cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
opposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /ˌɑ.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈpozɪʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɔpɵzɪʃən/
Forms: form: oppositions
Etymology: From Middle English opposicioun, from Old French oposicion (whence French opposition), from Late Latin oppositiō, translating Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis), from the past participle stem of classical Latin oppōnō (“I set against”). Equivalent to oppose + -ition.
Senses: examples: text: The two politicians are in opposition to the bill.
text: The proposal met with strong opposition from local residents.
text: Terra Firma is an Alliance political party formed after the First Contact War. Its policy agenda is based on the principle that Earth must 'stand firm' against alien influences. This covers a variety of legislation. Recent activities by Terra Firma include opposition to a law requiring high school alien language study, a proposal to increase tariffs on alien imports, and leading a popular movement to mark the First Contact War with a public holiday.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Terra Firma Party Codex entry:
text: That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
examples: text: Near-synonym: oppositeness
text: These ideas are in opposition to each other.
glosses: An opposite or contrasting position.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
examples: text: leader of the opposition
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
topics: law
glosses: In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.
Derived terms: antiopposition
controlled opposition
counter-opposition
counteropposition
His Majesty's Opposition
leader of the opposition
nonopposition
oppositional
oppositionism
oppositionist
opposition parry
opposition research
political opposition
reopposition
square of opposition
oppose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpəʊz/
ipa: /əˈpoʊz/
ipa: [ʔəpʰoʊːz̥]
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: opposes
form: opposing
form: opposed
form: opposed
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: oppose
form: oppose
form: opposed
form: oppose
form: opposest
form: opposed
form: opposedst
form: opposes
form: opposeth
form: opposed
form: oppose
form: opposed
form: oppose
form: opposed
form: oppose
form: -
form: opposing
form: opposed
Etymology: From Middle English opposen, from Old French opposer, from Latin ob (“before, against”) + Medieval Latin pono (“to put”), taking the place of Latin opponere (“to oppose”).
Senses: examples: text: to oppose the king in battle
text: to oppose a bill in Congress
text: There is still time to oppose this plan.
text: I am […] too weak / To oppose your cunning.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
synonyms: confront
withstand
resist
hinder
obstruct
buck
react
glosses: To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against.
examples: text: Many religious leaders oppose cloning humans.
synonyms: take issue with
speak out
contest
repugn
argue
glosses: To object to.
examples: text: They are opposed to any form of hierarchy.
text: , Book I
I may […] oppose my single opinion to his.
text: [T]hree walls had been left standing, with large intervals between each; and they would certainly oppose a most formidable interruption to an invader.
ref: 1839, Philip Meadows Taylor, Confessions of a Thug:
glosses: To present or set up in opposition; to pose.
examples: text: Her grace sat down […] / In a rich chair of state; opposing freely / The beauty of her person to the people.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
Synonyms: word: be against
english: against
translation: against
word: fight
word: check
word: bar
word: block
word: prevent
word: take on
word: counter
word: contest
word: resist
word: confront
word: face
word: combat
word: defy
word: thwart
word: contradict
word: withstand
word: stand up to
word: hinder
word: struggle against
word: obstruct
word: fly in the face of
word: take issue with
word: be hostile to
word: counterattack
word: speak out against
word: be in opposition to
word: be in defiance of
word: strive against
word: set one's face against
word: take a stand
word: make a stand against
word: dispute
Derived terms: opposability
opposable
opposably
opposal
opposee
opposeless
opposure
reoppose
Related terms: opponent
opposer
opposite
opposition
opposite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒpəsɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑp(ə)sɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑpəzɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒpəsɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɔpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɔpəsɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒpəzət/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟pəzət]
ipa: /ˈɒpəsət/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟pəsət]
ipa: /ˈoʊpəsɪt/
Forms: form: opposit
Etymology: From Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”). Compare oppose.
Senses: examples: text: She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.
glosses: Located directly across from something else, or from each other.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
examples: text: They were moving in opposite directions.
glosses: Facing in the other direction.
examples: text: He is attracted to the opposite sex.
glosses: Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.
examples: text: Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epick poem.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Dedication”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: , Book III
Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations.
glosses: Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.
Synonyms: word: antipodean
word: antithetical
word: contrariant
word: contradictory
word: contrariwise
word: contrary
word: contrasted
word: converse
word: counter
word: cross
word: inverse
word: inverted
word: oppugnant
word: opposed
word: opposite
word: reverse
word: witherward
Hypernyms: word: different
Derived terms: on opposite sides of the barricades
opposite angle
oppositely
oppositeness
opposite number
opposite sex
opposite side
oppo taco
subopposite
Related terms: word: black-and-white
word: antithesis
word: reciprocal
opposite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒpəsɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑp(ə)sɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑpəzɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒpəsɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɔpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɔpəsɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒpəzət/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟pəzət]
ipa: /ˈɒpəsət/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟pəsət]
ipa: /ˈoʊpəsɪt/
Forms: form: opposites
form: opposit
Etymology: From Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”). Compare oppose.
Senses: glosses: Something opposite or contrary to something else.
examples: text: She is the opposite of her ex-boyfriend who abused her both physically and verbally nearly every day for five years. She now works as an advocate and supportive listener for others who have endured abusive relationships.
glosses: A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
glosses: An opponent.
examples: text: "Up" is the opposite of "down".
glosses: An antonym.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An additive inverse.
Derived terms: opposites attract
polar opposite
opposite
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒpəsɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑp(ə)sɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑpəzɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒpəsɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɔpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɔpəsɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒpəzət/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟pəzət]
ipa: /ˈɒpəsət/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟pəsət]
ipa: /ˈoʊpəsɪt/
Forms: form: opposit
Etymology: From Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”). Compare oppose.
Senses: examples: text: I was on my seat and she stood opposite.
text: Where's the bus station? -Over there, just opposite.
glosses: In an opposite position.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: On another channel at the same time.
opposite
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒpəsɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑp(ə)sɪt/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈɑpəzɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒpəsɪt/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈɒpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɔpəzɪt/
ipa: /ˈɔpəsɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒpəzət/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟pəzət]
ipa: /ˈɒpəsət/
ipa: [ˈɔ̟pəsət]
ipa: /ˈoʊpəsɪt/
Forms: form: opposit
Etymology: From Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”). Compare oppose.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a bus stop opposite the faculty entrance, right on the other side of the road.
text: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
ref: 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
glosses: Facing, or across from.
examples: text: He played opposite Marilyn Monroe.
glosses: In a complementary role to.
examples: The game show Just Men! aired opposite The Young and the Restless on CBS.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: On another channel at the same time.
Related terms: apposite
socialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊʃəlɪst/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.ʃə.lɪst/
Forms: form: more socialist
form: most socialist
form: Socialist
Etymology: From social + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: ...it must be remembered that in a Socialist farm or manufactory, each labourer would be under the eye not of one master, but of the whole community.
ref: 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, Book II, Chapter 1:
text: I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
ref: 1949 May, Albert Einstein, “Why Socialism?”, in Monthly Review:
glosses: Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating socialism.
Synonyms: socialistic
Derived terms: antisocialist
anti-socialist
champagne socialist
democratic socialist
eco-socialist
ecosocialist
enviro-socialist
international socialist
Marxian socialist
national socialist
National Socialist
neo-socialist
neosocialist
palaeosocialist
palaeo-socialist
paleosocialist
paleo-socialist
pan-socialist
postsocialist
post-socialist
presocialist
pre-socialist
prosocialist
pro-socialist
pseudosocialist
pseudo-socialist
Radical Socialist
Radical-Socialist
radical socialist
radical-socialist
Sacred Heart socialist
scientific socialist
socialist of the chair
socialist party
socialist realism
socialist realist
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
utopian socialist
Related terms: socialism
socialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊʃəlɪst/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.ʃə.lɪst/
Forms: form: socialists
form: Socialist
Etymology: From social + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A contest, who can do most for the common good, is not the kind of competition which Socialists repudiate.
ref: 1848, John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, Book II, Chapter 1:
glosses: One who supports or advocates socialism.
Derived terms: academic socialist
antisocialist
anti-socialist
champagne socialist
chardonnay socialist
convinced socialist
eco-socialist
ecosocialist
Gucci socialist
libertarian socialist
Marxian socialist
National Socialist
neo-socialist
neosocialist
palaeosocialist
palaeo-socialist
paleosocialist
paleo-socialist
parlor socialist
parlour socialist
post-socialist
postsocialist
pre-socialist
presocialist
prosocialist
pro-socialist
pseudosocialist
pseudo-socialist
Radical Socialist
radical socialist
Sacred Heart socialist
silver-spoon socialist
smoked salmon socialist
state socialist
Related terms: capitalist
communist
Communist
Fabianist
fascist
Fascist
leftist
Leninist
Maoist
Marxist
Marxist-Leninist
rightist
Stalinist
Titoist
detonator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛt.ə.neɪ.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɛtn̩eɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: detonators
Etymology: From detonate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A device used to detonate an explosive device etc.
examples: text: Warning messages were relayed to the signalmen at Slough East and Dolphin Junction boxes with such celerity that the up main signals were replaced to danger in front of the express before it finally stopped. The signalman at Dolphin Junction just had time to replace the down main signals and pull the emergency lever to lay detonators in front of the fast approaching 7 p.m. Paddington-Reading train.
ref: 1960 March, “Talking of Trains: The Slough Derailment”, in Trains Illustrated, page 132:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A small explosive device attached to the railhead to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
glosses: Any explosive whose action is practically instantaneous.
glosses: A gun fired by a percussion cap.
Synonyms: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: torpedo
Derived terms: microdetonator
pencil detonator
Related terms: word: detonate
word: detonation
sense: device for detonating explosives
word: blasting cap
anonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɒn.ə.məs/
ipa: /əˈnɑ.nə.məs/
ipa: /əˈnɔn.ə.məs/
rhymes: -ɒnəməs
Forms: form: more anonymous
form: most anonymous
Etymology: Borrowed into English around 1600 from Late Latin anonymus, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νώνῠμος (ănṓnŭmos, “without name”), from ᾰ̓ν- (ăn-, “un-”) with ὄνῠμᾰ (ónŭmă), Aeolic and Doric dialectal form of ὄνομᾰ (ónomă, “name”). English equivalent anonym + -ous, its full etymology being an- + -onym + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: nameless
coordinate_terms: no-name
glosses: Lacking a name; not named, for example an animal not assigned to any species .
examples: text: an anonymous pamphlet
text: an anonymous subscription
text: anonymous author or painter
antonyms: autonymous
orthonymous
coordinate_terms: pseudonymous
glosses: Without any name acknowledged of a person responsible.
examples: text: an anonymous author
text: an anonymous benefactor
text: No customer personal data will be retained unless it is rendered anonymous.
text: The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: unidentified
unknown
unnamed
glosses: Of unknown name; whose name is withheld
examples: text: an anonymous office block in a soulless industrial estate
synonyms: faceless
glosses: Lacking individuality.
Synonyms: sense: without consideration of prestige or background
word: on the merits
Derived terms: anon
anonym
anonymous class
anonymouse
anonymously
anonymousness
anonymous pipe
anonymous sculpture
nonanonymous
Related terms: anomia
anonymal
anonymity
anonymize
anonymosity
pseudonymous
John Doe
unknown
tumult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuː.mʌlt/
ipa: /ˈtʃuː.mʌlt/
ipa: /ˈtuː.mʌlt/
rhymes: -ʌlt
Forms: form: tumults
Etymology: From Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus (“noise, tumult”).
Senses: examples: text: Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book III”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
examples: text: the tumult of the elements
text: the tumult of the spirits or passions
text: This is what I wanted my story 'Snapshot' to sound like — a very cold surface, with heat and passion beneath. The icy surface is going to break and you're totally engulfed in the tumult.
ref: 1990 December 9, Walta Borawski, quoting Allen Barnett, “'Unfortunately, Life Has Followed Art...'”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 7:
text: Football is a game of tumult and glory, of small disappointments and lingering dreams, and Mata has played long enough at the highest level to appreciate these truths.
ref: 2018 January 1, Donald McRae, “The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
glosses: A riot or uprising.
Synonyms: uproar
ruckus
Related terms: tumultuous
tumult
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuː.mʌlt/
ipa: /ˈtʃuː.mʌlt/
ipa: /ˈtuː.mʌlt/
rhymes: -ʌlt
Forms: form: tumults
form: tumulting
form: tumulted
form: tumulted
Etymology: From Old French tumulte, from Latin tumultus (“noise, tumult”).
Senses: examples: text: Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
childhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldhʊd/
rhymes: -aɪldhʊd
Forms: form: childhoods
Etymology: From Middle English childhode, childhod, from Old English ċildhād (“childhood”). By surface analysis, child + -hood. Compare dialectal Dutch kindheid (“childishness”), German Low German Kinnerheid (“childhood”), and German Kindheit (“childhood”).
Senses: examples: text: To our own surprise, our 40-year study of 1,000 children revealed that childhood self-control strongly predicts adult success, in people of high or low intelligence, in rich or poor, and does so throughout the entire population, with a step change in health, wealth, and social success at every level of self-control.
ref: 2013 September-October, Terrie Moffitt et al., “Lifelong Impact of Early Self-Control”, in American Scientist:
glosses: The state of being a child.
examples: text: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
examples: text: the childhood of our joy
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: The early stages of development of something.
Derived terms: childhood disintegrative disorder
childhood friend
childhoodless
childhoodlike
childhood memory
early childhood
early childhood education
midchildhood
middle childhood
prechildhood
second childhood
surgically induced childhood
neighbour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪbə/
ipa: /ˈneɪbɚ/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: neighbours
form: neighbouring
form: neighboured
form: neighboured
form: neighbor
form: neyghbour
form: naybor
form: naybour
form: neibor
form: neibour
form: neighbore
form: neighboure
form: neyghbor
form: neyghbore
form: neyghboure
Etymology: From Middle English neyghebour, neighebor, neighbour, neihebur, from Old English nēahġebūr (“neighbour”), from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”, literally “near-dweller”), equivalent to nigh (“near”) + bower (“farmer”). Cognate with Scots nichbour (“neighbour”), Saterland Frisian Noaber (“neighbour”), Dutch nabuur (“neighbour”), German Low German Naber (“neighbour”), German Nachbar (“neighbour”), Danish nabo (“neighbour”), Norwegian nabo (“neighbour”), Icelandic nábúi (“neighbour”), Finnish naapuri (“neighbour”), Estonian naaber (“neighbour”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English prome (“neighbour”), borrowed from Old French proeme, proime, proisme (“neighbour”).
Senses: examples: text: Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
text: Theſe grow at the South end of the Iland, and on the leiſurely aſcending hills that neighbour the ſhore.
ref: 1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 12:
text: […] who neighbourest the rock-born rill, / Thou Hermes!
ref: [1864], “Dedicatory and Votive”, in Robert Guthrie MacGregor, transl., Greek Anthology, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, London: Nissen & Parker, […], →OCLC, page 252:
text: OUR GOD, we bless Thee that Thy rainbow is on the cloud. […] Such things are too high. We can not attain unto them. But no matter. We catch the many lights the rainbow wears. Thou neighborest with our cloud.
ref: [1913], William A[lfred] Quayle, “Thy Rainbow Is on the Cloud”, in The Climb to God: Being a Collection of Pulpit and Private Prayers Which Are Meant to Gird the Spiritual Life, New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio: The Methodist Book Concern, page 157:
glosses: To be adjacent to
examples: text: That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
glosses: To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
raw_tags: followed by "on"
examples: text: […] the barbarous Scythyan, […] / Shall bee as well neighbour’d, pittyed and relieued / As thou my ſometime daughter.
ref: c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: To associate intimately with; to be close to.
passion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: păsh'ən
ipa: /ˈpæʃən/
ipa: [ˈpʰæʃən]
rhymes: -æʃən
Forms: form: passions
form: passioning
form: passioned
form: passioned
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₁-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pet-der.?
Latin patior
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin passiōbor.
Old English passion
Latin passiōbor.
Old French passionbor.
Middle English passioun
English passion
From Middle English passioun, passion, from Old French passion (and in part from Old English passion), from Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb patior (“I suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”), see also Old English fēond (“devil, enemy”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐌰𐌽 (faian, “to blame”).
Senses: examples: text: Dumbly she passions, frantically she doteth.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
text: There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine, [...] hight Coſtard, (Clow[ne]. O mee) ſorted and conſorted contrary to thy eſtabliſhed proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon; Which with, o with, but with this I paſſion to ſay wherewith: / Clo[wne]. With a Wench.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: she passioned
To see herself escap'd from so sore ills
ref: 1820, John Keats, “(please specify the poem)”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: word: ache
word: grieve
word: hurt
word: ache
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: hurt
word: pain
word: passion
word: suffer
word: thole
word: throe
word: wark
word: wring
glosses: To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
synonyms: impassion
glosses: To give a passionate character to.
pash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: pashes
form: pashing
form: pashed
form: pashed
Etymology: Clipping of passion.
Senses: examples: text: ‘You gonna pash her?’
‘We only just started going together,’ I said. Pash her? Already? I hadn’t even kissed a girl properly yet.
‘Do you know how to pash?’ It sounded like a challenge. Jed Wall was a bit like that. When he wasn’t just hanging he was fighting or pashing or something that no one else was good at.
ref: 2003, Andrew Daddo, You’re Dropped!, →ISBN:
text: 2005, Gabrielle Morrissey, Urge: Hot Secrets For Great Sex, HarperCollins Publishers (Australia), unnumbered page,
There are hundreds of different types of kisses; and there are kissing Kamasutras available in bookshops to help you add variety to your pashing repertoire.
text: A few hours later, having pashed near the bins outside a supermarket, I stumbled towards my tube station certain I had met the love of my life.
ref: 2023 January 31, Clem Bastow, “My bad trip – I met a handsome Scot with a crossword and thought it was true love”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To snog, to make out, to kiss.
Derived terms: pasher
pash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: pashes
Etymology: Clipping of passion.
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, the point is, my first pash — or snog, or whatever you want to call it — was so bloody awful it’s a miracle I ever opened my mouth again.
ref: 2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, page 18:
synonyms: snog
glosses: A passionate kiss.
examples: text: ‘It isn’t a pash. Nancy Burke’s got a pash on Mr Richards and Mary Parkin has a pash on Miss Taylor, and so have other girls. But I haven’t got a pash on Rupert. It isn’t like that. I know it isn’t. I know it isn’t.’
ref: 1988, Catherine Cookson, “Bill Bailey’s Daughter”, in Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, published 1997, page 166:
text: Not until the outcome of Denise’s pash did I admit that my pash on Joan had been very different.
ref: 2002, Thelma Ruck Keene, The Handkerchief Drawer: An Autobiography in Three Parts, page 92:
text: At school it was called a pash. Having a pash on big handsome Robin, who used to cycle up to the village in his holidays from boarding school, and smile at her. She still had a pash on Robin. He still smiled at her.
ref: 2010, Gwyneth Daniel, A Suitable Distance, page 82:
glosses: A romantic infatuation; a crush.
glosses: The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
glosses: Any obsession or passion.
Derived terms: pash rash
pash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: pashes
Etymology: Scots word for the pate, or head.
Senses: examples: text: Leo[ntes]: Thou want′ſt a rough paſh, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: The head.
pash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: pashes
form: pashing
form: pashed
form: pashed
Etymology: Perhaps of imitative origin, or compare bash.
For the senses "rain heavily", "a heavy rain" (perhaps also imitative), compare plash, blash, clash (“heavy rainfall”).
Senses: glosses: To throw (something), as if to break (it).
examples: text: Hercules, that in his infancie
Did paſh the iawes of Serpents venemous:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
text: I'll pash him o'er the face.
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 II, scene iii]:
text: [...] 'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XII:
glosses: To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces.
examples: text: ... sent a heavy rain-drop pashing in our faces and now woke the woods with rattling peals of thunder.
ref: 1838, Robert Montgomery Bird, A night on the Terrapin rocks. The Mammoth cave. The bloody broad-horn, page 71:
text: ... the rain came "pashing" down again and drove her indoors.
ref: 1921, Eleanor Acland, Dark Side Out, page 197:
glosses: To fall heavily or forcefully.
raw_tags: of rain
pash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: pashes
Etymology: Perhaps of imitative origin, or compare bash.
For the senses "rain heavily", "a heavy rain" (perhaps also imitative), compare plash, blash, clash (“heavy rainfall”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the pash of a crushed skull, an oath, or a grunt caused by the impact of a rifle's muzzle against the abdomen transfixed by its bayonet.
ref: 1909, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: In the midst of life (tales of soldiers and civilians), page 160:
text: [Neither] the pash of a hoof on the marge, crack of whip, nor the shout of driver gladdens the quiet: the foul weeds knot, strangling the sluggish flow of the waterway; […]
ref: 1917, Gilbert Frankau, The City of Fear, and Other Poems, page 5:
glosses: A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it.
examples: text: BACKEN, To retard, "This pash o'rain 'ul backen our potatoes."
ref: 1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York, page 19:
text: A pash of rain then raised it about 6 inches, but four dry days reduced it to its previous level.
ref: 1850, Agricultural Drainage, page 43:
text: Mony a thunner pash it's been oot in.
ref: 1877, William Morley Egglestone, Betty Podkins, section 13:
text: ... the water came down with such a pash that ...
ref: 1883, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 90:
text: Labes, a great fall, or pash of rain or hail, etc.
ref: 1913, Jonathan Swift, The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D. D., page 299:
glosses: A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water.
Derived terms: pashy
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: pish pash
snog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɒɡ/
ipa: /snɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: snogs
form: snogging
form: snogged
form: snogged
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: 2016 Alya, "Gamer", Miraculous
This is about stepping up and representing, not snuggling up and snogging. This is serious business.
synonyms: word: make out
word: pash
word: buss
word: goozer
word: kiss
word: lallygag
word: lips
word: lock lips
word: osculate
word: pash
word: play tonsil hockey
word: smooch
word: snog
word: suck face
word: swap spit
glosses: To kiss passionately.
snog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɒɡ/
ipa: /snɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: snogs
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: And that was that. Where had I gone wrong? First night: park, fag, snog. Second night: ditto.
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: A passionate kiss.
Derived terms: snoggle
eau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː/
homophone: ewe
homophone: u
homophone: yew
homophone: you
homophone: hew
homophone: hue
homophone: Hugh (h-dropping)
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: eaus
Etymology: From Middle English ea, eo, from Old English ēa (“running water, water, stream, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Doublet of aqua. Compare ea, yeo. Related to, and spelling influenced by, but not derived from French eau (“water”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ea.
Related terms: word: ea
word: Eau
word: yeo
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: eau Créole
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: eau de cologne
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: eau de luce
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: eau de nil
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: eau de parfum
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: eau de vie
sense: etymologically unrelated terms
word: eau forte
neighbor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.bɚ/
Forms: form: neighbors
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of neighbour.
Derived terms: interneighbor
neighborhood
neighborless
neighborlike
neighborly
neighborship
neighbor to the north
neighbor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.bɚ/
Forms: form: neighbors
form: neighboring
form: neighbored
form: neighbored
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of neighbour.
vulcanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌl.kə.naɪz/
Forms: form: vulcanizes
form: vulcanizing
form: vulcanized
form: vulcanized
form: vulcanise
Senses: glosses: To treat rubber with heat and (usually) sulfur to harden it and make it more durable.
examples: text: These vulcanized hearts, they only become more resistant when you ask for mercy.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 404:
text: Natural rubber […] vulcanizes readily at the double bonds to give a strong cross-linked structure.
ref: 2012, Theodore Rochow, Resinography:
glosses: To undergo such treatment.
Derived terms: devulcanize
vulcanisation
vulcanization
vulcanized fiber
vulcanizer
Related terms: vulcanicity
vulcanite
vulcanology
Vulcan
biannual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌɪˈanjuːəl/
ipa: /baɪˈænjuəl/
Forms: form: biannuals
Etymology: From bi- + annual.
Senses: examples: text: It was a biannual from April 1970 to October 1977 and has been a quarterly since fall 1978.
ref: 1995, Tamkang Review, volume 36, Taipei: Graduate School of Western Languages and Literature, Tamkang University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 366:
glosses: Something occurring twice each year.
children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular
ipa: [tʃɪl.ɹən]
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɪl.d̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən]
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʊldɹən/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃʊld̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷən]
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪldɹən/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪl.dən/
rhymes: -ɪldɹən
rhymes: -ʊldɹən
Forms: form: childer
form: childs
form: chillen
form: chillun
form: chirren
Etymology: From Middle English children, alteration of earlier childre ("children"; > English dialectal childer), from Old English ċildru, ċildra (“children”), nominative and accusative plural of ċild (“child”), equivalent to child + -ren.
Senses: examples: text: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
ref: 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
glosses: plural of child
glosses: plural of childer
Derived terms: antichildren
childrenless
Children of Israel
children's game
childrenswear
choke-children
knuckle children
Macaulay's children
Song of the Three Holy Children
University of Spoiled Children
semiannual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + annual.
Senses: glosses: Biannual: occurring twice a year
Synonyms: biannual
semiannual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiannuals
Etymology: From semi- + annual.
Senses: glosses: Something occurring twice each year.
Synonyms: biannual
Related terms: sense: every 2 years
word: biennial
beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuːti/
ipa: /ˈbjuti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
ipa: [ˈbju̟ti]
ipa: [ˈbju̟ːɾi]
ipa: [ˈb(j)ɪu̯ɾ̥ɪ]
ipa: /ˈbuːti/
homophone: booty (Norfolk)
rhymes: -uːti
Etymology: From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.
Senses: glosses: Thanks!
examples: text: It's the long weekend. Beauty!
glosses: Cool!
beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuːti/
ipa: /ˈbjuti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
ipa: [ˈbju̟ti]
ipa: [ˈbju̟ːɾi]
ipa: [ˈb(j)ɪu̯ɾ̥ɪ]
ipa: /ˈbuːti/
homophone: booty (Norfolk)
rhymes: -uːti
Forms: form: more beauty
form: most beauty
Etymology: From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.
Senses: examples: text: He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.
glosses: Of high quality, well done.
beauty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuːti/
ipa: /ˈbjuti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
ipa: [ˈbju̟ti]
ipa: [ˈbju̟ːɾi]
ipa: [ˈb(j)ɪu̯ɾ̥ɪ]
ipa: /ˈbuːti/
homophone: booty (Norfolk)
rhymes: -uːti
Forms: form: beauties
form: beautying
form: beautied
form: beautied
Etymology: From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.
Senses: glosses: To make beautiful.
rehab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēʹhăb
ipa: /ˈɹiːhæb/
Forms: form: rehabs
Etymology: Clipping of rehabilitation.
Senses: examples: text: go into rehab
glosses: Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.
examples: text: The assimilationists would have you believe that there is no lesbian or gay underclass, white or of color. That the junkies, crackheads and rummies in the drunk-tanks and welfare rehabs are all straight. Our addicts all have ample checkbooks, the best insurance their professions can buy, and membership in the right upscale cliques.
ref: 1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5:
glosses: An institution for rehabilitation.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.
Derived terms: gut rehab
rehab broker
rehab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rēʹhăb
ipa: /ˈɹiːhæb/
Forms: form: rehabs
form: rehabbing
form: rehabbed
form: rehabbed
Etymology: Clipping of rehabilitation.
Senses: glosses: To rehabilitate.
Gdansk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Gdańsk: The capital city of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Gdańsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈdænsk/
ipa: /ɡəˈdænsk/
ipa: /ɡəˈdɑːnsk/
Forms: form: Gdansk
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Gdańsk. Doublet of Danzig.
Senses: synonyms: Danzig
glosses: The capital city of Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
Cracow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækaʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑkaʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹækoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑkoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹækaʊ/
Etymology: From Middle English crakou, crawcow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Krakow: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.
Derived terms: Cracovian
Krakow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækaʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑkaʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹækoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑkoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɹækaʊ/
Forms: form: Cracow
form: Kraków
form: Cracov
form: Krakau
Etymology: From Middle English crakou, crawcow.
Senses: glosses: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.
wikipedia: Krakow
Derived terms: Krakovian
Kraków
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækɒf/
Senses: glosses: Alternative (native Polish) spelling of Krakow: A city on the Vistula River, the capital of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship in southern Poland and the former capital (until 1596) of Poland as a whole.
Azores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈzɔːz/
ipa: /ˈeɪzɔːɹz/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)z
Forms: form: the Azores
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Azores, from Portuguese Açores (“Azores”), from açores, plural of açor (“goshawk”).
Senses: glosses: An archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic and an autonomous region of Portugal comprising this archipelago, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
Hypernyms: Macaronesia
Derived terms: Azorean
Oporto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈpɔː(ɹ)təʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese o Porto (“the Porto”). More at Porto.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Porto (“city in Portugal”).
synonyms: word: Porto
extra: city in Portugal
allopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + -poiesis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Creation of or by something other than the self.
autopoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːtəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs/
Etymology: Coined in 1972 by Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, from auto- + -poiesis. (see also Ancient Greek αὐτόποιος (autópoios, “self-produced”)).
Senses: examples: text: If living systems are machines, that they are physical autopoietic machines is trivially obvious: they transform matter into themselves in a manner such that the product of their operation is their own organization. However we deem the converse is also true: a physical system if autopoietic, is living. In other words, we claim that the notion of autopoiesis is necessary and sufficient to characterize the organization of living systems.
ref: 1980 [1972], Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, “On Machines, Living and Otherwise”, in Autopoiesis and Cognition, D. Reidel, page 82:
text: Having clarified that their concern is with organization, not structure, the authors then proceed to define autopoiesis, the organization common to all living systems. It is a network of production processes, in which the function of each component is to participate in the production or transformation of other components in the network. In this way the entire network continually “makes itself.”
ref: 1996, Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 98:
text: Being smart means being dynamic and nomadic, and against centralized bureaucracy; believing in dialogue and cooperation as against central authority; in flexibility as against routine; culture and knowledge as against industrial production; in spontaneous interaction and autopoiesis as against fixed hierarchy.
ref: 2009, Mark Fisher, quoting Slavoj Žižek, chapter 4, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, pages 27–28:
text: The German word for unfolding–entfaltung—also means development, and the process of emergent creation, or autopoiesis, was also the process by which Hegel's absolute spirit was not only working in the world but creating itself at the same time.
ref: 2011 April 18, Peter Thompson, “Karl Marx, part 3: Men make their own history”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
glosses: Self-creation; self-organization.
wikipedia: Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
Francisco Varela
Humberto Maturana
Related terms: allopoiesis
autopoietic
practopoiesis
heteropoiesis
griefing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grief
glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡlasɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡlæsɪz/
rhymes: -ɑːsɪz
Senses: examples: text: Ladies are usually conveyed about Calcutta, or any where for short distances, in a kind of palanquin, called a boҫhah... Its deep shape, and its seat, much resemble the [English sedan chair]; but having two doors, one on each side, with one window in front, as well as a small one behind, all furnished with Venetians and glasses, give it, in those respects, some claim to alliance with the [chariot].
ref: 1810, Thomas Williamson, East India Vade-Mecum..., page 323:
glosses: plural of glass
glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡlasɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡlæsɪz/
rhymes: -ɑːsɪz
Senses: glosses: Spectacles, frames bearing two lenses worn in front of the eyes.
examples: text: He had his Zeiss glasses in his hand. "I focused it before it got over the trees," said he.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Field glasses; binoculars.
Synonyms: sense: spectacles
word: eyeglasses
sense: spectacles
word: specs
sense: spectacles
word: biopticon
Derived terms: aviator glasses
birth control glasses
birth-control glasses
cooling glasses
eclipse glasses
flyaway glasses
glacier glasses
glassesed
glassesless
glasshole
granny glasses
Groucho glasses
Harry Potter glasses
hipster glasses
I lost my glasses
jam-jar glasses
John Lennon glasses
Kanye glasses
look through rose-colored glasses
look through rose-tinted glasses
modesty glasses
Mr. Magoo glasses
musical glasses
nerd glasses
nose glasses
opera glasses
Oxford glasses
pair of glasses
pinch-nose glasses
prescription glasses
problem glasses
reading glasses
rose-colored glasses
rose-coloured glasses
rose-tinted glasses
safety glasses
scissors-glasses
serial killer glasses
shooting glasses
smart glasses
sunglasses
wear rose-colored glasses
glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑːsɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡlasɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡlæsɪz/
rhymes: -ɑːsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glass
Related terms: bifocals
contact lens
monocle
pince-nez
shades
varifocals