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cope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊp/
ipa: /ˈkoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: copes
form: coping
form: coped
form: coped
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: cope
form: cope
form: coped
form: cope
form: copest
form: coped
form: copedst
form: copes
form: copeth
form: coped
form: cope
form: coped
form: cope
form: coped
form: cope
form: -
form: coping
form: coped
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French couperder.
English cope
From Middle English coupen, from Old French coper, couper (“to strike, to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: Chelsea were coping comfortably as Liverpool left Luis Suarez too isolated. Steven Gerrard was also being forced to drop too deep to offer support to the beleaguered Jay Spearing and Jordan Henderson rather than add attacking potency alongside the Uruguayan.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
text: Phyllida Barlow, the sculptor representing the UK at the Venice Biennale, has said that while it may have taken the art world decades to pay attention to her work, the timing of her recognition was perfect, adding: “20 years ago, I wouldn’t have coped.”
ref: 2017 May 10, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, quoting Phyllida Barlow, “Phyllida Barlow: I couldn't have coped if fame had come 20 years ago”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: From transport to zoos: how UK services coped in the sweltering heat [title]
ref: 2022 July 18, Jamie Grierson, “From transport to zoos: how UK services coped in the sweltering heat”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: contend
hold it together
hack
contrive
manage
antonyms: lose one's shit
glosses: To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.
glosses: To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
examples: text: the beak and talons should be closely coped
ref: 1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports:
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
Derived terms: cope and seethe
cope and stick
cope chisel
coper
cope with
coping saw
dyscopia
noncoping
uncoping
cope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊp/
ipa: /ˈkoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: copes
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French couperder.
English cope
From Middle English coupen, from Old French coper, couper (“to strike, to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: There was some public grousing about the number of white supremacists attempting to recruit, however; some incels argued that white supremacy was just another "cope"–just another self-deluding attempt to cover over the grim truth of the blackpill.
ref: 2019, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, unnumbered page:
text: My only 2 copes for the past 3 years have been food & the internet/surfing. Both of these copes have only hurt me further as I have addictions to both sugar and the internet now and have isolated myself further and further into the oblivion.
ref: 2020, anonymous, quoted in Jacob Conley, "Efficacy, Nihilism, and Toxic Masculinity Online: Digital Misogyny in the Incel Subculture", thesis submitted to The Ohio State University, page 18
text: Just as it sounds, a Gymcel is an incel who goes to the gym a lot, which in their mind is a cope.
ref: 2020, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer: The True Story of an Incel Mass Murderer, unnumbered page:
glosses: A coping mechanism or self-delusion one clings to in order to endure a hopeless situation.
Derived terms: cope cage
copium
cope
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊp/
ipa: /ˈkoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French couperder.
English cope
From Middle English coupen, from Old French coper, couper (“to strike, to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: "The other guy cheated, I had no chance!" "Cope."
glosses: An expression of spite towards someone who suffered a setback.
glosses: A contemptuous dismissal, implying that someone should deal with some problem on their own and that the speaker will not engage any further.
cope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊp/
ipa: /ˈkoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: copes
Etymology: From Middle English cope, from Medieval Latin cāpa (“cape”) Doublet of cap, cape, and chape.
Senses: examples: text: […] there went firſt 160 Prieſts, all in their Copes, eight Biſhops next, […]
ref: 1681, Gilbert Burnet, “Book II. The Life and Reign of Queen Mary.”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. The Second Part, […], London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […], →OCLC, page 300:
text: He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: mantle
mantum
glosses: A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.
glosses: Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
examples: text: the starry cope of heaven
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, 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:
text: Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,[…]farthest from heavens coape, with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: One summer night, in commune with the hope
Thus deeply fed, amid those ruins gray
I watched, beneath the dark sky’s starry cope; […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 191:
text: It was, indeed, a majestic idea that the destiny of nations should be revealed, in these awful hieroglyphics, on the cope of heaven.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
coordinate_terms: drag#English:_major_part_of_a_mold
glosses: The top part of a sand casting mold.
glosses: An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
Derived terms: coping stone
cope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊp/
ipa: /ˈkoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: copes
form: coping
form: coped
form: coped
Etymology: From Middle English cope, from Medieval Latin cāpa (“cape”) Doublet of cap, cape, and chape.
Senses: glosses: To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
examples: text: [W]e ſee that wreſtlers onely doe claſpe about, and imbrace one another with their armes; and the moſt part of their ſtriving one againſt another, whether it be performed by taking hold either directly or indirectly, by tripping, by coping and tugging, doe all bring them together, and enterlace them; […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “The Second Booke of the Symposiaques. The Fourth Question. Whether Wrestling were of All the Exercises and Games of Prise, Most Ancient or No?”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 673:
glosses: To form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow.
cope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊp/
ipa: /ˈkoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: copes
form: coping
form: coped
form: coped
Etymology: From Middle English copen, borrowed from Middle Dutch copen. Cognate with Dutch kopen, German kaufen.
Senses: glosses: To bargain for; to buy.
examples: text: [The Patron] Will cope with thee in reasonable wise;
That if the living yerely doo arise
To fortie pound, that then his yongest sonne
Shall twentie have, and twentie thou hast wonne.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To exchange or barter.
examples: text: Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To make return for; to requite; to repay.
examples: text: I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Says, ‘Mistress, do you travel to be coped? / Give me my fee: for sure, a plump-cheeked lass / Shall not the porter's lodge unkissèd pass.’
ref: a. 1682, Nathaniel Whiting, “The Pleasing History of Albino and Bellama”, in George Saintsbury, editor, Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, volume III, published 1921:
text: Host coped with host, dire was the din of war.
ref: 1708, John Philips, Cyder:
glosses: To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
examples: text: Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
Derived terms: copemate
copesmate
cope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊp/
ipa: /ˈkoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: copes
form: coping
form: coped
form: coped
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: His nimble ferrets must now become pioners for their master who coupes them, lest they should grow too fat to endure labour.
ref: 1631, Richard Brathwaite, Whimzies:
text: The use of this word is confined to warreners, who are said to 'cope' their ferrets, when they sew or tie up their mouths, to prevent them from biting rabbits, when they are used to drive them from their holes.
ref: 1825, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East-Anglia:
glosses: To tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits.
examples: text: Well sir? how triflingly soeuer you trauers the matter, these my Philosophicall proceedings (for any thing hitherto heard) might fullie suffice to put your fantasticall fooleries to a perpetuall non-sute: were you not like to the rauenous Ferret, which rendeth in peeces whatsoeuer poore Rabbet doth come in her reach. And therefore it shall not be amisse to cope vp your lips a little, by taking foorthwith so strict a course as you shall neuer be able to contradict with all your skill: which may in this sort be verie fitly effected.
ref: 1601, John Deacon, John Walker, Dialogicall Discourses of Spirits and Divels:
text: And tell me Signior, why when you eate our good cheare i'th City, haue you handſome wide chops, but meeting vs at Court, none; your gumme's glew'd vp, your lips coap'd like a Ferret, not ſo much as the corner of a Cuſtard; if a cold cup, and a dry cheate loaf 'tis well.
ref: 1621, Thomas Dekker, Match Me in London:
text: That is; because Roger has a vocal instrument between his chin and his nose, called a mouth, and being not muzled, gagged or cop'd; but having a free power, faculty or Page 127 May to open it, and order it as he think fit; therefore he May stretch it out as wide as he please, and swear quite cross the Island, that he'l have the whole, or at least half:
ref: 1672, John Eachard, Mr. Hobbs's state of nature considered in a dialogue between Philautus and Timothy:
glosses: To silence or prevent from speaking.
coy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
homophone: koi
Forms: form: coyer
form: coyest
Etymology: From Middle English coy, from Old French coi, earlier quei (“quiet, still”), from Latin qu(i)ētus (“resting, at rest”). Doublet of quit, quiet, quite, and quietus.
Senses: glosses: Bashful, shy, retiring.
glosses: Quiet, reserved, modest.
glosses: Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.
examples: text: The ill-bred miss, the bird-brained Jill, / May simper and be coy at will; / A lady, sir, as you will find, / Keeps counsel, or she speaks her mind, / Means what she says and scorns to fence / And palter with feigned innocence.
ref: 1981, A. D. Hope, “His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell”, in A Book of Answers:
glosses: Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
examples: text: Enforced hate, / Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Soft, gentle, hesitating.
Derived terms: accoy
coily
coyish
coyly
coyness
overcoy
uncoy
coy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
homophone: koi
Forms: form: coys
form: coying
form: coyed
form: coyed
Etymology: From Middle English coy, from Old French coi, earlier quei (“quiet, still”), from Latin qu(i)ētus (“resting, at rest”). Doublet of quit, quiet, quite, and quietus.
Senses: examples: text: Come sit thee down upon this flowery bed, / While I thy amiable cheeks do coy.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To caress, pet; to coax, entice.
glosses: To calm or soothe.
examples: text: For now there are ſprung up a wiſer generation in this kind, who have the Art to coy the fonder ſort into their nets
ref: 1635, Edward Rainbowe, Labour Forbidden, and Commanded. A Sermon Preached at S^(t.) Pauls^([sic]) Church, September 28. 1634., London: Nicholas Vavasour, page 29:
glosses: To allure; to decoy.
coy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
homophone: koi
Forms: form: coys
Etymology: Compare decoy.
Senses: glosses: A trap from which waterfowl may be hunted.
coy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
homophone: koi
Forms: form: coys
Etymology: Abbreviation of company.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A company
casino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈsiːnəʊ/
ipa: /kæˈsinoʊ/
ipa: /kəˈsinoʊ/
ipa: /kəˈsiːnəʉ/
ipa: /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
ipa: /kəˈsiːnɐʉ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəˈsino/
rhymes: -iːnəʊ
Forms: form: casinos
form: casinoes
form: casini
form: cassino
Etymology: From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).
Senses: examples: text: He went to the casino every night till 1:00 am.
text: A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia.
ref: 2017 August 16, Christopher Knauss, The Guardian:
glosses: A public building or room for gambling.
examples: text: Quirini [was] knowing in the belles Lettres, & highly skilled in making his Casino comfortable to all the Wits & Blues as we now call them in London.
ref: 1786 July 3, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: I felt it strange, and regretted it, that so amiable a man should have contracted such dissolute habits, and at this very time, instead of living respectably with his charming Countess, had Baccelli, the superannuated dancing courtesan, in a casino in the neighbourhood.
ref: 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 163
glosses: A small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.
glosses: A certain Italian card game for two to four players.
glosses: Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.
Derived terms: anticasino
big casino
casino capitalism
casino hotel
casinoization
casinolike
clams casino
cybercasino
e-casino
great casino
little casino
megacasino
minicasino
noncasino
racino
royal casino
subcasino
supercasino
separator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛpəˌɹeɪtəɹ/
Forms: form: separators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sēparātor.
Senses: examples: text: When applying polish, always use toe separators to keep toes apart.
ref: 1998, Elisa Ferri, Lisa Kenny, Dana Epstein, Style on Hand: Perfect Nail and Skin Care, page 44:
glosses: An object located between two or more things and hence separating them.
glosses: A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk.
examples: text: Death, the mystery, the great separator of friend from friend and loved one from loved one
ref: 1979 December 8, Nancy Walker, “Remembering David Brill”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 15:
glosses: One who separates; an agent performing the action of separating.
Derived terms: cyclone separator
word separator
complacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpleɪsənt/
homophone: complaisant
Forms: form: more complacent
form: most complacent
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin complacēns (“very pleasing”), present participle of complacēre (“to please at the same time, be very pleasing”), from com- (“together”) + placēre (“to please”); see please and compare complaisant.
Senses: examples: text: He grew complacent as the years rolled on and the money rolled in.
text: England will feel confident but not complacent against Ukraine, and the shock exit of France to Switzerland shows no-one can be taken lightly.
ref: 2021 June 29, Phil McNulty, “England 2-0 Germany”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
examples: text: He tried to paint his audience as complacent, yelling that if they weren't mad as hell then they weren't paying enough attention.
glosses: Unduly unworried or apathetic with regard to a need or problem.
Synonyms: smug
self-satisfied
placid
Derived terms: complacently
complacentry
overcomplacent
self-complacent
uncomplacent
Related terms: complacence
complacency
smug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: smŭg
ipa: /smʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: smugger
form: smuggest
Etymology: Originally "spruce, neat," from Low German smuk (“pretty”), from Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, delicate, neat, trim”), although the g of the English word is not easily explained. The ultimate source should be Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to crawl, creep”).
From the Low German derived also North Frisian smok, Danish smuk and Swedish smukk (now obsolete or dialectal).
Compare also Middle High German gesmuc (“ornament”) and smücken (“to dress, to adorn”), both ultimately from smiegen (“to press to, insert, wrap, to nestle”), hence German schmiegen, Schmuck and schmücken. The adjective schmuck, however, was borrowed from Low German. See smock for more.
Senses: examples: text: Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
synonyms: word: complacent
word: gloaty
word: self-satisfied
word: airy
word: arrogant
word: authoritarian
word: biggity
word: big-headed
word: blustery
word: boastful
word: bombastic
word: buggish
word: cocky
word: conceited
word: disdainful
word: domineering
word: egotistical
word: entitled
word: flatulent
word: flaunting
word: full of oneself
word: grandiose
word: hankty
word: haught
word: haughty
word: haut
word: high-handed
word: high-hat
word: high and mighty
word: highfalutin
word: hoity-toity
word: holier-than-thou
word: imperious
word: inflated
word: insolent
word: la-di-da
word: ostentatious
word: overbearing
word: overweening
word: pompous
word: presumptuous
word: pretentious
word: priggish
word: puffed up
word: sanctimonious
word: self-important
word: snobbish
word: snooty
word: snotty
word: stout
word: stuck up
word: supercilious
word: thrasonic
word: thrasonical
word: toploftical
word: toplofty
word: tumid
word: turgid
word: uppish
word: uppity
word: uppy
word: upstage
word: vain
glosses: irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.
examples: text: a smug look on her face
glosses: Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.
examples: text: They be so smug and smooth.
ref: 1556, Raphe Robynson, More’s Utopia: The English Translation thereof:
text: the smug and scanty draperies of his style
ref: 1828, Thomas De Quincey, “Elements of Rhetoric”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
text: A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow.
ref: c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:
synonyms: word: affected
word: overrefined
word: affected
word: effete
word: fey
word: recherché
word: hoity-toity
word: overrefined
word: pansified
word: precious
word: pretentious
word: smug
word: stagy
word: stilted
word: theatrical
word: Woosterian
glosses: Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
Derived terms: smugly
smugness
smug
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: smŭg
ipa: /smʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: smugs
form: smugging
form: smugged
form: smugged
Etymology: Originally "spruce, neat," from Low German smuk (“pretty”), from Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, delicate, neat, trim”), although the g of the English word is not easily explained. The ultimate source should be Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to crawl, creep”).
From the Low German derived also North Frisian smok, Danish smuk and Swedish smukk (now obsolete or dialectal).
Compare also Middle High German gesmuc (“ornament”) and smücken (“to dress, to adorn”), both ultimately from smiegen (“to press to, insert, wrap, to nestle”), hence German schmiegen, Schmuck and schmücken. The adjective schmuck, however, was borrowed from Low German. See smock for more.
Senses: examples: text: Thus said, he smug'd his beard, and stroked up fair.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To make smug, or spruce.
examples: 1899 Ambrose Bierce: Fantastic Fables.
Hearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it.
"The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats," the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure.
"I did not know," remarked the Christian, with scientific interest, "that that would make so much noise."
"The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too," added the Dragoman.
"It is astonishing," mused the Christian, "how violent and how general are religious animosities.
Everywhere in the world the devotees of each local faith abhor the devotees of every other, and abstain
from murder only so long as they dare not commit it. And the strangest thing about it is that
all religions are erroneous and mischievous excepting mine. Mine, thank God, is true and benign."
So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests.
glosses: to adopt an offensively self-complacent expression.
glosses: To seize; to confiscate.
glosses: To hush up.
smug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: smŭg
ipa: /smʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Senses: examples: text: Have not they some term by which they distinguish the illicit trade? — They usually call it the Smug-pigeon.
ref: 1830, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India Company, Report ... China Trade (page 397)
text: The smug-boats have been called centipedes by the Europeans, on account of the great number of oars, with which, like legs, they walk the water.
ref: 1838, Charles Toogood Downing, The Stranger in China, page 66:
glosses: The smuggling trade.
walkman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walkmans
form: walkmen
form: Walkman
Etymology: (cassette player): Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark Walkman.
Senses: examples: text: Because I can't stand looking at that inexplicable Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages—so I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.
ref: 2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender):
glosses: A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.
glosses: Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.
Related terms: discman
tear gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪə ɡæs/
ipa: /ˈtɪː ɡæs/
ipa: /ˈtɪɹ ɡæs/
Forms: form: tear gases
form: tear gasses
form: teargas
Senses: examples: text: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
glosses: Any lachrymatory, non-lethal chemical compound that causes the eyes to sting and water and/or irritates the respiratory system, mostly used for controlling crowds during riots or as self-defense.
Related terms: CS gas
CN gas
pepper spray
mace
tear gas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪə ɡæs/
ipa: /ˈtɪː ɡæs/
ipa: /ˈtɪɹ ɡæs/
Forms: form: tear gases
form: tear gasses
form: tear gassing
form: tear gassed
form: tear gassed
form: teargas
Senses: examples: text: The riot squad tear gassed the mob.
glosses: To use tear gas.
CS gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the initials of its creators, Ben Corson and Roger Stoughton.
Senses: glosses: A tear gas formed by mixing o-chlorobenzalmalononitrile powder with a dispersal liquid.
Related terms: CN gas
pepper spray
mace
CN gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: chloroacetophenone used as tear gas for riot control, although it is normally replaced nowadays with CS gas.
Related terms: pepper spray
mace
coil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪl/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
ipa: /kwaɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: coils
Etymology: From Middle English coilen, from Old French coillir, cuillir (“to gather, pluck, pick, cull”) (modern French cueillir), from Latin colligō (“to gather together”), past participle collectus, from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”); compare legend. Doublet of cull.
Senses: examples: text: the sinuous coils of a snake
text: The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.
ref: 1819 June 23 – 1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “(please specify the title)”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
examples: text: ‘I’m gonna go on the pill and get fitted for a coil. I don’t wanna be pregnant. Ever. Again!’
ref: 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 293:
glosses: Any intrauterine device (abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: inductor
glosses: A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
glosses: A cylinder of clay.
examples: text: What trifling coil do we mortals keep;
Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.
ref: a. 1722, Matthew Prior, “Human Life”, in H. Bunker Wright, Monroe K. Spears, editors, The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, Second edition, volume I, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1971, page 687:
glosses: Entanglement; perplexity.
Derived terms: alpine coil
audio coil
blowout coil
chokecoil
choking coil
coilgun
coil gun
coilin
coilless
coilover
coil spring
coil-sprung
coil whine
coil winder
coily
cryocoil
eigencoil
field coil
Flemish coil
head coil
Helmholtz coil
honeycomb coil
ignition coil
impedance coil
inductance coil
induction coil
load coil
loading coil
microcoil
mosquito coil
multicoil
Oudin coil
overcoil
pedestal coil
plate number coil
resistance coil
Rogowski coil
Ruhmkorff coil
shading coil
spark coil
supercoil
telecoil
Tesla coil
tickler coil
upcoil
voice coil
coil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪl/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
ipa: /kwaɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: coils
form: coiling
form: coiled
form: coiled
Etymology: From Middle English coilen, from Old French coillir, cuillir (“to gather, pluck, pick, cull”) (modern French cueillir), from Latin colligō (“to gather together”), past participle collectus, from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”); compare legend. Doublet of cull.
Senses: examples: text: A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
glosses: To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
examples: text: The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
glosses: To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
examples: text: to coil a rope when not in use
text: The snake coiled itself before springing.
glosses: To wind cylindrically or spirally.
glosses: To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
examples: a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason
Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare
glosses: To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
Derived terms: coilability
coilable
coiler
coil up
intercoil
uncoil
coil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪl/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
ipa: /kwaɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: coils
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1738, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux, and John Ozell (translators), François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed […]
text: If the windes rage, doth not the Sea wax mad, / Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? / And wilt thou haue a reason for this coile?
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
text: this great Savage desired also to see him. A great coyle there was to set him forward.
ref: 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 162:
text: [T]hey continued ſo extremely fond of Gold, that if Peter ſent them abroad, though it were only upon a Complement; they would Roar, and Spit, and Belch, and Piſs, and Fart, and Snivle out Fire, and keep a perpetual Coyl, till you flung them a Bit of Gold; [...]
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IV”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, pages 99–100:
text: His liver demanded activity, namely, a quarrel, and what a coil this was!
ref: 1897, Stanley John Weyman, “King Pepin and Sweet Clive”, in For the Cause:
qualifier: now obsolete except in phrases
glosses: A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil.
Derived terms: mortal coil
coil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪl/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
ipa: /kwaɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Senses: glosses: A wad of cash.
incentive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/
rhymes: -ɛntɪv
Forms: form: incentives
Etymology: From Medieval Latin incentīvus (“that strikes up or sets the tune”), from incinō (“to strike up”), from in- (“in, on”) + canō (“to sing”). The formation appears to have been influenced by incendō (“to set on fire”).
Senses: examples: text: I have no incentive to do housework right now.
text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
examples: text: Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.
glosses: A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
Derived terms: counterincentive
eco-incentive
incent
incentify
incentiveless
incentively
incentivise
incentivize
misincentive
nonincentive
tax incentive
incentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/
rhymes: -ɛntɪv
Forms: form: more incentive
form: most incentive
Etymology: From Medieval Latin incentīvus (“that strikes up or sets the tune”), from incinō (“to strike up”), from in- (“in, on”) + canō (“to sing”). The formation appears to have been influenced by incendō (“to set on fire”).
Senses: examples: text: Competency is of all other proportions the most incentive to industry.
ref: 1667, attributed to Richard Allestree, The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. […], London: […] R. Norton for T. Garthwait, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
examples: text: Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, 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:
glosses: Serving to kindle or set on fire.
muzzle blast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muzzle blasts
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A flash of light, heat and smoke at the muzzle of a firearm, caused by escaping gases when a projectile is released.
muzzle brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muzzle brakes
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A device placed at the muzzle of a firearm to reduce the recoil energy by redirecting the escaping gases.
recoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
ipa: /ˈɹiːkɔɪl/
Forms: form: recoils
Etymology: From Old French reculer. Further from Latin re- + cūlus.
Senses: examples: text: the recoil of nature, or of the blood
glosses: A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
examples: text: The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
ref: 1850, Frederick William Robertson, second address delivered to the members of the Working Men's Institute, Brighton:
glosses: The state or condition of having recoiled.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
glosses: An escapement in which, after each beat, the scape-wheel recoils slightly.
Synonyms: topics: firearms
weaponry
military
tools
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
war
government
politics
word: kick
Derived terms: counterrecoil
recoil pad
recoil spring
recoil start
recoil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
ipa: /ˈɹiːkɔɪl/
Forms: form: recoils
form: recoiling
form: recoiled
form: recoiled
form: recoyle
Etymology: From Old French reculer. Further from Latin re- + cūlus.
Senses: examples: text: He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
glosses: To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
examples: text: that rude rout […] forced them, how ever strong and stout / They were, as well approv'd in many a doubt, / Backe to recule […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To recoil before an opponent.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Of a firearm: to quickly push back when fired.
examples: text: Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Thus vvhen this Courtly Gentleman vvith toyle / Himſelfe hath vvearied, he doth recoyle / Vnto his reſt, and there vvith ſvveete delight / Of Muſicks skill reuiues his toyled ſpright, […]
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, signature O2, verso:
text: Her will, recoiling to her better judgement
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: Evil on itself shall back recoil.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
text: Manners knovvs diſtance, and a man unrude / VVo'd ſoon recoile, and not intrude / His Stomach to a ſecond Meale.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “A Panegerick to Sir Lewis Pemberton”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 169:
text: The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible […] that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
ref: 1838, Thomas De Quincey, The Household Wreck:
glosses: To retire, withdraw.
trigamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪ.ɡə.mi/
Forms: form: trigamies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρίγαμος (trígamos), from τρία (tría, “three”) + γάμος (gámos, “marriage”). By surface analysis, tri- + -gamy.
Senses: glosses: The state of having three (legal or illegal) spouses simultaneously.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A third marriage.
Derived terms: trigamist
trigamous
Related terms: bigamy
tri-
faced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Etymology: From face + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of face
faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: more faced
form: most faced
Etymology: Abbreviation of shit-faced.
Senses: examples: text: That night was the first time I ever got faced.
glosses: drunk
millirem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millirems
Etymology: From milli- + rem.
Senses: glosses: One thousandth of a rem
Synonyms: mrem
matey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪti
Forms: form: matier
form: matiest
Etymology: From mate + -y.
Senses: examples: text: You've been very matey with that new bird.
text: She asked in what sort of accident I had broken my back, and when I told her that I had been shot down she became much more matey.
ref: 1948, Dennis Wheatley, The Haunting of Toby Jugg, published 2007, page 148:
text: We decided that it would be more matey to have communal meals, so all the guests and hosts foregathered at the hotel for lunches and dinners, and at every sitting there were about 40 of us, all in high spirits.
ref: 1995, Gwynneth Latham, Michael C. Latham, Kilimanjaro Tales: The Saga of a Medical Family in Africa, page 140:
text: 2002, Jon Latimer, Alamein, page 128,
he wrote: ‘They took a bit of getting used to. I was dressed as a general and they treated me in the most matey way, but despite this it was easy to see that there was nothing wrong with their battle discipline.’
text: His opening salvo, “If you didn′t care what happened to me, and I didn′t care for you,” gives way to a more matey mood at the end: “You know that I care what happens to you. And I know that you care for me.”
ref: 2002, Alan Di Perna, Guitar World, Guitar World Presents: Pink Floyd, page 29:
text: Adolphus Egerton Ryerson was his full name, but he insisted on being called Egerton Ryerson, under the mistaken conviction that this was much more matey than Adolphus.
ref: 2005, Donald H. Akenson, An Irish History of Civilization, volume 2, page 293:
glosses: Sociable or friendly.
Derived terms: mateyness
pally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpali/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: pallier
form: more pally
form: palliest
form: most pally
Etymology: From pal + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The O′Briens are the palliest of pals with the Prince of Wales and when HRH is in Biarritz he and Jay are inseparable.
ref: 1929, Basil Woon, From Deauville to Monte Carlo, page 157:
text: Words are the friendliest and palliest things I know.
ref: 1942, Seán O'Faoláin, Peadar O'Donnell, The Bell, volume 5, page 157:
text: […]he was a champion boozer and the palliest bloke in the pub.
ref: 1987, Alan Sillitoe, Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader, page 30:
text: 2006, Vidar Helgesen, Erik Solheim, The Straight Talkers, Harriet Martin (editor), Kofi Atta Annan (foreword), Kings of Peace, Pawns of War: The Untold Story of Peace-Making, page 112,
And with each round the two negotiating teams got more and more pally. ‘By the sixth round we were having Jacuzzis together!’
text: When there were Australian officers everyone was more pally and sociable which made it easier for the lady in charge to entertain the party.
ref: 2010, Donald Munro, Diaries of a Stretcher-Bearer 1916-1918, page 100:
text: The chap I′m most pally with is Fright who is nearly sixty now but still climbs like a youngster.
ref: 2011, David Rowley, Erections in the Far East, page 19:
glosses: Like a pal; friendly.
Derived terms: palliness
pally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpali/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: pallies
Etymology: From pal + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Sit here, pally.’ He pushed me down.
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 164:
text: Well, a lot of water has flown under the bridges since then, pally, and while I have been laying off lately, I′m still the same old Joey, which is more than I can say for that O′Hara creep.
ref: 1951, Cue: The Weekly Magazine of New York Life, page M-77:
text: Ahmed the Turk grinned. “You call this hot, chommy? Pally, we used to take slices off the heat, put them on our biscuits and make toast.”
ref: 1968, Alex La Guma, Tattoo Marks and Nails: A Walk in the Night: And Other Stories, page 95:
text: As the Giants moved West, most accepted Horace Stoneham′s apologia: “I can′t stay where I am, pally. If I don′t move the team I go bankrupt. Except for Chub [Feeney], all my relatives would starve.”
ref: 1993, Roger Kahn, The Era: 1947-1957, When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World, page 342:
glosses: An affectionate term of address.
examples: text: What do you think you are doing, pally?
glosses: A slightly derogatory and insulting term of address.
pally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpali/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: pallies
Etymology: Clipping of paladin + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: qualifier: fantasy roleplaying games
glosses: A paladin.
repressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: From repress + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repress
repressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more repressed
form: most repressed
Etymology: From repress + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Subjected to repression.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses.
Derived terms: repressed memory
repressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
ipa: /ɹiˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Etymology: From re- + pressed.
Senses: glosses: Pressed again.
benis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bē′-nĭs
ipa: /ˈbi.nɪs/
rhymes: -iːnɪs
Forms: form: benises
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of penis.
notturno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɒˈtʊə(ɹ)nəʊ/
Forms: form: notturnos
form: notturni
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian notturno (“nocturnal, nightly”), from Latin nocturnus, from noctū (“by night”), from nox (“night”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Doublet of nocturne.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A nocturne.
externalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: externalisms
Etymology: c. 1840 external + -ism
Senses: glosses: Excessive regard to outward acts or appearances, especially in religion.
glosses: The act of judging by outward appearance or acts.
glosses: The belief that only things that can be observed by senses are real.
Related terms: externalist
internalism
internalist
Nipponism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nipponisms
Etymology: From Nippon + -ism.
Senses: qualifier: generic
glosses: Anything of Japanese origin.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Japanese word or phrase used in English.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Japanese way of using English words.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The belief that Japan has a higher culture or wider territorial rights.
sixty-four
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: examples: text: As a consequence of the previous rules, each of the sixty-four squares is invariably indicated by a unique combination of a letter and a number.
ref: 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 21:
glosses: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-three and preceding sixty-five.
Synonyms: word: 64
word: LXIV
Derived terms: sixty-four dollar question
sixty-four thousand dollar question