cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈi.ɑn/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɑn/
ipa: /ˈiː.ən/
ipa: /ˈiː.ɒn/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.ɒn/
homophone: Ian
rhymes: -iːɒn
rhymes: (UK) -iːən
Forms: form: eons
form: aeon
form: æon
Etymology: From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).
Senses: glosses: Eternity, the duration of the universe.
glosses: An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
examples: text: It’s been eons since we last saw each other.
text: Traditionally, a luncheon is a lunch that takes an eon.
ref: 1990, Judith Martin, Miss Manners’ Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium (A Fireside Book), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 453:
glosses: A long period of time.
examples: text: We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
ref: 2012 January 24, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23:
topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A period of one billion (short scale, i.e. 1,000,000,000) years.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The longest geochronologic unit, being a period of hundreds of millions of years; subdivided into eras.
topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
Synonyms: word: aeon
word: age
word: ages
word: blue moon
word: coon's age
word: crow's age
word: dog's age
word: donkey's years
word: eld
word: eon
word: eternity
word: forever
word: forever and a day
word: interim
word: interlude
word: interval
word: lifetime
word: long haul
word: long run
word: meantime
word: minute
word: month of Sundays
word: spell
word: while
word: years
word: yonks
Hypernyms: word: period
word: uncertain period
Hyponyms: Archean eon
Hadean eon
Phanerozoic eon
Proterozoic eon
supereon
temporal æon
Derived terms: eonian
eonic
geon
light eon
Related terms: word: time immemorial
word: time out of mind
word: until one is blue in the face
word: until the cows come home
word: yottasecond
hyaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪəlɪn/
ipa: /ˈhaɪəliːn/
Forms: form: more hyaline
form: most hyaline
form: hyalin
Etymology: From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).
Senses: examples: text: And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […].
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 117:
text: They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.
ref: 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
glosses: Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
Derived terms: fibrohyaline
holohyaline
hyalescence
hyaline cartilage
hyaline degeneration
hyalinelike
hyaline membrane disease
hyalinize
hyalinocyte
hyalinosis
hypohyaline
semihyaline
subhyaline
hyaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪəlɪn/
ipa: /ˈhaɪəliːn/
Forms: form: hyalines
form: hyalin
Etymology: From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).
Senses: examples: text: The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, 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: Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Rhapsody of Life's Progress:
glosses: Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A clear translucent substance in tissues.
examples: text: where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked
ref: 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
aeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeons
form: æon
form: Aeon
form: Æon
form: aion
form: Aion
Etymology: From Latin aeon, from Ancient Greek αἰών (aiṓn, “age, era”).
Senses: examples: text: When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried,/ When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died,/ We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it -- lie down for an aeon or two,/Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew.
ref: 1892, Rudyard Kipling, When Earth's Last Picture is Painted (L’Envoi to 'The Seven Seas'):
glosses: Commonwealth standard spelling of eon.
topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
qualifier: Cosmology
glosses: Each universe in a series of universes, according to conformal cyclic cosmology.
Derived terms: light aeon
amyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæmɪlɔɪd/
Forms: form: amyloids
Etymology: From amyl + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A waxy compound of protein and polysaccharides that is found deposited in tissues in amyloidosis.
glosses: Any of various starchlike substances.
Derived terms: amyloid beta
amyloidogenesis
amyloidogenic
amyloidoma
amyloidopathy
amyloidophilic
amyloidosis
amyloidotropic
antiamyloid
preamyloid
proamyloid
amyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæmɪlɔɪd/
Forms: form: more amyloid
form: most amyloid
Etymology: From amyl + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Containing or resembling starch.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Applied to a mushroom that turns blue-black upon application of Melzer's reagent.
Derived terms: amyloidity
hemiamyloid
Related terms: dextrinoid
inamyloid
nonamyloid
pseudoamyloid
myxoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪksɔɪd/
Etymology: By surface analysis, myx(o)- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Myxoid liposarcoma (M-LPS) is the second most frequent subtype of liposarcoma. Foci of fat on MRI are strongly suggestive of this diagnosis. The aims of this study are to (i) assess the prevalence of perfectly homogeneous M-LPS-mimicking cyst and characterize their associated clinical and pathological features and to (ii) identify helpful clues to prevent misdiagnosis when encountered with a cyst-like lesion in soft tissue parts.
ref: 2018, Crombé A, Loarer FL, Alberti N, Buy X, Stoeckle E, Cousin S, Toulmonde M, Coindre JM, Italiano A, Kind M, “Homogeneous myxoid liposarcomas mimicking cysts on MRI: A challenging diagnosis”, in European Journal of Radiology, volume 102, →DOI, →PMID, pages 41–48:
glosses: Synonym of mucoid.
synonyms: word: mucoid
Derived terms: chondromyxoid
fibromyxoid
pilomyxoid
transgressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈɡɹɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more transgressive
form: most transgressive
Etymology: From transgress + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Involving transgression; that passes beyond some acceptable limit; sinful.
examples: text: 'P.S.' is the second movie in two weeks to use reincarnation as the excuse for transgressive sex.
ref: 2004, Roger Ebert, P.S. movie review:
text: Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars.
ref: 2022 November 21, Barney Ronay, “Iran’s brave and powerful gesture is a small wonder from a World Cup of woe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive.
transgressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈɡɹɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: transgressives
Etymology: From transgress + -ive.
Senses: glosses: A form of verb in some languages.
glosses: A person who transgresses or breaks social rules.
Related terms: adverbial participle
converb
barmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːmi/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹmi/
homophone: balmy (RP)
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mi
Forms: form: barmier
form: barmiest
Etymology: From barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, and used as leaven”) + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjectives). Barm is derived from Middle English berm, berme (“foam rising upon ale or beer fermenting; leaven, yeast; foam or head of beer produced by pouring”) [and other forms], from Old English beorma (“foam or head of beer; leaven, yeast”), from Proto-West Germanic *bermō (“barm; yeast”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”) or *gʷʰer- (“warm; hot”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […]
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signature L4, recto:
text: Their jovial Nights, in frollicks and in play / They paſs, to drive the tedious Hours avvay. / And their cold Stomachs vvith crovvn'd Goblets cheer, / Of vvindy Cider, and of barmy Beer.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 113, lines 582–585:
text: [H]e stood for a while on the quivering footbridge and watched the rush of dead wood and torn branches and wisps of straw all hurrying madly past him, to plunge into the heaped spume, the barmy froth that had gathered against a fallen tree.
ref: 1907, Arthur Machen [pseudonym; Arthur Llewellyn Jones], chapter I, in The Hill of Dreams, London: E. Grant Richards, →OCLC, page 2:
text: Here the yeast is added to convert the sugars to alcohol, also producing carbon dioxide. After about 24 hours the fermentation has created a thick head of barmy foam […]
ref: 1997, Margriet S. Westerterp-Plantenga, Anne Algers, Chris K. Leach, editors, Food in Europe: Food Production, Processing and Consumption (Food in Europe; 1), Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands: Open Universiteit Nederland, →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: Containing, covered with, or pertaining to barm (“foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread”).
examples: text: Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme, / My barmie noddle's working prime, […]
ref: 1786, Robert Burns, “To J. S****”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, volume I, Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock, Scotland: […] James M‘Kie, 1867, →OCLC, page 70:
glosses: Bubbling with activity or excitement; active, excited.
barmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːmi/
ipa: /ˈbɑɹmi/
homophone: balmy (RP)
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)mi
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian бармы (barmy).
Senses: glosses: plural of barma (“a regal Russian mantle or neckpiece made of gold, encrusted with diamonds and other gems”)
mandate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmændeɪt/
Forms: form: mandates
Etymology: First attested in 1521; borrowed from Latin mandātum (“a charge, order, command, commission, injunction”), substantivized from the neuter forms of mandātus, perfect passive participle of mandō (“to commit to one's charge, order, command, commission, literally to put into one's hands”) (see -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from manus (“hand”) + -dere (“to put”).
Sense 3 in Canadian English is likely a semantic loan from French mandat.
Senses: examples: text: Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison.
ref: 1830, Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional code: for the use all nations and all governments ..., volume 1, page 251:
text: Instead, May, more sheep than shepherd, has feebly allowed herself to be driven ever further towards an extreme, inflexible, take-it-or-leave-it stance for which she has neither mandate nor credible grounds.
ref: 2017 March 27, “The Observer view on triggering article 50”, in The Observer:
synonyms: compulsion
obligation
glosses: An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
examples: text: John Tyler and James K. Polk both regarded the election results as a mandate for the annexation of Texas.
ref: 2002, Leroy G. Dorsey, The Presidency and Rhetorical Leadership, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 30:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
examples: text: Throughout his last mandate, from 1980 to 1984, Mr. Trudeau insisted that we see ourselves solely as Canadians, that we set aside the historic compromises that underlie Canada as a federation.
ref: 2000 October 6, John Richards, “Pierre Elliott Trudeau: 1919-2000”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2019:
glosses: A period during which a government is in power.
glosses: An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
glosses: An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
Such a territory.
Derived terms: antimandate
dual mandate
mandate fraud
mandative
Related terms: command
commend
countermand
demand
remand
mandate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmændeɪt/
ipa: /mænˈdeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /ˈmændeɪt/
Forms: form: mandates
form: mandating
form: mandated
form: mandated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; partly directly borrowed from Latin mandātus (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more), partly from the above noun by metanalysis.
Senses: examples: text: A delegate conference was called, and garages invited to mandate their representatives to vote for or against continuance.
ref: 1958, The Spectator:
text: Last June Illinois passed a bill requiring the state to trace sexual partners, […] but mandating the department to preserve the confidentiality of reports.
ref: 1987, British Medical Journal:
glosses: To (officially) require someone to do something or act in a certain way, to give them the authority to do so; to command.
examples: text: Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues.
ref: 2009 March 7, Walecia Konrad, “Hanging On to Health Coverage, if the Job Goes Away”, in The New York Times:
text: As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday.
ref: 2021 August 15, Stephanie Elizalde, “Why I'm Mandating That Austin Schools Must Be Masked When Classes Start”, in Time:
text: The bill seeks to make IVF treatment more affordable by mandating coverage for fertility treatments under employer-sponsored insurance and certain public insurance plans.
ref: 2024 June 13, Clare Foran and Ted Barrett, “Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to IVF nationwide”, in CNN:
glosses: To make mandatory.
glosses: To administer or assign a territory to a nation under a mandate.
examples: text: After I have mandated my exercices.
ref: 1724, Robert Wodrow, Life of James Wodrow:
text: He [sc. Archbishop Secker] then proceeds to express his disapprobation of what is called Mandating of Sermons, or repeating them from memory. This custom prevails much among foreign Divines, and throughout the whole Church of Scotland.
ref: 1796, Charles Simeon, The Gospel Message:
text: He rose and walked his study, ‘mandating’ his opening sentences with appropriate gestures.
ref: 1893, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Stickitt Minister:
text: I had only from that evening at six till Sabbath to mandate my two discourses.
ref: 1951, Robert James Drummond, Lest We Forget:
topics: Christianity
glosses: To repeat, rehearse sermons or speeches aloud.
Derived terms: mandatary
mandatee
mandator
mandatory
mandate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmændeɪt/
ipa: /mænˈdeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /ˈmæn.deɪt/
ipa: /ˈmændeɪt/
ipa: /mænˈdeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: mandates
Etymology: From man + date.
Senses: examples: text: Moss: Oh, he's long gone, although Roy's got a mandate with him.
Roy: It is not a mandate. I am not a man-woman. We are not married. I am not your wife!
ref: 2007 September 7, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 3
glosses: Alternative form of man date: a date between two men.
mischievous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪs.t͡ʃɪ.vəs/
ipa: /ˈmɪs.t͡ʃə.vəs/
other: /mɪs.ˈt͡ʃiː.vi.əs/
other: /mɪs.ˈt͡ʃiː.vəs/
Forms: form: more mischievous
form: most mischievous
form: mischievious
form: mischevious
Etymology: From Middle English myschevous, mischevous, from Anglo-Norman meschevous, from Old French meschever, from mes- (“mis-”) + chever (“come to an end”) (from chef (“head”)). By surface analysis, mischief + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: ...; that good and bad actions at present are naturally rewarded and punished, not only as beneficial and mischievous to society, but also as virtuous and civious; ...
ref: 1793, Joseph Butler, The Analogy of Religion:
text: On the whole, therefore, he concludes that the point of indulgence at which these self-passions or self-affections begin to be mischievous to the individual coincides with that at which they begin to be mischievous to society; ...
ref: 1892, Henry Sidgwick, Outlines of the History of Ethics:
glosses: Causing mischief; injurious.
examples: text: Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved.
glosses: Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved, impish, naughty, disobedient; showing a fondness for causing trouble in a playful way and liking to have fun by playing harmless tricks on people or doing things they are not supposed to do.
Synonyms: sense: causing mischief
word: harmful
word: hurtful
word: detrimental
word: noxious
word: pernicious
word: destructive
word: harmful
sense: badly-behaved
word: badly-behaved
sense: badly-behaved
word: naughty
Derived terms: mischievously
mischievousness
nonmischievous
envious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕnʹvēəs
ipa: /ˈɛnviːəs/
Forms: form: more envious
form: most envious
Etymology: From Middle English envious, from Anglo-Norman envious, from Old French envieus, envious (modern French envieux), from Latin invidiōsus; more at envy. Doublet of invidious, borrowed directly from Latin. Displaced native Old English æfestiġ.
Senses: examples: text: an envious man, disposition, or attack; envious tongues
text: Fret not thy ſelfe becauſe of euill doers, neither bee thou enuious againſt the workers of iniquitie.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:1:
text: My soul is envious of mine eye.
ref: 1827, [John Keble], The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Feeling or exhibiting envy; jealously desiring the excellence or good fortune of another; maliciously grudging.
examples: text: for no man was ever so amorous, as to love a toad; none so envious, as to repine at the condition of the miserable
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Excessively careful; cautious.
examples: text: Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Malignant; mischievous; spiteful.
examples: text: He to him leapt, and that same envious gage / Of victors glory from him snatcht away.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39:
glosses: Inspiring envy.
Synonyms: sense: excessively cautious
word: overcautious
Derived terms: enviously
enviousness
nonenvious
unenvious
Related terms: jealous
spiteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiteful
form: spitefuller
form: most spiteful
form: spitefullest
form: spightful
form: spightfull
form: spitefull
Etymology: From Middle English spytefulle. By surface analysis, spite + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why
He did it all for you
ref: 2000, “Judith”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
synonyms: malignant
malicious
nasty
glosses: Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm.
ignorance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭg'nərəns
ipa: /ˈɪɡ.nə.ɹəns/
enpr: ĭg'nərəns
ipa: /ˈɪɡ.nɚ.əns/
Forms: form: ignorances
form: ignoraunce
Etymology: From Middle English ignoraunce, ignorance, from
From Old French ignorance, from Latin ignōrantia. By surface analysis, ignor(e) + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: She shows total ignorance about the topic at hand.
text: The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
ref: 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
text: There had been the whisky and Perrier in the morning but, in my ignorance of alcoholics then, I could not imagine one whisky harming anyone who was driving in an open car in the rain.
ref: 1964, Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:
synonyms: blindness
cluelessness
knowledgelessness
unawareness
unknowingness
unknowledge
glosses: The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Sins committed through ignorance.
glosses: Existential blindness.
Derived terms: argument from ignorance
ignorance is bliss
ignorant
ignorization
invincible ignorance
pluralistic ignorance
tools of ignorance
vincible ignorance
willful ignorance
bush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊʃ/
ipa: /bʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: bushes
form: bushing
form: bushed
form: bushed
Etymology: From Middle English bush, from Old English busċ, *bysċ (“copse, grove, scrub”, in placenames), from Proto-West Germanic *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow”). Doublet of bosque.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Busk (“bush”), West Frisian bosk (“forest”), Dutch bos, bosch (“forest, wood”), German Busch (“bush, shrub; small forest, grove”), Luxembourgish Bësch (“forest, wood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk busk (“bush, shrub”), Icelandic buski (“bush, shrub”), Swedish buske (“bush, shrub”), Persian بیشه (bêša/biše, “woods”). Latin and Romance forms (Latin boscus, Occitan bòsc, French bois, bûche and buisson, Italian bosco and boscaglia, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque) derive from the Germanic.
Compare typologically Russian за́росли (zárosli) (akin to расти́ (rastí)). Also compare Russian быльё (bylʹjó) (distantly cognate via *bʰuH-).
Senses: examples: text: Around it, and above, for ever green, / The bushing alders form'd a shady scene.
ref: 1726, Homer, “The Odyssey”, in Alexander Pope, transl., edited by Samuel Johnson, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., published 1839, page 404:
glosses: To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
examples: text: to bush peas
glosses: To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
examples: text: to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the ground
glosses: To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
examples: text: I can tell when my cat is upset because he’ll bush up his tail.
glosses: To become bushy (often used with up).
bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊʃ/
ipa: /bʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: bushes
Etymology: From the sign of a bush usually employed to indicate such places.
Senses: glosses: A tavern or wine merchant.
Derived terms: good wine needs no bush
bush
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊʃ/
ipa: /bʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Etymology: From older Dutch bosch (modern bos (“wood, forest”)), first appearing in the Dutch colonies to designate an uncleared district of a colony, and thence adopted in British colonies as bush. Could alternatively be interpreted as a semantic loan, as bush (etymology 1) is cognate to the aforementioned archaic Dutch bosch.
Senses: examples: text: On hatching, the chicks scramble to the surface and head bush on their own.
glosses: Towards the direction of the outback.
bush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊʃ/
ipa: /bʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: more bush
form: most bush
Etymology: Back-formation from bush league.
Senses: examples: text: They’re supposed to be a major league team, but so far they've been bush.
glosses: Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊʃ/
ipa: /bʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Etymology: Back-formation from bush league.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Amateurish behavior, short for bush league behavior
bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊʃ/
ipa: /bʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: bushes
Etymology: From Middle Dutch busse (“box; wheel bushing”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. More at box.
Senses: glosses: A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
glosses: A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
glosses: A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
Synonyms: sense: washer or cylinder
word: bushing
Related terms: reducing bush
bush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊʃ/
ipa: /bʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: bushes
form: bushing
form: bushed
form: bushed
Etymology: From Middle Dutch busse (“box; wheel bushing”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. More at box.
Senses: examples: text: to bush a pivot hole
glosses: To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
wander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒndə/
ipa: /ˈwɑndɚ/
note: West Midlands, especially Birmingham
ipa: /ˈwʊndə/
ipa: /ˈwʌndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wanders
form: wandering
form: wandered
form: wandered
Etymology: From Middle English wandren, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) + *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).
Senses: examples: text: to wander over the fields
text: They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 11:37:
text: “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: err
roam
glosses: To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
examples: text: A writer wanders from his subject.
text: O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms cxix:10:
glosses: To stray; stray from one's course; err.
synonyms: cheat
glosses: To commit adultery.
synonyms: drift
glosses: To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
synonyms: distract
scatter
glosses: Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
Derived terms: bewander
Brazilian wandering spider
forwander
inwander
miswander
wanderer
wandering spleen
wandering star
wandering whistling duck
wandering womb
wanderlust
wander off
wanderstar
wander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒndə/
ipa: /ˈwɑndɚ/
note: West Midlands, especially Birmingham
ipa: /ˈwʊndə/
ipa: /ˈwʌndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wanders
Etymology: From Middle English wandren, from Old English wandrian (“to wander, roam, fly around, hover; change; stray, err”), from Proto-West Germanic *wandarōn (“to wander”), from *wandōn (“to turn, change”) + *-rōn (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots wander (“to wander”), German wandern (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Dutch wandelen (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Danish vandre (“to wander, roam, hike, migrate”), Swedish vandra (“to wander, hike”).
Senses: examples: text: to go for a wander in the park
glosses: An act or instance of wandering.
examples: baseline wander in ECG signals
qualifier: signal or similar
glosses: Deviation from a correct or normal value.
raw_tags: of a value
adultery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdʌltəɹi/
Forms: form: adulteries
Etymology: With change of suffix, from the Old French adultere (“violation of conjugal faith”) (in Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons, 12c.), a learnèd borrowing from Latin adulterium, from adulterō. Replaced the older form avoutrie, from the inherited Old French forms avouterie or aoulterie, while keeping its suffix. Compare French adultère (“adultery”). Displaced Old English ǣwbryċe. Not related to adult.
Senses: examples: text: She engaged in adultery because her spouse has a low libido, while hers is very high.
text: So also that copulation which in one City is Matrimony, in another will be judged Adultery.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, De Cive:
text: Under modern statutory law, some courts hold that the unmarried participant isn't guilty of adultery (that only the married participant is)
ref: 2009, Garner's Modern American Usage, page 22:
text: Ironically, the detergent industry-sponsored "soap operas" that are central to modern afternoon television programming promise (mostly) female viewers both relief from drudgery and escape into the dramatic, crisis-filled on-air world of (laundryless) marriages, adulteries, and other relationships.
ref: 2011, Elizabeth Abbott, A History of Marriage:
qualifier: strictly
glosses: Sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. See more synonyms at Thesaurus:cuckoldry
examples: text: Thou shalt not commit adultery.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the sixth/seventh commandment; sinful sexual behavior as a category.
examples: text: And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 3:9:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Faithlessness in religion.
glosses: The fine and penalty formerly imposed for the offence of adultery.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The intrusion of a person into a bishopric during the life of the bishop.
qualifier: political economy
glosses: Adulteration; corruption.
examples: text: […] you might wrest the Caduceus out of my hand, to the adultery and spoil of Nature […]
ref: 1616, Ben Jonson, “Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists”, in Thomas Hodgkin, editor, The Works of Ben Jonson, published 1692, page 378:
glosses: Injury; degradation; ruin.
Synonyms: word: advowtry
Derived terms: adulterize
antiadultery
commit adultery
Related terms: adulter
adulterant
adulterate
adulteration
adulterator
adulterer
adulteress
adulterine
adulterise
adulterous
procrastinative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From procrastinate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Tending to procrastinate; supporting or suggesting procrastination.
grappa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɑpə/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæpə/
rhymes: -æpə
Forms: form: grappas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian grappa. Doublet of grape.
Senses: glosses: An Italian grape-based spirit of between 80 and 100 proof, made from the distillation of pomace.
examples: text: Wines, a few cocktails and grappas but no mixed drinks: 34 Downing Street (Bedford Street)
ref: 2007 February 14, Florence Fabricant, “Off the Menu”, in New York Times:
glosses: A variety or serving of grappa.
meat-space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meatspace.
meat space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meatspace.
homologate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈmɒləɡeɪt/
ipa: /həˈmɑləɡeɪt/
ipa: /hoʊˈmɑləɡeɪt/
Forms: form: homologates
form: homologating
form: homologated
form: homologated
Etymology: From Latin homologō + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To confirm, ratify or approve, especially officially or legally.
Derived terms: homologation
unhomologated
mastodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.tə.dɒn/
ipa: /ˈmæs.tə.dɑn/
ipa: /ˈmæs.tə.dən/
rhymes: -æstədɒn
Forms: form: mastodons
form: mastodont
Etymology: First attested 1813, from translingual Mastodon (1806), coined by French naturalist Georges Cuvier, from masto- (“breast”) + -odon (“tooth”), due to the mammilloid (“nipple-shaped”) projections on the crowns of the extinct mammal's molars.
Senses: examples: text: When, exactly, Europeans first stumbled upon the bones of an American mastodon is unclear. An isolated molar unearthed in a field in upstate New York was sent off to London in 1705; it was labeled the “tooth of a Giant”.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 2, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:
synonyms: incognitum
glosses: Extinct elephant-like mammal of the genus †Mammut that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differs from elephants and mammoths in the form of the molar teeth.
examples: text: The battery is dying, and Natalia's iPhone charger doesn't fit my mastodon of a phone anyway.
ref: 2017, Nina Laurin, Girl Last Seen:
text: Nor does it work for governance: the policy has become such a mastodon that we can't adapt it quickly enough to different regions or different circumstances.
ref: 2020, Finn Laursen, The Development of the EU as a Sea-Policy Actor:
glosses: Anything awkwardly large or unwieldy.
Derived terms: Mastodon
mastodonian
Mastodonian
mastodonic
mastodonlike
mastodontid
Related terms: amastia
glyptodon
gynecomastia
mastoid
mastos
orthodontist
periodontal
jewfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewfishes
form: jewfish
Etymology: For Australian fish such as Argyrosomus species, jewel and fish; see jewie. For New World species, from 17th century Jamaican English and refers to the kosher status of the Atlantic goliath grouper from at least 1697 onwards, likely as a derogatory term despite Jamaican Jews being treated better in the rule of the English than the Spanish rule.
Senses: glosses: Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Epinephelus itajara (Atlantic goliath grouper, spotted jewfish)
glosses: Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Johnius australis (bottlenose jewfish)
glosses: Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Lateolabrax japonicus (Japanese seabass)
glosses: Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Argyrosomus japonicus (silver jewfish, also known as the mulloway jewfish in eastern Australia)
glosses: Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Argyrosomus regius (meagre)
glosses: Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Tandanus tandanus (eel-tailed catfish, freshwater jewfish, dewfish)
glosses: Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Glaucosoma hebraicum (West Australian dhufish, Westralian jewfish, western jewfish)
glosses: Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Glaucosoma buergeri (Westralian jewfish)
glosses: Any of several fish species, principally groupers and similar-appearing fish
Stereolepis gigas (black jewfish, Pacific jewfish)
somatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmætɪk/
ipa: [səˈmæɾɪk]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σωματικός (sōmatikós, “bodily”), σῶμα (sôma, “body”).
Senses: examples: text: The somatic and botanical metaphors in this passage were commonplace in the 1700s.
ref: 2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 116:
glosses: Part of, or relating to the body of an organism.
examples: a somatic epitype
glosses: Pertaining, and restricted, to an individual; not inheritable.
examples: the somatic stalk of the yolk sac of an embryo
glosses: Of or relating to the wall of the body; somatopleuric; parietal.
Derived terms: axosomatic
cephalosomatic
dendritosomatic
dendrosomatic
endosomatic
exosomatic
extrasomatic
extra-somatic
gonadosomatic
hepatosomatic
intersomatic
intestosomatic
intrasomatic
leptosomatic
liposomatic
metasomatite
monosomatic
neurosomatic
nonsomatic
normosomatic
organosomatic
orthosomatic
polysomatic
psychosomatic
sociosomatic
somaesthetics
somatical
somatically
somatic cell
somaticism
somaticize
somatic nervous system
somatic sensory cortex
somatic symptom disorder
somatize
splenosomatic
telesomatic
tubulosomatic
viscerosomatic
Related terms: somatoplasm
Buckinghamshire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌk.ɪŋ.əm.ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Bucks
form: Bucks.
form: Bck.
Etymology: From Old English Buccingahāmsċīr (“district of Bucca's home”), from Buccingahām + sċīr, first element from Bucca (see bucca (“he-goat”)) + -inga + ham. By surface analysis, Buckingham + -shire.
Senses: glosses: An inland county of England bounded by Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Greater London, Berkshire and Oxfordshire.
glosses: Buckinghamshire Council, a local government unitary authority which replaced the county council in 2020 in all of Buckinghamshire except Milton Keynes.
lowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɹɪŋ/
enpr: lōʹərĭng
Etymology: c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.
Senses: examples: text: Ahead of us the lowering smoke-screen of Leeds and her gloomy satellites hung like an incubus over the land.
ref: 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
glosses: present participle and gerund of lower
lowering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɹɪŋ/
enpr: lōʹərĭng
Forms: form: lowerings
Etymology: c. 1600, "descend, sink, grow less or lower" (intransitive), from lower (adj.), comparative of low (adj.). Transitive meaning "let down, cause to descend" attested from 1650s. Related: Lowered; lowering. In the transitive sense "to cause to descend" the older verb was low. From Middle English lahghenn, (c. 1200), which continued in use into the 18c.
Senses: examples: text: Speeds up to 90 m.p.h. were permitted and achieved on the regular daily main line services, but as the pressure of external demands imposed on the railways by the needs of war increased it became necessary to accept handicaps which resulted in a general lowering of standards of track conditions.
ref: 1953 September, “Restoring British Permanent Way to Prewar Standards”, in Railway Magazine, page 584:
glosses: The act of something being lowered.
lowering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɹɪŋ/
enpr: lōʹərĭng
ipa: /ˈlaʊərɪŋ/
enpr: lō′əring
ipa: /ˈlaʊərɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈləʊ.ə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊ.ɹɪŋ/
enpr: lōʹərĭng
Forms: form: lowerings
form: louring
Etymology: From Middle English louryng, louringe, lowrynge, later variant of lourand, lowrand, lourande, lowrande, equivalent to lour + -ing. Cognate with Dutch loerend (“lurking, louring”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of louring.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from the noun "lowering"
word: louringly
sense: terms derived from the noun "lowering"
word: loweringly
kingfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kingfishes
form: kingfish
Etymology: From king + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.
glosses: Other Atlantic fish
opah (Lampris guttatus), of the United Kingdom
glosses: Other Atlantic fish
white croaker (Genyonemus lineatus), of the United Kingdom
glosses: Other Atlantic fish
wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), of Barbados
glosses: Other Atlantic fish
king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)
glosses: Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) of Australia
glosses: Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
Japanese meagre (Argyrosomus japonicus) of Australia
glosses: Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi) of Australia and New Zealand
glosses: Any of several similar fishes of the Pacific.
silver gemfish (Rexea solandri) of Australia
glosses: Fish of genus Caranx
crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) of Mauritania
glosses: Fish of genus Caranx
giant trevally or travelli (Caranx ignobilis) of South Africa
glosses: Cobia (Rachycentron canadum), of warm waters globally.
Related terms: yellowtail
noise power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noise powers
Senses: glosses: The power of the noise in a signal.
continental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑntɪˈnɛntl̩/
ipa: /ˌkɒntɪˈnɛntl̩/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: continentals
form: Continental
Etymology: From continent + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Reflecting on his long career chronicling scientists, J. G. Crowther wondered why it was that in the grand debates over the nature of light, x-rays, and cathode rays, the British opted for particles and the continentals for waves.
ref: 2012, Marjorie Senechal, I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science:
glosses: Someone from the continent.
glosses: A member of the Continental army.
glosses: Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war.
examples: text: not worth a continental
text: I don't care a continental!
glosses: The smallest amount; a whit; a jot.
ERNIE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism of electronic random number indicator equipment.
Senses: glosses: The machine that draws random premium bond numbers in the United Kingdom.
Ernie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɝni/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni
homophone: Earnie
homophone: ERNIE
homophone: yrneh
Etymology: From Ernest + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: “People have biases towards species that are glamorous,” said Dr. Ernie Small, author of the study and taxonomist for Agriculture Canada.
ref: 2012 May 6, Eoghan Macguire, “Beauty trumps beast in conservation efforts”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Ernest.
inertia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɜː.ʃə/
ipa: /ɪˈnɜː.ʃə/
ipa: /ɪnˈɝ.ʃə/
ipa: /ɪˈnɝ.ʃə/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃə
Forms: form: inertias
form: inertiae
form: inertiæ
Etymology: From Latin inertia (“lack of art or skill, inactivity, indolence”), from iners (“unskilled, inactive”), from in- (“without, not”) + ars (“skill, art”). The modern physics sense was first used in New Latin by Johannes Kepler.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property of a body that resists any change to its uniform motion; equivalent to its mass.
examples: text: Men […] have immense irresolution and inertia.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter II, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book IV (Terror):
text: Not all the surviving veteran chiefs would actually fight. Some remained nominally in the resistance but in practice delayed at their bases, pretexting a lack of ammunition for their uncertain inertia.
ref: 1970 August 12 [1969 January 15], John Womack, Jr., Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 261:
text: City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent, and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.
ref: 2014 March 9, Jacob Steinberg, “Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a person, unwillingness to take action.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Lack of activity; sluggishness; said especially of the uterus, when, in labour, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.
Synonyms: sense: unwillingness to take action
word: idleness
sense: unwillingness to take action
word: laziness
sense: unwillingness to take action
word: sloth
sense: unwillingness to take action
word: slothfulness
Derived terms: bureaucratic inertia
center of inertia
centre of inertia
entreprenertia
inertial
inertialess
inertia selling
inertia time
inertia welding
microinertia
moment of inertia
practico-inertia
uterine inertia
Related terms: inert
inertness
pooched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Made unusable; broken; buggered.
pooched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pooch