cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calendarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkælənˈdɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌkælənˈdɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: calendaria
form: calendariums
Etymology: From Latin calendārium. Doublet of calendar.
Senses: examples: text: Phœnician names occur in Suidas, Dioscorides, Apuleius, in martyrologies, calendariums, Acts of Councils, in Church Fathers (Augustine, Priscianus, Servus), &c.
ref: 1865, “PHŒNI’CIA”, in Chambers’s Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People, volume VII, London: W. and R. Chambers, page 497:
text: A certain Paolo Clarante also composed a calendarium and offered it to the pope for examination.
ref: 1910, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, page 249:
text: His stories were not new but were arranged in order as in the several calendaria.
ref: 1943, The Sight-Saving Review, page 213:
text: ALTHOUGH starch is an important raw material of the paper making industry, the starch indusry has not been able to cope with the technical specification requirements for coated packaging boards, nor with those for gravure coated papers, nor with the better offset grades typically as used for the higher quality advertising material, calendariums and art printings.
ref: 1976, Paper, page 96:
text: This is attested to also by the calendariums of Czech and Moravian codices with liturgical content.
ref: 1991, JPRS Report: East Europe, page 38:
glosses: A calendar or timeline or events.
y'all's
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: [jɔlz]
Etymology: From y’all + -’s.
Senses: examples: text: Here are y’all’s tickets for the show tonight.
text: “I ought to kick y’all’s asses,” he said. “Walking out on me the way you done, that’s no way to treat a friend.”
ref: 2004, David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Little, Brown,, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: Possessive of y’all (standing in for your).
Synonyms: your
y'all's
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: [jɔlz]
Forms: form: y’all’s
Etymology: From y’all + -’s.
Senses: examples: text: This drink’s mine; Bill and Joe, those drinks are y’all’s.
glosses: Possessive of y’all (standing in for yours).
Synonyms: word: yours
word: your all's
english: proscribed by most speakers
translation: proscribed by most speakers
word: your guys’s
Zimblish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Zimbabwean + English
Senses: glosses: A language combining English with Zimbabwean languages, such as Shona, Zulu, Ndebele and Xhosa.
Related terms: Spanglish
torpedo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɔː(ɹ)ˈpiː.dəʊ/
ipa: /ˌtoɹˈpi.doʊ/
rhymes: -iːdəʊ
Forms: form: torpedoes
form: torpedos
form: torpedoing
form: torpedoed
form: torpedoed
Etymology: * Borrowed from Latin torpēdō (“a torpedo fish; numbness, torpidity, electric ray”), from torpeō (“to be stiff, numb, torpid; to be astounded; to be inactive”) + -ēdō (noun suffix), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”). In the military sense coined by Robert Fulton in 1805. Cognate with Old English steorfan (“to die”), Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), Lithuanian tirpstu (“to become rigid”), Old Church Slavonic трупети (trupeti).
* (type of car): From 1908, after "the Torpedo", a car designed by Captain Theo Masui.
Senses: glosses: To strike (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
examples: text: The anti-German riots which erupted simultaneously in many countries in response to the torpedoing of the Lusitania by a German U-boat in 1915 reflected shifts in the status of minorities in multi-ethnic societies at a time of escalating nationalist emotions.
ref: 2013 November 24, Tilman Dedering, “‘Avenge the Lusitania’: The Anti-German Riots in South Africa in 1915”, in Immigrants & Minorities, volume 31, number 3, →DOI, pages 256–288:
glosses: To sink (a ship) with one or more torpedoes.
examples: text: The left-back had been a selection concern because of an injury niggle but his first goal since last March swung this derby decisively in United’s favour, extending their club record unbeaten run away from home in the Premier League to 22 games and torpedoing City’s sequence of 21 straight wins in all competitions.
ref: 2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian:
text: The Toronto-based company[…] promised a certain fantasy, particularly aimed at men: a list of women ready and willing to have an affair; a secret good time outside the bounds of one’s partnership; self-proclaimed extensive security measures to prevent torpedoing one’s domestic life.
ref: 2024 May 14, Adrian Horton, “Inside the rise and fall of Ashley Madison: ‘People literally lost their lives’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The decision (5-4) by the nine-member bench has torpedoed Srettha’s troubled government, which has failed to gain support in parliament and among the Thai public.
ref: 2024 August 14, Aidan Jones, “Thai PM Srettha Thavisin dismissed from office by court”, in scmp.com:
text: “It was really like a festering sore for quite some time,” said Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, who said the disagreement over Khalistan “has really torpedoed the relationship.”
ref: 2024 November 29, Lex Harvey, “Clashes erupted outside a Hindu temple near Toronto. They’re the latest sign of Canada and India’s spiraling relations”, in CNN:
glosses: To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a powerful attack.
active galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active galaxies
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A galaxy where a significant fraction of the energy output is not emitted by the normal components of a galaxy.
qualifier: by restriction
glosses: A galaxy with an active nucleus (AGN, active galactic nucleus)
Hypernyms: galaxy
Hyponyms: blazar
LINER
LIRG
Markarian galaxy
quasar
radio galaxy
Seyfert galaxy
starburst galaxy
XBONG
Related terms: AGN
active galactic nucleus
BL Lac
BL Lac object
BL Lacertae object
tho
Language: English
Part of speech: article
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðəʊ/
ipa: /ðoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ðə/
homophone: the
Etymology: From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“the, those”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *þai, from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian do (“the”, plural). Doublet of they.
Senses: glosses: The (plural form); those.
tho
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðəʊ/
ipa: /ðoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ðə/
homophone: the
Etymology: From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“the, those”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *þai, from Proto-Germanic *þai (“those”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian do (“the”, plural). Doublet of they.
Senses: glosses: Those; they.
tho
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðəʊ/
ipa: /ðoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ðə/
homophone: the
Etymology: From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“then, when”), from Proto-Germanic *þa- (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). See also German da (“then, thereupon”).
Senses: examples: text: 1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Foxː
Tho went I near and found Master Reynard, that had left that he first read and sang, and began to play his old play.
text: Tho to a hill his faynting flocke he ledde.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarye. Ægloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: Tho, her avizing of the vertues rare / Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe / Her to bethink of that mote to her selfe pertaine.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: 1642, Henry More, Song Soulː
Tho I gan closely on his person look.
glosses: Then; thereupon.
tho
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðəʊ/
ipa: /ðoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ðə/
homophone: the
Etymology: From Middle English tho, tha, from Old English þā (“then, when”), from Proto-Germanic *þa- (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, *só (“that”). See also German da (“then, thereupon”).
Senses: glosses: When.
tho
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ðəʊ/
ipa: /ðoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /ðə/
homophone: the
Etymology: Simplified reform spelling. Popular in American English in the earlier 20th century. Like thru, it failed to establish itself fully, but remains in informal contexts or where brevity is needed. Compare tho'.
Senses: examples: text: The English are told as children that maize is food for pigs, and tho Americans eat maizebread with pleasure and have recently done so to a huge extent in order to make possible exports of wheat to Europe, the English persist in their unfounded prejudice against it.
ref: 1919 September 6, “Wanted: A Nutrition Laboratory”, in The Literary Digest, volume 62, number 10 (1533 overall), New York, N.Y.; London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Science and Invention” section, page 114, column 2:
text: I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, […]
ref: 2009, John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: Alternative spelling of though.
torpedo roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /toɹˈpi.doʊ ɹol/
Forms: form: torpedo rolls
Etymology: From torpedo + roll.
Senses: examples: text: Give me a ham and cheese sandwich on a torpedo roll.
glosses: A long sandwich roll.
fungible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌndʒɪbəl/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: more fungible
form: most fungible
Etymology: 1765 as noun, 1818 as adjective, from Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungor (“to perform, discharge a duty”) + -ible (“able to”). Originally a legal term, going back to Roman law: res fungibilis (“replaceable things”).
Senses: examples: text: .
text: Take away this fungible instrument from the service of our necessities and how shall we exercise our Charity, which is a branch of Religion and Justice, as well as of Humanity?
ref: 1649, Antony Ascham, Of the confusions and revolutions of governments, page 30:
text: Gold is fungible. Silver is fungible; that is, these metals are both so homogeneous that, if I get a pound of pure gold, for example, it is indifferent to me whether it be this pound or that pound, one is as good as another
ref: 1876, [1877], Samuel Dana Horton, Silver and Gold and Their Relation to the Problem of Resumption, page 116:
text: At the core of Kasarda’s conception of the aerotropolis lies the notion that space – unlike time – is fungible.
ref: 2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:
text: However, unless you are unique among technical organizations and have fungible staff members who can easily replace each other, you'll need to augment the standardized description with your needs for this particular position.
ref: 2013, Johanna Rothman, Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds:
synonyms: interchangeable
exchangeable
replaceable
antonyms: nonfungible
glosses: Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.
Derived terms: funge
fungibility
fungible token
fungibly
infungible
non-fungible
non-fungible token
fungible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌndʒɪbəl/
rhymes: -ɪbəl
Forms: form: fungibles
Etymology: 1765 as noun, 1818 as adjective, from Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungor (“to perform, discharge a duty”) + -ible (“able to”). Originally a legal term, going back to Roman law: res fungibilis (“replaceable things”).
Senses: examples: text: The archetypical fungible is money: if I drop a £1 coin in the street it is a matter of indifference to me whether I pick up that coin or another £1 coin lying next to it.
ref: 2005, Alison Clarke, Paul Kohler, Property Law, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 52:
antonyms: nonfungible
glosses: Any fungible item.
bulkie roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌlki ɹɔʊl/
Forms: form: bulkie rolls
Etymology: From Yiddish בילקע (bilke) / Yiddish בולקע (bulke) + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Give me a ham and cheese sandwich on a bulkie roll.
synonyms: bulkie
glosses: A soft round sandwich roll.
Related terms: bulka
bulochka
pikey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ki/
rhymes: -aɪki
Forms: form: pikeys
Etymology: From pike + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The first time he comes to the surface of the water he gasps for breath, his huge mouth gapes, he gives his head a shake and out tumbles the bait, hooks and all, not one of them having had hold, and away goes pikey quite satisfied with his entertainment pro tem., and wondering what that ugly two-legged moster with the hop pole in his hand, and who looked in such a state of perplexity and stew, had to do with the matter
ref: 1867, Francis, A book on angling, page 93:
text: In 1876, in twelve fishings in the same months, there were caught 31 Pikeys, 4 Spotted Dogs, and 441 Nowds.
ref: 1881, Robert Lloyd Patterson, The Birds, Fishes & Cetacea of Belfast Lough, page 226:
text: A pikey's a pike. It's the dirtiest fish in the water.
ref: 2011, Jim Nally, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, →ISBN:
text: The boated Pikey makes a series of tailstands as it lunges about, biting at feet, bags, hands, creels and thwarts.
ref: 2015, E.M. Grant, Grant's Guide to Fishes: The Fisherman's Bible, →ISBN:
glosses: A pike (type of fish).
pikey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ki/
rhymes: -aɪki
Forms: form: more pikey
form: most pikey
Etymology: From pike + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Like its schoolboy master, the rod built from the cane then chosen has since had many a narrow escape "by flood and fell," and not a few damaged 'tips,' aye, and 'joints' too; but its main timbers are as sound as ever, and I trust may yet be destined to wave death over many a pikey pool and glittering torrent when the hand that chose them is no longer able to do justice to their supple graces.
ref: 1865, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, The Book of the Pike, page 126:
text: The Broadland waters are pikey waters. There is no doubt that if Norfolk is famous for any one species of fish, then it is for none other than Esox himself, the predatory pike.
ref: 1965, The Fishing Gazette [New Series] - Issues 4560-4585, page 14:
text: The name gar-pike has gone some way to suggest the non-existent relationship, while (two dorsal fins notwithstanding) the pike-perches look remarkably 'pikey'.
ref: 1979, Len Cacutt, British Freshwater Fishes: The Story of Their Evolution, page 98:
text: We travel along tortuous forest roads in the most 'pikey' part ofVarmland — the whole time alongside water.
ref: 2003, Michael Jensen, Fly-Fishing: For Pike, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Associated with or filled with pike (fish).
pikey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ki/
rhymes: -aɪki
Forms: form: pikeys
Etymology: Possibly from obsolete pike (“depart or travel”), or possibly from turnpike. The verb is derived from the stereotype that the Romani people or other travellers are thieves.
Senses: examples: text: “They must be the pikeys who live up there. They're a nasty bunch. Shouldn't get mixed up with them.” “Well, we told them to fuck off, they didn't seem that nasty to me! What are pikeys anyway?” “Well, they're like vagabonds.”
ref: 2012, Pat Coppard, In Spite of Everything: a Life-story, →ISBN, page 15:
text: Gipsies and the pikey race generally were a class outside Lord Sandbar's previous experience, and he listened greedily.
ref: 1887, Belgravia - Volume 62, page 416:
glosses: An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage.
examples: text: But if there's one thing he hates more than pikeys, it's posh people.
ref: 2011, Jonathan Trigell, Cham, →ISBN:
glosses: A working-class (often underclass) person with negative qualities stereotypically ascribed to Romani people and Irish Travellers, regardless of ethnicity.
pikey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ki/
rhymes: -aɪki
Forms: form: more pikey
form: most pikey
Etymology: Possibly from obsolete pike (“depart or travel”), or possibly from turnpike. The verb is derived from the stereotype that the Romani people or other travellers are thieves.
Senses: examples: text: Blimey. The least pikey place on the planet.
ref: 2006 September 9, Huge, “Re: Oh for FU--S sake!”, in uk.rec.driving (Usenet):
text: > You could try moving somewhere less pikey?
ref: 2007 October 18, PC Paul, “Re: Exhaust security bolts help”, in uk.rec.cars.maintenance (Usenet):
text: >> > No, you're more pikey than a traffic warden.
>> >> Nothing is more pikey than a traffic warden, even an immigrant.
>> >> > Not even a Glaswegian?
ref: 2012 March 11, "Lieutenant Scott", Re: Definition of "loading" in a parking space, in uk.rec.driving, Usenet, quoting another user
glosses: Of or having qualities associated with an itinerant person or ethnic group.
pikey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.ki/
rhymes: -aɪki
Forms: form: pikeys
form: pikeying
form: pikeyed
form: pikeyed
Etymology: Possibly from obsolete pike (“depart or travel”), or possibly from turnpike. The verb is derived from the stereotype that the Romani people or other travellers are thieves.
Senses: examples: text: >It's getting hold of a copy that isn't pikeyed that I'm having >difficulty with :-(
ref: 2004 October 25, Lister, “Re: Monday, Monday, Play, Want, Bin”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
text: Agree with Adrian about it being Pikeyed. At least you've a cheque to go buy something else.
ref: 2006 September 29, Conor, “Re: Car legally removed or stolen?”, in uk.rec.cars.misc (Usenet):
text: Rumour has it that you once posting something interesting that was pikeyed straight from scrotexes lame troll book.
ref: 2007 August 9, Diablos Rojos, “Re: Special offer to all Scummers”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united (Usenet):
glosses: To steal.
Related terms: word: charva
word: chav
word: gypsy
word: yob
aporia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɔːɹɪə/
ipa: /əˈpɔɹiə/
Forms: form: aporias
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aporia, from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía), from ἄπορος (áporos, “impassable”), from ἀ- (a-, “a-”) + πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Senses: examples: text: Aporia oft in doubt and fear will rest,
And reason with itself what may be best.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Aporia.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 55:
text: Meanings are superposed in an aporia – not ‘either/or’, but ‘and/and’.
ref: 2012, Andy Martin, “Text Messenger”, in Literary Review, section 404:
text: What they intend sickens and frightens them, and they can never speak of it directly. Instead, wrapped in whispers are ellipses, euphemisms, mumbled aporia followed by throat-clearing and a brisk change of subject.
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 9:
glosses: An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
examples: text: But Green issues are already a contested zone, already a site where politicization is being fought for. In what follows, I want to stress two other aporias in capitalist realism, which are not yet politicized to anything like the same degree. The first is mental health.
ref: 2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 3, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 19:
text: EL James's multimillion selling series of novels ‘encodes the aporias of heterosexual relationships’, according to Professor Eva Illouz[.]
ref: 2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Plato believed that the core impulse to philosophizing lies in aporia, the point at which, in struggling to understand a phenomenon or answer a question, we come up against a seemingly irresolvable contradiction.
ref: 2018, David Auerbach, Bitwise: A Life in Code, Vintage, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: impasse
paradox
contradiction
glosses: An insoluble contradiction, especially in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.
Derived terms: aporic
satellite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsætəlaɪt/
Forms: form: satellites
form: satelliting
form: satellited
form: satellited
Etymology: From Middle French satellite, from Latin satelles (“attendant”). Ultimately perhaps of Etruscan origin.
Senses: examples: text: It had to speed up its efforts to participate in the international satellite television market. In the summer of 1986 it began satelliting TV programs to Africa, and in early 1987, to Asia and twenty countries in Latin America […]
ref: 1997, Alvin A. Snyder, Warriors of Disinformation, page 160:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: To transmit by satellite.
cession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛʃən/
rhymes: -ɛʃən
homophone: session
Forms: form: cessions
Etymology: From Middle French cession, from Latin cessionem, from past participle of cēdere (“to yield”). By surface analysis, cede + -sion.
Senses: glosses: That which is ceded.
examples: text: The reinsurance company accepted a 25% cession from the direct insurer.
glosses: That which is ceded.
A risk, or part of one, which is transferred from one actor to another.
examples: text: […] Rashleigh, whose occasions frequently call him elsewhere, has generously made a cession of his rights in my favour; so that I now endeavour to prosecute alone the studies in which he used formerly to be my guide.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 228:
glosses: The giving up of rights, property etc. which one is entitled to.
Related terms: cessation
concession
excession
precession
procession
recession
secession
succession
acquaintanceship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquaintanceships
Etymology: From acquaintance + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: What, eschew acquaintanceship? forget, After my most hearty commendations, my very trusty friend, ’Twere sin and shame Tomaso.
ref: 1640, The Knave in Graine, New Vampt, London: John Day, act III, scene 1:
text: To host and hostess thus with fortune blest,
Lief had I come with better news to bear
Unto your greeting and acquaintanceship;
ref: 1889, “The Libation-Bearers”, in Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead, transl., The House of Atreus, page 114:
text: Without effort, she took them with her into her ever widening circle of acquaintanceship, and the two Avonlea girls found their social pathway at Redmond made very easy and pleasant for them […]
ref: 1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 5, in Anne of the Island:
text: When they talked down the telephone he heard a man whom he might respect at the other end of it — a fellow who sounded willing to let bygones be bygones and passion acquaintanceship.
ref: 1971, E. M. Forster, chapter 33, in Maurice, Penguin, published 1972, page 143:
synonyms: acquaintance
glosses: The state of being acquainted.
examples: text: They began their acquaintanceship very lovingly, and after a shake or two by the hand, Bell gave him a more particular account of the uses and sanctity of his office […]
ref: 1753, George Wollaston, The Life and History of a Pilgrim, Dublin, Book 2, p. 137:
text: In their long acquaintanceship and intimacy they could not recall an harsh word that had been uttered by Amelia.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 536:
text: I have already spoken to them through my window to begin an acquaintanceship.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Jonathan Harker’s Journal—continued”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter III, page 42:
text: A growing distaste for the forced acquaintanceships of travel and a craving for home brought me back.
ref: 1905, William John Locke, The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne, Part 2, Chapter 21:
text: It was an acquaintanceship formed partly out of boredom, partly for mutual protection […]
ref: 1979, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair, Penguin, published 1981, Part 2, pp. 133-134:
text: […] because she felt a strange freedom—even a security—in having decided that no acquaintanceship could end in anything untoward, she felt emboldened to sometimes do and say such things to men […]
ref: 2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Part 2, Chapter 15:
glosses: A relationship as acquaintances.
Related terms: acquaint
acquaintance
acquainted
unacquainted
euthanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.θənˌaɪz/
homophone: youthenize
Forms: form: euthanizes
form: euthanizing
form: euthanized
form: euthanized
form: euthanise
form: euth
form: euthanase
form: euthanaze
Etymology: Back-formation from euthanasia; 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: John decided to euthanize his dying dog.
text: A terminally ill minor has become the first child to be euthanized in Belgium since age restrictions were lifted in the country two years ago.
ref: 2016, Chandrika Narayan, First child dies by euthanasia in Belgium, CNN:
glosses: To carry out euthanasia on (a person or animal).
Synonyms: word: euthanatize
word: euthanasiate
english: chiefly about an animal
translation: chiefly about an animal
word: destroy
word: put down
word: put to sleep
word: put to death
Hypernyms: kill
Derived terms: euthanization
euthanizer
uneuthanized
zoothanize
Related terms: euthanasia
enticed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enticed
form: most enticed
Senses: examples: text: It is a world to see how commonly we are blinded with the collusions of women, and more enticed by their ornaments being artificial than their proportion being natural.
ref: 2009, John C. Hunter, Renaissance Literature: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, page 470:
text: I stared at him , still undecided but very enticed.
ref: 2014, Tristan Wood, The Wanton Life of My Friend Dave:
text: In particular instances, even in the face of greater financial incentives at a rival flagship institution, students were more enticed by the sense of community promised by the support programs in existence at their chosen PWI .
ref: 2023, Victor B. Sáenz, Luis Ponjuán, Julie L. Figueroa, Ensuring the Success of Latino Males in Higher Education:
glosses: Having been tempted; Finding something enticing.
Derived terms: unenticed
enticed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entice
prelude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛljuːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹiːluːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪl(j)uːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛl(j)uːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹiːl(j)uːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛlɪu̯d/
Forms: form: preludes
form: prælude
Etymology: From Middle French prélude (“singing to test a musical instrument”), from Medieval Latin preludium, from Latin praelūdere.
Senses: synonyms: preface
glosses: An introductory or preliminary performance or event.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: intrada
overture
glosses: A short, free-form piece of music, originally one serving as an introduction to a longer and more complex piece; later, starting with the Romantic period, generally a stand-alone piece.
examples: text: In the same way that Rust has a general prelude that brings certain types and functions into scope automatically, the std::io module has its own prelude of common types and functions you'll need when working with I/O.
ref: 2018, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 232:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A standard module or library of subroutines and functions to be imported, generally by default, into a program.
examples: text: Swimmings of the head and intestinal pains seemed the prelude of dissolution.
ref: 1869, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, page 2:
text: On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
ref: 1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13:
glosses: A forerunner to anything.
Synonyms: forestory
prelude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛljuːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹiːluːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹeɪl(j)uːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛl(j)uːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹiːl(j)uːd/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛlɪu̯d/
Forms: form: preludes
form: preluding
form: preluded
form: preluded
form: prælude
Etymology: From Middle French prélude (“singing to test a musical instrument”), from Medieval Latin preludium, from Latin praelūdere.
Senses: glosses: To introduce something, as a prelude.
examples: text: The musicians preluded on their instruments.
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.
ref: 1829, Francis Jeffrey, “Heman's Poems”, in The Edinburgh Review October 1829:
glosses: To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
euthanasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː.θəˈneɪ.zi.ə/
ipa: /juːθəˈneɪʒə/
enpr: yo͞o"thənā'zhə
ipa: /ˌjuθəˈneɪʒə/
ipa: /ˌjʉːθəˈnæɪʒə/
Forms: form: euthanasias
form: euthanasy
Etymology: First attested in 1606, from Ancient Greek εὐθανασία (euthanasía), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + θάνατος (thánatos, “death”)
Senses: examples: text: Euthanasia is the most difficult part of a veterinarian's job.
synonyms: mercy killing
glosses: The practice of intentionally killing a human being or animal in a humane way, especially in order to end suffering.
examples: text: Nevertheless, as Henry Friedlander pointed out years ago, it was not Jews but mentally and physically disabled people who became targets of the ﬁrst large-scale, systematic killings in Nazi Germany, under the euphemistically labelled “Euthanasia Program.”
ref: 2016, Doris L. Bergen, “Introduction”, in War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust, page 3:
glosses: The practice of killing a human being who is considered a liability to society, especially a disabled person.
examples: text: It would in time, it is to be hoped, effect a quiet euthanasia of the heresies of bigotry and fanaticism which have so long triumphed over human reason, and so generally and deeply afflicted mankind; but this work is to be begun by winnowing the grain from the chaff of the historians of his life.
ref: 1819 October 31, Thomas Jefferson, Letter To William Short, Monticello:
text: Had they understood their place, and what to do in it, this French Revolution, which went forth explosively in years and in months, might have spread itself over generations; and not a torture-death but a quiet euthanasia have been provided for many things.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Kings and Emigrants”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First):
text: This purely painless process, this descent by oblivious trance into oblivion, this natural physical death, is the true euthanasia; and it is the duty of those we call physicians to secure for man such good health as shall bear him in activity and happiness onward in his course to this goal. For euthanasia, though it be open to every one born of every race, is not to be had by any save through obedience to those laws which it is the mission of the physician to learn, to teach, and to enforce. Euthanasia is the sequel of health, the happy death engrafted on the perfect life.
ref: 1876, Natural Euthanasia: Popular Science Monthly, volume 8:
text: For myself I could hold it in my account with God to find such an euthanasia for you, even at this moment if it were best.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: An easy death, or the means to bring about such a death.
Hypernyms: assisted dying
Hyponyms: assisted suicide
Derived terms: active euthanasia
duo euthanasia
euthanase
euthanasee
euthanasiac
euthanasian
euthanasic
euthanasist
euthanatise
euthanatize
euthanise
euthaniser
euthanize
Ruthanasia
zoothanasia
Related terms: thanato-
humane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hjuːˈmeɪn/
ipa: /hjuˈmeɪn/
ipa: /hjʉːˈmæɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: humaner
form: more humane
form: humanest
form: most humane
Etymology: From Middle English humain, humayne, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin hūmānus, from Latin homō (“man”). Cognate with Old English guma (“man”), whence the groom in English bridegroom.
Senses: examples: text: It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.
text: As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.
text: The unfortunate thing about Bando, said Arthur, is that it is no longer to be obtained in this unfortunate country. I understand that inferior products, such as Ostreine and Spanish Flies, may still be wheedled out of some of the humaner chemists, up and down the city, in the ten minutes or a quarter of an hour immediately following their midday meal.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
examples: text: many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 7:
glosses: Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
examples: text: [N]o attempt is made to call in God to their reſcue, as if he vvere an idle unconcern'd ſpectator of humane affairs, or ſo inconſiderable an ally, as not to be vvorth the care of engaging him on their ſide.
ref: 1660, [Richard Allestree], “Sect[ion] V. Of the Second Advantage, Wealth.”, in The Gentlemans Calling, London: […] T[imothy] Garthwait […], →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of human.
Synonyms: mankindly
Derived terms: humanely
humaneness
humane society
humanewash
humanewashing
humaniac
humanize
Related terms: human
humanist
humanitarian
humanity
dissect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛkt/
ipa: /daɪˈsɛkt/
ipa: /dɪˈsɛkt/
ipa: /daɪˈsɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: dissects
form: dissecting
form: dissected
form: dissected
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dissectus past participle of dissecare (“to cut asunder, cut up”), from dis- (“asunder”) + secare (“to cut”); see section.
Senses: examples: text: She was the first person in her class to properly dissect the sheep heart.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 130:
glosses: To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy.
glosses: To study a plant's or other organism's anatomy similarly.
glosses: To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts.
examples: text: Now dissect the triceps away from its attachment on the humerus.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To separate muscles, organs, etc. without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs.
Derived terms: cryodissect
dissectability
dissectable
dissecter
dissecting microscope
dissective
dissector
equidissectable
hydrodissect
immunodissect
macrodissected
microdissect
microdissected
nondissected
predissected
redissect
stereodissecting
subdissect
undissected
Related terms: dissection
veterinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɛt(ə)ɹəˈnɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌvɛtʃ.ɹɪnˈɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌvɛʔ.n̩ˈɛɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: veterinarians
Etymology: From Latin veterīnārius (“cattle doctor”) + -an, from veterīnae (“beasts of burden, draught-”), probably from vehō (“to convey, draw”), or from vetus (“old”). By surface analysis, veterinary + -an.
Senses: examples: text: A fascination with Hokkaido's wild country first drew the veterinarian to Abashiri, and he is a leading expert on the Ezo red fox. Like much of Hokkaido's wildlife, this fox is not found on Honshu.
ref: 1980, National Geographic Society (U.S.), National geographic, →OCLC:
text: The first edition, translated into 6 languages, appeared to fulfil a need, and a minisurvey of UK veterinarians graduated 2–40 years ago showed unanimous support for such a revision […]
ref: 2005, Anthony David Weaver, Guy St. Jean, Adrian Steiner, Bovine surgery and lameness:
synonyms: vet
veterinary surgeon
veterinary
animal doctor
glosses: A medical doctor who treats non-human animals.
Derived terms: vet
Related terms: veterinary
veterinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɛt(ə)ɹəˈnɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌvɛtʃ.ɹɪnˈɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ˌvɛʔ.n̩ˈɛɹ.i.ən/
Etymology: From Latin veterīnārius (“cattle doctor”) + -an, from veterīnae (“beasts of burden, draught-”), probably from vehō (“to convey, draw”), or from vetus (“old”). By surface analysis, veterinary + -an.
Senses: glosses: veterinary
Related terms: doctor
physician
euthanatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: euthanatizes
form: euthanatizing
form: euthanatized
form: euthanatized
form: euthanatise
Etymology: From euthanasia + -ize, euthanat- being the stem of euthanasia.
Senses: glosses: To euthanize.
Synonyms: euthanize
euthanasiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euthanasiates
Senses: examples: text: That chemical methods of euthanasia (such as injectable euthanasiates such as barbituates) far outweighed all other methods used to perform euthanasia of laboratory animals.
ref: 1990, Gary Martinic, “euthanasia of laboratory animals”, in Animal Technology:
text: The Environmental Health Unit of Queensland Health has issued appropriately trained wildlife carers in two organisations with authority to hold and use a small selection of restricted (S4) veterinary drugs including: Pentabarbitone sodium (Valabarb, Lethabarb): a veterinary euthanasiate; Alfaxalone and Zoletil: anaesthetics; Diazepam (Pamlin): a sedative; Meloxicam: an antiinflammatory pain reliever.
ref: 2005, Jon Haner, Andrew Tribe, “Management of critically ill wildlife: the reality and practice of wildlife euthanasia”, in National Wildlife Rehabilitation Conference:
text: At all times the euthanasiates should be in a locked container/area when not in the possession of a veterinarian
ref: 2012, Australian Veternary Association, Indigenous Community Animal Health Program (ICAHP) Model and Guidelines:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: Any drug used to euthanize an animal.
euthanasiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: euthanasiates
form: euthanasiating
form: euthanasiated
form: euthanasiated
Senses: examples: text: The dog was euthanasiated 40 days after the MRI examination because its convulsions had worsened.
ref: 2000, Hiroshi Koie, Ester Norie Kurotobi, Takeo Sakai, “Double-chambered right ventricle in a dog”, in Journal of Veterinary Medical Science, volume 6:
text: The experiment was carried out 240 days long, on Wistar rats, intraperitoneally injected once with aqueous asbestos suspension. In the end, animals were euthanasiated by prolonged narcosis.
ref: 2008, B. Sevastre, C. Cătoi, A.I. Marcus, “LESIONAL ASPECTS IN RAT EXPERIMENTAL ASBESTOSIS”, in Bulletin of University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania:
text: On a stork whit multiple fractures which was later euthanasiated, some anatomic and histology observation were made on the esophagus.
ref: 2009, V Rus, V Miclaus, GC Nadas, D Cadar, “STRUCTURAL PARTICULARITIES OF THE WHITE STORK (CICONIA CICONIA) ESOPHAGUS.”, in Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology, volume 14, number 1:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: To kill in a humane manner.
Synonyms: euthanatize
euthanize
euthanise
soror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorors
Etymology: PIE word
 *swésōr
Shortening; also from Latin soror (“sister”), akin to frater from Latin frāter (“brother”). Doublet of sister.
Senses: examples: text: Gathering your fraters and sorors / If you were a member of a fraternity or sorority in college, gather your old fraters (brothers) and sorors (sisters) for a reunion.
ref: 2002, Cheryl Fall, Family Reunion Planning Kit for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, Inc.:
glosses: A sorority sister; a fellow member of one's sorority.
see the forest for the trees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees the forest for the trees
form: seeing the forest for the trees
form: saw the forest for the trees
form: seen the forest for the trees
form: see the wood for the trees
form: see the woods for the trees
form: see the forest but for the trees
form: see the forest through the trees
form: see the trees through the forest
form: miss the forest for the trees
form: miss the wood for the trees
form: miss the woods for the trees
Etymology: John Heywood documented the English use of the proverb in 1546.
Senses: examples: text: Smith is good at detail, but can't see the forest for the trees.
text: It is, indeed, the principal drawback to the study of London that she is too vast—that the student is ever in danger of "not seeing the forest for the trees."
ref: 1902, Emily Constance Baird Cook, Highways and Byways in London:
text: On the other hand, I have purposely treated the empirical physical foundations of the theory in a "step-motherly" fashion, so that readers unfamiliar with physics may not feel like the wanderer who was unable to see the forest for the trees.
ref: 1916, Albert Einstein (tr. Robert W. Lawson), “Preface”, in Relativity: The Special and General Theory:
text: Your only failing is that you can't see the forest for the trees.
ref: 1919, Louis Tracy, The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley, page 96:
glosses: To discern an overall pattern from a mass of detail; to see the big picture, or the broader, more general situation.
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: big picture
bigger fish to fry
bird's-eye view
gestalt
gist
grand scheme
not see for looking
overview
Varuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Varuṇa
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit वरुण (váruṇa).
Senses: glosses: A god of the sky, of rain and of the celestial ocean, as well as a god of law and of the underworld.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Neptune
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 20000 Varuna; a large planetoid orbiting in the scattered disk.
heliocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhiːli.əʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
enpr: hē'lē-ō-sĕnʹtrĭk
ipa: /ˌhiːlioʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: heliocentrick
Etymology: From helio- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: a heliocentric coordinate system
text: a heliocentric orbit
text: To make the Catalogue of Eclipses, as also the Table of the Parallaxes of [Jupiter], it was necessary first to make a Table of [Jupiter]' Heliocentrick places, to which the Parallaxes being applied, give the Geocentrick.
ref: 1685, J. Flamsteed, Philosophical Transactions, XV, p. 1217:
text: Apollyon, who, as god of the sun, has a certain stake in the matter, teaches the Prior the truth of what the Greeks, Pythagoras' disciples, knew many years before— the nature of the heliocentric (or pyrocentric) planetary system.
ref: 1967, Gerald Cornelius Monsman, Pater's Portraits: Mythic Pattern in the Fiction of Walter Pater, pages 187–188:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
hypernyms: astrocentric
glosses: Having the sun at the center/centre; usually in reference to a coordinate system or orbit.
topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to heliocentrism.
Derived terms: heliocentrical
heliocentrically
heliocentricism
heliocentricity
Related terms: word: heliocentrism
english: Mercury
translation: Mercury
word: hermeocentric
english: Venus
translation: Venus
word: cytherocentric
english: the Earth
translation: the Earth
word: geocentric
english: the Moon
translation: the Moon
word: selenocentric
english: Mars
translation: Mars
word: areocentric
english: Jupiter
translation: Jupiter
word: zenocentric
english: Saturn
translation: Saturn
word: cronocentric
english: Uranus
translation: Uranus
word: uranocentric
english: a planet
translation: a planet
word: planetocentric
english: a star
translation: a star
word: astrocentric
english: a galaxy
translation: a galaxy
word: galactocentric
Medieval English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Middle English.
exoatmospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + atmospheric.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere
Coordinate terms: endoatmospheric
Derived terms: exoatmospherically
Related terms: english: nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere
translation: nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere
word: exoatmosphere
word: exosphere
exoatmospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of exoplanet + atmospheric
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of exoplanetary atmospheric (“pertaining to the atmospheres of exoplanets”).
Related terms: exoatmosphere
extraterrestrial
extrasolar
geocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒiːəʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒioʊˈsɛntɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɛntɹɪk
Forms: form: geocentrick
Etymology: From geo- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: a geocentric coordinate system
text: a geocentric orbit
text: To make the Catalogue of Eclipses, as also the Table of the Parallaxes of [Jupiter], it was necessary first to make a Table of [Jupiter]' Heliocentrick places, to which the Parallaxes being applied, give the Geocentrick.
ref: 1685, J. Flamsteed, Philosophical Transactions, volume XV, page 1217:
text: Near-Earth objects (NEOs) that follow horseshoe paths, and approach our planet at close range and low relative velocity, may undergo mini-moon events in which their geocentric energy becomes negative for hours, days or months, but without completing one revolution around Earth while bound.
ref: 2024 September, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, “A Two-month Mini-moon: 2024 PT₅ Captured by Earth from September to November”, in Research Notes of the AAS, American Astronomical Society, →DOI:
hypernyms: planetocentric
glosses: Having the Earth at the center.
topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to geocentrism, an obsolete cosmology which placed the Earth at the center of the universe.
Derived terms: geocentrical
geocentrically
Geocentric Coordinate Time
geocentricism
geocentricity
Related terms: word: geocentrism
english: the Sun
translation: the Sun
word: heliocentric
english: Mercury
translation: Mercury
word: hermeocentric
english: Venus
translation: Venus
word: cytherocentric
english: the Moon
translation: the Moon
word: selenocentric
english: Mars
translation: Mars
word: areocentric
english: Jupiter
translation: Jupiter
word: zenocentric
english: Saturn
translation: Saturn
word: cronocentric
english: Uranus
translation: Uranus
word: uranocentric
english: a planet
translation: a planet
word: planetocentric
english: a star
translation: a star
word: astrocentric
english: a galaxy
translation: a galaxy
word: galactocentric