cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trănsʹpôrt
enpr: tränsʹpôrt
ipa: /ˈtɹæns.pɔːt/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑːnspɔːt/
enpr: trănsʹpôrt
ipa: /ˈtɹæns.pɔɹt/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈtɹæns.po(ː)ɹt/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈtɹæns.poət/
rhymes: -ænspɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: transports
Etymology: From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) + port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”).
Senses: examples: text: The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.
glosses: An act of transporting; conveyance.
examples: text: In her transport at finding such treasures, Heidi even forgot Peter and his goats.
ref: 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri, page 53
glosses: The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
glosses: A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
glosses: A tractor-trailer.
examples: text: The local transport received a big boost as part of the mayor's infrastructural plans.
glosses: The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
glosses: A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
glosses: A deported convict.
Synonyms: sense: act of transporting
word: conveyance
sense: act of transporting
word: ferrying
sense: act of transporting
word: moving
sense: act of transporting
word: relocation
sense: act of transporting
word: shift
sense: act of transporting
word: ship
sense: state of being transported by emotion
word: rapture
sense: system of transporting people
word: public transport
sense: historical: deported convict
word: deportee
word: exile
word: expatriate
Derived terms: active transport
air transport
auto transport truck
copper transport disease
cyber transport
cyber transport system
cyber transport systems
light rail transport system
means of transport
Metropolis light transport
mode of transport
parallel transport
public transport
rail transport
transport café
transport interchange
transport poverty
transport protein
transport rider
transport safety board
transport ship
transport stage
transport tetany
transport vesicle
Related terms: antitransport
transportability
transportable
transportage
transportation
transporter
transportive
farm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑːm/
enpr: färm
ipa: /fɑɹm/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: farms
form: farming
form: farmed
form: farmed
Etymology: From Middle English fermen, from Old English feormian (“to clean, cleanse”), from Proto-West Germanic *furbēn (“to clean, polish, buff”). Doublet of furbish.
Senses: examples: text: Farm out the stable and pigsty.
glosses: To cleanse; clean out; put in order; empty; empty out
scanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskænɚ/
ipa: /ˈskænə/
rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scanners
Etymology: From scan + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is, perhaps, too much to assume that an elderly Melville read James, but he was an eager scanner of magazines and did read fiction in his later years.
ref: 1997, Douglas Robillard, Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint, page 17:
glosses: One who scans.
examples: text: He put the picture in the scanner, then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.
glosses: A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
glosses: A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
glosses: A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
examples: text: Chorban: I'm using a small scanner to gather readings on the keepers.
Chorban: So far, I've had mixed results. I find it difficult to get near the creatures.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
glosses: A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).
Derived terms: 3D scanner
baggage scanner
barcode scanner
brain scanner
CAT scanner
chromatoscanner
full body scanner
full-body scanner
galvoscanner
intrascanner
medscanner
microscanner
millimeter wave scanner
mobile scanner picking
photoscanner
piezoscanner
police scanner
portscanner
radiochromatoscanner
scanography
slide scanner
telescanner
X-ray scanner
retail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiˌteɪl/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠ʷiˌtʰeɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Etymology: From the Old French verb retaillier.
Senses: examples: text: She works in retail.
topics: business
glosses: The sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.
examples: text: I never pay retail for clothes.
glosses: Retail price; full price; an abbreviated expression, meaning the full suggested price of a particular good or service, before any sale, discount, or other deal.
Derived terms: e-retail
retail apocalypse
retail bank
retail banking
retailer
retail park
retail pharmacy
retail politics
retail price
retail theft
retail therapy
Related terms: wholesale
click and collect
retail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiˌteɪl/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠ʷiˌtʰeɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Etymology: From the Old French verb retaillier.
Senses: examples: text: "This is a very retail approach for us," Czerw said. "But when you buy one out of every six home loans in the US, you are going to have a constant flow ..."
ref: 1997 December 28, “Freddie Mac establishes existing-home sales division”, in Deseret News:
text: The future for Bradley International Airport near Hartford, Conn., also looks very retail. Plans call for $156 million to expand the main terminal,
ref: 1999 December 12, Naedine Joy Hazell, “TRAVEL INSIDER; Airport Malls Redefine 'Shopping on the Fly'”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: But even with her level of celebrity, it would be very hard to win a race without engaging voters in a very retail way.
ref: 2010 September 17, “Sarah Palin's visit to Iowa keeps fans guessing”, in Des Moines Register:
text: When the New York Post branded Ron DeSantis “DeFuture” in 2022[…], it had not reckoned on the Florida governor being astonishingly awkward with the basics of retail politics: smiling, shaking hands, interacting with other people.
ref: 2024 January 19, Jonathan Freedland, “There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or relating to the (actual or figurative) sale of goods or services directly to individuals.
retail
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiˌteɪl/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠ʷiˌtʰeɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Etymology: From the Old French verb retaillier.
Senses: examples: text: We've shut shown our reseller unit. We're only selling retail now.
glosses: Direct to consumers, in retail quantities, or at retail prices.
retail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiˌteɪl/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠ʷiˌtʰeɪ̯ɫ]
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: retails
form: retailing
form: retailed
form: retailed
Etymology: From the Old French verb retaillier.
Senses: examples: text: a half part of this purveying is carried on within the city and is called retailing.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 223d:
glosses: To sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.
glosses: To sell secondhand, or in broken parts.
examples: text: He retailed to them the curious interchange of phrases he had overheard on the journey from Aleppo.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 157:
text: He became quite pale as he retailed these stories to Constance.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 762:
text: The fantasies of blood libel that Bosnian Serbs retailed about Bosnian Muslims were the fantasies that Rhinelanders had centuries earlier retailed about the Jews they had murdered.
ref: 1998 February 1, Alan Ryan, “Hot Spots (review of The Warrior's Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff)”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To repeat or circulate (news or rumours) to others.
request
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: requests
form: requesting
form: requested
form: requested
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: request
form: request
form: requested
form: request
form: requestest
form: requested
form: requestedst
form: requests
form: requesteth
form: requested
form: request
form: requested
form: request
form: requested
form: request
form: -
form: requesting
form: requested
form: requeste
Etymology: From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requīsīta, feminine of requīsītus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requīrō (“require, ask”), composed of re- + quaerō (“I seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Compare to French requérir.
Senses: examples: text: The corporal requested reinforcements.
text: I have requested that the furniture be moved back to its original position.
text: Copies of records of Spear's long-distance telephone calls (which had been requested by Norfolk County police from the telephone company)
ref: 1979 December 29, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder & Related Matters”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 6:
glosses: To ask for (something).
examples: text: She called me into her office and requested me to sit down.
synonyms: ask
bespeak
call for
glosses: To ask (somebody) to do something.
Synonyms: desire
request
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkwɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: requests
form: requeste
Etymology: From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requīsīta, feminine of requīsītus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requīrō (“require, ask”), composed of re- + quaerō (“I seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Compare to French requérir.
Senses: examples: text: I will marry her, sir, at your request.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: The promise that arises upon an account stated, is to pay on request.
ref: 1839, The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports:
synonyms: asking
beseech
prayer
wish
glosses: Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
synonyms: petition
postulation
glosses: A formal message requesting something.
examples: text: I do not doubt, but many Great and more Noble Uſes would have been made of ſuch Conqueſts or Diſcoveries, if they had fallen to the ſhare of the Greeks and Romans in thoſe Ages, when Knowledge and Fame were in as great Requeſt, as endleſs Gains and Wealth are among us now; [...]
ref: 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, page 49:
synonyms: demand
glosses: Condition of being sought after.
examples: text: The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A message sent over a network to a server.
examples: text: He gave them their request.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 106:15:
glosses: That which is asked for or requested.
Derived terms: discovery request
merge request
pull request
request for admission
request for comments
request for production
request for quotation
Related terms: require
requirement
requisite
Wiktionary:Requested entries:English
producer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈdjuːsə/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒuːsə/
ipa: /pɹəˈdusɚ/
ipa: /pɹəˈdjʉːsə/
ipa: /pɹəˈd͡ʒʉːsə/
Forms: form: producers
Etymology: From produce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An individual or organization that creates goods and services.
glosses: One who produces an artistic production, such as an album, a theater production, a film, a TV program, a video game, and so on.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.
glosses: An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven (in the UK) or ten (in Ireland) days to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.
glosses: A furnace for producing combustible gas for fuel.
Derived terms: coproducer
executive producer
hyperproducer
megaproducer
multiproducer
non-producer
nonproducer
preditor
primary producer
produceorial
produceress
producer gas
producer good
producerism
producerist
producer milk
producer-only market
producer price index
producership
producer surplus
producer tag
prosumer
record producer
superproducer
underproducer
substitute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbstɪtjuːt/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈsʌbstɪt͡ʃuːt/
note: yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈsʌbstɪtut/
ipa: /ˈsɐbstɪtjʉːt/
ipa: /ˈsɐbstɪt͡ʃʉːt/
ipa: /ˈsɐbstətjʉːt/
ipa: /ˈsɐbstət͡ʃʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: substitutes
form: substituting
form: substituted
form: substituted
Etymology: From Middle English substituten, from Latin substitutus, past participle of substituō, from sub- (“under; beneath”) + statuō (“to put up; establish”).
Senses: examples: text: I had no shallots so I substituted onion.
glosses: To use in place of something else, with the same function.
examples: text: I had to substitute new parts for the old ones.
glosses: To use X in place of Y.
raw_tags: in the phrase "substitute X for Y"
examples: text: I had to substitute old parts with the new ones.
qualifier: formerly proscribed
glosses: To use Y in place of X; to replace X with Y.
raw_tags: in the phrase "substitute X with/by Y"
examples: text: He was playing poorly and was substituted after twenty minutes
text: Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.
ref: 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To remove (a player) from the field of play and bring on another in his place.
examples: text: Accumulation of wealth by this route may substitute for personal saving.
ref: 1987, James Tobin, Essays in Economics, Vol. 2, page 75:
glosses: To serve as a replacement (for someone or something).
Synonyms: sense: to replace X with Y
word: exchange
word: swap
Derived terms: bisubstituted
chlorosubstituted
cryosubstituted
disubstituted
heterosubstituted
homosubstituted
monosubstituted
multisubstituted
nonsubstituted
pentasubstituted
persubstituted
polysubstituted
tetrasubstituted
trisubstituted
unsubstituted
substitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbstɪtjuːt/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈsʌbstɪt͡ʃuːt/
note: yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈsʌbstɪtut/
ipa: /ˈsɐbstɪtjʉːt/
ipa: /ˈsɐbstɪt͡ʃʉːt/
ipa: /ˈsɐbstətjʉːt/
ipa: /ˈsɐbstət͡ʃʉːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: substitutes
Etymology: From Middle English substituten, from Latin substitutus, past participle of substituō, from sub- (“under; beneath”) + statuō (“to put up; establish”).
Senses: examples: text: Ladies [in William Shakespeare's age], again, universally wore masks as the sole substitute known to our ancestors for the modern parasol; a fact, perhaps, not generally known.
ref: 1840 February, Thomas De Quincey, “Theory of Greek Tragedy”, in Leaders in Literature with a Notice of Traditional Errors Affecting Them (De Quincey’s Works; IX), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, footnote *, page 55:
text: Since you left me, if you see me with another girl / Seeming like I'm having fun / Although she may be cute, she's just a substitute / Because you're the permanent one
ref: 1965, “The Tracks of My Tears”, in Going to a Go-Go, performed by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles:
text: Here we go. AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.
ref: 1997, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown, spoken by Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson):
synonyms: substituend
surrogate
antonyms: substituend
substituendum
glosses: A replacement or stand-in for something that achieves a similar result or purpose.
glosses: A substitute teacher.
examples: text: Dean Whitehead opened the scoring shortly after the break with a low finish and substitute Peter Crouch sealed the win with a tap-in.
ref: 2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1 - 2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who is available to replace another if the need arises, and who may or may not actually do so.
glosses: One who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of substitute good.
Synonyms: word: fill-in
word: ghost
word: proxy
word: replacement
word: stand-in
word: substitute
word: surrogate
Hyponyms: word: alternate
word: backup
word: dummy
word: makeshift
word: reserve
word: spare
word: bench-warmer
word: body double
word: deputy
word: double
word: ghost writer
word: ghost band
word: ghost singer
word: non-union Mexican equivalent
word: stunt double
word: stuntman
word: stuntwoman
word: understudy
word: margarine
word: soy milk
word: sweetener
word: tofu
Derived terms: milk substitute
salt substitute
service as a software substitute
sheriff-substitute
substitute teacher
sugar substitute
Related terms: word: alternative
word: changeling
word: standby
word: counterpart
word: decoy
substitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌbstəˈtuʃən/
ipa: /ˌsʌbstɪˈtjuːʃən/
Forms: form: substitutions
Etymology: From Middle French substitution, from Late Latin substitutio.
Senses: examples: text: In this football tournament, three substitutions can be made during the match.
glosses: The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
examples: text: Gary is off this weekend, so Jeff will be his substitution.
glosses: A substitute or replacement.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: loan
coordinate_terms: importation
glosses: The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
Derived terms: back substitution
blood substitution
Caesar substitution
cosubstitution
cryosubstitution
disubstitution
electrophilic substitution
free substitution
intersubstitution
lexical substitution
Liskov substitution principle
metasubstitution
monosubstitution
nucleophilic substitution
orthosubstitution
oversubstitution
parasubstitution
penal substitution
photosubstitution
resubstitution
string substitution
substitutional
substitutionary
substitution cipher
substitution code
substitution of attorney
substitution reaction
substitution rule
u-substitution
preferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præferences
Senses: glosses: plural of preference
preferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præferences
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: profile
glosses: The user-specified settings of parameters in interactive computer software
preferences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præferences
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preference
propaganda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prŏp-ə-gănʹ-də
ipa: /ˌpɹɒpəˈɡændə/
ipa: [ˌpɹɒp.əˈɡæn.də]
ipa: [ˌpɹɔp.əˈɡan.də]
enpr: prŏ-pə-gănʹ-də
ipa: /ˌpɹɑpəˈɡændə/
ipa: [ˌpɹɑ.pəˈɡɛə̯n.də]
rhymes: -ændə
Forms: form: propagandas
form: propagand
Etymology: From New Latin prōpāganda, short for Congregātiō dē Prōpāgandā Fidē (“a committee of cardinals established in 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions”, literally “congregation for propagating the faith”), and properly the ablative feminine gerundive of Latin prōpāgō (“propagate”). Modern political sense dates from World War I, not originally pejorative.
Senses: examples: text: Despite being biased and often untrue, propaganda material can be useful in OSINT analysis.
glosses: Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.
raw_tags: as a neutral word dated
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Agitation, publicity, public communication aimed at influencing an audience and furthering an agenda.
The propagation of the faith by the Catholic Church by means of missionary work etc.
raw_tags: as a neutral word dated
examples: text: They established a government propaganda commission, called the Creel Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy everything German, tear the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save the world.
ref: 2002, Noam Chomsky, “Selections”, in Media Control:
text: In this metropolis that had a prewar population of almost a million, but where the city center now feels like an Orwellian ghost town of propaganda posters and armed patrols, perhaps no one feels more alone than those who still harbor pro-Ukrainian sentiments.
ref: 2014 September 25, Anthony Faiola, “An Orwellian nightmare for pro-Ukrainians in rebel-held east”, in The Washington Post, Nash Holdings, LLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2016, retrieved 25 Sep 2014:
glosses: Such communication specifically when it is biased, misleading, and/or provoking mainly emotional responses.
Derived terms: agitprop
antipropaganda
black propaganda
copaganda
counterpropaganda
cyberpropaganda
homopropaganda
infoganda
micropropaganda
nonpropaganda
propagand
propaganda by the deed
propaganda laundering
propaganda of the deed
propaganded
propagandee
propaganding
propagandism
propagandist
propagandistic
propagandize
propagandous
white propaganda
Related terms: propagandum
random
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: răn'dəm
ipa: /ˈɹændəm/
rhymes: -ændəm
homophone: randem
Forms: form: randoms
form: randoming
form: randomed
form: randomed
Etymology: From earlier randon, from Middle English randoun, raundon, from Old French randon, from randir (“to run, gallop”) (whence French randonnée (“long walk, hike”)), from Frankish *randiju (“a run, race”) or Old Norse rend (“a run, race”), both from Proto-Germanic *randijō, from *rinnaną (“run”, verb), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)r̥-nw- (“to flow, move, run”). Cognate with Middle Low German uprinden (“to jump up”), Danish rende (“to run”). See run.
Senses: glosses: To wander; to stray; to meander.
reputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reputations
Etymology: 14c. "credit, good reputation", from Middle English reputacion, reputacioun, reputation, reputatioun, from Anglo-Norman reputacion, reputacioun, Middle French reputation (French réputation), and their etymon Latin reputātiōnem (“consideration, thinking over”), noun of action from past participle stem of reputō (“reflect upon, reckon, count over”), from the prefix re- (“again”) + putō (“reckon, consider”). By surface analysis, repute + -ation. Displaced native Old English hlīsa (“reputation, fame”)
Senses: examples: text: And Balaam (or as the trueth of the hebrewe hath Bileam) doth signifie the people of no reputation
 or the vayne people or they that are not counted for people.
ref: 1529, John Frith, A pistle to the Christen reader. The Revelation of Antichrist: Antithesis, […] , Luft [i.e. Hoochstraten], page 117:
text: Sometimes a man makes a reputation, deserved or otherwise, by a single action.
ref: 1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, page 12:
text: The reputations of our universities and our research base are already under threat because of the fallout from the EU referendum result, which is making the UK an unfriendlier place for overseas scholars and students, as well as cutting off access to an important stream of research funding and to a vibrant and well-developed ecosystem for collaborative work.
ref: 2016 October 18, Stephen Curry, “Why the Higher Education and Research Bill must be amended”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: name
character
charctersavour
glosses: What somebody or something is known for.
Derived terms: reputational
reputation economy
reputation management
reputation system
your reputation precedes you
Related terms: repute
offer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɔːfə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɔfɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑfɚ/
rhymes: -ɒfə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: offers
form: offre
form: offa
Etymology: From Middle English offer, from Old English offrian (“offer or make a sacrifice”) rather than from Old French offre (“offer”), from offrir (“to offer”), from Latin offerō (“to present, bring before”). Compare North Frisian offer (“sacrifice, donation, fee”), Dutch offer (“offering, sacrifice”), German Opfer (“victim, sacrifice”), Danish offer (“victim, sacrifice”), Icelandic offr (“offering”). See verb below.
Senses: examples: text: What's in his offer?
text: I decline your offer to contract.
text: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A proposal that has been made.
examples: text: His offer was $3.50 per share.
glosses: Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
examples: text: His first letter was not a real offer, but an attempt to determine interest.
topics: law
glosses: An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.
Derived terms: counteroffer
dozens offer
job offer
make an offer
offer curve
offerless
offer of proof
offer one can't refuse
offer versus serve
offer wanted
on offer
postoffer
rights offer
tender offer
throffer
offer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒfə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɔːfə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈɔfɚ/
ipa: /ˈɑfɚ/
rhymes: -ɒfə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔːfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: offers
form: offre
form: offa
Etymology: From off + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Once you finally discover yourself a dismember-er, a de-limber, a fucking head-cutter-offer, the most simple of tasks — enjoying a long walk outside, seeing a movie, conversing with a stranger in the library — all become prized and over-inflated moments of elation.
ref: 2003, James-Jason Gantt, Losing Summer, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: agent noun of off
raw_tags: used in combinations from phrasal verbs
Derived terms: cutter-offer
topper-offer
cocoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/
enpr: kōʹkō
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/
ipa: /koˈkoʊ.ɐ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
homophone: coco
Forms: form: cocoas
Etymology: From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa came about by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.
Senses: glosses: The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
glosses: An unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
examples: text: Do you like cocoa?
text: Half past nine - high time for supper;
Cocoa, love? Of course, my dear.
Helen thinks it quite delicious,
John prefers it now to beer....
¶For they've stumbled on the secret
Of a love that never wanes,
Rapt beneath the tumbled bedclothes,
Cocoa coursing through their veins.
ref: 1979, Stanley J. Sharpless, A Food Lover's Companion, Harper & Row, Evan Jones (edit.)
synonyms: chocolate
drinking chocolate
hot chocolate
glosses: A hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.
examples: text: I like to watch TV with a cocoa.
glosses: A serving of this drink.
glosses: A light to medium brown colour.
Derived terms: cocoa bean
cocoa butter
cocoalike
cocoa-payol
cocoa powder
cocoa shunter
cocoa tea
hot cocoa
I should cocoa
noncocoa
Related terms: cacao
cocoa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/
enpr: kōʹkō
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/
ipa: /koˈkoʊ.ɐ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
homophone: coco
Etymology: From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. The form cocoa came about by confusion with coco, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language. Doublet of cacao.
Senses: glosses: Of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder.
cocoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/
enpr: kōʹkō
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/
ipa: /koˈkoʊ.ɐ/
rhymes: -əʊkəʊ
homophone: coco
Etymology: By confusion with cocoa, popularized by Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coco.
potato
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pə-tāʹtō
ipa: /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/
ipa: /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/
ipa: [-ˈteɪ.ɾoʊ]
other: /pəˈteɪ.tə/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɵˈʈaʈo/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɵˈʈeʈo/
ipa: /poˈteɪ.to/
Forms: form: potatoes
form: potatoing
form: potatoed
form: potatoed
form: potatoe
form: p'tater
form: tater
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).
Senses: examples: text: Bradshaw doesn't find much humour in it though, and beats the tar out of Dustin, potatoing him with every blow.
ref: 2014, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 1998, page 26:
glosses: To hit very hard; to pummel.
examples: text: Yvonne and Lee Swee potatoed Deputy Lestrade multiple times before Sheriff Moran potatoed them both. […] Suddenly, Sheriff Moran heard the click click of an empty weapon. He turned to see that both Mayor Eliza and Kat had run out of ammunition.
ref: 2017, A. J. Low, Sherlock Sam’s Orange Shorts: Special Edition:
glosses: To hit with a thrown or fired potato.
potato
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: pə-tāʹtō
ipa: /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/
ipa: /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/
ipa: [-ˈteɪ.ɾoʊ]
other: /pəˈteɪ.tə/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɵˈʈaʈo/
note: Indic
ipa: /pɵˈʈeʈo/
ipa: /poˈteɪ.to/
Forms: form: potatoe
form: p'tater
form: tater
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish patata, itself borrowed from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).
Senses: glosses: The rhythmic sound produced by a V-twin engine—a distinctive deep, throaty exhaust note.
historical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/
ipa: /hɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/
ipa: /hɪˈstɑɹɪkəl/
Forms: form: historicals
form: historicall
Etymology: From Latin historicus (“historical”) + -al (forming adjectives denoting of or relating to). By surface analysis, history + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.
ref: 1999, Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. Johnson-Kurek, Romantic Conventions, page 63:
glosses: A historical romance.
history
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: hĭsʹt(ə)rē
ipa: /ˈhɪs.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈhɪs.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈhəs.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈhəs.tɹi/
rhymes: -ɪstəɹi
rhymes: -ɪstɹi
Forms: form: histories
form: historying
form: historied
form: historied
form: Hx
form: hx
form: historie
form: hystory
form: hystorie
Etymology: From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.
Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.
Senses: examples: text: And therefore will hee wipe his Tables cleane,
And keepe no Tell-tale to his Memorie,
That may repeat, and Historie his losse
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To narrate or record.
historic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈstɒɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪˈstɒɹɪk/
ipa: /hɪˈstɔɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪˈstɔɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪˈstɑɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪk
Forms: form: more historic
form: most historic
form: historick
form: hystoric
form: historique
Etymology: From Latin historicus (“historical”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”). Cognate with French historique. By surface analysis, history + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A historic opportunity
text: July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
text: The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
text: Alongside the nature targets, countries reached a historic agreement to develop a financial mechanism for sharing the benefits from drug discoveries, vaccines and food products that come from digital forms of biodiversity, known as digital sequence information or DSI, after rows about biopiracy in the lead-up to Cop15.
ref: 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
examples: text: Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.
ref: 1756 August, Horace Walpole, letter republished in Private Correspondence (1820), Vol. II, No. 1
glosses: Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
examples: text: An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march, leades honor enchaind in an Epique pen, grac'd with the furtherance of historique Clio.
ref: 1594, John Dickenson, Arisbas, Euphues amidst his slumbers; or, Cupids iourney to hell:
glosses: Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
synonyms: word: historical
extra: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
examples: text: The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
Synonyms: sense: very important
word: important
word: notable
word: significant
word: landmark
word: momentous
word: groundbreaking
word: important
word: dated
word: old-fangled
word: outdated
word: bygone
word: foregone
word: past
Derived terms: ahistoric
ahistoricism
antihistoricism
antihistoricist
ethnohistoric
historic county
historic criticism
historic district
historic infinitive
historicism
historicist
historicistic
historicity
historicization
historicize
historicness
historic present
historic present tense
historic rhyme
historic site
macrohistoric
microhistoric
mythohistoric
nonhistoric
past historic
past historic tense
polyhistoric
posthistoric
prehistoric
present historic
protohistoric
sociohistoric
unhistoric
Related terms: historicaster
historic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈstɒɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪˈstɒɹɪk/
ipa: /hɪˈstɔɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪˈstɔɹɪk/
ipa: /ɪˈstɑɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪk
Forms: form: historics
form: historick
form: hystoric
form: historique
Etymology: From Latin historicus (“historical”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”). Cognate with French historique. By surface analysis, history + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Before the beginnyng of this historic, I haue thought good by waie of a Proeme, to introduce the wordes of an excellent writer called Lodouicus Caelius Rhodoginus.
ref: 1566, William Painter, chapter XI, in The Palace of Pleasure Beautified, volume I:
glosses: A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
glosses: A historian.
waste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wāst
ipa: /weɪst/
homophone: waist
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: more waste
form: most waste
Etymology: From Middle English wast, waste (“a waste”, noun), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast, waste (“a waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“a waste”), from Proto-Germanic *wōstaz, *wōstuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”).
Senses: examples: text: Niggas moves so waste / Please, come outside the house and show yourself / So I can say it to your face
ref: 2017 March 18, “Free Smoke”, in More Life, performed by Drake:
text: Waste / Don't talk to me / You're so waste
ref: 2022 September 22, “ONTARIO PLACE”, in BADMAN, performed by Bert Le Plug:
glosses: Useless and contemptible.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: wasteman
sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: wasteyute
waste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: wāst
ipa: /weɪst/
homophone: waist
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: more waste
form: most waste
Etymology: From Middle English wast, waste (“waste”, adjective), from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wast (“waste”), from Frankish *wōstī (“waste, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty, wasted”). Cognate with Old High German wuosti, wuasti (“waste, empty”), German wüst, Old Saxon wōsti (“desolate”), Old English wēste (“waste, barren, desolate, empty”).
Senses: examples: text: SOo whanne syr Galahad was departed from the castel of maydens / he rode tyl he came to a waste forest / & there he mette with syre launcelot and syr Percyuale but they knewe hym not / for he was newe desguysed / Ryghte so syr launcelot his fader dressid his spere and brake it vpon syr Galahad
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:
glosses: Uncultivated, uninhabited.
examples: text: ‘The stars,’ she whispers, ‘blindly run;
⁠A web is wov’n across the sky;
⁠From out waste places comes a cry,
And murmurs from the dying sun: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto III”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: For centuries the shrine at Mecca had been of merely local importance, far outshone by the Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem, whose cult Christians had in good measure renewed by their pilgrimage in honour of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection, while leaving the actual site of the Jerusalem Temple dishonoured and waste.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 255:
glosses: Barren; desert; empty.
examples: text: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
ref: 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
glosses: Superfluous; needless.
examples: text: the savage Baron's heart[…] became appalled as he gazed forward into the waste darkness of futurity.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
glosses: Unfortunate; disappointing.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: lay waste
sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: lie waste
sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: nonwasted
sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: nonwasting
sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: unwasted
sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: wasteland
sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: wasteness
sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: waste water
sense: terms derived from waste (adjective)
word: wastewater
researcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɜː.t͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.sɜː.t͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ɹiˈsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: researchers
Etymology: From research + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
ref: 2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34:
text: The Amazon is larger than the next two largest rainforests combined, according to Rhett Butler, a rainforest researcher and the CEO of Mongabay.
ref: 2021 June 22, Sam Romano, “Rainforests are under siege. Here’s what you should know.”, in CNN:
glosses: One who researches.
Derived terms: senior researcher
visiting researcher
research
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: newer
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌsɝt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹiˈsɝt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹɪ-/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ/
ipa: [ˈɹɪi.sɜːt͡ʃ]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: researches
form: researching
form: researched
form: researched
Etymology: Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”), by surface analysis, re- + search.
Senses: glosses: To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
glosses: To make an extensive investigation into.
glosses: To search again.
examples: text: Agency and bank staff told the newspaper the ad researched well.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: To receive a certain response in market research.
melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛlən/
rhymes: -ɛlən
Forms: form: melons
Etymology: From Middle English meloun, melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).
Senses: glosses: Some of the plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
Genus Cucumis, the true melon (including various cultigens like honeydew and cantaloupes), the horned melon, and others.
glosses: Some of the plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
Genus Citrullus, the watermelon and others
glosses: Some of the plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
Benincasa hispida, the winter melon
glosses: Some of the plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
Momordica charantia, the bitter melon
glosses: The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants
glosses: A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
examples: text: She indicated her left melon, underneath which lay the heart. “Because you stuck with me, and whether you ever said it or not, that is love.”
ref: 1958, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin:
text: “Wait a minute.” I said. “James with another woman? Mommy, that doesn't even sound right?” “It's true. I caught him squeezing her melons.”
ref: 2013, K. L. Brady, Got a Right to Be Wrong, page 107:
glosses: The breasts.
examples: text: Think! Use your melon!
glosses: The head.
glosses: A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
glosses: A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
glosses: A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.
Synonyms: breasts
Hypernyms: fruit
Hyponyms: word: cantaloupe
word: citron melon
word: honeydew
word: honeydew melon
english: musk melon
translation: musk melon
word: muskmelon
word: Persian melon
word: rockmelon
word: watermelon
word: winter melon
Derived terms: banana melon
bittermelon
chest melon
Chinese preserving melon
Christmas melon
coyote melon
fodder melon
fuzzy melon
Hami melon
jam melon
kaffir melon
Korean melon
mango melon
melonade
melonal
melon aldehyde
melon baller
melon ball scooper
melon beetle
melon bread
melon cactus
melon cutting
melonette
melongrower
melon head
melon-headed
melon-headed whale
melon heptenal
melon hole
melonic
melonious
melonist
melonlike
melonous
melonrita
Melon rugose mosaic virus
melon thistle
melontini
melonworm
melony
Montreal melon
Montreal nutmeg melon
mouse melon
Namib melon
oriental melon
paddymelon
pepino melon
pineapple melon
pocket melon
pomegranate melon
preserving melon
Santa Claus melon
seven-year melon
snake melon
snow melon
stock melon
melon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛlən/
rhymes: -ɛlən
Etymology: From Middle English meloun, melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).
Senses: glosses: Of a light pinkish orange color, like that of melon flesh.
Related terms: calabash
cantaloupe
casaba
crenshaw
melinite
spanspek
melon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛlən/
rhymes: -ɛlən
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mellon.