cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: sailings
Etymology: From Middle English sailyng, seyling, from Old English seġling, seġlung (“sailing”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglingu, *seglungu, from Proto-Germanic *siglingō (“sailing”); equivalent to sail + -ing. Cognate with Middle Low German sēgelinge (“sailing”), Swedish segling (“sailing”), Icelandic sigling (“sailing”).
Senses: glosses: Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise
glosses: Navigation; the skill needed to operate and navigate a vessel
glosses: the time of departure from a port
examples: text: New ships were built to the order of the Great Eastern Railway, and the service frequency increased, until March 1879, saw a sailing every weekday to Rotterdam, and a thrice-weekly service to Antwerp.
ref: 1951 November, K. Westcott Jones, “Parkeston Quay and the Antwerp Continental Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
glosses: a scheduled voyage by a ferry or ship.
Derived terms: clear sailing
land sailing
oblique sailing
plain sailing
plane sailing
rhumb sailing
sailing boat
sailing dinghy
sailing-ice
sailing-master
sailing ship
sailing vessel
sailing yacht
smooth sailing
stadium sailing
Thames sailing barge
traverse sailing
navigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nævɪˈɡeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: navigations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigātus, perfect passive participle of nāvigō (“sail”). Morphologically navigate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: An ocean-going yachtsman must be competent at night navigation
glosses: The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
glosses: Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
glosses: A canal.
glosses: The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
glosses: The process of finding a way through a difficult situation.
Derived terms: aeronavigation
air navigation
astronavigation
avigation
celestial navigation
circumnavigation
cybernavigation
freedom of navigation
geonavigation
grid navigation
head of navigation
hyperbolic navigation
hyperbolic navigation system
hypernavigation
inertial navigation
inertial navigation system
inertial navigation unit
inland navigation
internal navigation
metanavigation
misnavigation
mystery meat navigation
navigational
navigation bar
navigation channel
navigation laws
navigation light
navigation mesh
neuronavigation
nonnavigation
proportional navigation
radionavigation
radio navigation
renavigation
safe navigation operator
satellite navigation
satellite navigation system
satnav
slack-water navigation
space navigation
subnavigation
TACAN
taxonavigation
terrestrial navigation
turn-by-turn navigation
astrolabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæs.tɹəˌleɪb/
Forms: form: astrolabes
Etymology: From Middle English astrelabie et al., from Middle French astrolabe, Old French astrelabe, from Ancient Greek ἀστρολάβος (astrolábos, “star-taking”), from ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Senses: examples: text: The shop carries more than a dozen sundials, mostly of bronze, plus an astrolabe ($650) of wrought iron.
ref: 1985 April 4, Daryln Brewer, “HELPFUL HARDWARE; AN ARRAY OF SUNDIALS”, in The New York Times:
text: The cafe serves a Moroccan breakfast (orange juice, yogurt, sweet crepes, honey and jam; 100 dirhams), and the Museum of Islamic Art offers wrought Persian astrolabes, Syrian copperwork and shimmering Moroccan textiles.
ref: 2007 November 11, Seth Sherwood, “36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An astronomical and navigational instrument for gauging the altitude of the Sun and stars.
Derived terms: astrolabic
Related terms: armillary sphere
compass
sextant
destruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstɹʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Forms: form: destructs
form: destructing
form: destructed
form: destructed
Etymology: Back-formation from destruction.
Senses: synonyms: destroy
glosses: To intentionally cause the destruction of.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To invoke the destructor of.
glosses: To self-destruct.
Derived terms: autodestruct
destructedness
destructible
lower-case
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lowercase.
lower-case
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lower-cases
form: lower-casing
form: lower-cased
form: lower-cased
Senses: examples: text: Yet, as every rule has its exception, I have construed this dictum somewhat liberally and have as yet never failed to employ as big an A as I could command when the word American was used as an adjective, even while I lower-cased english, mexican and foreign nations generally.
ref: 1901 May 29, Joseph L. Hills, “Style Board”, in Charles H. Waddell, editor, The University Cynic, volume XIX, number 4, Burlington, Vt.: University of Vermont, published 10 June 1901, page 71, column 2:
text: If a capitalized word would be lower-cased in modern usage, we lower-cased it, but we did not capitalize any word that appeared lower-cased in the original.
ref: 1991, Ellis Sandoz, “Editor’s Note”, in Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730–1805, Indianapolis, Ind.: LibertyPress, →ISBN, page xxix:
text: And Kevin asked me to add that we have capitalized Open Source this time, to assuage tender sensibilities, even though we lower-cased it in November’s issue of Release 1.0.
ref: 1999 March 22, Esther Dyson, “Tuesday - In Between: The Architecture”, in Release 1.0: Esther Dyson’s Monthly Report, New York, N.Y.: EDventure Holdings Inc., →ISSN, page 17:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lowercase.
voucher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaʊt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vouchers
Etymology: From vouch + -er. The verb is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: a voucher for a free kettle
text: This voucher entitles the bearer to a 20% discount on frozen goods.
text: Today, clients who cannot afford the reasonable rates are able to join a work-voucher system in which they agree to work for an hour helping the HCHS staff for each hour of service received.
ref: 1973 December 8, “The Homophile Health Service”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 25, page 7:
synonyms: coupon
glosses: A piece of paper or other token that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.
glosses: A receipt.
examples: text: To the fashionable world he cannot be a stranger […] and his having married a sister of the Duke of Leeds is a voucher for my assertion.
ref: 1836, The New Sporting Magazine, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 11, page 227:
text: She is my sister—my own father’s daughter. Well; why do I believe it? The other day I had not so much as heard the remotest rumor of her existence; and what has since occurred to change me? What so new and incontestable vouchers have I handled? None at all.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: One who or that which vouches.
examples: text: Most agencies also have a vouchers department. It is its responsibility to obtain a copy of every advertisement that appears in print. It supplies the accounts department with the relevant newspaper or magazine, which is affixed to the agency's invoice for the space.
ref: 2014, Nigel Linacre, Advertising for Account Holders (RLE Marketing), page 9:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A copy of a published advertisement sent by the agency to the client as proof of publication.
glosses: A mechanical device used in shops for automatically registering the amount of money drawn.
Derived terms: e-gift voucher
e-voucher
force the voucher
gift voucher
luncheon voucher
meal voucher
milk voucher
school voucher
voucher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaʊt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aʊtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vouchers
form: vouchering
form: vouchered
form: vouchered
Etymology: From vouch + -er. The verb is from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.
glosses: To provide a vouch for (an expenditure).
glosses: To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.
Related terms: vouch
voracious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɔːˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
ipa: /vəˈɹeɪ.ʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
homophone: veracious
Forms: form: more voracious
form: most voracious
Etymology: From Latin vorāx, from vorō (“I devour”).
Senses: examples: text: He is voracious by suppertime.
text: His appetite is voracious by suppertime.
text: I never had so much as […] one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
text: The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 45, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions, the Pygmy to the fever-rotten jungles of Africa.
ref: 1917, Jack London, “The Human Drift”, in The Human Drift, New York: Macmillan, page 3:
glosses: Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
raw_tags: of a person or their appetite
examples: text: a voracious reader
text: If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.
ref: 1922, Walter Lippmann, chapter 7, in Public Opinion:
text: Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find.
ref: 2005 August 29, Nathan Thornburgh, “The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies”, in Time:
glosses: Having a great appetite for anything; eager.
Synonyms: sense: having a great appetite for anything
word: eager
word: cormorant
word: edacious
word: esurient
word: gluttonous
word: gutfoundered
word: hungry as a hog
word: insatiable
word: lupine
word: pantagruelian
word: rapacious
word: ravening
word: ravenous
word: voracious
Hypernyms: word: greedy
word: hungry
Derived terms: unvoracious
voraciously
voraciousness
Related terms: word: devouring
word: omnivorous
word: voracity
word: greed
word: glutton
vibrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪˈbɹeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈvaɪbɹeɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈvaɪ̯bɹeɪ̯ɾɚ]
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vibrators
Etymology: From New Latin vibrātor, from Latin vibrō (“to vibrate”). By surface analysis, vibrate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: They recommend a vibrator because it's a safe alternative to sex.
text: Mmm. I'm sick of my ‘Mighty Intruder’ vibrator with the flexible shaft and the textured head.
ref: 1988, Wendy Goldman, Judy Toll, Casual Sex?, spoken by Stacy (Lea Thompson):
text: A vibrator does not call you on your birthday. A vibrator doesn't send you flowers the next day. You cannot take a vibrator home to meet your mother.
ref: 1998 August 2, Nicole Avril, Susan Kolinsky, “The Turtle and the Hare”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Charlotte:
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
A trembler, as of an electric bell.
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
An oscillator.
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
glosses: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.
Hyponyms: stick shaker
cat
Derived terms: bullet vibrator
master vibrator
rabbit vibrator
Related terms: vibrate
vibrant
vibration
shipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: shippings
Etymology: From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
coordinate_terms: carriage
haulage
glosses: The transportation of goods.
examples: text: Our overplus of shipping will we burn; / And, with the rest full-mann’d, from the head of Actium / Beat the approaching Caesar.
ref: c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene 7:
text: […] the Advantage appeared greatly on their Side, in Numbers of Shipping, and of Men;
ref: 1724, Daniel Defoe, A General History of the Pyrates, London: T. Warner, Introduction, page 23:
text: My first afternoon, on reaching New Bedford, was spent in visiting the wharves and viewing the shipping.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 22, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, page 345:
text: Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
ref: 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
text: […] I clearly remember a castle on the shores of the lagoon, where gondolas appeared amid larger shipping, which seemed to be plying in and out of Naples […]
ref: 1970, Robertson Davies, chapter 2, in Fifth Business, Toronto: Macmillan, page 107:
coordinate_terms: fleet
navy
glosses: The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively.
coordinate_terms: voyage
glosses: Passage or transport on a ship.
examples: text: The shipping is included in the quoted price.
coordinate_terms: postage
glosses: The cost of sending an item or package using postal or carrier services.
examples: text: God send 'em good shipping.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Navigation.
Derived terms: anti-shipping
merchant shipping
shipping agent
shipping and handling
shipping company
shipping container
shipping fever
shipping forecast
shipping lane
shipping master
short-sea shipping
take shipping
trans-shipping
shipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Etymology: From ship + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ship
shipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪpɪŋ
Etymology: Clipping of relationshipping.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters, to be in a romantic or sexual relationship.
Derived terms: antishipping
comshipping
multishipping
proshipping
realistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌɹiːjəˈlɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌɹiːəˈlɪs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: more realistic
form: most realistic
Etymology: From realist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A realistic appraisal of the situation.
text: Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: raw
glosses: Expressed or represented as being accurate, practicable, or not idealistic.
examples: text: A realistic novel about the Victorian poor.
glosses: Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.
Synonyms: realsome
Derived terms: realistically
realisticity
realisticness
Related terms: real
realism
realist
reality
realize
verisimilar
transportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænspɔːˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /tɹænspɚˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: transportations
Etymology: From transport + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation.
glosses: The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
examples: text: Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.
text: Redpath was sentenced to transportation for life, and his assets, amounting to over £25,000, went to reduce the sum that the Great Northern had to find.
ref: 1957 February 24, Michael Robbins, “The Redpath Frauds on the Great Northern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 132:
glosses: Deportation to a penal colony.
examples: text: Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.
glosses: A means of conveyance.
examples: text: Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
(Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."
ref: 1898, Willa Cather, The Westbound Train:
glosses: A ticket or fare.
Derived terms: intelligent transportation system
mass transportation
means of transportation
public transportation
transportation car
transportation network
transportation network vehicle service
transportation safety board
penal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːnəl/
rhymes: -iːnəl
homophone: penile stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: pænal
form: pænall
form: penall
form: pœnal
form: pœnall
Etymology: From Old French peinal, from Medieval Latin penalis, from Latin poenalis, from poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “punishment”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.
Senses: examples: text: penal servitude
glosses: Of or relating to punishment.
examples: text: a penal offence
glosses: Subject to punishment; punishable.
examples: text: a penal colony
glosses: Serving as a place of punishment.
examples: text: a penal rate of interest.
glosses: Exorbitant.
Derived terms: hemipenal
nonpenal
parapenal
penal code
penal colony
penal-industrial complex
penalise
penalism
penalization
penal law
penally
penal notice
penal officer
penal populism
penal rosary
penal substitution
postpenal
unpenal
Related terms: word: penality
word: penalize
word: penalty
museum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈziːəm/
ipa: /mjuˈziəm/
ipa: /mjuˈzim/
ipa: /mjuˈzæm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmjuzɪjəm/
rhymes: -iːəm
Forms: form: museums
form: musea
form: musæum
Etymology: From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).
Senses: examples: text: visit the history museum
text: They're opening a new coin exhibition at the local museum.
glosses: A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
Derived terms: antimuseum
cybermuseum
dime museum
ecomuseum
geomuseum
imaginary museum
living museum
minimuseum
multimuseum
museomics
museum beetle
museumed out
museumesque
museum-goer
museumgoer
museumgoing
museumification
museumify
museumist
museumization
museumize
museumless
museumlike
museumobile
museum pest
museum piece
museum problem
museum restoration
museumwide
museumworthy
nonmuseum
open air museum
open-air museum
wax museum
Related terms: museography
museology
museophile
museum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈziːəm/
ipa: /mjuˈziəm/
ipa: /mjuˈzim/
ipa: /mjuˈzæm/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmjuzɪjəm/
rhymes: -iːəm
Forms: form: museums
form: museuming
form: museumed
form: museumed
form: musæum
Etymology: From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).
Senses: examples: text: I use daily those books that for others are museumed. The glass case approach depresses me, makes books into porcelain, guts them of what they are.
ref: 2013, Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery:
text: Such museuming provides evidence that the Gulf has started building up its defences to protect its national culture, which might be seen as threatened by modern, global societies.
ref: 2016, Pamela Erskine-Loftus, Mariam Ibrahim Al-Mulla, Victoria Hightower, Representing the Nation, page 77:
glosses: To place in a museum.
examples: text: I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming.
ref: 2014, Robin Reardon, Educating Simon, page 212:
glosses: To visit museums.
probability theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The mathematical study of probability (the likelihood of occurrence of random events in order to predict the behavior of defined systems).
Synonyms: probabilistic theory
probability calculus
exhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: exhibitions
Etymology: From Old French exhibicion. Equivalent to exhibit + -ion.
Senses: glosses: An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
examples: text: There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
text: a boat exhibition
glosses: A large-scale public showing of objects or products.
examples: text: a shameful exhibition
text: a disgusting exhibition
text: Well I made some exhibition, I lost my will to eat / The only thing that matters to me is to touch your lotus feet
ref: 2002, George Harrison, “Stuck Inside a Cloud”, in Brainwashed:
glosses: A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative.
examples: text: "I could not have believed," remarked Francesca, "had I not witnessed it since my residence in your country, how the reality and the affectation of feeling can exist together. Before I left our solitary home, the very exhibition of emotion would have tempted me to doubt its truth. Now, I observe that some affect, as others shun, display; yet the feeling is equally true in both."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 178:
glosses: A demonstration of personal skill or feelings.
examples: text: He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 352:
text: Despite a couple of rustications, he gained an exhibition to Cambridge.
ref: 2016 November, Jonathan Meades, “Inside Job”, in Literary Review:
glosses: A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.
Derived terms: exhibition game
exhibitiongoer
exhibition-goer
exhibition hall
exhibitionism
exhibitionist
exhibitionistic
exhibitionize
exhibition match
Exhibition Road
make an exhibition of oneself
nonexhibition
reexhibition
sexhibition
Related terms: exposition
exhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛksɪˈbɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: exhibitions
form: exhibitioning
form: exhibitioned
form: exhibitioned
Etymology: From Old French exhibicion. Equivalent to exhibit + -ion.
Senses: glosses: To participate in sexual exhibitionism.
hypergeometric distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypergeometric distributions
Senses: examples: text: The hypergeometric distribution differs from the binomial distribution in that the random sample of n items is selected from a finite population of N items. With the hypergeometric distribution, there is no replacement. If N is large in respect to n (N>10n), the binomial distribution is a good approximation to the hypergeometric distribution.
ref: 2002, Bryan Dodson, Dennis Nolan, Reliability Engineering Handbook, QA Publishing, page 57:
text: 2013, Alexandr A. Borovkov, unspecified translator, Probability Theory, [2009, Alexandr A. Borovkov, Teoriya Veroyatnostei, Knizhnyi dom Librokom, 5th Edition], Springer, page 1,
Sampling without replacement from a large population is considered, and convergence of the emerging hypergeometric distributions to the binomial one is formally proved.
text: Knowing that the asymptotic form approaches that of a hypergeometric distribution is not all that helpful since this is a complicated function.[…]To demonstrate analytically what the figure suggests graphically, it is better to work directly with the probability function (2.1.7) than with a moment generating function or a characteristic function, neither of which is easily calculable or useful in the case of a hypergeometric distribution.
ref: 2014, Mark P. Silverman, A Certain Uncertainty: Nature's Random Ways, Cambridge University Press, page 99:
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
statistics
glosses: A discrete probability distribution that describes the probability of k "successes" in a sequence of n draws without replacement from a finite population.
Derived terms: negative hypergeometric distribution
Related terms: hypergeometric random variable
make an exhibition of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes an exhibition of oneself
form: making an exhibition of oneself
form: made an exhibition of oneself
form: made an exhibition of oneself
Senses: examples: text: He tends to make an exhibition of himself at parties, trying to draw attention.
text: Stop making an exhibition of yourself and let others enjoy the moment.
text: She had far too much to drink and made an exhibition of herself by flirting with everyone.
glosses: To embarrass oneself or others in public by behaving foolishly.
Synonyms: sense: to embarrass oneself in public
word: make a fool of oneself
sense: to embarrass oneself in public
word: make a spectacle of oneself
unleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈlɛd.əd/
Etymology: From un- + leaded. The US standard of identity comes from 40 CFR §79.32.
Senses: glosses: Without lead.
qualifier: US standards of identity
glosses: Containing no more than 0.05 grams of lead per gallon.
raw_tags: of gasoline
examples: text: I order a draft beer and a decaf coffee for Cha. The bartender tells me in a nice way they don't have unleaded coffee.
ref: 1999, Chuck Fair, Deviants, →ISBN, page 31:
text: “Could I get you a drink, coffee, or something?” “Unleaded coffee if Alex has any.”
ref: 2016, Charles L. McGranaghan, The Patriot Group, an American novel, →ISBN, page 368:
glosses: Decaffeinated.
raw_tags: of coffee
examples: text: Richie Pace ordered an unleaded beer.
ref: 2015, Dan Jenkins, You Gotta Play Hurt, →ISBN:
glosses: Having low alcohol content.
raw_tags: of beer
Synonyms: sense: without lead
word: lead-free
sense: without lead
word: leadless
sense: without lead
word: nonleaded
sense: decaffeinated
word: decaffeinated
sense: decaffeinated
word: caffeine-free
sense: decaffeinated
word: decaf
sense: low in alcohol content
word: light
unleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈlɛd.əd/
Etymology: From un- + leaded. The US standard of identity comes from 40 CFR §79.32.
Senses: glosses: past of unlead
unleaded
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈlɛd.əd/
Forms: form: unleadeds
Etymology: From un- + leaded. The US standard of identity comes from 40 CFR §79.32.
Senses: examples: text: Because one of the unleadeds just might turn out to be the right gasoline for your car. By right, I mean the one that gives you the best balance between price and performance.
ref: 1976, Newsweek, volume 87, page 292:
text: Check the pumps and you'll see some economy unleadeds with octane (antiknock) ratings as low as 86; some quality unleadeds rate as high as 89.
ref: 1984, Mechanix Illustrated, volume 80, page 18:
glosses: An unleaded fuel.
examples: text: And while you may enjoy your morning coffee buzz, caffeine is active in the bloodstream for up to nine hours, so it is best to switch to unleaded after noon.
ref: 2012, Sarah Samaan, Best Practices for a Healthy Heart, →ISBN:
glosses: Decaffeinated coffee.
glosses: Low-alcohol beer.
testator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛˌsteɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /tɛsˈteɪ.tɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: testators
form: testatour
Etymology: From Latin testator (“one who makes a will, in Late Latin also one who bears witness”), from testari (“to bear witness, make a will”). See testament.
Senses: examples: text: […] there is an exception “in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent; so also with respect to several tortfeasors, for in all these cases there is a privity between the parties which constitutes an identity of person”.
ref: 1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law:
text: As it is, knowing that the testator was a gentleman of the highest intelligence and acumen, and that he has absolutely no relations living to whom he could have confided the guardianship of the child, we do not feel justified in taking this course.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
topics: law
synonyms: word: devisor
word: legator
word: testamentor
glosses: One who makes or has made a legally valid will.
Related terms: testament
testatrix
testify
testimonial
testimony
executor
testatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛsˈteɪtɹɪks/
rhymes: -eɪtɹɪks
Forms: form: testatrices
form: testatrixes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin testātrīx. By surface analysis, testator + -trix.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A female testator.
Related terms: testament
testator
testify
testimonial
testimony
obsolescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbsəˈlɛsənt/
ipa: /ɑbsəˈlɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more obsolescent
form: most obsolescent
Etymology: From Latin obsolēscēns.
Senses: examples: text: How can I live among this gentle
obsolescent breed of heroes, and not weep?
ref: a. 1944, Keith Douglas, “Aristocrats”, in Collected Poems, published 1977:
glosses: In the process of becoming obsolete, but not obsolete yet.
Synonyms: deprecated
on its way out
obsolete
Derived terms: nonobsolescent
Related terms: obsolescence
obsolescently
-escent
liberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪbəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: liberations
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate. Equivalent to liberate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The liberation of American slaves was accomplished by the Department of War, that of British slaves by the Exchequer.
text: People saw in the elders, who were closer to death, the manifestation of the divine force that was thought to achieve its full liberation at death.
ref: 1995, Julius Evola, “The Two Paths in the Afterlife”, in Guido Stucco, transl., Revolt against the Modern World, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, translation of Rivolta contro il mondo moderno, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
glosses: Synonym of conquest or theft.
synonyms: word: conquest or theft
examples: text: women's liberation... black liberation... gay liberation...
topics: government
politics
glosses: The achievement of equal rights and status, particularly as seen as freedom from historic and structural oppression.
Synonyms: emancipation
independence
Derived terms: animal liberation
antiliberation
black liberation
gay liberation
liberational
liberation day
liberationism
liberationist
liberation theology
male liberation
nonliberation
photoliberation
postliberation
preliberation
pseudoliberation
pseudo-liberation
queer liberation
war of liberation
women's liberation
Related terms: liberate
better half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: better halves
Etymology: Ultimately from such Latin poetic phrases as animae dīmidium meae (“half of my soul”) (Horace writing about Virgil), when it instead referred to a close friend (compare soulmate). First written instance of it meaning “spouse” was in 1580 by Sir Philip Sidney.
Senses: examples: text: But with that Argalus came out of his swoon, […], it seemed a little cheerful blood came up to his cheeks, like a burning coal, almost dead, if some breath a little revive it: and forcing up, the best he could, his feeble voice, “My dear, my better half,” said he, “I find I must now leave thee: and by that sweet hand, and fair eyes of thine I swear that death brings nothing with it to grieve me but that I must leave thee, […]
ref: 1580, Philip Sidney, “Book III”, in The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, page 357:
text: Quickly gentlemen, we got about fifteen minutes before Jimmie's better-half comes pulling into the driveway.
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by The Wolf (Harvey Keitel):
text: Private life then, just to flesh out David Brent the man. Is there a better half?
ref: 2002, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, “Interview”, in The Office, season 2, episode 6 (television production), spoken by Helena (Olivia Colman):
synonyms: word: spouse
word: better half
word: consort
raw_tags: of royalty
word: helpmate
word: helpmeet
word: mate
word: other half
word: partner
word: wedder
glosses: A person's spouse or lover, most commonly a man's wife.
glosses: A very close friend or companion.
isotach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotachs
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek ταχύς (takhús, “fast”) (see tachy-).
Senses: glosses: An isoline linking places on a map which have equal wind speed.
isopleth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopleths
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek πλῆθος (plêthos, “a great number”).
Senses: synonyms: isoline
isarithm
isogram
isopract
coordinate_terms: isobar
isohyet
isotherm
glosses: A line drawn on a map through all points having the same value of some measurable quantity.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: A line in a phase diagram indicating the same mole fraction.
Derived terms: isoplethic
Related terms: plethora
contour line
vehicle identification number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vehicle identification numbers
form: Vehicle Identification Number
Senses: examples: text: Seller of used car, who had fraudulently represented to buyer that the vehicle identification number (VIN) had been scratched out under windshield because former owner had been trying to prevent repossession of the car, was liable to buyer for punitive damages, based on having acted willfully or with reckless disregard for the consequences of the seller's conduct, even if the seller had not known the car had been "chop shopped" from two different vehicles.
ref: 1961, American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts, Annotated, Bancroft-Whitney Company:
glosses: A mandatory unique alphanumeric code (usually 17 characters long) assigned to each vehicle produced, stamped into the metal on the dashboard on the left-hand side (viewable through the windshield), and on the engine block and at least one other place somewhere on the body of the vehicle.
Synonyms: VIN
contour line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contour lines
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A line on a map through points of equal elevation, often height above sea level.
Related terms: isopleth
tendentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛnˈdɛnʃəs/
Forms: form: more tendentious
form: most tendentious
Etymology: From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced
text: That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious.
text: President-elect Donald Trump abruptly abandoned some of his most tendentious campaign promises Tuesday, saying he does not plan to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system or the dealings of her family foundation, has an “open mind” about a climate-change accord from which he vowed to withdraw the United States and is no longer certain that torturing terrorism suspects is a good idea.
ref: 2016 November 23, Karen Tumulty, “Trump backs away from some of his strident campaign promises”, in The Washington Post:
text: It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
ref: 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:
antonyms: objective#Adjective
impartial#Adjective
unbiased#Adjective
;
fair#Adjective
balanced#Adjective
glosses: Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
raw_tags: of persons or their words
Derived terms: tendentiously
tendentiousness
Related terms: tendency
Mandel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mandels
form: Mandell
Etymology: * Germanic surname (Dutch Mandel, German Mandel, Yiddish מאַנדל (Mandl), all meaning "almond"). Also found in Slovene as Mandelj.
* As a south German and Austrian surname, variant of Mandl, from Mann + -l.
* As a Dutch surname, from mandel (“sheaf of wheat”) (see Mandel below).
* As a Jewish surname, variant of Mendel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
A surname from Dutch.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from German.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Yiddish.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A village in Rüdesheim, Bad Kreuznach district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
glosses: A river in West Flanders, Belgium.
isobar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isobars
form: isobare
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + βάρος (báros, “weight”), equivalent to iso- + bar-.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: isopleth
isohyet
isotherm
glosses: A line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant pressure.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: A set of points or conditions at constant pressure.
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: Either of two nuclides of different elements having the same mass number.
Derived terms: isobaric
Related terms: adiabat
isochore
isopleth
isotherm
isotone
isotope
isotherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.səʊˌθɜː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: isotherms
Etymology: From the French isotherme (“of equal temperature”, adjective), itself from Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + θέρμη (thérmē, “warmth”). By surface analysis, iso- + -therm.
Senses: synonyms: thermoisopleth
coordinate_terms: isopleth
isobar
isohyet
glosses: A line on a graph or chart, such as a weather map, along which all the points have the same temperature.
Derived terms: chronoisotherm
geoisotherm
isothermal
Related terms: isothermality
isothermic
isodrosotherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isodrosotherms
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek δρόσος (drósos, “dew”) + Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm”) (equivalent to thermo-).
Senses: glosses: A line of equal or constant dew point on a graph or chart, such as a weather map.
Derived terms: isodrosothermic
Related terms: drosometer
isotherm
isogon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isogons
Etymology: From iso- + -gon.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An equiangular polygon.
topics: cartography
climatology
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A line of equal or constant wind direction on a graph or chart, such as a weather map.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: A line of equal or constant magnetic declination on a chart; an isogonic line.
Related terms: isogonal
isogonic
isohyet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.soʊˌhaɪ.ɪt/
Forms: form: isohyets
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek ὑετός (huetós, “rain”).
Senses: examples: text: On the yearly rainfall map, the 10-inch (250 mm) isohyet separates viable cropland from desert.
coordinate_terms: isopleth
isobar
isotherm
glosses: A line of equal rainfall on a map or chart, such as a weather map.
Derived terms: isohyetal
isohyetose
Related terms: isopluvial
isoquant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoquants
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A line of equal or constant economic production on a graph, chart or map.
Related terms: isoquantal
isogloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪsə(ʊ̯)ɡlɒs/
ipa: /ˈaɪsəɡlɑs/
ipa: /ˈaɪsoɡlɒs/
ipa: /ˈʌɪ-/
ipa: /-sə-/
Forms: form: isoglosses
Etymology: From iso- + gloss, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wi- (“to separate”)) + γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue; language”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *glōgʰs).
Senses: examples: text: Bloch thinks (and we agree with him) that details of isogloss will probably not bear out this kind of grouping.
ref: 1921, The Calcutta Review, Calcutta: University of Calcutta, →OCLC, page 285:
text: The convergence of multiple isoglosses on a map, a "bundle", indicates a boundary between one regional dialect and another.
ref: 2005, Brian D. Joseph, Carol G. Preston, Dennis R. Preston, editors, Language Diversity in Michigan and Ohio: Towards Two State Linguistic Profiles, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Caravan Books, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: heterogloss
glosses: A line on a map indicating the geographical boundaries of a linguistic feature.
examples: text: There was also a tendency to treat transitive verbs passively, as in Hurrian and Urarṭian; it must, however, be emphasized that this phenomenon may also be considered as an isogloss rather than as an indication of genetic relationship.
ref: 1970, W[illiam] F[oxwell] Albright, T[homas] O[den] Lambdin, “The Evidence of Language”, in I[orwerth] E[iddon] S[tephen] Edwards, C[yril] J[ohn] Gadd, N[icholas] G[eoffrey] L[emprière] Hammond, editors, The Cambridge Ancient History, 3rd edition, volumes I, part 1 (Prolegomena and Prehistory), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2000, →ISBN, section IV (Sumerian, Hurrian, Urarṭian, Elamite), page 154:
text: It is likely that the Sardinian forms are related to Lat. afrissa 'dragon lily'. The question regarding its etymology is all but resolved however. It is not quite clear where Pseudo-Apuleius' herbarium [the only known use of afrissa] was composed. If it is North African, as has been proposed, this might be yet another instance of a Sardinian-African Romance isogloss, possibly due to Punic influence.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 66:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A linguistic feature shared between languages or language varieties, through any of various mechanisms, whether genetic inheritance or other linguistic forces.
Hyponyms: isolex
isophone
Joret line
Derived terms: isoglossal
isoglossic
Related terms: isograph
isophene
sextant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛk.stənt/
rhymes: -ɛkstənt
Forms: form: sextants
Etymology: From Latin sextāns.
Senses: examples: text: […] I can do more with a Quadrant, Sextant or Octant, of 1 foot Radius, furniſhed with Teleſcopical Sights and Screws, then ^([sic]) can poſſibly be done with any other Inſtrument, furniſhed only with Common Sights, though 10, 20, 30, nay threeſcore foot Radius; […]
ref: 1674, Robert Hooke, Animadversions on the Firſt Part of the Machina Coelestis of the […] Aſtronomer Johannes Hevelius […] , page 43:
text: I took our position every morning with my crude sextant; but the results were always most unsatisfactory.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: Moskowitz and Devereux have designed a hyperaccurate sextant for interstellar navigation based upon the design of the sextant used by the Apollo astronauts.
ref: 1981, Saul Adelman, Benjamin Adelman, Bound for the Stars, →ISBN, page 227:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: One sixth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 60°.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of six groups of adjacent teeth, excluding the wisdom teeth.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A radial cell division of segments in three series, a sixth part of the original.
Related terms: octant
quadrant