cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nilometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nilometers
form: Nilometer
Etymology: From Nile + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: a device used to measure the rise of water in the Nile at the flood
Synonyms: Niloscope
Hypernyms: stream gauge
aludel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæl.jʊ.dɛl/
Forms: form: aludels
Etymology: From Medieval Latin aludel, from Arabic الأُثَال (al-ʔuṯāl, “the sublimation vessel”).
Senses: synonyms: Orphic egg
glosses: A pear-shaped pot with an opening at each end, formerly used, especially by alchemists, for sublimation.
ambages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈam.bɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
Etymology: From Middle English ambages, from Old French ambages (modern French ambages), from Latin ambāges, from ambi- + agere (“to drive”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus from her cell Cumæan Sibyl sings / Ambiguous ambages, the cloyster rings / With the shrill sound thereof, in most dark strains.
ref: 1632, Vicar's Virgil, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Having thus briefly anatomized the body and soul of man,[…]I may now freely proceed to treat of my intended subject, to most men's capacity; and after many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is[…].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, page 169:
glosses: Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.
examples: text: Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered.
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford:
glosses: Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.
Derived terms: circumambages
Related terms: ambiguous
East Midlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An administrative region in the geographical centre of England, consisting of the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire.
ambsace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪmz.eɪs/
/ˈæmzˌeɪs/
Forms: form: ambsaces
form: ambes-as
form: ambs-ace
form: ames-ace
form: amesace
Etymology: From Old French ambes as (“both aces”), from Latin ambo + as.
Senses: examples: text: MARLOW (flirting with a maid).
And why not now, my angel? Such beauty fires beyond the power of resistance.—Pshaw! the father here! My old luck: I never nicked seven that I did not throw ames ace three times following. [Exit MARLOW.]
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
glosses: Two ones; the lowest throw at dice; a pair of aces.
glosses: Bad luck, worthlessness.
Related terms: within ames ace
anabasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæbəsɪs/
Forms: form: anabases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάβασις (anábasis, “a going up, an ascent”), from ἀναβαίνω (anabaínō), from ᾰ̓νᾰ- (ănă-, “up”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).
Senses: examples: text: During the French anabasis to Moscow he entered our service, made himself a prodigious favorite with the whole imperial family, and even now is only in his twenty−second year.
ref: 1838, Thomas de Quincey, The Avenger:
text: ‘I have a feeling that if we follow a scent of spring on the air with sufficient eagerness we’ll come to a south without snow more quickly than we think. Thalassa, thalassa. This is what the Greeks called an anabasis.’ They looked at him as if he were barmy.
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
text: The Wordsworthian journey to the source […] is more of an amble than an anabasis or strenuous heroic quest.
ref: 1989, Frederic Stewart Colwell, Rivermen, page 47:
glosses: A military march up-country, especially that of Cyrus the Younger into Asia.
glosses: The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.
metalsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalsmiths
Etymology: From metal + smith.
Senses: examples: text: THE THREE DOMINANT FORMS IN METALSMITHING […] At present, there are but three basic volumetric forms dominating the work of metalsmiths, the spherical (usually in its most practical form, the domical), the cylindrical, and the cubical. […] The possibilities for further variations on them are all but exhausted, there being little chance to express new and unusual ideas within the framework of such limited choices. As a result, much of twentieth-century metalsmithing has relied on surface enrichment rather than formal development for its originality.
ref: 1978, Heikki Seppä, Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths, [Kent, Oh.]: Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Between 1865 and 1880, the supply of German silver increased greatly, leading to an abundance of items manufactured from it and a decline in its value as a rare commodity. Southern Plains metalsmiths produced horse gear, pectorals and crosses, earrings, finger rings, other jewelry, and decorative objects with German silver.
ref: 1999, Daniel C. Swan, Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief, University Press of Mississippi, page 63:
text: The recipe for shakudo is unknown; each Japanese metalsmith had his own secret recipe.
ref: 2024 May 16, Jill Newman, “When Form(s) Follows Function”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A craftsman fashioning objects such as tools or works of art out of various metals; one who engages in metalsmithing.
Synonyms: smith
Hyponyms: word: coppersmith
word: goldsmith
english: blacksmith
translation: blacksmith
word: ironsmith
word: platinumsmith
word: silversmith
alt: whitesmith
word: tinsmith
Related terms: metalsmithing
anaclitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ænəˈklɪtɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνάκλιτος (anáklitos, “for reclining”), from ἀνακλίνω (anaklínō). Originally in the phrase anaclitic type, translating Freud's term Anlehnungstypus.
Senses: examples: text: I don’t think I have to gloss the true anaclitic purport behind your need to humiliate a woman doctor symbolically.
ref: 1982, Fowles, Mantissa:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: Denoting a person whose choice of love-interest arises from the dependence of the libido on another instinct (e.g., hunger).
examples: text: When introjects are weak (or even absent), an anaclitic personality configuration results, characterized by dependency, insecurity, and feelings of helplessness and emptiness.
ref: 2003, Theodore Millon, Melvin J. Lerner, Irving B. Weiner, Handbook of Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, page 123:
glosses: Pertaining to an acute emotional dependence on another person or persons.
Derived terms: anaclitically
anacoluthon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ænəkəˈluːθɒn/
Forms: form: anacolutha
form: anacoluthons
form: anacolouthon
Etymology: From Late Latin anacolūthon, from Ancient Greek ἀνακόλουθον (anakólouthon, “without sequence, anomalous [of inflections or grammatical constructions]”), from ἀ(ν)- (a(n)-, “un-”) + ἀκόλουθος (akólouthos, “following”). Compare English non sequitur, from an analogous Latin phrase, denoting a different but related concept.
Senses: examples: text: The name of his dog is — I don't really remember right now.
text: Another species of anacoluthon is when, after the sentence is begun with a participle, the construction passes over into a finite verb, where we should naturally expect the participial construction to be continued.
ref: 1835, Moses Stuart, A Treatise on the Syntax of the New Testament Dialect: With an Appendix, Containing a Dissertation on the Greek Article, Edinburgh: T. Clarke, →OCLC, page 249:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sentence or clause that is grammatically inconsistent, especially with respect to the type of clausal or phrasal complement for the initial clause.
examples: text: Anacoluthon, though a grammatical defect, is a rhetorical beauty, if naturally produced or imitated; as, "If thou art he—but oh! how fallen!"
ref: 1874, James Boyd, Elements of English Composition, Grammatical, Rhetorical, Logical, and Practical; Prepared for Academies and Schools, New York: A.S. Barnes, →OCLC, page 281:
glosses: Intentional use of such a structure.
Hyponyms: anapodoton
nominativus pendens
Derived terms: anacoluthic
anacoluthistic
Related terms: non sequitur
anacrusis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /anəˈkɹuːsɪs/
Forms: form: anacruses
Etymology: Via New Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνάκρουσις (anákrousis, “pushing up”), from ἀνακρούω (anakroúō, “I push up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + κρούω (kroúō, “I strike”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: An unstressed syllable at the start of a verse.
examples: text: Then Etheridge poised his baton, jerked an upbeat, and made the violinists speak the low G and A of their anacrusis.
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An unstressed note or notes before the first strong beat (or downbeat) of a phrase.
Related terms: crusis
anagogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæn.ə.ɡɒ.d͡ʒi/
/ˈæn.ə.ɡoʊ.d͡ʒi/
/æn.əˈɡɒd͡.ʒi/
/æn.əˈɡoʊ.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: anagogies
form: anagoge
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin anagōgē, from Ancient Greek ἀναγωγή (anagōgḗ, “religious or ecstatic elevation, mystical feeling”), from ἀνάγειν (anágein, “lift up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + ἄγειν (ágein, “to lead”).
Senses: glosses: The spiritual or mystical interpretation of a word or passage beyond the literal, allegorical or moral sense.
Related terms: anagoge
anagogic
stuffer fragment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuffer fragments
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A section of DNA contained within the genome of lambda vector that is replaced by the DNA to be cloned.
stuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌfɚ/
ipa: /ˈstʌfə/
rhymes: -ʌfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stuffers
Etymology: From stuff + -er.
Senses: examples: a cushion-stuffer
glosses: One who, or that which, stuffs.
glosses: A taxidermist.
glosses: Something which is stuffed into an enclosure, especially an advertising circular included with other mail.
glosses: One who conceals a package of illegal drugs by swallowing them.
Derived terms: bird stuffer
envelope stuffer
stocking stuffer
stuffer fragment
anastomosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ənæstəˈməʊsɪs/
Forms: form: anastomoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναστόμωσις (anastómōsis), from ἀναστομόω (anastomóō, “furnish with a mouth or outlet”).
Senses: glosses: A cross-connection between two blood vessels.
examples: text: (...) our grandam, which we are linked up with by successive anastomosis of navelcords sold us all, seed, breed and generation, for a penny pippin.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: A dark purple fluid appeared to pulse in the tortuous anastomoses of channels which lay under the surface.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: An interconnection between any two channels, passages or vessels.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical creation of a connecting passage between blood vessels, bowels or other channels.
glosses: The insertion of one word within another, as in "underdarkneath" (James Joyce).
Derived terms: anastomotic
enteroanastomosis
gastroanastomosis
gastroenteroanastomosis
microanastomosis
neuroanastomosis
reanastomosis
ureterocystanastomosis
Related terms: anastomose
anastomosed
go-cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊˌkɑɹt/
Forms: form: go-carts
form: gocart
form: go-kart
Etymology: From go + cart.
Senses: glosses: A small, open-wheeled vehicle for racing; often spelled go-kart.
glosses: A framework moving on casters, designed to support children as they learn to walk; a baby walker.
Related terms: karting
go-cart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊˌkɑɹt/
Forms: form: go-carts
form: go-carting
form: go-carted
form: go-carted
form: gocart
form: go-kart
Etymology: From go + cart.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of go-kart.
eggy bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Bread that has been dipped in an egg mixture and fried; French toast.
Related terms: French toast
anfractuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈfɹæktʃʊəs/
Forms: form: more anfractuous
form: most anfractuous
Etymology: From Late Latin anfractuosus, from Latin anfractus (“bend, curve”).
Senses: examples: text: So intricate, ſo anfractuous, ſo unſearchable are the vvays of Providence.
ref: 1668, Franciscus Euistor the Palæopolite [pseudonym; Henry More], “The Second Dialogue”, in Divine Dialogues, Containing Sundry Disquisitions & Instructions Concerning the Attributes of God and His Providence in the World. […], London: […] James Flesher, →OCLC, paragraph I, page 171:
text: 1721 Thomas Gibson, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, London: Anatomy of Humane Bodies epitomized.
They are very anfractuous and winding, and (as was said) consist of many little Cells, that they should not pour out all the Seed contained in them, in one act of Copulation, but might retain it for several. They have no Communication one with another, not even in their very opening into the Urethra.
text: It was just that the story was anfractuous.
ref: 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 343:
text: Shy, iridescent, coltish, pelvically anfractuous, amply busted, given to diffident movements
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: sinuous, twisty, winding.
examples: text: Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks / Faced by the snarled and yelping seas.
ref: 1920, T. S. Eliot, Poems, A. A. Knopf:
glosses: craggy, rugged, coarse, rough, uneven.
Related terms: anfractuousness
anfractuosity
anhelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænhɪˈleɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌænhəˈleɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: anhelations
Etymology: From French anhélation, or directly from its etymon Latin anhēlātiō (“shortness of breath, gasping, panting, puffing”) (compare Late Latin anhēlātiō (“desire; eager pursuit”)), from anhēlātus (“exhaled”) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs). Anhēlātus is the perfect passive participle of anhēlō (“to breathe out, exhale; to draw breath with difficulty, gasp, pant, puff”).
Senses: examples: text: In a Diſpnœa, the breath is thick, vvithout noiſe or anhelation, and vvith leſs trouble.
ref: 1655, Lazarus Riverius [i.e., Lazare Rivière], “Of Asthma, or Difficulty of Breathing”, in Nicholas Culpeper, Abdiah Cole, and William Rowland, transl., The Practice of Physick, […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, 7th book (Of the Diseases of the Breast), page 148:
topics: medicine
pulmonology
sciences
synonyms: word: breathlessness
word: dyspnea
word: dyspnoea
glosses: Breathing difficulty, shortness of breath.
glosses: Mental or spiritual agitation.
examples: text: [T]ruſt not upon that rule, that men buy cheapeſt at the end of the market, that heaven may be had for a breath at laſt, vvhen they that hear it cannot tel vvhether it be a ſigh or a gaſp, a religious breathing and anhelation after the next life, or natural breathing out, and exhalation of this; but find a ſpiritual good husbandry in that other rule, that the prime of the market is to be had at firſt: […]
ref: 1619 April 28 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “A Sermon of Valediction at My Going into Germany, at L[i]ncolns-Inne, April. 18. 1619. Sermon XIX.”, in XXVI. Sermons (Never before Publish’d) Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine John Donne, […] The Third Volume, London: […] Thomas Newcomb, […], published 1661, →OCLC, page 278:
glosses: Followed by after or for: eager desire; (countable) an instance of this.
Related terms: word: anhelant
word: anhele
word: anheled
word: anhelose
word: anhelous
antrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæn.tɹəm/
Forms: form: antrums
form: antra
Etymology: From Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron, “cave”). Doublet of antre.
Senses: examples: text: In forms with a modified outer antral fence, both this and the adjacent distal band of the domiciliar wall may be concave and form the antrum (Figs. 6 J-K; 7 B), and in some forms the antrum apparently is formed by the dolon alone (dolonal antrum).
ref: 1964, GFF - Volume 86, page 343:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bodily cavity, especially one having bony walls, especially one in the sinuses.
Derived terms: antrum of Highmore
Related terms: antral
bidi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪˌdaɪ/
Forms: form: bi-di
form: BiDi
Senses: glosses: Clipping of bidirectional.
bidi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪˌdaɪ/
Forms: form: bidis
Senses: examples: text: The watchman is sharing a bidi and a chai with his friend down the road.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 139:
glosses: Alternative form of beedi (“Indian cigarette”).
under the influence
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more under the influence
form: most under the influence
Etymology: Elliptical: the agent (any intoxicating substance) is implicit because understood in context.
Senses: examples: text: He was arrested for driving under the influence.
text: He was fired for showing up under the influence.
glosses: While intoxicated or inebriated, in any degree from mildly impaired to stupefied, by a mind-altering substance, typically alcohol; thus, especially, drunk.
Derived terms: driving under the influence
Related terms: DUI
DWI
under the influence
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more under the influence
form: most under the influence
Etymology: Elliptical: the agent (any intoxicating substance) is implicit because understood in context.
Senses: examples: text: He was arrested for driving while under the influence.
text: He was fired for showing up when he was under the influence.
glosses: Intoxicated or inebriated, in any degree from mildly impaired to stupefied, by a mind-altering substance, typically alcohol; thus, especially, drunk.
influenceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more influenceable
form: most influenceable
Etymology: From influence + -able.
Senses: examples: text: If 25 per cent of the commercial holiday nights by UK domestic visitors are directly influenceable by national, regional and local tourist boards […]
ref: 2009, Rebecca Hawkins, Victor T. C. Middleton, Sustainable Tourism, page 70:
text: Once the WIG was established, they had to determine the lead measures that were both predictive of fewer accidents and influenceable by the team.
ref: 2021, Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling, The 4 Disciplines of Execution, page 67:
glosses: Capable of being influenced.
Derived terms: uninfluenceable
Related terms: influenceability
influencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnflu.ənsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: influencers
Etymology: From influence + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who or a thing which influences.
examples: text: By now you have probably heard of influencers, that group of internet-famous people who have more than a million social media followers and can make big money by plugging various brands. And you may have even heard of microinfluencers, who do the same thing for a still sizable but somewhat smaller social media audience — from the tens to low hundreds of thousands.
ref: 2018 November 11, Sapna Maheshwari, “Are You Ready for the Nanoinfluencers?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2020:
text: The idea of an influencer economy or streaming economy might have caused eyes to roll just a couple years ago, but the reality is that this segment of the economy is growing fast. More importantly, it is the part of the economy (and type of engagement) that is most appealing to the increasingly important millennial and Gen-Z cohorts.
ref: 2020 August 4, Sean Stein Smith, “Blockchain, TikTok, And The Influencer Economy - What Are The Connections?”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2020:
text: Over the past year, mansions full of young influencers have proliferated across the United States (in Los Angeles, Dallas and Las Vegas) and around the world (France, the U.K., Mexico, Spain and Russia).
ref: 2020 December 11, Taylor Lorenz, “The New Influencer Capital of America”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2020:
text: The idea of an alleged Epstein "list" was turbocharged by Trump's own inner circle, most notably by Bondi herself. In a February interview with Fox News, she claimed, "The list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients is sitting on my desk." Her remark, quickly amplified by right-wing influencers, fueled weeks of speculation online and in MAGA circles.
ref: 2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2025:
text: Acutis, the London-born Italian who on Sunday will become the Catholic church’s first millennial saint, built websites to spread Catholic teaching, earning him the nickname “God’s Influencer” after his death, aged 15, from leukaemia.
ref: 2025 September 6, Angela Giuffrida, “Pope prepares to canonise London-born teenager nicknamed ‘God’s influencer’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: business
marketing
antonyms: deinfluencer
coordinate_terms: creator
qualifier: social media
glosses: A person who is able to influence consumption, lifestyle, or political preferences of their online audience by creating or engaging social media content, often as a part of a marketing campaign.
Synonyms: thought leader
trendsetter
Hyponyms: agfluencer
cleanfluencer
deathfluencer
digital influencer
finfluencer
fitfluencer
kidfluencer
megainfluencer
microinfluencer
micro-influencer
momfluencer
mumfluencer
noninfluencer
skinfluencer
thinkfluencer
Derived terms: bizfluencer
dogfluencer
fatfluencer
gymfluencer
influencer marketing
LinkedInfluencer
macroinfluencer
meatfluencer
petfluencer
influencive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more influencive
form: most influencive
Etymology: From influence + -ive.
Senses: glosses: influential
Derived terms: uninfluencive
indigo bunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigo buntings
Senses: glosses: A blue bunting of North America (Passerina cyanea).
Synonyms: indigo bird
indigo finch
Related terms: Passerina cyanea
influent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: influents
Etymology: From Latin influent-, the present participle stem of īnfluere.
Senses: synonyms: tributary
glosses: A stream which flows into another stream or a lake.
synonyms: inflow
glosses: Fluids flowing in.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism having an important effect on a plant or animal community.
influent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more influent
form: most influent
Etymology: From Latin influent-, the present participle stem of īnfluere.
Senses: glosses: Flowing in.
glosses: Exercising astral influence.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having an important effect on a plant or animal community.
monochorionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + chorionic.
Senses: glosses: Sharing one foetal membrane, or chorion. Typically used of identical twins.
Related terms: dichorionic
adjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjective
adjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adjective
Enya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛnjə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish; the phoneticised form of the Irish Eithne.
unify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːnɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: unifies
form: unifying
form: unified
form: unified
Etymology: From Middle French unifier, from Late Latin unificare.
Senses: glosses: Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.
examples: text: Ultimately, all frequencies unify into an unmoving state of zero frequency or vacuum. In other words, all seven sound vibrations or notes unify into silence; all thought frequencies (positive and negative) unify into no-thought or no-mind; and all seven colors of the rainbow unify into pure space that appears dark when it is invisible and as light when it is visible.
ref: 2008, Eliza Mada Dalian, In Search of the Miraculous: Healing Into Consciousness, Expanding Universe Publishing, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: Become one.
Derived terms: unifiable
unific
unification
unificatory
unifier
Related terms: unite
unifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unifiers
Etymology: From unify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: According to the by-laws, the center's purpose is "to be a unifier for organizations and individuals in greater Boston's lesbian and gay community... [and to] assist in the provision of health, education, religious, social, cultural and recreational services to the community."
ref: 1987 February 8, Kim Westheimer, “Community Ctr. Incorporates”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 29, page 3:
glosses: Agent noun of unify; one who unifies.
Synonyms: sense: one who unifies
word: harmonizer
sense: one who unifies
word: integrator
sense: one who unifies
word: mediator
sense: one who unifies
word: reconciler
sense: one who unifies
word: uniter
sense: one who unifies
word: consolidator
unific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈnɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more unific
form: most unific
Senses: glosses: Producing unity; combining separate things into a single whole.
Related terms: unify
unifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unifiable
form: most unifiable
Etymology: From unify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be united or unified.
all-or-nothing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: black-and-white, dichotomous, all-or-none
glosses: Being or relating to a situation where a dichotomy (a binary state) pertains: either of two poles is instantiated, with no intermediate state (e.g., a mixture or syncretism) being possible or being permitted.
examples: text: A crewed moonshot is an all-or-nothing affair: either they get to the moon and back alive, or they don't.
glosses: Being or relating to a situation where a dichotomy (a binary state) pertains: either of two poles is instantiated, with no intermediate state (e.g., a mixture or syncretism) being possible or being permitted.
Being or relating to a project that will either succeed completely or fail completely.
unificationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unificationists
Etymology: From unification + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of unification.
glosses: Alternative form of Unificationist (“Unification Church”).
unificationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unification + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to unification.
glosses: Alternative form of Unificationist (“Unification Church”).
unificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unificatory
form: most unificatory
Senses: glosses: Tending to unify.
all up with
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: It's all up with him: he's bankrupt and has lost his family.
glosses: Over for, finished for.
raw_tags: with negative connotation
polylinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polylinkers
Etymology: From poly- + linker.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A short sequence of DNA containing several restriction enzyme recognition sites that is contained in cloning vectors
at all
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: [ætˈoːɫ]
ipa: [əˈɾoːɫ]
ipa: [əˈtʰoːɫ]
ipa: [æˈɾɔɫ]
ipa: [əˈɾɔɫ]
ipa: [æˈɾɑ̈ɫ]
ipa: [əˈɾɑ̈ɫ]
rhymes: -ɔːl
Senses: examples: text: You mustn't speak to her at all.
text: Can you see anyone at all?
text: Are you at all bothered by the noise?
text: Let me know if you are at all concerned.
text: Were you angry that he was laughing too hard, or that he was laughing at all?
text: My speech didn't seem to go down well at all.
text: I'm glad that she didn't stay long, but sorry that she came at all.
text: This is the only one of the issues for which I am at all responsible.
text: If it’s at all possible, I'll try and do it.
text: Here's neither buſh, nor ſhrub to beare off any weather at all: and another Storme brewing, I heare it ſing ith' winde: yond ſame blacke cloud, yond huge one, lookes like a foule bumbard that would ſhed his licquor: if it ſhould thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond ſame cloud cannot chooſe but fall by paile-fuls.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 9:
text: He did not seem to think that he at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 13: Wheelbarrow
text: The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it), he did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming.
ref: 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 11: Who Stole the Tarts?
text: After a while he descended the steps into the road again and he stood there and looked all about him and listened for any sound at all but there was nothing.
ref: 1993, Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark, page 146:
synonyms: whatsoever
in the least
any
glosses: Indicating degree, quantity or frequency greater than zero: to the slightest degree, in any way, at any time or in any circumstance.
Derived terms: not at all
primary producer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary producers
Senses: glosses: A person or organization producing basic agricultural commodities, such as a farmer or cattle producer.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: autotroph
producer
glosses: An autotrophic organism producing complex organic matter, using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis.
jillaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jillaroos
form: jilleroo
Etymology: Blend of Jill (female given name, colloquial counterpart to Jack) + jackaroo.
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Vivienne Cleven, Bitin′ Back, author biography, title page,
She left school at thirteen-years-of-age to work with her father as a jillaroo: building fences, mustering cattle, and working at various jobs on stations throughout Queensland and New South Wales.
text: You can also train to become a jillaroo through apprenticeship schemes at technical colleges (such as TAFE in New South Wales) or by attending a private jackeroo and jillaroo school.
ref: 2007, Mia Balwyn, Australian Woman′s Survival Guide, page 18:
text: While John worked cattle full time, Rachael worked as a jillaroo part time and wrote part time. Her work saw her doing everything from cattle mustering to cleaning toilets.
ref: 2007, Allan M. Nixon, Bush Aussies, unnumbered page:
text: Only before daybreak was she allowed to get on a horse and do the things jillaroos are supposed to do, like rounding up cattle for the market.
ref: 2008, Sara Dowse, Correspondence: Love & Money: Quarterly Essay, number 30, page 99:
glosses: A female jackaroo, a woman who does the job of a jackaroo.
Derived terms: jillarooing
storm in a tea-kettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1887, Henry Theophilus Finck, Romantic Love and Personal Beauty http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC05256148&id=iUX9lud1mrwC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&sig=Hz9EJd0U5Z51aRkXejYI8HqTITw
But this momentary ebullition of feeling is but a storm in a tea-kettle compared to the ferocity of a jealous lover seeking to devour his rival.
text: Altogether this was rather a storm in a tea-kettle.
ref: 1908, The Parliamentary Debates http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=0_oscfAuszTjbTCyXy&id=YDHi45tsCFAC&q=%22storm+in+a+tea+kettle%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3D%2522storm%2Bin%2Ba%2Btea%2Bkettle%2522&pgis=1
text: The Pisces ability to shrug complacently when things go wrong, refuse to make mountains out of molehills, stir up a storm in a teakettle, or cut down a beanstalk for no reason...leaving poor Jack to fall to the ground with a thud...is such a lovely thing.
ref: 1992, Linda Goodman, Linda Goodman's Love Signs http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0060968966&id=1ZaiCWVol4UC&pg=PA868&lpg=PA868&sig=YF-bibMM4zIDRZM-kOfKQLRrWQ8
text: 1999, Izaak Mansk, Emil Brut http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1896209416&id=KF_45aPRyQ4C&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&sig=HVzByFa3hH5dfoFA3Tvl_IAFTds
So, I feel sure, and Mr. Willoughby also, that what we have now is a “storm in a tea-kettle”, so he called it today on the telephone to me, and he is the specialist, the famous nephrologist, who knows intimately Mr. Hartman’s case.
glosses: Alternative form of storm in a teacup: synonym of tempest in a teapot.
lustrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lustrous
form: most lustrous
Etymology: From lustre + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: There was not a cloud on the sky, save a few light vapours that congregated near the moon; but even they were lustrous with her presence.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Evening Alone”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 304:
text: 1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit
Or Time and Space,
Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,
Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,
Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
Be ye my Gods.
text: It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle
Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations,
Flood on flood, of our returning sun.
ref: 1936, Wallace Stevens, “Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1971, page 123:
text: The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.
ref: 2000, Philip Pullman, chapter 1, in The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, published 2001:
glosses: Having a glow or lustre.
glosses: As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.
Synonyms: splendent
Derived terms: illustrous
lustrously
lustrousness
nonlustrous
semilustrous
sublustrous
unlustrous
shi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of shibire. Coined by Japanese-Canadian geneticist and zoologist David Suzuki, the person who also coined "shibire".
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of shibire.
Derived terms: sense: shibire
word: shi(ts)
sense: shibire
word: shi(ts1)
sense: shibire
word: shi(ts2)
shi
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: /ʃaɪ/
Senses: examples: text: The mother was Chakat Goldfur and the sire was Garrek Redfox (foxtaur) so she has the same red fur but cougar-like markings. Of course shi’s still only a cub yet, but if shi grows up to look anything like the your Jaguar-Vixen, shi’s going to be a heartbreaker!
ref: 1999 november 20, "Chakat Goldfur" (username), Furry Art on Ebay...horrible shameless plug, alt.fan.furry, Usenet
text: > Unlike most Furry Hermaphrodites I've seen, Clash is fairly
> androgynous. Shi is remarkable in hir modesty.
>
> But shi IS rather naughty, as you can see.
ref: 2001 January 25, "Achowth Keciyl" (username), quoting "A. Seraph" (username), Fur: The one and only Herm Gengimal, in fur.artwork.erotica, Usenet
text: Dropping hir forebody down just a little, shi bent over double at the waist. Andrew's eyes blinked open as whiskers met his cheeks just before feline lips. He purred to hir and reached up to caress hir back as shi kissed him ...
ref: 2006, Kenneth Fox, Joined in Mind and Body, Kenneth Fox, →ISBN, page 230:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of sie (gender-neutral pronoun).
Synonyms: english: objective form
translation: objective form
word: hir
shi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃaɪ/
/ʃɪ(ː)/
/ʃaɪ/
Senses: glosses: Apocopic form of shit.
shi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ʃaɪ/
/ʃɪ(ː)/
/ʃaɪ/
Senses: glosses: Apocopic form of shit.
Related terms: word: she
word: She
word: Shi
word: Shih
word: Shii
word: shi shi
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: shi-shi
switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈswɪt͡ʃ.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of switch
switches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈswɪt͡ʃ.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of switch
gardener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹd.n̩.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑɹd.nɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːd.n̩.ə/
ipa: /ˈɡɑːd.nə/
Forms: form: gardeners
Etymology: From Middle English gardener, either calqued or loaned from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French gardinier.
See garden, and compare German Gärtner (“gardener”), which is equivalent to a derivative of the German cognate to English garden, Garten (“garden”), + -er.
Displaced native Old English wyrtweard.
Senses: examples: text: "Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and to plant virtue." — St. Catherine of Siena
text: At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.
examples: text: Get on, gardener! Get on, you slow and clumsy coachman. The allusion is to a man who is both gardener and coachman.
ref: 2014, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, page 329:
glosses: A coachman who drives badly.
Derived terms: gardener bowerbird
gardeneress
gardenership
gardener snake
landscape gardener
market gardener
nongardener
undergardener
uphill gardener
cultivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cultivate
thud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌd/
enpr: thŭd'
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: thuds
Etymology: From Middle English thudden (“to strike with a weapon”), from Old English þyddan (“to strike, press, thrust”), from Proto-Germanic *þuddijaną, *þiudijaną (“to strike, thrust”), from Proto-Germanic *þūhaną, *þeuhaną (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūk- (“to beat”). Cognate with Old English þoddettan (“to strike, push, batter”), Old English þȳdan (“to strike, stab, thrust, press”), Old English þēowan (“to press”), Albanian thundër (“a hoof, talon, a shaft", figuratively, "oppression, torment”).
Senses: examples: text: These were but the thoughts of a second, but the voices were nearer, and I heard a dull thud far up the passage, and knew that a man had jumped down from the churchyard into the hole.
ref: 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 3, in Moonfleet (fiction), London: Edward Arnold:
text: Ramos had locked Salah’s right arm and turned him, judo-style, as they lost balance going for the same ball. Television replays hardened the suspicion it was a calculated move on Ramos’s part and, when Salah landed with a hell of a thud, the damage was considerable.
ref: 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian, London, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2018:
glosses: The sound of a dull impact.
examples: text: Sinclair told the B.A.R. [Bay Area Reporter] he felt the thud of the pistol on his left cheek about a 100 feet from his car, […]
ref: 1995 January 26, Mary Ann Swissler, “Fremont Man Recovering from Livermore Pass Attack”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume XXV, number 4, San Fransico, page 18:
glosses: A hard, dull impact.
examples: text: Pillowcase whippings offer the look and feel of a flagellatio scene’s atmosphere, mood, and psychology while involving only very mild amounts of pain. (A pillowcase is almost all “thud” and very little “sting” in the sensations it creates.)
ref: 1992, Jay J. Wiseman, SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, 2nd edition, San Francisco: Greenery Press, published 1996, →ISBN, page 181:
text: It still wasn’t what I’d call painful but as he swung his arm and the strands of the flogger hit me together it felt like a solid thud rather than a number of different tails stinging me.
ref: 2013, Sophie Morgan, No Ordinary Love Story, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 294:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A slower, dull impact with a wide surface area.
Coordinate terms: topics: BDSM
sexuality
lifestyle
word: sting
topics: BDSM
sexuality
lifestyle
word: thump
Derived terms: thud and blunder
thud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌd/
enpr: thŭd'
rhymes: -ʌd
Forms: form: thuds
form: thudding
form: thudded
form: thudded
Etymology: From Middle English thudden (“to strike with a weapon”), from Old English þyddan (“to strike, press, thrust”), from Proto-Germanic *þuddijaną, *þiudijaną (“to strike, thrust”), from Proto-Germanic *þūhaną, *þeuhaną (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *tūk- (“to beat”). Cognate with Old English þoddettan (“to strike, push, batter”), Old English þȳdan (“to strike, stab, thrust, press”), Old English þēowan (“to press”), Albanian thundër (“a hoof, talon, a shaft", figuratively, "oppression, torment”).
Senses: examples: text: At the same instant two arrows thudded into the carcass of the deer over which he knelt, passing but a few inches from his head.
ref: 1849, George Frederick Ruxton, Life in the Far West (non-fiction), New York: Harper & Brothers, page 183:
text: […] while the tears streamed from his eyes, and his tail waved and thudded in perfect time on the sanded floor. But for the said thudding of the tail, I would have stopped, fancying the poor animal's nerves had been set on edge.
ref: 1874, Mrs George Cupples, “Mrs Glen and the Aberfoyle Orphanage”, in The Poetical Remains of William Glen, Edinburgh: William Paterson, page 47:
glosses: To make the sound of a dull impact.
Synonyms: sense: a dull sound, to make a dull sound
word: flump
sense: a dull sound, to make a dull sound
word: plunk
Coordinate terms: clang
clash
crash
avaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avazes
form: awaz
Etymology: From Persian آواز.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An unmetered vocal section of a mode in Persian music.
let sleeping dogs lie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets sleeping dogs lie
form: letting sleeping dogs lie
form: let sleeping dogs lie
form: let sleeping dogs lie
Etymology: Attestations exist from the 1820s and 1830s. Earlier ones may be discoverable with better corpus searches. The metaphor is self-evident and is typical of folk wisdom. To choose to pass by a sleeping dog without stirring it is comparable to letting a hornets' nest or beehive be, not poking a bear, and so on.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: let it be, leave it be, let things be, leave things be, let it alone, leave it alone, let things alone, leave things alone; let bygones be bygones, let nature take its course
text: Eventually, they decided it would be best to let sleeping dogs lie and not discuss the matter any further.
text: A: I noticed a minor typo in the proofs just now, but I think they're already doing the make-ready on the press. B: Time to let sleeping dogs lie then.
text: But, leaving novelists alone, on the whole we find in real life that if speech is silvern, silence is essentially golden, and that more harm is done by saying too much than by saying too little; above all, that infinite mischief arises by not letting sleeping dogs lie.
ref: 1868 August 29, “Sleeping Dogs”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 26, number 670, page 287:
text: Sometimes you just had to let stuff go. Endlessly rehashing old hurts just made things worse. It was far better, I'd learned, to let sleeping dogs lie.
ref: 2016, Helene Becker, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 217:
text: Crystal might have said that those perfect lips were zipped, but the kidnappers had no way of knowing that. Should he let sleeping dogs lie?
ref: 2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 261:
related: word: let a sleeping dog lie
word: let the sleeping dogs lie
glosses: To leave things as they are; especially, to avoid restarting or rekindling an old argument; to leave disagreements in the past.
Related terms: dogsleep
dog sleep
lie doggo
agree to disagree
benign neglect
hands off
sleeping giant
blocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɑkt/
ipa: /blɒkt/
rhymes: -ɒkt
Forms: form: more blocked
form: most blocked
Senses: examples: text: This road is blocked, so we must find another route.
text: Call a plumber to unclog the blocked drain.
glosses: Obstructed, so that through movement or flow is prevented or impeded.
examples: text: The argument was over a blocked car in a driveway.
glosses: Unable to move owing to an obstruction.
examples: text: Blocked users will be unable to access their accounts indefinitely.
text: The phone will reject calls from blocked numbers.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephone
telephony
qualifier: IP address
glosses: Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: All of this user's accounts are now blocked.
glosses: Disabled or disconnected, so as to prevent access or from performing certain actions.
raw_tags: of a computer account or similar
examples: text: McKenna was found to be heavily intoxicated, and after caution he swore and replied: "I'm blocked."
ref: 2019 January 4, “'Drunk' Co Tyrone teenager smashed car into solicitor's office in Dungannon”, in The Irish News:
glosses: Drunk.
examples: text: In practice, setters of most normal blocked grids in daily or Sunday newspapers in both Britain and the US do not have to concern themselves with grid construction.
ref: 2012 September 7, Chambers, The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Listener endgames have included […] shading every instance of the letters N - Z in the completed grid to reveal a' normal' blocked crossword hidden in the one just solved
ref: 2013 November 7, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: American crosswords tend to be straightforward, while English ones delight their contestants by being cryptic and, unless 'quick' crosswords, are often set in a 15 × 15 blocked grid.
ref: 2024 October 10, Richard Coles, Charles Spencer, Cat Jarman, The Rabbit Hole Book: Discover the brilliant book from the creators of the unforgettable hit podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives, Random House, →ISBN:
antonyms: barred
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: With black squares separating the lights and marking the ends of words.
Synonyms: sense: obstructed
word: choked
sense: obstructed
word: clogged
sense: obstructed
word: forwrought
sense: obstructed
word: impedite
sense: drunk
word: drunk
Derived terms: blocked shot
blocked up
handblocked
immunoblocked
nonblocked
unblocked