cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
astounding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstaʊndɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Forms: form: more astounding
form: most astounding
Senses: examples: text: astounding success    an astounding spectacle
text: [Y]ou ſhall heare the Scythian Tamburlaine: / Threatning the world with high aſtounding tearms / And ſcourging kingdomes with his conquering ſword.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], “The Prologue”, in Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN:
text: Wasted in darkness down the pitchy wave, / We saw the Stygian pool her borders lave, / Fed by th’ astounding cataract on high.
ref: 1802, Dante Alighieri, “Canto VII”, in Henry Boyd, transl., The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri: Consisting of the Inferno—Purgatorio—and Paradiso. Translated into English Verse, […] In Three Volumes, volume I (Inferno), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Strahan, […]; for T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 152:
text: Signor Jupe […] was also to exhibit "his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country[…]."
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “A Loophole”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Sowing), page 14:
text: This is going to be the most astounding thing you’ve ever heard of, sir, and I say that knowing that a man of your caliber in your profession must have known some astounding things in his time.
ref: 1930, Dashiell Hammet, “The Emperor’s Gift”, in The Maltese Falcon, New York, N.Y.; London: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 148:
synonyms: word: amazing
word: extraordinary
word: fantastic
word: incredible
word: marvelous
word: miraculous
word: phenomenal
word: remarkable
word: unbelievable
word: astounding
word: astonishing
word: awesome
word: random
word: shocking
word: spontaneous
word: sudden
word: surprise
word: surprising
word: unbelievable
word: unexpected
word: unpredictable
word: wonderful
glosses: That astounds or astound.
Derived terms: astoundingly
astoundingness
unastounding
lue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /l(j)uː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: lew
homophone: lieu
homophone: loo
homophone: Lou
homophone: lu
Forms: form: lues
form: luing
form: lued
form: lued
form: lew
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: Cardiganshire... That which is thus Buddled they lue with a thick hair sieve close wrought in a tub of water.
ref: 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used, page 116:
text: Cornwall... The fine [sc. tin] is lewed in a fine sierce.
ref: 1674, John Ray, A Collection of English Words, Not Generally Used, page 122:
topics: business
mining
glosses: To sift using a sieve, particularly in mining tin or silver.
mounting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊntɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊntɪŋ
Etymology: From mount + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: mounting debts
text: steadily mounting losses
text: The pupils display great eagerness for knowledge and facility of acquisition. […] No severity of discipline is used or required; the threat of expulsion from the privileges of instruction being sufficient to tame the most mounting spirit.
ref: 1864 September 30, E. M. W., “Education of the Freedmen”, in The Liberator, volume 34, number 40, Boston, page 160:
text: About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232:
glosses: That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating.
Derived terms: mountingly
mounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊntɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊntɪŋ
Etymology: From mount + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mount
mounting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊntɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊntɪŋ
Forms: form: mountings
Etymology: From mount + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: That particular plane must have hit an obstruction that ripped its undercarriage right off its mountings, to leave it suspended beneath.
ref: 2021, Gerald Sherwood, Bomber Command Pilot:
glosses: Something mounted; an attachment.
examples: text: The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.
ref: 1834, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales:
glosses: The act of one who mounts.
Derived terms: flush mounting
guard mounting
mounting block
Holocene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒl.əˌsiːn/
Etymology: From French Holocène, based on holo- (“whole”) + Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “fresh, new”). Coined to replace the earlier (1833) label Recent, formally submitted in 1867 and officially endorsed in 1969. The concept is that this epoch is entirely (wholly) new.
Senses: examples: Meronym: Anthropocene
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Quaternary period from about the year 10 000 BC to the present; the age of man.
Holocene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒl.əˌsiːn/
Forms: form: the Holocene
Etymology: From French Holocène, based on holo- (“whole”) + Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “fresh, new”). Coined to replace the earlier (1833) label Recent, formally submitted in 1867 and officially endorsed in 1969. The concept is that this epoch is entirely (wholly) new.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Holocene epoch.
Derived terms: word: assholocene
Pleistocene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn/
ipa: /-toʊ-/
Forms: form: Ps
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλεῖστος (pleîstos, “most”) and καινός (kainós, “new”), meaning “newest”, coined by Charles Lyell in 1839.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Quaternary period from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago (earlier definition 1.7 million to 11,000 years ago); marked by the evolution of man, and the extinction of the large mammals.
Pleistocene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn/
ipa: /-toʊ-/
Forms: form: Ps
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλεῖστος (pleîstos, “most”) and καινός (kainós, “new”), meaning “newest”, coined by Charles Lyell in 1839.
Senses: examples: text: A prehistoric site of late Pleistocene age, which was especially prepared for our visit, was seen at Ting-ts'un, above the Fen River (Shansi).
ref: 1977, F. Clark Howell, “Introduction”, in Paleoanthropology in the People's Republic of China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Throughout the Pleistocene, climatic changes exerted another type of selective pressure on human biological evolution, contributing to the rapid emergence of various Homo species over time.
ref: 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 89:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Pleistocene epoch.
Derived terms: Plio-Pleistocene
Pliocene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪəsiːn/
Forms: form: Pleiocene
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n a final sentence he expressed his conviction that his opponents "did not in truth represent the thought of the twentieth century, but might rather be regarded as mental fossils dug from some early Pliocene horizon ".
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 5.3 to 1.7 million years ago; marked by the appearance of humanity's first ancestors.
Derived terms: Pliocene Ridge
postpliocene
Pliocene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪəsiːn/
Forms: form: Pleiocene
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Pliocene epoch.
Related terms: Postpliocene
Miocene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪəsiːn/
Forms: form: Meiocene
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μείων (meíōn, “less”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 23 to 5.3 million years ago; marked by the drift of continents to their present position.
Miocene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪəsiːn/
Forms: form: Meiocene
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μείων (meíōn, “less”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Miocene epoch.
Oligocene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From German Oligozän (originally spelt Oligocän, coined in 1854). By surface analysis, oligo- + -cene.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 34 to 23 million years ago; marked by the rapid evolution in a warm climate.
Oligocene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Oligozän (originally spelt Oligocän, coined in 1854). By surface analysis, oligo- + -cene.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Oligocene epoch.
Eocene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːəsiːn/
Etymology: From eo- + -cene. From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + καινός (kainós, “new”) and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 56 to 34 million years ago.
Eocene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːəsiːn/
Etymology: From eo- + -cene. From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + καινός (kainós, “new”) and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Eocene epoch.
Paleocene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpeɪ.liː.əʊˈsiːn/
Forms: form: Palaeocene
form: Palæocene
Etymology: From French Paléocène. Coined by French botanist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper in 1874.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Paleocene epoch.
Paleocene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpeɪ.liː.əʊˈsiːn/
Forms: form: Palaeocene
form: Palæocene
Etymology: From French Paléocène. Coined by French botanist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper in 1874.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 65 to 56 million years ago; marked by the rise of the first large mammals in a tropical climate.
Lopingian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Loping + -ian, from Leping, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Permian period from about 260 to 251 million years ago; marked by the formation of the Pangea supercontinent.
Lopingian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Loping + -ian, from Leping, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, China.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Lopingian epoch.
Guadalupian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Guadalupe + -ian, after the Guadalupe mountains in New Mexico.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Permian period from about 270 to 260 million years ago, marked by the presence of gymnosperms.
Guadalupian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Guadalupe + -ian, after the Guadalupe mountains in New Mexico.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Guadalupian epoch.
Cisuralian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cisuralian
head_nr: 1
form: most Cisuralian
head_nr: 1
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Permian period from about 299 to 270 million years ago; marked by the appearance of beetles and flies.
Cisuralian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the Cisuralian epoch
Mississippian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪpiən
Etymology: From Mississippi + -an.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Carboniferous period from about 359 to 318 million years ago; marked by glaciation and the appearance of the first trees.
examples: text: She had come to Mississippi with her Mississippian husband, who turned out to be a clumsy pyramid-scheme con artist.
ref: 2021, Percival Everett, The Trees, Influx Press (2022), page 139:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Mississippi or its culture.
Mississippian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪpiən
Etymology: From Mississippi + -an.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Mississippian epoch.
Mississippian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi.ən/
rhymes: -ɪpiən
Forms: form: Mississippians
Etymology: From Mississippi + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of the state of Mississippi in the United States of America.
Hypernyms: American
Pridoli
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pridoli
form: most Pridoli
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Silurian period from about 419 to 416 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the first vascular land plants.
Pridoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Pridoli epoch.
Ludlow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌd.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈlʌd.loʊ/
Forms: form: Ludlows
Etymology: From the Old English river name Hlūde, now the River Teme, + hlǣw (“mountain, hill, mound”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A town and civil parish with a town council in south Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO5174).
glosses: A placename:
A locality in the Shire of Capel, Western Australia, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A rural community of Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Champaign County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Kenton County, Kentucky.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Hampden County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Livingston County, Missouri.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McKean County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Harding County, South Dakota.
glosses: A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Windsor County, Vermont.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Ludlow epoch.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Ludlow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌd.ləʊ/
ipa: /ˈlʌd.loʊ/
Etymology: From the Old English river name Hlūde, now the River Teme, + hlǣw (“mountain, hill, mound”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Silurian period from about 423 to 419 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the millipedes.
Wenlock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Silurian period from about 428 to 423 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the first corals.
Wenlock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Wenlock epoch.
Related terms: Little Wenlock
Much Wenlock
Wenlock Edge
Llandovery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh Llanymddyfri (literally “church near the waters”).
Senses: glosses: A market town and community with a town council in Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN7634).
Llandovery
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the rock formation named after the nearby town.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geological epoch within the Silurian period from about 443 to 428 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the trilobites.
Furongian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a geologic epoch within the Cambrian period from about 501 to 488 million years ago; marked by an "explosion" of life.
Furongian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The Furongian epoch.
systematic name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systematic names
Senses: glosses: A name that systematically designates a well-defined group of entities.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A name that systematically designates a well-defined group of entities.
A name composed of words or symbols that precisely describe chemical structure; such names exist for both elements and compounds
Hyponyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: systematic element name
Related terms: IUPAC
binomial name
taxonomic name
scientific name
trivial name
systematic element name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systematic element names
Senses: examples: text: Before IUPAC named the element with atomic number 106 “seaborgium” in honour of Glenn Seaborg, it was called by the systematic element name unnilhexium.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A systematic name for an element, derived from the digits of its atomic number to which the suffix -ium is appended; normally only used for transuranic elements before or for a short period after they have been created, after which they are given a non-systematic name.
Related terms: -nil-
-un-
-bi-
-tri-
-quad-
-pent-
-hex-
-sept-
-oct-
-enn-
cat's cradle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat's cradles
Senses: glosses: A children's game of forming string into various shapes around one's fingers.
examples: text: There was the a risk that my research might reveal the original, rightful owner of an instrument, which could open up a cat's cradle of restitution claims.
ref: 2020, Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia, page 89:
glosses: Any complicated structure that appears to be without purpose.
rousing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: more rousing
form: most rousing
Senses: examples: text: rousing music
text: But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
ref: 2011 September 29, Tom Rostance, “Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: That rouses or excites.
Derived terms: rabblerousing
rousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rouse
rousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ
Forms: form: rousings
Senses: examples: text: Parents who use cloth diapers often use disposables for travel, nights, or both. Disposables can save parents repeated nighttime rousings or frequent sheet changes.
ref: 2010, Kathleen Huggins, The Expectant Parents' Companion, page 88:
glosses: The act by which somebody or something is roused.
Derived terms: rousingly
rousingness
pop feminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So pop feminism distorts feminism by depoliticizing it and burying its complexities, and in so diminished a state it has no power to vanquish the male privilege that women experience in their everyday lives.
ref: 1996, Zillah R. Eisenstein, Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century:
text: Cinematherapy combines a strategic mix of pop feminism (which presumes female independence and “girl power”) and stereotypes, then, as a primary method of appealing to female audiences.
ref: 2006, Barbara Klinger, Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home:
text: […] strongly associated with a 1990s/early 2000s cultural moment of “pop-feminism,” marked by a high-profile, culturally pervasive, quasi-feminist rhetoric. This rhetoric relied heavily on female celebrities who embraced the “bad girl” stereotype […]
ref: 2011, Su Holmes, Diane Negra, In the Limelight and Under the Microscope:
glosses: A populist, non-academic approach to feminism, suggesting that women can attain equality with men through a positive, go-getting attitude, without much need to organize politically or to examine or change cultural institutions and biases.
Related terms: girl power
connections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛkʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of connection
connections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnɛkʃənz/
Senses: glosses: People with whom one is acquainted who can offer help and influence.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: usually preceded by definite article
glosses: The people financially involved with a racehorse or racing greyhound.
badly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd.li/
rhymes: -ædli
Forms: form: worse
form: worst
Etymology: From Middle English badly, baddely, baddeliche, equivalent to bad + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Things are going badly for her: she did badly in her exams owing to a badly designed studying schedule.
text: Don't think badly of me, give me the benefit of the doubt.
text: You can eat badly and feel crapola or eat healthily and feel great. The choice is yours...
ref: 2005, Cathy Hopkins, The Mates, Dates Guide to Life, Love, and Looking Luscious:
synonyms: poorly
antonyms: well
glosses: In a bad manner.
examples: text: I want it so badly.
text: Look at these split ends! You badly need a haircut!
text: Everything went badly wrong.
text: The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
text: In late 1970, Labour assumed the shadow posts, having lost badly (and unforeseenly) in the summer General Election.
ref: 2008, Darl Larsen, Monty Python's Flying Circus, page 276:
glosses: Very much; to a great degree.
Derived terms: badly off
badly-off
badly packed kebab
badly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd.li/
rhymes: -ædli
Forms: form: more badly
form: most badly
Etymology: From Middle English badly, baddely, baddeliche, equivalent to bad + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He's never badly.
glosses: Ill, unwell.
gesso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛsəʊ/
rhymes: -ɛsəʊ
Forms: form: gessos
form: gessoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian gesso. Doublet of gypsum. Compare Portuguese gesso (“gypsum; plaster, cast”) and Spanish yeso (“gypsum; plaster, cast”).
Senses: examples: text: 1994, Timothy Noad, Patricia Seligman, The Illuminated Alphabet, The Quarto Group (Chartwell Books), 2017, page 27,
The combination of leaf gold and gesso is almost miraculous. No photographic reproduction can adequately show the brilliant effect of raised gesso.
text: To make the gesso, you need a chalk and a glue. During the Renaissance, gesso was made with gypsum, which is calcium sulphate. Terra Alba, available from art suppliers today, is a natural gypsum that makes a bright white gesso.
ref: 1999, Altoon Sultan, The Luminous Brush, Watson-Guptill, page 37:
text: 2007, Robin Cormack, Icons, The British Museum Press, Harvard University Press, page 33,
The idea was that this would serve as a binder for the layer of gesso or at least might help to prevent the painting from instantly cracking apart if the wood split at any time.
glosses: A mixture of plaster of Paris and glue used to prepare a surface for painting.
glosses: A work of art done in gesso.
Derived terms: word: gesso duro
word: gessoed
english: rough first layer of gesso
translation: rough first layer of gesso
word: gesso grosso
english: finer second or subsequent layer
translation: finer second or subsequent layer
word: gesso sottile
notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: notations
Etymology: From Latin notātiō, equivalent to notate + -ion or note + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
examples: text: This section lists all algebraic notation used in this book.
text: The notations used in the two books differed.
text: There is no official notation in the game of Stratego. Several notations are available but rely on perfect information of the initial piece set-up of both players. We will use a chess-like notation for Stratego.
ref: 2010 March 24, Sander Arts, “COMPETITIVE PLAY IN STRATEGO”, in Maastricht University, page 6:
text: Finally, using Devanagari, and native scripts more generally, has the benefit of elevating indigenous scripts and languages within the context of English-language lexicography, rather than foregrounding, or purely relying on, western linguistic notations which cater solely to a monolingual English audience.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 255:
glosses: A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
examples: text: She made a notation in the margin of the book.
glosses: A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
Derived terms: word: abuse of notation
word: algebraic notation
word: big O notation
word: Bow's notation
word: bracket notation
word: caret notation
word: de Bruijn notation
word: delta notation
word: dental notation
word: Dirac notation
word: dot notation
word: Einstein notation
word: Hungarian notation
word: infix notation
word: k-adic notation
word: Kendall notation
word: Kendall's notation
word: labanotation
word: mensural notation
word: multilingual notation
english: or music notation
translation: or music notation
word: musical notation
word: Polish notation
word: positional notation
word: postfix notation
word: prefix notation
word: reverse Polish notation
word: Schläfli notation
word: scientific notation
word: set-builder notation
word: sign-value notation
word: siteswap notation
word: square notation
word: Stokoe notation
word: Whyte notation
Related terms: notate
notational
notationally
notationless
notative
note
unnotatable
unnotated
unfortunate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nət/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪt/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nət/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nət/
Forms: form: more unfortunate
form: most unfortunate
Etymology: From un- + fortunate, doublet of infortunate.
Senses: synonyms: unsuccessful
antonyms: fortunate
glosses: Not favored by fortune.
examples: text: But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…]
ref: 1933, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar:
synonyms: unlucky
antonyms: fortunate
lucky
glosses: Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
glosses: Regrettable or unsuitable.
Derived terms: unfortunately
Related terms: deplorable
regrettable
infelicitous
unsuitable
unfortunate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nət/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt/
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nɪt/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nət/
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ʌnˈfɔɹt͡ʃ.nət/
Forms: form: unfortunates
Etymology: From un- + fortunate, doublet of infortunate.
Senses: examples: text: Of those adults who used the trains every day, about half now travel daily by bus, [...] one unfortunate is reported to be walking to and from his employment.
ref: 1960 February 24, “Talking of Trains: Moretonhampstead - a p.s.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 73:
text: Unlike the unfortunates aboard the Triumph, we viewers are in and out of the situation in under an hour and feel like we have had quite a lot of fun in the process.
ref: 2026 June 24, Lucy Mangan, “Poop Cruise review – a fascinating look at a toilet disaster that still haunts passengers 12 years later”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An unlucky person; one who has fallen into bad circumstances.
glosses: A prostitute.
medicinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdɪsənəl/
ipa: /məˈdɪsnəl/
ipa: /mɛˈdɪsɪnəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛɖɪs(ə)nəl/
Etymology: From Latin medicīnālis, equivalent to medicine + -al.
Senses: glosses: Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.
examples: text: Though not poisonous, this mildly psychoactive mushroom has valuable medicinal properties. Extracted agents could be used to enhance medi-gels pain-reducing capabilities.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Amanita jatanum, Elaaden:
text: The town [Cheltenham] "is celebrated for its medicinal waters" and "has been for the last sixty years one of the most elegant and fashionable watering places in England".
ref: 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
glosses: Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain.
glosses: Tasting like medicine; particularly of unpleasant or artificial sweet or bitter flavours similar to cherry, almond or licorice.
Derived terms: biomedicinal
ethnomedicinal
medicinal chemistry
medicinal finger
medicinally
nonmedicinal
phytomedicinal
semimedicinal
telemedicinal
unmedicinal
Related terms: herbal medicine
medical
medication
medicational
medicine
salutary
medicinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdɪsənəl/
ipa: /məˈdɪsnəl/
ipa: /mɛˈdɪsɪnəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɛɖɪs(ə)nəl/
Forms: form: medicinals
Etymology: From Latin medicīnālis, equivalent to medicine + -al.
Senses: glosses: Any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.
leisure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛʒə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈliːʒə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛʒə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈliʒɚ/
rhymes: -iːʒə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈlɛʒɚ/
Forms: form: leisures
form: leasure
Etymology: From Middle English leyser, from Anglo-Norman leisir, variant of Old French loisir (“to enjoy oneself”) (Modern French loisir survives as a noun), substantive use of a verb, from Latin licēre (“be permitted”). Displaced native Old English ǣmetta.
Senses: glosses: Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
examples: text: The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
ref: 1672, William Temple, An Essay Upon the Original and Nature of Government:
text: Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 11, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure.
ref: 1908, Aristotle, translated by William David Ross, Metaphysics:
glosses: Free time, time free from work or duties.
examples: text: He sigh'd, and had no leisure more to say.
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
Derived terms: antileisure
athleisure
at leisure
at one's leisure
bleisure
gentleman of leisure
lady of leisure
leisurable
leisure battery
leisure centre
leisure class
leisured
leisureful
leisureless
leisurely
leisureness
leisureplex
leisuresome
leisure suit
leisure time
leisurewear
leisuring
leisurism
leisurist
nonleisure
weisure
Related terms: ease
recreation
leister
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːstə/
ipa: /ˈlistɚ/
rhymes: -iːstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: leisters
form: leistering
form: leistered
form: leistered
Etymology: From earlier leyster, lister, perhaps via Middle English *lēster, *līster, from Old Norse ljóstr (“leister”), from ljósta (“to smite, strike; to hit, strike (with an arrow or spear)”), from Proto-Germanic *leustaną (“to hit, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew-s- (“to loosen (by knocking)”); the word is cognate with Danish lyster (“fish spear, gig, leister”), Icelandic ljósta (“to hit, strike”), Norwegian Bokmål lyster (dialectal Norwegian lioster), Swedish ljuster.
Senses: examples: text: We once knew a notorious salmon poacher, who, on one of his excursions, saw a pair of salmon spawning in a stream. He leistered the male from the side of the female, and as soon as she missed her partner, she retired from the spawning-bed into the pool below the ford, and very soon returned with another male, which the poacher also leistered.
ref: 1848, Andrew Young, The Natural History & Habits of the Salmon, […], Wick, Caithness: Published by Peter Reid. …, →OCLC, page 17:
text: You are quite correct, sir, […] in what you say about the quantity of oil in the heads of these fish [gurnets or gurnards]. […] [T]he heads [of the fish are] placed with their mouths upward, and a small quantity of tow placed in each mouth. When they [the poachers] reach the stream where they are to leister the salmon, the tow is lighted, the fire immediately communicates with the lips of the fish, and a beautiful clear light is emitted, which continues to burn for a considerable time. Sometimes also a single head, thus prepared and dried, is fixed at the end of a stick, and is used as a torch, when a poacher goes leistering single-handed.
ref: 1865, [Walter Frederick Campbell], “A Norman Breakfast and a Stroll”, in John Francis Campbell, editor, Life in Normandy: Sketches of French Fishing, Farming, Cooking, Natural History and Politics Drawn from Nature, 3rd edition, volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, →OCLC, pages 50–51:
text: No sport (hare-hunting excepted) gave more delight to the master of Abbotsford than the leistering of a salmon by the light of a pine-wood torch in the early part of a long winter's night, when a feast on some occasions would be improvised, a fire would be kindled, and a kettle would be got ready; […]
ref: 1890, “Ellangowen” [pseudonym; James Glass Bertram], “Trout and Sport in the Borders”, in Out-door Sports in Scotland: Deer Stalking, Grouse Shooting, Salmon Fishing, Golfing, Curling, &c. […], 2nd edition, London; Calcutta: W[illiam] H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 310–311:
glosses: To catch or spear (fish) with a leister.
Derived terms: word: leisterer
word: leistering
bis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of bi
bis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪz/
ipa: /bɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
ipa: /baɪz/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).
Senses: examples: text: Article 15 bis of the Rome Statute ("Exercise of jurisdiction over the crime of aggression (State referral, proprio motu)") lays down, in ten paragraphs, special procedural rules for the initiation of an individual prosecution on charges under Article 8 bis of the Statute (for a comprehensive examination of that article's material provisions, see supra 5.1) on the basis of a State referral or proprio motu by the Prosecutor. An analysis of specific provisions of Article 15 bis is offered below.
ref: 2014 January 10, Sergey Sayapin, The Crime of Aggression in International Criminal Law: Historical Development, Comparative Analysis and Present State, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 300:
topics: entertainment
law
lifestyle
music
glosses: Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
Derived terms: bis key
Related terms: bis-phossy jaw
pent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: pents
Etymology: From pen + -t.
Senses: examples: text: There was a catch in my voice, thick as it was with the pent of unshed tears; had I let them flow they would have come out forty per cent proof.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: Confinement; concealment.
pent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology: From pen + -t.
Senses: examples: text: As the old woman, with a gigantic and distorted image of herself thrown half upon the wall behind her, half upon the roof above, sat bending over the few loose bricks within which it was pent, on the damp hearth of the chimney—for there was no stove—she looked as if she were watching at some witch’s altar for a favourable token; […]
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Wherever Miss Clavering went, this infatuated young fellow continued to follow her; and being aware that his engagement to his cousin was known in the world, he was forced to make a mystery of his passion, and confine it to his own breast, so that it was so pent in there and pressed down, that it is a wonder he did not explode some day with the stormy secret, and perish collapsed after the outburst.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time —
To let the punishment fit the crime —
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!
ref: 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Numa, ravenous with hunger, had long since learned the futility of roaring and moaning as he searched for prey, but now that it was as surely his as though already he had felt the soft flesh beneath his still mighty paw, he opened his huge jaws, and gave vent to his long-pent rage in a series of deafening roars that made the air tremble.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 181:
glosses: Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned.
Derived terms: unpent
uppent
Related terms: pent-up
pent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Etymology: From pen + -t.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pen; alternative form of penned.
pent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: pents
Etymology: Clipping of pentatonic.
Senses: examples: text: The major pent is the same minor pent pattern only shifted down 3 frets toward the nut. Like John B told me for Sunshine of your love. Play Bm and then Dm pent and it will sound good. He also pointed out that Bm pent includes the same exact notes as DM pent. So the idea is if the song is in D, try both minor and major pents and see how it works.
ref: 2006 March 28, Greg Cisko, “Re: Any good solos?”, in alt.guitar.beginner (Usenet):
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pentatonic scale.
pent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: pents
Etymology: Clipping of pentacle or pentagram.
Senses: examples: text: [> What symbols mean the most to you? For instance, what do you wear around your neck and why?]
Usually, a triquetra, although I have ankhs, pents and a spell-bottle on amber beads which I wear if I find it necessary to be *really* annoying :)
ref: 2002 August 27, Jani, “Re: Pagan Symbols.....and any others that spring to mind”, in uk.religion.pagan (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A pentacle or pentagram.
Related terms: english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: pent roof
come down to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes down to
form: coming down to
form: came down to
form: come down to
Senses: examples: text: Wait for the temperature to come down to a reasonable level before touching the lid.
text: Come down to my place someday and have lunch.
glosses: To reach by moving down or reducing.
examples: text: The decision comes down to whether you really want to pay that much for a little extra convenience.
text: The game is going to come down to the last five seconds.
glosses: To entirely depend upon a single factor; basically, ultimately or in essence.
Related terms: boil down
at a loss
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We sold those old computers at a loss.
topics: business
finance
trading
coordinate_terms: at cost
at a profit
glosses: Below the cost or price of purchase.
examples: text: I have fixed the parts I understand, and the rest leaves me at a loss.
text: His policies may be ineffective, but he is never at a loss for words.
text: I'm at a loss how to proceed.
glosses: Not sure; uncertain; lacking further ideas, direction, or ability.
Synonyms: sense: not sure, lacking ideas, direction
word: at sea
sense: not sure, lacking ideas, direction
word: bewildered
sense: not sure, lacking ideas, direction
word: stumped
sense: not sure, lacking ideas, direction
word: up a tree
Related terms: lost for words
convalescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnvəˈlɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From French convalescent, from Latin convalēscēn(t-)s, present participle of convalēscere (“to become strong or well”); see convalesce.
Senses: examples: text: So soon as Lady Anne was pronounced convalescent by the medical men, she insisted on discharging "that odious woman," the nurse,...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 282:
text: "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness
examples: text: She stayed in a convalescent hospital for two weeks before returning home.
glosses: of convalescence or convalescents
Derived terms: convalescently
convalescent plasma
convalescent serum
postconvalescent
convalescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnvəˈlɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: convalescents
Etymology: From French convalescent, from Latin convalēscēn(t-)s, present participle of convalēscere (“to become strong or well”); see convalesce.
Senses: examples: text: I had been ill in health, but am now a convalescent.
glosses: A person recovering from illness.
Related terms: sense: terms derived from the same Latin verb
word: convalesce
sense: terms derived from the same Latin verb
word: convalescence
sense: terms derived from the same Latin verb
word: convalescency
decree nisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decree nisis
form: decrees nisi
Etymology: See decree + Latin nisi (“unless”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; it becomes absolute at some later date unless cause is shown why it should not.
Related terms: decree absolute
decree absolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decrees absolute
Senses: topics: law
glosses: the official decree marking the legal end of a marriage, allowing the two people to remarry.
topics: law
glosses: An absolute unconditional accruement of a claim's validity and legitimacy.
remarry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈmæɹi/
rhymes: -æɹi
Forms: form: remarries
form: remarrying
form: remarried
form: remarried
Etymology: From re- + marry.
Senses: examples: text: After his wife's death, he never remarried.
text: To everyone's surprise, after being divorced for ten years the couple eloped to Las Vegas and remarried.
text: This church will remarry widows or widowers, but not divorcés.
glosses: To marry a second or subsequent time (the same spouse or a different one) after the end of a marriage.
nisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The law in Massachusetts mandates a nisi period before divorce by decree nisi.
glosses: decree nisi
Related terms: nisi prius
rule nisi
tris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: Tris
Forms: form: tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane
form: tris buffer
form: THAM
form: trometamol
form: tromethamine
Etymology: Abbreviation of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A flammable compound which forms a corrosive solution in water and is used as a buffer and emulsifying agent.
tris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: Tris
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: Tris
ipa: /tɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: Tris
Etymology: Abbreviation of tris(2,3-dibromopropyl)phosphate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phosphoric acid ester C₉H₁₅Br₆O₄P formerly used to flameproof clothes and especially children's nightclothes until it was found to cause cancer in animals.