cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
accuracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈak.jʊ.ɹə.si/
ipa: /ˈak.jə.ɹə.si/
ipa: /ˈæk.jɚ.ə.si/
ipa: /ˈæk.ɹə.si/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈkjurəsi/
Forms: form: accuracies
Etymology: * First attested in the 1660s.
* accurate + -cy
Senses: examples: text: Its professed end [of logic], is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, with precision and accuracy.
ref: 1827, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind:
text: The efficiency of the instrument will also depend upon the accuracy with which the piston fits the bottom and sides of the barrel. When the piston is depressed to the bottom, it is considered in theory to be in absolute contact, so as to exclude every particle of air from the space between it and the bottom.
ref: 1856, Dionysius Lardner, Popular Lectures on Science and Art:
text: At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being accurate; being free from error; exactness; correctness
examples: text: The jury doubted the accuracy of the witness' comments.
glosses: Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
Synonyms: correctness
truthfulness
Derived terms: high-accuracy
hyperaccuracy
overaccuracy
Related terms: precision
integrity
exactness
fidelity
accusation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.jʊˈzeɪ.ʃ(ə)n/
note: Indic
ipa: /əkjʊˈzeʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: accusations
form: accusacion
form: accusasiowne
Etymology: First attested in the late 14th century. Inherited from Middle English accusacion, borrowed from Old French acusacion (French: accusation), from Latin accūsātiō (“accusation, indictment”), from accūsō (“blame, accuse”). Doublet of accusatio. More at accuse. Equivalent to accuse + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: We come not by the way of accusation / To taint that honour every good tongue blesses.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: The act of accusing.
examples: text: [They] set up over his head his accusation.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 27:37:
topics: law
glosses: A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
examples: text: ungrounded accusations
text: a blind accusation
text: repeated accusations
text: an accusation of a crime
glosses: An allegation.
Synonyms: word: allegation
word: assertion
word: censure
word: charge
word: crimination
word: detection
word: impeachment
Derived terms: blood accusation
counteraccusation
every accusation is a confession
hackusation
interaccusation
misaccusation
preaccusation
reaccusation
accusative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːzətɪv/
enpr: əkū'zətĭv
ipa: /əˈkjuzətɪv/
Forms: form: more accusative
form: most accusative
Etymology: First attested in the mid 15th century. From Middle English accusative, from Anglo-Norman accusatif or Middle French acusatif or from Latin accūsātīvus (“having been blamed”), from accūsō (“to blame”). Equivalent to accuse + -ative. The Latin form is a mistranslation of the Ancient Greek grammatical term αἰτιᾱτική (aitiātikḗ, “expressing an effect”). This term actually comes from αἰτιᾱτός (aitiātós, “caused”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, adjective suffix), but was reanalyzed as coming from αἰτιᾱ- (aitiā-), the stem of the verb αἰτιάομαι (aitiáomai, “to blame”), + -τῐκός (-tĭkós, verbal adjective suffix).
Senses: examples: text: This hath been a very accusative age.
ref: 1641 November 22, Edward Dering, a speech:
text: The proprietor of the store was rude, insulting and accusative.
ref: 1984 April 14, William F. Orrell, “Bad Business”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
synonyms: accusatory
accusatorial
glosses: Producing accusations; in a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
Derived terms: accusatively
accusativeness
accusativity
nominoaccusative
nonaccusative
unaccusative
unaccusativity
accusative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkjuːzətɪv/
enpr: əkū'zətĭv
ipa: /əˈkjuzətɪv/
Forms: form: accusatives
Etymology: First attested in the mid 15th century. From Middle English accusative, from Anglo-Norman accusatif or Middle French acusatif or from Latin accūsātīvus (“having been blamed”), from accūsō (“to blame”). Equivalent to accuse + -ative. The Latin form is a mistranslation of the Ancient Greek grammatical term αἰτιᾱτική (aitiātikḗ, “expressing an effect”). This term actually comes from αἰτιᾱτός (aitiātós, “caused”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, adjective suffix), but was reanalyzed as coming from αἰτιᾱ- (aitiā-), the stem of the verb αἰτιάομαι (aitiáomai, “to blame”), + -τῐκός (-tĭkós, verbal adjective suffix).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The accusative case.
examples: text: 65 mošu tat̰ ās nōit̮ darəγəm yat̰ . . ‘quickly it (tat̰) happened, it (was) not long till . . . — drūm avantəm airištəm: according to Bartholomae IF. 12. 146 the author of this part was led to use accusatives here (instead of nominatives) by the preceding sentence yezi ǰum frapayeni.
ref: 1911, Hans Reichelt, Avesta Reader: Texts, Notes, Glossary and Index, Strassburg [Strasbourg]: Verlag von Karl J. Trübner, page 105:
english: Strasbourg
translation: Strasbourg
text: There is some antecedent in old Latin; but as usual the influence is Greek too, for Greek prose and poetry freely use accusatives which are to some extent adverbial accusatives, or accusatives of respect.
ref: 1944, W[illiam] F[rancis] Jackson Knight, “Language, Verse, and Style”, in Roman Vergil (Peregrine Books), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1966, page 265:
text: Romani distinguishes dative and accusative pronouns formally and some Romani dialects use accusatives in constructions in which other languages employ a dative.
ref: 2000, Mily Crevels, Peter Bakker, “External Possession in Romani”, in Viktor Elšík, Yaron Matras, editors, Grammatical Relations in Romani: The Noun Phrase (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science: Series IV – Current Issues in Linguistic Theory; 211), Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 181:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word inflected in the accusative case.
Synonyms: word: acc.
word: A.
Derived terms: accusative absolute
accusative cognate
adverbial accusative
cognate accusative
genitive-accusative
accuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: əkyo͞ozʹ
ipa: /əˈkjuːz/
enpr: əkyo͞ozʹ
ipa: /əˈkjuz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: accuses
form: accusing
form: accused
form: accused
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: accuse
form: accuse
form: accused
form: accuse
form: accusest
form: accused
form: accusedst
form: accuses
form: accuseth
form: accused
form: accuse
form: accused
form: accuse
form: accused
form: accuse
form: -
form: accusing
form: accused
Etymology: First attested around 1300. From Middle English acusen, from Old French acuser, from Latin accūsō (“to call to account, accuse”), from ad (“to”) + causa (“cause, lawsuit, reason”). Akin to cause. Displaced native English bewray.
Senses: examples: text: […] and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 2:15:
text: We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms when their differences might have involved the Powers of Europe in contention.
ref: 1849 February 2, Lord Palmerston, The Address in Answer to the Speech—Adjourned Debate, House of Commons; republished as Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, volume 102, third series, 1849, page 216:
glosses: To find fault with, blame, censure.
examples: text: For the U.S. President to be impeached, he must be accused of a high crime or misdemeanor.
text: Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:13:
text: Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve years raising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.
ref: 1981, Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers, volume II, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page xxxix:
topics: law
synonyms: charge
indict
impeach
arraign
glosses: To charge with having committed a crime or offence.
raw_tags: followed by "of"
examples: text: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
synonyms: blame
censure
reproach
criminate
glosses: To make an accusation against someone.
Derived terms: accusal
accusee
accusement
accusive
accusor
counteraccuse
misaccuse
reaccuse
Related terms: accusable
accusation
accusative
accusatory
accuser
excuse
recuse
ruse
accuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əkyo͞ozʹ
ipa: /əˈkjuːz/
enpr: əkyo͞ozʹ
ipa: /əˈkjuz/
rhymes: -uːz
Etymology: First attested around 1300. From Middle English acusen, from Old French acuser, from Latin accūsō (“to call to account, accuse”), from ad (“to”) + causa (“cause, lawsuit, reason”). Akin to cause. Displaced native English bewray.
Senses: examples: text: And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, / Whose overweening arm I have plucked back, / By false accuse doth level at my life.
ref: c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, act 3, scene 1, lines 158–160:
glosses: Accusation.
accustom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkʌs.təm/
Forms: form: accustoms
Etymology: The verb is from Middle English accustomen, from Old French acoustumer, acustumer (Modern French accoutumer) corresponding to a (“to, toward”) + custom. More at custom, costume.
The noun is from Middle English acustom.
Senses: glosses: Custom.
Anguilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋˈɡwɪ.lə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin anguilla (“eel”), from an uncertain Romance language original. The name of the island refers to its elongated shape.
Senses: examples: text: In the late 1990s, the tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla was home to an interesting cluster of expatriates. With its nonexistent taxes and incredible beaches, it was the perfect place for self-employed computer geeks to develop projects during the dot-com boom.
ref: 2020, Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Sealand: The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation, Icon Books, →ISBN:
text: With companies wanting internet addresses that communicate they are at the forefront of the A.I. boom — like Elon Musk’s X.ai website for his artificial intelligence company — Anguilla has recently received a huge influx in requests for domain names.
ref: 2024 March 22, Emma Bubola, “The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea.
Derived terms: Anguillan
Anguilla Channel
Republic of Anguilla
Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
Related terms: Anguillita
Netherlands Antilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former autonomous country and set of islands within the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean, composed of the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba and Sint Maarten, dissolved in 2010.
Aruba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹuː.bə/
rhymes: -uːbə
Senses: examples: text: Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya / Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
ref: 1988, “Kokomo”, in Still Cruisin', performed by The Beach Boys:
glosses: An island, dependent territory, and constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean Sea.
glosses: A Meitei surname from Manipuri
Derived terms: Arubian
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒz.ni.ə ænd ˌhɜɹ.t͡sɪ.ɡoʊˈviː.nə/
ipa: /-hɜɹ.t͡sɪˈɡoʊ.vɪn.ə/
ipa: /-ənd/
enpr: bŏz′·nē·ə and hûrts′·ə·gōv′·ĭn·ə
enpr: -ənd
ipa: /ˌbɒz.niːə ən(d)ˌhɜːtsəˈɡɒvɪ.nə/
ipa: /-hɜːtsə.ɡə(ʊ)ˈviːnə/
Forms: form: BiH
form: Bosnia-Herzegovina
form: Bosnia
form: Bosnia and Hercegovina
form: Bosnia-Hercegovina
form: Herzeg-Bosnia
Etymology: From Bosnia + and + Herzegovina.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Parenti is the leader of a campaign to defend Slobodan Milosovic, who was charged and tried with war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina but died before his victims were able to justice achieved.
ref: 2015, Various Authors, “Responses to David N. Gibbs Article by John Theis, Scott Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha V Laderman, Jean Bricmont, Latha Varadarajan, K ajan, Kees van der Pijl, an der Pijl, and John Feffer”, in Class, Race and Corporate Power, volume 3, number 2, page 14:
glosses: A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Bosnia and Herzegovina. Capital and largest city: Sarajevo. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992.
Coordinate terms: Albania
Balkans
Croatia
Greater Albania
Greater Croatia
Greater Serbia
Greater Yugoslavia
Serbia
Yugoslavia
Derived terms: Bosnia and Herzegovinian
Related terms: Bosnia
Bosniak
Bosnian
Herzeg-Bosnia
Herzegovina
Herzegovinan
Herzegovinian
Barbados
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.dɒs/
ipa: /bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊs/
ipa: /bɑɹˈbeɪ.dəs/
ipa: /bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊz/
ipa: /baɹˈba.dos/
Forms: form: Barbadoes
Etymology: From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.
Senses: glosses: An island and country in the Caribbean.
Derived terms: Barbados anole
Barbados Blackbelly
Barbados bullfinch
Barbados cherry
Barbados leaf-toed gecko
Barbados leg
Barbados lily
Barbados nut
Barbados raccoon
Barbados racer
Barbados threadsnake
pride of Barbados
Barbados
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.dɒs/
ipa: /bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊs/
ipa: /bɑɹˈbeɪ.dəs/
ipa: /bɑɹˈbeɪ.doʊz/
ipa: /baɹˈba.dos/
Forms: form: Barbadoses
form: Barbadosing
form: Barbadosed
form: Barbadosed
form: Barbadoes
Etymology: From Portuguese barbados (“bearded ones”), from barba (“beard”), due to the dense hanging moss or vines in the island.
Senses: examples: text: The Barbadian planters […] resorted to shipping in hundreds of Scottish and Irish soldiers who’d been taken prisoner during Oliver Cromwell’s conquest. When that supply ran out, they took to kidnapping children, so many that a new term was coined: “barbadosed” meant the same thing in the late seventeenth century as “shanghaied” would in the twentieth.
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 7, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: To press-gang (force into naval service).
Burkina Faso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəɹˈkiːnə ˈfɑsoʊ/
ipa: /bəːˌkiːnə ˈfasəʊ/
Etymology: From Moore burkĩna (“honest”) + Dyula faso (“father's house”), coined by Thomas Sankara. Roughly translatable as "fatherland of the upright people".
Senses: coordinate_terms: Burkinabe
glosses: A country in West Africa, formerly Upper Volta. Official name: Burkina Faso.
Related terms: word: Voltaic
word: Ouagadougou
Benin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈniːn/
ipa: /bɛˈniːn/
ipa: /bəˈnin/
ipa: /bəˈnɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From Portuguese Benim, from Itsekiri Ubinu, from Yoruba ile ibinu (“house of vexation”).
Senses: glosses: A country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey.
People's Republic of Benin, from 1975 to 1990
glosses: A country in West Africa, formerly Dahomey.
Republic of Benin, since 1990
glosses: A historical kingdom in West Africa, in present-day Nigeria.
Hypernyms: Subsahara
Derived terms: Bay of Benin
Beninese
Bight of Benin
Republic of Benin
Related terms: Countries of the world
Brunei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːˈnaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Etymology: From Malay Brunei, probably ultimately from Sanskrit वरुण (váruṇa), which also referred to the island of Borneo (a likely cognate to Brunei).
Senses: glosses: A country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan.
Synonyms: Negara Brunei Darussalam
Derived terms: Brunei English
Related terms: Bandar Seri Begawan
Countries of the world
Belarus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛləɹuːs/
ipa: /ˌbɛ.ləˈɹuːs/
ipa: /ˌbɛ.ləˈɹus/
ipa: /ˈbɛ.lɑ.ɹus/
Forms: form: Biełaruś
form: Bielarus
form: Bielarus'
form: Belarus'
Etymology: Borrowed from Belarusian Белару́сь (Bjelarúsʹ).
Senses: examples: text: At a signing ceremony in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on May 29, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan ratified the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) into existence. An EEU modeled on the European Union was first mooted back in 1994 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, but took off only after his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, seized upon its potential as a Moscow-centered, Asia-oriented alternative to the EU. […] Belarus was always going to be the most willing partner in Russia’s attempts at self-aggrandizement.
ref: 2014 July 1, Frank Jacobs, “Welcome to Stanistan”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023:
text: In addition to the violence, "pushbacks" towards Belarus are increasing.
ref: 2024 July 24, Marlène Panara, “Poland allows police to open fire on migrants at the Belarusian border”, in InfoMigrants:
glosses: A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus. Capital and largest city: Minsk.
Synonyms: word: Belorussia
word: Bielorussia
word: Byelorussia
word: White Russia
Derived terms: Belarusan
Belarusian
Belaruso-
Vanuatu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvænuːˈaːtuː/
ipa: /væn.uːˈɑː.tuː/
ipa: /vɑ.nuˈɑ.tu/
Etymology: Borrowed from Bislama Vanuatu.
Senses: glosses: A country and archipelago of Melanesia in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Vanuatu. Capital and largest city: Port Vila.
Derived terms: Vanuatuan
ni-Vanuatu
Uzbekistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʊzˌbɛkɪˈstɑːn/
Forms: form: Uzbekhistan
Etymology: From Russian Узбекистан (Uzbekistan), itself from Classical Persian اُزْبَکِسْتَان (uzbakistān). Ultimately uncertain; possibly from Turkic uz (“genuine”) + Sogdian [Term?] (/⁠bek⁠/, “master”) (for the second element, see Turkish bey). The suffix is known to be from Classical Persian ـِستان (istān, “place of”). By surface analysis, Uzbek + -i- + -stan.
Senses: examples: text: Several officers are going to train border police in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, which border Afghanistan, and in several other countries.
ref: 2007 March 7, Randal C. Archibold, “In Arizona Desert, Indian Trackers vs. Smugglers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: She wore a coat made of old cloth from Uzbekistan called a suzani, which was faded black with embroidered red circles and yellow and white zigzags.
ref: 2007 March 18, Winter Miller, “Personal Sound Effects”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 May 2022:
text: In Uzbekistan, forced sterilizations apparently began in 2004 and became official state policy in 2009.
ref: 2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 234:
glosses: A country in Central Asia. Official name: Republic of Uzbekistan. Capital: Tashkent.
Derived terms: Uzbekistan Time
Uzbekistani
Related terms: Uzbek
Uzbek SSR
Tuvalu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtuːvəˈluː/
ipa: /tuːˈvɑː.luː/
ipa: /ˈtuː.və.luː/
ipa: /tuˈvɑ.lu/
ipa: /ˈtu.və.lu/
ipa: /tʉːˈvɐːlʉː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: From Tuvaluan Tuuvalu (literally “eight standing together”) in reference to the eight inhabited islands of Tuvalu, although Tuvalu consists of nine islands. The ninth island, Niulakita, was inhabited in 1949. Compare to Proto-Austronesian *walu (“eight”).
Senses: examples: text: Tuvalu, a string of islands northwest of Australia, sold the rights to its suffix, “.tv,” to a Canadian entrepreneur for $50 million, and used the money to put electricity on the outer islands, create scholarships and finance the process to join the United Nations.
ref: 2024 March 22, Emma Bubola, “The A.I. Boom Makes Millions for an Unlikely Industry Player: Anguilla”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A country and archipelago of Polynesia in Oceania. Capital and largest city: Funafuti.
wikipedia: Niulakita
Derived terms: Tuvaluan
Related terms: Funafuti
burp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːp/
ipa: /bɝp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: burps
Etymology: Originally from American English, of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: Lennon let out a burp after downing the beer.
text: Sylvanshine would burp and it would seem like more than a burp; it would taste like he'd almost thrown up a little.
ref: 2011, David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, page 9:
text: When they approached, he turned from them and made swallowing noises indispersed with burps.
ref: 2016, Thomas Corfield, The World Is Badly Made:
glosses: A belch.
Synonyms: belch
Derived terms: bottom burp
bum burp
burpless
burpy
butt burp
netburp
vurp
burp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːp/
ipa: /bɝp/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: burps
form: burping
form: burped
form: burped
Etymology: Originally from American English, of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: Burping is considered impolite in most western cultures.
text: My dad used to burp to hide the fact he was farting.
text: ‘[…] She burped and tried to jam the bottle into the waste-hole of the waste-disposal thing, the thingummy.’
‘Garburator,’ said Pigs Trotter. ‘I think they’re called Garburators.’
‘Garburator, that’s it. She tried to jam the bottle down the Garburator.[…]’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 28:
text: During a burping contest to celebrate wonderfully cold soft drinks after a long hike one hot afternoon, one little girl said, "My dad can outburp any of you!" Her father is a distinguished theologian and church leader whom I will not name here.
ref: 1999, Diana S. Richmond Garland, Family ministry: a comprehensive guide, page 45:
glosses: To emit a burp.
examples: text: Stevie intends to burp the alphabet at the school talent show.
glosses: To utter by burping
examples: text: Usually baby doesn't need to be burped if (1) he consistently takes his usual amount of formula, gradually increasing his capacity as the weeks go by and (2) if he hasn't spit up when put down unburped after most feedings.
ref: 1968, Robert Webster Watson, Why Not Have Your Second Baby First?, page 46:
glosses: To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp.
examples: text: Ferment the lemons for up to 2 weeks, opening the bag occasionally to burp it and release carbon dioxide, and reseal.
ref: 2021, Alan Bergo, The Forager Chef's Book of Flora, page 45:
glosses: To open (a container of fermenting substance) to allow the release of accumulated gas.
Derived terms: burper
burp the worm
outburp
unburped
vurpburpingly
Related terms: botty burp
burp gun
fart
yawn
Turkmenistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɜːkmɛn.ɪˈstɑːn/
ipa: /tɚkˈmɛn.ɪ.stæn/
Forms: form: Türkmenistan
Etymology: From Turkmen Türkmenistan, from Türkmen (“Turk-like; Turkmen”) + Classical Persian ـستان (-istān, “-stan”).
Senses: glosses: A country in Central Asia. Capital: Ashgabat.
Related terms: Turkmen
Turkmen SSR
Countries of the world
car hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car hops
Senses: examples: text: He was wearing standard car-hop attire.
glosses: A waiter who serves customers sitting in parked cars.
examples: text: Meet me at the car hop, or at the pop shop
ref: 1962, “Pretty Little Baby”, in Don Stirling, Bill Nauman (lyrics), Connie Francis Sings Second Hand Love & Other Hits, performed by Connie Francis:
glosses: A restaurant where customers are served in parked cars
curvaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɚˈveɪ.ʃɪs/
ipa: /-ʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more curvaceous
form: most curvaceous
form: curvacious
Etymology: From curv(e) + -aceous. Originally American English. First attested in the 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: He watched her walk, upon curvaceous legs, to the edge of the bed. For just a second, she smiled down at him.
ref: 1962, M. E. Knerr, The Sex Life of the Gods:
text: Anya is tall, gorgeous and curvaceous, all of which I enjoy sexually, especially the curvaceous part: I enjoy squeezing and grabbing all the sexy, abundant parts of her body.
ref: 2023 May 13, Kitty Drake, “This is how we do it: ‘A tired, throwaway midweek shag doesn’t interest me’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Having shapely and voluptuous curves; curvy.
raw_tags: of a woman
Synonyms: voluptuous
Derived terms: curvaceously
curvaceousness
uncurvaceous
front organization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front organizations
Senses: examples: text: Superheroes such as Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man use front organizations to hide their secret identities.
glosses: An organization which secretly acts as the public face of a covert group.
Synonyms: front
Related terms: front group
fuddy-duddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌdiˌdʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: fuddy-duddies
form: fuddyduddy
Etymology: Unknown, c. 1900 US
Senses: examples: text: My grandma is a fuddy-duddy when it comes to keeping her house clean.
glosses: An old-fashioned, persnickety or ineffective person.
Derived terms: fuddy-duddery
fuddy-duddyish
fuddy-duddyism
fudd
fuddy-duddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌdiˌdʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: fuddy-duddier
form: fuddy-duddiest
form: fuddyduddy
Etymology: Unknown, c. 1900 US
Senses: examples: text: Kingsolver lives by the tenets of her public-spirited fictional characters, whom she sculpts with a keen eye for individuality, e.g. Nannie Land Rawley, a seventy-something orchardist who shocks a fuddy-duddy male neighbor by wearing shorts, […]
ref: 2015, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion, McFarland, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Old-fashioned and persnickety or ineffective.
Derived terms: fuddy-duddily
leg up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg ups
form: legs up
Senses: synonyms: bunk-up
leg
glosses: The act of assisting another's progress over a wall or other obstacle by forming a step for one of their feet with one's hands.
antonyms: step back#Noun
glosses: A boost, a sudden improvement; an advantage, an edge.
glosses: Assistance, help given to get started or overcome a problem or obstacle.
Derived terms: get a leg up
leg up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: legs up
form: legging up
form: legged up
form: legged up
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: To walk a horse on a hard surface regularly.
ace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ās
ipa: /eɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: aces
form: acing
form: aced
form: aced
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”), probably borrowed from Etruscan. Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs, or otherwise taking from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) in the sense of "singular".
Senses: synonyms: ace out
glosses: To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
synonyms: ace out
glosses: To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make an ace (hole in one).
Synonyms: sense: to pass a test
word: ace out
sense: to pass a test
word: pass with flying colours
Derived terms: ace into
ace out
ace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ās
ipa: /eɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: more ace
form: most ace
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English as, from Old French as, from Latin as, assis (“unity, copper coin, the unit of coinage”), probably borrowed from Etruscan. Doublet of as. Likely related or deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs, or otherwise taking from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”) in the sense of "singular".
Senses: synonyms: excellent
first-rate
outstanding
glosses: Excellent.
ace
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ās
ipa: /eɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: more ace
form: most ace
Etymology: Clipping of asexual.
Senses: examples: text: "Some people who identify as ace fall under the GLBT umbrella while many others do not. Members of the queer movement have reached out to asexuals to include them in their community. The acronym for this has now become GLBTQA (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and asexual)."
ref: 2009 June 22, Anneli Rufus, “Asexuals at the Pride Parade”, in Psychology Today:
text: “I was 14 when I first realized I had no interest in sex,” Jed Strohm, a happily satisfied, romantic asexual from upstate New York, said. “I identified as ace (asexual) and the group leader said I was too attractive.”
ref: 2010, Amy Ebersole, "Asexuality, not to be confused with celibacy", The Daily Aztec (San Diego State University), 25 January 2010
text: “If you identify as ace [asexual] and you just don’t feel like having sex, then for me, sex-positive means, ‘That’s great! It’s fantastic you don’t want to have sex!’” says McGown.
ref: 2013 March 28, Andrea Garcia-Vargas, “Ourselves, our sex, our choices”, in The Eye:
synonyms: word: asexy
glosses: Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.
Derived terms: ace-aro
aceflux
acemisia
acephobe
acephobia
acephobic
acespec
aro-ace
ace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ās
ipa: /eɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: aces
Etymology: Clipping of asexual.
Senses: examples: text: Asexuals are programmed differently, like anybody else on the LGBTQXYZ spectrum, but difference is cool! Difference is perhaps the best part of being queer. Own it, aces!
ref: 2012 July 23, Tasmin Prichard, “Freedom from Desire: Some Notes on Asexuality”, in Salient, Victoria University of Wellington, page 20:
text: Negativity toward asexuality can make emerging aces fear that something is wrong with them.
ref: 2013 April, Leigh Miller, “(A)Sexual Healing”, in Jerk, volume XII, number V, Syracuse University, page 23:
text: G. F. said she came up with the idea of creating an asexual group last semester, when she was struggling with the way being an ace was affecting her personal life.
ref: 2014 February 4, Emma Ianni, “New Group to Bring Awareness Of C. U. Asexual Community”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, volume 130, number 81, Cornell University, page 1:
glosses: A person who is asexual.
Related terms: sense: aromantic
word: aro
word: ace K
acerbity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɜːbɪti/
ipa: /əˈsɝbɪti/
ipa: [əˈsɝbɪɾi]
ipa: /əˈsɜːbɪti/
ipa: [əˈsɜːbɪɾi]
Forms: form: acerbities
Etymology: Borrowed from French acerbité, from Latin acerbitās (“acerbity; harshness”), from acerbus (“bitter”). See acerb.
Senses: glosses: Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.
examples: text: acerbity of temper, of language, of pain
text: “Well ?” I repeated with some acerbity. I had been wondering for the last ten minutes how many more knots he would manage to make in that same bit of string before he actually started undoing them again.
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 1, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
glosses: Harshness, bitterness, or severity
examples: text: […] the recollection of that yesterday […] made him bear with the meekness and patience of a true-hearted man all the worrying little acerbities of to-day;
ref: 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 16, in Mary Barton, volume 2, London: Chapman and Hall, page 222:
text: This opera was mainly in the style of late Puccini, with acerbities stolen from Stravinsky.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 21, in Earthly Powers, Penguin, published 1981, page 115:
glosses: Something harsh (e.g. a remark, act or experience).
acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsɪteɪ̯t/
Forms: form: acetates
Etymology: Formed from the root of Latin acētum (“vinegar”) + -ate, from aceō (“I am sour”). By surface analysis, acet- + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: […] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: ethanoate
glosses: Any ester or salt of acetic acid.
examples: text: Performers use acetate because eyelash glue is not available. They create eyelashes out of horse hair or cut from carbon paper. Their nails are glued on with a shoe adhesive.
ref: 2007 July 16, Leslie Feinberg, “How La Güinera made room for more gender”, in Workers World:
glosses: Cellulose acetate.
examples: Near-synonym: gel
coordinate_terms: celluloid
cellophane
glosses: A transparent sheet used for overlays, whether of cellulose acetate or (loosely) any macroscopically similar plastic.
examples: text: Acetates are a relic of the days before cassettes, DAT, and recordable CDs came into widespread use in recording studios. Manufactured from aluminum, and coated in a thin sheet of vinyl, they were produced to allow the concerned parties to hear how a particular version of a recording would sound outside the studio, on their home hi-fi, for example.
ref: 2002, Dave Thompson, The Music Lover's Guide to Record Collecting, Hal Leonard Corporation, Acetates—The Rock Star's Rough Draft
coordinate_terms: dubplate
glosses: In full acetate disc: a disc of aluminium covered in a wax used to make demonstration copies of a phonograph record.
Coordinate terms: english: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
translation: coordinate as an acid versus a base, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution
word: acetic acid
Derived terms: aceclidine
acedapsone
acetated
acetatelyase
acetatic
acetoacetate
acetorphine
ammonium acetate
amphoacetate
amyl acetate
bisacodyl
bromoacetate
butylacetate
calcium acetate
cefacetrile
cellulose acetate
chloroacetate
citronellyl acetate
copper acetate
cupric acetate
cyanoacetate
cyproterone acetate
denaverine
diacetate
ethyl acetate
ethylenediaminetetraacetate
ethylene-vinyl acetate
eugenol acetate
eugenyl acetate
fentin acetate
fluoroacetate
hydrogen acetate
iodoacetate
lead acetate
linalyl acetate
lithium acetate
medroxyprogesterone acetate
methyl acetate
methylazoxymethanol acetate
monoacetate
nonacetate
octaacetate
orthoacetate
oxaloacetate
oxoacetate
parachlorophenoxyacetate
pentaacetate
peracetate
polyvinyl acetate
potassium acetate
sodium acetate
sodium acetate trihydrate
subacetate
tetraacetate
thioacetate
triacetate
undecaacetate
vaccenyl acetate
vinyl acetate
acerbate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈa.sə.beɪt/
ipa: /ˈæ.səɹˌbeɪt/
Forms: form: more acerbate
form: most acerbate
Etymology: From Latin acerbātus, perfect passive participle of acerbō (“make bitter”), from acerbus (“bitter”).
Senses: glosses: Embittered; having a sour disposition or nature.
acerbate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈa.sə.beɪt/
ipa: /ˈæ.səɹˌbeɪt/
Forms: form: acerbates
form: acerbating
form: acerbated
form: acerbated
Etymology: From Latin acerbātus, perfect passive participle of acerbō (“make bitter”), from acerbus (“bitter”).
Senses: examples: text: Lady Laura had triumphed; but she had no desire to acerbate her husband by any unpalatable allusion to her victory.
ref: 1869, Anthony Trollope, chapter 51, in Phineas Finn:
glosses: To exasperate; to irritate.
glosses: To make bitter or sour.
Synonyms: sense: exasperate
word: provoke
sense: make bitter
word: sour
sense: make bitter
word: embitter
Derived terms: acerbation
exacerbate
acetylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛtəlˌin/
Forms: form: acetylenes
Etymology: Borrowed from French acétylène, coined by French chemist Marcellin Berthelot, from acetyl + -ene.
Senses: examples: text: The acetylene gas lighting in the station offices and platforms at Kyle of Lochalsh recently has been replaced by electric lighting.
ref: 1951 April, “Notes and News: Improvements at Kyle of Lochalsh”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound having one or more carbon–carbon triple bonds; an alkyne.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Ethyne; the simplest alkyne, a hydrocarbon of formula HC≡CH. It is a colourless, odourless, extremely flammable, explosive gas, formerly used as an illuminating gas, but now used in welding and metallurgy.
examples: text: Mrs. Winnie had kindly sent her limousine car for them, and it stood throbbing in front of the hotel-entrance, its acetylenes streaming far up the street.
ref: 1908, Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis, New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, page 69:
glosses: A lamp powered by acetylene, particularly a motor vehicle headlight.
Synonyms: word: ethyne
Derived terms: acetylenation
acetylene black
acetylenediol
acetylene torch
acetylenic
conylene
crotonylene
cyanoacetylene
diacetylene
dicyanoacetylene
diiodoacetylene
diphenylacetylene
haloacetylene
methylacetylene
oxyacetylene
phenylacetylene
polyacetylene
terminal acetylene
tosylacetylene
triacetylene
trimethylsilylacetylene
vinylacetylene
Related terms: acetylide
ache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: āk
ipa: /ˈeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: aches
form: ake
Etymology: From Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (verb) (from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”)) and æċe (noun) (from Proto-West Germanic *aki, from Proto-Germanic *akiz), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eg- (“sin, crime”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian eeke, ääke (“to ache, fester”), Low German aken, achen, äken (“to hurt, ache”), German Low German Eek (“inflammation”), North Frisian akelig, æklig (“terrible, miserable, sharp, intense”), West Frisian aaklik (“nasty, horrible, dismal, dreary”), Dutch akelig (“nasty, horrible”).
The verb was originally strong, conjugating for tense like take (e.g. I ake, I oke, I have aken), but gradually became weak during Middle English; the noun was originally pronounced as /eɪt͡ʃ/ as spelled (compare breach, from break). Historically the verb was spelled ake, and the noun ache (even after the form /eɪk/ started to become common for the noun; compare again break which is now also a noun). The verb came to be spelled like the noun when lexicographer Samuel Johnson mistakenly assumed that it derived from Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “pain”) due to the similarity in form and meaning of the two words.
Senses: examples: text: You may suffer a minor ache in your side.
text: The aches and pains died down after taking an analgesic.
text: Fill all thy bones with aches.
ref: c. 1610, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene II:
synonyms: word: misery
word: pain
word: wark
antonyms: pang
throe
trouble
glosses: Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
Derived terms: achage
acheful
acheless
achelike
acher
aches and pains
achesome
achy
backache
ballache
ball ache
bellyache
boneache
dickache
earache
faceache
face-ache
headache
heartache
hot ache
knee ache
neckache
psychache
sideache
stomachache
tailache
teethache
throatache
toothache
tummy ache
tummyache
unache
Related terms: hurt
ache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: āk
ipa: /ˈeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
enpr: āch
ipa: /eɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -eɪtʃ
enpr: āk
ipa: /ˈeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: aches
form: ake
Etymology: From Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Latin apium (“celery”). Reinforced by modern French ache.
Senses: glosses: Parsley.
Derived terms: english: by folk etymology
translation: by folk etymology
word: lovage
word: smallage
ache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: āk
ipa: /ˈeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
enpr: āch
ipa: /eɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -eɪtʃ
ipa: /ˈeɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -eɪtʃ
enpr: āk
ipa: /ˈeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
enpr: āch
ipa: /eɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -eɪtʃ
Forms: form: aches
form: ake
Etymology: Representing the pronunciation of the letter H.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of aitch.
Achilles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɪliːz/
rhymes: -ɪliːz
Forms: form: Achilleus
form: Akhilles
form: Akhilleus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Achillēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχιλλεύς (Akhilleús).
Senses: examples: text: Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
ref: 1715, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, chapter 1, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
text: If once the lamentation is heard, it will ring out again, of the short-lived Achilles, of the leaf-like change and vicissitude of the human race, of the decay of the heroic age.
ref: 1910, Friedrich Nietzsche, chapter 3, in William A. Haussmann, transl., edited by Oscar Levy, The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1), Edinburgh; London: T. N. Foulis, page 36:
text: In the last third of the Iliad, Achilles’ beloved companion, Patroklos, and his bitter enemy, Hektor, die wearing Achilles’ armor, their deaths prefiguring Achilles’ own.
ref: 2012, Richard Holway, Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), page 153:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical semidivine hero, the son of Peleus by the nereid Thetis, and prince of the Myrmidons, who features in the Iliad as a central character and the foremost warrior of the Achaean (Greek) camp.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The Greek camp Trojan asteroid 588 Achilles.
Derived terms: Achillean
Achilles heel
Achilles number
Achilles tendon
achillorrhaphy
achillotomy
Patrochilles
Achilles heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkɪl.iːz ˈhiːl/
Forms: form: Achilles heels
form: Achilles' heel
Etymology: From the Greek hero Achilles, whom according to legend his mother held by the heel when she dipped him in the River Styx, making him invulnerable everywhere except on his heel. He was later killed by an arrow wound to the heel. Although the legend is ancient, the phrase only entered English in the 19th century. It is used as a metaphor for vulnerability, as in the earliest citation, an essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Senses: examples: text: A good all-round golfer, playing out of bunkers is my Achilles heel.
text: It might seem counter-intuitive, but getting right up in the Demoman's face is the Achillees heel to the power of his explosives.
ref: 2020 December 27, Uncle Dane, 10:54 from the start, in How To Fight Every Class In TF2 (As Engineer) (And Win!), archived from the original on 27 Dec 2020:
synonyms: word: soft spot
word: vulnerability
word: weakness
word: weak spot
word: kryptonite
word: Achilles heel
word: chink in the armor
word: glass jaw
word: kryptonite
word: soft spot
word: soft underbelly
word: vulnerability
word: weakness
word: weak spot
glosses: A vulnerability in an otherwise strong situation.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The Achilles tendon, the tendo Achillis.
Related terms: Achilles
Achilles' tendon
chink in the armor
feet of clay
hamartia
achromatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French achromatisme.
Senses: examples: text: the achromatism of a lens
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The state or quality of being achromatic; achromaticity.
examples: text: No flaming flower relieved its black achromatism although that tree had been known long ago to burst open with a three-hour glory.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, “Mrs Slagg by Moonlight”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
glosses: The state of being free of colors, not emitting or separating into colors.
glosses: Achromatopia.
acidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪdɪk/
enpr: əsĭdʹĭk
Forms: form: more acidic
form: most acidic
Etymology: From acid + -ic. Doublet of acidy.
Senses: examples: text: The swampland is an extensive pegasse swamp, which is rich in organic matter and intensely acidic.
ref: 2015, Ramesh Gampat, Guyana: from Slavery to the Present, volume 2:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: Containing a high percentage of silica-bearing minerals; opposed to basic.
examples: text: an acidic solution
glosses: Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.
Synonyms: acid
Derived terms: acidically
aminoacidic
anacidic
diacidic
glial fibrillary acidic protein
hyperacidic
hypoacidic
monoacidic
nonacidic
overacidic
peracidic
polyacidic
subacidic
thermoacidic
triacidic
unacidic
acidification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌsɪdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: acidifications
Etymology: Borrowed from French acidification, equivalent to acid + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: Coral reefs, for instance, are suffering from the higher temperatures and the effects of acidification whilst also being weakened by bad fishing practices, pollution, siltation and toxic algal blooms.
ref: 2013 October 3, Roger Harrabin, “Health of oceans 'declining fast'”, in bbc.co.uk, retrieved 05 Oct 2013:
antonyms: acidulation
basification
glosses: The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid.
Derived terms: deacidification
hyperacidification
ocean acidification
reacidification
soil acidification
Related terms: acidify