeth the Limits thereof, is the Power Soveraign.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of Systems Subject Political and Private”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Of Common-wealth), page 115:
text: In contrast to all other groups, the Jews were defined and their position determined by the body politic.
ref: 1951, Hannah Arendt, “The Jews, the Nation-state, and the Birth of Antisemitism”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1973, →ISBN, part 1 (Antisemitism), page 14:
text: While most historians of the period dissect the body politic, Whitelock doesn't waste time in the halls of Parliament. Instead, she hastens straight to the boudoir of the queen who chose celibacy as a means of wielding power.
ref: 2014 February 7, Kathryn Harrison, “The body politic”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: The collective body of a nation or state as politically organized.
glosses: The collective body of a nation or state as exercising political functions.
glosses: A corporation.
Maskat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Muscat.
vehemently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈviː.ə.məntli/
Forms: form: more vehemently
form: most vehemently
Etymology: From vehement + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: vehemently opposed
text: The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 50:
text: Critics were vehemently outspoken; but while they fretted about looks, they missed the cleverer points in the design itself.
ref: 1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 752:
text: After all, you heard them accusing me at an earlier date and much more vehemently than these more recent accusers.
ref: 1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 39:
text: And it was a miserable afternoon for Chelsea and England captain John Terry at the end of a week in which has he faced allegations of racial abuse against QPR's Anton Ferdinand - claims he vehemently denies.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a vehement manner; expressing with a strong or forceful attitude.
rule of law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The doctrine that no individual is above the law and that everyone must answer to it.
topics: law
glosses: The maxim whereby governmental decisions are made by applying known legal principles.
examples: text: The rule of law whereby it is a crime for a person to commit suicide is hereby abrogated.
ref: 1961, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Section 1”, in Suicide Act 1961ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page 766:
text: In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— […] “rule of law” includes written law; […]
ref: Section 2(1), Electronic Transactions Act 2010 (Singapore)
text: The repeal of legislation does not revive […] a rule of law that has been abolished.
ref: Section 32(2)(b), Legislation Act 2019 (New Zealand)
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rule, law.
Related terms: law and order
rule of man
actus reus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaktəsˈɹeɪəs/
ipa: /ˌaktəsˈɹiːəs/
Forms: form: actus rei
Etymology: From Late Latin āctus reus (“guilty act”), from Latin āctus (“act”) + reus (“guilty”); after Late Latin and English mens rea.
Senses: examples: text: It is hornbook criminal law that criminal offenses are defined in terms of an actus reus (criminal act) and a mens rea (criminal mind).
ref: 1989, James B. Jacobs, Drunk Driving: An American Dilemma, University of Chicago Press, page 65:
text: A brute emotional reflex to the actus reus, the bad act (‘She killed her husband! Shame!’), could trigger an urge for retribution regardless of her intention.
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, page 610:
text: Every criminal offence must contain actus reus elements. A defendant will not be liable for a criminal offence unless the actus reus of the offence is proved: Deller (1952)36 Cr app r 184. Although the vast majority of criminal offences consist of both actus reus elements and mens rea elements, some criminal offences do not require a mens rea element for every element of the actus reus.
ref: 2016, Nicola Monaghan, Criminal Law, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, page 23:
topics: law
glosses: An act, or series of acts, considered as separate from the intentions or state of mind of the perpetrator in the context of criminal law.
Coordinate terms: mens rea
kalendar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalendars
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A liturgical calendar.
glosses: Archaic form of calendar.
kalendar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kalendars
form: kalendaring
form: kalendared
form: kalendared
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of calendar.
precaution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈkɔːʃən/
ipa: /pɹiːˈkɔː.ʃən/
ipa: /pɹiːˈkɔ.ʃən/
ipa: /pɹiːˈkɑ.ʃən/
ipa: [pɹiːˈkɑ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /pɹɪˈkɑ.ʃən/
ipa: [pɹɪˈkɑ.ʃn̩]
Forms: form: precautions
Etymology: From French précaution, Latin praecautio, from praecavere, praecautum (“to guard against beforehand”); prae (“before”) + cavere (“be on one's guard”). See pre-, and caution.
Senses: examples: text: his life was saved by precaution
text: July 2, 1826, John Henry Newman, The Philosophical Temper, First Enjoined by the Gospel
The ancient philosophers treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution.
glosses: Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent misfortune or to secure good.
examples: text: to take precautions against risks of accident
text: Despite all these precautions, however, severe storms sometimes caused drifts which brought traffic completely to a standstill.
ref: 1955 December, H. A. Vallance, “The Highland Centenary—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 859:
glosses: A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act.
Synonyms: forecaution
Derived terms: precautionary
Related terms: prevention
precaution
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈkɔːʃən/
ipa: /pɹiːˈkɔː.ʃən/
ipa: /pɹiːˈkɔ.ʃən/
ipa: /pɹiːˈkɑ.ʃən/
ipa: [pɹiːˈkɑ.ʃn̩]
ipa: /pɹɪˈkɑ.ʃən/
ipa: [pɹɪˈkɑ.ʃn̩]
Forms: form: precautions
form: precautioning
form: precautioned
form: precautioned
Etymology: From French précaution, Latin praecautio, from praecavere, praecautum (“to guard against beforehand”); prae (“before”) + cavere (“be on one's guard”). See pre-, and caution.
Senses: glosses: To warn or caution beforehand.
glosses: To take precaution against.
Amazon lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæməˌzɑn ˈlɪli/
Forms: form: Amazon lilies
Senses: glosses: A bulbous plant, Eucharis amazonica, of the family Amaryllidaceae, having tight, compact rosettes of glossy green leaves and tall spikes of white, fragrant flowers.
glosses: A giant water lily, Victoria amazonica, with circular leaves of up to 8 feet in diameter having large white female flowers that bloom at night, and change to pink male ones the next night.
locket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒkɪt/
ipa: /ˈlɑkɪt/
rhymes: -ɒkɪt
Forms: form: lockets
Etymology: From French loquet, from a diminutive of Anglo-Norman loc, itself from Old English loc, whence lock.
Senses: glosses: A pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item.
glosses: The upper metallic cap of a sword’s scabbard.
glosses: A small white marking on a cat's coat.
rounded down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of round down
rounded down
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a real number, converted to an integer by having its fractional component removed.
Related terms: rounded up
rounded up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of round up
rounded up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of cattle etc.: gathered together as a group.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a real number: converted to an integer by having 0.5 added to it, and the result being rounded down.
Related terms: rounded down
bockwurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bockwursts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bockwurst.
Senses: glosses: A large frankfurter (type of German sausage).
free form
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more free form
form: most free form
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of free-form.
talar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the talus
Derived terms: peritalar
subtalar
talar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talars
Senses: glosses: An ankle-length robe.