cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fright
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: frīt
ipa: /fɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
ipa: /fɹʌit/
Forms: form: frights
form: frighting
form: frighted
form: frighted
Etymology: From Middle English fright, furht, from Old English fryhtu, fyrhto (“fright, fear, dread, trembling, horrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *furhtį̄ (“fear”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥k- (“to fear”).
Cognate with Scots fricht (“fright”), Old Frisian fruchte (“fright”), Low German frucht (“fright”), Middle Dutch vrucht, German Furcht (“fear, fright”), Danish frygt (“fear”), Swedish fruktan (“fear, fright, dread”), Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌷𐍄𐌴𐌹 (faurhtei, “fear, horror, fright”). Compare possibly Albanian frikë (“fear, fright, dread, danger”).
Senses: examples: text: Are not you he […] That frights the maidens of the villagery […] ?
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
ref: 1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23:
text: A very fine situation was proposed to him, where he might have a noble view of the ocean; but he started back, with an attitude of terror Betterton might envy, when Hamlet meets his father's ghost, and cried out,—"Oh, Christ! the sea looks so fierce that it frights me!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith. Courtiers.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: To frighten.
Derived terms: befright
fright
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: frīt
ipa: /fɹaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
ipa: /fɹʌit/
Forms: form: more fright
form: most fright
Etymology: Probably short for affright, from Middle English afright, from Old English āfyrht, past participle of āfyrhtan (“to make afraid; terrify”).
Senses: examples: text: Don't be fright, it is not so impossible as it seems.
ref: 1946, Sydney Sïrdani, Don't be Fright: Radio Magic, page 10:
text: Don't be fright, I'm not going to hurt you.
ref: 2003, Ben Hodges, Forbidden Acts:
text: He had a great heavy jaw and shoulders like an ox and bore no resemblance to Maurice Leonard. 'Come along, lad,' the sergeant said. 'Come along. Don't be fright. It's what you're here for now, ain't it?'
ref: 2014, Jessica Stirling, Shamrock Green:
glosses: frightened; afraid; affright
frighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/
ipa: [ˈfɹ̥aɪtn̩]
ipa: [ˈfɹ̥aɪʔn̩]
rhymes: -aɪtən
Forms: form: frightens
form: frightening
form: frightened
form: frightened
form: freighten
Etymology: From Middle English *frightenen, equivalent to fright + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Avery puts a sheet over her head, pretending to be a ghost to frighten Emily.
text: His Deſign was only to frighten France, and get more Money.
ref: 1746, Isaac Kimber, “Henry VII”, in The History of England, from the Earliest Accounts to the Accession of His Present Majesty King George II. […] , page 217:
text: You may frighten a pig, a goose, a frog, and even a fly, but you cannot frighten or surprise a sloth.
ref: 1883, Felix Leopold Oswald, “A Step-child of Nature”, in Zoological Sketches[:] A Contribution to the Out-door Study of Natural History, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 90:
text: And he commanded his soldiers […] to frighten them with fierce swords, but the hearts of the holy men did not quail, and they were unable to alter their words.
ref: 1928, E. A. Wallis Budge, transl., The Book of the Saints of the Ethiopian Church[:] A translation of the Ethiopic Synaxarium […] , volume 1, London: Cambridge University Press, page 220:
glosses: To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
examples: text: In fitting the White Leghorns for exhibition, it must be remembered that they are of nervous disposition and frighten easily.
ref: 1898, Franklane L. Sewell, Ida E. Tilson, “White Leghorns”, in The Poultry Herald Manual[:] A Guide to Successful Poultry Keeping, St. Paul, Minnesota: Webb Publishing Company, page 41:
text: Those male moose at the southeast arm didn't frighten very much when we docked to fly-fish one day. One was so scared of us he just walked toward us and snorted.
ref: 1959, Harold G. (Hack) Miller, “Rod and gun”, in Hearings […] , Washington: United States Government Printing Office, page 101:
text: Be sneaky. Fish frighten easily.
ref: 1995 April 24, Jeff Csatari, “Tackle Tips”, in Boys' Life, volume 85, number 4, Irving, Texas: Boy Scouts of America, Inc., →ISSN, page 42:
glosses: To become scared or alarmed.
Synonyms: word: alarm
word: affright
word: appall
word: dismay
word: fray
word: frighten
word: grill
word: give someone the shits
word: harrow
word: horrify
word: make someone's blood run cold
word: mortify
word: petrify
word: scare
word: scare straight
word: scare the bejeebers out of
word: scare the hell out of
word: scare the pants off of
word: scare the shit out of
word: terrorize
word: terrify
word: spook
Hypernyms: word: affect
word: inflict
word: upset
Hyponyms: word: daunt
word: intimidate
Coordinate terms: word: annoy
word: enrage
word: vex
Derived terms: do someone a frighten
frightenable
frightener
frightening
frightensome
frighten the horses
frighten the life out of someone
frighten the piss out of
overfrighten
unfrighten
Related terms: word: fright
word: afraid
word: coward
word: disheartening
word: fear
word: nervous
word: asustar
frisk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Etymology: From Middle English frisk (“lively, frisky”), from Middle French frisque (“lively, jolly, blithe, fine, spruce, gay”), of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch frisc (“fresh”) or Old High German frisc (“fresh”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”). Cognate with Icelandic frískur (“frisky, fresh”). Doublet of fresco and fresh. More at fresh.
Alternative etymology derives frisk from an alteration (due to Old French fresche (“fresh”)) of Old French fricque, frique (“smart, strong, playful, bright”), from Gothic *𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (*friks, “greedy, hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *frekaz, *frakaz (“greedy, active”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“greedy, fierce”). Cognate with Middle Dutch vrec (“greedy, avaricious”), German frech (“insolent”), Old English frec (“greedy, eager, bold, daring, dangerous”). More at freak.
Senses: examples: text: Her hands must hide her mouth if she but smile; Fain would she seem all frisk and frolic still
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
synonyms: frolicsome
frisky
glosses: Lively; brisk.
Derived terms: frisky
frisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: frisks
Etymology: From Middle English frisk (“lively, frisky”), from Middle French frisque (“lively, jolly, blithe, fine, spruce, gay”), of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch frisc (“fresh”) or Old High German frisc (“fresh”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”). Cognate with Icelandic frískur (“frisky, fresh”). Doublet of fresco and fresh. More at fresh.
Alternative etymology derives frisk from an alteration (due to Old French fresche (“fresh”)) of Old French fricque, frique (“smart, strong, playful, bright”), from Gothic *𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (*friks, “greedy, hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *frekaz, *frakaz (“greedy, active”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“greedy, fierce”). Cognate with Middle Dutch vrec (“greedy, avaricious”), German frech (“insolent”), Old English frec (“greedy, eager, bold, daring, dangerous”). More at freak.
Senses: synonyms: gambol
frolic
glosses: A little playful skip or leap; a brisk and lively movement.
examples: text: The customs officer gave me a frisk after I went through the metal detector.
synonyms: frisking#Noun
patdown#Noun
glosses: The act of frisking, of searching for something by feeling someone's body.
Derived terms: frisco
friskful
frisk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɪsk/
rhymes: -ɪsk
Forms: form: frisks
form: frisking
form: frisked
form: frisked
Etymology: From Middle English frisk (“lively, frisky”), from Middle French frisque (“lively, jolly, blithe, fine, spruce, gay”), of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch frisc (“fresh”) or Old High German frisc (“fresh”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”). Cognate with Icelandic frískur (“frisky, fresh”). Doublet of fresco and fresh. More at fresh.
Alternative etymology derives frisk from an alteration (due to Old French fresche (“fresh”)) of Old French fricque, frique (“smart, strong, playful, bright”), from Gothic *𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (*friks, “greedy, hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *frekaz, *frakaz (“greedy, active”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“greedy, fierce”). Cognate with Middle Dutch vrec (“greedy, avaricious”), German frech (“insolent”), Old English frec (“greedy, eager, bold, daring, dangerous”). More at freak.
Senses: glosses: To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.
examples: text: The police frisked the suspiciously-acting individual and found a knife as well as a bag of marijuana.
glosses: To search (someone) by feeling their body and clothing.
examples: text: Furniture was tipped over and drawers pulled out. Someone had obviously frisked the joint before we arrived.
glosses: To search (a place).
Synonyms: pat down
Derived terms: friskee
friskingly
stop-and-frisk
unfrisked
Related terms: frisk someone's cly
frontier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌntɪə/
ipa: /ˈfɹɒntɪə/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌntjə/
ipa: /ˈfɹɒntjə/
ipa: /fɹʌnˈtɪə/
ipa: /fɹɒnˈtɪə/
ipa: /fɹʌnˈtɪɹ/
ipa: /fɹɑnˈtɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌnt͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: frontiers
Etymology: From Middle English frounter, from Old French fronter (whence Modern French frontière), from front.
Senses: examples: text: the frontier of civilization
text: There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star.
ref: 1955 April, “Notes and News: A Journey through Thailand”, in Railway Magazine, page 286:
text: From time to time the coaches of the Lötschberg Railway itself, which in comfort and décor can rank with the finest in Europe today, travel far from the frontiers of Switzerland on through workings such as these.
ref: 1960 December, Cecil J. Allen, “Operating a mountain main line: the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 743:
text: Unlike a boundary, which evokes the image of a line on a map and demarcates spheres of political control, the frontier is an area where colonisation is taking place....no authority is recognised as legitimate by all parties or is able to [exercise] undisputed control over the area.
ref: 1979, Richard Elphic, Hermann Guilomee (editors), The shaping of South African Society, 1652 - 1820, page 297:
text: The demise of “de minimis”, as the exemption is known, is the latest, symbolic reminder to digital darlings that frontiers exist—and that business models built on their absence are in need of a rethink.
ref: 2025 September 4, “What the splinternet means for big tech: Unpleasant new trade-offs, for starters”, in The Economist:
synonyms: march#Noun_2
marches#Noun
border#Noun
marchland
borderland
glosses: The part of a country which borders or faces another country or unsettled region.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: vanguard, state of the art
text: the frontier of solid state electronics
glosses: The most advanced or recent version of something; the leading edge.
examples: text: thou hast talk'd. Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,
 Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
glosses: An outwork of a fortification.
Derived terms: cyberfrontier
efficient frontier
e-frontier
final frontier
frontier AI
frontier artificial intelligence
Frontier County
frontierism
frontierist
frontierless
frontierlike
frontierman
frontier orbital
frontiersman
frontiersperson
frontierswoman
frontierwoman
high frontier
last frontier
New Frontier
nonfrontier
portfolio frontier
scientific frontier
transfrontier
frontier
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌntɪə/
ipa: /ˈfɹɒntɪə/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌntjə/
ipa: /ˈfɹɒntjə/
ipa: /fɹʌnˈtɪə/
ipa: /fɹɒnˈtɪə/
ipa: /fɹʌnˈtɪɹ/
ipa: /fɹɑnˈtɪɹ/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌnt͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: frontiers
form: frontiering
form: frontiered
form: frontiered
Etymology: From Middle English frounter, from Old French fronter (whence Modern French frontière), from front.
Senses: glosses: To live as pioneers on frontier territory.
examples: text: now that it is no more a Border, nor frontiered with Enemies, why should such Privileges be any more continued?
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: To place on the frontier.
frostbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frostbites
Etymology: From frost + bite.
Senses: glosses: An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.
Coordinate terms: chilblain
frostnip
frostbite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frostbites
form: frostbiting
form: frostbit
form: frostbitten
Etymology: From frost + bite.
Senses: glosses: To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
glosses: To engage in winter sailboating.
Derived terms: frostbitten
fructification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fructifications
Etymology: From fructi- + -fication.
Senses: examples: text: In nature, the wild hop is usually shadowed during its growing period by bushes and trees, and it is only those aboveground parts which are intensively illuminated which pass into fructification period.
ref: 2012, V. Rybacek, Hop Production, page 104:
text: Lucuma salicifolia (canistal) and Micropholis mexicana (wild apricot) are the most infested fruit species. They have a very short fructification period.
ref: 2013, Martin Aluja, Fruit Flies: Biology and Management, page 384:
text: Studying the duration of the flowering-fructification period among interspecific first-generation back-cross progenies of African species showed that this trait is positively correlated (r=0.78) with 100-seed weight and caffeine content.
ref: 2014, Victor R. Preedy, Coffee in Health and Disease Prevention, page 43:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
examples: text: The fructification is liable to become very convex in age.
ref: 1824, Robert Kaye Greville, Flora Edinensis: Or, A Description of Plants Growing Near Edinburgh, page 332:
text: The essence of the fructification consists in the flower and the fruit.
ref: 1836, William Paul Crillon Barton, Elements of Botany, page 89:
text: Postheterotopic transformations played a great role in the evolution of fructifications. The formation of specialized seed-like sporophylls in the Lepidocarpaceae, of strobilar fructifications in the Noeggerathiales, of various capsules and other seed-bearing organs of many gymnosperms belong here.
ref: 2012, Sergei Meyen, Fundamentals of Palaeobotany, page 380:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
frustration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /fɹəˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: frustrations
Etymology: From Latin frūstrātiō (“disappointment”), related to frūstrā (“in vain”). By surface analysis, frustrate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
glosses: The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
topics: law
glosses: The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
glosses: A thing that frustrates.
examples: text: The hope , however , is a slight one , and most attempts to love end in frustration : even Singer cannot endure the thought of life without Antonapoulos . The next most selfless seeker after love and happiness is Mick , who longs to express herself and to communicate with others through music, and her failure is pathetic because[…]
ref: 1965, The Georgia Review, volume 19, University of Georgia, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:
glosses: Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
Derived terms: antifrustrationism
frustrage
frustrational
fuckstration
nonfrustration
Fuegian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˈiːdʒɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈfweɪdʒɪ.ən/
ipa: /fjuˈid͡ʒi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfweɪd͡ʒi.ən/
ipa: /fjuˈeɪɡi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfweɪɡi.ən/
Etymology: From (Tierra del) Fuego + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Tierra del Fuego.
Fuegian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjuːˈiːdʒɪ.ən/
ipa: /ˈfweɪdʒɪ.ən/
ipa: /fjuˈid͡ʒi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfweɪd͡ʒi.ən/
ipa: /fjuˈeɪɡi.ən/
ipa: /ˈfweɪɡi.ən/
Forms: form: Fuegians
Etymology: From (Tierra del) Fuego + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native of Tierra del Fuego.
fulmination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌlmɪˈneɪʃən/
ipa: /fʊlmɪˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fulminations
Etymology: From Middle French fulmination, from Latin fulminātiō; equivalent to fulmine + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of fulminating or exploding; detonation.
examples: text: It is curious, reading the fulminations of American purists of the last generation, to note how many of the Americanisms they denounced have not only got into perfectly good usage at home but even broken down all guards across the ocean.
ref: [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 23, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of thundering forth threats or censures, as with authority.
glosses: That which is fulminated or thundered forth; vehement menace or censure.
Related terms: fulminate
fulminator
fulminating compound
fulminic acid
fumigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːmɪɡeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fumigations
Etymology: From Middle English fumygacioun, from Old French fumigation, from Late Latin fumigatio, fumigationem, from Latin fumigo.
Senses: glosses: The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
glosses: Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.
Derived terms: biofumigation
fumigation tent
refumigation
Related terms: fumigate
fundamental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəl/
Forms: form: fundamentals
Etymology: From Late Latin fundamentālis, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.
Senses: qualifier: generic
glosses: A basic truth, elementary concept, principle, rule, or law. An individual fundamental will often serve as a building block used to form a complex idea.
examples: text: one of the fundamentals of linear algebra
text: When any one offers me a compleat Catalogue of his Fundamentals, he does not unreaſonably demand me to quit mine for nothing[…]
ref: 1722, John Locke, The Works of John Locke ...: With Alphabetical Tables ..., page 572:
text: Personal leadership is a fundamental of successful government.
ref: 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 28:
qualifier: generic
glosses: A collection of essential component ideas that are often grouped together to serve as the foundational basis of a complex idea.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The lowest partial of a complex tone.
fundamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəl/
Forms: form: more fundamental
form: most fundamental
Etymology: From Late Latin fundamentālis, from Latin fundamentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the foundation (of something), to found”), from fundus (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn.
Senses: glosses: Related to a foundation, base, or basis; serving as a foundation.
examples: text: a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom; a fundamental element; fundamental principle; fundamental law
text: A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
synonyms: elementary
glosses: Essential; extremely important.
Synonyms: groundlaying
Derived terms: algebraic fundamental group
antifundamental
bifundamental
first fundamental form
fundamental analysis
fundamental constant
fundamental data
fundamental force
fundamental frequency
fundamental group
fundamental interaction
fundamentalism
fundamentalist
fundamentalistic
fundamentality
fundamentally
fundamentalness
fundamental niche
fundamental painting
fundamental particle
fundamental right
fundamental science
fundamental theorem
fundamental theorem of arithmetic
fundamental theorem of calculus
fundamental theorem of calculus for line integrals
fundamental unit
nonfundamental
prefundamental
unfundamental
Related terms: fundament
furious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjʊə.ɹɪəs/
ipa: /ˈfjʊɹ.i.əs/
ipa: /ˈfjɝ.i.əs/
rhymes: -ʊəɹiəs
Forms: form: more furious
form: most furious
Etymology: From Middle English furious, from Old French furieus, from Latin furiōsus. Displaced native Old English hātheort (literally “hot-hearted”).
Senses: examples: text: a furious animal; parent furious at their child's behaviour
text: Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Feeling great anger; raging; violent.
examples: text: a furious stream; a furious wind or storm
glosses: Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence.
Synonyms: fierce
rampant
Derived terms: fast and furious
frumious
furious fifties
furiousness
furious rabies
overfurious
unfurious
furze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)z/
homophone: furs
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z
Forms: form: furzes
form: firrs
Etymology: From Middle English firse, furs, from Old English fyrs (“furze, gorse, bramble”), from Old English fyres (“furze”), related to Old English fȳr (“fire”); otherwise of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: Gonz. Now would I giue a thouſand furlongs of Sea, for an Acre of barren ground : Long heath, Browne firrs, any thing;[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:
text: At length, receiving his quarterly allowance of fifteen guineas, instead of discharging his debts he walk'd out of town, hid his gown in a furze bush, and footed it to London, […]
ref: 1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography [Part 1]”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 158:
text: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 41:
text: Clumps of withered grass stood out on the hill-top; the furze bushes were black, and now and then a black shiver crossed the snow as the wind drove flurries of frozen particles before it.
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter VIII, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 97:
glosses: A thorny evergreen shrub, with yellow flowers, Ulex gen. et spp., of which Ulex europaeus is particularly common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.
Synonyms: gorse
whin
Derived terms: taxonomic: Ulex europaeus
word: common furze
taxonomic: Ulex nanus
word: dwarf furze
word: furzechat
word: furzed
word: furzeling
word: furze-pig
word: furzy
word: needle furze
gaily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: more gaily
form: most gaily
Etymology: From gay + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: word: gayly
word: joyously
word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
glosses: Merrily.
examples: text: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Showily.
gainsay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪnˈseɪ/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪnˌseɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: gainsays
form: gainsaying
form: gainsaid
form: gainsaid
Etymology: From Middle English gainsayen, ȝeinseggen (“to say against, say in opposition to”), equivalent to gain- + say. Compare Old Danish gensige (“to speak against; gainsay”), Swedish gensaga (“a speaking against; protest”).
Senses: examples: text: […]vve are able with playne demonſtration to proue, and vvith reaſon to perſvvade that in tymes paſt our fayth vvas alike, that then vve preached thinges correſpondent vnto the forme of faith already publiſhed of vs, ſo that none in this behalfe can repyne or gayneſay vs.
ref: 1577, Socrates Scholasticus [i.e., Socrates of Constantinople], “Constantinus the Emperour Summoneth the Nicene Councell, it was Held at Nicæa a Citie of Bythnia for the Debatinge of the Controuersie about the Feast of Easter, and the Rootinge out of the Heresie of Arius”, in Eusebius Pamphilus, Socrates Scholasticus, Evagrius Scholasticus, Dorotheus, translated by Meredith Hanmer, The Avncient Ecclesiasticall Histories of the First Six Hundred Yeares after Christ, Wrytten in the Greeke Tongue by Three Learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. …, book I (The First Booke of the Ecclesiasticall Historye of Socrates Scholasticvs), imprinted at London: By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate, →OCLC, page 225:
text: The supreme court, therefore, may assume jurisdiction over subjects and between parties, not allowed by the constitution, and there is no power in the federal government to gainsay it.
ref: 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 84:
text: So she had, cried Scrooge. You’re right. I will not gainsay it, Spirit. God forbid!
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
text: Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion (the history of which by the learned Lord Clarendon I most earnestly commend to your attention) this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man.
ref: 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles:
text: And there was something childlike about Griffith, too, even in his Matlock days, as a deceptively sharp 'simple country lawyer,' a big-kid boyishness that did not mask his intelligence or gainsay his authority.
ref: 2012 July 7, “Griffith acted, and lived, by Golden Rule”, in The Post and Courier^(http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_theme=cpcb&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_docid=13FDF91A8AD97358&p_text_direct-0=document_id=(%2013FDF91A8AD97358%20)&p_product=CPCB), Charleston: Evening Post Publishing, page 5, Features:
synonyms: controvert
deny
dispute
refute
withsay
glosses: To say something in contradiction to.
Derived terms: gainsayable
gainsayer
gainsaying
ungainsaid
ungainsaying
galley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæli/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: galleys
form: gallies
Etymology: From Middle English galeie, from Old French galee, from Latin galea, from Byzantine Greek γάλεα (gálea) of unknown origin, probably from Ancient Greek γαλέη (galéē), a kind of a small fish, from γαλεός (galeós, “dog-fish or small shark”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.
glosses: A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.
glosses: An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
examples: text: It was very nerve-racking. When I was finally able to write the story, I wrote it at the typewriter and never reread it until I had to edit the typos on the printer's galleys for the publication of the book.
ref: 1976 April 26, Jil Clark, Julia Penelope, Susan Wolfe, “The Politics of Language”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A representation of a single-masted ship propelled by oars, with three flags and a basket.
Synonyms: topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: lymphad
Derived terms: everything but the galley stove
galleass
galley downhaul
galley kitchen
galleylike
galley news
galley proof
galley slave
galley slice
galley worm
galley-worm
galley yarn
galliot
Related terms: bireme
trireme
quadrireme
unireme
monoreme
penteconter
quinquereme
pentere
polyreme
Galley Common
galvanization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galvanizations
form: galvanisation
Etymology: From galvanize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of galvanizing.
Related terms: galvanize
gang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: găng
ipa: /ɡæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: gangs
form: ganging
form: ganged
form: ganged
form: gan
Etymology: From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to go, walk, turn out”), from Proto-West Germanic *gangan, from Proto-Germanic *ganganą (“to go, walk”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step, walk”).
Cognate with Scots gang (“to go on foot, walk”), Swedish gånga (“to walk, go”), Faroese ganga (“to walk”), Icelandic ganga (“to walk, go”), Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas). Ultimately related to Etymology 2, which see below.
Senses: examples: text: (Colin alone) Ah, Colin, thou’rt a prodigal; a thriftless loon thou’st been, that cou’d na’ keep a little pelf to thysall when thou had’st got it; now thou may’st gang in this poor geer to thy live's end, and worse too for aught I can tell; ’faith, mon, ’twas a smeart little bysack of money thou hadst scrap’d together, an the best part of it had na’ being last amongst thy kinsfolk, in the Isles of Skey and Mull; muckle gude may it do the weams of them that ha’ it! There was Jamie MacGregor and Sawney MacNab, and the twa braw lads of Kinruddin, with old Charley MacDougall, my mother's first husband's second cousin: by my sol I cou’d na’ see such near relations, and gentlemen of sich auncient families gang upon bare feet, while I rode a horseback: I had been na’ true Scot, an I cou’d na’ ge’en a countryman a gude last upon occasion (as he is going out, Miss Aubrey enters.)
ref: 1772, Richard Cumberland, The Fashionable Lover. A Comedy., act III:
text: "And am I to meet my Mary at Moffat? Come away, little, dear, welcome body, thou blessed of heaven, come away, and taste of an auld shepherd's best cheer, and I'll gang foot for foot with you to Moffat, and my auld wife shall gang foot for foot with us too. I tell you, little, blessed, and welcome crile, come along with me."
ref: 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet:
glosses: To go; walk; proceed.
Derived terms: back-ganging
gang alow
gang-by
ganger
gang gizzen
gang gleyed
gangling
gang one's gait
gangplank
gangrel
gangway
gang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: găng
ipa: /ɡæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: gangs
form: ganging
form: ganged
form: ganged
Etymology: From Middle English gang, from Old English gang (“a journey; way; passage”), from Proto-West Germanic *gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step; stride”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gong, Dutch gang, German Gang, Norwegian gang, Swedish gång, Icelandic gangur, Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas).
Senses: examples: text: Volume controls may be ganged to mode switches to provide maximum output […]
ref: 1981, Human Engineering Design Criteria for Military Systems, United States. Department of Defense, page 58:
text: When cutting the back cleats with the T-guide, first gang them together so all the marks on one side align.
ref: 1999 May, Rosario Capotosto, “Building a Bookcase”, in Popular Mechanics:
text: The chairs are usually ganged together using a variety of ganging or locking mechanisms to create rows and prevent the chairs from moving out of position.
ref: 2011, Corky Binggeli, Interior Graphic Standards: Student Edition, →ISBN, page 317:
glosses: To attach similar items together to form a larger unit.
Derived terms: gang up
gang up on
gang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: găng
ipa: /ɡæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Etymology: See gan.
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of gan.
gang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: găng
ipa: /ɡæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: gangs
form: ganging
form: ganged
form: ganged
Etymology: Shortening of gangbang.
Senses: examples: text: He still liked the idea of them all ganging her [...]
ref: 1970, Richard Allen, Skinhead, New Eng. Lib., →ISBN, page 104; republished as Skinhead, Dean Street Press, 2015, →ISBN:
text: […] I’ve learned over the years that there's a thin line to tread to avoid fights or getting “ganged” when rejecting the sexual overtures of incarcerated women.
ref: Alarid, Leanne Fiftal (2000), “Sexual Assault and Coercion Among Incarcerated Women Prisoners: Excerpts From Prison Letters”, in The Prison Journal, volume 80, number 4, →DOI
glosses: Synonym of gangbang.
synonyms: word: gangbang
gang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: găng
ipa: /ɡæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: gangs
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: Alternative form of gangue.
gaoler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gaolers
Etymology: By surface analysis, gaol + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XXIII, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: One very important section of the denizens of Darkest England are the criminals and the semi-criminals. They are more or less predatory, and are at present shepherded by the police and punished by the gaoler.
ref: 1890, William Booth, chapter 7, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:
text: A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 41:
glosses: Dated spelling of jailer.
Derived terms: gaoleress
undergaoler
gap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gap
ipa: /ɡæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: gaps
form: gapping
form: gapped
form: gapped
Etymology: From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.
Senses: glosses: To notch, as a sword or knife.
glosses: To make an opening in; to breach.
examples: text: I gapped all the spark plugs in my car, but then realized I had used the wrong manual and had made them too small.
glosses: To check the size of a gap.
examples: text: Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game
ref: 2022 May 4, u/jhawk1117, “Two units that were really ahead of their time”, in Reddit, r/DBZDokkanBattle, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments
ref: 2023 May 23, @slime_machine, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: Imagine street racing someone then suddenly both of you get gapped by a slammed tiger tank 😂 AKA der "Drippenwagen"
ref: 2023 December 19, @kommanderkarl, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: "Not really the reason his team lost" is still not showing up by Chovy's standarts. Like in a way you're downplaying how good this guy has been domestically the last 3-4 years. He is comfortably the best player in the league and is utterly gapping every other midlaner in the league series after series, year after year.
ref: 2024 March 9, u/djpain20, “T1 vs. Gen.G / LCK 2024 Spring - Week 7 / Post-Match Discussion”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: My sports car gets gapped by families of 5 in these all the time and they don't even know we're racing
ref: 2024 May 14, u/DM-Me-Your_Titties, “Kia reveals mid-life update to EV6.”, in Reddit, r/cars, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
text: When you avoid getting buffed next patch due to your players gapping
ref: 2024 July 6, @Rubiflorid, Twitter, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2024:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
video-games
glosses: To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.
examples: text: [Article title:] 'They've just gapped it': Duo fled quarantine authorities after gang funeral
ref: 2020 June 17, “'They've just gapped it': Duo fled quarantine authorities after gang funeral”, in Newstalk ZB, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022:
glosses: To leave suddenly.
examples: text: The robe gaps open at the waist, breasts spilling out of a lacy bra that looks like she might have had it since her college days.
ref: 2014, Jeanne Stein, Blood Drive:
glosses: To fall or spill open so as to leave a gap.
gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gap
ipa: /ɡæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: gaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan)
gap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gap
ipa: /ɡæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: gaps
form: gapping
form: gapped
form: gapped
Etymology: A variant of gape.
Senses: examples: text: Well, dey would all begin stretchin' and gappin', and den some of dem would say, with a gap and another stretch: […]
ref: 1904, Chuck Connors, Bowery Life, New York, N.Y.: Richard K. Fox Publishing Company, unnumbered page:
glosses: To stare or gape.
Related terms: gap moe
gather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæðə/
ipa: /ˈɡæðɚ/
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gathers
form: gether
Etymology: From Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian (“to gather, assemble”), from Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn (“to bring together, unite, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, assemble, keep”).
Senses: glosses: A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
glosses: The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
examples: text: "I'll tell you all about it at the Gather, win or lose."
ref: 2007, John Barnes, The Sky So Big and Black, Tor Books, →ISBN:
text: What bothered him more, he thought as he started Washoe southward, was Spikes's animosity, the bearded man's sudden violent reaction to his arrival at the gather.
ref: 2014, Paul Lederer, Dark Angel Riding, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
glosses: A gathering.
Derived terms: gathering iron
gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: gāj
ipa: /ˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈɡæɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
homophone: gage
Forms: form: gauges
form: gauging
form: gauged
form: gauged
form: gage
Etymology: From Middle English gauge, gaugen, from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French gauger (compare Modern French jauger from Old French jaugier), from gauge (“gauging rod”), from Frankish *galga (“measuring rod, pole”), from Proto-Germanic *galgô (“pole, stake, cross”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰalgʰ-, *ǵʰalg- (“perch, long switch”). Cognate with Old High German galgo, Old Frisian galga, Old English ġealga (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse galgi (“cross-beam, gallows”), Old Norse gelgja (“pole, perch”). Doublet of gallows.
Senses: glosses: To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
glosses: To estimate.
examples: text: You shall not gauge me / By what we do to-night.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
qualifier: textile
glosses: To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
glosses: To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
glosses: To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
Derived terms: gaugeable
misgauge
regauge
ungauged
Related terms: gage
gouge
gaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡæɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: gays
Forms: form: gazes
form: gazing
form: gazed
form: gazed
Etymology: From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”).
Senses: examples: text: They gazed at the stars for hours.
text: Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 1:11:
text: Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was, in very truth, as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: She just sat there very straight, gazing across the moon-washed garden.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 64:
text: In fact, for Antonioni this gazing is probably the most fundamental of all cognitive activities[.]
ref: 1998, Michelangelo Antonioni, Unfinished Business: Screenplays, Scenerios, and Ideas, page xv:
glosses: To stare intently or earnestly.
examples: text: Strait toward Heav'n my wondring Eyes I turnd, / And gaz'd a while the ample Skie
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazeless stare.
ref: 1970, David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World:
glosses: To stare at.
Synonyms: gape
stare
muse
Derived terms: at gaze
begaze
crystal-gazing
downgaze
eyegaze
foregaze
gazee
gazeful
gazeless
gazement
gazer
gazing ball
gazy
nongaze
outgaze
overgaze
shoegaze
stargaze
ungazed
gaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪz/
ipa: /ˈɡæɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: gays
Forms: form: gazes
Etymology: From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”).
Senses: examples: text: Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
examples: text: Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: The object gazed on.
examples: text: She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.
ref: 2003, Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader, page 35:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
Derived terms: female gaze
foregaze
gazehound
male gaze
Nancy Reagan gaze
sidegaze
upgaze
gazette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈzɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: gazettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French gazette, from Italian gazzetta, from Venetan gazeta, from gazeta dele novità (literally “a gazeta (halfpenny) of news”), named for the cost (one gazeta) of the newspaper. Compare penny dreadful, dime novel. See gazzetta for more.
Senses: glosses: A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.
topics: law
qualifier: often capitalized and italicized in legislations
glosses: An official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.
Derived terms: appear in the Gazette
gazettal
gazetteer
gazettement
gazettist
have one's name in the Gazette
official gazette