cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sincere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnˈsɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /sɪnˈsɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more sincere
form: sincerer
form: most sincere
form: sincerest
Etymology: From Middle French sincere, from Latin sincerus (“genuine”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together”) (whence English sam) + *ḱer- (“grow”) (whence Latin Ceres, the goddess of harvest, etymon of cereal).
Not from sine (“without”) + cera (“wax”), a folk etymology; see Wikipedia page.
Senses: examples: text: I believe he is sincere in his offer to help.
text: Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 19:
text: My sincerest apologies to Brother Ron Smith in the December ish.
ref: 1967 June, Drake Maynard, If, volume 17, number 6, page 160:
text: If you choose to pull the trigger, should your drama prove sincere
Do it somewhere far away from here
ref: 2003, “The Outsider”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
glosses: Genuine; meaning what one says or does; heartfelt.
examples: text: She gave it a sincere if misguided effort.
text: The message that through sincere teshuvah and resolution, light and gladness can be achieved by all, is most fitting for the opening of the Yom Kippur service.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 161:
glosses: Meant truly or earnestly.
glosses: clean; pure
Synonyms: earnest
Related terms: cereal
Ceres
crescent
sincerity
sincereness
lenient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːni.ənt/
Forms: form: more lenient
form: most lenient
Etymology: From Middle French lénient, from Latin lēniēns, present participle of lēnīre (“to soften, soothe”), from lēnis (“soft”).
Senses: examples: text: The standard is fairly lenient, so use your discretion.
text: But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation.
Synonyms: lax
permissive
forgiving
Derived terms: leniently
overlenient
superlenient
ultralenient
unlenient
Related terms: lenience
leniency
lenity
lenient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːni.ənt/
Forms: form: lenients
Etymology: From Middle French lénient, from Latin lēniēns, present participle of lēnīre (“to soften, soothe”), from lēnis (“soft”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lenitive; an emollient.
patent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪtənt/
ipa: /ˈpætənt/
enpr: pătʹənt
enpr: pātʹənt
ipa: /ˈpætənt/
ipa: [ˈpʰæ̝ʔn̩t̚]
ipa: /ˈpeɪtənt/
ipa: [ˈpʰe̞ɪʔn̩t̚]
ipa: /ˈpæɪtənt/
ipa: /ˈpætənt/
rhymes: -eɪtənt
rhymes: -ætənt
other: /peɪ-/
other: /pæ-/
other: /pæ-/
other: /peɪ-/
Forms: form: patents
form: patenting
form: patented
form: patented
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English patent (“document granting an office, property, right, title, etc.; document granting permission, licence; papal indulgence, pardon”) [and other forms], which is either:
* a clipping of lettre patent, lettres patente, lettres patentes [and other forms]; or
* directly from Anglo-Norman and Middle French patente (modern French patent), a clipping of Anglo-Norman lettres patentes, Middle French lettres patentes, lettre patente, and Old French patentes lettres (“document granting an office, privilege, right, etc., or making a decree”) (compare Late Latin patēns, littera patēns, litterae patentēs).
For the derivation of Anglo-Norman and Middle French patente (adjective) in lettre patente, see etymology 2 below.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: To his great credit, Manson refused to patent his invention, as he desired to remove any obstacle to its adoption by other companies.
ref: 1946 November and December, “The Why and The Wherefore: Tablet Exchange Apparatus, L.M.S.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 392:
text: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
ref: 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US Rules Human Genes Can’t be Patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:
topics: law
glosses: To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.
topics: law
glosses: To obtain (over a piece of real property) a specific grant of ownership.
glosses: To be closely associated or identified with (something); to monopolize.
Derived terms: word: nonpatentability
word: nonpatentable
word: nonpatented
word: patentability
word: patentable
word: patentably
word: patented
word: patenting
word: repatent
word: unpatentability
word: unpatentable
word: unpatented
lax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: lacs
homophone: lacks
homophone: lakhs (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: laxes
form: lacks
form: lacks
Etymology: From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”), from Proto-West Germanic *lahs (“salmon”), from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lacks, lachs, lasche (“salmon”), Middle Low German las (“salmon”), German Lachs (“salmon”), Norwegian laks (“salmon”), Danish laks (“salmon”), Swedish lax (“salmon”), Icelandic lax (“salmon”), Lithuanian lašišà (“salmon”), Latvian lasis, Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ, “salmon”), Albanian leshterik (“eel-grass”). Doublet of lox.
Senses: glosses: A salmon.
Derived terms: laxfisher
Related terms: gravlax
lox
lax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: lacs
homophone: lacks
homophone: lakhs (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: lacks
Etymology: By replacement of the syllable crosse with the cross-shaped letter x.
Senses: examples: text: “I'm not playing lax this term,” Mimah said.
ref: 2010, Kate Kingsley, Pretty on the Outside, page 79:
glosses: lacrosse.
Derived terms: lax bro
lax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læks/
rhymes: -æks
homophone: lacs
homophone: lacks
homophone: lakhs (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: laxes
form: lacks
form: lacks
Senses: glosses: Clipping of laxative.
Related terms: ex-lax fish
tolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒləɹənt/
ipa: /ˈtɑːləɹənt/
Forms: form: more tolerant
form: most tolerant
Etymology: From Old French tolerant, from Latin tolerans, present participle of tolerō (“endure”).
Senses: examples: text: He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.
glosses: Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.
examples: text: These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.
glosses: Tending to withstand or survive.
Hyponyms: acidotolerant
aerotolerant
alkalitolerant
alkalotolerant
autotolerant
barotolerant
chaotolerant
cryotolerant
drought-tolerant
eurytolerant
extremotolerant
fault-tolerant
halotolerant
hypertolerant
immunotolerant
metallotolerant
metalotolerant
nontolerant
normoglucotolerant
normotolerant
osmotolerant
piezotolerant
polyextremotolerant
psychrotolerant
radiotolerant
thermotolerant
trypanotolerant
xerotolerant
Derived terms: tolerantism
tolerantist
tolerantly
Related terms: tolerability
tolerable
tolerance
tolerate
toleration
tolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒləɹənt/
ipa: /ˈtɑːləɹənt/
Forms: form: tolerants
Etymology: From Old French tolerant, from Latin tolerans, present participle of tolerō (“endure”).
Senses: glosses: One who or that which tolerates something, especially a biological species.
written in stone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of set in stone.
synonyms: word: set in stone
Related terms: pen in
pencil in
androgynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈdɹɒd͡ʒ.ɪn.əs/
ipa: /ænˈdɹɑd͡ʒ.ən.əs/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪnəs
Forms: form: more androgynous
form: most androgynous
form: androgenous
Etymology: From Latin androgynus (“man-woman, hermaphrodite”), from Ancient Greek ἀνδρόγῠνος (andrógŭnos), from ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”) + γῠνή (gŭnḗ, “woman”) + -ος (-os, “-ous”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to andro- + gyno- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Possessing the sex organs of both sexes.
examples: text: Nicknames like Pat, Sam, and Chris are androgynous, used by both men and women.
text: And I was taught that to be an actress, one should be fashionable, and to be fashionable is to be androgynous. And I am androgynous not less than David Bowie himself.
ref: 1982, Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Liquid Sky, spoken by Margaret (Anne Carlisle):
text: My name is androgynous, in pronunciation at least – Lauren sounds like the more masculine Loren.
ref: 1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 199:
text: All the men call me Kim. Suitably androgynous, I suppose. But all the sisters in Bugis St call me by my initials KC.
ref: 2001 [1992], Russell Heng, Lest the Demons Get to Me, revised version January 2001, via National Library Board Singapore, Act 1, page 4:
glosses: Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.
examples: text: The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous.
ref: 1832 September 1, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Great Minds Androgynous—Philosopher’s Ordinary Language”, in H[enry] N[elson] C[oleridge], editor, Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 96:
text: The androgynous creative deity was best supplicated or propitiated by offerings concerned with the pleasures of the flesh. In such circumstances, to the worshipper as to the god, licentiousness was not a sin: on the contrary, it was a duty.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page xi:
glosses: Possessing qualities of both sexes.
examples: text: APAS is an androgynous docking system, so – in principle, at least – any APAS-equipped vehicle should be able to hook up with any other, without having to worry about matching male with female ports.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a connector or docking port, able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting to solely male or solely female connectors or ports.
Synonyms: word: epicene
word: unisex
word: hermaphrodite
Derived terms: androgynity
androgynously
androgynousness
nonandrogynous
polyandrogynous
Related terms: androgyne
androgyny
genderqueer
gender bender
hermaphroditic
intersex
monogendered
shehe
terry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕ'rē
ipa: /ˈtɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: terries
Etymology: Of uncertain origin, possibly French tiré (“drawn out”), past participle of tirer (“to draw out”).
Senses: glosses: A type of coarse cotton fabric covered in many small raised loops that is used to make towels, bathrobes and some types of nappy/diaper.
synonyms: terry diaper
terry nappy
glosses: Any makeshift cloth nappy folded from a large piece of absorbent fabric and held in place by a nappy pin or nappy fastener; a flat nappy.
Synonyms: terrycloth
terry cloth
Derived terms: French terry
terry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕ'rē
ipa: /ˈtɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: terries
Etymology: Contraction of terrorist.
Senses: glosses: A terrorist
Terri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name; a spelling variant of Terry, diminutive of Teresa.
go out on a limb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes out on a limb
form: going out on a limb
form: went out on a limb
form: gone out on a limb
Senses: examples: text: He doesn't want to go out on a limb, but he really should give it a try.
text: Consenting Adult is probably worth watching, if only because it's not every day a TV movie is made about gay people. But don't expect too much. As long as groups like the Moral Majority have power, I doubt TV will be going out on much of a limb for us.
ref: 1985 February 9, Sally Jordan, “Consenting Adult (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 15:
glosses: To take a risk.
examples: text: I’m going to go out on a limb here. You’re together?
text: We all see the way you stare at Kessia. From the way you two talk, it sounds like you knew each other on Kadara. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you came here for her.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Just go for it:
glosses: To hazard a guess.
Related terms: out on a limb
out on a limb
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: In reference to the risks of climbing out on the branch or limb of a tree.
Senses: examples: text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:out on a limb.
text: Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:
glosses: In a risky, precarious, daring, or uncompromising position, especially one outside of the mainstream; vulnerable.
raw_tags: with the verb go
Derived terms: go out on a limb
Related terms: stick one's neck out
archives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archive
archives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The library archives some of its older books.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of archive
see eye to eye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees eye to eye
form: seeing eye to eye
form: saw eye to eye
form: seen eye to eye
form: see eye-to-eye
Senses: examples: text: But the friend merely spoke of his friend; and since no two people in the world see eye to eye, the picture conveyed to Collinson was inaccurate.
ref: 1899 May, Rudyard Kipling, “The Flag of Their Country”, in Stalky & Co., London: Macmillan & Co., published 1899, →OCLC, page 206:
text: In the course of their professional career they did not often hear their superior make many suggestions with which they saw eye to eye, but he had certainly, in their opinion, spoken a mouthful now.
ref: 1920 March – 1921 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Bomb”, in Indiscretions of Archie, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published 1921, →OCLC, page 52:
text: Plainly, the Government and Dr. Beeching have not seen eye to eye, to say the least, on railway wages.
ref: 1962 March, “Talking of Trains: The not-so-free hand”, in Modern Railways, page 147:
text: Furthermore, Silverstein and Pataki never completely saw eye to eye on the master plan, disagreeing on such issues as the choice of architect.
ref: 2006 March 30, Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, “What's Behind the Ground Zero Stalemate”, in Time:
text: And he enjoys conversations with regulators despite not always seeing eye to eye with them, according to another person close to him.
ref: 2024 July 13, Laura Onita, Eleanor Olcott, “Shein's master of reinvention treads tricky path to IPO”, in FT Weekend, page 11:
glosses: To agree, especially in every respect; to concur; to get along.
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: beg to differ
on the same wavelength
get along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets along
form: getting along
form: got along
form: got along
form: gotten along
Senses: examples: text: I wish the kids would get along better.
text: She never did get along with her brother.
glosses: To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble.
raw_tags: followed by with
examples: text: She didn’t have a lot of money, but she had enough to get along.
glosses: To survive; to do well enough.
examples: text: Driver, get along there.
glosses: To go; to move; to leave. Also, git along.
Derived terms: get along with you
go along to get along
how are you getting along
Related terms: hit it off
git along
contemporaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/
ipa: /ˌkɒntɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/
ipa: /kənˌtɛmpəˈɹeɪni.əsli/
Etymology: From contemporaneous + -ly, from Latin contemporāneus, from co- (“together”) + tempus (“time”).
Senses: glosses: In the same period of time.
Synonyms: cotemporally
Related terms: contemporaneous
put the cart before the horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the cart before the horse
form: putting the cart before the horse
form: put the cart before the horse
form: put the cart before the horse
Senses: examples: text: The hour had struck; and with it, as always, appeared the man. So it has ever been in the history of the world; though we, with characteristic vanity, uniformly put the cart before the horse, and declare that it is the man that brings the hour.
ref: 1898, Julian Hawthorne, chapter 1, in The History of the United States:
text: To attempt to remove the armaments before removing these substantive conflicts of interest is to put the cart before the horse.
ref: 1957 December 2, “Corruption of the Mind”, in Time:
text: Saying, as some people do, "If I could get these other problems straightened out, then the drinking would take care of itself" is putting the cart before the horse. You can't deal with emotions like love and hate and rage when you're numbing yourself with chemicals.
ref: 1979 December 8, Dick Bowring, quoting Elizabeth Hjeltness, “HATS Helps Gay Alcoholics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 11:
text: Mr. Schumer said that the idea of agreeing to a date for a vote before the committee had held hearings was "to put the cart before horse."
ref: 2005 July 27, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Timing of Hearings and Vote Stalls Confirmation Talks”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Nov 2008:
glosses: To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities; to put something inconsequential as more important than something more essential.
Related terms: ass-backwards
hysteron proteron
jump the gun
tail wagging the dog
through the wrong end of the telescope
cringe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: cringes
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English crengen (“to bend in a haughty manner; to condescend”) [and other forms], from Old English *crenċan, *crenċġan, *crenġan (“to cause to fall or turn”), the causative of crinċġan (“to yield; to cringe; to fall; to die, perish”), from Proto-Germanic *krangijaną (“to cause to fall; to cause to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną, *krinkaną (“to fall; to turn; to yield”) (from Proto-Indo-European *grenǵʰ- (“to turn”)) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives with the sense ‘to cause to do (the action of the verb)’ from strong verbs). The English word is cognate with Danish krænge (“to turn inside out, evert”), Dutch krengen (“to careen, veer”) and Dutch kring (“circle”), Scots crenge, creenge, creinge, crienge (“to cringe; to shrug”), Swedish kränga (“to careen; to heel, lurch; to toss”), and West Frisian kringe (“to pinch; to poke; to push; to insist, urge”); and is a doublet of crinkle.
The noun and adjective are derived from the verb via zero derivation.
Senses: examples: text: He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk.
glosses: A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).
glosses: An act or disposition of servile obeisance.
glosses: A crick (“painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body”).
examples: text: Bro... you just posted cringe
text: There was so much cringe in that episode!
text: Los Angeles-based writer K. Allado-McDowell's new novel, Amor Cringe, is a love letter to cringe maximalism.
ref: 2022 May 24, “A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:
text: Soon, there were Instagram compilation accounts dedicated to collecting the worst cringe, with a focus on cringe created by not-quite-random people who were performing, and failing, for thousands of their peers on TikTok.
ref: 2022 January 15, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How Did We Get So 'Cringe'?”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2023:
text: Many young people are also reevaluating what once constituted cringe, attributing use of the term to unacknowledged bigotry more than just a rejection of sincerity. Some niche communities, such as furries, anime fans, and fetish groups, who were once mocked on social media, have since amassed cultural power that has launched them into the mainstream.
ref: 2023 April 23, Taylor Lorenz, “'Am I Cringey? Yes. Do I Care? Absolutely Not'”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
glosses: Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from secondhand embarrassment.
cringe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: more cringe
form: most cringe
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English crengen (“to bend in a haughty manner; to condescend”) [and other forms], from Old English *crenċan, *crenċġan, *crenġan (“to cause to fall or turn”), the causative of crinċġan (“to yield; to cringe; to fall; to die, perish”), from Proto-Germanic *krangijaną (“to cause to fall; to cause to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną, *krinkaną (“to fall; to turn; to yield”) (from Proto-Indo-European *grenǵʰ- (“to turn”)) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives with the sense ‘to cause to do (the action of the verb)’ from strong verbs). The English word is cognate with Danish krænge (“to turn inside out, evert”), Dutch krengen (“to careen, veer”) and Dutch kring (“circle”), Scots crenge, creenge, creinge, crienge (“to cringe; to shrug”), Swedish kränga (“to careen; to heel, lurch; to toss”), and West Frisian kringe (“to pinch; to poke; to push; to insist, urge”); and is a doublet of crinkle.
The noun and adjective are derived from the verb via zero derivation.
Senses: examples: text: Brands trying to appeal to young people with memes is the most cringe thing ever.
text: Last week, while giving a commencement speech to New York University graduates, pop star Taylor Swift offered a timely bit of advice: “No matter how hard you try to avoid being cringe, you will look back on your life and cringe retrospectively. Cringe is unavoidable over a lifetime.”
ref: 2022 May 24, Kate Knibbs, quoting Taylor Swift, “A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read”, in Wired, →ISSN:
text: No matter which side you stand on within a relationship, most people agree that couples participating in baby talk publicly is cringe to say the least.
ref: 2022 July 5, Darshita Goyal, “What's The Deal With Baby Talk In Relationships?”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2023:
text: Instagram may not be on its deathbed, but its transformation from cool to cringe is a sea change in the social-media universe.
ref: 2022 November 30, Kate Lindsay, “Instagram Is Over”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2023:
text: We may have to face the fact that the current state of AI art is cringe because we're cringe. Really, we're no better than the unimaginative and self-obsessed people from the history books that commissioned bad portraiture.
ref: 2023 January 20, Laura Pitcher, “Why Is AI Art So Cringe?”, in VICE, archived from the original on 02 May 2023:
glosses: Synonym of cringeworthy or uncool, inducing awkwardness or secondhand embarrassment.
synonyms: word: cringeworthy or uncool
word: inducing awkwardness or secondhand embarrassment
cringe
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English crengen (“to bend in a haughty manner; to condescend”) [and other forms], from Old English *crenċan, *crenċġan, *crenġan (“to cause to fall or turn”), the causative of crinċġan (“to yield; to cringe; to fall; to die, perish”), from Proto-Germanic *krangijaną (“to cause to fall; to cause to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną, *krinkaną (“to fall; to turn; to yield”) (from Proto-Indo-European *grenǵʰ- (“to turn”)) + *-janą (suffix forming causatives with the sense ‘to cause to do (the action of the verb)’ from strong verbs). The English word is cognate with Danish krænge (“to turn inside out, evert”), Dutch krengen (“to careen, veer”) and Dutch kring (“circle”), Scots crenge, creenge, creinge, crienge (“to cringe; to shrug”), Swedish kränga (“to careen; to heel, lurch; to toss”), and West Frisian kringe (“to pinch; to poke; to push; to insist, urge”); and is a doublet of crinkle.
The noun and adjective are derived from the verb via zero derivation.
Senses: glosses: Stated in response to something cringeworthy.
retsina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛtˈsiːnə/
Forms: form: retsinas
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek ρετσίνα (retsína), from Byzantine Greek ῥετσίνα (rhetsína), from Italian resina (“resin”). Doublet of resin.
Senses: examples: text: She serves the smooth retsina / She keeps me safe and warm / It's just the calm before the storm
ref: 1977, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, “Home at Last”, in Aja, performed by Steely Dan:
glosses: A Greek resinated white or rosé wine of a sort that has been produced for at least 2700 years.
Derived terms: retsina wine
first language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first languages
Etymology: From first + language.
Senses: examples: text: She was born and raised in France, although her first language is Portuguese because her parents are from Brazil.
text: Vocabulary is a vital component of educational success in both first and second language contexts.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 105:
synonyms: native language
mother tongue
mother language
glosses: The first language one is taught to speak; one's native language.
glosses: The language one feels most comfortable and capable with.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, language.
Related terms: mother tongue
second language
transcriber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcribers
Etymology: From transcribe + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who transcribes; a transcriptionist.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device or program that transcribes data.
Related terms: transcribe
transcription
IBMR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of image-based modelling and rendering.
lymphosarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphosarcomas
form: lymphosarcomata
Etymology: From lympho- + sarcoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A diffuse malignant lymphoma.
philosopher king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosopher kings
form: philosopher-king
Etymology: The concept comes from Plato's Republic (circa 375 BCE), which considers the ideal rulers of a city state.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A hypothetical ideal ruler, trained in philosophy, who has a full understanding of the Platonic ideal of the Form of the Good, and uses this for the benefit of the state.
examples: text: He flies much about from place to place; now at Potsdam, now at Berlin, at Charlottenburg, Reinsberg; nothing loath to run whither business calls him, and appear in public: the gazetteer world, as we noticed, which has been hitherto a most mute world, breaks out here and there into a kind of husky jubilation over the great things he is daily doing, and rejoices in the prospect of having a Philosopher King;[…]
ref: 1862, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XI, page 6:
text: […] what has been said about the State and the government is not a mere dream[…] that is to say, when the true philosopher kings are born in a State, one or more of them, despising the honours of this present world which they deem mean and worthless, […]
ref: 1871, Benjamin Jowett, transl., Republic, translation of Πολιτεία by Plato:
text: But if the President was not the philosopher-king, what was he? After all he was a man who had spent much of his life at a University.
ref: 1919, John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace:
text: This philosopher king contrasts sharply with the cruel tyrant, who plays a memorable role in other parts of the Histories.
ref: 1987, Stewart Flory, The Archaic Smile of Herodotus:
glosses: A very wise ruler.
monosyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: other: /ˌmɔ.nəʉ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)sɪˈlabɪk/
other: /ˌmɑ.noʊ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
rhymes: -æbɪk
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin monosyllabicus, from Latin monosyllabus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μονοσύλλαβος (monosúllabos). By surface analysis, monosyllable + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of one syllable.
glosses: Using monosyllables, speaking in monosyllables; curt.
Derived terms: monosyllabically
nonmonosyllabic
monosyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /ˌmɔ.nəʉ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)sɪˈlabɪk/
other: /ˌmɑ.noʊ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
rhymes: -æbɪk
Forms: form: monosyllabics
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin monosyllabicus, from Latin monosyllabus, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek μονοσύλλαβος (monosúllabos). By surface analysis, monosyllable + -ic.
Senses: glosses: a word consisting of one syllable
monosyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monosyllables
Etymology: From mono- + syllable.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:monosyllable.
glosses: A word of one syllable.
glosses: A euphemism for the word cunt
Coordinate terms: duosyllable
trisyllable
tetrasyllable
pentasyllable
sexisyllable
heptasyllable
octosyllable
enneasyllable
decasyllable
endecasyllable
dodecasyllable
polysyllable
Derived terms: hypermonosyllable
monosyllabled
Related terms: monosyllabic
unenviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenviable
form: most unenviable
Etymology: From un- + enviable.
Senses: examples: text: Valjean was in the unenviable position of either living with the knowledge an innocent would suffer for his crime or revealing his true identity and going back to prison.
text: There might be a 'train captain' on board, as on the Docklands Light Railway, but this would be an unenviable role on our packed Tube: the train captain would be condemned to live in a permanent rush hour.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277:
glosses: Difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.
Derived terms: unenviability
unenviableness
unenviably
enviable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.vi.ə.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈɛn.vɪ.ə.b(ə)l/
Forms: form: more enviable
form: most enviable
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French enviebor.
Middle English envie
English envy
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English enviable
From envy + -able (suffix meaning ‘able or fit to be done’ forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: Sundrie other Gent[lemen] reſt beholden to this hundred, for their dvvellings, vvho, in an enuiable mediocritie of fortune, do happilie poſſeſſe themſelues, and communicate their ſufficient means to the ſeruice of their prince, the good of their neighbours, and the bettering of their ovvn eſtate: […]
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, “The Second Booke”, in The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC, folio 117, verso:
text: In the course I have taken, I have met, and do daily meet, so many vexations, that I may with truth assure you, that my situation is anything rather than enviable, though it is my happiness to act with those that are far the best that probably ever were engaged in the public service of this country at any time.
ref: 1779 May 25 (date written), Edmund Burke, “Edmund Burke, Esq., to Richard Shackleton”, in Harold J[oseph] Laski, editor, Letters of Edmund Burke: A Selection […] (The World’s Classics; CCXXXVII), London; Edinburgh: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, published 1920, →OCLC, page 224:
text: To superficial observers it might well seem that William [III of England] was, at this time, one of the most enviable of human beings. He was in truth one of the most anxious and unhappy.
ref: 1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 3:
text: He [Douglas William Jerrold] had achieved many enviable dramatic successes before this time.
ref: 1863, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Douglas Jerrold”, in My Miscellanies. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 83:
text: This quarter of the city had at that time anything but an enviable reputation. To venture there at night was considered so dangerous that the soldiers from the outlying forts who came in to Paris with permission to go to the theatre, were ordered to halt at the barrière, and not to pass through the perilous district excepting in parties of three or four.
ref: 1881, Émile Gaboriau, chapter I, in [anonymous], transl., Lecoq, the Detective. […] (Gaboriau’s Sensational Novels; IV), part I (The Search), London: Vizetelly & Co., […], published 1886, →OCLC, page 5:
antonyms: unenviable
glosses: Arousing or likely to arouse envy.
Derived terms: enviability
enviableness
enviably
unenviable
unenviableness
unenviably
Related terms: envy
flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of fly
flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: examples: text: […] I was born in the dressing-room, suckled in the flies, educated in the lobby, and brought up in the property-room […]
ref: 1792, Charles Dibdin, chapter 6, in Hannah Hewit: or, the Female Crusoe, volume 1, London: for the author, page 167:
text: Hung from the “flies” in air,
She acts a palpable lie,
She’s as little a fairy there
As unpoetical I!
ref: 1869, W. S. Gilbert, “Only a Dancing Girl”, in The “Bab” Ballads, London: John Camden Hotten, page 25:
text: One of the staff was up in the flies fixing the weight for the mast. The head mechanist and Ted Gascoigne were down below on the stage, having an argument. Suddenly, the gentleman in the flies got all careless and dropped the weight.
ref: 1937, Ngaio Marsh, chapter 14, in Vintage Murder, New York: Jove Books, published 1978, page 156:
glosses: The open area above a stage where scenery and equipment may be hung.
Derived terms: catch flies
drop like flies
no flies on
flies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fly
clinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaɪ̯ˈnɑː.mə.tɚ/
Forms: form: clinometers
form: clinometre
Etymology: From clino- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for measuring a vertical angle, a slope, or the height of a large object (e.g. a tree).
Synonyms: inclinometer
Derived terms: photoclinometer
Related terms: incline
Rolf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒlf/
rhymes: -ɒlf
Etymology: From Old Norse Hrólfr, and from its Old French equivalent, cognates of Rudolph. Brought to England by the Normans, survived in surnames and was revived in the 19th century, partly due to its modern Scandinavian cognate.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: sense: male given names
word: Rollo
word: Rudolph
word: Rolph
word: Rowlings
word: Ruffles
flail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪl/
ipa: /fɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: flails
Etymology: From Middle English flayle, from earlier fleil, fleyl, fleȝȝl, from Old English fligel, *flegel (“flail”), from Proto-West Germanic *flagil, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots flail (“a thresher's flail”), West Frisian fleil, flaaiel (“flail”), Dutch vlegel (“flail”), German Flegel (“flail”). Possibly a native Germanic word from Proto-Germanic *flagilaz (“whip”), from Proto-Germanic *flag-, *flah- (“to whip, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to beat, hit, strike; weep”); compare Old Norse flaga (“sudden attack, bout”), Lithuanian plàkti (“to whip, lash, flog”), Ancient Greek πληγνύναι (plēgnúnai, “strike, hit, encounter”), Latin plangō (“lament”, i.e. “beat one's breast”) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix). If so, related also to English flag, flack, flacker.
Alternatively, Proto-West Germanic *flagil may be an early borrowing of Latin flagellum (“winnowing tool, thresher”), diminutive of flagrum (“scourge, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlag-, *bʰlaǵ- (“to beat”); compare Old Norse blekkja (“to beat, mistreat”). Compare also Old French flael (“flail”), Walloon flayea (“flail”) (locally pronounced "flai"), Italian flagello (“scourge, whip, plague”).
Senses: examples: text: When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end;
ref: 1631, John Milton, L'Allegro:
text: Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail
ref: 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan:
text: On him alone the curse of Cain
Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain,
And struck him to the earth!
ref: 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp:
text: If the farmer must use the spade because he has not capital enough for a plough, the sickle instead of the reaping machine, the flail instead of the thresher...
ref: 1879, Henry George, chapter V, in Progress and Poverty:
synonyms: frail
thrashel
threshel
glosses: A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
coordinate_terms: nunchaku
glosses: A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
examples: text: The carriage washing plant uses four pairs of rotating rag flails and will be capable of dealing with the whole of the diesel units as well as steam stock used for main-line trains.
ref: 1957 December 24, “Diesel Depot for Darlington”, in Railway Magazine, page 876:
glosses: Part of a rotating device, often used for cutting vegetation.
Derived terms: flail chest
flaillike
flailsome
flail tank
flaily
mine flail
flail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fleɪl/
ipa: /fɹeɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: flails
form: flailing
form: flailed
form: flailed
Etymology: From Middle English flayle, from earlier fleil, fleyl, fleȝȝl, from Old English fligel, *flegel (“flail”), from Proto-West Germanic *flagil, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots flail (“a thresher's flail”), West Frisian fleil, flaaiel (“flail”), Dutch vlegel (“flail”), German Flegel (“flail”). Possibly a native Germanic word from Proto-Germanic *flagilaz (“whip”), from Proto-Germanic *flag-, *flah- (“to whip, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to beat, hit, strike; weep”); compare Old Norse flaga (“sudden attack, bout”), Lithuanian plàkti (“to whip, lash, flog”), Ancient Greek πληγνύναι (plēgnúnai, “strike, hit, encounter”), Latin plangō (“lament”, i.e. “beat one's breast”) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix). If so, related also to English flag, flack, flacker.
Alternatively, Proto-West Germanic *flagil may be an early borrowing of Latin flagellum (“winnowing tool, thresher”), diminutive of flagrum (“scourge, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlag-, *bʰlaǵ- (“to beat”); compare Old Norse blekkja (“to beat, mistreat”). Compare also Old French flael (“flail”), Walloon flayea (“flail”) (locally pronounced "flai"), Italian flagello (“scourge, whip, plague”).
Senses: glosses: To beat using a flail or similar implement.
examples: text: Tangling with Ziv, Cameron caught him with a flailing elbow, causing the Israeli defender to go down a little easily. However, the referee was in no doubt, much to the displeasure of the home fans.
ref: 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport:
text: He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards.
ref: 1937, H. P. Lovecraft, The Evil Clergyman:
synonyms: thrash
glosses: To wave or swing vigorously
glosses: To thresh.
examples: text: He was flailing wildly, but didn't land a blow.
text: Undismayed he continued to flail with the broken half of it, denting many a helmet[.]
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 46:
glosses: To move like a flail.
Derived terms: flail about
unflailed
Related terms: flounder
-tastic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Rebracketing of fantastic.
Senses: examples: text: I don't get out to the movies that much, but "Bluntman and Chronic" was blunt-tastic.
ref: 2001, Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, spoken by Whillenholly (Will Ferrell):
glosses: Fantastic; used to form adjectives conveying praise or celebration.
Synonyms: -riffic
-tacular
-licious
Manichaean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænɪˈkiːən/
Forms: form: Manichaeans
form: Manichean
form: Manichæan
form: Manichee
Etymology: From Manichaeus + -an.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Manichaeism.
Manichaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmænɪˈkiːən/
Forms: form: Manichean
form: Manichæan
form: Manichee
Etymology: From Manichaeus + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Through them passed not only the traders of the Silk Route[…] but also lone Buddhist monks carrying precious cargoes of scrolls in their backpacks, white-robed Manichean sages from Iran and austere Nestorian clerics who founded Christian monasteries even in remote Tibet.
ref: 1995 November 25, Michael Gibson, “The Treasures of a Lost Buddhist World”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or relating to Manichaeism.
glosses: Of or concerning a Manichaean.
examples: text: Detractors of Mr. Nixon will decry the book's [1999: Victory Without War] obsession with potency and winning[…] as well as with a Manichaean view of a world that he sees as divided between the bad Soviet Union and the good United States.
ref: 1988 April 11, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “Strategy and Tactics to Win the Global Struggle”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Barack Obama spoke of a world without these Manichean dualities. He dismissed the notion of “red” and “blue” America.
ref: 2008 June 8, Ana Marie Cox, “What Went Wrong | Divided She Fell”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Once again, we see a Manichean world not unlike that of conspiracists: you can be good or you can be evil.
ref: 2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to a worldview of distinct good and evil, especially to the exclusion of other possible categories.
glosses: Using light and dark to represent good and evil.
Synonyms: Manichaic
Manichaist
Manichaeism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænɪˈkiːɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈmænɪkiːɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: Manichaism
form: Manicheism
form: Manichæism
Etymology: From Latin Manichaismus, from Koine Greek Μανιχαϊσμός (Manikhaïsmós), from Μανιχαῖος (Manikhaîos, “Manichaeus”) [from Classical Syriac ܡܐܢܝ ܚܝܐ (Mānī ḥayyā, “Living Mani”), from ܡܐܢܝ (Mānī, “Mani”, the name of its founder) + ܚܝܐ (ḥayyā, “living, alive”)] + -ισμός (-ismós). By surface analysis, Manichaeus + -ism.
Although Manichaeism is the most widespread spelling in English, it is a hypercorrection. The expected derivation from Koine Greek Μανιχαϊσμός (Manikhaïsmós) and Latin Manichaismus is Manichaism (compare with Judaism, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαισμός (Ioudaismós), or with archaism, from Ancient Greek ἀρχαϊσμός (arkhaïsmós)).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A syncretic, dualistic religion that combines elements of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Gnostic thought, founded by the Iranian prophet Mani in the 3rd century AD.
examples: text: In Manichaeism, as Benny Goodman used to sing, it's “Gotta Be This or That.” One thing or the other will triumph, in this dualistic view, and the winner is supposed to be determined in an apocalyptic struggle involving a world conflagration.
ref: 1988 June 12, William Safire, “No Shades of Gray”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A dualistic philosophy dividing the world between good and evil principles, or regarding matter as intrinsically evil and mind as intrinsically good.
Synonyms: Manichaeanism
Manicheanism
Related terms: Manichaean
Manichean
Manichaic
Manichaist
Manichaeist
dualistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dualistic
form: most dualistic
Etymology: From dual + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: A second difficulty that has distanced Mary from the communion of saints […] is the strategy that casts her as the feminine ideal and thus sets her up as the model for all other women. Those who take this approach invariably use a dualistic anthropology that divides male and female into watertight compartments, elevating sex to an ontological principle that results in virtually two types of human nature.
ref: 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
glosses: Of or relating to dualism.
Derived terms: antidualistic
dualistically
dualistic development
nondualistic
undualistic
the penny drops
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The penny dropped as Fred realised he had been conned.
text: Suddenly various pennies began to drop; now I understood obscure remarks that had been made in my presence by the Ryans, or by the nuns at school, or by Old Brigid or Tommy's foster-mother.
ref: 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 56:
text: AMY: In the time I've known you, when have you shown the slightest interest in a girl?
MELS: Penny in the air!
AMY: I've known you for, what, 10 years? I've seen you practically every day. Name one girl you've paid the slightest bit of attention to? (RORY is flustered, runs from the room.)
AMY: Oh my God! Rory! (AMY runs after RORY.)
MELS: And the penny drops!
ref: 2011 August 27 (broadcast date), Doctor Who, series 6, episode 8, Let's Kill Hitler
glosses: Understanding is reached; one comprehends.