cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
elucidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdeɪt/
ipa: /əˈlusəˌdeɪt/
ipa: /i-/
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdət/
ipa: /əˈlusəˌdət/
ipa: /ɪˈl(j)uːsɪdeɪt/
ipa: /əˈlusəˌdeɪt/
ipa: /i-/
Forms: form: more elucidate
form: most elucidate
Etymology: From Late Latin ēlūcidātus (“lightened, enlightened”), see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: examples: text: There vvas not a greater Maſter of Perſpicuity, and elucidate Diſtinctions; vvhich look'd the better in his [John Williams'] Engliſh, that ran ſvveet upon his Tongue, eſpecially being ſet out vvith a graceful Facetiouſneſs, that hit the joint of the Matter: For his VVit, and his Judgment, never parted.
ref: a. 1671 (date written), John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata: A Memorial Offer’d to the Great Deservings of John Williams, D.D. […], part I, In the Savoy [London]: […] Edw[ard] Jones, for Samuel Lowndes, […], published 1693, →OCLC, paragraph 46, page 39:
synonyms: word: apparent
word: arrant
word: undoubted
word: glaring
word: bait
word: blatant
word: clear
word: clear as a bell
word: clear as day
word: clear cut
word: crystal clear
word: cut and dried
word: decided
word: elucidate
word: evident
word: eyely
word: intuitive
word: manifest
word: notable
word: noticeable
word: obvious
word: open-and-shut
word: ostensible
word: palpable
word: patent
word: plain
word: plain as a haystack
word: plain as a pikestaff
word: plain as day
word: plain as Dunstable highway
word: plain as porridge
word: plain as print
word: plain as Salisbury
word: plain as the nose on one's face
word: prima facie
word: res ipsa loquitur
word: straightforward
word: undissembled
antonyms: word: translucent
word: transparent
word: turbid
glosses: Clear, understandable.
affectation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæf.ɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: affectations
Etymology: From Middle French affectation and its etymon Latin affectātiōnem, from affectō (“I feign”). By surface analysis, affect + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: This poem is strongly tinctured with those pedantic affectations concerning the passion of love ...
ref: 1810, Dr. Samuel Johnson, “Life of Gower”, in The Works of the English Poets, Digitized edition, published 2009:
text: [T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy.
ref: 1820, William Hazlitt, “Lecture I. Introductory.”, in Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. […], London: Stodart and Steuart, […]; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
glosses: An unusual mannerism.
examples: text: The grace diuineſt Mercvrie hath done me, / In this vouchſafde diſcouerie of himſelfe, / Binds my obſeruance in the vtmoſt terme / Of ſatisfaction, to his godly will: / Though I profeſſe (without the affectation / Of an enforc’d, and form’d auſteritie) / I could be willing to enioy no place / With ſo vnequall natures.
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 235:
text: Her upper part of decent diſcipline / Shew’d affecation of an ancient line: / And fathers, councils, church and churches head, / Were on her reverend Phylacteries read.
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “[The First Part]”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, pages 22–23:
text: While for some, women’s lack of knowledge is a matter for censure, throughout the century both male and female writers emphasize that affectation of knowledge, for example when it is not properly assimilated (Du Bosc 1633: 78), and above all pedantry from women, are far more unacceptable.
ref: 2004, Wendy Ayres-Bennett, “Women’s ‘ignorance’”, in Sociolinguistic Variation in Seventeenth-Century France: Methodology and Case Studies, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Women’s language), […], page 121:
glosses: An ostentatious fondness for something.
Synonyms: sense: unusual mannerism
word: eccentricity
sense: unusual mannerism
word: mannerism
sense: unusual mannerism
word: airs
Derived terms: affectational
affectationist
Related terms: affect
affectatious
affecter
affection
affectionate
affective
Buddha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝odə
ipa: /ˈbʊdə/
enpr: bo͞odə
ipa: /ˈbudə/
ipa: /ˈbʊdːʰə/
other: [ˈbʊdːʱə]
rhymes: -ʊdə
rhymes: -uːdə
homophone: Buda (one pronunciation of each word)
Forms: form: the Buddha
form: Budda
form: Buddhah
form: Boodha
form: buddha
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Pali Buddha (“the Awakened One, the Enlightened One”), from buddha (“awakened, enlightened”), from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened, enlightened”), past participle of बोधति (bodhati, “to wake, to awaken”). Distantly related to English bid and bede. Also cognate with Proto-Slavic *buditi (“to wake up”).
Senses: glosses: Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepali prince and Indian philosopher and teacher who founded Buddhism.
Synonyms: word: Siddhartha
word: Siddhartha Gautama
word: Gautama Buddha
word: Sakyamuni
word: Sakyamuni Buddha
english: within Hinduism
translation: within Hinduism
word: Vishnu
Derived terms: Amitābha Buddha
Buddha-field
Buddhalike
Eyes of Buddha
Gautam Buddha Nagar
Śākyamuni Buddha
Shakyamuni Buddha
Buddha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bo͝odə
ipa: /ˈbʊdə/
enpr: bo͞odə
ipa: /ˈbudə/
ipa: /ˈbʊdːʰə/
other: [ˈbʊdːʱə]
rhymes: -ʊdə
rhymes: -uːdə
homophone: Buda (one pronunciation of each word)
Forms: form: Buddhas
form: Budda
form: Buddhah
form: Boodha
form: buddha
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Pali Buddha (“the Awakened One, the Enlightened One”), from buddha (“awakened, enlightened”), from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha, “awakened, enlightened”), past participle of बोधति (bodhati, “to wake, to awaken”). Distantly related to English bid and bede. Also cognate with Proto-Slavic *buditi (“to wake up”).
Senses: examples: text: At this point, the Amidha Buddha probably has more worshippers than the Buddha himself does.
text: “Mind,” he began again, lifting one arm from the elbow, the palm of the hand outwards, so that, with his legs folded before him, he had the pose of a Buddha preaching in European clothes and without a lotus-flower - “Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this.”
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 196:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any other person considered similarly enlightened.
examples: text: There are some who consider Jesus a buddha, not least because Buddhism had spread to Judaea by the early 1st century.
glosses: Any other person considered similarly enlightened.
examples: text: Sam: Well, our first priority is to make sure the thieves don't strike again. It'll be tricky, 'cause these sorts of gangs rarely have just one target on the go. They've usually researched half a dozen possibilities, waiting for the most opportune circumstances on any of them.
Harry Woolf: He knows his onions, this lad, eh?
Gene Hunt: Oh, he's a right little smart-arse. So, what do you suggest, Buddha?
ref: 2007 February 20, Chris Chibnall, Life on Mars, season 2, episode 2:
glosses: Synonym of know-it-all or smartass, a person who imagines themselves smarter or wiser than they are.
synonyms: word: know-it-all or smartass
extra: a person who imagines themselves smarter or wiser than they are
examples: text: I love visiting the temple to see the Buddha.
glosses: A statue or image of any Buddha.
Derived terms: Buddha-dharma
Buddhahood
Buddha-nature
Buddha's delight
Buddhisation
Buddhism
Buddhist
Buddhization
Buddhological
Buddhologist
Buddhology
affection
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛk.ʃən/
ipa: /əˈfɛk.t͡ʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: affections
form: affectioning
form: affectioned
form: affectioned
Etymology: From Middle English affection, affeccion, affeccioun, from Old French affection, from Latin affectiōnem, from affectiō; equivalent to affect + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Why, truth is truth, I do not think my lady Isabella ever much affectioned my young lord, your son: yet he was a sweet youth as one should see.
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section V:
glosses: To feel affection for.
Buddhism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊ.dɪ.zəm/
ipa: /ˈbu.dɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: Buddhisms
form: Bhuddism
form: Bouddhism
form: Boodhism
Etymology: From Buddha + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The religion or philosophy derived from the teachings of Gautama Buddha.
Coordinate terms: sense: subdivisions
word: Theravada
sense: subdivisions
word: Mahayana
sense: subdivisions
word: Vajrayana
Derived terms: Hinayana Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism
Pure Land Buddhism
Tantric Buddhism
Theravada Buddhism
Vajrayana Buddhism
Won Buddhism
Zen Buddhism
Related terms: Buddha
Buddhist
Buddhistic
Buddhistical
Buddhistically
Buddhist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbudɪst/
ipa: /ˈbʊdɪst/
rhymes: -uːdɪst
rhymes: -ʊdɪst
Forms: form: more Buddhist
form: most Buddhist
form: Bouddhist
form: Boodhist
Etymology: From Buddha + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or practicing Buddhism.
Derived terms: anti-Buddhist
Buddhist sabbath
Buddhist Sabbath
Tibetan Buddhist
Related terms: buddha
Buddha
Buddhism
Buddhist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbudɪst/
ipa: /ˈbʊdɪst/
rhymes: -uːdɪst
rhymes: -ʊdɪst
Forms: form: Buddhists
form: Bouddhist
form: Boodhist
Etymology: From Buddha + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of the religion and philosophy of Buddhism.
glosses: A follower of the Indian religious and spiritual teacher, Buddha.
Hypernyms: religionist
Derived terms: Buddhistic
affectionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛkʃənət/
Forms: form: more affectionate
form: most affectionate
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin affectiōnātus. By surface analysis, affection + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of aficionado.
Senses: examples: text: She eulogised her always warm and affectionate brother.
glosses: Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: the affectionate care of a parent; an affectionate countenance; an affectionate message; affectionate language
text: Warwick left the undertaker's shop and retraced his steps until he had passed the lawyer's office, toward which he threw an affectionate glance.
ref: 1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:
glosses: Characterised by or proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender.
raw_tags: of an action
glosses: Eager; passionate; strongly inclined toward something.
Synonyms: word: tender
word: lovesome
word: attached
word: loving
word: devoted
word: warm
word: fond
word: earnest
word: ardent
word: affectionate
word: caring
word: cordial
word: friendly
word: goodhearted
word: good-natured
word: heartfelt
word: hearty
word: kind
word: kindhearted
word: kindsome
word: softhearted
word: warm-hearted
word: tenderhearted
Derived terms: affectionate friendship
affectionately
affectionateness
disaffectionate
inaffectionate
nonaffectionate
pseudoaffectionate
unaffectionate
Related terms: affect
affectation
affecter
affective
affection
affectionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛkʃənət/
ipa: /əˈfɛkʃəneɪt/
ipa: /əˈfɛkʃənət/
Forms: form: affectionates
form: affectionating
form: affectionated
form: affectionated
Etymology: Either from the above adjective by metanalysis or from affection + -ate (verb-forming suffix) (modelled on Middle French affectionner (French affectionner)).
Senses: glosses: To show affection to; to have affection for.
examples: text: Plutarch saith fitly of those who affectionate themselves to Monkies and little Dogges, that […].
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, p.21
text: And firſt, his Majeſty would have you to underſtand, That there was never any King more loving to his People, or better affectionated to the right uſe of Parliaments, than his Majeſty hath approved himſelf to be,[…].
ref: 1721, John Rushworth, Historical Collections Of Private Passages of State, etc.: 1618—1629, volume 1, page 222:
text: 1838 February 1, Charles Dickens, To Catherine Dickens, 2012, Jenny Hartley (editor), The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, page 41,
Ever my dear Kate your affectionated husband
CHARLES DICKENS
glosses: To emotionally attach (oneself) to.
affectionately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛkʃənətli/
Forms: form: more affectionately
form: most affectionately
Etymology: From affectionate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Catherine is affectionately known as "Kit Kat" to her friends.
text: The couple were touching each other affectionately.
text: After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering.
ref: 2009 March 22, Susanna Hamner, “Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
glosses: In an affectionate manner.
affiliate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɪl.i.ət/
Forms: form: affiliates
Etymology: From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun).
Senses: examples: text: Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.
text: They used to been^([sic]) more of a Detroit channel, as they had showed a lot of American programs, aside from being the CBC affiliate.
ref: 1999 July 29, Chris Sobieniak, “Weird 3d NFB animated short(any canadians in here?)”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet):
glosses: Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.
Derived terms: affiliate marketing
affiliate network
affiliateship
nonaffiliate
affiliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɪl.i.eɪt/
Forms: form: affiliates
form: affiliating
form: affiliated
form: affiliated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin affīliātus, the passive past participle of Late Latin adfīliō, affīliō (“to adopt as son”), from ad- + fīlius + -ō. Equivalent to Latin affīliō + -ate. Compare French affilié (noun).
Senses: glosses: To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
examples: text: Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
glosses: to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
examples: text: to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
glosses: To fix the paternity of
raw_tags: said of an illegitimate child
examples: text: How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
ref: 1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology:
glosses: To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
glosses: To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.
raw_tags: followed by "to" or "with"
Derived terms: affiliation
disaffiliate
reaffiliate
unaffiliate
unaffiliated
affliction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈflɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: afflictions
Etymology: From Middle English affliction, affliccioun, from Old French afliction, borrowed from Latin afflīctiōnem, from affligere, whence English afflict.
Senses: examples: text: BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]
ref: 1781, [Mostyn John Armstrong], History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk. Volume IX. Containing the Hundreds of Smithdon, Taverham, Tunstead, Walsham, and Wayland, volume IX, Norwich: Printed by J. Crouse, for M. Booth, bookseller, →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
examples: text: She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction, but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]
ref: 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
glosses: Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
Derived terms: afflictionless
bread of affliction
self-affliction
affluent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.lu.ənt/
enpr: ăf'lo͞o-ənt
ipa: /ˈæfluːənt/
enpr: ă-flo͞o'ənt
enpr: ə-flo͞o'ənt
ipa: /æˈfluːənt/
ipa: /əˈfluːənt/
ipa: /əˈflʊwəɳʈ/
ipa: /ˈaflʊwəɳʈ/
Forms: form: affluents
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence.
Senses: examples: text: The affluents are most similar to the professional want-it-alls in their reasons for preferring specific hospitals and in their demographic characteristics.
ref: 1994, Philip D. Cooper, Health care marketing: a foundation for managed quality, page 183:
glosses: Somebody who is wealthy.
examples: text: Its sources are everywhere in pine-clad mountains and plateaus, but all of the affluents quickly descend into the desert valley below, through which the Gila winds its way westward to the Colorado.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:
text: The affluents of the Amazon are, half of them, of this nature, while the other half are whitish and opaque, the difference depending upon the class of country through which they have flowed.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
affluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.lu.ənt/
enpr: ăf'lo͞o-ənt
ipa: /ˈæfluːənt/
enpr: ă-flo͞o'ənt
enpr: ə-flo͞o'ənt
ipa: /æˈfluːənt/
ipa: /əˈfluːənt/
ipa: /əˈflʊwəɳʈ/
ipa: /ˈaflʊwəɳʈ/
Forms: form: more affluent
form: most affluent
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence.
Senses: examples: text: The shores are affluent in beauty, and incomparably lovely is the drive to the heights of Castel-a-Mare.
ref: 1860, Mary Howitt, transl., Life in the Old World:
glosses: Abundant; copious; plenteous.
examples: text: They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.
text: The Upper East Side is an affluent neighborhood in New York City.
text: Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
ref: 2013 September-October, Michael Sivak, “Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply?”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth.
glosses: Tributary.
examples: text: affluent blood
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
Derived terms: affluence
affluential
affluently
affluentness
bioaffluent
emerging affluent
mass affluent
nonaffluent
subaffluent
superaffluent
unaffluent
afoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfʊt/
ipa: /əˈfʉt/
rhymes: -ʊt
Etymology: From a- + foot.
Senses: examples: text: Is it fit, let your mightyship say, / That I, like some pitiful flirt, / Should tarry within doors all day, / Or else trudge it afoot in the dirt?
ref: 1765, Robert Dodsley, A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes, volume 6, page 295:
text: "The dogs were no sooner let loose, than the hare was afoot.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:
synonyms: by foot
glosses: On foot. (means of locomotion, walking)
glosses: On foot. (support of the body, standing)
examples: text: Hamlet: […]I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot, / Even with the very comment of thy soul / Observe mine uncle:[…]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Possibly some chemical experiment was afoot; possibly----Well, it was no business of mine to speculate upon why he wanted it.
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: In San Francisco and in New Jersey, to quote two other examples, plans are afoot to subsidise new commuter line construction or existing operations out of toll revenue from state highways or bridges.
ref: 1959 October, “Talking of Trains: Paying for the commuters”, in Trains Illustrated, page 458:
text: ‘Patience,’ said Slartibartfast again. ‘Great things are afoot.’¶ ‘That's what you said last time we met,’ said Arthur.¶ ‘They were,’ said Slartibartfast.¶ ‘Yes, that's true,’ admitted Arthur.¶ All, however, that seemed to be afoot was a ceremony of some kind.
ref: 1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 29:
text: “Has anyone seen Laszlo? I can't find him anywhere. And it's really not like him.” “Oh... Laszlo's missing, eh?” “Yeah.” “Mm, the game is afoot.”
ref: 2023 August 31, William Meny & Paul Simms, “A Weekend at Morrigan Manor” (9:23 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):
synonyms: awork
underway
glosses: In motion; in action; astir; stirring; in progress.
afoot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfʊt/
ipa: /əˈfʉt/
rhymes: -ʊt
Etymology: From a- + foot.
Senses: examples: text: Sunny moves through these final days quickly, easily, buoyed by routine even though change is afoot in all directions.
ref: 2011, Maile Chapman, Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel:
text: Now there are plans afoot to introduce a couple of extra trains to the timetable in December, with the long-term goal of a doubling of the service to eight trains a day.
ref: 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 76:
text: “These poor exocomps are being tortured with meaningless, repetitive tasks. I knew there was foul play afoot.”
ref: 2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (19:19 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by AGIMUS (Jeffrey Combs):
synonyms: word: afoot
word: animate
word: astir
word: cursory
word: dynamic
word: in motion
word: mobile
word: moving
word: on the move
word: on the wing
word: under sail
word: unstill
word: active
word: afoot
word: alive
word: at play
word: at work
word: extant
word: functional
word: functioning
word: in action
word: in effect
word: in force
word: in operation
word: in place
word: in play
word: in use
word: ongoing
word: operating
word: up and running
word: stirring
word: working
glosses: That is on foot, in motion, in action, in progress.
afore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfoɹ/
ipa: /əˈfɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈfo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈfoə/
ipa: /əˈfɔr/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: affor
form: avore
Etymology: From Middle English afore, aforn, from Old English onforan or ætforan; equivalent to a- + fore.
Senses: examples: text: Stephano: He's in his fit now ; and doe's not talke after the wiſeſt ; hee ſhall taſte of my Bottle : if hee haue neuer drunke wine afore, it will goe neere to remoue his Fit :[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Before, temporally.
examples: text: He sees the soldiers, with their red coats lighted up by the torches carried afore, closing in round him.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: Before, in front, spatially.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Before, in front, spatially.
In the fore part of a ship.
afore
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfoɹ/
ipa: /əˈfɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈfo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈfoə/
ipa: /əˈfɔr/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: affor
form: avore
Etymology: From Middle English afore, aforn, from Old English onforan or ætforan; equivalent to a- + fore.
Senses: examples: text: He said he was jealous, and craved something to ease his care. 'It's but a small thing I ask,' says he, 'but it will make me a happy man, and nothing ever shall come atween us. Tryst wi' me for Beltane's E'en on the Sker sands, at the green link o' the burn where the sands begin, on the ebb o' the tide when midnight is by, but afore cockcrow. For,' said he, 'that was our forbears' tryst for true lovers, and wherefore no for you and me?'
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: "Oh aye!" his face lit up with a smile. "I mind that! Where was that?" "That was us when we all worked in the shop, afore the War." "Oh aye …?" he frowned. "Who …?" She took the photograph back from him and reached inside her apron pocket for her spectacles.
ref: 1982, Edward Chisnall, Bell in the Tree: The Glasgow story:
glosses: Before; in advance of the time of.
glosses: Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.
afore
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfoɹ/
ipa: /əˈfɔː/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈfo(ː)ɹ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /əˈfoə/
ipa: /əˈfɔr/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: affor
form: avore
Etymology: From Middle English afore, aforn, from Old English onforan or ætforan; equivalent to a- + fore.
Senses: examples: text: Now the hand of the Lord was vpon mee in the euening, afore hee that was escaped came, and had opened my mouth vntill hee came to mee in the morning, and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumbe.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 33:22:
glosses: In advance of the time when; before.
Derived terms: afore-
afore-enumerated
afore-explained
aforeness
afraid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
ipa: /əˈfɹɛd/
Forms: form: more afraid
form: most afraid
form: affrayed
form: 'fraid
Etymology: From Middle English affrayed, affraied, past participle of afraien (“to affray”), from Anglo-Norman afrayer (“to terrify, disquiet, disturb”), from Old French effreer, esfreer (“to disturb, remove the peace from”), from es- (“out”) + freer (“to secure, secure the peace”), from Frankish *friþu (“security, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace”), from Proto-Germanic *frijōną (“to free; to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *prāy-, *prēy- (“to like, love”). By surface analysis, affray + -ed. Compare also afeard. More at free, friend.
Senses: examples: text: He is afraid of death.
text: He is afraid to ask her out.
text: He is afraid of the future.
text: I’m not afraid of telling / to tell you the truth: I'm reluctant to go in you car because I’m too afraid of crashing.
text: I went through the worst Ku Klux proposition in the country at the time it was at its height. And I had to go down to the Ku Klux meeting and tell them what I thought of them, and I wasn't afraid of them at all. And I'm not afraid of this situation because I think it'll work out in a way that when these people sit down and get a chance to think and study the situation, they're going to be ashamed of some of the things they've done.
ref: 1964, Harry S. Truman, 2:28 from the start, in MP2002-77 Former President Truman Discusses Bigotry in the United States, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
synonyms: afeared
alarmed
anxious
apprehensive
fearful
timid
timorous
glosses: Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
examples: text: I am afraid I cannot help you in this matter.
info_templates: extra_data: words: that
(+
clause)
clause;
not
expansion: [with that (+ clause) or clause; or with so or not]
synonyms: sorry
glosses: Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation.
info_templates: extra_data: words: for
expansion: [with for]
glosses: Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something).
Synonyms: word: afeared
word: alarmed
word: anxious
word: apprehensive
word: chicken
word: fearful
word: frightened
word: frit
word: horrified
word: mortified
word: panicked
word: scared
word: terrified
word: timorous
word: worried
Hypernyms: word: emotional
word: emotionful
Hyponyms: word: petrified
word: scared half to death
word: scared spitless
word: scared shitless
word: scared stiff
word: scared to death
word: shit scared
word: spooked
Derived terms: afraidly
afraidness
afraid of one's own shadow
fraidy
I am afraid of this
I'm afraid not
I'm afraid so
unafraid
unafraidly
Related terms: word: afear
word: afeared
word: affray
word: fray
word: fear
word: frighten
word: coward
word: nervous
afresh
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌˈfɹɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: more afresh
form: most afresh
Etymology: From Middle English a-fresche, equivalent to a- + fresh. Compare Old English afersċean (“to freshen; become fresh”).
Senses: examples: text: We ditched the original design and decided to start afresh.
synonyms: newly
glosses: Anew; again; once more.
Derived terms: start afresh
sphinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sfĭngks
ipa: /ˈsfɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Forms: form: sphinxes
form: sphinges
form: sphynx
form: spynx
form: phynx
Etymology: From Middle English Spynx, from Latin Sphinx, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx), perhaps either from σφίγγω (sphíngō, “to squeeze, to strangle”) (whence also sphincter), of Pre-Greek origin, or from Egyptian Szp:p-A53-anx-n:x (šzp-ꜥnḫ, “divine image”, literally “living image”).
Senses: examples: text: [W]hatsoe'er of strange / Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, / Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, / Dark Æthiopia in her desert hills. / Conceals.
ref: 1815 September 10 – December 14, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude”, in Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems, London: […] Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, […]; and Carpenter and Son, […] [b]y S[amuel] Hamilton, […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 9:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A creature with the head of a person and the body of an animal, commonly a lion.
examples: text: ...it is clear that judges are no longer required to be as passive as they once were; to be what I call sphinx judges. We now not only accept that a judge may intervene in the adversarial debate, but also believe that it is sometimes essential for him to do so for justice in fact to be done.
ref: 1985 February 21, Antonio Lamer, “Brouillard Also Known As Chatel v. The Queen, 1985 CanLII 56 (SCC)”, in CanLII, retrieved 22 Oct 2021:
synonyms: enigma
glosses: A person who keeps their thoughts and intentions secret; an enigmatic or impassive person.
glosses: A mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx), formerly classified as a baboon, and called sphinx baboon.
glosses: A sphinx moth.
examples: text: Constance said boastfully, ‘My sphinxes are strong and in good repair. I order you to come.’
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 836:
glosses: A sphincter.
Hyponyms: androsphinx
criosphinx
gynosphinx
hieracosphinx
Derived terms: Achemon sphinx
Nessus sphinx
satellite sphinx
sphingal
sphingian
sphingine
sphinx-faced
sphinx-figure
sphinx-form
sphinx-guarded
sphinxial
sphinxian
sphinxily
sphinxine
sphinxineness
sphinxiness
sphinxish
sphinxishness
sphinxlike
sphinx-lined
sphinx-look
sphinx moth
sphinxoid
sphinxy
Tantalus sphinx
Virginia creeper sphinx
white-lined sphinx
Related terms: chimera
sphinx
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sfĭngks
ipa: /ˈsfɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Forms: form: sphinxes
form: sphinxing
form: sphinxed
form: sphinxed
form: sphynx
form: spynx
form: phynx
Etymology: From Middle English Spynx, from Latin Sphinx, from Ancient Greek Σφίγξ (Sphínx), perhaps either from σφίγγω (sphíngō, “to squeeze, to strangle”) (whence also sphincter), of Pre-Greek origin, or from Egyptian Szp:p-A53-anx-n:x (šzp-ꜥnḫ, “divine image”, literally “living image”).
Senses: examples: text: a marble sphinxed chimney-piece
glosses: To decorate with sphinxes.
examples: text: A hot lion with a very bloated stomach … will adopt either a sphinxed or a squatting posture which takes some of the weight off its belly.
text: Several animals maintained either a crouched … or a sphinxing posture (abdomen on the floor)
glosses: To adopt the posture of the Sphinx.
examples: text: The sphinxèd riddle of the Universe,
Nature's unsolved enigma, who may prove?
ref: 1900, Leigh Gordon Giltner, “Love and Death”, in The Path of Dreams: Poems, page 27:
text: Then there are the folks trying to do a Garbo on us[…]Janet Gaynor, so they tell, is sphinxing it and has gone into a Retirement, with "Nothing to Say — Please Go Away" written on the doormat.
ref: 1933 February, Gladys Hall, “The Hollywood Frivolities of 1932”, in Motion Picture, volume 45, page 29:
text: What with Fisher whole-hogging on one side, and K. of K. sphinxing on the other, Churchill had his work cut out to get any sort of agreement at all.
ref: 1964, John Hargrave, The Suvla Bay Landing, page 22:
glosses: To be inscrutable, often through silence.
examples: text: Perhaps Nature is sphinxing us on purpose. Whatever her objects may be, perhaps she gets her work done better when she appeals to our gambling instincts. If you knew for certain exactly how your marriage was going to turn out[…]
ref: 1933, Roycroft Junto Outlines, The Roycrofters, page 412:
text: And then he summarizes his fears with a reference to that icon which[…]stood for the feminine threat to civilization: “Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: it is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.” Male fears of an engulfing femininity are here projected onto the metropolitan masses, who did indeed represent a threat to the rational bourgeois order.[…]We may want to relate Le Bon's social psychology of the masses back to modernism's own fears of being sphinxed.
ref: 1986, Andreas Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, page 53:
glosses: To behave in a manner characteristic of the Sphinx.
aenigma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aenigmas
form: aenigmata
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of enigma.
pestis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: page 198: [...] a name ordinarily given, then and for ages preceding, to the bubonic pestis.
page 213: Another species of pestis in Sauvages Nosology is, from the accounts of various writers on the Lues bovilla, intimately connected with that [of distemper].
ref: 2014, John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner M.D., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Plague.
crus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crura
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin crūs.
Senses: glosses: The shin (tibia and fibula)
glosses: A leglike part; shank
Derived terms: cerebral crus
crus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cru
omen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊmən/
ipa: /ˈoʊmən/
rhymes: -əʊmən
Forms: form: omens
Etymology: From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).
Senses: examples: text: The ghost's appearance was an ill omen.
text: A rise in imports might be an omen of economic recovery.
text: The egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen.
text: Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen. Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
ref: 1856, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 10, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary, Part 3:
glosses: Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
examples: text: A sign of ill omen.
glosses: A thing of prophetic significance.
Synonyms: word: augury
word: auspice
word: forecast
word: foreshadowing
word: foretoken
word: forewarning
word: harbinger
word: herald
word: hint
word: indication
word: oracle
word: portent
word: prediction
word: presage
word: prophecy
word: sign
word: signal
word: token
word: warning
word: danger sign
word: straw in the wind
sense: hand
word: writing on the wall
word: omen
word: prognostic
Hyponyms: word: boding
word: foreboding
word: warning
Derived terms: absit omen
bird of ill omen
omenic
omenless
Related terms: word: ominous
word: abomination
word: oracle
word: predict
omen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊmən/
ipa: /ˈoʊmən/
rhymes: -əʊmən
Forms: form: omens
form: omening
form: omened
form: omened
Etymology: From Latin ōmen (“foreboding, omen”).
Senses: glosses: To be an omen of.
glosses: To divine or predict from omens.
Synonyms: prognosticate
betoken
forecast
foretell
portend
foreshadow
bode
augur
prefigure
predict
auspicate
presage
Related terms: augury
foreboding
portend
portent
stars are aligned
Hispania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hispany
Etymology: From Latin Hispānia. Doublet of Spain.
Senses: glosses: The Iberian Peninsula, a peninsula and historical region of Southern Europe covering modern-day Spain, Portugal and Andorra, when under the control of Ancient Rome; split into between two and five Roman provinces, depending on the time period.
Related terms: Hispania Baetica
Hispania Carthaginensis
Hispania Citerior
Hispania Nova
Hispania Tarraconensis
Hispania Ulterior
Lusitania
Big Ben
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Disputed, possibly after Sir Benjamin Hall, who oversaw the installation of the Great Bell, or after English boxer Ben Caunt.
Senses: synonyms: Great Clock
glosses: The hour bell in the Elizabeth Tower (formerly known as the Clock Tower), adjacent to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
examples: text: He pulled up his sleeve and there on his scrawny arm hung a Rolex the size of Big Ben.
ref: 2015, Dorothea Benton Frank, Carolina Girls:
glosses: The clock tower itself.
od
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒd/
ipa: /ɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: odd
Etymology: Alteration of God.
Senses: glosses: (Euphemistic form of) God.
Derived terms: od's bobs
ods bodikins
od's niggers
od
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒd/
ipa: /ɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: odd
ipa: /əʊd/
ipa: /ɔd/
ipa: /oʊd/
rhymes: -ɒd
rhymes: -əʊd
rhymes: -ɔd
homophone: odd
homophone: ode
ipa: /ɒd/
ipa: /ɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: odd
Forms: form: Od
form: õd
Etymology: Borrowed from German Od, arbitrarily coined by the German scientist and philosopher Carl Reichenbach (1788–1869).
Senses: topics: pseudoscience
synonyms: odyl
odyle
glosses: A hypothetical force or natural power, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.
Derived terms: odic
odically
odism
odize
odylic
odyllic
odylism
odylist
odyl
odyle
olio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊljəʊ/
ipa: /ˈoʊljoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊljəʊ
Forms: form: olios
Etymology: From Spanish olla or Portuguese olha, both from Latin olla (“pot, jar”).
Senses: glosses: A rich, thick, Spanish stew consisting of meat and vegetables.
examples: text: The late Refinements in Knowledge, running parallel to thoſe of Dyet in our Nation, which among Men of a judicious Taſte, are dreſt up in various Compounds, conſiſting in Soups and Ollios, Fricaſſées and Ragouſts.
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section VII. A Digression in Praise of Digressions.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 136:
synonyms: word: mishmash
word: oddments
word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
glosses: A medley or mixture; a hotchpotch.
glosses: A collection of various musical, theatrical or other artistic works; a miscellany.
glosses: Vaudeville or similar miscellaneous musical or theatrical entertainment skits presented between the main acts of burlesque or minstrel shows.
Derived terms: olio curtain
olio drop
oases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ō-ā'sįz
ipa: /əʊˈeɪsiːz/
rhymes: -eɪsiːz
Senses: glosses: plural of oasis
oca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish oca, from Quechua uqa.
Senses: glosses: Any of species Oxalis tuberosa (syn. Oxalis crenata), which bear edible tubers.
comparable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmp(ə)ɹəbl̩/
ipa: /kəmˈpæɹəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɑmp(ə)ɹəbl̩/
ipa: /kəmˈpæɹəbl̩/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /kəmˈpɛɹəbl̩/
Forms: form: more comparable
form: most comparable
Etymology: From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.
Senses: examples: text: An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
text: You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.
text: The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2."
ref: 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:
text: As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them.
ref: 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:
glosses: Able to be compared (to).
raw_tags: with to
examples: text: Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
ref: 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Similar (to); like.
raw_tags: with to
examples: text: Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
examples: text: "Big" is a comparable adjective because it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; "unique" and "amazing", in contrast, are not comparable adjectives.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: gradable
glosses: Having comparative and superlative forms.
raw_tags: of an adjective
Derived terms: word: biocomparable
word: comparability
word: comparable function
word: comparableness
word: comparable worth
word: comparably
word: incomparable
word: intercomparable
english: or non-comparable
translation: or non-comparable
word: noncomparable
word: uncomparable
comparable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmp(ə)ɹəbl̩/
ipa: /kəmˈpæɹəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɑmp(ə)ɹəbl̩/
ipa: /kəmˈpæɹəbl̩/
note: US, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /kəmˈpɛɹəbl̩/
Forms: form: comparables
Etymology: From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.
Senses: examples: text: And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months.
ref: 2009 January 2, Fred A. Bernstein, “Catskill Home Prices: How Low Will They Go?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something suitable for comparison.
compare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɛɚ/
ipa: [kəmˈpɛɚ]
ipa: [kəmˈpɛɹ]
ipa: [kəmˈpeɚ]
ipa: [kəmˈpeɹ]
ipa: /kəmˈpɛə/
ipa: [kəmˈpɛː]
ipa: [kəmˈpɛə]
ipa: [kəmˈpeə]
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: compares
form: cp.
form: comp.
form: cmp
Etymology: From Middle English comparen, from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”). Displaced native Old English metan (“to compare,” also “to measure”).
Senses: examples: text: His mighty Champion, ſtrong above compare,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 38, line 557:
text: Their small galleys may not hold compare with our tall ships.
ref: a. 1687, Edmund Waller, To my Worth Friend Sir Thomas Higgons:
glosses: Comparison.
examples: text: […] including addition and subtraction, memory operations, compares, shifts, logic operations, and condition operations.
ref: 1998, International Conference on Computer Design: Proceedings, IEEE, page 490:
text: 2013, Paolo Bruni, Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva Junior, Craig McKellar, Managing DB2 for z/OS Utilities with DB2 Tools Solution Packs
It is always advisable to run a compare between your source and target environments. This should highlight whether there are differences in the lengths of VARCHARs and then the differences can be corrected before you clone.
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glosses: An instruction or command that compares two values or states.
examples: text: Rhymes full of protest, of oath, and big compare.
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 III, scene ii]:
glosses: Illustration by comparison; simile.
Derived terms: beyond compare
Related terms: contrast