cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
herd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːd/
ipa: /hɜɹd/
homophone: heard
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: herds
Etymology: From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.
Senses: examples: text: John Dodds, the herd who bode in the place, was standing at the door, and he looked to see who was on the road so late.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: Any talent which gives a good new thing to others is a miracle, but commentators have thought it extra miraculous that England's first known poet was an illiterate herd.
ref: 2000, Alasdair Grey, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 38:
synonyms: herder
herdsman
glosses: Someone who keeps a group of domestic animals.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: bearherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: cowherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: goatherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: gooseherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: Hird
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: hogherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: horseherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: Hurd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: neatherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: oxherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: pigherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: swanherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: swineherd
sense: terms derived from herd (person who tends a herd)
word: VAXherd
Related terms: sense: terms related to herd (person who tends a herd)
word: cowherd
sense: terms related to herd (person who tends a herd)
word: goatherd
sense: terms related to herd (person who tends a herd)
word: gosherd
sense: terms related to herd (person who tends a herd)
word: hogsherd
sense: terms related to herd (person who tends a herd)
word: horseherd
sense: terms related to herd (person who tends a herd)
word: neatherd
sense: terms related to herd (person who tends a herd)
word: shepherd
sense: terms related to herd (person who tends a herd)
word: swineherd
herd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɜːd/
ipa: /hɜɹd/
homophone: heard
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: herds
form: herding
form: herded
form: herded
Etymology: From Middle English herde, from Old English hirde, hierde, from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz. Cognate with German Hirte, Swedish herde, Danish hyrde.
Senses: glosses: To act as a herdsman or a shepherd.
glosses: To form or put into a herd.
examples: text: I heard the herd of cattle being herded home from a long way away.
glosses: To move or drive a herd.
Related terms: drove
gather
muster
round up
ride herd on
stockpile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒkpaɪl/
ipa: /ˈstɑkˌpaɪl/
Forms: form: stockpiles
Etymology: The noun is derived from stock (“supply of anything ready for use”) + pile (“mass of things heaped together”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Under the rice subsidy program, Yingluck [Shinawatra]'s administration paid farmers up to 50 percent more than market prices for their rice. The policy was popular with farmers but left Thailand with huge rice stockpiles and caused $8 billion in losses.
ref: 2017 August 25, Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Panarat Thepgumpanat, “Thailand’s ousted PM Yingluck has fled abroad: sources”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2022:
glosses: A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
Related terms: english: semantically quite different from a nuclear stockpile
translation: semantically quite different from a nuclear stockpile
word: nuclear pile
stockpile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒkpaɪl/
ipa: /ˈstɑkˌpaɪl/
Forms: form: stockpiles
form: stockpiling
form: stockpiled
form: stockpiled
Etymology: The noun is derived from stock (“supply of anything ready for use”) + pile (“mass of things heaped together”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: He stockpiled weapons and took pot shots in the air / He feasted on their lovely bodies like a lunatic
ref: 2007 June–July (date recorded), Nick Cave, “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”, in Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, published 18 February 2008:
text: Shops' shelves were emptied on Friday as people began stockpiling food, with some unable to leave their homes due to the thigh-high snow.
ref: 2010 February 7, Adam Gabbatt, “Snow storms cause chaos on US east coast”, in The Guardian:
text: He [Jeff Bezos] once suggested that, by paying college students on every Manhattan block to stockpile products in their apartments and to shuttle them up and down on bicycles, Amazon could edge towards near-instant delivery.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2022:
text: The RNC entered June with about $72.4 million in cash reserves, nearly five times the $15 million stockpiled by the DNC, as the two parties gear up for gubernatorial races this fall and next year’s costly midterm elections for Congress.
ref: 2025 June 21, Fredreka Schouten and Arit John, “The DNC’s cash crunch deepens as new filings show Republicans with a huge advantage”, in CNN:
glosses: To accumulate or build up a supply of (something).
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To accumulate or build up a supply of (something).
To build up a stock of (nuclear weapons).
topics: business
mining
glosses: To heap up piles of (coal or ore) on the ground after it has been mined.
glosses: To build up a supply; to accumulate.
Derived terms: word: stockpiled
word: stockpiler
word: stockpiling
ashtray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæʃ.tɹeɪ/
Forms: form: ashtrays
Etymology: From ash + tray. Compare German Aschenbecher.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: ash stand
glosses: A receptacle for ash and butts from cigarettes and cigars.
Related terms: word: ashbin
word: ashcan
word: cinerary urn
ashtray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæʃ.tɹeɪ/
Forms: form: ashtrays
form: ashtraying
form: ashtrayed
form: ashtrayed
Etymology: From ash + tray. Compare German Aschenbecher.
Senses: examples: text: to ashtray a cigarette
glosses: To use an ashtray.
Related terms: word: ashcan
Charon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛəɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈkɛːrən/
ipa: /ˈkɛəɹən/
ipa: /ˈʃɛəɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈkɛəɹɑn/
ipa: /-ɹən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹən
rhymes: -ɛəɹɒn
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn). The name of the moon was coined by American astronomer James W. Christy in 1978, in reference to a fictional moon of Pluto in a novel by Edmond Hamilton but also influenced by its similarity to Char, a pet name for Charlene, his wife's name — hence the alternative American pronunciation, which is used at NASA.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The ferryman of Hades, who rowed the shades of the dead across the river Styx.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The largest of the five moons of Pluto.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ⯕
Derived terms: Charonian
Charonic
Charon's obol
Charon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛəɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈkɛːrən/
ipa: /ˈkɛəɹən/
ipa: /ˈʃɛəɹɑn/
ipa: /ˈkɛəɹɑn/
ipa: /-ɹən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹən
rhymes: -ɛəɹɒn
Forms: form: Charons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Χάρων (Khárōn). The name of the moon was coined by American astronomer James W. Christy in 1978, in reference to a fictional moon of Pluto in a novel by Edmond Hamilton but also influenced by its similarity to Char, a pet name for Charlene, his wife's name — hence the alternative American pronunciation, which is used at NASA.
Senses: glosses: Any ferryman.
proselytize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒs.əl.ɪ.taɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɒs.əl.ə.taɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.sə.lɪ.taɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.sə.lə.taɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.zə.lɪ.taɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑ.zə.lə.taɪz/
Forms: form: proselytizes
form: proselytizing
form: proselytized
form: proselytized
form: proselytise
Etymology: From proselyte + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: One of these [people] whom they endeavour to proselytize.
ref: 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC:
text: “I am not sent here to proselytize. My church is not in that business.”
ref: 1909, Ralph Connor, chapter 14, in The Foreigner:
text: Counterterrorism officials believe bin Laden has set up cells to proselytize the large Middle East expatriate population living in the area.
ref: 2001 December 10, Douglas Waller, “A Terror Threat From The South”, in Time:
text: It is illegal to proselytize [children] in some countries
synonyms: evangelize
convert
glosses: To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so.
synonyms: evangelize
convert
convert
glosses: To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so.
To coerce into religious conversion.
coordinate_terms: evangelize
qualifier: strictly
examples: text: He has strong political views, and an annoying habit of proselytizing at parties.
text: Previously I promised not to proselytize miserism, but now I want to renege a little on that promise. If your family income is anywhere near average, you can scrimp and save and cut back for maybe two to four years […]
ref: 2010, Dolly Freed, Possum Living, page 149:
synonyms: advocate
back
endorse
peddle
recruit
glosses: To advertise a non-religious belief, way of living, cause, point of view, (scientific) hypothesis, social or other position, political party, or other organization; to convince someone to join such a cause or organization or support such a position; to recruit someone.
Related terms: proselyte
proselytism
voyage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈvaɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: voyages
Etymology: From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage. Doublet of viaticum.
Senses: examples: text: He went on a voyage to France.
text: There is a Tide in the affayres of men, / Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune: / Omitted, all the voyage of their life, / Is bound in Shallowes, and in Miſeries.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 126, column 1:
text: I love a Sea voyage and a bluſtring tempeſt; [...]
ref: 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 1], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene vi, page 467, column 2:
text: "And as their valour, so you trow, defied
on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,
so many changing skies their manhood tried,
such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, The Lusiads, volume I, translation of Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, page 23:
glosses: A long journey, especially by ship.
examples: text: I cannot learn what his Name was, unleſs by the Inſcription of the Letters he ſent to the Pope, and to the French King in the Year 1688, mentioned in the ſecond Voyage of Father Tachard […]
ref: 1690, “The Preface to the Reader”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page v:
text: By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]
ref: 1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 1:
glosses: A written account of a journey or travel.
examples: text: [...] [A]ll Nations haue Enterknowledge one of another, either by Voyage into Forreine Parts, or by Strangers that come to them: [...]
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, page 12:
glosses: The act or practice of travelling.
Synonyms: adventure
exploration
expedition
excursion
journey
tour
vacation
Derived terms: maiden voyage
nom de voyage
not wanted on voyage
voyage data recorder
voyage of the damned
voyage planning
Related terms: envoy
voyage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔɪ.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈvaɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: voyages
form: voyaging
form: voyaged
form: voyaged
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: voyage
form: voyage
form: voyaged
form: voyage
form: voyagest
form: voyaged
form: voyagedst
form: voyages
form: voyageth
form: voyaged
form: voyage
form: voyaged
form: voyage
form: voyaged
form: voyage
form: -
form: voyaging
form: voyaged
Etymology: From Middle English viage, borrowed from Anglo-Norman viage and Old French voiage, from Latin viaticum. The modern spelling is under the influence of Modern French voyage. Doublet of viaticum.
Senses: examples: text: A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.
ref: 1850, William Wordsworth, The Prelude:
text: O soul, voyagest thou indeed on voyages like those? / Disportest thou on waters such as those?
ref: 1870, Walt Whitman, “Passage to India”, in Leaves of Grass […], Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay, publisher, […], published 1892, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 322:
glosses: To go on a long journey.
Derived terms: voyager
senator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.ə.tə/
ipa: /ˈsɛn.ə.tɚ/
Forms: form: senators
form: senatour
Etymology: From Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”), equivalent to senate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy made “welfare hotel for Third-World nations” a household catchphrase.
ref: 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31
text: I was a United States senator-elect at age thirty.
ref: 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.
glosses: A member of any legislative body or parliament, particularly the British Parliament.
glosses: A member of the ancient Roman Senate.
glosses: A member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world.
examples: text: Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: A member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman.
glosses: An important church official.
glosses: In Germany, a minister of the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; and a government official of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League.
Coordinate terms: congressman
congresswoman
MP
Related terms: senate
senatress
senatrix
pork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːk/
ipa: /poɹk/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /po(ː)ɹk/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /poək/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: porks
form: porking
form: porked
form: porked
Etymology: From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).
Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken.
Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.
US politics sense is related to pork barrel.
Senses: examples: text: Marlene! Don't tell me you're gonna pork Marlene Desmond!
ref: 1978, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, Animal House (motion picture), spoken by Boon (Peter Riegert), Universal Pictures:
text: You know, I can't remember just how I discovered doorknobs, but as a teenager I used to pork myself on a particular one — a nice, smooth round one — from time to time.
ref: 1989 February 12, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Fun With The Electro-Lux And Other Masturbation Stories”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 9:
synonyms: word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sex with (someone).
raw_tags: of a male
pork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːk/
ipa: /poɹk/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /po(ː)ɹk/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /poək/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: porks
Etymology: Blend of pin + fork
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
four-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)lɛɡd/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/
rhymes: (noun) -ɛɡɪd
Forms: form: fourlegged
Etymology: From four + legged.
Senses: glosses: Having four legs.
Synonyms: quadruped
quadrupedal
Derived terms: four-legged friend
four-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/
ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)lɛɡd/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈlɛɡɪd/
rhymes: (noun) -ɛɡɪd
Forms: form: four-leggeds
form: fourlegged
Etymology: From four + legged.
Senses: examples: text: The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.
ref: 2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:
text: We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.
ref: 2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113:
text: It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds—human beings and birds—were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others.
ref: 2013, Vine Deloria Jr., edited by James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: An animal that walks on four legs.
examples: text: With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds.
ref: 1998, Accident Models for Two-lane Rural Roads: Segments and Intersections:
glosses: An intersection where two roads cross.
Related terms: bipedal
decapodal
octopodous
three-legged
two-footed
two-legged
atheist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪθiɪst/
Forms: form: more atheist
form: most atheist
Etymology: From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”).
Senses: examples: text: He would have been seven times more Epicure and atheist than he was.
ref: c. 16th-17th century, “Francis Bacon”, in Of Unity in Religion:
text: God! That majestic name is in the pledge. In doing this the government has already made clear that our country believes in God! We are the majority! Our nation is not Buddhist, not Hinduist, not Atheist, and the list goes on!
ref: 2007 December 1, R. D. Richardson, Violence in the Urban Schools!: What Would You Do?, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Of or relating to atheists or atheism; atheistic.
atheist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪθiɪst/
Forms: form: atheists
form: atheisting
form: atheisted
form: atheisted
Etymology: From Middle French athéiste (athée + -iste), from Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos, “godless, without god”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + θεός (theós, “god”).
Senses: examples: text: The multitude of opinions doth draw him away, or else Atheist him, that he will be nothing. […] The multitude of opinions […] doth un-atheist him, put him upon the search and examination what is the truth of God.
ref: 1646, Samuel Bolton: The arraignment of errour:
glosses: To make someone an atheist.
Derived terms: antiatheist
atheistick
atheistlike
faitheist
negative atheist
neoatheist
nonatheist
polyatheist
semiatheist
thermistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: thermistors
Etymology: Blend of thermal + resistor
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A resistor whose resistance varies rapidly and predictably with temperature and as a result can be used to measure temperature.
Related terms: resistor
varistor
photoresistor
venison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛ.nɪ.zən/
ipa: /ˈvɛ.nɪ.sən/
ipa: /ˈvɛ.nɪ.sən/
ipa: /ˈvɛ.nɪ.zən/
rhymes: -ɛnɪzən
rhymes: -ɛnɪsən
Forms: form: venisons
Etymology: From Middle English venisoun, venesoun, from Anglo-Norman veneisun, venesoun, venesun (“meat of large game, particularly deer or boar; hunt”), from Latin vēnātiō, vēnātiōnem (“hunt; meat from a hunt”), formed on vēnātus, perfect participle of vēnor (“I hunt”). Doublet of venatio and venation.
Senses: examples: text: After shooting a deer, field dressing is the next step necessary for high quality venison.
glosses: The meat of a deer, typically one that had lived in its own natural habitat.
examples: 2007, Gregory Simon Bull, Marketing fresh venison in the Eastern Cape Province using a niche marketing strategy (thesis), page xcix
glosses: The meat of an antelope.
glosses: The meat of any wild animal that has been hunted rather than raised domestically.
Synonyms: deer meat
deerflesh
ad nauseam
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd ˈnɔːziəm/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈnɔziəm/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈnɑziəm/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈnɒziəm/
Forms: form: ad nauseum
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad nauseam, from ad (“to”) + nauseam (“sea-sickness, sickness, nausea”), accusative of nausea.
Senses: glosses: To a nauseating or sickening degree.
examples: text: A drunk person was repeating the same old story ad nauseam.
text: The Feelings album flew off the shelves, and Albert became a pop sensation - until, thanks to airplay ad nauseam, radio listeners grew weary of his sentiments.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 325:
glosses: Having been done or repeated so often that it has become annoying or tiresome.
ad nauseam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd ˈnɔːziəm/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈnɔziəm/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈnɑziəm/
ipa: /ˌæd ˈnɒziəm/
Forms: form: ad nauseum
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin ad nauseam, from ad (“to”) + nauseam (“sea-sickness, sickness, nausea”), accusative of nausea.
Senses: examples: text: The Feelings album flew off the shelves, and Albert became a pop sensation—until, thanks to airplay ad nauseam, radio listeners grew weary of his sentiments.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 325:
glosses: Done or repeated so often that it becomes annoying or tiresome.
P/E ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P/E ratios
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Alternative form of PE ratio.
dock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒk/
ipa: /dɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: doc
homophone: Doc
homophone: dark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: docks
Etymology: From Middle English dokke, from Old English docce, from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ (compare Old Danish dokke (“water-dock”), West Flemish dokke, dokkebladeren (“coltsfoot, butterbur”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”) (compare Latvian duga (“scum, slime on water”)).
Senses: examples: text: And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 352:
glosses: Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
glosses: A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
Derived terms: bloody dock
butterdock
candock
curled dock
dock leaf
docklike
dock pudding
patience dock
prairie dock
red-veined dock
spatterdock
waterdock
wood dock
yellow dock
dock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒk/
ipa: /dɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: doc
homophone: Doc
homophone: dark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: docks
Etymology: A horse with a fully docked (sense 1) tail
A dog with a partially docked (sense 1) tail
From Middle English dok (“trimmed hair, dock”), from Old English *docce, *docca (as in fingerdocce (“finger muscles”)), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeu-k- (“to spin, shake”).
Compare Icelandic dokkur (“stumpy tail”), Low German Dokke (“bundle of straw”), West Frisian dok (“bunch, ball (twine)”), Albanian dak (“big ram”), Lithuanian dvė̃kti (“to breathe, wheeze”), dvãkas (“breath”), Sanskrit धुक्षति (dhukṣati, “to blow”).
The verb is from Middle English dokken (“to cut short, dock, curtail”), derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The Dock is about 1 inch thick, and two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock
ref: 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
glosses: The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
examples: text: And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.
ref: 1665, Charles Cotton, Scarronnides:
glosses: The buttocks or anus.
glosses: A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
dock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒk/
ipa: /dɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: doc
homophone: Doc
homophone: dark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: docks
form: docking
form: docked
form: docked
Etymology: A horse with a fully docked (sense 1) tail
A dog with a partially docked (sense 1) tail
From Middle English dok (“trimmed hair, dock”), from Old English *docce, *docca (as in fingerdocce (“finger muscles”)), from Proto-West Germanic *dokkā, from Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeu-k- (“to spin, shake”).
Compare Icelandic dokkur (“stumpy tail”), Low German Dokke (“bundle of straw”), West Frisian dok (“bunch, ball (twine)”), Albanian dak (“big ram”), Lithuanian dvė̃kti (“to breathe, wheeze”), dvãkas (“breath”), Sanskrit धुक्षति (dhukṣati, “to blow”).
The verb is from Middle English dokken (“to cut short, dock, curtail”), derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
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, pages 58–59:
text: The team have been docked six points at Paris 2024 and Priestman received a one-year football ban from world governing body Fifa.
ref: 2024 July 28, “Priestman 'heartbroken' by drone scandal as funding pulled”, in BBC:
glosses: To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
examples: text: Her wages were docked by ten dollars.
glosses: To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
examples: text: They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.
glosses: To reduce the wages of (a person).
examples: text: to dock an entail
glosses: To cut off, bar, or destroy.
examples: text: Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork.
ref: Emma Christensen (11 July 2008), “How and When to Dock a Pie Crust”, in The Kitchn
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
dock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒk/
ipa: /dɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: doc
homophone: Doc
homophone: dark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: docks
form: docking
form: docked
form: docked
Etymology: A dock (sense 1, sense 2) for cruise ships
A laptop docking (sense 5) station
A GUI dock (sense 6) on Linux
From Early Modern English meaning "area of mud in which a ship can rest at low tide, dock", borrowed from either Dutch dok (“dock, wharf”) or Middle Low German docke (“dock, wharf”), both from Middle Dutch docke (“port, harbour”), of uncertain origin. The original sense may have been "the furrow a grounded vessel makes in a mud bank". Compare Danish dok, Dutch dok, West Frisian dok, German Dock, Low German Dock, Swedish docka.
Some sources link this word to an unattested Middle Dutch *docke (“watercourse, trench, canal”), which is a ghost word, only being inferred from Mediaeval Latin documents in the form of ducta, doctus, doccia (“conduit, canal”). However, if this theory is correct, then it would relate the word to Italian doccia (“drainpipe”), making dock a doublet of douche and duct.
An alternative theory ties Middle Dutch docke to a North Germanic or Scandinavian source, notably Old Norse dǫkk, dökð (“depression in the landscape, pit, pool, trench”); compare Icelandic dökk, Norwegian dokk (“hollow, low ground”), Swedish dank (“marshy ground”). If so, this would make dock a doublet of dank.
Senses: examples: text: On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this.
ref: 29 February 2012, Aidan Foster-Carter, BBC News North Korea: The denuclearisation dance resumeshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17213948
coordinate_terms: berth
moor
glosses: To land at a harbour.
examples: text: to dock spacecraft
text: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: To join two moving items.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
glosses: In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
examples: text: I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.
glosses: To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
Derived terms: dockable
dockage
docking
redock
undock
dock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒk/
ipa: /dɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
homophone: doc
homophone: Doc
homophone: dark (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
Forms: form: docks
Etymology: Originally criminal slang; from or akin to obsolete Dutch (West Flemish) dok (“cage, hutch”) or docke (“cage”), possibly from Middle Dutch docke (“block, wooden object”), related to Middle Low German docke (“tenon, banister rod, bench cheek, side panel of a pew”), of uncertain origin.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
Derived terms: in the dock
jump the dock
artist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːtɪst/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.tɪst/
ipa: [ˈɑɹ.ɾɪst]
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tɪst
Forms: form: more artist
form: most artist
Etymology: From French artiste, from Late Latin artista, from ars (“art”). Doublet of artiste. Displaced native Old English cræftiga. By surface analysis, art + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Nature, to shew that nothing is savage in whatsoever she produceth, causeth oftentimes, even in rudest and most unarted nations, productions of spirits to arise, that confront and wrestle with the most artist productions.
ref: , vol.1, ch.24
glosses: Artistic.
prostitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌprɒstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃn/
ipa: /prɒstɪˈtjuːʃn/
Forms: form: prostitutions
Etymology: From Late Latin prostitutio. Equivalent to prostitute + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: His addiction brought him to the point that prostitution was the only means he had to survive.
text: Sir Howard by his arts stole from them this their only treasure, and to conceal from them the baseness of his despicable seduction, removed to a distance the deluded couple,—loaded them with his favours,—the wages of their child's prostitution.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter II, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 21:
text: The FBI typically does not investigate adult prostitution, leaving it as a state and local matter, but in recent years it has made child prostitution a priority in a program the FBI calls Operation Cross Country. The program includes highway billboards asking people to call the FBI with tips.
ref: 2013 July 29, David Ingram (reporting for Reuters), Howard Goller, Bill Trott (editing for Reuters), “FBI arrests 150 in three days in sex-trafficking sweep”, in news.yahoo.com, retrieved 29 Jul 2013:
glosses: Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay.
glosses: Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.
examples: text: The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.
glosses: Debasement for profit or impure motives.
Synonyms: harlotry
oldest occupation
oldest profession
whoredom
world's oldest profession
Hypernyms: sex work
Related terms: prostitute
child prostitution
prostitute's pupil
U.S.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Russian officials have raised increasingly frustrated requests for greater support during discussions with Beijing in recent weeks, calling on China to live up to its affirmation of a “no limits” partnership made weeks before the war in Ukraine began. But China’s leadership wants to expand assistance for Russia without running afoul of Western sanctions and has set limits on what it will do, according to Chinese and U.S. officials.
ref: 2022 June 2, Cate Cadell, Ellen Nakashima, “Beijing chafes at Moscow’s requests for support, Chinese officials say”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2022:
glosses: Alternative spelling of US.
stake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /steɪk/
homophone: steak
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: stakes
form: staking
form: staked
form: staked
Etymology: From Middle English stake, from Old English staca (“pin, tack, stake”), from Proto-West Germanic *stakō, from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *stog-, *steg- (“stake”).
Cognate with Scots stak, staik, Saterland Frisian Stak, West Frisian staak, Dutch staak, Low German Stake, Norwegian stake, Spanish estaca.
Senses: examples: text: to stake vines or plants
glosses: To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes.
examples: text: You see, I'd made a bargain with him to buy the horse for a hundred and twenty—a swinging price, but I always liked the horse. And what does he do but go and stake him—fly at a hedge with stakes in it, atop of a bank with a ditch before it.
ref: 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner:
text: “You ladies happen to notice what happened to this vampire? This just happened. Did you see who staked him?”
ref: 2014, A. J. Gallant, Dracula: Hearts of Stone:
glosses: To pierce or wound with a stake.
examples: text: I'll ſtake my Lamb that near the Fountain plays, / And from the Brink his dancing Shade ſurveys.
ref: 1709 May, Alexander Pope, “Pastorals. Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon. […]”, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 725:
synonyms: bet
hazard
wager
glosses: To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.
examples: text: John went broke, so to keep him playing, Jill had to stake him.
text: His family staked him $10,000 to get his business started.
glosses: To provide (another) with money in order to engage in an activity as betting or a business venture.
examples: text: Any peer can participate in the mining process by staking coins in order to validate a new transaction. To become a miner, there are two options; you can stake your coins to be used by a trustworthy node […], or you can submit a full node to be selected as a miner.
ref: 2019, Elad Elrom, “Blockchain Basics”, in The Blockchain Developer […] , Apress, →ISBN, page 23:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
glosses: To deposit and risk a considerable amount of cryptocurrency in order to participate in the proof of stake process of verification.
Derived terms: stake a claim
stake one's life
stake out
stakeout
ch.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of church.
glosses: Abbreviation of chapter.
coupon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːˌpɒn/
ipa: /ˈkuːpən/
ipa: /ˈkuːˌpɔ̃/
ipa: /ˈkuːˌpɑn/
ipa: /ˈkjuːˌpɑn/
ipa: [ˈkʰuˌpan]
ipa: [ˈkj̥uˌpan]
ipa: /ˈkʉuˌpɒn/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈkʲuːˌpɑn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkupən/
ipa: /ˈkjuːˌpɔn/
ipa: /ˈkuːˌpɔn/
Forms: form: coupons
Etymology: From French coupon, from couper (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.
glosses: A voucher issued by a manufacturer or retailer which offers a discount on a particular product.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Any interest payment made or due on a bond, debenture or similar (no longer by a physical coupon).
topics: government
politics
glosses: The letter sent to parliamentary candidates at the 1918 general election, endorsing them as official representatives of the coalition government.
glosses: A person's face.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A small sample of a bulk material, prepared so that test failure will be representative.
Synonyms: sense: section of a ticket giving the holder some entitlement
word: voucher
Derived terms: Catalina coupon
coupon bond
coupon code
couponer
couponing
couponless
coupon queen
coupon site
e-coupon
international reply coupon
Internet coupon
noncoupon
parking coupon
plot coupon
ration coupon
social coupon
xc
zero coupon
zero coupon bond
zero-coupon note
coupon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːˌpɒn/
ipa: /ˈkuːpən/
ipa: /ˈkuːˌpɔ̃/
ipa: /ˈkuːˌpɑn/
ipa: /ˈkjuːˌpɑn/
ipa: [ˈkʰuˌpan]
ipa: [ˈkj̥uˌpan]
ipa: /ˈkʉuˌpɒn/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈkʲuːˌpɑn/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkupən/
ipa: /ˈkjuːˌpɔn/
ipa: /ˈkuːˌpɔn/
Forms: form: coupons
form: couponing
form: couponed
form: couponed
Etymology: From French coupon, from couper (“to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: Jenna coupons and she goes through three magazines a day to find the coupons.
glosses: To use coupons to a such extent that makes the user actively looking for coupons in magazines, online and whatever they can be found.
Derived terms: couponer
couponner
couponing
couponning
take up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: take ups
form: take one up
Senses: examples: text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
glosses: Alternative form of take-up.
agric.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of agriculture.
agric.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of agricultural.
agriculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡɹɪˌkʌltʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈeɪɡɹɪˌkʌlt͡ʃɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /əɡˈrɪkəltʃə(r)/
Forms: form: agricultures
Etymology: From Middle English agriculture, partly from Middle French agriculture and partly from its etymon Latin agricultūra, from ager (“field”) + cultūra (“cultivation”). See acre and culture.
Senses: glosses: The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.
Derived terms: agribusiness
agriculturer
agriculturism
agriculturize
agrihood
agritainment
antiagriculture
astroagriculture
hydroagriculture
intensive agriculture
permaculture
petroculture
plasticulture
postagriculture
preagriculture
precision agriculture
traditional agriculture
vegeculture
Related terms: agricultural
agriculturist
agroponics
terraponics
farming
husbandry
tillage
lottery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒtəɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɒtɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɑtɚi/
rhymes: -ɒtəɹi
rhymes: -ɒtɹi
Forms: form: lotteries
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with English lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie). By surface analysis, lot + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Dave plays the lottery almost every week, but always picks different numbers.
glosses: A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
examples: text: It's a bit of a lottery whether we'll get a good table in that diner.
glosses: Something decided by chance.
glosses: Allotment; a thing allotted.
Derived terms: word: antilottery
word: draft lottery
word: e-lottery
word: genetic lottery
word: ghetto lottery
word: ladder lottery
word: lotologist
word: lotterylike
word: lottery ticket
word: nigger lottery
word: nonlottery
word: postcode lottery
word: silicon lottery
word: St. Petersburg lottery
word: video lottery terminal
word: win the lottery
testament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛs.tə.mənt/
ipa: /ˈtes.tə.mənt/
Forms: form: testaments
Etymology: From Middle English testament, from Old French testament, from Latin testāmentum (“the publication of a will, a will, testament, in Late Latin one of the divisions of the Bible”), from testor (“I am a witness, testify, attest, make a will”), from testis (“one who attests, a witness”).
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: will#Noun
last will and testament
last will
glosses: A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).
glosses: One of the two parts to the scriptures of the Christian religion: the New Testament, considered by Christians to be a continuation of the Hebrew scriptures, and the Hebrew scriptures themselves, which they refer to as the Old Testament.
examples: text: The ancient aqueducts are a testament to the great engineering skill of the Roman Empire.
text: These ads are a sad testament to the paper's attitude toward gay men, and a disheartening indication of the direction GCN may be going.
ref: 1976 August 28, Steven Blevins, “Ads and Beauty Contests”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 4:
glosses: A tangible proof or tribute.
examples: text: The prime minister's speech was a glowing testament to the cabinet's undying commitment to the royal cause.
glosses: A credo, expression of conviction.
Derived terms: Final Testament
holographic testament
New Testament
Old Testament
testamentary
Related terms: intestate
testate
testator
testify
testimonial
testimony