cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Rioja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Received Pronunciation, Spanish-influenced
ipa: /ɹiˈɒxə/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɒxə/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɒkə/
ipa: /ɹiˈoʊhə/
Forms: form: Riojas
Senses: glosses: The wine (mostly red) of that region.
Derived terms: Riojan
rubbisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubbishers
Etymology: From rubbish + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who criticizes, ridicules, or belittles.
rubbisher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of rubbish: more rubbish
problems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒbləmz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑbləmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of problem
prickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pricklier
form: prickliest
Etymology: From prickle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The prickly pear is a cactus; you have to peel it before eating it to remove the spines and the tough skin.
glosses: Covered with sharp points.
examples: text: He has a prickly personality. He doesn't get along with people because he is easily set off.
glosses: Easily irritated.
examples: text: It was a prickly situation.
text: People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more. They’ve had it. So we just have to be prickly to make sure nobody’s going to come in and grab us.
ref: 2021 March 27, Simon Hattenstone, quoting Charlotte Rampling, “Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny.
Synonyms: sense: covered with sharp points
word: thorny
sense: covered with sharp points
word: spiny
Derived terms: prickly ash
prickly chaff flower
prickly comfrey
prickly glasswort
prickly hakea
prickly heat
prickly heath
prickly hornwort
prickly lettuce
prickly nightshade
prickly oak
prickly pear
prickly pear cactus
prickly pine
prickly poison
prickly poppy
prickly saltwort
prickly sculpin
prickly-seeded spinach
prickly shark
prickly shield fern
prickly tang
prickly thrift
western prickly juniper
Related terms: prick
prickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prickly
form: most prickly
Etymology: From prickle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Striding across stage in his bright white jacket, his voice soaring and cracking – like Charlie Parker’s – he was nervous but prickly eloquent, caustic yet encouraging.
ref: 2016 March 3, David Thomson, The Guardian:
glosses: In a prickly manner.
prickly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pricklies
Etymology: From prickle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Below, way out on the flat, Blue had seen a light green that could be graze but up here was nothing 'cept all kinds of prickly bushes, and too many of them. Ground-spreading pricklies that reached out to jump at a horse's belly […]
ref: 2002, William A. Luckey, Long Ride to Nowhere, page 75:
text: Dad, I need to ride on your shoulders because the pricklies hurt my feet.
ref: 2016, Richard J. Sklba, Joseph Juknialis, Easter Fire: Fire Starters for the Easter Weekday Homily, page 113:
glosses: Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object.
Derived terms: cold prickly
esthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more esthetic
form: most esthetic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aesthetic.
Derived terms: dysesthetic
esthetical
esthetically
esthetic information
estheticism
estheticization
estheticize
esthetic surgery
hyperesthetic
inesthetic
macroesthetic
microesthetic
neuroesthetic
nonesthetic
synesthetic
sud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌd/
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: suds
Etymology: From a variation of sod, itself a shortening of sodden. Related to seethe.
Senses: examples: text: There is a beer sud parked on her upper lip.
ref: 2018, Derek B. Miller, American By Day, page 114:
glosses: A bubble of lather or foam (the singular of suds).
Derived terms: soapsud
Roberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Robertses
form: Robards
Etymology: From Robert + -s.
Senses: examples: text: Owain Roberts, from Anglesey, was sent a bill for £4,300 by Vodafone. Roberts had logged on to his Vodafone account to report his phone as stolen, but was later told he had only managed to order a replacement phone as an upgrade.
ref: 2014 November 22, Miles Brignall, “Victory against Vodafone for schoolteacher billed £15,000”, in The Guardian:
text: At a subsequent meeting on Oct. 24, Wei Wai Kum Elected Chief Coun. Chris Roberts appeared as part of a delegation alongside We Wai Kai Elected Chief Coun. Ronnie Chickite, and said the comments were "worrisome."
ref: 2024 November 2, Maryse Zeidler, “Hereditary chiefs slam Vancouver Island city council for remarks on restoring Indigenous place names”, in CBC News:
glosses: An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic from the given name Robert.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Jefferson County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Ford County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fountain County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in the town of Warren, St. Croix County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Ellipsis of Roberts County.
Derived terms: Norman-Roberts syndrome
Point Roberts
Roberts County
Robertsian
Roberts syndrome
Related terms: Robarts
Robert
Robertson
Roberts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Robards
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of Robert
Related terms: Probert
resides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reside
Probert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Proberts
Etymology: From Welsh ap + Roppert (“son of Robert”).
Senses: glosses: A Welsh surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Roberts
get around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets around
form: getting around
form: got around
form: got around
form: gotten around
Senses: examples: text: The tide was too high, and we couldn't get around the rocks.
text: There's no trail going through. We can't get around to the lake.
text: We'll get a good view of the mountains when we get around the bend.
glosses: To move to the other side of (something, such as an obstruction) by deviating from a direct course or following a curved path.
examples: text: Tax consultants look for ways to get around the law.
glosses: To avoid or bypass an obstacle.
examples: text: How did you get around having to write the executive report?
text: My brother always gets around cleaning his room himself.
glosses: To circumvent the obligation and performance of a chore; to get out of.
examples: text: How's he gonna get around without a car?
text: Granny uses a wheelchair to get around.
text: The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars."
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
glosses: To transport oneself from place to place.
examples: text: From town to town (get around round round I get around)
ref: 1964, Brian Wilson and Mike Love, I Get Around (Beach Boys song). I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down the same old strip I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip My buddies and me are getting real well known Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone I get around (get around round round I get around)
glosses: To visit numerous different places.
examples: text: Wow, she really gets around.
glosses: To be sexually promiscuous.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, around.
Synonyms: get round
go around
Derived terms: get around to
word gets around
copied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑpid/
ipa: /ˈkɒpid/
rhymes: (General American) -ɑpid
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒpid
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copy
detached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtæt͡ʃt/
ipa: /dəˈtæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Forms: form: more detached
form: most detached
Senses: synonyms: word: distinct
word: unattached
word: detached
word: discrete
word: distinct
word: disparate
word: loose
word: separate
word: sundry
word: unattached
word: unannexed
word: unassociated
word: unconnected
glosses: Not physically attached; separated from something to which it could connect.
examples: text: "That field is their football ground and the detached house is their library and recreation room."
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
text: Located on the northbound platform, the detached, timber-clad waiting room (a period Furness Railway structure) has been adapted into a pet-friendly, self-catering, two-bedroom holiday home complete with sun lounge and garden for those sunny Cumbrian days.
ref: 2025 October 15, Stephen Roberts, “Top 10: Railway retreats: St Bees, Cumbria”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 57:
glosses: Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.
synonyms: word: objective
word: unbiased
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested.
glosses: Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.
Derived terms: detached house
detachedly
detachedness
detached work
nondetached
semi-detached
semidetached
undetached
detached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtæt͡ʃt/
ipa: /dəˈtæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detach
Edwards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdwədz/
ipa: /ˈɛdwɚdz/
Forms: form: Edwardses
form: Edward
form: Edwardes
Etymology: From Edward + -s.
Senses: examples: text: Vodafone has also dropped its claim against one of Rhys Edwards’s travelling companions – who had been at the same reunion and had his phone pickpocketed two hours later in almost identical circumstances to Rhys Edwards.
ref: 2014 November 22, Miles Brignall, “Victory against Vodafone for schoolteacher billed £15,000”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An English and Welsh surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, the location of Edwards Air Force Base.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A census-designated place in Eagle County, Colorado; named for postal official Melvin Edwards.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Kickapoo Township, Peoria County, Illinois.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Ogemaw County, Michigan.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town and hamlet therein, in St. Lawrence County, New York; named for Edward McCormack, brother of the founder.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
A town in Hinds County, Mississippi; named for landowner Dick Edwards.
glosses: A locale in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Herman, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Edwards County
Edwardsville
Edwards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdwədz/
ipa: /ˈɛdwɚdz/
Etymology: From Edward + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Edward
Edwards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdwədz/
ipa: /ˈɛdwɚdz/
Etymology: From Edward + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Edward
semi-detached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + detached.
Senses: examples: text: In the smaller plans of a "Mansionette near Wimbledon Park," "Semi-detached Houses," and "The Compact House built near Blackheath," we are not favoured with any scale.
ref: 1860 July 24, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 80:
text: The murderer should be a little man of the professional class — a dentist or a solicitor, say — living an intensely respectable life somewhere in the suburbs, and preferably in a semi-detached house, which will allow the neighbours to hear suspicious sounds through the wall.
ref: 1946, George Orwell, Decline of the English Murder:
glosses: Of a house: joined to another one on one side, having one shared wall.
Related terms: detached
semi-detached
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-detacheds
Etymology: From semi- + detached.
Senses: glosses: Such a house.
Synonyms: duplex
duplex house
semi
semi-detached house
twin house
distorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɔɹtɪd/
ipa: /dɪsˈtɔːtɪd/
Forms: form: more distorted
form: most distorted
distorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈtɔɹtɪd/
ipa: /dɪsˈtɔːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of distort
earnestness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɝnɪstnəs/
ipa: /ˈɜːnɪstnəs/
Forms: form: earnestnesses
Etymology: From earnest + -ness.
Senses: examples: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.
glosses: The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
be able to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is able to
form: being able to
form: was able to
form: been able to
Senses: synonyms: word: can
word: be of power to
word: have might to
antonyms: be unable to
cannot
can't
glosses: Can, to have the ability to.
Hyponyms: sense: have ability to
word: know how to
Derived terms: be able to count on one's fingers
not be able to get a word in edgeways
not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
speed skating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sport of racing around an oval course, on ice skates.
Derived terms: short-track speed skating
speed skater
quill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪl/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪl]
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: quills
form: quilling
form: quilled
form: quilled
Etymology: From late Middle English quyl, which is first attested in the early 15th century with the meanings "fragment of reed" and "shaft of a feather", probably from Low German and Middle Low German quiele, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to pierce, stick”).
Compare Middle High German kil (“large feather, quill”), which is derived from the Low German term.
Senses: examples: text: Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled.
ref: 1966, David Francis Costello, The World of the Porcupine, J. B. Lippincott & Company, page 66:
text: Then one of my dogs got quilled, and it happened again a month later. After putting the dog in a headlock, yanking out several dozen quills, and spurting blood all over myself and the decking of the back porch, I at least understood his antiporcupine venom.
ref: 2010, Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter's Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
examples: text: Nibs never would have quilled a seriph to sheepskin.
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 182:
text: One has only to recall that Coleridge and Wordsworth one day were lounging by the sea shore, while nearby sat an English police agent on snitch patrol prepared to rush to headquarters to quill a report about the conversation.
ref: 1976, Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry, City Lights, published 1976, page 11:
glosses: To write.
glosses: To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
examples: text: Another characteristic of Plains Indians was the fairly strict division between art made and used by men and art made and used by women. Although men and women sometimes cooperated, women usually painted or quilled very balanced, controlled geometric designs on dresses, moccasins, robes, bags, and containers.
ref: 2007, David J. Wishart, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians, University of Nebraska Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: To decorate with quillwork.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:quill.
qualifier: especially Appalachia and the Prairies
glosses: To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
oxygen tank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxygen tanks
Senses: glosses: A metal cylinder holding compressed oxygen.
aforethought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɔː.θɔːt/
ipa: /əˈfɔɹ.θɔt/
ipa: /əˈfɔɹ.θɑt/
Etymology: From afore- + thought.
Senses: examples: text: This act was not merely wrong; it was clearly done with malice aforethought.
glosses: Premeditated; planned ahead of time.
Synonyms: word: planned
word: premeditated
Related terms: fore
forethought
malice aforethought
thought
honorific
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒnəˈɹɪfɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑːnəˈɹɪfɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: honorifics
form: honorifick
form: honourific
Etymology: From honor + -ific.
Senses: glosses: A person's title, such as "Mrs" or "Doctor".
glosses: A term of respect; respectful language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: humilific
glosses: A word or word form expressing the speaker's respect for the hearer or the referent.
honorific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒnəˈɹɪfɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑːnəˈɹɪfɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more honorific
form: most honorific
form: honorifick
form: honourific
Etymology: From honor + -ific.
Senses: examples: text: According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one.
ref: 1996, T. P. Wiseman, “The Minucii and Their Monument”, in Jerzy Linderski, editor, Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic, Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: Showing or conferring honour and respect.
examples: text: In the honorific cultural process, individuals (especially men) are extremely sensitive to real or perceived insults, and […]
ref: 2010, Orlando Patterson, “The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence”, in John R. Hall et al., editors, Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: Based on or valuing honor
Derived terms: honorifical
honorifically
honorific transposition
identified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /aɪˈdɛn.tɪ.faɪd/
/ɪˈdɛn.tɪ.faɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of identify
improved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹuːvd/
rhymes: -uːvd
Forms: form: more improved
form: most improved
Senses: examples: text: The second is to develop a new generation of further improved contrast agent that can yield more intense myocardial contrast after intravenous injection.
ref: 2012, J. R. Shapiro, S. A. Reisner, Richard S. Meltzer, “Clinical Applications of MCE”, in Samuel Meerbaum, Richard S. Meltzer, editors, Myocardial Contrast Two-dimensional Echocardiography:
text: "When we're finished in 2024, this upgrade programme will provide a much-improved railway between London Waterloo and Portsmouth," said NR's Wessex Route Director Mark Killick.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Portsmouth line upgrade set to begin”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12:
glosses: That has been made better; enhanced.
Synonyms: word: ameliorated
word: bettered
word: enhanced
word: improved
word: meliorated
word: potentiated
Hypernyms: word: altered
word: changed
Hyponyms: word: overimproved
word: underimproved
word: bolstered
word: braced
word: reinforced
word: secured
word: strengthened
Derived terms: nonimproved
overimproved
underimproved
unimproved
Related terms: word: improve
improved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpɹuːvd/
rhymes: -uːvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of improve
casually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæʒuəli/
ipa: /ˈkæʒwəli/
ipa: /ˈkæʒ(j)ʊəli/
ipa: /ˈkæzjuəli/
Forms: form: more casually
form: most casually
Etymology: From Middle English casually, casuelly, casuali, casuely, equivalent to casual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A small minority, mainly strangers, would look long at her in casually passing by, and grow momentarily fascinated by her freshness, and wonder if they would ever see her again: but to almost everybody she was a fine and picturesque country girl, and no more.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 21:
text: "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day.[…]A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!:
text: He wore his strange and colourful clothes as if for inspection by a lesser being: condescendingly, casually.
ref: 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 10:
glosses: In a casual manner.
Derived terms: casually late
affecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛktɪŋ/
Forms: form: more affecting
form: most affecting
Senses: examples: text: Within this sphere, then, the reader is allowed to follow Hull's growth both as an individual and as a poet. She moves from pieces that are affecting, though merely descriptive, to "conversations," and finally, to strong affirmations spoken in the first person.
ref: 1989 December 17, Terri L. Jewell, “A Poet's Revolution Of Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 7:
text: The moment when Tyrion firmly grabs his friend’s arm just before Dany utters the cue for Drogon to burn the eunuch alive is affecting, because it conveys both how much Tyrion cares for his friend, and also how much this is costing him.
ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
glosses: Producing or causing strong feelings and emotions.
Derived terms: affectingly
affectingness
unaffecting
affecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛktɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affect
bounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊndɪd/
rhymes: -aʊndɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bound
bounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaʊndɪd/
rhymes: -aʊndɪd
Forms: form: more bounded
form: most bounded
Senses: examples: A compact set must be bounded.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: That can be enclosed within a ball of finite radius.
raw_tags: of a set
topics: mathematics
order-theory
sciences
set-theory
glosses: That contains a least element, a, and a greatest element, b, such that for all x ∈ X, a ≤ x ≤ b.
raw_tags: of a poset X with partial order ≤
Derived terms: bounded function
bounded lattice
boundedly
boundedness
bounded rationality
equibounded
nonbounded
semibounded
semi-bounded
unbounded
assigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Senses: examples: text: This is your assigned seating.
glosses: Which has been assigned or designated for some purpose.
assigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assign
Derived terms: assigned risk
assigned servant
birth-assigned
female-assigned
male-assigned
wrongly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒŋ.li/
ipa: /ˈɹɔŋ.li/
ipa: /ˈɹɑŋ.li/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒŋli
rhymes: (General American) -ɔŋli
rhymes: (cot–caught merger) -ɑŋli
Forms: form: more wrongly
form: most wrongly
Etymology: From Middle English wrongly, wrongliche, equivalent to wrong + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In violation of a moral or other standard, code, or convention; in an unfair, unjust, dishonest, or immoral manner; unfairly, unjustly, dishonestly, immorally, wrongfully; wrongly convicted is synonymous with wrongful conviction and miscarriage of justice.
examples: text: I wrongly assumed that it would be an easy job.
text: "The minute I put my nose in that door she was at me for a drop of gin, but having no instructions to supply it, and being strictly teetotal myself, I have not done so, whether rightly or wrongly I leave you to judge, doctor."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 41:
text: In March 2021, Mr. Livingston finally went up for parole after one of the lawyers from Appellate Advocates, De Nice Powell, argued he had been wrongly sentenced in the razor-blade contraband case and got the sentence reduced.
ref: 2023 December 20, Maria Cramer, “He Was Wrongly Convicted of Killing Her Father. She Set Out to Free Him.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2023:
glosses: Incorrectly, mistakenly; by error.
Synonyms: incorrectly
mistakenly
erroneously
Derived terms: rightly or wrongly
valued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæljuːd/
Forms: form: more valued
form: most valued
Senses: examples: text: deeply valued
text: greatly valued
text: a valued possession
text: She is a highly valued member of the team.
glosses: Having a value, esteemed.
Derived terms: many-valued logic
over-valued idea
real valued
real-valued
scalar-valued
single-valued
single-valued function
valued policy
valued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæljuːd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of value
roaring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Forms: form: roarin'
Etymology: By surface analysis, roar + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Intensive; extreme.
examples: text: The ice-cream sellers did a roaring trade in the midday heat.
text: But finally we came to a river with hundreds of boats upon it, and there was a magnificent bridge, and on the other bank was a roaring city, and through the fog the rain came down thick as the tears of the angels. "That 's London," said I.
ref: 1903, Robert Barr, chapter 17, in The O'Ruddy:
text: Some of the worst offenders were rounded up and sent home as Rozhestvensky's health began to recover. But this further diminished the fleet's manpower. And, at the same time, many of the officers were quite-happily unaware that anything was going on, having discovered that Madagascar did a roaring trade in various high-strength drugs. One officer had brought^([sic – meaning bought?]) 2,000 cigarettes, and they were found to all be filled with opium, much to the joy of all those who could get their hands on them before they were confiscated.
ref: 2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 35:45 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2022:
synonyms: word: thriving
word: prosperous
word: bustling
word: bustling
word: flourishing
word: fortunate
word: lucky
word: privileged
word: prosperous
word: roaring
word: successful
word: thriving
word: wealful
glosses: Very successful; lively.
roaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Forms: form: roarin'
Etymology: By surface analysis, roar + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roar
roaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɔːɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪŋ
Forms: form: roarings
form: roarin'
Etymology: By surface analysis, roar + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] those wild eyes that watch the wave
In roarings round the coral reef.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast; a roar.
glosses: An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion.
Derived terms: die roaring
hell-roaring
rip-roaring
roaring boy
roaring cat
roaring drunk
Roaring Fork River
roaring forties
roaring game
roaringly
Roaring Meg
roaring on
roaring success
Roaring Twenties
intensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intensively
form: most intensively
Etymology: From intensive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The line is intensively used, with around 100 passenger services each day and 40 freight trains serving Southampton docks.
ref: 2023 May 17, Paul Clifton, “Extreme weather at heart of Nuneham viaduct failure”, in RAIL, number 983, page 13:
glosses: In an intensive way.
Related terms: time-intensively
players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪɚz/
ipa: /ˈpleɪəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of player
ringing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: ringings
Senses: glosses: The sound of something that rings.
glosses: The quality of being resonant.
glosses: A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
glosses: The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.
Synonyms: sense: technique used in the study of birds
word: banding
Derived terms: bell-ringing
change-ringing
ringing engine
ringing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: more ringing
form: most ringing
Senses: examples: text: They declare ringing confirmation for their theories even in the face of feeble data.
ref: 1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:
glosses: Loud and clear.
glosses: Made forcefully; powerful.
ringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ring
forcefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forcefully
form: most forcefully
Etymology: From forceful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With either physical or coercive force; in a forceful manner; vigorously; powerfully.
banality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bənăl'ĭti
ipa: /bəˈnælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
enpr: bānăl'ĭti
ipa: /beɪˈnælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: banalities
Etymology: From French banalité, from banal, equivalent to banal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following the publication of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, which was based on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem.
ref: 1997, Edward S. Herman, Triumph of the Market: Essays on Economics, Politics, and the Media, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 97:
synonyms: word: bathos
english: partial
translation: partial
glosses: The quality of being banal.
glosses: Something which is banal.
examples: text: The law of banality, one of the most oppressive products of feudalism, was revived for the advantage of the nobility.
ref: 1892, William Klapp Williams, The Dawn of Italian Independence: Italy from the Congress of Vienna, 1814, to the Fall of Venice, 1849, volume 1, page 176:
text: Other banalities included the lord's exclusive right to hunt over the land, his monopoly over fishing, and his right to keep the dove-cote whose feathery occupants ate a peasant's standing crops.
ref: 1984, Sheldon J. Watts, A Social History of Western Europe, 1450–1720: Tensions and Solidarities among Rural People, page 106:
text: In fact corvées, champarts, and rights of banality not only continued but had been increased in the course of the seventeenth century.
ref: 1986, Pierre Goubert, translated by Ian Patterson, The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century, page 218:
glosses: A feudal right or obligation, especially the obligation for a peasant to grind grain at the lord's mill, or the profits accruing from such rights.
Related terms: banal
powerfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊəf(ə)li/
ipa: /ˈpaʊɚf(ə)li/
Forms: form: more powerfully
form: most powerfully
form: powrefully
Etymology: From powerful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Little had been seen of £35m man Carroll until just after the restart when he twice rose powerfully to meet corners, forcing Louis Saha to clear acrobatically off the line and Howard to save low at his post.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a powerful manner.
Synonyms: forcefully
strongly
vigorously
triviality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹɪviˈæləti/
Forms: form: trivialities
Etymology: From trivial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being trivial or unimportant.
examples: text: I propose to devote the remainder of mine to it, and can only regret the wasted years that lie behind me, squandered in trivialities.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: bagatelle
word: bag of shells
word: bric-a-brac
word: dicky
word: dicky-bird
word: fico
word: fig
word: flyspeck
word: minuity
word: niff-naff
word: picayune
word: scuddick
word: sop
word: toy
word: trick
word: trifle
word: triviality
word: whiffle
word: white chip
glosses: Something which is trivial or unimportant.
Synonyms: sense: partial
word: bathos
triteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritenesses
Etymology: From trite + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: platitude#English:_unoriginality
glosses: The state or quality of being trite.
glosses: The result or product of being trite, or an instance of being trite.
joining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of join
Derived terms: joiningly
nonjoining
joining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: joinings
Senses: glosses: The act or result of joining; a joint or juncture.
eteostic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eteostics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔτεος (éteos, “of a year”) + στίχος (stíkhos, “row, file, line”).
Senses: glosses: A chronogram.
call to prayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calls to prayer
Senses: glosses: A public proclamation made five times a day in Muslim societies, broadcast from the mosques, to mark out the ordained occasions for worship.
Synonyms: adhan
azan
unfounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + founded.
Senses: examples: text: an unfounded report; unfounded fears
text: […] my chiefest design ever since the seventeenth year of my age […] consisted in elaborating such demonstrations in Natural Philosophy, as might serve to unfold the natures of Beings in relation to the Art of Physick, hitherto so uncertain, blind, and unfounded on Art […]
ref: 1663, Gideon Harvey, “To the Reader”, in Archelogia Philosophica Nova, or, New Principles of Philosophy, London: Samuel Thomson:
text: […] such unfounded conjectures are best answered by neglect.
ref: 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, London: J. Johnson, Chapter 11, p. 61, footnote:
text: The gloom of her first anticipations was proved to have been unfounded.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: “He give a name,” said Mrs. Hall—an assertion which was quite unfounded—“but I didn’t rightly hear it.”
ref: 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 4, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
text: […] the allegation that his lordship never allowed Jewish people to enter the house or any Jewish staff to be employed is utterly unfounded […]
ref: 1989, Kazuo Ishiguro, “Day Three, Morning”, in The Remains of the Day, Vintage International, published 1990, page 137:
synonyms: word: baseless
word: groundless
word: ungrounded
word: baseless
word: idle
word: footless
word: groundless
word: unfounded
word: ungrounded
word: unjustified
word: unproved
word: unproven
word: unsubstantiated
word: unsupported
glosses: Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.
examples: text: Even the great world as yet undiscovered, the cities as yet unfounded, and the history as yet unwritten, are lost: fallen from the beginning.
ref: 1980, Helen Louise Gardner, John Carey, English Renaissance studies, page 268:
glosses: Not having been founded or instituted.
examples: text: […] from them I go
This uncouth errand sole, and one for all
My self expose, with lonely steps to tread
Th’ unfounded deep […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 826-829:
text: He makes this Glob so spacious and fair
Unfix’d, unprop’d, unfounded any where,
Hang, like a Water-bubble in the Air.
ref: 1685, William Clark, The Grand Tryal, or, Poetical Exercitations upon the Book of Job, Edinburgh, Part 3, Chapter 26, p. 210:
glosses: Bottomless.
reversal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)səl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səl
Forms: form: reversals
Etymology: From Middle English reversall; equivalent to reverse + -al.
Senses: glosses: The state of being reversed.
glosses: An instance of reversing.
examples: text: Running via Aston would require a reversal at New Street and this will be taken into account during the planning and normal industry testing processes.
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, “Chase Line service to be split next May”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
text: It's a 58-minute journey with seven intermediate stops, including a reversal at Cromer - another popular destination. The train starts to empty at North Walsham, and then there is an exodus at Cromer. The coach is almost empty for the final few miles into Sheringham.
ref: 2025 October 15, 'Mystery Shopper', “About Anglia... and high scores”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 54:
glosses: A change to an opposite direction.
glosses: A change in fortune; a change from being successful to having problems.
Synonyms: reversion
Derived terms: word: nonreversal
word: prereversal
word: reversalism
word: reversalist
word: reversality
word: reversally
word: unreversal
sense: Compound words
word: age-reversal
sense: Compound words
word: photoreversal
sense: Expressions
word: magnetic reversal
sense: Expressions
word: role reversal
sense: Expressions
word: Russian reversal
sense: Expressions
word: time reversal
sense: Expressions
word: time reversal invariance
sense: Expressions
word: time reversal mirror
sense: Expressions
word: time reversal signal processing
reversal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)səl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From French réversal or Medieval Latin reversālis.
Senses: examples: text: For after his death there were reversal letters found among his papers from the Duke of Anjou
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
glosses: Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
necktie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛk.taɪ/
rhymes: -ɛktaɪ
Forms: form: neckties
Etymology: From neck + tie.
Senses: examples: text: Oh I have been to Ludlow fair / And left my necktie God knows where / And carried half way home, or near, / Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, “Terence, this is stupid stuff”, in A Shropshire Lad:
glosses: A strip of cloth worn around the neck and tied in the front.
Derived terms: Colombian necktie
Jeff Davis's necktie
necktied
necktieless
necktie paradox
necktie-party
necktie party
necktie sociable
necktie social
Sherman necktie
Sherman's necktie
Sicilian necktie
Stolypin's necktie
Related terms: bowtie
wishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭshʹĭng
ipa: /ˈwɪʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
homophone: whishing (wine–whine merger)
Forms: form: wishings
Etymology: From wish + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: All that happeneth by wyſſhynge, is none of thine. As who ſhuld ſay what ſo euer cõmeth vnto the [thee] by thyne owne traueile and induſtrie that only counte thyne owne.
ref: 1539, Publius [i.e., Publilius Syrus], “Mimi Publiani, that is to Saye, Quicke and Sentenciouse Verses or Meters of Publius. With the Interpretacion and Brief Scholyes of Richarde Tauerner.”, in Erasmus, translated by Richard Taverner, Proverbes or Adagies with Newe Addicions Gathered out of the Chiliades of Erasmus […], London: […] Ricardum Bances, →OCLC, signature A.j., recto:
text: Discourse there was none; only exclamations and interjections, and wishings, wishings, wishings that Bessy were but his own for ever — his dear, dear little wife, as assuredly one day she should be!
ref: 1852, Chambers's Papers for the People, volumes 9-10, page 167:
glosses: gerund of wish (“the act of making a wish”)
Derived terms: well-wishing
wishing bone
wishing cap
wishing well
wishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭshʹĭng
ipa: /ˈwɪʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
homophone: whishing (wine–whine merger)
Etymology: From wish + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wish
wears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛəz/
ipa: /wɛɹz/
ipa: /weːz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiəz/
ipa: /weɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)z/
homophone: waers
homophone: warez
homophone: where's (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weirs (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: whirs (wine–whine merger, fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of wear
wears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛəz/
ipa: /wɛɹz/
ipa: /weːz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /weəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /wiəz/
ipa: /weɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /wɜː(ɹ)z/
homophone: waers
homophone: warez
homophone: where's (wine–whine merger)
homophone: weirs (cheer–chair merger)
homophone: whirs (wine–whine merger, fair–fur merger)
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wear
visiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.
ref: 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:
glosses: present participle and gerund of visit
visiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: visitings
Senses: examples: text: Come, you spirits […] make thick my blood, / Stop up th' access and passage to remorse / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose[…]
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: I marvel at none of the wild beliefs in the Hartz mountains: fire is the element of the spiritual, and who can tell what strange visitings there may be during the midnight hours that the charcoal-burner sits watching the fitful and subtle mystery of flame?
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Evening Alone”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 303:
text: Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."
ref: 2003, Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England, page 107:
glosses: The act of someone or something that visits.
Related terms: visiting ant
visiting card
visiting fellow
visiting lecturer
visiting professor
visiting researcher
visiting scholar
visiting team
visiting ticket