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[{"instinct": {"definitions": [{"text": ["instinct (countable and uncountable, plural instincts)", "A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.", "An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Many animals fear fire by instinct.", "By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust / Ensuing dangers.", "In spite of these qualifications, the broad distinction between instinct and habit is undeniable. To take extreme cases, every animal at birth can take food by instinct, before it has had opportunity to learn; on the other hand, no one can ride a bicycle by instinct, though, after learning, the necessary movements become just as automatic as if they were instinctive.", "an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct", "Debbie's instinct was to distrust John."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["instinct (comparative more instinct, superlative most instinct)", "(archaic) Imbued, charged (with something)."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The chariot of paternal deity  [\u2026]  / Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed / By four cherubic shapes.", "a noble performance, instinct with sound principle", "Her eyes, whose colour I had not at first known, so dim were they with repressed tears, so shadowed with ceaseless dejection, now, lit by a ray of the sunshine that cheered her heart, revealed irids of bright hazel \u2013 irids large and full, screened with long lashes; and pupils instinct with fire.", "This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u026an.st\u026a\u014bkt/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/En-us-instinct.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Latin \u012bnstinctus, past participle of instinguere (\u201cto incite, to instigate\u201d), from in (\u201cin, on\u201d) + stinguere (\u201cto prick\u201d). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term."}}, {"jacket": {"definitions": [{"text": ["jacket (plural jackets)", "A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.", "A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)", "A removable or replaceable protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank.)", "(slang) A police record.", "(military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.", "The tough outer skin of a baked potato."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(piece of a person's suit): coat (US)", "(removable protective cover): sleeve"]}], "examples": ["\"We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. With my jacket, I can't go back to jail.\"", "\"Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.\"", "\"I need to look up somebody's jacket.\"", "Cook the potatoes in their jackets."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing, simple past and past participle jacketed)", "(transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u00e6k.\u026at/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u00e6k\u026at/, /\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u00e6k\u0259t/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6k\u026at", "Hyphenation: jack\u2027et"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/En-us-jacket.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.\n"}}, {"lol": {"definitions": [{"text": ["lol", "(Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative form of LOL"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "interjection"}, {"text": ["lol (plural lols)", "Alternative letter-case form of LOL"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["lol (third-person singular simple present lols, present participle loling or lolling, simple past and past participle loled or lol'd or lolled or lold)", "(Internet slang, text messaging, intransitive) Alternative form of LOL"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u025bl\u0259\u028a\u02c8\u025bl/, /l\u0252l/", "(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u025bl\u02cco\u028a\u02c8\u025bl/, /l\u0251l/, /lo\u028al/", "Rhymes: -\u0252l"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"pole": {"definitions": [{"text": ["pole (plural poles)", "Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.", "(fishing) A type of basic fishing rod.", "A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.", "(slang, spotting) A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.", "(historical) A unit of length, equal to a perch (\u00bc chain or 5\u00bd yards).", "(motor racing) Pole position.", "(US, rap music, slang) A gun."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["See also Thesaurus:stick", "(unit of length): rod"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["pole vault"]}], "examples": ["For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["pole (third-person singular simple present poles, present participle poling, simple past and past participle poled)", "To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.", "To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.", "(transitive) To furnish with poles for support.", "(transitive) To convey on poles.", "(transitive) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.", "He poled off the serial of the Gulfstream to confirm its identity.", "to pole beans or hops", "to pole hay into a barn"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /p\u0259\u028al/, /p\u0254\u028al/", "(US, Canada) IPA: /po\u028al/", "IPA: [p\u02b0o\u028a\u032f\u026b], [p\u02b0o\u0259\u026b]", "(General Australian) IPA: /p\u0254\u02d0l/", "Rhymes: -\u0259\u028al", "Homophones: Pole, poll"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/En-us-pole.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English pole, pal, from Old English p\u0101l (\u201ca pole, stake, post; a kind of hoe or spade\u201d), from Proto-Germanic *palaz, *p\u0101laz (\u201cpole\u201d), from Latin p\u0101lus (\u201cstake, pale, prop, stay\u201d) from Old Latin *paglus, from Proto-Indo-European *p\u0101\u01f5e- (\u201cto nail, fasten\u201d).\n"}}, {"identification": {"definitions": [{"text": ["identification (countable and uncountable, plural identifications)", "The act of identifying, or proving to be the same.", "The state of being identified.", "A particular instance of identifying something.", "A document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity.", "A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding or belonging towards somebody or something."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["ident", "identic", "identical", "identifier", "identify", "identity", "vehicle identification number"]}], "examples": ["Much education and experience is required for proper identification of bird species", "information necessary to make a good identification", "The authorities asked for his identification", "In the English South and Midlands, identification with Britain ran well ahead of identification with the region; in Yorkshire and the northern England, identification with the region ran about equal to identification with Britain; and in Scotland and Wales  identification with the region  ran well ahead of identification with Britain."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/En-us-identification.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From French identification.\n"}}, {"support": {"definitions": [{"text": ["support (countable and uncountable, plural supports)", "Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.", "Financial or other help.", "Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.", "(mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.", "(fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).", "Evidence.", "(computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.", "(gymnastics) Clipping of support position.", "(structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical oder rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed .."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(mathematics): kernel"]}], "examples": ["Don't move that beam! It's a support for the whole platform.", "The government provides support to the arts in several ways.", "Kim was educated at the newly founded university in Pyongyang, named after his father, graduating in 1964. The 1960s and early 1970s were the golden years for the DPRK. It undertook rapid industrialisation, economically outstripped its southern competitor, and enjoyed the support of both the People's Republic of China, and the Soviet Union.", "Sure they sell the product, but do they provide support?", "The first mention of wavelets appeared in an appendix to the thesis of A. Haar . One property of the Haar wavelet is that it has compact support, which means that it vanishes outside of a finite interval. Unfortunately, Haar wavelets are not continuously differentiable which somewhat limits their applications.", "If the membership function of a fuzzy set is continuous, then that fuzzy set's support is an open set.", "The new research provides further support for our theory.", "This game has no mouse support.", "Dip down as far as you are able, aiming to descend to the bottom of your sternum. Press back up to a support."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["support (third-person singular simple present supports, present participle supporting, simple past and past participle supported)", "(transitive) To keep from falling.", "(transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.", "(transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.", "(transitive) To help, particularly financially.", "To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.", "(transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.", "(transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.", "(transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.", "(archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.", "To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(to keep from falling): underprop, uphold, stut"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(to back a cause, party, etc.): oppose"]}], "examples": ["Don\u2019t move that beam! It supports the whole platform.", "Sure they sell the product, but do they support it?", "I support France in the World Cup", "The government supports the arts in several ways.", "The testimony is not sufficient to support the charges.", "The evidence will not support the statements or allegations.", "to urge such arguments, as though they were sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy", "The IT Department supports the research organization, but not the sales force.", "I don't make decisions: I just support those who do.", "Early personal computers did not support voice-recognition hardware or software.", "I support the administrative activities of the executive branch of the organization", "This fierce demeanour and his insolence / The patience of a god could not support.", "For a strong affection such moments are worth supporting, and they will end well; for your advocate is in your lover's heart and speaks her own language [\u2026]", "to support the character of King Lear"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /s\u0259\u02c8p\u0254\u02d0t/, [s\u0259\u02c8p\u02b0\u0254\u02d0t]", "(General American) IPA: /s\u0259\u02c8p\u0254\u0279t/, [s\u0259\u02c8p\u02b0\u0254\u0279t]", "(rhotic, without the horse\u2013hoarse merger) IPA: /s\u0259\u02c8po(\u02d0)\u0279t/", "(non-rhotic, without the horse\u2013hoarse merger) IPA: /s\u0259\u02c8po\u0259t/", "Hyphenation: sup\u2027port", "Rhymes: -\u0254\u02d0(\u0279)t"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-us-support.ogg"]}, "etymology": "The verb is borrowed from Old French supporter; the noun is derived from the verb and from Anglo-Norman and Middle French support. Displaced Old English wre\u00feian (\u201cto support, sustain, uphold\u201d)."}}, {"paint": {"definitions": [{"text": ["paint (countable and uncountable, plural paints)", "A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.", "(in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.", "(basketball, slang) The free-throw lane, construed with the.", "(uncountable, paintball, slang) Paintballs.", "(poker, slang) A face card (king, queen, or jack).", "(computing, attributive) Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.", "Makeup."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Ren\u00e9 went back into the kitchen and put a pot of coffee on, got out his paints and started on a new painting. He felt inspired.", "The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.", "Early on it was the Bulldogs who were clearly the aggressors, playing hard in the paint and getting baskets with muscle more than with their shooting prowess.", "Isaiah Thomas is very clever, very crafty getting to the paint and finishing in the paint.", "In Game 3, they re-focused on protecting the paint and transition defense. The Cavs scored 106 points in the paint in the first two games and just 20 in Game 3.", "I am running low on paint for my marker.", "It combines traditional paint capabilities with photograph enhancement features.", "Computer paint software operates similarly but adds features that are delightfully familiar and useful to artists trained in traditional graphics materials.", "If using a paint package, you must specify the color before you draw the line or shape.", "They were as plain and homely as a table-top dancer when the rains had wiped the paint and powder from her face."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["paint (third-person singular simple present paints, present participle painting, simple past and past participle painted)", "(transitive) To apply paint to.", "(transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.", "(transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.", "(transitive) To create (an image) with paints.", "(intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.", "(transitive, computing) To draw an element in a graphical user interface.", "(transitive, figuratively) To depict or portray.", "(intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.", "(transitive, military, slang) To direct a radar beam toward."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["picture"]}], "examples": ["The half-dozen pieces  [\u2026]  were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.", "not painted with the crimson spots of blood", "Cuckoo buds of yellow hue / Do paint the meadows with delight.", "to paint a portrait or a landscape", "I've been painting since I was a young child.", "Sent to a minimized window when the icon's background must be filled before it is painted.", "She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.", "Disloyal? / The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.", "If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.", "Let her paint an inch thick."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /pe\u026ant/", "Rhymes: -e\u026ant"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/En-us-paint.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English, borrowed from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin ping\u014d (\u201cto paint\u201d) (perfect passive participle pictus).\n"}}, {"direction": {"definitions": [{"text": ["direction (countable and uncountable, plural directions)", "A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).", "A general trend for future action.", "Guidance, instruction.", "The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.", "(dated) The body of persons who guide or manage a matter; the directorate.", "(archaic) A person's address."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["direct"]}], "examples": ["Keep going in the same direction.", "Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.", "Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction.", "The trombonist looked to the bandleader for direction.", "The screenplay was good, but the direction was weak.", "Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK, US) IPA: /d\u0259\u02c8\u0279\u025bk.\u0283\u0259n/, /d\u026a\u02c8\u0279\u025bk.\u0283\u0259n/, /da\u026a\u02c8\u0279\u025bk.\u0283\u0259n/, /da\u026a\u032f\u0259\u02c8\u0279\u025bk\u0283\u0259n/", "Rhymes: -\u025bk\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/En-uk-direction.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/En-us-direction.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Old French, from Latin d\u012br\u0113cti\u014d.\n"}}, {"rampage": {"definitions": [{"text": ["rampage (plural rampages)", "A course of violent, frenzied action."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, [\u2026] most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["rampage (third-person singular simple present rampages, present participle rampaging, simple past and past participle rampaged)", "To move about wildly or violently."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan\u2019s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State , now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u0279\u00e6mpe\u026ad\u0292/", "Rhymes: -e\u026ad\u0292"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English ramp (\u201crave, rush wildly about\u201d), from Old French ramper.\n"}}, {"violent": {"definitions": [{"text": ["violent (comparative violenter or more violent, superlative violentest or most violent)", "Involving extreme force or motion.", "Involving physical conflict.", "Likely to use physical force.", "Intensely vivid.", "(obsolete) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["peaceful"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["violence"]}], "examples": ["A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.", "We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if necessary.", "The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.", "The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.", "We have already observed, that he was a very good-natured fellow, and he hath himself declared the violent attachment he had to the person and character of Jones  [\u2026]", "These violent delights have violent ends.", "No violent state can be perpetual.", "Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["violent (third-person singular simple present violents, present participle violenting, simple past and past participle violented)", "(transitive, archaic) To urge with violence."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["violent (plural violents)", "(obsolete) An assailant."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8va\u026a(\u0259)l\u0259nt/", "Hyphenation: vi\u2027o\u2027lent, vio\u2027lent"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/En-us-violent.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from v\u012bs (\u201cstrength\u201d). For the verb, compare French violenter.\n"}}, {"language": {"definitions": [{"text": ["language (countable and uncountable, plural languages)", "(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.", "(uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.", "(uncountable) The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.", "(countable, uncountable) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.", "(countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs and/or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.", "(computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.", "(uncountable) Manner of expression.", "(uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.", "(uncountable) Profanity."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(form of communication): tongue, speech (spoken language); leid (Scottish), see also Thesaurus:language", "(vocabulary of a particular field): lingo (colloquial), jargon, terminology, phraseology, parlance, see also Thesaurus:jargon", "(computer language): computer language, programming language, machine language", "(particular words used): phrasing, wording, terminology; talk (spoken words used), see also Thesaurus:wording"]}, {"relationshipType": "hypernyms", "words": ["medium"]}, {"relationshipType": "hyponyms", "words": ["See Category:en:Languages"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["langue", "lingua", "lingua franca", "linguine", "linguistics", "tonguage"]}], "examples": ["The English language and the German language are related.", "Deaf and mute people communicate using languages like ASL.", "Hence the natural language of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a language, capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.", "No language could express his rage and despair.", "Mr. Darko, generally acknowledged to be the last surviving member of the Ofo Tribe, was also the last remaining speaker of the tribe's language.", "the gift of language", "legal language; \u00a0 the language of chemistry", "Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.", "body language; \u00a0 the language of the eyes", "A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.", "A more likely hypothesis was that the attacked leaves were transmitting some airborne chemical signal to sound the alarm, rather like insects sending out warnings  [\u2026]  But this is the first time that a plant-to-plant language has been detected.", "Prairie dogs use their language to refer to real dangers in the real world, so it definitely has meaning.", "In fact pointers are called references in these languages to distinguish them from pointers in languages like C and C++.", "Their language simple, as their manners meek,  [\u2026]", "The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.", "The language he used to talk to me was obscene.", "\"Where the hell is Horace?\" \u00b6 \"There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language.\""], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["language (third-person singular simple present languages, present participle languaging, simple past and past participle languaged)", "(rare, now nonstandard, or technical) To communicate by language; to express in language."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["enPR: l\u0103ng\u02b9gw\u012dj, IPA: /\u02c8l\u00e6\u014b\u0261w\u026ad\u0361\u0292/", "Hyphenation: lan\u2027guage"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3a/En-us-language.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *lingu\u0101ticum, from Latin lingua (\u201ctongue, speech, language\u201d), from Old Latin dingua (\u201ctongue\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European *dn\u0325\u01f5\u02b0w\u00e9h\u2082s (\u201ctongue, speech, language\u201d). Doublet of tongue. Displaced native Middle English rearde, \u021derearde (\u201clanguage\u201d) (from Old English reord (\u201clanguage, speech\u201d)), Middle English londspeche (\u201clanguage, national language\u201d) (from Old English *landspr\u01e3\u010b (\u201clanguage, national tongue\u201d), Old English \u00fe\u0113od and \u00fe\u0113odis\u010b (\u201clanguage\u201d), Middle English lede, leden (\u201clanguage, speech, utterance\u201d) (from Old English l\u0113oden (\u201clanguage, national tongue\u201d) > Scottish English leid (\u201clanguage\u201d)).\n"}}, {"project": {"definitions": [{"text": ["project (plural projects)", "A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.", "(usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.", "(dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.", "(obsolete) A projectile.", "(obsolete) A projection.", "(obsolete) The place from which a thing projects."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "hyponyms", "words": ["pilot project", "subproject", "Web project"]}], "examples": ["projects of happiness devised by human reason", "He entered into the project with his customary ardour.", "Projects like Pruitt-Igoe were considered irreparably dangerous and demolished.", "a man given to projects"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["project (third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected)", "(intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.", "(transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.", "(transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.", "(transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.", "(transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.", "(transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.", "(cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(extend beyond a surface): jut, jut out, protrude, stick out", "(cast image/shadow): cast, throw", "(extend outward): extend, jut, jut out", "(make plans for; forecast): forecast, foresee, foretell,"]}], "examples": ["Before his feet herself she did project.", "Behold! th' ascending villas on my side / Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.", "The CEO is projecting the completion of the acquisition by April 2007.", "projecting peace and war", "It is difficult to gauge the exact point at which women stop trying to fool men and really begin to deceive themselves, but an objective analyst cannot escape the conclusion  that partly from a natural device inherent in the species, women deliberately project upon actual or potential suitors an impression of themselves that is not an accurate picture of their total nature, and  that few women ever are privileged to see themselves as they really are."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8p\u0279\u0252d\u0292\u025bkt/, (rare) /\u02c8p\u0279\u0259\u028ad\u0292\u025bkt/", "(General Australian) IPA: /\u02c8p\u0279\u0252d\u0292\u025bkt/", "(General American) enPR: pr\u014fj\u02b9\u0115kt', pr\u014fj\u02b9\u012dkt IPA: /\u02c8p\u0279\u0251d\u0292\u02cc\u025bkt/, /\u02c8p\u0279\u0251d\u0292\u026a\u0308kt/", "(Canada) IPA: /\u02c8p\u0279\u0251d\u0292\u025bkt/, /\u02c8p\u0279o\u028ad\u0292\u025bkt/", "Rhymes: -\u0252d\u0292\u025bkt, -\u0252d\u0292\u0259kt, -\u0252d\u0292\u026akt, -o\u028ad\u0292\u025bkt", "Hyphenation: proj\u2027ect"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/En-ca-project-noun.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Latin pr\u014diectus, perfect passive participle of pr\u014dici\u014d (\u201cthrow forth, extend; expel\u201d).\n"}}, {"console": {"definitions": [{"text": ["console (plural consoles)", "A stand-alone cabinet designed to stand on the floor; especially, one that houses home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system.", "A cabinet that controls, instruments, and displays are mounted upon.", "An instrument with displays and an input device that is used to monitor and control an electronic system.", "(automotive) A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.", "(architecture) An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8k\u0252n.s\u0259\u028al/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8k\u0251\u02d0n.so\u028al/", "(Received Pronunciation) enPR: k\u0259ns\u014dl\u02b9, IPA: /k\u0259n\u02c8s\u0259\u028al/", "(US) enPR: k\u0259ns\u014dl\u02b9, IPA: /k\u0259n\u02c8so\u028al/", "Rhymes: -\u0259\u028al"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/En-us-console-noun.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/En-us-console-verb.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from French console (\u201ca bracket\u201d), from consoler (\u201cto console, to comfort\u201d), as in verb.\nSense of \u201cbracket\u201d either due to a bracket alleviating the load, or due to brackets being decorated with the Christian figure of a consoler, itself perhaps a pun on the first sense (alleviating load).\nOriginally used for the bracket itself, then for wall-mounted tables (mounted with a bracket), then for free-standing tables placed against a wall. Use for control system dates at least to 1880s for an \u201corgan console\u201d; use for electrical or electronic control systems dates at least to 1930s in radio, television, and system control, particularly as \u201cmixer console\u201d or \u201ccontrol console\u201d, attached to an equipment rack. This was popularized in computers by mainframes such as the IBM 704 (1954) in terms such as \u201coperator\u2019s console\u201d or \u201cconsole typewriter\u201d, and then generalized to any attached equipment, particularly for user interaction. The automotive sense harks back to earlier use as \u201csupport\u201d.\n"}}, {"stone": {"definitions": [{"text": ["stone (countable and uncountable, plural stones or stone) (see usage notes)", "(uncountable) A hard earthen substance that can form large rocks.", "A small piece of stone, a pebble.", "A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.", "(Britain, plural: stone) A unit of mass equal to 14 pounds. Used to measure the weights of people, animals, cheese, wool, etc. 1 stone \u2248 6.3503 kilograms", "(botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.", "(medicine) A hard, stone-like deposit.", "(board games) A playing piece made of any hard material, used in various board games such as backgammon, and go.", "A dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.", "(curling) A 42-pound, precisely shaped piece of granite with a handle attached, which is bowled down the ice.", "A monument to the dead; a gravestone or tombstone.", "(obsolete) A mirror, or its glass.", "(obsolete) A testicle.", "(dated, printing) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc. before printing; also called imposing stone."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(substance): rock", "(small piece of stone): pebble", "(of fruit): pit, pip", "(hard stone-like deposit): calculus", "(curling piece): rock"]}], "examples": ["The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.", "inestimable stones, unvalued jewels", "Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.", "Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stones.", "a peach stone", "kidney stone", "stone colour:", "Should some relenting eye / Glance on the stone where our cold relics lie.", "Seems to me that when I die these words will be written on my stone", "Lend me a looking-glass; / If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, / Why, then she lives.", "To make Capons  [\u2026]  [S]ome for this Purpo\u017fe make it their Bu\u017fine\u017fs after Harve\u017ft-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones of \u017fuch a Bigne\u017fs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done;  [\u2026]  [M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which \u017fhe thru\u017fts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neare\u017ft to it. This done, \u017fhe performs the very \u017fame Operation on the other Side of the Cock's Body, and there takes out the other Stone; then \u017fhe \u017ftitches up the Wounds, and lets the Fowl go about as at other Times, till the Capon is fatted in a Coup, which is commonly done from Chri\u017ftmas to Candlemas, and after."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)", "(transitive) To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones.", "(transitive) To remove a stone from (fruit etc.).", "(intransitive) To form a stone during growth, with reference to fruit etc.", "(transitive, slang) To intoxicate, especially with narcotics. (Usually in passive)", "(intransitive, Singapore, slang) To do nothing, to stare blankly into space and not pay attention when relaxing or when bored.", "(transitive) To lap with an abrasive stone to remove surface irregularities."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(pelt with stones): lapidate", "(do nothing, just relaxing): chill, chillax, chill out, hang out, rilek", "(do nothing, stare into space): daydream, veg out"]}], "examples": ["She got stoned to death after they found her.", "I was stoning the whole of today.", "Resume writing class lesson 2, stoning.", "The Marina Barrage is a reservoir, but everyone goes there because the spacious greenery at the top is the perfect place for stoning, which is Singlish for hanging out and chilling."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["stone (not comparable)", "Constructed of stone.", "Having the appearance of stone.", "Of a dull light grey or beige, like that of some stones.", "(African American Vernacular) Used as an intensifier.", "(LGBT) Willing to give sexual pleasure but not to receive it."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(constructed of stone): stonen"]}], "examples": ["stone walls", "stone pot", "She is one stone fox.", "Yeah, he's a stone fuck\u2013up. But he's stand\u2013up, too, don't forget that.", "If travel was this difficult, it was going to make escaping a stone bitch.", "\u201cAnd I got the best metal man in the business going for me, too.\u201d \u201cThis job's going to be a stone motherfucker,\u201d Flacco said", "The man who had broken up their little party was a stone gangsta.", "Back then most men would have described you as being a stone babe.", "Her widower father married my stone bitch of a mother when I was about fourteen.", "\u201cWell, Bradley Wreede told Moir\u00e9 George who told Julia Nickols who told Katie Kimber who told that big stone dude who told....\"", "He might be a stone killer who simply doesn't care if his victim's alive or dead at the time of disfigurement.", "stone butch; stone femme"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["stone (not comparable)", "As a stone (used with following adjective).", "(slang) Absolutely, completely (used with following adjectives)."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["My father is stone deaf. This soup is stone cold.", "I went stone crazy after she left.", "I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind.", "The Styistics performed a love song titled \"I'm Stone in Love with You\"."], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /st\u0259\u028an/", "(General American) IPA: /sto\u028an/", "Rhymes: -\u0259\u028an"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/En-us-stone.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English stone, stan, ston, from Old English st\u0101n, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (compare Dutch steen, German Stein, Danish and Swedish sten, Norwegian stein), from Proto-Indo-European *st(y)oy- (compare Latin stiria (\u201cicicle\u201d), Russian \u0441\u0442\u0435\u043d\u0430\u0301 (sten\u00e1, \u201cwall\u201d), Ancient Greek \u03c3\u03c4\u1fd6\u03bf\u03bd (st\u00eeon, \u201cpebble\u201d), \u03c3\u03c4\u03ad\u03b1\u03c1 (st\u00e9ar, \u201ctallow\u201d), Persian \u0633\u062a\u0648\u0646\u200e (sot\u016bn, \u201cpillar\u201d), Albanian sht\u00ebng (\u201chardened or pressed matter\u201d), Sanskrit \u0938\u094d\u0924\u094d\u092f\u093e\u092f\u0924\u0947 (sty\u0101yate, \u201cit hardens\u201d)).\n"}}, {"underline": {"definitions": [{"text": ["underline (plural underlines)", "A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or (in electronic documents) that it acts as a hyperlink.", "The character _.", "(dated) An announcement of a theatrical performance to follow, placed in an advertisement for the current one."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["underline (third-person singular simple present underlines, present participle underlining, simple past and past participle underlined)", "To draw a line underneath something, especially to add emphasis; to underscore", "(figuratively) To emphasise or stress something", "(figuratively, obsolete) To influence secretly."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.", "By mere chance in appearance, though underlined with a providence, they had a full light of the infanta."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["underline (not comparable)", "Passing under a railway line."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Just as it was sometimes necessary to lower the road to take it beneath an underline bridge, so in this case it might be necessary to raise it."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u028cnd\u025a\u02ccla\u026an/", "(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u028cnd\u0259\u02ccla\u026an/", "(General American, alternative pronunciation of the verb) IPA: /\u02cc\u028cnd\u025a\u02c8la\u026an/", "(Received Pronunciation, alternative pronunciation of the verb) IPA: /\u02cc\u028cnd\u0259\u02c8la\u026an/", "Rhymes: -a\u026an (for alternative pronunciation of the verb)"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/En-us-underline.ogg"]}, "etymology": "under- +\u200e line"}}, {"murder": {"definitions": [{"text": ["murder (countable and uncountable, plural murders)", "(countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.", "(uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.", "(uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.", "(uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.", "(countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(act of deliberate killing): homicide, manslaughter, assassination", "(group of crows): flock"]}], "examples": ["There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone.", "The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.", "It may be guessed, indeed, that this was the original form of the story, the fairy being the addition of those who considered Jack's thefts from  the giant to be scarcely justified without her.", "Captain Sulu, who served under the legendary James T. Kirk for many years, disobeys Starfleet orders in order to try and help Kirk and another old shipmate, Dr. McCoy, who have been imprisoned for the murder of the Klingon chancellor.", "Dr. Herrera also knew Hemingway had held Batista's army personally responsible for the brutal murders of his dogs, Blackie  and Machakos.", "The defendant was charged with murder.", "Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.", "Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. [\u2026] One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.", "This headache is murder.", "For his part, Melchior was growing unhappy with the murder of crows. They had been patiently following Arthur for hours, trailing him from town to country.", "Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["murder (third-person singular simple present murders, present participle murdering, simple past and past participle murdered)", "To deliberately kill (a person or persons).", "(transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To defeat decisively.", "To botch or mangle.", "(figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one\u2019s anger at somebody).", "(figuratively, colloquial, Britain) to devour, ravish."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(deliberately kill): assassinate, kill, massacre, slaughter", "(defeat decisively): thrash, trounce, wipe the floor with", "(express one\u2019s anger at): kill"]}], "examples": ["The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.", "In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius \u017ftroke one of the Galles on the heade with his \u017ftaffe, because he pre\u017fumed to \u017ftroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, \u017flue Papyrius  with hys \u017fworde, and therewith the \u017flaughter being begun with one, all the re\u017fidue of tho\u017fe auncient fatherly men as they \u017fat in theyr Chayres were \u017flaine and cruelly murthered.", "Our team is going to murder them.", "Dr. Caius, the Frenchman in the play, and Evans the Welshman, \"Gallia et Guallia,\" succeed pretty well in their efforts to murder the language.", "He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!", "I could murder a hamburger right now."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8m\u025c\u02d0d\u0259(\u0279)/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8m\u025d.d\u025a/", "Hyphenation: mur\u2027der", "Rhymes: -\u025c\u02d0(\u0279)d\u0259(\u0279)"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/En-us-murder.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English murder, murdre, mourdre, alteration of earlier murthre (\u201cmurder\u201d) (see murther), from Old English mor\u00feor (\u201csecret slaying, unlawful killing\u201d) and Old English myr\u00fera (\u201cmurder, homicide\u201d), both from Proto-Germanic *mur\u00fer\u0105 (\u201cdeath, killing, murder\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (\u201ckilling\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (\u201cto die\u201d). Akin to Gothic \ud800\udf3c\ud800\udf30\ud800\udf3f\ud800\udf42\ud800\udf38\ud800\udf42 (maur\u00fer, \u201cmurder\u201d), Old High German mord (\u201cmurder\u201d), Old Norse mor\u00f0 (\u201cmurder\u201d), Old English myr\u00ferian (\u201cto murder\u201d) and mor\u00fe.\nThe -d- in the Middle English form may have been influenced in part by Anglo-Norman murdre, from Medieval Latin murdrum from Old French murdre, from Frankish *mur\u00fera (\u201cmurder\u201d), from the same Germanic root, though this may also have been wholly the result of internal development (compare burden, from burthen).\n"}}, {"polish": {"definitions": [{"text": ["polish (countable and uncountable, plural polishes)", "A substance used to polish.", "Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.", "Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(substance): wax", "(smoothness, shininess): finish, sheen, shine, shininess, smoothness", "(cleanliness in performance or presentation): class, elegance, panache, refinement, style"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["polissoir"]}], "examples": ["A good silver polish will remove tarnish easily.", "The floor was waxed to a high polish.", "The lecturer showed a lot of polish at his last talk."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["polish (third-person singular simple present polishes, present participle polishing, simple past and past participle polished)", "(transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.", "(transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.", "(transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.", "(intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.", "(transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(to make smooth and shiny by rubbing): wax, shine, buff, furbish, burnish, smooth, bone", "(refine): hone, perfect, refine"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["polite"]}], "examples": ["He polished up the chrome until it gleamed.", "The band has polished its performance since the last concert.", "Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.", "Steel polishes well."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) enPR: p\u014f'l\u012dsh, IPA: /\u02c8p\u0252l\u026a\u0283/", "(US) enPR: p\u00e4'l\u012dsh, IPA: /\u02c8p\u0251l\u026a\u0283/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/En-us-polish.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English, from Old French poliss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of polir, from Latin pol\u012bre (\u201cto polish, make smooth\u201d).\n"}}, {"fuck": {"definitions": [{"text": ["fuck (third-person singular simple present fucks, present participle fucking, simple past and past participle fucked)", "(vulgar, colloquial) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.", "(vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.", "(vulgar, colloquial) To insert one\u2019s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft.", "(vulgar, colloquial) To put in an extremely difficult or impossible situation.", "(vulgar, colloquial) To defraud or otherwise treat badly.", "(vulgar, colloquial, often derogatory) Used to express great displeasure with someone or something.", "(vulgar, colloquial, usually followed by up) to break, to destroy.", "(vulgar, colloquial) Used in a phrasal verb: fuck with (\u201cto play with, to tinker\u201d)."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["see also Thesaurus:copulate"]}], "examples": ["Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.", "She wanted to fuck him more than she had ever wanted to fuck any man in her life.", "They\u2019re both New Yorkers coasting on their reputations, they\u2019ve both had three marriages, neither of them can shut up when in front of a camera, and perhaps most importantly, they both want to fuck Ivanka, which-which is weird for Trump because Ivanka is in his family, and it\u2019s weird for Giuliani because she isn\u2019t.", "She shoved them up and together, pushing into me, forcing my foot to fuck her tits harder and harder while gasping as if I was shoving it deep into her body...", "I'm afraid they're gonna fuck you on this one.", "I got fucked at the used car lot.", "Don't fuck with me.", "Fuck those jerks, and fuck their stupid rules!", "Fuck the fuckin' Diaz Brothers, I bury those cockroaches!", "If he covered for a single motherfucker who's a kiddy-fucker, / fuck the motherfucker, he's as evil as the rapist.", "I see you driving 'round town with the girl I love / and I'm like, \"Fuck you!\"", "Goodman says he wants him to come in tomorrow and Moses is so afraid he's fucked up his chance again that he says yeah...", "She knew something had fucked the plan when she grabbed the headset off the door.", "Here we are a mile out to sea and you've fucked the motor.", "The symbols, all warnings of impending doom, might well have read: \u201cYou have fucked the engine, you arsehole.", "They couldn't hear a single note Ted was playing and the sound guy kept yelling at them to stop fucking with the levels so he could make adjustments."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["fuck (plural fucks)", "(vulgar, colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.", "(vulgar, colloquial) A sexual partner, especially a casual one.", "(vulgar, colloquial) A highly contemptible person.", "(vulgar, colloquial) A thing of no value, a small amount."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(copulation): See also Thesaurus:copulation.", "(sexual partner): see also Thesaurus:sexual partner and Thesaurus:casual sexual partner.", "(contemptible person): dickhead; see also Thesaurus:jerk."]}], "examples": ["No, but I've got a film of a couple of crocodiles having a fuck.", "He could count on a good fuck with Lorene later on.", "Are guys so intimidated by a girl who's totally blunt about the fact that she just wants a good fuck that they can't perform?", "I thought she was the fuck of the century.", "In his mind, she was probably just another fuck, but in hers it had meant so much more than that.", "If he's a lousy fuck, I can at least say I had a lousy fuck, and if he's a great fuck, well that's even better...", "\u201cHe'd rather have his favorite fuck with him on the greatest adventure of his life than pay money to lie with ugly strangers.  [\u2026]", "Finally he gets up his courage, crosses over to her and says in her ear, \"Hello, Beautiful. Whaddya say to a little fuck?\" She measures him coolly with her eyes. \"Hello, little fuck.\"", "She used to be a secretary but then she realized that she could run a business a hell of a lot better than those stupid fucks could.", "I don't give a fuck."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["fuck", "(vulgar, colloquial) Expressing dismay or discontent."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(interjection): fark, feck, fook, frick", "See also Thesaurus:dammit"]}], "examples": ["Oh, fuck! We left the back door unlocked.", "Fuck! Why do you have to be so difficult all the time?"], "partOfSpeech": "interjection"}, {"text": ["fuck (not comparable)", "(vulgar, colloquial) Used as an intensifier for the words \"yes\" and \"no\"."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(intensifier with \"yes\" and \"no\"): hell, god, shit, heck"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["fuckest", "fucketh"]}], "examples": ["Do you censor your swearing? \u2013 Fuck no.", "Do you say it out loud and proud? \u2013 Fuck yeah."], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK, US) enPR: f\u016dk, IPA: /f\u028ck/", "(some Northern English accents) enPR: fo\u035dok, IPA: /f\u028ak/", "Rhymes: -\u028ck, -\u028ak"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/En-us-fuck.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/En-uk-fuck.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a6/En-uk-fuck2.ogg/En-uk-fuck2.ogg.mp3"]}, "etymology": "Unknown, but probably from Middle English *fucken, of North Germanic origin, related to dialectal Norwegian fukka (\u201cto copulate; fuck\u201d), Bohusl\u00e4n Swedish fokka (\u201cto fuck; thrust; push\u201d) (a sense possibly preserved in English windfucker), modern Swedish focka (\u201cto fire from work\u201d), Swedish fock (\u201cpenis\u201d), and Middle Dutch (and Modern Dutch) fokken (\u201cto breed\u201d). It may go back to the Proto-Indo-European *pug-, *pu\u01f5- (\"to strike\"; source of Latin pugnus (\u201cfist\u201d) among many others), or to Proto-Indo-European *pu\u1e31n-, *pew\u1e31- (\"to sting, stick, stab\"; compare German ficken (\u201cto fuck\u201d)). The word may be attested in a 772 AD charter that mentions a place called Fuccerham, which possibly means \"ham (\u201chome\u201d) of the fucker\" or \"hamm (\u201cpasture\u201d) of the fucker\". The earliest verifiable use of the word, in an unambiguously sexual context in any stage of English, appears in court documents from Cheshire, England, which first mention a man called \"Roger Fuckebythenavele\" (possibly a tongue-in-cheek entry or directly suggestive of a depraved sexual act) on December 8, 1310. It was first listed in a dictionary in 1598.Compare Scots fuk, fuck, attested slightly earlier.\nA range of folk-etymological backronyms, such as \"fornication under consent of the king\" and \"for unlawful carnal knowledge\", are all demonstrably false (among other things, words like fornication are Anglo-Norman in origin, while \"fuck\" is of Germanic origin long predating the Norman Conquest).\n"}}, {"emperor": {"definitions": [{"text": ["emperor (plural emperors)", "The male monarch or ruler of an empire.", "(political theory) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.", "The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.", "A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.", "Any fish of the family Lethrinidae."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "hyponyms", "words": ["barracks emperor"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["empire", "empress", "imperial", "imperialism", "imperially"]}], "examples": ["Even an emperor is no match for a man with no wants.", "The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.", "But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles  is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u025bmp\u0259\u0279\u0259/, /\u02c8\u025bmp\u0279\u0259/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u025bmp\u0259\u0279\u025a/, /\u02c8\u025bmp\u0279\u025a/", "(General New Zealand) IPA: /\u02c8emp\u0258\u0279\u0258/, /\u02c8emp\u0279\u0258/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/En-us-emperor.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Old French empereor (Modern French empereur), from Latin imper\u0101tor (\u201cemperor; commander\u201d), from imper\u0101re (\u201cto command\u201d). Doublet of imperator.\n"}}, {"dark": {"definitions": [{"text": ["dark (comparative darker, superlative darkest)", "Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.", "(of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.", "Hidden, secret, obscure.", "Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.", "Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.", "Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.", "With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(relative lack of light): dim, gloomy, see also Thesaurus:dark", "(sinister or secret): hidden, secret, sinister, see also Thesaurus:hidden", "(without morals): malign, sinister, see also Thesaurus:evil", "(of colour): deep, see also Thesaurus:dark colour", "(conducive to hopelessness): hopeless, negative, pessimistic", "(lacking progress): unenlightened"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(relative lack of light): bright, light, lit", "(of colour): bright, light, pale"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["darken"]}], "examples": ["The room was too dark for reading.", "They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?\u2014and so magnificent a brush as he had too.", "[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.", "Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.", "He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.", "my sister's hair is darker than mine;\u2003 her skin grew dark with a suntan", "Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.", "If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.", "Meantime we shall express our darker purpose", "What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?", "What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.", "It is the remark of an ingenious writer, should a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a palace or a ship, view their separate and disjointed parts, and observe the pillars, doors, windows, cornices and turrets of the one, or the prow and stern, the ribs and masts, the ropes and shrouds, the sails and tackle of the other, he would be able to form but a very lame and dark idea of either of those excellent and useful inventions.", "the dark problems of existence", "a dark villain;\u2003 a dark deed", "Left him at large to his own dark designs.", "the Great Depression was a dark time;\u2003 the film was a dark psychological thriller", "A deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.", "There is, in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.", "The age wherein he lived was dark, but he / Could not want light who taught the world to see.", "The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.", "The ending of this book is rather dark."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["dark (usually uncountable, plural darks)", "A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.", "(uncountable) Ignorance.", "(uncountable) Nightfall.", "A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.", "The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.\u00a0[\u2026].", "[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.", "Dark surrounds us completely.", "We kept him in the dark.", "The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.", "Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.", "Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before.", "It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.", "The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) enPR: d\u00e4rk, IPA: /d\u0251\u0279k/", "(Received Pronunciation) enPR: d\u00e4rk, IPA: /d\u0251\u02d0k/", "Rhymes: -\u0251\u02d0(\u0279)k"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/En-us-dark.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English derk, from Old English deorc (\u201cdark, obscure, gloomy, without light, dreadful, horrible, sad, cheerless, sinister, wicked\u201d), from Proto-Germanic *derkaz (\u201cdark\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European *d\u02b0erg- (\u201cdim, dull\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European *d\u02b0er- (\u201cdull, dirty\u201d).\n"}}, {"syntax": {"definitions": [{"text": ["syntax (countable and uncountable, plural syntaxes)", "A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.", "(computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.", "(linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(grammar): syntaxis"]}], "examples": ["The incorporation of a rule of V MOVEMENT into our description of English Syntax turns out to have fundamental theoretical implications for our overall Theory of Grammar: it means that we are no longer able to posit that the syntactic structure of a sentence can be described in terms of a single Phrase-marker representing its S-structure. For, the postulation of a rule of V-MOVEMENT means that we must recognise at least two different levels of structure in our Theory of Grammar \u2014 namely, a level of D-structure  which serves as input to the rule, and a separate level of S-structure which is formed by application of the rule."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8s\u026an.t\u00e6ks/", "Homophone: sin tax"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From French syntaxe, from Late Latin syntaxis, from Ancient Greek \u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u03c4\u03b1\u03be\u03b9\u03c2 (s\u00fantaxis), from \u03c3\u03cd\u03bd (s\u00fan, \u201ctogether\u201d) + \u03c4\u03ac\u03be\u03b9\u03c2 (t\u00e1xis, \u201carrangement\u201d), from \u03c4\u03ac\u03c3\u03c3\u03c9 (t\u00e1ss\u014d, \u201cI arrange\u201d).\n"}}, {"table": {"definitions": [{"text": ["table (plural tables)", "Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses.", "A two-dimensional presentation of data.", "(music) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.", "(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.", "The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(computing): grid, vector"]}, {"relationshipType": "hypernyms", "words": ["(computing): array", "(furniture): furniture"]}, {"relationshipType": "hyponyms", "words": ["billiard table", "coffee table", "dining table", "dinner table", "dressing table", "drop-leaf table", "end table", "examining table", "kiddie table", "negotiating table", "occasional table", "pier table", "pool table", "round table", "tea table", "toilet table", "vanity table"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["bring to the table", "drink under the table", "off the table", "pound the table", "put one's cards on the table", "table cloth", "table dancer", "table decoration", "table d'h\u00f4te", "table football", "table lamp", "table linen", "table manners", "table mountain", "table of contents", "table salt", "table saw", "table stakes", "table steel guitar", "tablet", "table talk", "table tennis", "table wine", "talk someone under the table", "turn the tables", "under the table"]}, {"relationshipType": "coordinate terms", "words": ["(furniture): chair"]}], "examples": ["He had one hand on the bounce bottle\u2014and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table\u2014but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.", "A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,\u00a0[\u2026].", "That's the strongest table I've ever seen at a European Poker Tour event", "The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; [\u2026] . Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.", "I\u2019m using mathesis \u2014 a universal science of measurement and order \u2026And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation.Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables \u2026Western reason had entered the age of judgement.", "The children were practising multiplication tables.", "Don\u2019t you know your tables?", "Here is a table of natural logarithms.", "On this evidence they will certainly face tougher tests, as a depleted Newcastle side seemed to bask in the relative security of being ninth in the table."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["table (third-person singular simple present tables, present participle tabling, simple past and past participle tabled)", "To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]", "(now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. [from 15th c.]", "(obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. [17th\u201319th c.]", "(non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda. [from 17th c.]", "(chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). [from 19th c.]", "(carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th\u201319th c.]", "To put on a table. [from 19th c.]", "(nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["tabulate"]}], "examples": ["to table fines", "tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation", "In a raucous Commons, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, confirmed he had tabled a formal motion of confidence in the government, backed by other opposition leaders, which MPs would vote on on Wednesday.", "The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.", "The motion was tabled, ensuring that it would not be taken up until a later date.", "[A]fter some clatter offered us a rent of five pounds for the right to shoot here, and even tabled the cash that moment, and would not pocket it again."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: t\u0101\u02b9b\u0259l, IPA: /\u02c8te\u026ab\u0259l/", "Rhymes: -e\u026ab\u0259l", "Hyphenation: ta\u2027ble"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/En-uk-table.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/En-us-table.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/En-au-table.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English table, tabel, tabil, tabul, from Old English tabele, tabul, tablu, tabule, tabula (\u201cboard\u201d); also as t\u00e6fl, t\u00e6fel, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin tabula (\u201ctablet, board, plank, chart\u201d). The sense of \u201cpiece of furniture with the flat top and legs\u201d is from Old French table, of same Latin origin; Old English used b\u0113od or bord instead for this meaning: see board.\n"}}, {"amazon": {"definitions": [{"text": ["amazon (plural amazons)", "A tall, strong, athletic woman.", "For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:amazon."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["Amazonian", "amazonian"]}], "examples": ["Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6.m\u0259.z\u0259n/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6.m\u0259\u02ccz\u0251.\u02d0n/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Amazon, from Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek \u1f08\u03bc\u03b1\u03b6\u03ce\u03bd (Amaz\u1e53n).\n"}}, {"beautiful": {"definitions": [{"text": ["beautiful (comparative more beautiful, superlative most beautiful)", "Attractive and possessing beauty.", "(of the weather) Pleasant; clear.", "Well executed."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(possessing charm and attractive): beauteous, attractive, cute, fair, good-looking, gorgeous, sheen, handsome, hot (slang), lovely, nice-looking, pretty, shapely, fit (slang)", "(of the weather): clear, fine, nice, pleasant, sunny", "(well executed): excellent, exceptional, good, great, marvellous/marvelous, perfect, stylish, wonderful", "(ironic: how unfortunate): great, marvellous/marvelous, nice, very nice, wonderful (any of these can be prefixed with an intensifier such as bloody, damned or just)", "See also Thesaurus:beautiful"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(possessing charm and attractive): grotesque, hideous, homely, plain, misshapen, repulsive, ugly; unbeautiful", "(of the weather): bad, cloudy, dull, miserable, overcast, rainy, wet", "(well executed): average, bad, mediocre, poor, shoddy, substandard, terrible, weak"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["beautySee also Thesaurus:beautiful woman", "See also Thesaurus:beautiful woman"]}], "examples": ["It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.", "It is a beautiful kitchen! \u2014 It is beautiful.\nAudio ", "Audio ", "Anyone who has ever met her thought she was absolutely beautiful.", "There's a beautiful lake by the town.", "It's beautiful outside, let's go for a walk.", "The skater performed a beautiful axel."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["enPR: byo\u035eo\u02b9t\u012d-f\u0259l, IPA: [\u02c8bju\u02d0\u027e\u026af\u0259\u026b]", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8bjut\u032c\u026af\u0259\u026b/", "Hyphenation: beau\u2027ti\u2027ful"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/En-us-beautiful.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/En-uk-beautiful.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English bewteful, beautefull (\u201cattractive to the eye, beautiful\u201d), equivalent to beauty +\u200e -ful. Displaced earlier sheen (from Middle English schene (\u201cbeautiful\u201d), from Old English sc\u012bene (\u201cbeautiful\u201d)), Middle English wliti (\u201cbeautiful\u201d), from Old English wliti\u0121 (\u201cbeautiful\u201d).\n"}}, {"sex": {"definitions": [{"text": ["sex (countable and uncountable, plural sexes)", "(countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.", "(countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.", "(countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.", "(uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.", "(obsolete or literary, uncountable, with \"the\") Women; the human female sex and those who belong to it.", "(uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.", "(countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(divisions of organisms by reproductive role): gender (sometimes proscribed: see usage note)", "(copulation): See also Thesaurus:copulation"]}, {"relationshipType": "hypernyms", "words": ["See species"]}, {"relationshipType": "hyponyms", "words": ["(usual): See male and female", "(in some contexts): See bigender, transgender, genderless, intersex, genderfluid, homosexual, eunuch", "(jocular, now uncommon): See clergy"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["sexual", "sexuality", "sexualize", "sexualization"]}], "examples": ["The effect of the medication is dependent upon age, sex, and other factors.", "Of all \u00feingez hauyng soule of eny flesch: two \u00feou schalt brynge in to \u00fee ark, \u00feat male sex & female  [\u2026]", "I would never have guessed  [\u2026]  that slime molds can have thirteen sexes.", "Still there are some loop-holes out of which a man may creep, and dare to think and act for himself; but for a woman it is an herculean task, because she has difficulties peculiar to her sex to overcome, which require almost super-human powers.", "\"But now another sex, in arms, is brought, / And, realms to guard, are eunuchs able thought!\"", "A black old neutral personageOf the third sex stept up.", "It was a weaknessIn me, but incident to all our sex.", "The sensibility of the female sex appears  [\u2026]  to be greater than that of the male.", "A lot of women now like men to pay for them on dates... We've dealt with the outdated view of sex underpinning this.", "The sex of Venice are undoubtedly of a distinguished beauty.", "I was not, however, better than my neighbors; the Sex had its charms for me as it had for others; But there always remained a sting, that time only wore away.", "Even the reptile temperament of Noel Vanstone warmed under the influence of the sex: he had an undeniably appreciative eye for a handsome woman, and Magdalen's grace and beauty were not thrown away on him.", "We marry in fear and trembling, sex for a home is the woman's traffic, and the man comes to his heart's desire when his heart's desire is dead.", "If you want to have sex, you've got to trustAt the core of your heart, the other creature.", " who abstain from sex", "Why wasn't Bond \u2018more tender\u2019 in his love-making? Why did he just \u2018have sex\u2019 and disappear?", "It wouldn't work with you... Sex, I mean. You're... easy to be with. You're... you're not dangerous. You're my best friend, John. I couldn't have it on with my best friend, John. It would be embarrassing. Sorry. Honest.", "Another ha's gon through with the bargain... One that will find the way to her Sex, before you'le come to kissing her hand.", "And the black cypresses strained upwards like the sex of a hanged man.", "She touched his sex with her hand.", "And he put in a fake sex  because he wanted to make the scene more real, more rude."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["sex (third-person singular simple present sexes, present participle sexing, simple past and past participle sexed)", "(zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of an animal.", "(chiefly US, colloquial, intransitive) To have sex with."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["If we sex the cattle, which is the only way to get at their value, we shall have... 400 cows, 200 yearling heifers.", "The ability to sex birds invasively through laparoscopy initially solved that problem, but now it is even easier and less stressful on the birds through testing the DNA of their feathers or blood.", "Our baby is eighteen months old now, and cries when we sex."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["enPR: s\u0115ks, IPA: /s\u025bks/", "Rhymes: -\u025bks", "Homophone: secs"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/En-us-sex.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English sexe (\u201cgender\u201d), from Old French sexe (\u201cgenitals; gender\u201d), from Latin sexus (\u201cgender; gender traits; males or females; genitals\u201d), of uncertain etymology. Sometimes connected with Latin sec\u014d, sec\u0101re (\u201cdivide, cut\u201d), with the idea of division of the species.\nUsage for women specifically follows Middle French le sexe (\u201cwomen\u201d) (attested in 1580). Usage for third and additional sexes follows French troisi\u00e8me sexe, referring to masculine women in 1817 and homosexuals in 1847. First used by Lord Byron and others in English in reference to Catholic clergy. Usage for sexual intercourse first attested in 1900 (in the writings of H.G. Wells).\n"}}, {"colon": {"definitions": [{"text": ["colon (plural colons or cola)", "The punctuation mark \":\".", "(rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).", "(rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.", "(palaeography) A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(punctuation mark): colon-point (obsolete)"]}], "examples": ["A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u02c8k\u0259\u028al\u0259n/, /\u02c8k\u0259\u028al\u0252n/", "(US) enPR: k\u014dl'\u0259n, IPA: /\u02c8ko\u028al\u0259n/", "Rhymes: -\u0259\u028al\u0259n"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/En-us-colon.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Latin c\u014dlon (\u201ca member of a verse of poem\u201d), from Ancient Greek \u03ba\u1ff6\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd (k\u00f4lon, \u201ca member, limb, clause, part of a verse\u201d).\n"}}, {"polio": {"definitions": [{"text": ["polio (uncountable)", "Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.", "A sufferer from poliomyelitis."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8p\u0259\u028alj\u0259\u028a/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8po\u028alio\u028a/, /-ljo\u028a/", "Rhymes: -\u0259\u028alj\u0259\u028a", "Hyphenation: po\u2027lio"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"poliomyelitis": {"definitions": [{"text": ["poliomyelitis (countable and uncountable, plural poliomyelitides)", "(pathology) Acute infection by the poliovirus, especially of the motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis and sometimes deformity."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["infantile paralysis, polio"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) enPR: p\u014f'l\u012d\u014dm\u012b\u0259l\u012b\u02b9t\u012ds, p\u014d'l\u012d\u014dm\u012b\u0259l\u012b\u02b9t\u012ds, IPA: /\u02ccp\u0252l\u026a\u0259\u028ama\u026a\u0259\u02c8la\u026at\u026as/, /\u02c8p\u0259\u028al\u026a\u0259\u028ama\u026a\u0259\u02c8la\u026at\u026as/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from German Poliomyelitis, from the Ancient Greek \u03c0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b9\u03cc\u03c2 (poli\u00f3s, \u201cgrey\u201d) +\u200e \u03bc\u03c5\u03b5\u03bb\u03cc\u03c2 (muel\u00f3s, \u201cmarrow\u201d) +\u200e -\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b9\u03c2 (-\u00eetis, \u201c-itis\u201d). Compare the French poliomy\u00e9lite.\n"}}, {"studio": {"definitions": [{"text": ["studio (plural studios)", "An artist\u2019s or photographer\u2019s workshop or the room in which an artist works.", "An establishment where an art is taught.", "A place where radio or television programs, records or films are made.", "A company or organization that makes films, records or other artistic works.", "A studio flat/apartment, especially one having the kitchen, living area, and sleeping area in a single room."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["His studio was cramped when he began as an artist.", "As he gained a reputation, he took larger space and took students into his studio,", "The recording studio had some slight echo, but was good enough to make a demo.", "The studios still make films, but they rely on the strength of their distribution.", "It\u2019s a lovely little studio with almost a river view."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8studio\u028a/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cf/En-us-studio.ogg/En-us-studio.ogg.mp3"]}, "etymology": "From Italian studio (\u201croom for study\u201d), from Latin studium.\nCognate to study, from studiolo (\u201croom for study\u201d).\n"}}, {"print": {"definitions": [{"text": ["print (not comparable)", "Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["print (third-person singular simple present prints, present participle printing, simple past and past participle printed)", "(transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.", "To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.", "(transitive, intransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.", "(transitive, intransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.", "(transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.", "(transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.", "(transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.", "(computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.", "The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.", "Print your name here and sign below.", "I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print.", "How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?", "From the moment he prints, he must expect to hear no more truth.", "to print calico", "A look will print a thought that never may remove.", "Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print.", "some footsteps printed in the clay", "Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.", "However, when you print the string you can see only 11 characters .", "On the RHS side we write the current date to the variable date and print it to the terminal window, followed by the string \"Chris coming home....\" ."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["print (countable and uncountable, plural prints)", "(uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.", "(uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.", "(uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.", "A visible impression on a surface.", "A fingerprint.", "A footprint.", "(visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.", "(photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.", "(motion pictures) A copy of a film that can be projected.", "Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(writing without connected letters): cursive"]}], "examples": ["Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print.", "TV and the internet haven't killed print.", "Write in print using block letters.", "The print is too small for me to read.", "Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.", "Did the police find any prints at the scene?"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /p\u0279\u026ant/", "Rhymes: -\u026ant"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/En-us-print.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English *printen, prenten, preenten, an apheretic form of Middle English emprinten, enprinten (\u201cto impress; imprint\u201d) (see imprint). Compare Dutch prenten (\u201cto imprint\u201d), Middle Low German prenten (\u201cto print; write\u201d), Danish prente (\u201cto print\u201d), Swedish prenta (\u201cto write German letters\u201d). Compare also Late Old French printer, preindre (\u201cto press\u201d), from Latin premere (\u201cto press\u201d).\n"}}, {"recount": {"definitions": [{"text": ["recount (plural recounts)", "Retelling, narration, rendering"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["recount (third-person singular simple present recounts, present participle recounting, simple past and past participle recounted)", "To tell; narrate; to relate in detail", "(dated) To rehearse; to enumerate."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.", "to recount one's blessings"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["Rhymes: -a\u028ant"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.\n"}}, {"verbose": {"definitions": [{"text": ["verbose (comparative more verbose, superlative most verbose)", "Abounding in words, containing more words than necessary; long-winded.", "(computing) Producing unusually detailed output for diagnostic purposes."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(abounding in words): See Thesaurus:verbose"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["concise", "terse"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["verbosity"]}], "examples": ["You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /v\u025c\u02d0\u02c8b\u0259\u028as/", "(US) IPA: /v\u025d\u02d0\u02c8b\u0259\u028as/", "Rhymes: -\u0259\u028as"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/En-us-verbose.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Latin verbosus.\n"}}, {"scoff": {"definitions": [{"text": ["scoff (plural scoffs)", "Derision; ridicule; a derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.", "An object of scorn, mockery, or derision."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(derision, ridicule): derision, ridicule", "See also Thesaurus:ridicule"]}], "examples": ["With scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts.", "'I believe you've killed that constable in the exercise of his duty, Sir; the man's dead,' said Lowe, sternly.'Another gloss on my text; why invade me like housebreakers?' said Dangerfield with a grim scoff.", "There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways  [\u2026]", "The scoff of withered age and beardless youth."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["scoff (third-person singular simple present scoffs, present participle scoffing, simple past and past participle scoffed)", "(intransitive) To jeer; laugh at with contempt and derision.", "(transitive) To mock; to treat with scorn."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(to jeer, laugh at): sneer", "(to mock, scorn): contemn, deride"]}], "examples": ["Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sk\u0252f/", "(US) IPA: /sk\u0254\u02d0f/", "(cot\u2013caught merger, northern cities vowel shift) IPA: /sk\u0251\u02d0f/", "Rhymes: -\u0252f"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/En-us-scoff.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/En-au-scoff.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English scof/skof, of Scandinavian origin. Compare Old Norse skaup, Danish skuffelse(noun)/skuffe(verb) and Old High German scoph.\n"}}, {"pound": {"definitions": [{"text": ["pound (plural pounds) (sometimes pound after numerals)", "A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of \"pound\" as a unit of weight.", "A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (\u2248 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.", "(US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash)", "The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.", "Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.", "Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.", "Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force is inaccurate and unscientific."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Research shows that retaining even one or two pounds after giving birth can make problems more likely in a subsequent pregnancy, experts said, with women who have several children facing a \"slippery slope\" if they continue to gain weight each time.", "Synonym: lb", "Synonym: lb t", "Synonyms: hash, sharp", "For students in developing countries who can't get it any other way, or for students in the first world, who can but may choose not to. Pay thousands of pounds a year for your education? Or get it free online?", "\"Only a hundred and ninety-three pound,\" said Mr. Tulliver. \"You've brought less o' late; but young fellows like to have their own way with their money. Though I didn't do as I liked before I was of age.\" He spoke with rather timid discontent.", "Synonyms: \u00a3, pound sterling, GBP, quid, nicker", "He glanced back through what he had read and, while feeling his water flow quietly, he envied kindly Mr Beaufoy who had written it and received payment of three pounds, thirteen and six.", "Synonym: punt", "the Rhode Island pound; the New Hampshire pound", "He knocked out cans of warm cola at two pound fifty a time."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /pa\u028and/", "Rhymes: -a\u028and"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/En-us-pound.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (\u201ca pound, weight\u201d), from Proto-Germanic *pund\u0105 (\u201cpound, weight\u201d), an early borrowing from Latin pond\u014d (\u201cby weight\u201d), ablative form of pondus (\u201cweight\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *spend- (\u201cto pull, stretch\u201d). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Swedish pund. Doublet of pood.\n"}}, {"boob": {"definitions": [{"text": ["boob (plural boobs)", "(informal, derogatory) Idiot, fool."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Not having an ear for music it annoys me to hear the boobs squeal.", "He said he felt like such a boob in school and nobody talked to him."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["boob (not comparable)", "(informal, derogatory) Idiotic, foolish."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Brother, to survive we must strip our total beings of any boob black bourgeoisie values and creampuff attitudes toward the horror in America which we might have absorbed."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["boob (third-person singular simple present boobs, present participle boobing, simple past and past participle boobed)", "To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.", "(informal, intransitive) To make a mistake"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["After three hits his cleverness ran out. He boobed.", "...the younger generation will not altogether be grateful for the book in which they are contained \u2014 especially when he boobs in calling the Weavers a rock ensemble."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8bu\u02d0b/", "Rhymes: -u\u02d0b"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/En-us-boob.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Clipped form of booby (\u201cfool\u201d). Appeared near the beginning of the twentieth century; more information at booby \u00a7 Etymology 1.\n"}}, {"derogatory": {"definitions": [{"text": ["derogatory (comparative more derogatory, superlative most derogatory)", "(usually with to) Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting", "(law, of a clause in a testament) Being or pertaining to a derogatory clause."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["honorific"]}], "examples": ["Synonym: injurious", "Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.", "[H]is language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their order.", "Billie Jean King said Friday that the Australian Open's Margaret Court Arena should have its name changed because of Court's derogatory comments about gay and transgender people."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["derogatory (plural derogatories)", "A trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["pejorative"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["derogate", "derogation"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /d\u026a\u02c8\u0279\u0252\u0261\u0259t\u0279i/", "(US) IPA: /d\u026a\u02c8\u0279\u0251\u0261\u0259t\u0254\u0279i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Late Latin d\u0113rog\u0101t\u014drius, from Latin d\u0113rog\u0101re; corresponding to derogate +\u200e -ory.\n"}}, {"silhouette": {"definitions": [{"text": ["silhouette (plural silhouettes)", "An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be. [mid 19th c.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["silhouette (third-person singular simple present silhouettes, present participle silhouetting, simple past and past participle silhouetted)", "To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette. [late 19th c.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02ccs\u026a.l\u028a\u02c8w\u025bt/, /\u02ccs\u026a.l\u0259\u02c8w\u025bt/, /\u02ccs\u026a.lu\u02d0\u02c8w\u025bt/", "Rhymes: -\u025bt"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/En-us-silhouette.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from French silhouette, from the name of \u00c9tienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), a French politician. His surname, in turn, is (gallicized) Basque, from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, from zulo (\u201chole, cave\u201d).\n"}}, {"portrait": {"definitions": [{"text": ["portrait (plural portraits)", "A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.", "(figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.", "(computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(print mode or selection): landscape", "(print mode or selection): profile"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["portray"]}], "examples": ["In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.", "The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["portrait (third-person singular simple present portraits, present participle portraiting, simple past and past participle portraited)", "(obsolete) To portray; to draw."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["portrait (not comparable)", "Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["a portrait bust; a portrait statue"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8p\u0254\u02d0t\u0279\u026at/, (rare) IPA: /\u02c8p\u0254\u02d0t\u0279e\u026at/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8p\u0254\u0279t\u0279\u0259t/, (rare) IPA: /\u02c8p\u0254\u0279t\u0279e\u026at/", "(rhotic, without the horse\u2013hoarse merger) IPA: /\u02c8po\u028a\u0279t\u0279\u0259t/, (rare) IPA: /\u02c8po\u028a\u0279t\u0279e\u026at/", "(non-rhotic, without the horse\u2013hoarse merger) IPA: /\u02c8po\u0259t\u0279\u026at/, (rare) IPA: /\u02c8po\u0259t\u0279e\u026at/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/En-us-portrait.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (\u201cportray\u201d), from Latin pr\u014dtrah\u014d.\n"}}, {"a": {"definitions": [{"text": ["a (lower case, upper case A, plural a's)", "The first letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "letter"}, {"text": ["a (lower case, upper case A)", "The ordinal number first, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called a and written in the Latin script."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "numeral"}, {"text": ["a (plural aes)", "The name of the Latin script letter A/a."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(letter name)The current pronunciation resulted from the Great Vowel Shift. Before the early part of the 17th century, the pronunciation was similar to that in other languages.", "(UK, US) IPA: /e\u026a/", "(General Australian) IPA: /\u00e6\u026a/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a", "(phoneme) /\u00e6/, /\u0251\u02d0/, /e\u026a/, ...", "(stressed) IPA: /e\u026a/", "(unstressed) IPA: /\u0259/", "IPA: /\u0259/", "IPA: /\u0259/", "(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259/", "(it): (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259/, /\u0251/", "IPA: /\u0259/, /\u0251\u02d0/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259/", "(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0254/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/En-us-a.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/En-us-a-stressed.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/En-us-a-unstressed.ogg"]}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aa": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aa (uncountable)", "(volcanology) A form of lava flow associated with Hawaiian-type volcanoes, consisting of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a jagged and loose, clinkery surface. Compare pahoehoe. [From 19th c.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["We...saw \u2018pahoihoi\u2019 or solid lava forming, and also \u2018aa\u2019 or clinkers.", "Cooling and solidification frequently takes a different course [...] in lava flows, producing the clinker-like \u2018aa\u2019 lava.", "Both pahoehoe and aa lava flows are common on the upper slopes of Mauna Loa with a preponderance of aa flows found at the lower elevations."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251\u02d0.\u0251\u02d0/, enPR: \u00e4\u02b9\u00e4", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251.\u0251/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Hawaiian \u02bba\u02bb\u0101.\n"}}, {"aaa": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aaa", "(medicine) Initialism of abdominal aortic aneurism.", "(medicine) Initialism of acquired aplastic anemia.", "(medicine) Initialism of acute anxiety attack.", "(medicine) Initialism of amalgam.", "(medicine) Initialism of androgenic anabolic agent.", "(military) Initialism of anti-aircraft artillery."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aah": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aah", "Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.", "Indication of joyful pleasure.", "Indication of sympathy.", "Indication of mouth being opened wide.", "To express understanding.", "The sound of one screaming (with as many a's or h's needed for emphasis.)"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Aah! That's amazing!", "'Aaah!' they sigh, as the silvery Space Shuttle races heavenwards on top of a towering pillar of flame.", "Yet I remember\u2014aah! how should I forget?", "Dentists would always instruct, say aah!", "Aah. Now I understand.", "AAAHHH! A bug! A bug! Get it off me! Get it off me!"], "partOfSpeech": "interjection"}, {"text": ["aah (plural aahs)", "Expression of amazement, surprise, enthusiasm, or fear.", "Expression of joy and/or pleasure.", "The exclamation aah."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["aah (third-person singular simple present aahs, present participle aahing, simple past and past participle aahed)", "(intransitive, informal) To say or exclaim aah."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Everyone who came by oohed and aahed over her new appearance."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["As an interjection the word is pronounced basically the same way as the interjection ah but the double a stresses prolongation. In the noun and the verb there is no extra prolongation.\n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aahed": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aahed", "simple past tense and past participle of aah"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aahing": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aahing", "present participle of aah"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["aahing (plural aahings)", "An aah sound."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["the oohings and aahings of the crowd"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aahs": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aahs", "plural of aah"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["aahs", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aah"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aal": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aal (plural aals)", "The Indian mulberry or noni (Morinda citrifolia, Morinda tinctoria), a shrub found in Southeast Asia, the East Indies and the Pacific islands as far as French Polynesia.", "A reddish dyestuff obtained from the roots of the East Indian shrubs Morinda citrifolia and Morinda tinctoria."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(Morinda citrifolia or Morinda tinctoria): Indian mulberry, noni"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aalii": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aalii (plural aaliis)", "A bushy small tree, Dodonaea viscosa, native to Hawaii, Australia, Africa, and tropical America, having sticky leaves and dark wood."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["akeake (New Zealand)"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0251\u02d0\u02c8li\u02d0i\u02d0/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0251\u02c8li\u02cci/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Hawaiian \u02bba\u02bbali\u02bbi (\u201cname of any of the Dodonaea hardwood shrubs\u201d)"}}, {"aaliis": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aaliis", "plural of aalii (Dodonaea viscosa)."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aals": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aals", "plural of aal"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aam": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aam (plural aams)", "(historical) A Dutch and German measure of liquids, used in England for Rhine wine, varying in different cities, being in Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, in Antwerp 36\u00bd, and in Hamburg 38\u00bc. [first attested around 1350 to 1470]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0251\u02d0m/, /\u0254\u02d0m/", "(US) IPA: /\u0251m/, /\u0254m/", "Rhymes: -\u0251\u02d0m, -\u0254\u02d0m"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Dutch aam, from Latin ama, a variant of hama, from Ancient Greek \u1f04\u03bc\u03b7 (\u00e1m\u0113, \u201cbucket\u201d).\n"}}, {"aardvark": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aardvark (plural aardvarks)", "The nocturnal, insectivorous, burrowing, mammal Orycteropus afer, of the order Tubulidentata, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa. [First attested in the late 18th c.]", "(slang, particularly in the southeast  US) A silly or credulous person who is prone to mistakes or blunders."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(mammal): African anteater, antbear, ant bear or ant-bear, anteater, earth pig", "(silly person): fool"]}], "examples": ["The aardvark burrows in the ground and feeds mostly on termites, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.", "I walked into the wrong bathroom like a total aardvark."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251\u02d0d.v\u0251\u02d0k/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251\u0279d.v\u0251\u0279k/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/En-us-aardvark.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Afrikaans aardvark (obsolete), erdvark, from aarde (\u201cearth\u201d), (from Dutch, from Middle Dutch aerde) + vark (\u201cpig\u201d), (from Middle Dutch varken). Early European colonists in South Africa noticed that the animal was similar to a pig, while \"aarde\" hints at the animal's habit of burrowing.\n"}}, {"aardvarks": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aardvarks", "plural of aardvark"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aardwolf": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aardwolf (plural aardwolves)", "The nocturnal, insectivorous, mammal, Proteles cristatus, of southern and eastern Africa, related to and resembling the hyena. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["aardvark"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251\u02d0d\u02ccw\u028alf/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251\u0279d.\u02ccw\u028alf/", "Hyphenation: aard\u2027wolf"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Afrikaans aardwolf.\n"}}, {"aardwolves": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aardwolves", "plural of aardwolf"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251\u0279d\u02ccw\u028alvz/", "Hyphenation: aard\u2027wolves"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aargh": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aargh", "Alternative form of argh"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "interjection"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aarrgh": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aarrgh", "Elongated form of argh."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "interjection"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aarrghh": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aarrghh", "Elongated form of argh."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "interjection"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aaru": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aaru", "hold"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aasvogel": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aasvogel (plural aasvogels)", "(South Africa, rare, literary) Vulture. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["As the charge exploded I saw the aasvogel give a kind of backward twist."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251\u02d0s\u02ccf\u0259\u028a.\u0261\u0259l/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251s\u02ccfo\u028a.\u0261\u0259l/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Afrikaans aasvogel (\u201cvulture\u201d) (obsolete), from aas (\u201ccarrion\u201d) + vogel (\u201cbird\u201d), from Dutch.Cognate Afrikaans aasvo\u00ebl\n"}}, {"aasvogels": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aasvogels", "plural of aasvogel"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"ab": {"definitions": [{"text": ["ab (plural abs)", "(informal) abdominal muscle. [Mid 20th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The bikinied models in most of the ESPN2 shows have abs. Many of the malnourished bikinied models in the commercials have visible rib cages. How did the two get conflated into a shared vision of beauty?", "When possible, do your ab workout on a day when you're not training a major muscle group [\u2026] ."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u00e6b/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6b"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Abbreviation of abdominal muscles.\n"}}, {"aba": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aba (countable and uncountable, plural abas)", "A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.", "A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs. [First attested in the early 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abaya"]}], "examples": ["'A pale mauve abba such as you buy in the East.'", "Here Nessim would sit night after night in the winter, dressed in his old rust-coloured abba, staring gravely at Betelgeuse, or hovering over books of calculations for all the world like a medieval soothsayer."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251\u02d0/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6.b\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Arabic \u0639\u064e\u0628\u064e\u0627\u0621\u064e\u0629\u200e (\u02bfab\u0101\u02bea). Compare abaya.\n"}}, {"abac": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abac (plural abacs)", "(mathematics) A nomogram."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abaca": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaca (countable and uncountable, plural abacas)", "Musa textilis, a species of banana tree native to the Philippines grown for its textile, rope- and papermaking fibre. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]", "(uncountable) The fiber of this plant, used in rope. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Synonyms: Manila Hemp, Manilla hemp, textile banana", "Synonyms: Manila hemp, Manilla hemp"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259\u02c8k\u0251/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259\u02c8k\u0251/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Spanish abac\u00e1, from the native Tagalog name for the plant, abak\u00e1.\n"}}, {"abacas": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacas", "plural of abaca"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abacate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacate (plural abacates)", "Synonym of avocado."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6.b\u0259\u02c8k\u0251t.i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Portuguese abacate.\n"}}, {"abacaxi": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacaxi (plural abacaxis)", "A large Brazilian pineapple."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6.b\u0259.k\u0259\u02cc\u0283i/, /\u02cc\u00e6.b\u0259.k\u0259\u02c8\u0283i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Portuguese abacaxi (\u201cpineapple\u201d), from Old Tupi ibakat\u00ed.\n"}}, {"abaci": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaci", "plural form of abacus"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b\u0259\u02ccsa\u026a/, /\u02c8\u00e6b\u0259\u02ccka\u026a/, /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6ka\u026a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abaci.\n"}}, {"abacinate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacinate (third-person singular simple present abacinates, present participle abacinating, simple past and past participle abacinated)", "(transitive, rare) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["\"You young scapegrace,\" said Dandolo, \"I will myself abacinate you \u2014 in the Venetian way.\" \"How's that?\" \"Blind your eyes with the glare, not of hot irons, but of new ducats. Count your pile.\"", "Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.", "This chiasmic image of the subject's imperviousness suggests a sensory deprivation beyond sublimity, like that of abacinated anti-epistemology."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8\u00e6s\u026ane\u026at/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/En-uk-abacinate.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Late Latin abacin\u0101tus, perfect passive participle of abacin\u014d; possibly formed from ab (\u201coff\u201d) + bac\u012bnum (\u201ca basin\u201d) or bac\u012bnus. Probably cognate with modern Italian abbacinare (\u201cto dazzle\u201d).\n"}}, {"abacination": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacination (countable and uncountable, plural abacinations)", "The act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["That blind general lost his sight by the process of abacination.", "Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination.", "I, who had seen so many brandings and abacinations, and had even used the iron myself , could scarcely force myself to go and look at him."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From abacinate +\u200e -ion"}}, {"abacisci": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacisci", "plural of abaciscus"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259.\u02c8s\u026a.\u02ccsa\u026a/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259.\u02c8k\u026a.\u02ccski/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259.\u02c8k\u026a.\u02ccska\u026a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abaciscus": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaciscus (plural abacisci or abaciscuses)", "(archaic) One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259\u02c8s\u026as.k\u0259s/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259\u02c8s\u026as.k\u026as/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From New Latin, from Ancient Greek \u1f00\u03b2\u03b1\u03ba\u03af\u03c3\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2 (abak\u00edskos, \u201ca coloured stone for laying mosaic\u201d), diminutive of \u1f04\u03b2\u03b1\u03be (\u00e1bax, \u201cboard\u201d). See abacus.\n"}}, {"abacist": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacist (plural abacists)", "One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.s\u026ast/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.s\u0259st/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.k\u0259st/, /\u0259.\u02c8b\u00e6.k\u0259st/, rarely IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251.k\u0259st/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English, from Medieval Latin abacista, from abacus + -ista (\u201c-ist\u201d).\n"}}, {"aback": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aback (not comparable)", "(archaic) Towards the back or rear; backwards. [First attested prior to 1150.]", "(archaic) In the rear; a distance behind. [First attested prior to 1150.]", "By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)", "(nautical) Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the \"wrong\" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way. [First attested in the late 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Therewith aback she started.", "The mild, though licentious reign, of Louis the Sixteenth, threw France far aback, in her ambitious career; but it gave birth to that revolution, wherein, her warlike propensities and territorial resources were unfolded with tenfold efficacy.", "Then stopped, and bounded aback, and away as if in fear, / That I saw her no more; then I wondered though sitting close anear / Was a she-wolf great and grisly.", "There are so many canes upon Reliance that the labourers could not cut those aback, as they prefer cutting those in front. The cane fields aback were in cultivation last year.", "I would rather board a hundred of the enemy's frigates, than steer my boat into a fleet of modest women, for a modest woman never fails to take me aback.", "Q. Was not the Trident at that time aback with one or more Top-sails? A. To the best of my Knowledge she had both Top-sails aback.", "As the anchor fetches her up, she will swing head to wind, bringing the head sails aback.", "Then the sails on the mainmast were backing and we started getting stern way. Eagle was caught aback."], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6k/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6k/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6k"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/En-us-aback.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abak, from Old English on (\u201cat, on, or toward\u201d) + b\u00e6c (\u201cback\u201d).\na- (\u201ctowards\u201d) +\u200e back (\u201cback\u201d).\nCompare West Frisian tebek (\u201caback\u201d, adverb, literally \u201cto/at back\u201d), Swedish tillbaka (idem.).\n"}}, {"abacot": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacot", "(obsolete) Misspelling of bycoket."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From a series of mistranscriptions and misprints, from \"a bycoket\" to \"a bicoket\" to \"abocoket\" to \"abocoke\" to, at last, \"abacot\".\n"}}, {"abacterial": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacterial (comparative more abacterial, superlative most abacterial)", "Not caused by bacteria; characterized by a lack of bacteria."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["an abacterial prostatitis model for studying immune cells"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.b\u00e6k\u02c8t\u026a\u0279.i.\u0259l/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "a- (\u201cwithout\u201d) +\u200e bacterial"}}, {"abactinal": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abactinal (comparative more abactinal, superlative most abactinal)", "(zoology) Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["actinal"]}], "examples": ["The so-called mouth is always placed at one end of these poles, and from it radiate the most prominent organs, in consequence of which I have called this side of the body the oral or actinal area, and the opposite side the aboral or abactinal area."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u00e6\u02c8b\u00e6k.t\u0259.nl\u0329/, /\u02c8\u00e6\u02ccb\u00e6k.t\u0259.nl\u0329/, /\u02cc\u00e6\u02ccb\u00e6k\u02c8ta\u026a.nl\u0329/, /\u02c8\u00e6\u02ccb\u00e6k\u02ccta\u026a.nl\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From ab- +\u200e actinal.\n"}}, {"abactinally": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abactinally (not comparable)", "(As seen or measured) from the end opposite the mouth in a radiate animal (to the other end)."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u00e6\u02c8b\u00e6k.t\u0259n.l\u0329i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abactinal +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abaction": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaction (uncountable)", "(law) Carrying away by force, especially of animals.", "(archaic) Stealing cattle on a large scale."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abactor"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abactor": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abactor (plural abactors)", "(law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler. [Attested from the mid 17th century until the early 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["See Thesaurus:rustler"]}, {"relationshipType": "hyponyms", "words": ["horse thief, sheepstealer, napper (obsolete)"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6\u02ccb\u00e6k.t\u025a/, /\u00e6\u02c8b\u00e6k.t\u025a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Late Latin abactor (\u201ccattle rustler\u201d), from abig\u014d (\u201cdrive away\u201d); from ab (\u201cfrom, away from\u201d) + ag\u014d (\u201cdrive\u201d)."}}, {"abaculi": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaculi", "plural form of abaculus"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6k.j\u0259\u02ccla\u026a/, /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6k.j\u0259\u02ccli/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abaculus": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaculus (plural abaculi)", "(archaic) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements; abaciscus."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6k.j\u0259.l\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abaculus, diminutive of abacus.\n"}}, {"abacus": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacus (plural abaci or abacuses)", "(obsolete) A table or tray strewn with sand, anciently used for drawing, calculating, etc. [Attested from around 1350 (1387) until around 1470.]", "A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. [First attested in the late 17th century.]", "(architecture) The uppermost portion of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]", "A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. [First attested in the late 18th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abacist"]}], "examples": ["I've heard merchants still use an abacus for adding things up in China.", "The abacus is obviously only a concrete way of representing a number in the decimal system of notation, that is, by means of the local value of the digits.", "We may there find some slight attempts at a study of literature, but mathematics was never read: to learn the use of the abacus, to keep accounts, and to know the rule by which the date of Easter could be determined was all the science that the most studious aimed at.", "She's handy with a loom and an abacus, as well.", "She was sitting at the parlour table with a small abacus in front of her.", "The abacus is moulded in three sections and has four main concave faces corresponding with the tapering volutes below and truncated by a short sqaure face on the diagonal."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.k\u0259s/, /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6k.\u0259s/, rarely IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251k.\u0259s/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.k\u0259s/, /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6k.\u0259s/, rarely IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251k.\u0259s/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/En-us-abacus.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Latin abacus, abax; from Ancient Greek \u1f04\u03b2\u03b1\u03be (\u00e1bax, \u201cboard covered with sand\u201d), possibly from a Semitic source; compare Hebrew \u05d0\u05d1\u05e7\u200e (\u0101v\u0101q, \u201cdust\u201d).\n"}}, {"abacuses": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abacuses", "plural of abacus"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abada": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abada (plural abadas)", "(obsolete) The rhinoceros.", "(mythology) A herbivorous mythological creature of the Central African Congo, similar to the unicorn. Its horns are said to be an antidote to poisons, and it has brown fur, two crooked horns and a boar's tail."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["It is certain that the unicorn is not to be confounded with the abada, about which they usually dispute; this one may see by the difference of their names, as well as by the difference of their body and parts  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Portuguese abada (\u201cfemale rhinoceros\u201d), from Malay badaq (\u201crhinoceros\u201d).\n"}}, {"abaddon": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaddon (plural abaddons)", "(archaic, British slang) An informer; a criminal who informs on other criminals to the authorities."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["grass, nark, stool pigeon, see Thesaurus:informant"]}], "examples": ["The prisoner, Money Moses, better known among thieves and fences as Moses the abaddon, has been, to my knowledge, for the last twenty years a receiver and dealer in stolen property."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "UK C19. From Abaddon, from Middle English, from Late Latin, from Ancient Greek \u1f08\u03b2\u03b1\u03b4\u03b4\u03ce\u03bd (Abadd\u1e53n, \u201cAbaddon\u201d), from Hebrew \u05d0\u05d1\u05d3\u05d5\u05df\u200e (\u0101badd\u014dn, \u201cdestruction, abyss\u201d), from \u05d0\u05d1\u05d3\u200e (\u0101bad, \u201cto be lost, to perish\u201d).\n"}}, {"abaft": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaft", "(nautical) Behind; toward the stern relative to some other object or position; aft of. [First attested around the late 15th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The captain stood abaft the wheelhouse."], "partOfSpeech": "preposition"}, {"text": ["abaft (comparative more abaft, superlative most abaft)", "(nautical) On the aft side; in the stern. [First attested in the early 17th century.]", "(nautical, obsolete) Backwards. [Attested from around (1150 to 1350) until the late 15th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["We drifted with the wind abaft.", "The mate sleeps abaft."], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6ft/ or IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251\u02d0ft/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6ft/ or IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251ft/", "Rhymes: -\u0251\u02d0ft"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/En-us-abaft.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From a- (\u201con\u201d) + Middle English baft, baften, biaften, Old English be\u00e6ftan; be (\u201cby\u201d) (modern English by) + \u00e6ftan (\u201cbehind\u201d) (modern English after). See also aft.\n"}}, {"abay": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abay (plural abays)", "(obsolete) Barking or baying of dogs at their prey. [Attested from around (1150 to 1350) until the late 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abay, a-bay, from Old French abai, aboi, abay (\u201cbarking\u201d), from the verb abayer."}}, {"abaisance": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaisance (plural abaisances)", "Obsolete form of obeisance. [from the late 17th century to the mid 18th century]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Haman can find no gust in all the sensualities of the Persian Court, because a poor despicable Jew denies his abaisance."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Old French abaissance."}}, {"abaiser": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaiser (uncountable)", "Ivory black; animal charcoal."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026a.s\u025a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abaisse": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaisse (plural abaisses)", "(cooking) A thin undercrust of pastry."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026as/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "French abaisser.\n"}}, {"abaka": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaka (plural abakas)", "Alternative spelling of abaca"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abakas": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abakas", "plural of abaka"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abalienate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abalienate (third-person singular simple present abalienates, present participle abalienating, simple past and past participle abalienated)", "(civil law, transitive) To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.", "(obsolete) To estrange; to cause alienation of."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Thereat the holy mother took grief; for, if I died before my profession, what would become of the goodly hereditaments that were to be abalienated to the monastery.", "In addition, compelling to sell was not necessary either, because the foreigner, led by economic logic and his own interests, would try hard to abalienate the objects and means of work which are not used in production or in some other type of  [\u2026]", "[\u2026]  serves for nothing else than to abalienate the Infidels from the Christian Church.", "National distinction did not, indeed, exist in patriarchal times, but by the formation of the theocracy the other races of men were formally abalienated from Israel, and no doubt their own vices and idolatry justified their exclusion.", "The devil and his deceitful angels do so bewitch them, and fill their hearts with vain cogitations, so abalienate their minds, and trouble their memory, that they cannot tell what is said: it is forgotten by that it is spoken."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8e\u026al.j\u0259\u02ccne\u026at/, /\u00e6b\u02c8e\u026a.li.\u0259\u02ccne\u026at/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abali\u0113n\u0101tus, perfect passive participle of abali\u0113n\u014d (\u201calienate; remove\u201d); from ab- (\u201cby, from; away\u201d) + ali\u0113n\u014d (\u201calienate, estrange\u201d); from ali\u0113nus (\u201cforeign, alien\u201d), from alius (\u201cother, another\u201d).\n"}}, {"abalienated": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abalienated", "simple past tense and past participle of abalienate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abalienating": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abalienating", "present participle of abalienate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abalienation": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abalienation (countable and uncountable, plural abalienations) (archaic)", "(law) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement; transferring a legal title."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b\u02cce\u026al.j\u0259\u02c8ne\u026a.\u0283\u0259n/, /\u02cc\u00e6b\u02cce\u026a.li.\u0259\u02c8ne\u026a.\u0283\u0259n/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abalienatio. Equivalent to abalienate +\u200e -ion.\n"}}, {"abalone": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abalone (usually uncountable, plural abalones)", "(Canada, US, Australia) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl. [from mid-19th century]", "(Canada, US, Australia) The meat of the aforementioned mollusc. [from mid-19th century]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(UK) ear-shell, (Guernsey) ormer, (New Zealand) paua, pawa, (South Africa) perlemoen"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u00e6b.\u0259\u02c8l\u0259\u028a.ni/", "(General American) IPA: /\u00e6b.\u0259\u02c8lo\u028a.ni/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/En-us-abalone.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/EN-AU_ck1_abalone.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From American Spanish abul\u00f3n, either from Rumsen/Southern Ohlone a\u016blun (\u201cred abalone\u201d) or from Shoshone a\u016blun (\u201cred abalone\u201d)."}}, {"abalones": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abalones", "plural of abalone"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abama": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abama", "first person singular simple present possessive dative of aba"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abamp": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abamp (plural abamps)", "Alternative form of abampere"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b\u02cc\u00e6mp/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abampere": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abampere (plural abamperes)", "Unit of electrical current in electromagnetic and Gaussian cgs systems of units, equal to 10 amperes in SI units."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8\u00e6m\u02ccpi\u02d0\u0279/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/1b/En-us-abampere.ogg/En-us-abampere.ogg.mp3"]}, "etymology": "ab- (\u201cabsolute\u201d) +\u200e ampere"}}, {"abamperes": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abamperes", "plural of abampere"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abamps": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abamps", "plural of abamp"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aband": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aband (third-person singular simple present abands, present participle abanding, simple past and past participle abanded) (obsolete)", "(transitive) To desist in practicing, using, or doing; to renounce. [attested only in the late 16th century]", "(transitive) To desert; to forsake. [attested only in the late 16th century]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["And Vortiger enforced the kingdom to aband."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6nd/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6nd/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6nd"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Contraction of abandon.\n"}}, {"abandon": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandon (third-person singular simple present abandons, present participle abandoning, simple past and past participle abandoned)", "(transitive) To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]", "(transitive) To desist in doing, practicing, following, holding, or adhering to; to turn away from; to permit to lapse; to renounce; to discontinue. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470)]", "(transitive) To leave behind; to desert as in a ship or a position, typically in response to overwhelming odds or impending dangers; to forsake, in spite of a duty or responsibility. [First attested in the late 15th century.]", "(transitive, obsolete) To subdue; to take control of. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16th century.]", "(transitive, obsolete) To cast out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]", "(transitive) To no longer exercise a right, title, or interest, especially with no interest of reclaiming it again; to yield; to relinquish. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]", "(transitive) To surrender to the insurer (an insured item), so as to claim a total loss."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abdicate", "abjure", "blin", "cast aside", "cease", "cede", "deliver up", "desert", "depart from", "desist from", "discontinue", "dispense with", "drop", "forgo", "forlet", "forsake", "forswear", "give up", "jilt", "leave behind", "part with", "quit", "recant", "relinquish", "renounce", "repudiate", "resign", "retire", "retract", "run out on", "surrender", "vacate", "waive", "withdraw from", "withsake", "yield"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["acquire", "adopt", "advocate", "arrogate", "claim", "cherish", "defend", "embrace", "engage", "gain", "hold", "join", "keep", "maintain", "occupy", "protect", "retain", "undertake", "unite", "uphold", "vindicate"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abandonment", "abandonware"]}], "examples": ["He abandoned himself  [\u2026]  to his favourite vice.", "In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured.  [\u2026] \u00a0 The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra\u2013wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.", "Hope was overthrown, and yet could not be abandoned.", "Many baby girls have been abandoned on the streets of Beijing.", "Being all this time abandoned from your bed.", "that he might  [\u2026]  abandon them from him"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.dn\u0329/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.dn\u0329/", "(Indian English) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.d\u0259n/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-us-abandon.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abandounen, from Old French abandoner, formed from a (\u201cat, to\u201d) + bandon (\u201cjurisdiction, control\u201d), from Late Latin bannum (\u201cproclamation\u201d), bannus, bandum, from Frankish *ban, *bann, from Proto-Germanic *bannan\u0105 (\u201cto proclaim, command\u201d) (compare English ban), from Proto-Indo-European *b\u02b0eh\u2082- (\u201cto speak\u201d). See also ban, banal.\nDisplaced Middle English forleten (\u201cto abandon\u201d), from Old English forl\u01e3tan, anforl\u01e3tan; see forlet; and Middle English forleven (\u201cto leave behind, abandon\u201d),  from Old English forl\u01e3fan; see forleave.\n"}}, {"abandonable": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandonable (comparative more abandonable, superlative most abandonable)", "Able to be abandoned; suitable for abandonment."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["In place of this distinction he suggests a gradation of more or less readily abandonable sentences  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abandon +\u200e -able"}}, {"abandoned": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandoned (comparative more abandoned, superlative most abandoned)", "Having given oneself up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked. [First attested from 1350 to 1470]", "No longer maintained by its former owners, residents, or caretakers; forsaken, deserted. [Late 15th century]", "Free from constraint; uninhibited. [Late 17th century]", "(geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["bad", "careless", "cast aside", "corrupt", "demoralized", "depraved", "deserted", "discarded", "dissolute", "forsaken", "graceless", "hardened", "impetuous", "impenitent", "incorrigible", "irreclaimable", "licentious", "lost", "obdurate", "profligate", "reckless", "rejected", "reprobate", "shameless", "sinful", "uninhibited", "unprincipled", "unrestrained", "vicious", "vile", "wanton", "wicked", "wild"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["commendable", "conscientious", "correct", "deserving", "excellent", "frequented", "good", "laudable", "penitent", "reclaimable", "righteous", "self-controlled", "sociable", "steady", "upright", "virtuous", "visited", "worthy"]}], "examples": ["Such immunity to offenders offered a safe asylum to the vilest and most abandoned scoundrels.", "[\u2026]  your abandoned streams  [\u2026]", "Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abandoned", "simple past tense and past participle of abandon"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.dn\u0329d/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.dn\u0329d/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/En-us-abandoned.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From abandon, from French abandonn\u00e9 (\u201cimmoral\u201d) past participle of abandonner."}}, {"abandonedly": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandonedly (comparative more abandonedly, superlative most abandonedly)", "Unrestrainedly."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.dn\u0329.\u0259d.li/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.dn\u0329.\u0259d.li/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abandoned +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abandonee": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandonee (plural abandonees)", "(law) One to whom something is abandoned. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.d\u0259\u02ccni/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abandon +\u200e -ee"}}, {"abandoner": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandoner (plural abandoners)", "One who abandons. [Late 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Sin-hating powers, reformers of all vice,", "Abandoners of euil and cruell actes,", "Cease to pursue with weapons of reuenge,", "Mine haynous and intollerable fact.", "[\u2026]  cold and constant Queene,", "Abandoner of Revells, mute contemplative,", "[\u2026]   Kate\u2019s been left in the emotional lurch by all sorts of objectifying men, psychic abandoners who range from her husband  [\u2026]  to her final lover  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abandon +\u200e -er.\n"}}, {"abandoners": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandoners", "plural of abandoner"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abandoning": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandoning", "present participle of abandon"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Many have been abandoning their homes due to the violence. ", "Their abandoning their homes means no tax revenues for the county. ", "An abandoning husband can be a precursor to bankruptcy. "], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abandoning (plural abandonings)", "An act in which something or someone is abandoned; abandonment, neglect"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Their sensuality\u2014 [\u2026]  \u2014their universal and insatiable lustings, and disgraceful abandonings of their unhappy victims\u2014  [\u2026]  may not be credited by those who have not proof of such crimes.", "I  [\u2026]  owe the one who depends upon me the gentlest of abandonings, if I leave him.", "We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins and we cannot afford all these abandonings."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abandonment": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandonment (countable and uncountable, plural abandonments)", "The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [Late 16th century.]", "The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.", "An abandoned building or structure.", "(law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author. [Early 19th century.]", "(law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. [Early 19th century.]", "The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.", "A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.", "The self-surrender to an outside influence. [Mid 19th century.]", "Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abandoning", "abdication", "abjuration", "abnegation", "abrogation", "cession", "defection", "demission", "dereliction", "desertion", "rejection", "relinquishment", "renunciation", "resignation", "surrender"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["acquisition", "arrogation", "care", "completion", "conviviality", "correction", "custody", "entertainment", "heed", "help", "hospitality", "maintenance", "reception", "reclamation", "retention", "solicitude", "support", "tenacity", "vigilance", "watchfulness", "welcome"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abandonable", "abandoned", "abandonee", "abandoner"]}], "examples": ["To what are we reserved? An adequate compensation \"for the sacrifice of powers the most nearly connected with us;\"\u2014 an adequate compensation \"for the direct or indirect annexation to France ot all the ports of the continent, from Dunkirk to Hamburgh;\"\u2014 an adequate compensation \"for the abandonment of the independence of Europe!\"", "Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment.", "High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.", "Roger, in terms of the strengths he brought to the band, was wild abandonment. So if Howard was in the pocket, Roger was bouncing off the walls, and Nancy was somewhere in the middle."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.dn\u0329.mn\u0329t/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6n.dn\u0329.mn\u0329t/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-us-abandonment.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From French abandonnement, from abandonner (\u201cto abandon, relinquish\u201d). abandonner was originally equivalent to mettre \u00e0 bandon (\u201cto leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another\u201d), bandon being from Medieval Latin bandum, bannum (\u201corder, decree, ban\u201d) (See also English banns.)\n"}}, {"abandonments": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandonments", "plural of abandonment"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abandons": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandons", "plural of abandon", "abandons\u00a0pl (plural only)", "(plural only, archaic, British slang) Abandoned children; foundlings.", "(plural only, archaic, British slang) Prostitutes."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["abandons", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abandon"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abandum": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abandum (uncountable)", "(law) Anything forfeited or confiscated."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Late Latin. See abandon.\n"}}, {"abanet": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abanet (plural abanets)", "Alternative spelling of abnet"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abanga": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abanga (plural abangas)", "A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "\"Name given by the negroes in the island of St. Thomas\" - Webster, 1913Note This editor has not yet been able to identify the exact plant intended. The name may have origins in the Fang language of Gabon.\n"}}, {"abannition": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abannition", "Alternative spelling of abannation"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abapical": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abapical (not comparable)", "(biology) Of or pertaining to something at its lowest point; designating the part opposite to the apex. [First attested in the mid 20th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["apical"]}], "examples": ["The deck, which is not far below the aperature, has a narrow indentation on the abapical side and a wider indentation on the adapical side.", "The two abapical rows of tubercles of available specimens show a complete range of variation from completely separated to almost completely coalesced."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abaptiston": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaptiston (plural abaptistons)", "(medicine) A trepan having a conical shape so that injurious penetration of the brain is impossible."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6.b\u00e6p\u02c8t\u026as.t\u0252n/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6.b\u00e6p\u02c8t\u026as.t\u0251n/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Ancient Greek \u1f00\u03b2\u03ac\u03c0\u03c4\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 (ab\u00e1ptistos, \u201cnot dipped\u201d)."}}, {"abarthrosis": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abarthrosis (plural abarthroses)", "A form of articulation that allows considerable change in position and spatial relationship between the articulated parts, and which bones move freely upon one another; diarthrosis."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA(key): /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0251\u0279\u02c8\u03b8\u0279o\u028a.s\u026as/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin ab- (\u201cfrom\u201d)  +\u200e  Ancient Greek \u1f04\u03c1\u03b8\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd (\u00e1rthron, \u201cjoint\u201d) +\u200e  -osis (\u201ccondition\u201d).\n"}}, {"abarticular": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abarticular (not comparable)", "(medicine) Away from the joints; not articular."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0251\u0279\u02c8t\u026ak.ju.l\u0259/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0251\u0279\u02c8t\u026ak.j\u0259.l\u0259/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0251\u02c8t\u026ak.ju.l\u0259/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0251\u02c8t\u026ak.j\u0259.l\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin ab- (\u201caway from\u201d) +\u200e articulus (\u201cjoint\u201d)."}}, {"abarticulation": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abarticulation (plural abarticulations)", "(anatomy) An articulation, especially one that permits free motion in the joint; a hinge joint.", "The act of dislocating a joint."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(an articulation, especially one that permits free motion): diarthrosis"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["disarticulation"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u00e6b.\u0251\u0279\u02cct\u026ak.j\u028a\u02c8le\u026a.\u0283\u0259n/, /\u00e6b.\u0251\u02cct\u026ak.j\u028a\u02c8le\u026a.\u0283\u0259n/, /\u00e6b.\u0251\u0279\u02cct\u026ak.j\u0259\u02c8le\u026a.\u0283\u0259n/, /\u00e6b.\u0251\u02cct\u026ak.j\u0259\u02c8le\u026a.\u0283\u0259n/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From ab- +\u200e articulation.\nCompare French abarticulation. See article\n"}}, {"abas": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abas", "plural of aba"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["abas (plural abas)", "Alternative spelling of abbasi"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abase": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abase (third-person singular simple present abases, present participle abasing, simple past and past participle abased)", "(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. [from c. 1350\u20131470]", "(transitive, archaic) To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. [from c. 1350\u20131470]", "(transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase. [from mid 16th \u2013 mid 18th c.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings): degrade, demean, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, sink", "(to lower physically): bring down, lower, reduce", "(to lower in value): downgrade"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(to lower so as to cause pain or hurt feelings): aggrandise,  dignify, elevate, exalt, extol, honor, promote, raise, uplift,"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abash"]}], "examples": ["For who\u017foeuer exalteth him\u017felfe \u017fhalbe aba\u017fed: and hee that humbleth him\u017felfe, \u017fhalbe exalted.", "Our adver\u017faries object againe, that by praying that Chri\u017fts merits may be made ours in particular, we greatly aba\u017fe them. As though the Prophet David did aba\u017fe God in making him his in particular, \u017faying, the Lord is my rock, my fortre\u017f\u017fe, my God, and my \u017ftrength, my \u017fhield, the horne of my \u017falvation, and my refuge:  [\u2026]", "When a large kingdom abases itself to a small principality, it acquires that principality, and when a small state abases itself to a large one, it obtains service  under the large one. It is for this purpose that the small state submits, and the large kingdom annexes the small states for the purpose of uniting and maintaining the people.", "to abase the eye", "Her gracious words their rancour did appall, / And \u017funcke \u017fo deepe into their boyling bre\u017fts, / That downe they lett their cruel weapons fall, / And lowly did aba\u017fe their lofty cre\u017fts, / To her faire pre\u017fence, and di\u017fcrete behe\u017fts.", "[A]ll of you together \u017fhall pay for the great bla\u017fphemy thou ha\u017ft \u017fpoken again\u017ft \u017fo immen\u017fe a beautie, as is that of my Mi\u017ftre\u017f\u017fe. And \u017faying \u017fo, he aba\u017fed his Launce again\u017ft him that had an\u017fwered with \u017fuch furie and anger, as if good fortune had not \u017fo ordayned it, that Rozinante \u017fhould \u017ftumble, and fal in the midst of the Carrier, it had gone very ill with the bold Merchant.", "Though in the nature thereof, that with which a purer metal is mixed, be not base; yet, it abases the purer metal.  [\u2026]  [T]hough silver be a precious metal, yet it abases gold. Grace, and peace, and faith, are precious parts of our treasure here; yet, if we mingle them, that is, compare them with the joys, and glory of heaven;  [\u2026]  we abase, and over-alloy these joys, and that glory.", "[H]er majesty [Elizabeth I of England] let them all to understand, that she never intended  to leese the fruit of so famous an act, by abasing the coin of the realm, which she found to be for the more part copper, and had now recovered it to be as fine, or rather finer, sterling silver, than ever it was in the realm by the space of two hundred years or more; a matter worth marking and memory."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026as/", "Rhymes: -e\u026as"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/En-us-abase.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/En-au-abase.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Late Middle English abaishen, abashen, abaisse, abassen, abesse, abessen (\u201cto be upset; to embarrass; to surprise; to confound; to bend down, stoop; to abase, degrade, disgrace\u201d), from Middle French abaisser, from Old French abaissier, abessier (\u201cto prostrate oneself; to lower, reduce\u201d) (also compare Old French esbahir (\u201cto amaze\u201d), Vulgar Latin abbassi\u0101re (\u201cto lower\u201d)), from a- (\u201cprefix indicating movement towards something\u201d) (from Latin ad (\u201ctoward, to\u201d), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h\u2082\u00e9d (\u201cat, to\u201d)) + baissier (\u201cto lower\u201d) (from Medieval Latin bassus (\u201cshort of stature, low; base\u201d), possibly from Ancient Greek \u03b2\u1fb0\u0301\u03c3\u1fd0\u03c2 (b\u00e1sis, \u201cfoot; base, foundation\u201d), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g\u02b7em- (\u201cto step\u201d)). The spelling of the English word has been influenced by base.\nCognate with Spanish abajo (\u201cdown, downstairs; below\u201d).\n"}}, {"abased": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abased (comparative more abased, superlative most abased)", "Humbled; lowered, especially in rank, position, or prestige.", "(heraldry) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abased", "simple past tense and past participle of abase"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026ast/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026ast/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abase +\u200e -ed"}}, {"abasedly": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abasedly (comparative more abasedly, superlative most abasedly)", "In an abased manner; abjectly. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026as.\u026ad.li/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026as.\u0259d.li/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abased +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abasedness": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abasedness (uncountable)", "The quality of being abased."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From abased +\u200e -ness"}}, {"abasement": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abasement (countable and uncountable, plural abasements)", "The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low. [Mid 16th century.]", "The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. [Mid 16th century]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abjection", "debasement", "degeneracy", "degeneration", "degradation", "depravation", "depression", "deterioration", "discredit", "dishonor", "fall", "humiliation", "lowering", "perversion", "reduction", "shame", "subserviency", "vitiation"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["aggrandizement", "dignity", "elevation", "exaltation", "honor", "promotion", "reputation", "repute", "standing", "supremacy"]}], "examples": ["He was wearing cavalry twill trousers and a buff crew-neck sweater. The effect was of symbolic abasement mixed with military resolve  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026as.m\u0259nt/", "Rhymes: -e\u026asm\u0259nt"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/En-us-abasement.ogg"]}, "etymology": "abase +\u200e -ment. Compare French abaissement.\n"}}, {"abasements": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abasements", "plural of abasement"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abaser": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaser (plural abasers)", "One who, or that which, abases. [Late 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Therefore he that shall be disobedient to [the Deacons], shall be altogither without God, and wicked, and contemning Christe, and an abaser of his ordinance.", "God is an Abaser and an Exalter;", "Without these two processes nothing comes into being.", "He has committed the irretrievable character fault of suffering himself to be wrenched out of manhood into slavehood, whereafter he conforms no longer to the high free true laws of his soul but moulds his being to his false state and to the compelling will of abasers."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026as.\u025a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abase +\u200e -er"}}, {"abasers": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abasers", "plural of abaser"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abases": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abases", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abase"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abash": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abash (third-person singular simple present abashes, present participle abashing, simple past and past participle abashed)", "(transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]", "(intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["bewilder", "confuse", "confound", "daunt", "discompose", "disconcert", "discountenance", "dishearten", "embarrass", "humble", "humiliate", "mortify", "shame", "snub", "See also Thesaurus:abash"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["abet", "animate", "buoy", "cheer", "countenance", "embolden", "encourage", "incite", "inspirit", "rally", "reassure", "uphold"]}], "examples": ["He was a man whom no check could abash", "The stare seemed to abash Poirot."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/En-us-abash.ogg"]}, "etymology": "First attested in 1303. From Middle English abaisen, abaishen, abashen (\u201cto gape with surprise\u201d) etc., from Anglo-Norman aba\u00efss, from Middle French abair, abaisser (\u201cto astonish, alter\u201d), from Old French esba\u00efr, (French \u00e9bahir), from es- (\u201cutterly\u201d) + ba\u00efr (\u201cto astonish\u201d), from Latin ex- (\u201cout of\u201d) + baer (\u201cto gape\u201d), from bat\u0101re (\u201cto yawn, gape\u201d)."}}, {"abashed": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abashed (comparative more abashed, superlative most abashed)", "Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abashed", "simple past tense and past participle of abash"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["embarrassed", "ashamed", "shamefaced", "mortified", "humiliated", "taken aback", "disconcerted", "nonplussed", "discomfited", "discomposed", "perturbed", "confounded", "dismayed", "dumbfounded", "confused", "put out of countenance", "discountenanced"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283t/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6\u0283t"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abashedly": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abashedly (comparative more abashedly, superlative most abashedly)", "In an abashed manner. [from early 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["George, at length, came forward abashedly toward him, and said,\u00a0\u2014 \"I have been greatly to blame, Robert, and am very sorry for what I have done.", "meanwhile, no cash. Finally, Nichan asked me abashedly if perhaps I would lend him a few hundred rubles.", "At the punchline, Moshe snorts in laughter, then abashedly suppresses the smile. Does a self-deprecating sense of humor\u2014a comedic trope owned by the Jews\u2014make the Nazi more human?"], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283.\u026ad.li/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283.\u026ad.li/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abashed +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abashedness": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abashedness (uncountable)", "(rare) The state of being abashed; abashment. [Mid 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283.\u026ad.n\u026as/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283.\u026ad.n\u026as/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From abashed +\u200e -ness"}}, {"abashes": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abashes", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abash"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abashing": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abashing", "present participle of abash"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abashless": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abashless (comparative more abashless, superlative most abashless)", "(poetic) Unabashed. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283.l\u026as/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283.l\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abash +\u200e -less"}}, {"abashlessly": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abashlessly (comparative more abashlessly, superlative most abashlessly)", "In an abashless, unabashed manner: unabashedly."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283.l\u0259s.li/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abashless +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abashment": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abashment (countable and uncountable, plural abashments)", "The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283.m\u0259nt/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6\u0283.m\u0259nt/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abaishment, from Middle French abaissement (\u201castonishment\u201d) alteration of esbaissement, from esbaiss + -ment. Compare French \u00e9bahissement.\n"}}, {"abashments": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abashments", "plural of abashment"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abasia": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abasia (usually uncountable, plural abasias)", "(medicine) An inability to walk due to a defect in muscular coordination."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The patient is able to move her legs while lying down but has abasia when she stands up."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0259.\u02c8be\u026a.\u0292\u0259/, /\u0259.\u02c8be\u026a.\u0292i.\u0259/, /\u0259.\u02c8be\u026a.zi.\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From New Latin a- (\u201cwithout\u201d) + Ancient Greek \u03b2\u03ac\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 (b\u00e1sis, \u201cstep\u201d) + New Latin -ia (\u201cpathological condition\u201d).\n"}}, {"abasias": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abasias", "plural of abasia"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abasic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abasic (not comparable)", "(medicine) Of, pertaining to or caused by abasia.", "(biochemistry, of a site in a DNA molecule) That has neither a purine nor a pyrimidine base."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /e\u026a\u02c8be\u026a.s\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abasia (not step condition) +\u200e -ic (having the nature of)"}}, {"abasing": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abasing", "present participle of abase"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abask": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abask (not comparable)", "in the sunshine; basking."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6sk/, (trap\u2013bath split) /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251\u02d0sk/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "a- +\u200e bask"}}, {"abassi": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abassi (plural abassis)", "Obsolete spelling of abbasi"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The most current money in Per\u017fia are the aba\u017f\u017fi's, worth about 1 s. 4 d. \u017fterling\u00a0: they are of the fine\u017ft \u017filver. An aba\u017f\u017fi is worth two mahmoudi's, a mahmoudi two \u017fhais, and a \u017fhai ten \u017fingle or five double ca\u017fbeghi's.", "Accounts are kept in tomans of 50 abassis = 100 mamoodis = 200 shatrees = 1,000 dinars-bisti. The last is an imaginary money.", "Only know how to set about it, and you can extract an abassi, not from every carriage, but from every gun-barrel."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251.si/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abastard": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abastard (third-person singular simple present abastards, present participle abastarding, simple past and past participle abastarded)", "To abastardize. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abastardize": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abastardize (third-person singular simple present abastardizes, present participle abastardizing, simple past and past participle abastardized)", "(transitive, obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase. [Attested from the late 16th century until the late 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /e\u026a\u02c8b\u00e6s.t\u025a\u02ccda\u026az/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle French abastardir, from Old French a- +\u200e bastart (\u201cbastard\u201d).\n"}}, {"abatable": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatable (comparative more abatable, superlative most abatable)", "Capable of being abated. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["an abatable writ or nuisance."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026at.\u0259.b\u0259l/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/En-us-abatable.ogg"]}, "etymology": "abate +\u200e -able"}}, {"abatage": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatage (plural abatages)", "Alternative form of abattage"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abate (third-person singular simple present abates, present participle abating, simple past and past participle abated)", "(transitive, obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease. [attested since about 1150 to 1350]", "(intransitive) To become null and void. [attested since the late 15th century]", "(transitive, law) To nullify; make void. [attested since the late 15th century]", "(transitive, obsolete) To humble; to lower in status; to bring someone down physically or mentally. [attested from around 1150 to 1350 until the mid 1600s]", "(intransitive, obsolete) To be humbled; to be brought down physically or mentally. [attested from around 1150 to 1350 until the mid 1600s]", "(transitive, obsolete) To curtail; to deprive. [attested from around 1350 to 1470 until the mid 1800s]", "(transitive) To reduce in amount, size, or value. [attested since 1325]", "(intransitive) To decrease in size, value, or amount. [attested since 1325]", "(transitive) To moderate; to lessen in force, intensity, to subside. [attested since around 1150 to 1350]", "(intransitive) To decrease in intensity or force; to subside. [attested since around 1150 to 1350]", "(transitive) To deduct or omit. [attested since around 1350 to 1470]", "(transitive) To bar or except. [attested since the late 1500s]", "(transitive) To cut away or hammer down, in such a way as to leave a figure in relief, as a sculpture, or in metalwork.", "(transitive, obsolete) To dull the edge or point of; to blunt. [attested from the mid 1500s till the late 1600s]", "(transitive, archaic) To destroy, or level to the ground. [attested since around 1350 to 1470]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(bring down or reduce): lessen; diminish; contract; moderate; cut short; decrease; lower; suppress; terminate; remove; remit; slacken", "(diminish in force or intensity): diminish; subside; decline; wane; ebb; mitigate; assuage; temper; alleviate; relax", "(bring someone down): humble; depress; appease; pacify; soothe; soften; tranquilize", "(come to naught): fall through; fail"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["augment; accelerate; aggravate; amplify; continue; develop; enhance; enlarge; extend; foment; increase; intensify; magnify; prolong; raise; rise; revive"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abatis", "abator", "abattoir"]}], "examples": ["to abate a nuisance", "The writ has abated.", "to abate a writ", "The hyer that they were in this present lyf, the moore shulle they be abated and defouled in helle.", "Order restrictions and prohibitions to abate an emergency situation.", "She hath abated me of half my train.", "Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets.", "His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.", "Not that they feel it so, but only to abate the edge of envy.", "The fury of Glengarry [\u2026]  rapidly abated.", "[\u2026]  in the morning, the wind having abated overnight, the sea was calm,  [\u2026]", "We will abate this price from the total.", "Allowing nine thousand parishes  in England and Wales  [\u2026]", "Abating his brutality, he was a very good master.", "The kynge of Scottes planted his siege before the castell of Norham, and sore abated the walls."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abate (plural abates) (obsolete)", "abatement. [from around 1400 until the late 1600s]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026at/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026at/", "Rhymes: -e\u026at"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Abate_US.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abaten, borrowed from Old French abatre (\u201cto beat down\u201d) (possibly via Middle French), from Late Latin abbatto, from ab- (\u201caway\u201d) + batto, from Latin battuere (\u201cto beat\u201d). Cognate to modern French abattre.\n"}}, {"abated": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abated", "simple past tense and past participle of abate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abated", "(decorative arts) Beaten down or cut away, as the background of an ornamental pattern in relief."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abatement": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatement (countable and uncountable, plural abatements)", "The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; a moderation; removal or putting an end to; the suppression of. [First attested from 1340 to 1470.]", "The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed; in particular from a tax. [Late 15th century.]", "(heraldry) A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon; any figure added to the coat of arms tending to lower the dignity or station of the bearer.[Early 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["defense in abatement", "plea in abatement"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["defense in abatement", "plea in abatement"]}], "examples": ["the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US, UK) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026at.m\u0259nt/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/En-us-abatement.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle French abatement, from Old French abatre. Equivalent to abate (\u201cto beat down\u201d) +\u200e -ment (\u201cthe result of\u201d).\n"}}, {"abatements": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatements", "plural of abatement"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abater": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abater (plural abaters)", "One who, or that which, abates. [From 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["This is the great Prince of Grecia, called the Knight of the Sunne, restorer of the auncient kingdome of Tinacria, & the abater and breaker of the strength of the most strongest Giants in all the world.", "Anodyne, or Abaters of Pain of the Alimentary Kind. Such things as relax the Tension of the affected nervous Fibres  [\u2026]", "As a fever germ abater in a malarial district, a flock of bull-bats is worth a grove of quinine trees.", "[\u2026]  research is proving the effectiveness of trees and shrubs as noise abaters\u2014research prompted by the growing awareness that excessive noise is a form of environmental pollution."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026a.t\u025a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abate +\u200e -er"}}, {"abaters": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaters", "plural of abater"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abates": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abates", "plural of abate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["abates", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026ats/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abatic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatic (comparative more abatic, superlative most abatic)", "Alternative form of abasic"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6.t\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abating": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abating", "present participle of abate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abating (uncountable)", "(rhetoric) Anesis."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026at\u026a\u014b/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abatis": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatis (plural abatis or abatises)", "A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259\u02ccti\u02d0/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259\u02ccti/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.t\u026as/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From French abatis, abattis (\u201cmass of things beaten or cut down\u201d), from abattre. See abate.\n"}}, {"abatised": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatised (not comparable)", "Provided with an abatis. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259\u02cct\u026ast/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259\u02cctid/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259\u02cct\u026ast/, /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6t.id/, /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6t.\u026ast/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abatis +\u200e -ed"}}, {"abatises": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatises", "plural of abatis"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259t.\u0259.s\u0259z/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abatjour": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatjour (plural abatjours)", "A skylight or other device whose purpose is to direct light into a room."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u0251\u02ccb\u0251\u02c8\u0292\u028a.\u025a/, /\u02cc\u0251\u02ccb\u0251\u02c8\u0292\u028a\u0279/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from French abat-jour, from abattre (\u201cto throw down\u201d) + jour (\u201cday, daylight\u201d).\n"}}, {"abatjours": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abatjours", "plural of abatjour"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abaton": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaton (plural abatons)", "In Ancient Greece, an enclosure in the temple of Asclepios where patients slept"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek \u1f04\u03b2\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd (\u00e1baton).\n"}}, {"abator": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abator (plural abators)", "(law) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. [Mid 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026at.\u0259/, /\u0259\u02c8be\u026at.\u025a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abate (\u201cto enter without right after the owner dies and before the heir takes over\u201d) +\u200e -or. From Anglo-Norman.\n"}}, {"abators": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abators", "plural of abator"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abattage": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abattage (plural abattages)", "(veterinary  medicine) The slaughter of animals, especially diseased ones to limit the spread of the disease.", "(military) The anchoring of the wheels of an artillery piece, preparatory to firing."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From French abattage.\n"}}, {"abattis": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abattis (plural abattis or abattises)", "Alternative spelling of abatis"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u00e6.t\u026as/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abattised": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abattised (not comparable)", "Alternative spelling of abatised"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abattises": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abattises", "plural of abattis"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abattoir": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abattoir (plural abattoirs)", "A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc. [Early 19th century.]", "A place likened to a slaughterhouse."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259\u02cctw\u0251\u02d0(\u0279)/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259\u02cctw\u0251\u0279/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259\u02cctw\u0251/", "Hyphenation: ab\u2027at\u2027toir"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/En-us-abattoir.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/En-au-abattoir.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from French abattoir, from abattre (\u201cto slaughter\u201d) (cognate to abate) + -oir (\u201c-ory\u201d).\n"}}, {"abattoirs": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abattoirs", "plural of abattoir"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abattue": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abattue", "feminine singular of the past participle of abattre"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abature": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abature (plural abatures)", "(usually in the plural) Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. [Late 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.tj\u028a\u0279/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Old French abateure, from the verb abatre (\u201cto knock down, to destroy\u201d). See abate"}}, {"abave": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abave\u00a0m", "vocative singular of abavus"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abaxial": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaxial (not comparable)", "(botany, zoology) Of a side that is facing away from the axis or central line, such as the underside of a leaf; or the back of an animal. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(on the back of an animal): dorsal", "eccentric"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["adaxial"]}], "examples": ["The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that  the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6\u02c8b\u00e6k.si.\u0259l/ or IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8\u00e6k.si.\u0259l/", "Hyphenation US: ab\u2027ax\u2027i\u2027al, UK: ab\u2027ax\u2027ial"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "ab- (\u201caway from\u201d) +\u200e axial (\u201caxis\u201d).\n"}}, {"abaxile": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abaxile (not comparable)", "Alternative form of abaxial"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abb": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abb (plural abbs)", "A type of yarn for the warp.", "A rough wool from the inferior parts of the fleece, used for the woof or weft. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]", "(Britain) A filling pick used in weaving."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u00e6b/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6b"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abb, from Old English \u0101web, \u0101b, \u014dweb, from away + web (\u201cwarp thread\u201d)."}}, {"abba": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abba (plural abbas)", "(Christianity, Judaism) Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The abba of the coenobion went to him and told him about the brother who had slipped up."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259/, /\u00e6\u02c8b\u0251/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259/, /\u00e6\u02c8b\u0251/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6b\u0259"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English, from Latin, from Ancient Greek, from Aramaic \u05d0\u05d1\u05d0\u200e/\u0710\u0712\u0710\u200e (\u02bcabb\u0101\u02bc, \u201cfather\u201d); see abbot.\n"}}, {"abbacy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbacy (plural abbacies)", "The dignity, estate, term, or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Synonyms: abbotric , abbotrick "], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.si/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abbatie, from Late Latin abb\u0101tia, from abb\u0101s, abb\u0101tis (\u201cabbot\u201d). Doublet of abbey.\n"}}, {"abbacies": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbacies", "plural of abbacy"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbaye": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbaye (plural abbayes)", "Archaic form of abbey."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["[\u2026]  his coronation robes, &c. were deposited in the Abbaye;  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbas": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbas", "plural of abba"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbasi": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbasi (plural abbasis)", "(historical) A silver coin of Persia, introduced by Safavid Shah Abbas in 16th century, worth about twenty cents.", "(historical) A Persian unit of weight, equivalent to approximately 12.8 oz.", "(historical) An Afghan bronze coin from the early 20th century, equivalent to four shahi.", "A unit of measurement for Afghan postage stamps."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abazi"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251.si/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Persian \u0639\u0628\u0627\u0633\u06cc\u200e ('abb\u00e2si); see for more.\n"}}, {"abbassi": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbassi", "second-person singular present indicative of abbassare", "first-person singular present subjunctive of abbassare", "second-person singular present subjunctive of abbassare", "third-person singular present subjunctive of abbassare", "third-person singular imperative of abbassare"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbate (plural abbates)", "Alternative form of abate (\u201cItalian abbot\u201d)"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbatial": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbatial (comparative more abbatial, superlative most abbatial)", "Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess. [Late 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026a.\u0283l\u0329/, /\u02c8\u00e6\u02ccbe\u026a.\u0283l\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abbacyal, from Middle French abbatial, from Late Latin abbatialis, from abbatia (\u201cabbey\u201d) + -ialis (\u201c-ial\u201d).\n"}}, {"abbatical": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbatical (not comparable)", "(obsolete) Alternative form of abbatial [Attested from the mid 17th century until the mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbatie": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbatie (plural abbaties)", "(obsolete) The office, tenure, estate, or jurisdiction of an abbot. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbe": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbe (plural abbes)", "Alternative spelling of abb\u00e9"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6.\u02c8be\u026a/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.e\u026a/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbey": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbey (plural abbeys)", "The office or dominion of an abbot or abbess. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]", "A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]", "The church of a monastery. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]", "(Britain) A residence that was previously an abbatial building.[Mid 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abbeystead", "archabbey", "archabbot"]}], "examples": ["From 1199 to 1203 William Punchard was the abbot of the abbey of Rievaulx, which was part of the Cistercian order of monks."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.i/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6bi"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/En-us-abbey.ogg/En-us-abbey.ogg.mp3"]}, "etymology": "From A.D. 1250 in Middle English abbey, abbeye (\u201cconvent headed by an abbot\u201d) (compare archaic English abbaye), itself borrowed from Old French aba\u00efe, abba\u00efe, abe\u00efe, abbe\u00efe (Modern French abbaye) from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abb\u0101tia, from Classical Latin abb\u0101s (\u201cabbot\u201d). Doublet of abbacy. See abbot.\n"}}, {"abbeys": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbeys", "plural of abbey"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.iz/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbeystead": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbeystead (plural abbeysteads)", "(archaic) The seat of an abbey."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abbey +\u200e stead (\u201cplace\u201d)"}}, {"abbeystede": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbeystede (plural abbeystedes)", "(archaic) Alternative form of abbeystead"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbes": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbes", "plural of abbe"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6be\u026az/, /\u0259\u02c8be\u026az/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbess": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbess (plural abbesses)", "A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. [First attested around 1150 to 1350]", "(archaic, British slang) A woman who runs a brothel; a woman employed by a prostitute to find clients."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(female superior of a nunnery): mother superior", "(woman who runs a brothel): bawd, Covent Garden abbess, lady abbess, madam"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abbey", "abbot"]}], "examples": ["The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.", "Then lend me your ear\u2014Why last night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were carelessly sliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who should trip by but an abbess, well known about town, with a smart little nun in her suite.", "So an old Abbess for the rattling Rakes, / A tempting dish of human nature makes, / And dresses up a luscious Maid: / I rather should have said, indeed, undresses, / To please a youth's unsanctified caresses.", "\"I mean to inform you,\" answered the Oxonian, with a grin on his face, \"that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are three nuns, and the plump female is Mother .... of great notoriety, but generally designated the Abbess of .... Her residence is at no great distance from one of the royal palaces; and she is distinguished for her bold ingenuous line of conduct in the profession which she has chosen to adopt; so much so, indeed, that she eclipses all her competitors in infamy.\""], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u026as/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u025bs/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u026as/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u025bs/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/En-us-abbess.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abbesse, from Old French abeesse (French abbesse), from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbatissa, feminine of Latin abbas, abbatis (\u201cabbot\u201d).\n"}}, {"abbesses": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbesses", "plural of abbess"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbot": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbot (plural abbots)", "The superior or head of an abbey or monastery. [First attested around the early 12th century.]", "A layman who received the abbey's revenues, after the closing of the monasteries.", "(archaic, British slang) A brothel-owner's husband or lover.", "(archaic, British slang) A ponce; a man employed by a prostitute to find clients, and who may also act as a bodyguard or equivalent to a bouncer."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abba", "abbess", "Abbot of Misrule", "abbot of the people", "abbot-general", "abb\u00e9", "archabbot", "archimandrite", "cardinal-abbot", "mitred abbot, mitered abbot", "titular abbot"]}], "examples": ["The newly appointed abbot decided to take a tour of the abbey with the cardinal's emissary."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259t/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259t/", "Homophone: Abbot", "Rhymes: -\u00e6b\u0259t"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/En-us-abbot.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abbot, abbod, abbed, from Old English abbat, abbad, abbod, from Latin abb\u0101s (\u201cfather\u201d), from Ancient Greek \u1f00\u03b2\u03b2\u1fb6\u03c2 (abb\u00e2s), from Aramaic \u05d0\u05d1\u05d0\u200e (\u2019abb\u0101, \u201cfather\u201d). Doublet of abba, abb\u00e9, bwana. \n"}}, {"abbotcy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbotcy (plural abbotcies)", "(obscure) abbacy"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abbot +\u200e -cy"}}, {"abbotcies": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbotcies", "plural of abbotcy"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbotric": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbotric (plural abbotrics)", "(obsolete) An abbacy. [Attested prior to 1150 until the early 18th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Old English abbod + rice (\u201crealm, rule\u201d)"}}, {"abbots": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbots", "plural of abbot"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259ts/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbotship": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbotship (plural abbotships)", "The state, term, or office of an abbot; abbacy. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abbot +\u200e -ship"}}, {"abbotships": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbotships", "plural of abbotship"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbozzo": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbozzo (plural abbozzi)", "(art) A rough drawing or model."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["We speak of a typical instance. Now what is typical? It is derived from the Greek \u03c4\u03cd\u03c0\u03bf\u03c2, the name which Greek artists used of their first sketches, the abozzi of the Italians.", "But as regards the first six, might they not be mistaken for an abbozzo or first sketch of the Bill which was presented to Parliament in April 1886, one hundred and one years later?", "Either way, it is far enough advanced beyond the early abbozzo stage that it would be better to designate it as \"unfinished\" than as an abbozzo."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259.\u02c8b\u0254t.\u02ccso\u028a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Italian abbozzo.\n"}}, {"abbr": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbr (plural abbrs)", "Alternative spelling of abbr.."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbrev": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbrev (plural abbrevs or abbrev)", "Alternative spelling of abbrev."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbreviate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviate (third-person singular simple present abbreviates, present participle abbreviating, simple past and past participle abbreviated)", "(obsolete, transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century.]", "(obsolete, intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner. [Attested from the late 16th century until the early 17th century.]", "(transitive) To make shorter; to shorten (in time); to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]", "(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form. [First attested in the late 16th century.]", "(transitive, mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abridge", "compress", "condense", "contract", "curtail", "epitomize", "reduce", "shorten"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["amplify", "dilate", "elongate", "enlarge", "expand", "expatiate", "extend", "lengthen", "produce", "prolong", "stretch"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abbreviation", "abbreviator"]}], "examples": ["It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259.\u02c8b\u0279i\u02d0.vi.e\u026at/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i.vi.e\u026at/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i.vi.\u0259t/, /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i.vi.e\u026at/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i.vi.e\u026at/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/En-us-abbreviate.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Either from Middle English abbreviaten, from Latin abbrevi\u0101tus, perfect passive participle of abbrevi\u014d (\u201cto shorten\u201d), formed from ad + brevi\u014d (\u201cshorten\u201d), from brevis (\u201cshort\u201d) or back-formation from abbreviation. See also abridge.\n"}}, {"abbreviated": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviated (comparative more abbreviated, superlative most abbreviated)", "Shortened; made briefer.", "Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.", "Scanty, as in clothing."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abbreviate", "abbreviation", "abbreviating"]}], "examples": ["The abbreviated lesson only took fifteen minutes as opposed to an hour and a half."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abbreviated", "simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i\u02d0vie\u026at\u026ad/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i.vi\u02cce\u026a.t\u026ad/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbreviately": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviately (comparative more abbreviately, superlative most abbreviately)", "In an abbreviate way."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abbreviate +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abbreviates": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviates", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abbreviate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US)"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbreviating": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviating", "present participle of abbreviate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US)"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbreviation": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviation (countable and uncountable, plural abbreviations)", "The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]", "(linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @. [Late 16th century.]", "The process of abbreviating. [Mid 16th century.]", "(music) A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.", "(music) One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.", "Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.", "(biology) Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.", "(mathematics) Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(linguistics): acronym (employing initial letters or syllables); initialism (employing initial letters); symbol, sign (employing marks other than letters)"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(linguistics): acronym (employing initial letters or syllables); initialism (employing initial letters); symbol, sign (employing marks other than letters)"]}, {"relationshipType": "hyponyms", "words": ["(linguistics): acronym (employing initial letters or syllables); initialism (employing initial letters); symbol, sign (employing marks other than letters)"]}], "examples": ["The phrase \"civil rights\" is an abbreviation for a whole complex of relationships."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02ccb\u0279i\u02d0.vi\u02c8e\u026a.\u0283\u0259n/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02ccb\u0279i.vi\u02c8e\u026a.\u0283n\u0329/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "First attested 1400\u201350. From Middle English abbreviacioun, from Middle French abreviation, from Late Latin abbrevi\u0101ti\u014d, from Latin ad + brevi\u014d (\u201cshorten\u201d), from brevis (\u201cshort\u201d).\n"}}, {"abbreviations": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviations", "plural of abbreviation"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US)"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbreviator": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviator (plural abbreviators)", "Agent noun of abbreviate; one who abbreviates or shortens. [Early 16th century.]", "(historical, Roman Catholicism) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. [Mid 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i\u02d0.vi\u02cce\u026a.t\u0259/, /-\u025b\u026a.t\u0259/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i.vi\u02cce\u026a.t\u0259\u0279/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Late Latin abbrevi\u0101tor. Compare French abbr\u00e9viateur.\n"}}, {"abbreviatory": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviatory (comparative more abbreviatory, superlative most abbreviatory)", "Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i.vi.\u0259\u02cct\u0254\u0279.i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abbreviate +\u200e -ory"}}, {"abbreviators": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviators", "plural of abbreviator"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abbreviature": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abbreviature (countable and uncountable, plural abbreviatures)", "An abridgment; a compendium; an abstract. [since the late 16th century]", "(obsolete) An abbreviated state or form. [only during the early to mid 17th century]", "A shortened form of a word or phrase, used in place of the whole; an abbreviation. [since the mid 17th century]", "(obsolete) The process of abbreviating. [only during the early to late 17th century]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian.", "The hand of PROVIDENCE writes often by abbreviatures, hieroglyphicks or short characters  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0279i.vi.\u0259\u02cct\u0361\u0283\u028a\u0279/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Medieval Latin abbreviatura, from Late Latin abbrevio (\u201cto shorten\u201d). See also abbreviate.\n"}}, {"abcoulomb": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abcoulomb (plural abcoulombs)", "A unit of electromagnetic charge equal to ten coulombs."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.ku\u02c8l\u0251m/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "ab- (\u201cabsolute\u201d) +\u200e coulomb"}}, {"abdal": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdal (plural abdals)", "A religious devotee or dervish in Persia."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Arabic \u0623\u064e\u0628\u0652\u062f\u064e\u0627\u0644\u200e (\u02beabd\u0101l), plural of \u0628\u064e\u062f\u064e\u0644\u200e (badal, \u201ca substitute; a good, religious man; saint\u201d), from \u0628\u064e\u062f\u064e\u0644\u064e\u200e (badala, \u201cto replace\u201d)"}}, {"abdat": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdat", "third-person singular present active subjunctive of abd\u014d"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abderian": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abderian (comparative more abderian, superlative most abderian)", "Foolish; absurd; ridiculous; inclined to incessant merriment or laughter."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["agelastic"]}], "examples": ["an abderian temperament"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u026a\u0279.i.\u0259n/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Abderian, from Abdera (the town in Thrace where Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher, lived)  +\u200e -ian.\n"}}, {"abdest": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdest (uncountable)", "Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an; Synonym of wudu"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u0251b.d\u025bst/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/30/En-us-abdest.ogg/En-us-abdest.ogg.mp3"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Turkish abdest, from Persian \u0622\u0628\u062f\u0633\u062a\u200e (\u00e2bdast), compound of \u0622\u0628\u200e (\u00e2b, \u201cwater\u201d) and \u062f\u0633\u062a\u200e (dast, \u201chand\u201d).\n"}}, {"abdicable": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdicable (comparative more abdicable, superlative most abdicable)", "Capable of being abdicated. [Late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u0259.k\u0259.b\u0259l/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdicate +\u200e -able"}}, {"abdicant": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdicant (comparative more abdicant, superlative most abdicant)", "(rare) Abdicating; renouncing. [Mid 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["monks abdicant of their orders"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abdicant (plural abdicants)", "One who abdicates. [Mid 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u026a.kn\u0329t/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdicate +\u200e -ant"}}, {"abdicate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdicate (third-person singular simple present abdicates, present participle abdicating, simple past and past participle abdicated)", "(transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the early 19th century.]", "(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of. [First attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.]", "(transitive, obsolete) To depose. [Attested from the early 17th century until the late 18th century.]", "(transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the late 17th century.]", "(transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]", "(intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty. [First attested in the early 18th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abandon", "abjure", "cast aside", "cast off", "cede", "desert", "disinherit", "disown", "forego", "forsake", "give up", "quit", "refuse", "reject", "relent", "relinquish", "renounce", "repudiate", "resign", "retire", "stand down", "surrender", "vacate", "waive", "yield"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["claim", "grasp", "maintain", "occupy", "retain", "seize", "usurp"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abdication"]}], "examples": ["to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy", "Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.", "The cross-bearers abdicated their service.", "He abdicates all right to be his own governor.", "The understanding abdicates its functions.", "Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u026a\u02ccke\u026at/", "(US)"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/En-us-abdicate.ogg"]}, "etymology": "First attested in 1541.\nFrom Latin abdic\u0101tus (\u201crenounced\u201d), perfect passive participle of abdic\u014d (\u201crenounce, reject, disclaim\u201d), formed from ab (\u201caway\u201d) + dic\u014d (\u201cproclaim, dedicate, declare\u201d), akin to d\u012bc\u014d (\u201csay\u201d).\n"}}, {"abdicated": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdicated", "simple past tense and past participle of abdicate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u026a.ke\u026a.t\u026ad/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abdicates": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdicates", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abdicate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abdicating": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdicating", "present participle of abdicate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abdication": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdication (countable and uncountable, plural abdications)", "(obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]", "The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. [First attested in the early 17th century.]", "The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power[First attested in the late 17th century.]", "(obsolete, law) The renunciation of interest in a property or a legal claim; abandonment. [Attested only in the mid 18th century.]", "(obsolete) The action of being deposed from the seat of power. [Attested only in the mid 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["abdication of the throne, government, power, authority"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.d\u0259\u02c8ke\u026a.\u0283\u0259n/", "(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.d\u0259\u02c8ke\u026a.\u0283\u0259n/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/En-us-abdication.ogg"]}, "etymology": "First attested in 1552. From Middle French abdication, from Latin abdic\u0101ti\u014d (\u201crenunciation\u201d), from abdic\u014d.\n"}}, {"abdications": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdications", "plural of abdication"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abdicative": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdicative (comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)", "(rare) Causing, or implying, abdication."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u0259\u02ccke\u026a.t\u026av/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u0259\u02cck\u0259.t\u026av/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdicat +\u200e -ive"}}, {"abdicator": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdicator (plural abdicators)", "(obsolete) A person supporting the abdication of another. [Late 17th century.]", "One who abdicates. [Late 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom was an abdicator."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u0259\u02cckei.t\u025a/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u0259\u02cckei.t\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdicate +\u200e -or"}}, {"abditive": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abditive (not comparable)", "(rare) Having the quality of hiding"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["There is also a species of wit which may be termed abditive; for it conceals or lessens the dignity attached to rank or character.", "Concepts are either abditive or inabditive; the former being those that do, and the latter those that do not, hide the plurality of the kind they symbolise.", "The abditive nature of the heavy foliage protected the nest."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u026a.t\u026av/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abdit\u012bvus (\u201cremoved or separated from\u201d), from abd\u014d (\u201chide, conceal\u201d).\n"}}, {"abditory": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abditory (plural abditories)", "(rare) A concealed location used for storage or to hide items. [mid 17th century]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u026at.\u0279i/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u026at.\u0259.\u0279i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Medieval Latin abditorium, from abd\u014d (\u201cto hide\u201d).\n"}}, {"abdomen": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdomen (plural abdomens or abdomina)", "(obsolete) The fat surrounding the belly. [mid 16th c. \u2013 late 17th c.]", "(anatomy) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions. [from early 17th c.]", "(anatomy) The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity. [from early 17th c.]", "(zoology, entomology) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. [from late 18th c.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abdominal", "abdominally", "abdominous"]}], "examples": ["Synonyms: belly, tummy, stomach ; see also Thesaurus:belly", "He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u0259.m\u0259n/, /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0259\u028a.m\u0259n/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u0259.m\u0259n/, /\u00e6b\u02c8do\u028a.m\u0259n/", "Rhymes: -\u0259\u028am\u0259n"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/En-us-abdomen.ogg"]}, "etymology": "First attested in 1541. Borrowed from Middle French abdomen, from Latin abdomen, possibly from abd\u014d (\u201cconceal\u201d), from ab (\u201caway\u201d) + dere (\u201cto put, place\u201d)."}}, {"abdomens": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdomens", "plural of abdomen"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abdomina": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdomina", "plural of abdomen"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b.\u02c8d\u0251m.\u0259.n\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abdominal": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominal (comparative more abdominal, superlative most abdominal)", "Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral. [Mid 18th century.]", "(ichthyology) Having the ventral fins under the abdomen and behind the pectoral fins. [Mid 19th century.]", "(ichthyology) Ventral, in describing a fin. [Late 19th century.]", "(zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the order Abdominales of fish."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(of or pertaining to the abdomen): ventral"]}], "examples": ["abdominal muscles", "abdominal cavity"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abdominal (plural abdominals)", "(zoology, obsolete) A fish of the order Abdominales.", "(colloquial, usually  plural only) An abdominal muscle. [Mid 20th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(fish): Cypriniformes."]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0252m.\u0259.nl\u0329/, /\u0259b\u02c8d\u0252m.\u0259.nl\u0329/", "(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0251m.\u0259.nl\u0329/, /\u0259b\u02c8d\u0251m.\u0259.nl\u0329/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En-us-abdominal.ogg"]}, "etymology": "First attested in 1746. From New Latin abd\u014dmin\u0101lis, from Latin abd\u014dmen. Compare French abdominal.\n"}}, {"abdominalia": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominalia\u00a0pl (plural only)", "(zoology) A group of cirriped crustaceans having abdominal appendages."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin.\n"}}, {"abdominally": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominally (not comparable)", "In the area of the abdomen. [Late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abdomen", "abdominal"]}], "examples": ["I have never in my life seen someone so abdominally strong."], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0251m.\u026a.n\u0259.li/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdominal +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abdominals": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominals", "plural of abdominal"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abdominocardiac": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominocardiac (not comparable)", "(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the abdomen and the heart."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0251m.\u026a.no\u028a\u02cck\u0251\u0279di.\u00e6k/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abdomen (\u201cabdomen\u201d) + Ancient Greek \u03ba\u03b1\u03c1\u03b4\u03af\u03b1 (kard\u00eda, \u201cheart\u201d) + Ancient Greek -\u03b1\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 (-ak\u00f3s, \u201c-ic\u201d)\n"}}, {"abdominocentesis": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominocentesis (plural abdominocenteses)", "(surgery) Extraction of peritoneal fluid from the abdomen for evaluation, using a trocar"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0251m.\u026a.no\u028a.s\u025cn\u02c8ti.s\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdomino- (abdomen) +\u200e -centesis (puncture)"}}, {"abdominocystic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominocystic (not comparable)", "(anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and to the bladder."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0251m.\u026a.no\u028a\u02ccs\u026as.t\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdomino- (\u201cabdomen\u201d) +\u200e cystic (\u201cbladder\u201d)\n"}}, {"abdominogenital": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominogenital (not comparable)", "(anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and to the genitals."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0251m.\u026a.no\u028a\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u025bn.\u026a.tl\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdomino- +\u200e genital"}}, {"abdominohysterectomy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominohysterectomy (plural abdominohysterectomies)", "(surgery) Removal of the uterus via an incision made in the abdominal wall rather than via the vagina."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0251m.\u026a.no\u028a.h\u026as.t\u025a\u02c8\u0279\u025bk.t\u0259.mi/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abdomino- +\u200e hysterectomy"}}, {"abdominohysterotomy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominohysterotomy (plural abdominohysterotomies)", "(surgery) An incision of the uterus, done through a surgical hole in the abdomen."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0251m.\u026a.no\u028a.h\u026as.t\u025a\u02c8\u0279\u0251t.\u0259.mi/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdomino- +\u200e hysterotomy"}}, {"abdominoscopy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominoscopy (uncountable)", "(medicine) Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease, using an endoscope."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0251m.\u026an\u02c8\u0251s.k\u0259.pi/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdomino- +\u200e -scopy"}}, {"abdominothoracic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominothoracic (not comparable)", "Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0251m.\u026a.no\u028a.\u03b8\u0254\u0279.\u00e6s.\u026ak/, /\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0251m.\u026a.no\u028a.\u03b8o\u028a.\u0279\u00e6s.\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdomino- (\u201cabdomen\u201d) +\u200e thoracic (\u201cchest\u201d)\n"}}, {"abdominous": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominous (comparative more abdominous, superlative most abdominous)", "Having a protuberant belly; potbellied. [Mid 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0252m.\u0259.n\u0259s/", "(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0251m.\u0259.n\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abdomin- (\u201cabdomen\u201d) + -ous.\n"}}, {"abdominovaginal": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominovaginal (not comparable)", "(anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and the vagina"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0251m.\u026a.no\u028a\u02c8v\u00e6.d\u0361\u0292\u026a.nl\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abdomen (\u201cabdomen\u201d) + New Latin vaginalis, from Latin vagina (\u201cscabbard, sheath\u201d)\nabdomino- +\u200e -vaginal\n"}}, {"abdominovesical": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abdominovesical (not comparable)", "(anatomy) Relating to the abdomen and the urinary bladder"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abdomino- +\u200e vesical"}}, {"abduce": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abduce (third-person singular simple present abduces, present participle abducing, simple past and past participle abduced)", "(transitive, obsolete) To draw; to conduct away; to take away; to withdraw; to draw to a different part; to move a limb out away from the center of the body;abduct. [Mid 16th century.]", "(transitive) To draw a conclusion, especially in metanalysis; to deduce. [Mid 20th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["If we abduce the eye unto either corner, the object will not duplicate. - Sir T. Browne"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259b.\u02c8dju\u02d0s/", "(US) IPA: /\u00e6b.\u02c8dus/, /\u00e6b.\u02c8djus/, /\u0259b.\u02c8dus/, /\u0259b.\u02c8djus/", "Rhymes: -u\u02d0s"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "(1530's) From Latin abd\u016bc\u014d (\u201clead away\u201d), formed from ab (\u201cfrom, away from\u201d) + d\u016bc\u014d (\u201clead\u201d).\nSee duke, and compare abduct.\n"}}, {"abduced": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abduced", "simple past tense and past participle of abduce"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abducens": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abducens (plural abducentes)", "(anatomy) The abducens nerve: the nerve in humans and most animals that governs the motion of the lateral rectus muscle of the eye. [Early 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Synonym: sixth nerve", "Although the abducens runs in a fissure along the so-often fractured petrous bone, a rupture of the nerve-trunk has never been noticed in autopsies save once"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b.\u02c8du.\u02ccs\u025bnz/, /\u00e6b.\u02c8dju.\u02ccs\u025bnz/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Shortening of abducens nerve, in turn from Latin nervus abd\u016bc\u0113ns.\n"}}, {"abducent": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abducent (comparative more abducent, superlative most abducent)", "Drawing away from the median axis of the body, as a muscle; abducting. [Late 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["adducent"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abducent (plural abducents)", "That which abducts; an abducens."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8dus.\u0259nt/, /\u00e6b\u02c8djus.\u0259nt/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abduc\u014d (\u201cto lead away\u201d)"}}, {"abducentes": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abducentes", "plural of abducens"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u02c8d\u028a.s\u025bnt.\u02cciz/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u02c8dj\u028a.s\u025bnt.iz/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abduces": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abduces", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abduce"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abducing": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abducing", "present participle of abduce"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abduct": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abduct (third-person singular simple present abducts, present participle abducting, simple past and past participle abducted)", "(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. [Early 17th century.]", "(transitive, anatomy) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body. [Early 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["carry off", "drag away", "kidnap", "run away with", "seize", "spirit away", "stretch", "take away"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["adduct", "reinstate", "restore"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abduce", "abducens", "abducent", "abduction", "abductor"]}], "examples": ["That same night he had by force abducted the president and the secretary of the club, and had taken them, much against their will upon a voyage in the wonderful air-ship, the \u201cAlbatross,\u201d which he had constructed."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u028ckt/, /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0259kt/", "Rhymes: -\u028ckt"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/En-us-abduct.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Latin abductus, perfect passive participle of abduco (\u201cto lead away\u201d), from ab (\u201caway\u201d) + duco (\u201cto lead\u201d).\n(physiology): Back-formation from abduction..\n"}}, {"abducted": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abducted", "simple past tense and past participle of abduct"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abducted (not comparable)", "Having been kidnapped; having become the victim of an abduction"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u028ckt\u026ad/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abducting": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abducting", "present participle of abduct"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abduction": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abduction (countable and uncountable, plural abductions)", "Leading away; a carrying away. [Early 17th century.]", "(anatomy) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. [Mid 17th century.]", "(logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable. [Late 17th century.]", "The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being. [Mid 18th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(legal, carrying off of human being): appropriation; kidnapping; seizure;  withdrawal", "(logic): retroduction; abstraction"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(physiology): adduction"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abduce"]}], "examples": ["Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.", "The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.", "the abduction of a child"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259b\u02c8d\u028ck.\u0283n\u0329/", "(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u028ck.\u0283n\u0329/, /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0259k.\u0283n\u0329/, /\u0259b\u02c8d\u0259k.\u0283n\u0329/", "(anatomy sense): (for emphasis and disambiguation from adduction) IPA: /\u02c8e\u026a.\u02c8bi\u02d0.d\u028ck.\u0283n\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abducti\u014d (\u201crobbing; abduction\u201d), from abd\u016bc\u014d (\u201ctake or lead away\u201d), from ab (\u201caway\u201d) + d\u016bc\u014d (\u201cto lead\u201d).\n(physiology): From French, from Latin abductus.\nCompare French abduction.\n"}}, {"abductions": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abductions", "plural of abduction"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abductor": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abductor (plural abductors)", "One who abducts; a kidnapper. [mid 19th century]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["abductee"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u028ck.t\u025a/, /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u028ck.t\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abduct +\u200e -or"}}, {"abductores": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abductores", "plural of abductor. Sometimes used instead of abductor when referring to the anatomical muscles."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0259k\u02c8t\u0254\u0279.iz/, /\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0259k\u02c8t\u0254.iz/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abductors": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abductors", "plural of abductor"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US)"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abducts": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abducts", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abduct"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abe": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abe", "(intransitive, infinitive, regional, Britain) Be."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Let it abe, I say.", "But if it amuses her I let it abe.", "But let that abe."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259.\u02c8bi/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Probably a- +\u200e be.\n"}}, {"abeam": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abeam (comparative more abeam, superlative most abeam)", "(nautical, aircraft) On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel  or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative . [Mid 19th century.]", "(nautical, aircraft) Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}, {"text": ["abeam (comparative more abeam, superlative most abeam)", "(nautical, aircraft) Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The attack on the abeam ship, Louisville, killed Commander Cruiser Division Four  [\u2026]", "The island was directly abeam of us."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abeam", "(nautical) Alongside. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["She came abeam the crippled ship."], "partOfSpeech": "preposition"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259.\u02c8bi\u02d0m/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259.\u02c8bim/", "Rhymes: -i\u02d0m"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "a- (\u201cin the direction of\u201d) +\u200e beam (\u201ckeel\u201d)"}}, {"abear": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abear (third-person singular simple present abears, present participle abearing, simple past abore, past participle aborn or aborne)", "(transitive, now  rare, regional) To put up with; to endure. [from 9th c.]", "(transitive, obsolete) To bear; to carry. [10th-15th c.]", "(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To behave; to comport oneself. [16th-17th c.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Hunder-cook, indeed! which it's what I never abore yet, and never will abear.", "So did the Faerie knight himselfe abeare, / And stouped oft his head from shame to shield  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abear (plural abears)", "(obsolete) Bearing, behavior. [14th-17th c.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u0259.\u02c8b\u025b\u02d0/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259.\u02c8b\u025b\u025a/, /\u0259.\u02c8b\u025b\u0279/", "Rhymes: -\u025b\u0259(\u0279)"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English aberen, from Old English \u0101beran (\u201cto bear, carry, carry away\u201d), from \u0101- (\u201caway, out\u201d), ar- + beran (\u201cto bear\u201d), from Proto-Germanic *uzberan\u0105 (\u201cto bear off, bring forth, produce\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European *b\u02b0er- (\u201cto bear, carry\u201d), equivalent to a- +\u200e bear. Cognate with Old High German irberan, Gothic \ud800\udf3f\ud800\udf43\ud800\udf31\ud800\udf30\ud800\udf39\ud800\udf42\ud800\udf30\ud800\udf3d (usbairan).\n"}}, {"abearance": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abearance (uncountable)", "(rare) Behavior. [Mid 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The other species of recognizance, with sureties, is tor the good abearance or good behaviour."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025c\u0279.\u0259ns/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abear +\u200e -ance"}}, {"abecedary": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abecedary (plural abecedaries)", "(rare) The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer; abecedarium. [from 1350 to 1470]", "One that teaches or learns the alphabet or the fundamentals of any subject; abecedarian. [from late 16th century]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["abecedary (not comparable)", "Referring to the alphabet; alphabetical; related to or resembling an abecedarius; abecedarian. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bi\u02d0.\u02c8si\u02d0.d\u0259.\u0279i/", "(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bi.\u02c8si.d\u025a.i/, /\u02cce\u026a.bi.\u02c8si.d\u0259.\u0279i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abecedary, from Medieval Latin abecedarium (\u201calphabet, primer\u201d), from Late Latin abecedarius (\u201cof the alphabet\u201d), formed from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius.\nThe sense \"primer, abecearium\" is from Medieval Latin abecedarium (\u201calphabet, primer\u201d)."}}, {"abecedaria": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abecedaria", "plural of abecedarium"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bi.\u02ccsi.\u02c8d\u00e6\u0279.i.\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abecedarian": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abecedarian (plural abecedarians)", "Someone who is learning the alphabet. [Early 17th century.]", "An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning. [Early 17th century.]", "(archaic) Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning. [Early 17th century.]", "(rhetoric) A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["See also Thesaurus:beginner"]}], "examples": ["A man may alwaies continue his studie, but not schooling. O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abcedarian [transl. abecedaire].", "This formal organization is most likely to create obscurity in such elaborate and artificial forms as: palindromes , abecedarians \u00a0[\u2026].", "Abecedarian verses are chanted stichoi/stichera verses in which the first letter of each verse follows an alphabetical order. [\u2026] The Amomos, an abecedarian, is the longest psalm in the Psalter\u00a0[\u2026].", "An Abecedarian is any poem constrained by alphabetical order."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["abecedarian (comparative more abecedarian, superlative most abecedarian)", "(now  rare) Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary. [Mid 17th century.]", "Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets. [Mid 17th century.]", "Arranged in an alphabetical manner. [Mid 17th century.]", "Relating to or resembling an abecedarius."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The professor [...] had several other translations or feats of antiquarian deciphering to his credit. Indeed, I was extremely fortunate to find him in at the museum, for he planned to fly within the week to Peru where yet another task awaited his abecedarian talents."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /e\u026a.bi\u02d0.si\u02d0\u02c8d\u025b\u02d0.\u0279\u026a.\u0259n/", "(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bi\u02ccsi\u02c8d\u025b.\u0279i.\u0259n/, /\u02cce\u026a.bi\u02ccsi\u02c8d\u00e6\u0279.i.\u0259n/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary +\u200e -an. Compare abecedary.\n"}}, {"abecedarians": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abecedarians", "plural of abecedarian"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abecedaries": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abecedaries", "plural of abecedary"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abecedarium": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abecedarium (plural abecedaria)", "A book used to teach the alphabet; alphabet book; primer.", "An inscription consisting of the letters of an alphabet, almost always listed in order."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abecedary"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bi\u02ccsi\u02c8d\u00e6\u0279.i.\u0259m/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Latin abeced\u0101rium.\n"}}, {"abecedarius": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abecedarius (plural abecedariuses or abecedarii)", "An acrostic poem in which the lines begin with the letters of the alphabet in sequence."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Michele Clise has adapted the Shaker abecedarius, changed a few words, and used black, white, and gray sketches for illustrations to create her alphabet ."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bi\u02ccsi\u02c8d\u00e6\u0279.i.\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from New Latin abeced\u0101rius, from Late Latin"}}, {"abed": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abed (not comparable)", "In bed, or on the bed; confined to bed. [First attested from 1150 to 1350.]", "To childbed"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Not to be abed after midnight", "The world was awake to the 2nd of May, but Mayfair is not the world, and even the menials of Mayfair lie long abed.", "Who can lie peacefully abed, while the darkness holds some secret?", "I mean, she's brought a-bed"], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bd/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bd/", "Rhymes: -\u025bd"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abedde, on bedde (\u201cbed\u201d), from Old English bedd (\u201cbed\u201d). Equivalent to a- (\u201cin, on\u201d) +\u200e bed.\n"}}, {"abede": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abede", "past tense of abe"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abegge": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abegge (third-person singular simple present abegges, present participle abegging, simple past and past participle abegged)", "(obsolete) Alternative form of aby"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abey": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abey", "An earring"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abeyance": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abeyance (countable and uncountable, plural abeyances)", "(law) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title. [Late 16th century]", "Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition. [Mid 17th century]", "(heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.", "Yet sometimes the fee may be in abeyance, that is  in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation in law; there being no person in esse, in whom it can vest and abide  [\u2026]", "Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance.", "The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026a.\u0259nts/, /\u0259\u02c8be\u026a.\u0259ns/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "First attested in 1528. From Anglo-Norman abeiance (\u201clegal expectation\u201d), from Old French abeance (\u201cdesire\u201d) from abe\u00ebr (\u201cto gape at, aspire after\u201d), abaer, abair (\u201cto desire\u201d), from a (\u201cto\u201d) + ba\u00ebr (\u201cto gape\u201d), bair (\u201cyawn\u201d), from Medieval Latin bat\u014d (\u201cto yawn\u201d).\n"}}, {"abeyances": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abeyances", "plural of abeyance"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abeyancy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abeyancy (countable and uncountable, plural abeyancies)", "(rare) Abeyance."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["What a change in his lot would have been here, for there seemed to be some pretensions to a title, too, from a barony which was floating about and occasionally moving out of abeyancy!"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026a.\u0259nt.si/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abeyance +\u200e -y"}}, {"abeyancies": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abeyancies", "plural of abeyancy"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abeyant": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abeyant (comparative more abeyant, superlative most abeyant)", "Being in a state of abeyance. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8be\u026a.n\u0329t/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Back-formation from abeyance.\n"}}, {"abeigh": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abeigh (comparative more abeigh, superlative most abeigh)", "(rare, Scotland) Cautiously aloof. [Mid 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8bi\u02d0x/, /\u0259\u02c8be\u026ax/", "(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8bix/, /\u0259\u02c8be\u026ax/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Probably from a- (\u201cin a state or condition\u201d) + Old Norse beigr, beygr (\u201cfear\u201d).\n"}}, {"abele": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abele (plural abeles)", "The white poplar (Populus alba). [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Six abeles i' the churchyard grow"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8bi\u02d0l/, /\u0259.\u02c8be\u026al/, /\u02c8e\u026a.bl\u0329/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8bil/, /\u0259.\u02c8be\u026al/, /\u02c8e\u026a.bl\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Dutch abeel, from Middle Dutch, from Old Northern French abiel, from a diminutive of Latin albus (\u201cwhite\u201d).\n"}}, {"abeles": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abeles", "plural of abele"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abelia": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abelia (plural abelias)", "Any of the various honeysuckles of the genus Abelia. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA(key): /\u0259.\u02c8bil.j\u0259/, /e\u026a.\u02c8bil.j\u0259/, /e\u026a.\u02c8bil.i.\u0259/, /\u0259.\u02c8bil.i.\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From the genus name Abelia"}}, {"abelian": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abelian (not comparable)", "(mathematics) Having a commutative defining operation. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abelian algebra", "abelian group", "abelian operation", "abelian ring"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8bi.li.\u0259n/, /\u0259\u02c8bil.j\u0259n/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Name of the Norwegian mathematician Abel  +\u200e -ian.\n"}}, {"abelite": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abelite (plural abelites)", "(chemistry) An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate with hydrocarbons added."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8e\u026a.b\u0259\u02ccla\u026at/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Named after Sir Frederick Abel, English chemist.\nAbel +\u200e -ite\n"}}, {"abelmosk": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abelmosk (countable and uncountable, plural abelmosks)", "The edible and aromatic seed pods (properly, capsules) of the Abelmoschus moschatus.", "The tropical evergreen shrub Abelmoschus moschatus itself.", "(uncommon, usually  plural) Other members of the genus Abelmoschus, such as okra."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(A. moschatus): annual hibiscus, tropical jewel hibiscus (dated); ambrette, muskdana, musk mallow, musk okra, ornamental okra, rose mallow, Yorka okra, musk seed"]}], "examples": ["Egyptian Ketmia, with a perfumed or Musk-Seed..., called Abelmosch of Morison.", "Abelmosk grains are the seeds of a plant... indigenous to Central Africa, Arabia, and India.", "Abelmosk, Abelmosch, or Abelmusk, the Syrian mallow, or musk okro, a species of hibiscus .", "The same description fits abelmosk, the Hibiscus abelmoshus, better known to the world as the East Indian dwarf okra plant."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u02c8e\u026ab\u0259lm\u0252sk/, /\u02c8e\u026ablm\u0252sk/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8e\u026ab\u0259l\u02ccm\u0251sk/, /\u02c8e\u026ablm\u0251sk/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From New Latin abelmoschus, from Italian abelmosch, from Arabic \u0623\u064e\u0628\u064f\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0643\u200e (\u02beab\u016b l-misk, \u201cfather of musk\u201d) or \u062d\u064e\u0628\u0651 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0643\u200e (\u1e25abb al-misk, \u201cgrain of musk\u201d), from \u062d\u064e\u0628\u0651\u200e (\u1e25abb, \u201cgrain\u201d) + \u0645\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0643\u200e (misk), from Persian \u0645\u0634\u06a9\u200e (mo\u0161k).\n"}}, {"abelmosks": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abelmosks", "plural of abelmosk"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abelmusk": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abelmusk (countable and uncountable, plural abelmusks)", "(obsolete) Alternative form of abelmosk in its various senses."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8e\u026ab\u0259lm\u0259sk/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abeltree": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abeltree (uncountable)", "A Eurasian tree, Populus alba, that is widely cultivated in North America."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8e\u026a.b\u0259l\u02cct\u0279i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Calque of Dutch abeelboom (\u201cwhite poplar tree\u201d), from abeel (\u201cwhite poplar\u201d) + boom (\u201ctree\u201d).\n"}}, {"abend": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abend (plural abends)", "(computing) An abnormal termination of a program.", "(IEEE) Termination of a process prior to completion."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["abend (third-person singular simple present abends, present participle abending, simple past and past participle abended)", "To terminate abnormally."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["\"The nightly invoicing job abended at 3am.\""], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b\u025bnd/, /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bnd/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Blend of abnormal +\u200e end"}}, {"abends": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abends", "plural of abend"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["abends", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abend"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abenteric": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abenteric (not comparable)", "(pathology) Relating to organs outside of the intestine."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b.\u025bn\u02c8t\u025b\u0279.\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin ab- (\u201caway from\u201d) + Ancient Greek \u1f14\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd (\u00e9nteron, \u201cintestine\u201d) + -ic"}}, {"aberdavine": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberdavine (plural aberdavines)", "Alternative form of aberdevine"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.d\u0259\u02ccva\u026an/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u025a.d\u0259\u02ccva\u026an/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberdevine": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberdevine (plural aberdevines)", "(obsolete outside dialectal) The Eurasian siskin or spruce siskin, Spinus spinus, a small green and yellow finch related to the goldfinch. [mid-18th century]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.d\u0259\u02ccva\u026an/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u025a.d\u0259\u02ccva\u026an/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Attested since the mid 1700s, of obscure origin. Richard Coates suggests that it may derive from Welsh aderyn and draenog with substantial phonological modifications. (The alternative form aber-de-vine shows re-interpretation as a French compound with de.)\n"}}, {"aberduvine": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberduvine (plural aberduvines)", "Alternative form of aberdevine"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.d\u0259\u02ccva\u026an/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u025a.d\u0259\u02ccva\u026an/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberr": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberr (third-person singular simple present aberrs, present participle aberring, simple past and past participle aberred)", "(intransitive, obsolete) To go astray; to err. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]", "(transitive, rare) Distort; aberrate. [First attested in the late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025c\u0279/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Latin aberr\u014d (\u201cgo astray; err\u201d), from ab (\u201cfrom, away from\u201d) +\u200e err\u014d (\u201cstray\u201d).\n"}}, {"aberrance": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrance (countable and uncountable, plural aberrances)", "State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. [Mid 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6.b\u025b\u0279.n\u0329s/, /\u00e6\u02c8b\u025b\u0279.n\u0329ts/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From aberr (\u201cto stray\u201d), from Latin aberr\u014d (\u201cto wander from the way\u201d) + -ance"}}, {"aberrancy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrancy (countable and uncountable, plural aberrancies)", "The condition of being aberrant; an aberrance. [from 17th c.]", "(geometry) The deviation of a curve from circular form."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Thus they commonly affect no man any further than he deserts his reason, or complies with their aberrancies."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6.\u02c8b\u025b\u0279.n\u0329.si/, /\u02c8\u00e6.b\u025b\u0279.n\u0329.s\u026a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From aberrance +\u200e -y.\n"}}, {"aberrancies": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrancies", "plural of aberrancy"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberrant": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrant (comparative more aberrant, superlative most aberrant)", "Differing from the norm. [First attested sometime between the mid 16th century and the early 17th century.]", "(sometimes figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]", "(botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["aberrance", "aberrancy", "aberrantly", "aberration", "aberrational"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["aberrance", "aberrancy", "aberrantly", "aberration", "aberrational"]}], "examples": ["The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["aberrant (plural aberrants)", "A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.", "(biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025b\u0279.n\u0329t/, /\u02c8\u00e6.b\u0259\u0279.n\u0329t/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259b\u02c8\u025b\u0279.n\u0329t/, /\u02c8\u00e6.b\u0259\u0279.n\u0329t/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin aberr\u0101ns, present active participle of aberr\u014d (\u201cgo astray; err\u201d), from ab (\u201cfrom\u201d) + err\u014d (\u201cto wander\u201d). See aberr."}}, {"aberrantly": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrantly (comparative more aberrantly, superlative most aberrantly)", "In an aberrant manner; abnormally. [Late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b\u02c8\u025b\u0279.n\u0329t.li/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "aberrant +\u200e -ly"}}, {"aberrants": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrants", "plural of aberrant"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberrate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrate (third-person singular simple present aberrates, present participle aberrating, simple past and past participle aberrated)", "(intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. [mid 18th century]", "(transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of. [late 19th century]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["aberr", "aberrance", "aberrant", "aberration"]}], "examples": ["[\u2026]  the surfaces of the concave lens may be so proportioned as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens, near the axis  [\u2026]", "Such, indeed, were the primitive regulations of the greater number of monastic institutions; but the abominable and luxurious indulgences into which they afterwards aberrated, the page of history amply unfolds.", "[\u2026]  the barriers, which to them limit the view, and give to it, together with the contraction, all the distinctness and definite outline of limitation, are, in nine cases out of ten, the product of their own defective and aberrating vision, and not real barriers at all.", "[\u2026]  after all the Governor of a Southern state has got to try to act like he regrets having to aberrate from being a gentleman\u2014", "He saw them through no aberrating mist of tenderness or expediency\u2014but with the single directness of the man of action.", "He and Ph\u0153be had had a senseless quarrel  [\u2026]  and she had left. It was an aberrated fulfillment of her old jesting threat that if he did not behave himself she would leave him.", "Don\u2019t imagine that there was any sudden and complete renunciation such as overcomes the luckless and often temporarily aberrated victim of a highly emotionalized revival meeting; this would have been, at best, but temporary.", "[\u2026]  sexually aberrated individuals can be treated most successfully via the method of psycho-analytic psychotherapy.", "As these monographs and as these occasional exhibition catalogues on some handful of Canadian Impressionists started to appear, once again, I was surprised  that they were aberrated, there was no timeline, there was no continuity."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259.\u0279e\u026at/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin aberr\u0101tus, perfect passive participle of aberr\u014d (\u201cwander, stray or deviate from\u201d), formed from ab (\u201cfrom, away from\u201d) + err\u014d (\u201cstray\u201d).\n"}}, {"aberrated": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrated", "simple past tense and past participle of aberrate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The most distressing cases are those where the patch assumes a different colour from that of the trousers . In this instance the mind of the patient is found to be in a sadly aberrated condition."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["aberrated (comparative more aberrated, superlative most aberrated)", "Abnormal; irregular; atypical."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The most distressing cases are those where the patch assumes a different colour from that of the trousers . In this instance the mind of the patient is found to be in a sadly aberrated condition."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberrating": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrating", "present participle of aberrate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberration": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberration (countable and uncountable, plural aberrations)", "The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state. [Late 16th century.]", "(optics) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; a defect in a focusing mechanism that prevents the intended focal point. [Mid 18th century.]", "(astronomy) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer. [Mid 18th century.]", "A partial alienation of reason. [Early 19th century.]", "A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character. [Early 19th century.]", "(zoology, botany) Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ. [Mid 19th century.]", "(medicine) A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["the aberration of youth", "aberrations from theory", "aberration of character", "Occasional aberrations of intellect.", "Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259\u02c8\u0279e\u026a.\u0283n\u0329/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/En-us-aberration.ogg"]}, "etymology": "A learned borrowing from Latin aberr\u0101ti\u014d (\u201crelief, diversion\u201d), first attested in 1594 , from aberr\u014d (\u201cwander away, go astray\u201d), from ab (\u201caway\u201d) + err\u014d (\u201cwander\u201d). Compare French aberration. See also aberrate.\n"}}, {"aberrational": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrational (comparative more aberrational, superlative most aberrational)", "Characterized by aberration. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259\u02c8\u0279e\u026a.\u0283\u0259n.l\u0329/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u0259\u02c8\u0279e\u026a.\u0283nl\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "aberration +\u200e -al"}}, {"aberrations": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrations", "plural of aberration"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberrative": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrative (comparative more aberrative, superlative most aberrative)", "Having deviated or been knocked, momentarily and sharply, from the more dominant or expected course or trajectory."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["A large aberrative oscillation has been observed in the financial markets.", "The longer-term trend was down; however, yesterday there was an aberrative rise in the market."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.\u0259\u02cc\u0279e\u026ad.\u026av/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberrator": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberr\u0101tor", "second-person singular future passive imperative of aberr\u014d", "third-person singular future passive imperative of aberr\u014d"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberrometer": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberrometer (plural aberrometers)", "A device that measures refractive aberrations of the eye"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["aberrometrist", "aberrometry"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aberuncate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberuncate (third-person singular simple present aberuncates, present participle aberuncating, simple past and past participle aberuncated)", "(rare, transitive) To eradicate; to pull up by the roots. [from 18th c.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["His nefarious repercussion of obloquy must contaminate, and obumbrate, and who can tell but it may even aberuncate his feculent and excrementitious celebrity.", "The deprivation of abbacy reduced the auld abbey-lubber to an aberrant state, devoid of adjument; and sad reverse! from the soft indulgence of accubation, his feet were daily abraded, in arenulous situations, in aberuncating roots for his sustenance, on sectivous mountains.", "those embryonical conceits which quaversally disposed intellects too often neglect, abort and aberuncate for clamouring projects more fully formed  [\u2026] ."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Late Latin aberuncare, from Latin averruncare.\n"}}, {"aberuncator": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aberuncator (plural aberuncators)", "A pruning device mounted on a pole, so as to reach high branches; a weeding machine."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From averruncate +\u200e -or.\n"}}, {"abesse": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abesse", "present active infinitive of absum"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abessive": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abessive (not comparable)", "(grammar) Of, or relating to that grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence. [Late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abessive (plural abessives)", "(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case. [Late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6\u02c8b\u025b.s\u026av/, /\u02c8\u00e6\u02ccb\u025b.s\u026av/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abesse (\u201cto be absent\u201d), infinitive of absum, from ab (\u201caway\u201d) + sum (\u201cbe\u201d).See absent.\n"}}, {"abet": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abet (third-person singular simple present abets, present participle abetting, simple past and past participle abetted)", "(obsolete, transitive) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. [from end of 14th century to early 17th century]", "(transitive) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime. [from c. 1350-1470]", "(transitive, archaic) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain. [from late 16th century]", "(obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(to instigate or encourage by aid or countenance): incite, instigate, set on, egg on, foment, advocate, countenance, encourage, second, uphold, aid, assist, support, sustain, back, connive at, promote, sanction, advocate, embolden, favor, cooperate with"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["baffle", "confound", "contradict", "counteract", "denounce", "deter", "disapprove", "disconcert", "discourage", "dissuade", "expose", "frustrate", "hinder", "impede", "obstruct", "thwart"]}], "examples": ["By the early Seventies, Playboy was selling seven million copies a month and Hefner's globe-trotting lifestyle was abetted by his private jet, the Big Bunny, that contained a circular bed, an inside disco and a wet bar.", "Those who would exalt themselves by abetting the strength of the Godless, and the wrength of the oppressors.", "Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abet (plural abets)", "(obsolete) Fraud or cunning. [mid-12th century to mid-14th century]", "(obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid. [from c. 1350-1470]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK, US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bt/", "Rhymes: -\u025bt"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/En-us-abet.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abetten, abette, from Old French abeter (\u201cto entice\u201d), from a- (\u201cto\u201d) + beter (\u201chound on, urge, to bait\u201d), from either Middle Dutch b\u0113tan (\u201cincite\u201d), or from Old Norse beita (\u201cto cause to bite, bait, incite\u201d), from Proto-Germanic *baitijan\u0105 (\u201cto cause to bite\u201d), from Proto-Indo-European *b\u02b0eyd- (\u201cto split\u201d). Cognate with Icelandic beita (\u201cto set dogs on\", \"to feed\u201d).\nAlternate etymology traces the Middle English and Old French words through Old English *\u0101b\u01e3tan (\u201cto hound on\u201d), from \u0101- + b\u01e3tan (\u201cto bait\u201d), from the same Proto-Germanic source.\nSee also bait, bet.\n"}}, {"abetment": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abetment (countable and uncountable, plural abetments)", "(chiefly law) The act of abetting or assisting in a crime, wrongdoing etc. [from 14th c.]", "Encouragement or assistance. [from 16th c.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bt.m\u0259nt/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/En-us-abetment.oga"]}, "etymology": "First attested from 1350 to 1470., from Middle English abetement, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French abeter + -ment. See abet.\n"}}, {"abetments": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abetments", "plural of abetment"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abets": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abets", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abet"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abets", "plural of abet"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bts/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abettal": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abettal (plural abettals)", "(rare) abetment"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bt.l\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abet +\u200e -al"}}, {"abettals": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abettals", "plural of abettal"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abetted": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abetted", "simple past tense and past participle of abet"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bt\u026ad/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abetter": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abetter (plural abetters)", "Alternative form of abettor [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bt.\u025a/, /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bt.e/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abet +\u200e -er.\n"}}, {"abetters": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abetters", "plural of abetter"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abetting": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abetting", "present participle of abet"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abetting (plural abettings)", "The act of one who abets."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in the popular mind"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bt\u026a\u014b/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/En-us-abetting.ogg"]}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abettor": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abettor (plural abettors)", "One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]", "A supporter or advocate. [Late 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["accessory", "accomplice", "advocate", "aid", "ally", "assistant", "confederate", "cooperator", "helper"]}], "examples": ["Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd!", "Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:", "[\u2026]  when he recollected that, being there as an assistant, he actually seemed\u2014no matter what unhappy train of circumstances had brought him to that pass\u2014to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, he loathed himself  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bt\u0259/", "(General American) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u025bt\u025a/, /-te/, /-\u027e\u025a/", "Rhymes: -\u025bt\u0259, -\u025bt\u0259(\u0279)", "Hyphenation: abet\u2027tor"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2c/Abettor1_US.ogg/Abettor1_US.ogg.mp3", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ea/Abettor2_US.ogg/Abettor2_US.ogg.mp3"]}, "etymology": "From Anglo-Norman abettour, from Old French abeter + -our (\u201c-or\u201d). See abet.\n"}}, {"abettors": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abettors", "plural of abettor"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abevacuation": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abevacuation (plural abevacuations)", "(medicine) An abnormal evacuation.", "(medicine) Metastases."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b.i\u02ccv\u00e6k.ju\u02c8e\u026a.\u0283n\u0329/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin ab (\u201cfrom\u201d) + evacuare (\u201cevacuation\u201d)."}}, {"abfarad": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abfarad (plural abfarads)", "(dated, electronics) A unit of capacitance equal to one billion (109) farads, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abampere", "abhenry"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA(key): /\u00e6b\u02c8f\u00e6\u0279\u02cc\u00e6d/, /\u00e6b\u02c8f\u0254\u0279.\u0259d/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "ab- (\u201cabsolute\u201d) +\u200e farad"}}, {"abfarads": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abfarads", "plural of abfarad"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abhenry": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhenry (plural abhenries or abhenrys)", "(dated, physics) A unit of inductance equal to one billionth (1 x 10-9) of a henry, used in the centimeter-gram-second system of units."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US)IPA(key): /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u025bn.\u0279i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "ab- (\u201cabsolute\u201d) +\u200e henry"}}, {"abhenries": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhenries", "plural of abhenry"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abhenrys": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhenrys", "plural of abhenry"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abhinaya": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhinaya (plural abhinayas)", "(dance) Use of the face and hands, in an expressive manner, similar to the kathakali dance of India."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026an.\u0259.j\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Sanskrit \u0905\u092d\u093f\u0928\u092f (abhinaya, \u201cacting, dramatic action\u201d).\n"}}, {"abhiseka": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhiseka (plural abhisekas)", "Alternative form of abhisheka"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u0259.bi\u02c8\u0283e\u026a.k\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abhominable": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhominable (comparative more abhominable, superlative most abhominable)", "Obsolete form of abominable."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["This is abhominable, which he [Don Armado] would call abominable."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "First attested in the 1300s, a variant of abominable, possibly influenced by Latin ab + homine (\u201cman\u201d). The unnecessary addition of h to words was once common; compare abholish (abolish). Abandoned by the 1600s.. Compare also abhomination.\n"}}, {"abhor": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhor (third-person singular simple present abhors, present participle abhorring, simple past and past participle abhorred)", "(transitive) To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]", "(transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To fill with horror or disgust. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the early 17th century.]", "(transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.", "(transitive, canon law, obsolete) To protest against; to reject solemnly.", "(intransitive, obsolete) To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; construed with from. [Attested from the mid 16th century until the mid 17th century.]", "(intransitive, obsolete) Differ entirely from. 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[Late 16th century.]", "(obsolete) Horrified. [Late 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u0254\u0279d/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abhorrence": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhorrence (countable and uncountable, plural abhorrences)", "Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing. [Mid 17th century.]", "(obsolete, historical) An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II. [Late 17th century.]", "A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing. [Mid 18th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abhor", "abhorred", "abhorrency", "abhorrent", "abhorrently", "abhorrer", "abhorrible", "abhorring"]}], "examples": ["My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u0259b\u02c8h\u0252\u0279.n\u0329s/, /\u0259b\u02c8h\u0252\u0279.n\u0329ts/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259b\u02c8h\u0254\u0279.n\u0329s/, /\u0259b\u02c8h\u0254\u0279.n\u0329ts/, /\u0259b\u02c8h\u0251\u0279.n\u0329s/, /\u0259b\u02c8h\u0251\u0279.n\u0329ts/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/En-us-abhorrence.ogg"]}, "etymology": "abhor +\u200e -ence"}}, {"abhorrences": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhorrences", "plural of abhorrence"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abhorrency": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhorrency (plural abhorrencies)", "(obsolete) Aberrancy. 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[Early 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abhor", "abhorred", "abhorrence", "abhorrency", "abhorrently", "abhorrer", "abhorrible", "abhorring"]}], "examples": ["abhorrent thoughts", "The persons most abhorrent from blood, and treason, and arbitrary confiscation, might remain silent spectators of this civil war between the vices.", "This legal, and, as it should seem, injudicious profanation, so abhorrent to out stricter principles, was received with a very faint murmur, ...", "In establishing his ideal state he expressed some opinions utterly abhorrent to our customs and ways of living. He believed, for instance, that all wives should be held in common ... with the result that no one could tell his own children from those of a perfect stranger.", "It's not racism to reject cultural behaviour that is abhorrent to us. - Henry Makow", "If Pride, abhorrent as it is, and if Ambition, ...", "That, I protest, is a doctrine psychologically impossible and ethically abhorrent.", "The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn, abhorrent; in a spotless heart I look for pleasure."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8\u0254\u0279.\u0259nt/", "(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u0254\u0279.\u0259nt/, /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u0251\u0279.\u0259nt/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Latin abhorr\u0113ns, abhorr\u0113ntis, present active participle of abhorre\u014d (\u201cabhor\u201d). 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With her tongue curled over her lip, she copied them in her notebook, then made them into sentences.", "Thus, chiefly through the efforts of this lover of peace and abhorrer of war, the art of maiming and killing became ever more efficient.", "The problem of usage comes in for abhorrer in various ways: There are 63 entries with the root abhor, including 3 abhorrer, 17 abhorrence.", "Pretty much as Lincoln is thus supposed to arise out of the word fleas, so  do the words Whig and Tory arise out of addresser and abhorrer [\u2026]", "Whether \u201cPetitioner\u201d or \u201cAbhorrer\u201d, his opinion was asked and use of his undistinguished name was requested  [\u2026]", "He might be assimilated to a madman, but the honourable Gentleman himself was an abhorrer, and an abhorrer could not reason.", "The terms petitioners and abhorrers in this context were later superseded by Whig and Tory."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u0254\u0279.\u0258/, /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u0254\u0279.\u025a/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/En-us-abhorrer.ogg"]}, "etymology": "abhor +\u200e -er"}}, {"abhorrers": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhorrers", "plural of abhorrer"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u0254\u02d0.\u0279\u025a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abhorrible": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhorrible (comparative more abhorrible, superlative most abhorrible)", "(rare, obsolete) Detestable. [mid 17th century]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abhor", "abhorred", "abhorrence", "abhorrency", "abhorrent", "abhorrently", "abhorrer", "abhorring"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u0251.\u0279\u026ab.l\u0329/, /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u0254\u0279.\u026ab.l\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abhor +\u200e -ible"}}, {"abhorring": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhorring (usually uncountable, plural abhorrings)", "Detestation. [Mid 16th century.]", "A detested thing. [Mid 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Rather a ditch in Egypt / Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud / Lay me stark-nak'd, and let the water-flies / Blow me into abhorring!"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["abhorring", "present participle of abhor"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8h\u0254\u0279.\u026a\u014b/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abhor +\u200e -ing"}}, {"abhors": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abhors", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abhor"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"aby": {"definitions": [{"text": ["aby (third-person singular simple present abys, present participle abying, simple past and past participle abought)", "(transitive, obsolete) To pay for; to buy. 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Cognate with Gothic \ud800\udf3f\ud800\udf43\ud800\udf31\ud800\udf3f\ud800\udf32\ud800\udf3e\ud800\udf30\ud800\udf3d (usbugjan)."}}, {"abidance": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abidance (plural abidances)", "The act of abiding or continuing; abode; stay; continuance; dwelling. [Early 17th century.]", "Adherence; compliance; conformity. [Early 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["No wonder then, though the Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine , driving that trade wherewith none ever thrived, the breaking of promises; wherewith one may for a way fairly spread his train, but he will moult his feathers soon after.", "A judicious abidance by rules, and holding to the results of experience, are good; but not less so, are a judicious setting aside of rules, and a declining to be bound by incomplete experience."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026ad.n\u0329s/, /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026ad.n\u0329ts/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abiden, from Old English \u0101b\u012bdan (\u201cwait\u201d), from \u0101 + b\u012bdan (\u201cto bide, remain\u201d) + ance.\nabide +\u200e -ance.\n"}}, {"abidances": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abidances", "plural of abidance"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abidden": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abidden", "(obsolete) past participle of abide"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["1819, \u201cI trust the jolly priest hath but abiden by the wine-pot a thought too late. Who saw him since the castle was ta\u2019en?\u201d \u2014 Walter Scott, Ivanhoe"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026ad.n\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abide": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abide (third-person singular simple present abides, present participle abiding, simple past abode or abided, past participle abode or abided or (rare) abidden)", "(transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. [from mid-12th century]", "(transitive) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. [from late 15th century]", "(transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. [from late 16th century]", "Used in a phrasal verb: abide by (\u201cto accept and act in accordance with\u201d).", "(intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation. [from mid-12th to mid-17th century]", "(intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay. [from c. 1150-1350 to mid-17th century]", "(intransitive, archaic) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to be left. [from c. 1150-1350]", "(intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn. [from c. 1350-1470]", "(intransitive, archaic) To endure; to remain; to last. [from c. 1350-1470]", "(transitive, archaic) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for. [from early 12th century]", "(transitive, obsolete) To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under. [from c. 1150-1350 to early 18th century.]", "(transitive, archaic) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to. [from c. 1350-1470.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(endure without yielding): hold on, resist; See also Thesaurus:persevere", "(bear patiently): brook, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate", "(wait in expectation): hold on, stay; See also Thesaurus:wait", "(have one's abode): dwell, live; See also Thesaurus:reside", "(endure; remain; last): See also Thesaurus:persist", "(stand ready for): await, wait for; See also Thesaurus:wait for"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abide by", "abidest (archaic second-person singular present form; with \u201cthou\u201d)"]}], "examples": ["The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.", "Neuer neuer: \u017fhe would alwayes \u017fay \u017fhee could not abide M[aster] Shallow.", "Ay me, they little know / How dearly I abide that boa\u017ft \u017fo vaine, / Under what torments inwardly I groane [\u2026]", "If it be found \u017fo, \u017fome will deere abide it.", "The new teacher was strict and the students did not want to abide by his rules.", "And Abraham \u017faid vnto his yong men, Abide you here with the a\u017f\u017fe, and I and the lad will goe yonder and wor\u017fhip, and come againe to you.", "Let euery man abide in the \u017fame calling wherein he was called.", "And her brother and her mother \u017faid, Let the dam\u017fell abide with vs a few dayes, at the lea\u017ft ten\u202f; after that, \u017fhe \u017fhall goe.", "The Dude abides.", "Allas sayd she that euer I sawe yow / but he that suffred vpon the crosse for alle mankynde he be vnto yow good conduyte and saufte / and alle the hole felauship / Ryght soo departed Launcelot / & fond his felauship that abode his comyng / and so they mounted on their horses / and rode thorou the strete of Camelot", "Saue that the holy Gho\u017ft witne\u017f\u017feth in euery city, \u017faying that bonds and afflictions abide me.", "I will abide the coming of my lord.", "[\u2026] And shalt abide her judgment on it.", "The grand Con\u017fpirator, Abbot of We\u017ftmin\u017fter, / With clog of Con\u017fcience, and \u017fowre Melancholly, / Hath yeelded vp his body to the graue\u202f: / But here is Carlile, liuing to abide / Thy Kingly doome, and \u017fentence of his pride."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026ad/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026ad/", "Rhymes: -a\u026ad"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/En-us-abide.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abiden, from Old English \u0101b\u012bdan (\u201cto abide, wait, remain, delay, remain behind; survive; wait for, await; expect\u201d), from Proto-Germanic *uzb\u012bdan\u0105 (\u201cto expect, tolerate\u201d), equivalent to a- +\u200e bide. Cognate with Scots abyde (\u201cto abide, remain\u201d), Middle High German erb\u012bten (\u201cto await, expect\u201d), Gothic \ud800\udf3f\ud800\udf43\ud800\udf31\ud800\udf34\ud800\udf39\ud800\udf33\ud800\udf30\ud800\udf3d (usbeidan, \u201cto expect, await, have patience\u201d). The sense of pay for is due to influence from aby."}}, {"abided": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abided", "(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of abide"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026ad.\u0259d/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026ad.\u0259d/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abider": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abider (plural abiders)", "(obsolete) One who abides, or continues. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]", "One who dwells or stays; a resident. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Hee sayde, they were the Maisters of warre, and ornaments of peace\u00a0: speedy goers, and strong abiders\u00a0: triumphers both in Camps and Courts.", "But although it had everything 'to content the purse, the heart, the eye', there was a local proverb saying: 'What is best for the Abider is worst for the [Traveler]", "Much spends the traveller more than the abider."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u0251\u026a.d\u025a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abide +\u200e -er"}}, {"abiders": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiders", "plural of abider"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abides": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abides", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abide"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026ads/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026ads/", "Rhymes: -a\u026adz"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abiding": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiding (comparative more abiding, superlative most abiding)", "Continuing or persisting in the same state; lasting; enduring. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["an abiding belief", "a deep and abiding hatred of wealth"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abiding", "present participle of abide"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abiding (plural abidings)", "The action of one who abides; the state of an abider. [First attested from around 1150 to 1350.]", "(obsolete) An abode. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the early 17th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026a.d\u026a\u014b/", "Rhymes: -a\u026ad\u026a\u014b"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abiden (\u201cto abide\u201d) or abide +\u200e -ing.\n"}}, {"abidingly": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abidingly (comparative more abidingly, superlative most abidingly)", "In an abiding manner; permanently. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026a.d\u026a\u014b.li/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/En-us-abidingly.ogg"]}, "etymology": "abiding +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abidingness": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abidingness (uncountable)", "The state or quality abiding. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026a.d\u026a\u014b.n\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From abiding +\u200e -ness"}}, {"abye": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abye (third-person singular simple present abyes, present participle abyeing, simple past and past participle abought)", "Alternative spelling of aby"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026a/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8ba\u026a/", "Rhymes: -a\u026a"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abience": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abience (plural abiences)", "(psychology) Withdrawal from, or avoidance of a stimulus."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["adience"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abient"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA(key): /\u02c8\u00e6b.i.n\u0329ts/, /\u02c8\u00e6b.i.n\u0329s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abient +\u200e -ence"}}, {"abient": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abient (comparative more abient, superlative most abient)", "(psychology) Characterized by avoidance or withdrawal."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["avoidant"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["adient"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA(key): /\u02c8\u00e6b.i.n\u0329t/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abiens present participle of abe\u014d (\u201cto go away\u201d), from ab (\u201cfrom, away\u201d) + e\u014d (\u201cto go\u201d).\n"}}, {"abies": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abies", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aby"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abyes": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abyes", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abye"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abietate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abietate (plural abietates)", "(organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of abietic acid; resinate."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.i.\u0259\u02ccte\u026at/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From abiet (\u201cabietic acid\u201d) + -ate (a chemical compound).\n"}}, {"abietene": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abietene (plural abietenes)", "(organic chemistry) A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana)."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.i.\u0259\u02cctin/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abietic +\u200e -ene\nFrom Latin abies (\u201csilver fir (tree)\u201d).\n"}}, {"abietic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abietic (not comparable)", "Of, pertaining to, or derived from fir trees.", "(organic chemistry) Of or pertaining to abietic acid or its derivatives."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.i\u02c8\u025bt.\u026ak/", "Rhymes: -\u025bt\u026ak"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abies (\u201csilver fir\u201d)  +\u200e -ic (\u201cpertaining to\u201d).\n"}}, {"abietin": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abietin (plural abietins)", "(organic chemistry) A resin obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "See abietene.\n"}}, {"abietinic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abietinic (not comparable)", "Of or pertaining to abietin; as abietinic acid (C19H29COOH)."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abietin +\u200e -ic"}}, {"abietite": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abietite (uncountable)", "(organic chemistry) A substance resembling mannite, found in the needles of the common silver fir of Europe (Abies alba)."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Abies and  +\u200e -ite.\n"}}, {"abigail": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abigail (plural abigails)", "(obsolete) A lady's maid. [mid 17th-19th c.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship\u2019s horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose.", "In the servants\u2019 hall two coachmen and three gentlemen\u2019s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails, I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8a.b\u026a.\u0261e\u026al/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8a.b\u026a.\u0261e\u026al/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From the name Abigail, as given to a waiting-maid in Beaumont and Fletcher's play The Scornful Lady.\n"}}, {"abigails": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abigails", "plural of abigail"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abigailship": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abigailship (uncountable)", "(obsolete) the role or duration of being an abigail, or lady's maid."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abigail +\u200e -ship"}}, {"abigeat": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abigeat (uncountable)", "(archaic) Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(theft of cattle): cattle-rustling"]}], "examples": ["But the driving away of goods, or taking away, and detaining, another mans boat, without violence, by the number of 10 pre\u017fent, is a wrong, unwarrantable, and oppre\u017f\u017five act, and a \u017fort of abigeat and thift, but is not properly a ryot  [\u2026]", "The contracting Republics [...] do hereby agree, reciprocally, to surrender persons [...] having committed [...] any of the following crimes, to wit: homicide, [...] abigeat , [...] and, in general, any crime or offense", "The shepherds of the Golden Age let their flocks out to pasture without fearing the abigeat, they feared only the wild beasts."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abigeatus, from the verb ab ag\u014d (\u201cto drive\u201d)"}}, {"abigei": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abigei", "plural of abigeus"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abigeus": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abigeus (plural abigei)", "(law, Britain, obsolete) A thief who steals livestock in large quantities."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["In the Civil Law, he was accounted an Abigeus who carried off one Horse or one Ox, or four Swine or ten Sheep; if he took a smaller Number of Swine or Sheep, he was reckoned a Fur rather than an Abigeus.", "The stealing of a single horse or ox might make a man an abigeus, but it seems that the crime could not be committed on less than four pigs or ten sheep.", "It is obvious why the thief of only one domestic animal was not treated so severely as an abigeus. The reason for the severe punishment of rustlers, abigei, was the need of a stronger protection for agricultural interest, particularly in countries where these offenses were more frequent."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowing from Latin\n"}}, {"abying": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abying", "present participle of aby", "present participle of abye"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "aby +\u200e -ing"}}, {"abilao": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abilao (plural abilaos)", "Alternative form of abilo."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA(key): /\u02c8\u00e6.b\u0259.\u02ccla\u028a/, /\u02cc\u00e6.b\u0259.\u02c8la\u028a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abiliment": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiliment (plural abiliments)", "Obsolete form of habiliment."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"ability": {"definitions": [{"text": ["ability (countable and uncountable, plural abilities)", "(obsolete) Suitableness. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century.]", "(uncountable) The quality or state of being able; capacity to do or of doing something; having the necessary power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]", "The legal wherewithal to act. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]", "(now limited to  Scotland dialectal) Physical power. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]", "(archaic) Financial ability. [First attested in the early 16th century.]", "(uncountable) A unique power of the mind; a faculty. [First attested in the late 16 th century.]", "(countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude. [First attested in the early 17 th century.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(quality or state of being able): capacity, faculty, capability", "(a skill or competence): See Thesaurus:skill", "(high level of skill or capability): talent, cleverness, dexterity, aptitude", "(suitability or receptiveness to be acted upon): capability, faculty, capacity, aptness, aptitude"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["inability, unability", "disability"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["able"]}], "examples": ["This phone has the ability to have its software upgraded wirelessly.", "This wood has the ability to fight off insects, fungus, and mold for a considerable time.", "Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.", "The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.", "Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study -", "They are persons of ability, who will go far in life.", "She has an uncanny ability to defuse conflict.", "Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren.", "The public men of England, with much of a peculiar kind of ability", "The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month\u2019s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026al.\u0259.ti/, /\u0259\u02c8.b\u026al.\u026a.ti/", "Rhymes: -\u026al\u026ati"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/En-us-ability.ogg"]}, "etymology": "First attested in the 1300s. From Middle English abilite (\u201csuitability, aptitude, ability\u201d), from Middle French habilit\u00e9, from Old French ablet\u00e9, from Latin habilit\u0101s (\u201captness, ability\u201d), from habilis (\u201capt, fit, skillful, able\u201d), equivalent to able +\u200e -ity.\n"}}, {"abilities": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abilities", "plural of ability"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abilla": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abilla (plural abillas)", "(of Latin America) An oily seed, from the South American plant Fevillea trilobata, used to make candles."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8bi.j\u0259/, /\u0259\u02c8bi.\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From American Spanish [Term?].\n"}}, {"abilo": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abilo (plural abilos)", "Bogo; a Philippine fruit tree, Garuga floribunda, from the family Burseraceae."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA(key): /\u02cc\u00e6.bi\u02c8lo\u028a/, /\u02c8\u00e6.bi\u02cclo\u028a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Tagalog abilo (\u201cGaruga abilo\u201d).\n"}}, {"abime": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abime (plural abimes)", "Obsolete form of abysm."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From French abime.\n"}}, {"abintestate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abintestate (not comparable)", "(law) inheriting the estate of someone who died without having made a will"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "ab- +\u200e intestate"}}, {"abiogeneses": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiogeneses", "plural of abiogenesis"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abiogenesis": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural abiogeneses)", "(evolutionary theory) The origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation. [from 1870]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abiogeny", "biopoiesis"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["biogenesis", "transformism"]}], "examples": ["And thus the hypothesis that living matter always arises by the agency of pre-existing living matter, took definite shape;  [\u2026]  It will be necessary for me to refer to this hypothesis so frequently, that, to save circumlocution, I shall call it the hypothesis of Biogenesis; and I shall term the contrary doctrine\u2014that living matter may be produced by not living matter\u2014the hypothesis of Abiogenesis.", "The assertion of [Louis] Pasteur is justified, that the onus probandi [burden of proof] lies with abiogenesists, since there is no experience of any living form more than 1\u20441000 of an inch in diameter springing to life out of inorganic matter; it is therefore vastly improbable , that any form less than 1\u20441000 of an inch in size can be made to spring into life from inorganic matter. While abiogenesis is unproved, we hold to the conclusion that vital force is not the mere outcome or resultant of any or all of the other cosmic forces.", "Life began. There was one abiogenesis when something happened to turn inanimate matter into animate cells. And it happened only once. There are no abiogeneses today. Human life is continuous. Human persons are discontinuous and individual.", "According to [Carl] N\u00e4geli, the highest forms have evolved from the oldest cells produced through abiogenesis, and the lower forms are, depending on their position in the hierarchy, the descendants of respectively more recent abiogenesis.", "Although abiogenesis, the spontaneous creation of a living system under appropriate conditions, must have occurred at the end of the prebiotic world, spontaneous generation of life no longer occurs."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02cce\u026aba\u026a\u0259\u028a\u02c8d\u0292\u025bn\u0259s\u026as/, /-\u02ccba\u026a\u0259-/, /-\u02ccbi\u02d0\u0259-/, /-\u02ccbi\u02d0o\u028a-/, /-n\u026a-/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a\u02ccbaio\u028a\u02c8d\u0292\u025bn\u0259s\u026as/", "Hyphenation: abi\u2027o\u2027ge\u2027ne\u2027sis"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Ancient Greek \u1f00- (a-, \u201cnot-\u201d, the alpha privative) + \u03b2\u1fd0\u0301\u03bf\u03c2 (b\u00edos, \u201clife\u201d) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g\u02b7eyh\u2083- (\u201cto live\u201d)) + \u03b3\u03ad\u03bd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 (g\u00e9nesis, \u201corigin, source; manner of birth; creation\u201d) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *\u01f5\u00e9nh\u2081tis (\u201cbirth; production\u201d)); equivalent to a- +\u200e biogenesis. The words biogenesis and abiogenesis were both coined by English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825\u20131895) in 1870 (see the quotation)."}}, {"abiogenesist": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiogenesist (plural abiogenesists)", "A proponent of abiogenesis."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abiogenesis +\u200e -ist"}}, {"abiogenetic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiogenetic (not comparable)", "(biology) Of or pertaining to abiogenesis, originated by abiogenesis."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bai.o\u028a.d\u0292\u025b\u02c8n\u0259t.\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From New Latin abiogenesis.\n"}}, {"abiogenetical": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiogenetical", "Alternative form of abiogenetic"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bai.o\u028a.\u02c8d\u0292\u025bn.\u0259t.\u0259.k\u0259l/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abiogenetically": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiogenetically (not comparable)", "(biology) In an abiogenetic manner; to have created life without life."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bai.o\u028a\u02c8d\u0292\u025bn.\u0259t.\u0259k.\u0259.li/, /\u02cce\u026a.bai.o\u028a\u02c8d\u0292\u025bn.\u0259t.\u0259k.li/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abiogenetical +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abiogeny": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiogeny (uncountable)", "(biology) abiogenesis."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["biopoiesis"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abiogenist": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiogenist (plural abiogenists)", "(biology) One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent life. [Late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.bai\u02c8\u0251.d\u0292\u025b.n\u0259st/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abiogenesis +\u200e -ist"}}, {"abiogenous": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiogenous (not comparable)", "(biology) Produced by spontaneous generation."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b.i\u02c8\u0251d\u0361\u0292.\u0259.n\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abiogenetic +\u200e -ous"}}, {"abiology": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiology (uncountable)", "The sciences, such as geology and astronomy, that collectively deal with inorganic or lifeless bodies."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "a- +\u200e biology"}}, {"abiological": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiological (not comparable)", "(biology) Pertaining to inanimate things; not produced by organisms. [Mid 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.ba\u026a.\u0259\u02c8l\u0251d\u0292.\u026a.kl\u0329/, /\u02cce\u026a.ba\u026a.\u0259\u02c8l\u0251d\u0292.\u0259.kl\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "a- (\u201cwithout\u201d) +\u200e biological (\u201crelating to life\u201d)"}}, {"abiologically": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiologically (not comparable)", "(biology) In an abiological manner. [Late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["a natural mechanism for abiologically producing some of the needed structural components of life"], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA(key): /\u02cce\u026a.ba\u026a.\u0259\u02c8l\u0251d\u0292.\u026a.k\u0259.li/, /\u02cce\u026a.ba\u026a.\u0259\u02c8l\u0251d\u0292.\u026a.kli/, /\u02cce\u026a.ba\u026a.\u0259\u02c8l\u0251d\u0292.\u0259.k\u0259.li/, /\u02cce\u026a.ba\u026a.\u0259\u02c8l\u0251d\u0292.\u0259.kli/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abiological +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abiosis": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiosis (uncountable)", "The absence of life."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abiotrophy"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /e\u026a.bi\u02c8o\u028a.s\u026as/", "Rhymes: -\u0259\u028as\u026as"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From a-, from Ancient Greek \u1f00- (a-) + bios, from Ancient Greek \u03b2\u03af\u03bf\u03c2 (b\u00edos, \u201clife\u201d) + -\u03c9\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 (-\u014dsis, \u201c(verbal noun ending)\u201d).\n"}}, {"abiotic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiotic (not comparable)", "Nonliving, inanimate, characterised by the absence of life; of inorganic matter. [Mid 20th century.]", "Tending to inhibit or destroy life; antibiotic; incompatible with life. [Mid 20th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.ba\u026a\u02c8\u0251t.\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "First attested in 1874. a- +\u200e biotic, both elements from Ancient Greek.\n"}}, {"abiotically": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiotically (not comparable)", "In an abiotic manner; in the absence of life. [mid 20th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.ba\u026a\u02c8\u0251t.\u026ak.li/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abiotic +\u200e -ally"}}, {"abiotrophy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiotrophy (plural abiotrophies)", "(medicine) Premature degeneration of cells or tissues, especially with genetic causes; loss of function of organ or cell, not due to injury."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02cce\u026a.ba\u026a\u02c8\u0251.t\u0279\u0259.fi/, /\u02cc\u00e6.bi\u02c8\u0251.t\u0279\u0259.fi/", "Hyphenation: a\u2027bi\u2027o\u2027tro\u2027phy"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/En-us-abiotrophy.opus"]}, "etymology": "abio- (\u201cwithout life\u201d) +\u200e -trophy (\u201cdevelopment\u201d)"}}, {"abiotrophic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiotrophic (comparative more abiotrophic, superlative most abiotrophic)", "(medicine) Relating to or involving abiotrophy; relating to or involving the functional loss of an organ or cells not due to an injury."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA(key): /\u02cce\u026a\u02ccba\u026a.\u0259\u02c8t\u0279\u0251.f\u026ak/, /\u02c8e\u026a\u02ccba\u026a.\u0259\u02cct\u0279\u0251.f\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abiotrophy +\u200e -ic"}}, {"abir": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abir (uncountable)", "(India) An aromatic red powder that is used during the Holi festival."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA(key): /\u0259\u02c8b\u026a\u0279/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Hindi \u0905\u092c\u0940\u0930 (ab\u012br).\n"}}, {"abirritant": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abirritant (comparative more abirritant, superlative most abirritant)", "(medicine) Acting to diminish irritation; soothing."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abirritant (plural abirritants)", "(medicine) A medicine that diminishes irritation."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8\u026a\u0279.\u026a.tn\u0329t/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin ab (\u201cfrom\u201d) + irr\u012bt\u014d (\u201cto irritate\u201d).\nab- +\u200e irritant\n"}}, {"abirritate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abirritate (third-person singular simple present abirritates, present participle abirritating, simple past and past participle abirritated)", "(transitive, medicine) To diminish the sensibility of; to debilitate; to soothe."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abirritant"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8\u026a\u0279.\u026a\u02ccte\u026at/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "ab- +\u200e irritate"}}, {"abirritated": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abirritated", "simple past tense and past participle of abirritate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abirritating": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abirritating", "present participle of abirritate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abirritation": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abirritation (plural abirritations)", "(medicine) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; asthenia; atony.", "(medicine) Decreased response to stimuli."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u026a\u0279.\u026a\u02c8te\u026a.\u0283n\u0329/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abirritate +\u200e -ion"}}, {"abirritative": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abirritative (comparative more abirritative, superlative most abirritative)", "(medicine) Characterized by abirritation or debility."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.\u026a\u0279.\u026a\u02c8te\u026a.t\u026av/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abirritate +\u200e -ive"}}, {"abys": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abys", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of aby"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abysm": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abysm (plural abysms)", "(archaic, poetic) Hell; the infernal pit; the great deep; the primal chaos. [First attested between 1150 and 1350.]", "(now  chiefly literary) An abyss; a gulf, a chasm, a very deep hole. [First attested in the late 15th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The abysm of hell.", "Dr. Prunesquallor had circled around Steerpike with his head drawn back so that his cervical vertebrae rested against the near wall of his high collar, and a plumbless abysm yawned between his Adam\u2019s apple and his pearl stud.", "[T]he Shakespearean sonnet doesn't lend itself to a sequential narrative, because the rhymed couplet, without its paired feet trembling at that abysm of time, has to settle instead for the sound of sighing resolution, at regular intervals, over and over, before taking a deep breath and returning usually, for better or worse, to the same subject."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026az.m\u0329/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026az.m\u0329/", "Rhymes: -\u026az\u0259m"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abime, from Old French abisme from Late Latin *abyssimus, a superlative of abyssus (\u201cbottomless pit\u201d), from Ancient Greek \u1f04\u03b2\u03c5\u03c3\u03c3\u03bf\u03c2 (\u00e1bussos). Cognate to French ab\u00eeme. See also abyss."}}, {"abysmal": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abysmal (comparative more abysmal, superlative most abysmal)", "(now rare) Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]", "(figuratively) extremely bad; terrible."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Synonyms: unending, profound, fathomless, immeasurable", "Geology gives one the same abysmal extent of time that astronomy does of space. [First attested in the early 19th century.]", "Robben curled an effort against the foot of the post from the edge of the box after being gifted the ball by an abysmal clearance from keeper Stephan Andersen."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026az.m\u0259l/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026az.m\u0259l/", "Rhymes: -\u026asm\u0259l"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/En-us-abysmal.ogg"]}, "etymology": "abysm +\u200e -al"}}, {"abysmally": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abysmally (comparative more abysmally, superlative most abysmally)", "Very; incredibly; profoundly; to an extreme degree; dreadfully. [First attested in the late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Abysmally ignorant", "Am I alone in feeling smug  about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection? Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for germs but for children's immune systems, too, and paradoxically causes more disease than it prevents. Not round my gaff. Oh no. My standards of housekeeping are so abysmally low that my eldest daughter was three years old before she even developed a temperature."], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026az.ml\u0329.i/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026az.ml\u0329.i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abysmal +\u200e -ly"}}, {"abysms": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abysms", "plural of abysm"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abyss": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abyss (plural abysses)", "Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]", "(frequently figuratively) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space. [First attested in the late 16th century.]", "Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound. [First attested in the late 16th century.]", "Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.", "An impending catastrophic happening.", "(heraldry) The center of an escutcheon."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abysmal"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026as/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026as/, /\u00e6\u02c8b\u026as/, enPR: \u0259-b\u012ds'", "Rhymes: -\u026as"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/En-us-abyss.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abissus, from Late Latin abyssus (\u201ca bottomless gulf\u201d), from Ancient Greek \u1f04\u03b2\u03c5\u03c3\u03c3\u03bf\u03c2 (\u00e1bussos, \u201cbottomless\u201d), from \u1f00- (a-, \u201cnot\u201d) + \u03b2\u03c5\u03c3\u03c3\u03cc\u03c2 (buss\u00f3s, \u201cdeep place\u201d), from \u03b2\u03c5\u03b8\u03cc\u03c2 (buth\u00f3s, \u201cdeep place\u201d)."}}, {"abyssal": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abyssal (not comparable)", "(archaic) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]", "(geography) Of or belonging to the ocean depths, especially below 2000 metres (6500 ft): abyssal zone. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]", "(geology) Pertaining to or occurring at excessive depths in the earth's crust; plutonic. [First attested in the late 19th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026as.l\u0329/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026as.l\u0329/", "Rhymes: -\u026as\u0259l"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "First attested in the 1690s. From Medieval Latin abyssalis, from abyssus (\u201cabyss\u201d) + -alis (\u201c-al\u201d). Equivalent to abyss +\u200e -al.\n"}}, {"abysses": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abysses", "plural of abyss"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abyssolith": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abyssolith (plural abyssoliths)", "(geology) A mass of igneous rock deep in the crust with no known bottom; a large batholith."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["An abyssolith, then, is a mass of rock, generally granite or one of the more basic rocks of this type..."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8b\u026as.\u0259.l\u026a\u03b8/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abyss (\u201cdeep\u201d) +\u200e -lith (\u201cstone\u201d)"}}, {"abyssopelagic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abyssopelagic (not comparable)", "Of or pertaining to the depths of the ocean; of the open waters of the abyssal zone."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02ccb\u026as.o\u028a.p\u0259\u02c8l\u00e6.d\u0361\u0292\u026ak/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6d\u0292\u026ak"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abyss (\u201cabyss\u201d) +\u200e pelagic (\u201copen ocean\u201d)"}}, {"abyssus": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abyssus", "(obsolete) Alternative form of abyss"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Latin abyssus.\n"}}, {"abit": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abit", "Misspelling of a bit."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abiuret": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abiuret (not comparable)", "Not giving the biuret reaction; showing that it does not contain biuret."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8e\u026a.\u02ccbi.j\u0259.\u0279\u025bt/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "a- (\u201cnot\u201d) +\u200e biuret, from bi- (\u201ctwo\u201d) +\u200e uret (\u201curea\u201d)"}}, {"abject": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abject (comparative abjecter or more abject, superlative abjectest or most abject)", "(obsolete) Rejected; cast aside. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the early 17th century.]", "Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]", "Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]", "Showing utter hopelessness, helplessness; showing resignation; wretched. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["beggarly, contemptible, cringing, degraded, groveling, ignoble, mean, mean-spirited, slavish, vile, worthless"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abjectly", "abjectness"]}], "examples": ["So thick bestrown abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.", "Base and abject flatterers.", "An abject liar.", "And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams.", "He sat obediently with that tentative and abject eagerness of a man who has but one pleasure left and whom the world can reach only through one sense, for he was both blind and deaf.", "We shall not always plant while others reap \\ The golden increment of bursting fruit, \\ Not always countenance, abject and mute \\ That lesser men should hold their brothers cheap;"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["abject (plural abjects)", "A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast. [First attested from the late 15th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Shall these abjects, these victims, these outcasts, know any thing of pleasure?", "We are the queen's abjects, and must obey."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(attributive): (US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u0361\u0292\u025bkt/, enPR: '\u0103bj\u0115kt", "(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u025bkt/, enPR: \u0103b\u02b9j\u0115kt", "Rhymes: -\u025bkt"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/En-uk-abject.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abiect (\u201coutcast, wretched\u201d), from Latin abiectus, past participle of abici\u014d (\u201cto throw away, cast off, to reject\u201d), from ab (\u201caway\u201d) + iaci\u014d (\u201cto throw\u201d).\n"}}, {"abjectedness": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjectedness (uncountable)", "(rare) The state of being abjected."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u025bkt.\u0259d.n\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From abjected +\u200e -ness.\n"}}, {"abjection": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjection (countable and uncountable, plural abjections)", "A low or downcast condition; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. [First attested from around (1350 to 1470).]", "(obsolete, chiefly figuratively) Something cast off; garbage. [Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the mid 16th century.]", "(obsolete) The act of bringing down or humbling; casting down. [Attested from the early 16th century until the mid 17th century.]", "(obsolete) The act of casting off; rejection. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 17th century.]", "(biology, mycology) The act of dispersing or casting off spores."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["an abjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever", "\"The abjection of the king and his realm.\""], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u025bk.\u0283n\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English abjeccioun, from either Middle French abjection or Late Latin abjection-, abiecti\u014d, from abjectus (\u201ccast down\u201d).See abject.\n"}}, {"abjections": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjections", "plural of abjection"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abjective": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjective (comparative more abjective, superlative most abjective)", "Tending to make abject."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0361\u0292\u025b.t\u026av/, /\u02cc\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u025b.t\u026av/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abject +\u200e -ive. From Middle English abjecten, from the adjective abject."}}, {"abjectly": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjectly (comparative more abjectly, superlative most abjectly)", "With great shame, desperately; in an abject fashion. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(somewhat) proudly"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abject", "abjection", "abjectness"]}], "examples": ["I abjectly apologise for the damage I have done.", "So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again;"], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /ab\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u025bkt.li/, /\u02c8ab.d\u0361\u0292\u025bkt.li/", "(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u025bkt.li/, /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u025bk.li/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/En-us-abjectly.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/En-au-abjectly.ogg"]}, "etymology": "abject +\u200e -ly. From Middle English.\n"}}, {"abjectness": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjectness (plural abjectnesses)", "The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility. [Late 16th century.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u025bkt.n\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From abject +\u200e -ness"}}, {"abjoint": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjoint (third-person singular simple present abjoints, present participle abjointing, simple past and past participle abjointed)", "(transitive, botany, mycology) To form by cutting off as a protrusion from a parent cell.", "(intransitive, botany, mycology) To separate from the hypha of a fungus by the formation of a septum."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abjunction"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0361\u0292\u0254\u026ant/, /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u0254\u026ant/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "ab- (\u201caway\u201d) +\u200e joint (\u201cjoin\u201d)"}}, {"abjudge": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjudge (third-person singular simple present abjudges, present participle abjudging, simple past and past participle abjudged)", "(transitive, law) To confiscate by judicial decision."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["abjudicate"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b\u02ccd\u0361\u0292\u0259d\u0361\u0292/, /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u028cd\u0361\u0292/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "ab- +\u200e judge, from Latin abjudicare\n"}}, {"abjudged": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjudged", "simple past tense and past participle of abjudge"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abjudging": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjudging", "present participle of abjudge"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abjudicate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjudicate (third-person singular simple present abjudicates, present participle abjudicating, simple past and past participle abjudicated)", "(law) To reject by judicial sentence.", "To abjudge."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["adjudicate"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Latin abi\u016bdic\u0101tus, perfect passive participle of abi\u016bdic\u014d (\u201cdeprive or take away by judicial sentence\u201d), from ab (\u201cfrom, away from\u201d) + i\u016bdic\u014d (\u201cpass judgement; determine, conclude\u201d). See judge, and compare abjudge.\n"}}, {"abjudicated": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjudicated", "simple past tense and past participle of abjudicate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abjudicating": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjudicating", "present participle of abjudicate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abjudication": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjudication (plural abjudications)", "(rare) Rejection by judicial sentence"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abjudicator": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abj\u016bdic\u0101tor", "second-person singular future passive imperative of abj\u016bdic\u014d", "third-person singular future passive imperative of abj\u016bdic\u014d"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abjugate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjugate (third-person singular simple present abjugates, present participle abjugating, simple past and past participle abjugated)", "(obsolete, transitive) To unyoke; set free; uncouple."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["adjugate, subjugate"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["abjugation"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6b.d\u0292\u0259.\u0261e\u026at/", "Hyphenation: ab\u2027ju\u2027gate"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abiug\u0101tus, perfect passive participle of abiug\u014d (\u201cremove, separate from\u201d); from ab- (\u201caway from\u201d) + iug\u014d (\u201cbind, connect\u201d).\n"}}, {"abjunction": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjunction (countable and uncountable, plural abjunctions)", "(mycology, biology) The creation of spores by cutting off portions of the sporophore by the growth of septa; abstriction."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u028c\u014bk.\u0283\u0259n/", "Hyphenation: ab\u2027junc\u2027tion"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "ab- (\u201caway\u201d) +\u200e junction (\u201cto join\u201d)"}}, {"abjunctive": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjunctive (comparative more abjunctive, superlative most abjunctive)", "(rare) Exceptional, isolated, disconnected, separate,"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["It is this power which leads on always from the less perfect, towards the more perfect; \u2014 from the accidental and abjunctive, to the universal\u00a0; or from  [\u2026]", "The therapeutic programs provided include chemotherapy, electroshock, Individual, group and family psychotherapy, abjunctive therapy, medical and nursing", "The authors present their experience concerning 47 patients: 27 were surgical treated with subcutaneous subtotal mastectomy and 18 had an abjunctive liposuction treatment with good results."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin abi\u016bnctus, past participle of abiung\u014d (\u201cremove, separate\u201d); from ab (\u201cof, from, by\u201d) + iung\u014d (\u201cjoin, connect, attach\u201d).\n"}}, {"abjuration": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjuration (countable and uncountable, plural abjurations)", "A solemn recantation or renunciation on oath; as, an abjuration of heresy. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]", "A repudiation on oath of a religious or political principle. [Mid 17th century.]", "The act of abjuring."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cc\u00e6b.d\u0361\u0292\u028a\u02c8\u0279e\u026a.\u0283n\u0329/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.d\u0361\u0292\u0259\u02c8\u0279e\u026a.\u0283n\u0329/, /\u02cc\u00e6b.d\u0361\u0292\u028a\u0279\u02c8\u0279e\u026a.\u0283n\u0329/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "First attested around 1439. From Middle English abjuracioun, from Latin abi\u016br\u0101ti\u014d (\u201cforswearing, abjuration\u201d), from ab (\u201cfrom, away from\u201d) + i\u016br\u014d (\u201cswear or take an oath\u201d), from i\u016bs (\u201claw, right, duty\u201d). Compare French abjuration.\n"}}, {"abjurations": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjurations", "plural of abjuration"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"abjuratory": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjuratory (comparative more abjuratory, superlative most abjuratory)", "Involving abjuration."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0361\u0292\u028a\u0279.\u0259\u02cct\u0254\u0279.i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "abjure +\u200e -atory"}}, {"abjure": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjure (third-person singular simple present abjures, present participle abjuring, simple past and past participle abjured)", "(transitive) to renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]", "(transitive, obsolete, historical) to cause one to renounce or recant. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]", "(transitive) to reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]", "(transitive) to abstain from; to avoid; to shun."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(to renounce upon oath): disavow, forswear, renounce; See also Thesaurus:repudiate or Thesaurus:recant", "(to cause one to renounce or recant):", "(to reject with solemnity): disclaim, repudiate", "(to abstain from): avoid, shun; See also Thesaurus:avoid"]}], "examples": ["adore then the terrestrial influences, and abjure Mahomet.", "To abjure allegiance to a prince.", "To abjure the realm .", "To abjure errors.", "But this rough magic I here abjure [...]"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6b\u02c8d\u0292\u028a\u0279/", "Rhymes: -\u028a\u0259(\u0279)"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/En-us-abjure.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English abjuren, from Latin abi\u016br\u014d (\u201cdeny upon oath\u201d) (possibly via Middle French abjurer), formed from ab (\u201cfrom, away from\u201d) + i\u016bro (\u201cswear or take an oath\u201d), from i\u016bs (\u201claw, right, duty\u201d)."}}, {"abjured": {"definitions": [{"text": ["abjured", "simple past tense and past participle of abjure"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["abjured (comparative more abjured, superlative most abjured)", "Having been renounced, forsworn or rejected."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0259b\u02c8d\u0292\u028a\u0259d/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"elusive": {"definitions": [{"text": ["elusive (comparative more elusive, superlative most elusive)", "Evading capture, comprehension or remembrance.", "Difficult to make precise.", "Rarely seen."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["elude"]}], "examples": ["The elusive criminal was arrested", "A precise definition of diarrhea is elusive ", "Charley chased the elusive idea through all the nooks and crannies of his drowning consciousness.", "While you're sniffing the trunks of the ponderosas to see if they're butterscotch, vanilla, strawberry, or the elusive chocolate variety, watch for Brown Creepers, an elusive variety of bird."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u026a\u02c8lu\u02d0s\u026av/", "(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /i\u02c8lu\u02d0s\u026av/", "Homophone: illusive"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin elusus past participle of eludo (\u201cto parry a blow, to deceive\u201d)"}}, {"hypochondriac": {"definitions": [{"text": ["hypochondriac (comparative more hypochondriac, superlative most hypochondriac)", "Related to, or affected by hypochondria", "Related to, or located in the hypochondrium."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["hypochondriac (plural hypochondriacs)", "A person affected with hypochondria."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["valetudinarian"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02ccha\u026ap\u0259\u028a\u02c8k\u0252nd\u0279i\u00e6k/, /\u02ccha\u026ap\u0259\u02c8k\u0252nd\u0279i\u00e6k/", "(US) IPA: /\u02ccha\u026apo\u028a\u02c8k\u0251\u02d0nd\u0279i\u00e6k/, /\u02ccha\u026ap\u0259\u02c8k\u0251\u02d0nd\u0279i\u00e6k/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/En-us-hypochondriac.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/En-au-hypochondriac.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From French hypocondriaque, from Ancient Greek \u1f51\u03c0\u03bf\u03c7\u03bf\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 (hupokhondriak\u00f3s, \u201cof the region between the ribs and navel\u201d), from \u1f51\u03c0\u03bf\u03c7\u03cc\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 (hupokh\u00f3ndrios, \u201cthe space between the ribs and the navel\u201d), from \u1f51\u03c0\u03cc (hup\u00f3, \u201cbelow\u201d) + \u03c7\u03cc\u03bd\u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 (kh\u00f3ndros, \u201ccartilage\u201d)"}}, {"hypochondria": {"definitions": [{"text": ["hypochondria (uncountable)", "(medicine) A psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.", "(obsolete, medicine) Melancholy; depression"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["hypochondriac", "hypochondriacal", "hypochondriasis", "hypochondrium"]}], "examples": ["Such labours as these, if they do not shorten life, are calculated to make it  wretched, for hypochondria invariably follows close upon them.", "His own temperament appears to have been neither purely sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, nor melancholic [...] not melancholy,  since he is entirely free from hypochondria, thinks rapidly, and has an active will.", "Nux likewise corresponds to hypochondria caused by rich and excessive living.  In general, Nux is the best remedy for hypochondria arising from a morbid  condition of the abdominal nerves\u00a0; after dinner, the patients generally  experience a feeling of malaise and langour."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From New Latin hypochondria (the morbid condition so called, supposed to have its seat in the upper part of the abdomen), from New Latin hypochondrium (see English hypochondrium for more).\n"}}, {"glutton": {"definitions": [{"text": ["glutton (comparative more glutton, superlative most glutton)", "Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days.", "So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorgeThy glutton bosom of the royal Richard?"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["glutton (plural gluttons)", "One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.", "(figuratively) One who consumes voraciously, obsessively, or to excess", "The wolverine, Gulo gulo, of the family Mustelidae, a carnivorous mammal about the size of a large badger, native to the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(voracious eater): see Thesaurus:glutton"]}], "examples": ["Such a glutton would eat until his belly hurts.", "\"Gluttons in murder, wanton to destroy.\"", "Hope is a subtle Glutton / He feeds upon the Fair", "\"A good few indeed, my man,\" replied the captain. \"Yes, you may make away with a deal of money and be neither drunkard nor glutton.\""], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["glutton (third-person singular simple present gluttons, present participle gluttoning, simple past and past participle gluttoned)", "(archaic) To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.", "(obsolete) To glut; to eat voraciously."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Gluttoned at last, return at home to pine.", "In some cities their [local branches] have become gluttoned with success, and in their misguided overzealous ambition they are 'killing the goose that lays the golden egg.'", "Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.", "Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, / Or gluttoning on all, or all away."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8\u0261l\u028ct.n\u0329/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Old French gloton, gluton, from Latin gluto, glutonis. Application of the term to the wolverine was due to the belief that the animal was inordinately voracious, and to the German designation of it as the Vielfra\u00df, which was analyzed as viel (\u201cmuch\u201d) + fressen (\u201ceat\u201d) although it actually derives from Old Norse."}}, {"sensual": {"definitions": [{"text": ["sensual (comparative more sensual, superlative most sensual)", "Inducing pleasurable or erotic sensations.", "Of or pertaining to the physical senses; sensory.", "Provoking or exciting a strong response in the senses."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["sense", "sensible", "sensuous"]}], "examples": ["That massage was a very sensual experience!", "Plato believed that this sensual world in which we live is inferior to the heavenly realm.", "A sharp observer with a pleasing eye for sensual detail, Jaffrey weaves a richly textured story in which she effortlessly mingles quotidian dramas with historic events including the partition of India."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u02c8s\u025bnsju\u02d0\u0259l/, /\u02c8s\u025bn\u0283u\u02d0\u0259l/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8s\u025bn.\u0283u.\u0259l/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Late Latin sensualis (\u201cendowed with feeling, sensual\u201d), from Latin sensus (\u201cfeeling, sense\u201d).\n"}}, {"extravaganza": {"definitions": [{"text": ["extravaganza (plural extravaganzas or extravaganze)", "An extravagant or eccentric piece of music, literature, or drama.", "An instance of fantastical or chaotic behaviour or conduct."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u026ak\u02ccst\u0279\u00e6v.\u0259\u02c8\u0261\u00e6n.z\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "from Italian (e)stravaganza by similarity to extravagant"}}, {"eccentric": {"definitions": [{"text": ["eccentric (comparative more eccentric, superlative most eccentric)", "Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.", "Not perfectly circular; elliptical.", "Having a different center; not concentric.", "(of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently.", "(physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).", "Having different goals or motives."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(not at or in the centre): eccentrical, excentrical", "(not perfectly circular): eccentrical, excentrical", "(having a different centre): eccentrical, excentrical", "(deviating from the norm): eccentrical, excentrical, odd, abnormal", "(against the contraction of a muscle):", "(having different goals or motives): eccentrical, excentrical"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(against the contraction of a muscle): concentric"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["central", "centric", "eccentricity"]}], "examples": ["Strikingly, we see that party births tend systematically to be at policy positions that are significantly more eccentric than those of surviving parties, whatever decision rule these parties use.", "As of 2008, Margaret had the most eccentric orbit of any moon in the solar system, though Nereid's mean eccentricity is greater.", "He was a man of a most eccentric turn of mind, and great singularity of conduct.", "Such is not the case with Mr. Martin Van Butchell, one of the most eccentric characters to be found in the British metropolis, and a gentleman of indisputable science and abilities, but whose strange humors and extraordinary habits, have rather tended to obscure than to display the talents he possessed.", "There can be no doubt that as a matter of fact a religious life, exclusively pursued, does tend to make the person exceptional and eccentric.", "Khedron was the only other person in the city who could be called eccentric\u2014and even his eccentricity had been planned by the designers of Diaspar.", "[\u2026]  for whatsoever affairs pass such a man's hands he crooketh them to his own ends, which must needs be often eccentric to those of his master or state:  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["eccentric (plural eccentrics)", "One who does not behave like others.", "(slang) A kook; a person of bizarre habits or beliefs.", "(geometry) A circle not having the same centre as another.", "(engineering) A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["A tiny, feisty woman who always spoke her mind, Charlotte was an eccentric in the wonderful way that some women from the last century were natural eccentrics.", "Eccentrics live longer, happier, and healthier lives than conformist normal citizens, according to the neuropsychologist David Weeks.", "The position of the eccentrics which is necessary to make the pistons drive the engine forward must be directly the reverse of that which would cause them to drive the engine backwards. To be able, therefore, to reverse the motion of the engine, it would only be necessary to be able to reverse the position of the eccentrics, which may be accomplished by either of two expedients.", "Clavius goes on to use the large number of orbs in Fracostoro's theory as another reason to prefer the Ptolemaic system, then couples this issue with that of the relative capacity of the theories to save the phenomena, then finally reiterates the lack  of conflict between the Aristotelian natural philosophy and the eccentrics and epicycles of mathematical astronomy.", "The discussion that revolved around the admissibility of eccentrics and epicycles lied[sic] at the core of this theoretical discussion, and those who would not allow such concepts took the position that such eccentrics and epicycles would then introduce a center of heaviness, other than the Earth, around which celestial simple objects would then move."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u026ak\u02c8s\u025bnt\u0279\u026ak/", "(US) IPA: /\u025bk\u02c8s\u025bnt\u0279\u026ak/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/En-us-eccentric.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/En-au-eccentric.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle French excentrique, from Medieval Latin excentricus, from Ancient Greek \u1f14\u03ba\u03ba\u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 (\u00e9kkentros, \u201cnot having the earth as the center of an orbit\u201d), from \u1f10\u03ba (ek, \u201cout\u201d) + \u03ba\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd (k\u00e9ntron, \u201cpoint\u201d).\n"}}, {"fortuitous": {"definitions": [{"text": ["fortuitous (comparative more fortuitous, superlative most fortuitous)", "Happening by chance; coincidental or accidental.", "Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.", "(law) Happening independently of human will."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /f\u0254\u02d0\u02c8tju\u02d0\u026at\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin fortu\u012btus.\n"}}, {"hubris": {"definitions": [{"text": ["hubris (countable and uncountable, plural hubrises)", "Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods)."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["One would have thought that even Trump, despite all his hubris and egotism, would know better than to jump feet first into America\u2019s most sensitive issue: racial division."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK, US) IPA: /\u02c8hju\u02d0b\u0279\u026as/, [\u02c8\u00e7ju\u031f\u02d0b\u0279\u02b7\u026as]"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/En-us-hubris.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/En-au-hubris.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Ancient Greek \u1f55\u03b2\u03c1\u03b9\u03c2 (h\u00fabris, \u201cinsolence, sexual outrage\u201d).\n"}}, {"banalities": {"definitions": [{"text": ["banalities", "plural of banality"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"banality": {"definitions": [{"text": ["banality (countable and uncountable, plural banalities)", "(uncountable) The quality of being banal.", "(countable) Something which is banal."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(partial): bathos"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["See Thesaurus:saying", "banal"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["enPR: b\u0259n\u0103l'\u012dti, IPA: /b\u0259\u02c8n\u00e6l\u0268ti/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6l\u0268ti", "enPR: b\u0101n\u0103l'\u012dti, IPA: /be\u026a\u02c8n\u00e6l\u0268ti/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6l\u0268ti"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From French banalit\u00e9, from banal.\n"}}, {"banal": {"definitions": [{"text": ["banal (comparative more banal or banaler, superlative most banal or banalest)", "Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["cliche, clich\u00e9", "corny", "everyday", "hackneyed", "prosaic", "trite", "vapid", "meh"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["new", "original"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["banality", "banalize", "banally"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["enPR: b\u0259-n\u00e4l', IPA: /b\u0259\u02c8n\u0251\u02d0l/", "Rhymes: -\u0251\u02d0l", "enPR: b\u0101n'\u0259l, IPA: /\u02c8be\u026an\u0259l/", "Rhymes: -e\u026an\u0259l", "enPR: b\u0259-n\u0103l', IPA: /b\u0259\u02c8n\u00e6l/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6l"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/En-uk-banal.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from French banal, from Medieval Latin bannalis (\u201cpertaining to compulsory feudal service, applied especially to mills, wells, ovens, etc., used in common by people of the lower classes, upon the command of a feudal superior; hence, common, commonplace\u201d), from bannum (\u201ccommand, proclamation\u201d). See also ban, abandon.\n"}}, {"apparent": {"definitions": [{"text": ["apparent (comparative more apparent, superlative most apparent)", "Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view.", "Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.", "Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(easy to see): visible, distinct, plain, obvious, clear", "(easy to understand): distinct, plain, obvious, clear, certain, evident, manifest, indubitable, notorious, transparent", "(seeming to be the case): illusory, superficial"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(within sight or view): hidden, invisible", "(clear to the understanding): ambiguous, obscure"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["apparition", "appear", "appearance"]}], "examples": ["[\u2026] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o\u2019er the dark her silver mantle threw.", "Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and \u2019tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.", "When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.", "What George Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.", "To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.", "This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.", "Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists\u2019 most-used metric, gross domestic product , is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8p\u00e6.\u0279\u0259nt/", "(US) IPA: /\u0259\u02c8p\u00e6.\u0279\u0259nt/, /\u0259\u02c8p\u025b.\u0279\u0259nt/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/En-us-apparent.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Middle French apparent, Old French aparant, in turn from Latin apparens/-entis, present participle of appareo.\n"}}, {"paranoia": {"definitions": [{"text": ["paranoia (countable and uncountable, plural paranoias)", "A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution, conspiracy and perceived threat against the person, often associated with false accusations and general mistrust of others", "Extreme, irrational distrust of others."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["See: nous#Related terms", "See: para-#Derived terms"]}], "examples": ["Antonym: pronoia"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02ccp\u00e6.\u0279\u0259\u02c8n\u0254\u026a.\u0259/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Ultimately from Ancient Greek \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1 (par\u00e1noia, \u201cmadness\u201d), from \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03bd\u03bf\u03bf\u03c2 (par\u00e1noos, \u201cdemented\u201d), from \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac (par\u00e1, \u201cbeyond, beside\u201d) + \u03bd\u03cc\u03bf\u03c2 (n\u00f3os, \u201cmind, spirit\u201d).\nSurface analysis is para- (\u201cabnormal, beyond\u201d) +\u200e nous (\u201cmind\u201d) +\u200e -ia (\u201c(medical) condition\u201d).\n"}}, {"erroneous": {"definitions": [{"text": ["erroneous (comparative more erroneous, superlative most erroneous)", "Containing an error; inaccurate.", "Derived from an error.", "Mistaken.", "(obsolete) Wandering; erratic.", "(law) Deviating from the requirements of the law, but without a lack of legal authority, thus not illegal."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(containing an error): inaccurate, incorrect, wrong", "(derived from an error): fallacious, false, faulty, flawed", "(mistaken): mistaken, wrong", "(legal: deviating from the requirements of the law):"]}], "examples": ["His answer to the sum was erroneous.", "His conclusion was erroneous, since it was based on a false assumption.", "Her choice at the line-up proved to be erroneous, as she had only seen the mugger for an instant.", "If, while having the power to act, one commits error in the exercise of that power, he acts erroneously."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u026a\u02c8\u0279\u0259\u028a.n\u026a.\u0259s/, /\u025b\u0279\u02c8\u0259\u028a.n\u026a.\u0259s/", "(US) IPA: /\u025b\u0279\u02c8o\u028a.ni.\u0259s/, /\u026a\u02c8\u0279o\u028a.ni.\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Old French and Latin erroneus"}}, {"anecdote": {"definitions": [{"text": ["anecdote (plural anecdotes)", "A short account of a real incident or person, often humorous or interesting.", "An account which supports an argument, but which is not supported by scientific or statistical analysis.", "A previously untold secret account of an incident."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6.n\u026ak.do\u028at/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/En-us-anecdote.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Late 17th c., from French anecdote, from Ancient Greek \u1f00\u03bd\u03ad\u03ba\u03b4\u03bf\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 (an\u00e9kdotos, \u201caccounts unpublished\u201d), from \u1f00\u03bd- (an-, \u201cnot, un-\u201d) + \u1f14\u03ba\u03b4\u03bf\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 (\u00e9kdotos, \u201cpublished\u201d), from \u1f10\u03ba\u03b4\u03af\u03b4\u03c9\u03bc\u03b9 (ekd\u00edd\u014dmi, \u201cI publish\u201d), from \u1f10\u03ba- (ek-, \u201cout\u201d) + \u03b4\u03af\u03b4\u03c9\u03bc\u03b9 (d\u00edd\u014dmi, \u201cI give\u201d).\nVirtually identical cognates in other European languages \u2013 French anecdote, German Anekdote, Spanish an\u00e9cdota, among others.\n"}}, {"criterion": {"definitions": [{"text": ["criterion (plural criteria)", "A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["criterial", "crisis", "critic", "criticize", "critical"]}], "examples": ["Criterion of choice, of decision, of selection", "Congratulations on managing to use the phrase \u201cpreponderant criterion\u201d in a chart . Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /k\u0279a\u026a\u02c8t\u026a\u0259\u0279i.\u0259n/, /k\u0279\u026a\u02c8t\u026a\u0259\u0279i.\u0259n/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/En-us-criterion.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek \u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03ae\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd (krit\u1e17rion, \u201ca test, a means of judging\u201d), from \u03ba\u03c1\u03b9\u03c4\u03ae\u03c2 (krit\u1e17s, \u201ca judge\u201d), from \u03ba\u03c1\u03af\u03bd\u03c9 (kr\u00edn\u014d, \u201cI judge\u201d); see critic.\n"}}, {"hurtle": {"definitions": [{"text": ["hurtle (third-person singular simple present hurtles, present participle hurtling, simple past and past participle hurtled)", "(intransitive) To move rapidly, violently, or without control.", "(intransitive, archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.", "(intransitive, archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.", "(transitive) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.", "(intransitive, archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.", "Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.", "Together hurtled both their steeds.", "The noise of battle hurtled in the air.", "The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.", "He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["hurtle (plural hurtles)", "A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.", "A clattering sound."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.", "Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.", "There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /h\u025c\u02d0tl/", "(US) IPA: /h\u025dtl/", "Rhymes: -\u025c\u02d0(r)t\u0259l"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English hurtlen, hurtelen, equivalent to hurt +\u200e -le.\n"}}, {"whittle": {"definitions": [{"text": ["whittle (plural whittles)", "A knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["A butcher's whittle.", "Rude whittles.", "He wore a Sheffield whittle in his hose."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["whittle (third-person singular simple present whittles, present participle whittling, simple past and past participle whittled)", "(transitive or intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.", "(transitive) To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).", "(transitive, figuratively) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["When men are well whittled, their tongues run at random."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8w\u02b0\u026at\u0259l/", "Rhymes: -\u026at\u0259l"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/En-us-whittle.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English whittel (\u201clarge knife\u201d), an alteration of thwitel, itself from thwiten (\u201cto whittle\u201d), from Old English \u00few\u012btan. Compare Old Norse \u00feveita (\u201cto hurl\u201d)"}}, {"stumble": {"definitions": [{"text": ["stumble (plural stumbles)", "A fall, trip or substantial misstep.", "An error or blunder.", "A clumsy walk."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(a blunder): blooper, blunder, boo-boo, defect, error, fault, faux pas, fluff, gaffe, lapse, mistake, slip, thinko", "See also Thesaurus:error"]}], "examples": ["From the ground, Colombo\u2019s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["stumble (third-person singular simple present stumbles, present participle stumbling, simple past and past participle stumbled)", "(intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.", "(intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.", "(transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.", "(transitive, figuratively) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.", "To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, or against."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["He stumbled up the dark avenue.", "I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for.", "He stumbled over a rock.", "I always stumble over verbs in Spanish.", "False and dazzling fires to stumble men.", "One thing more stumbles me in the very foundation of this hypothesis.", "Ovid stumbled, by some inadvertency, upon Livia in a bath.", "Forth as she waddled in the brake, / A grey goose stumbled on a snake."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8st\u028cmb\u0259l/", "Rhymes: -\u028cmb\u0259l"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/En-us-stumble.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Proto-Germanic *stam- (\u201cto trip up; to stammer, stutter\u201d), thereby related to German stumm (\u201cmute\u201d), Dutch stom (\u201cdumb\u201d). Doublet of stammer.\n"}}, {"schizo": {"definitions": [{"text": ["schizo (plural schizos)", "(slang) Schizophrenic."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02c8sk\u026atso\u028a/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"proclivity": {"definitions": [{"text": ["proclivity (plural proclivities)", "A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["penchant, propensity, see also Thesaurus:predilection"]}], "examples": ["This therefore was the reason why the still comparatively young though dissolute man who now addressed Stephen was spoken of by some with facetious proclivities as Lord John Corley.", "The child has a proclivity for exaggeration."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(weak vowel distinction) IPA: /p\u0279o\u028a\u02c8kl\u026av\u026ati/", "(weak vowel merger) IPA: /p\u0279o\u028a\u02c8kl\u026av\u0259ti/", "Rhymes: -\u026av\u026ati"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/En-us-proclivity.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Latin pr\u014dcl\u012bvit\u0101s, from pro (\u201ctoward\u201d) + cl\u012bvus (\u201ca slope, hill\u201d).\n"}}, {"hostile": {"definitions": [{"text": ["hostile (comparative more hostile, superlative most hostile)", "not friendly, appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure", "Aggressive, antagonistic.", "Of a hostile takeover."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["antagonistic", "hateful", "See also Thesaurus:hostile"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["friendly"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["hostility", "hostilely", "host", "See also Thesaurus:combative"]}], "examples": ["Synonyms: inimical, unfriendly", "a hostile force", "hostile intentions", "a hostile country", "hostile to a sudden change", "Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo as soon as Friday, according to a published report."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["hostile (plural hostiles)", "(chiefly in the plural) An enemy."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8h\u0252sta\u026al/, /\u02c8h\u0252st\u0259l/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8h\u0251st\u0259l/, /\u02c8h\u0251sta\u026al/", "Homophone: hostel (one pronunciation)", "Rhymes: -\u0252st\u0259l"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/En-us-hostile.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Middle French hostile, from Latin host\u012blis, from hostis (\u201cenemy\u201d).\n"}}, {"relentless": {"definitions": [{"text": ["relentless (comparative more relentless, superlative most relentless)", "Unrelenting or unyielding in severity", "Unremitting, steady and persistent"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["In Clintonworld, the reaction to Grassley\u2019s relentless assault on Huma is one of resignation."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0279\u026a\u02c8l\u025bntl\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "relent +\u200e -less"}}, {"relent": {"definitions": [{"text": ["relent (plural relents)", "Stay; stop; delay. (Can we add an example for this sense?)"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["relent (third-person singular simple present relents, present participle relenting, simple past and past participle relented)", "(intransitive) To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion.", "(intransitive) To slacken; to abate.", "(obsolete, transitive) To lessen, make less severe or intense.", "(dated, intransitive) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["He had planned to ground his son for a month, but relented and decided to give him a stern lecture instead.", "I did, I suppose, hope that she might finally relent a little and make some conciliatory response or other.", "Can you, my Lord of Winchester, beholdMy sighs and tears and will not once relent?", "We waited for the storm to relent before we ventured outside.", "He will not relent in his effort to reclaim his victory.", "But nothing might relent her hastie flight; / So deepe the deadly feare of that foule swaine / Was earst impressed in her gentle spright  [\u2026]", "[Salt of tartar] placed in a cellar will  [\u2026]  begin to relent.", "When opening buds salute the welcome day, / And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0279\u026a\u02c8l\u025bnt/", "Rhymes: -\u025bnt"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman relentir, from Latin re- + lentare (\u201cto bend\u201d), from lentus (\u201csoft, pliant, slow\u201d). Earliest recording dates to 1526."}}, {"jittery": {"definitions": [{"text": ["jittery (comparative jitterier, superlative jitteriest)", "nervy, jumpy, on edge", "Having jitter, or unwanted signal characteristics."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start.", "jittery video playback"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u02c8d\u0292\u026at.\u0279i/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8d\u0292\u026at.\u0259.\u0279i/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "jitter +\u200e -y"}}, {"nervy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["nervy (comparative nervier, superlative nerviest)", "(US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.", "(Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.", "(archaic) Strong; sinewy.", "(technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["nervous"]}], "examples": ["Blackpool continue to thrive on the adrenalin rush of the end-of-season shoot-out and are heading for a second Wembley date in two years after negotiating a nervy path past Birmingham.", "And, for those simple times, his garments wereA chieftain-king's: beneath his breast, half bare,Was hung a silver bugle, and betweenHis nervy knees there lay a boar-spear keen  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8n\u025c\u02d0.vi/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8n\u025d.vi/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "nerve +\u200e -y"}}, {"simmer": {"definitions": [{"text": ["simmer (third-person singular simple present simmers, present participle simmering, simple past and past participle simmered)", "(intransitive) To cook or undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point. [from mid 17th c.]", "(transitive) To cause to cook or to cause to undergo heating slowly at or below the boiling point.", "(intransitive, figuratively) To be on the point of breaking out into anger; to be agitated. [from 1760s]", "(intransitive, figuratively) To remain angry with someone or something past the point of exhaustion; to resign oneself to holding a grudge, especially after some failed attempts to resolve a situation."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The soup simmered on the stove.", "Simmer the soup for five minutes, then serve.", "Synonym: coddle", "I tried to get through to him; all that's left for me to do is simmer."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["simmer", "The state or process of simmering. [from early 19th c.]"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The kettle was kept on the simmer."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u02c8s\u026am\u025a/", "(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8s\u026am\u0259/", "Rhymes: -\u026am\u0259(\u0279)"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From alteration of dialectal simper, from Middle English simperen (\u201cto simmer\u201d) [late 15th c.], of possibly imitative origin. First attested in the intransitive sense. The noun is from the verb.\n"}}, {"cuddle": {"definitions": [{"text": ["cuddle (plural cuddles)", "A snuggle; an affectionate embrace, often given to family members and close friends."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["cuddle (third-person singular simple present cuddles, present participle cuddling, simple past and past participle cuddled)", "(intransitive) To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly.", "(transitive) To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.", "To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The young lovers cuddled on the couch.", "She cuddled the infant before bedtime.", "I'm cold; can you roll over here and cuddle me, honey?", "She cuddles low beneath the brake; / Nor would she stay, nor dares she fly."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8k\u028cd.l\u0329/", "Rhymes: -\u028cd\u0259l"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Origin uncertain, but probably from a frequentative form of Middle English *cudden, cuththen, keththen (\u201cto embrace\u201d), a variant of cuthen, kuthen, kithen (\u201cto be familiar with, make known\u201d), from Middle English cuth, couth (\u201cknown, familiar\u201d), equivalent to couth +\u200e -le. Cognate with Middle Dutch kudden (\u201cto come together, flock together\u201d). More at couth.\n"}}, {"snug": {"definitions": [{"text": ["snug (comparative snugger, superlative snuggest)", "Warm and comfortable; cosy.", "Satisfactory.", "Close-fitting.", "Close; concealed; not exposed to notice."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(warm and comfortable): comfy, cosy/cozy, cushy, gem\u00fctlich", "(satisfactory): acceptable, good enough; see also Thesaurus:satisfactory", "(close-fitting): clingy, figure-hugging, form-fitting; see also Thesaurus:close-fitting", "(concealed): covered, tect; see also Thesaurus:hidden"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["snuggle", "snuggly"]}], "examples": ["I felt snug tucked up in my snug bed.", "I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but, in the cool tranquillity of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds.", "I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but, in the cool tranquillity of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men's bonds, and mortgages, and title-deeds.", "Lie snug, and hear what critics say."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["snug (plural snugs)", "(Britain) A small, comfortable back room in a pub.", "(engineering) A lug."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["snug (third-person singular simple present snugs, present participle snugging, simple past and past participle snugged)", "To make secure or snug.", "To snuggle or nestle."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["He snugged his Gun into its tunic holster, checked the scope on his Follower and left the room."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["enPR: sn\u016dg, IPA: /sn\u028c\u0261/", "Rhymes: -\u028c\u0261"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From dialectal English snug (\u201ctight, handsome\u201d), maybe from Proto-Norse *snaggwuz. Compare Icelandic sn\u00f6ggur (\u201csmooth\u201d), Danish sn\u00f6g (\u201cneat\u201d), Swedish snygg.\n"}}, {"sophisticated": {"definitions": [{"text": ["sophisticated (comparative more sophisticated, superlative most sophisticated)", "Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naivet\u00e9; cosmopolitan.", "Elegant, refined.", "Complicated, especially of complex technology.", "Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.", "(obsolete, Britain) Dishonest or misleading.", "(obsolete, Britain) Impure; adulterated."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(having obtained worldly experience): worldly", "(elegant, refined): refined"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(having obtained worldly experience): provincial"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["sophisticate", "sophist", "sophistry", "philosophy"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["sophisticated", "simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "First English usage circa 1601. Medieval Latin sophisticatus.\n"}}, {"refined": {"definitions": [{"text": ["refined", "simple past tense and past participle of refine"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["refined (comparative more refined, superlative most refined)", "Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly:", "Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly:", "Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly:", "(of a market) Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.", "The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.", "In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.", "Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.", "\"Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang.\"", "Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.", "The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Ba'al's portrait they bore highly refined silver."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["refined (plural refineds)", "(finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["We're still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0279i\u02d0fa\u026and/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"flex": {"definitions": [{"text": ["flex (countable and uncountable, plural flexes)", "(uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.", "(countable) The act of flexing.", "(uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.", "(countable, geometry) A point of inflection."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["flex (third-person singular simple present flexes, present participle flexing, simple past and past participle flexed)", "To bend something.", "To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.", "To move part of the body using one's muscles.", "To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.", "(slang, by extension) To flaunt one's superiority."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["He rubbed his hands together. \"Believe it or not, there was a time when I considered giving acting a go. What do you think, Miss Fox?\" He flexed impressive biceps. \"Would I have had a chance against the Schwarzeneggers and the Chuck Norris types?\""], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /fl\u025bks/", "Rhymes: -\u025bks", "Homophone: flecks"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/En-us-flex.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Latin flexus, past participle of flecto (\u201cto bend\u201d).\n"}}, {"pliant": {"definitions": [{"text": ["pliant (comparative more pliant, superlative most pliant)", "Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking", "(figuratively) Easily influenced; tractable."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["pliantly"]}], "examples": ["Whether in its northern or southern home, the black-throated blue warbler builds its nest of bark, roots, and other pliant material, loose and rather bulky, in a variety of saplings, bushes, and weeds, but always a few inches or a few feet from the ground.", "a pliant thread", "pliant wax", "Synonyms: flexible, pliable, lithe, limber, plastic", "I must haue wanton Poets, pleasant wits,", "Musitians, that with touching of a string", "May draw the pliant king which way I please:", "Yet there was pleasant sadness that became", "Meetly the gentle heart and pliant sense,", "In that same idlesse\u2014gazing on that brook", "[The king] had a pliant prime minister and a general who was telling him what he wanted to hear."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["Rhymes: -a\u026a\u0259nt"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Old French ploiant, present participle of ploiier (\u201cto fold\u201d).\n"}}, {"facets": {"definitions": [{"text": ["facets", "plural of facet"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["facets", "Third-person singular simple present indicative form of facet"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"facet": {"definitions": [{"text": ["facet (plural facets)", "Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.", "One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.", "One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.", "(anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.", "(anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.", "(anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion", "(architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column.", "(mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["This facet of the diamond was masterfully cut to enhance its value.", "Synonym: aspect", "The child's learning disability was only one facet of the problems contributing to his delinquency.", "We had just about completed the research facet of the project when the order came to cancel it.", "the articular facet of a bone"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["facet (third-person singular simple present facets, present participle faceting or facetting, simple past and past participle faceted or facetted)", "To cut a facet into a gemstone."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8f\u00e6s\u026at/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6s\u026at"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/En-us-facet.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from French facette.\n"}}, {"otorhinolaryngology": {"definitions": [{"text": ["otorhinolaryngology (uncountable)", "(medicine) Otolaryngology."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(otolaryngology): ear, nose and throat, ENT"]}], "examples": ["Most of our practical knowledge of nasal accessory sinus disease has been acquired within the past two decades and certainly our advance in it during the past decade is greater than in any other branch of otorhinolaryngology.", "Foreign body aspiration may require otorhinolaryngology consultation for rigid bronchoscopy.", "The German inventor Karl Storz  introduced the system into otorhinolaryngology and developed cold light illumination. This marked the beginning of a new era in otorhinolaryngology\u2014the era of endoscopy."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02cc\u0251to\u02cc\u0279ajno\u02ccl\u00e6\u0279\u026a\u014b\u02c8\u0261\u0251l\u0259d\u0292i/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/En-us-ncalif-otorhinolaringology.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From oto- (\u201cear\u201d) +\u200e rhino- (\u201cnose\u201d) +\u200e laryngo- (\u201cthroat\u201d) +\u200e -logy.\n"}}, {"otolaryngology": {"definitions": [{"text": ["otolaryngology (uncountable)", "(medicine) The study of diseases of the ear, nose and throat."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(study of diseases of the ear, nose, and throat): ENT, ear, nose and throat, otorhinolaryngology"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u02cco\u028a.to\u028a.l\u025b\u025a.\u026a\u014b\u02c8\u0261\u0251.l\u0259.d\u0361\u0292i/, /\u02cc\u0251.to\u028a.l\u025b\u025a.\u026a\u014b\u02c8\u0261\u0251.l\u0259.d\u0361\u0292i/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/En-us-ncalif-otolaringology.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From oto- (\u201cear\u201d) +\u200e laryngo- (\u201cthroat\u201d) +\u200e -logy.\n"}}, {"despicable": {"definitions": [{"text": ["despicable (comparative more despicable, superlative most despicable)", "Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["contemptible", "mean", "vile", "See also Thesaurus:despicable"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["honorable"]}], "examples": ["Synonyms: vile, evil"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["despicable (plural despicables)", "A wretched or wicked person."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Robbers assemble other robbers for the purpose of robbery; but Christians gather thieves, bandits, and other despicables for the purpose of spiritual transformation."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /d\u026a\u02c8sp\u026ak\u0259b\u0259l/, /\u02c8d\u025bsp\u026ak\u0259b\u0259l/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "1550s, from Late Latin despicabilis, from Latin d\u0113spicor, a variant of d\u0113spici\u014d (\u201cI despise\u201d), from de (\u201cdown\u201d) + speci\u014d (\u201cI look at, behold\u201d)."}}, {"dire": {"definitions": [{"text": ["dire (comparative direr or more dire, superlative direst or most dire)", "Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.", "Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.", "Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal", "(informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.", "(Can we add an example for this sense?)"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["dire omens", "dire need", "One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. [\u2026] But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.", "dire consequences;\u2003 to be in dire straits", "Synonyms: horrible, terrible, lamentable", "A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8da\u026a\u032f\u0259(\u0279)/", "Rhymes: -a\u026a\u0259(\u0279)"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/En-us-dire.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Latin dirus (\u201cfearful, ominous\u201d).\n"}}, {"furlough": {"definitions": [{"text": ["furlough (countable and uncountable, plural furloughs)", "A leave of absence or vacation.", "The documents authorizing such leave.", "(US) A period of unpaid time off, used by an employer to reduce costs."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["And I had a lot of things on my mind and I pretty well forgot my promise to Mama until I got shipped home on a special furlough for her funeral.", "The state estimates the one-day-a-month furlough spread over the 18 months of the plan would amount to a 5 percent cut in pay."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["furlough (third-person singular simple present furloughs, present participle furloughing, simple past and past participle furloughed)", "(transitive) To grant a furlough to (someone).", "(transitive) To have (an employee) not work in order to reduce costs; to send (someone) on furlough."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["Hyphenation: fur\u2027lough", "(UK) IPA: /\u02c8f\u025c\u02d0(\u0279).l\u0259\u028a/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8f\u025d.lo\u028a/", "Rhymes: -\u025c\u02d0(\u0279)l\u0259\u028a"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/En-us-furlough.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/En-au-furlough.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Dutch verlof (\u201cfurlough\u201d), probably from Middle Low German verl\u014df (\u201cfurlough, permission\u201d), from the verb verl\u014dven (\u201cto allow\u201d). From Middle Low German also German Verlaub, Danish forlov.\n"}}, {"loquacious": {"definitions": [{"text": ["loquacious (comparative more loquacious, superlative most loquacious)", "Talkative; chatty."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["chatty, talkative, garrulous", "See also Thesaurus:talkative"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["laconic, quiet, reserved, taciturn"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["locution", "loquacity"]}], "examples": ["On the other hand, Hetty was moody and silent. She was never loquacious, or if she occasionally became communicative, it was under the influence of some temporary excitement that served to arouse her unsophisticated mind; but, for hours at a time, in the course of this all-important day, she seemed to have absolutely lost the use of her tongue."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /l\u0259\u028a\u02c8kwe\u026a\u0283\u0259s/", "(US) enPR: l\u014d-kw\u0101\u02b9sh\u0259s, IPA: /lo\u028a\u02c8kwe\u026a\u0283\u0259s/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/En-us-loquacious.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from Latin loqu\u0101x (\u201ctalkative\u201d) + -cious.\n"}}, {"patsy": {"definitions": [{"text": ["patsy (plural patsies)", "(informal, derogatory) A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["Rhymes: -\u00e6tsi"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "The term dates back at least to the 1870s in the United States, close to the peak of Irish migration.\nThe OED's recent revisions link Patsy with Pat and Paddy, the stereotype of the bogtrotter just off the boat.\nThe American Heritage Dictionary and Online Etymology Dictionary quotes the OED it may derive from the Italian pazzo (\u201cmadman\u201d), and south Italian dialect paccio (\u201cfool\u201d).\nAnother possibility is the term derives from Patsy Bolivar, a character in an 1880s minstrel skit who was blamed whenever anything went wrong, in Broadway musical comedies, for example in The Errand Boy [1904] and Patsy in Politics [1907].\n"}}, {"brethren": {"definitions": [{"text": ["brethren", "(archaic) plural of brother", "(figuratively) the body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["brethren (comparative more brethren, superlative most brethren)", "Of or akin to; related; like"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The principle still sounds good, but our astronomical knowledge is limited, and we haven't yet discovered any such brethren solar systems."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8b\u0279\u025b\u00f0\u0279\u0259n/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/En-us-brethren.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Early Modern English brethren, plural of brother, from Middle English brethren, from Middle English brethere, brether\n+ -en (plural ending). Ultimately from Old English br\u014d\u00feor, br\u014d\u00feru (\u201cbrothers, brethren\u201d), influenced by Old English br\u0113\u00feer, dative singular of br\u014d\u00feor (\u201cbrother\u201d). Equivalent to brother +\u200e -en\u00a0pl. Compare German Br\u00fcder (\u201cbrothers, brethren\u201d). More at brother. The vowel change (from o to e) is called in English rephonologization or cheshirization, but is more usual in German where it is called umlaut.\n"}}, {"erstwhile": {"definitions": [{"text": ["erstwhile (not comparable)", "Formerly; in the past."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["erewhile"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adverb"}, {"text": ["erstwhile (not comparable)", "(literary, law) Former, previous.", "(proscribed) Respected, honourable."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Synonyms: former, once, previous, quondam, onetime; see also Thesaurus:former", "\u201cScarcely had Alice reached her twentieth birthday, than she gave her erstwhile fianc\u00e9e [sic] his formal cong\u00e9.\u00a0[\u2026]\u201d", "Other erstwhile stalwarts are also wavering. Southampton had two of the best full-backs in the league last season but Ryan Bertrand has been below par this season and C\u00e9dric Soares made an uncharacteristic lapse that led to Stoke\u2019s winning goal in Southampton\u2019s last outing.", "If you're for one of my erstwhile opponents, that's O.K. Just don't work too hard."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u02c8\u025c\u02d0(\u0279)st.wa\u026al/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u025dst.wa\u026al/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "erst (\u201cfirst, formerly\u201d) +\u200e while"}}, {"altruism": {"definitions": [{"text": ["altruism (countable and uncountable, plural altruisms)", "Regard for others, both natural and moral without regard for oneself; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; selflessness; contrasted with egoism or selfishness.", "(biology, sociobiology) Action or behaviour that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(regard for others): philanthropy", "(action benefiting others at cost to oneself): philanthropy"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(regard for others): egoism, misanthropy (hatred of human race), selfishness"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["altruist (agent noun: one who practises altruism)", "altruistic"]}], "examples": ["The preposterous altruism too! [\u2026] Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self\u2014as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.", "Altruism allows doing for others as one would be done by. Unlike reaction formation, which also gives to the object what the self desires, altruism leaves the self at least partly gratified. Unlike reaction formation, altruism tempers asceticism with pleasure. Unlike passive aggression and martyrdom, altruism allows the object to feel blessed and not afflicted. Altruism attracts people to the user; martyrdom repels them even as it holds them close in chains.", "Altruism is a behaviour of an individual that benefits another at its own expense. [\u2026] She decided to investigate what motivates ants to undertake these dangerous missions, where they risk getting trapped themselves or, worse, eaten by predatory antlion larvae, which dig pits and lurk, semi-concealed, at the bottom with their jaws wide open. Such apparently selfless rescue behaviour is seen by many as one of the purest forms of altruism. [\u2026] Being nice to relatives is not pure altruism because they share your genes so, by helping them, you promote your own genetic heritage.9"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "English from 1853. From French altruisme, which was coined in 1830 by Auguste Comte from autrui (\u201cof or to others\u201d) +\u200e -isme, from Old French, from Latin alteri, dative of alter (\u201cother\u201d) (from which also English alter). Apparently inspired by the French Latin legal phrase l'autrui, from le bien, le droit d'autrui (\u201cthe good, the right of the other\u201d). Introduced into English by George Henry Lewes in 1853, in his translation Comte\u2019s Philosophy of the Sciences, 1, xxi.\n"}}, {"hegemonic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["hegemonic (comparative more hegemonic, superlative most hegemonic)", "Of or pertaining to hegemony."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /h\u025bd\u0361\u0292\u026a\u02c8m\u0252n\u026ak/, /h\u025b\u0261\u026a\u02c8m\u0252n\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "hegemony +\u200e -ic"}}, {"hegemony": {"definitions": [{"text": ["hegemony (countable and uncountable, plural hegemonies)", "(formal) Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.", "Dominance of one social group over another, such that the ruling group or hegemon acquires some degree of consent from the subordinate, as opposed to dominance purely by force."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["hegemon", "hegemonic"]}], "examples": ["ie: internationally among nation-states, and regionally over social classes, between languages or even culture.", "eg: The two political parties battled viciously for hegemony."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /h\u026a\u02c8\u0261\u025bm.\u0259.ni/, /h\u026a\u02c8d\u0292\u025bm.\u0259.ni/", "(US) IPA: /h\u0259\u02c8d\u0292\u025bm.\u0259.ni/, /\u02c8h\u025bd\u0292.(\u0259).mo\u028a.ni/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/En-us-hegemony.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Ancient Greek \u1f21\u03b3\u03b5\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03af\u03b1 (h\u0113gemon\u00eda, \u201csupremacy or leadership, chief command\u201d), from \u1f21\u03b3\u03b5\u03bc\u03ce\u03bd (h\u0113gem\u1e53n, \u201ca leader, guide, commander, chief\u201d), from \u1f21\u03b3\u03ad\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 (h\u0113g\u00e9omai, \u201cto lead\u201d).\n"}}, {"collegiate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)", "Of, or relating to a college, or college students.", "Collegial. (Can we add an example for this sense?)"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["collegiate (plural collegiates)", "(in Canada) another name for a high school (e.g. some high schools are called collegiates rather than high schools)", "(obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.", "(obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.", "(slang) An inmate of a prison."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter\u00a0[\u2026]."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /k\u0259\u02c8li\u02d0d\u0292i.\u0259t/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin coll\u0113gi\u0101tus (\u201ccolleague\u201d), from collegium (\u201ccommunity, group\u201d)"}}, {"facade": {"definitions": [{"text": ["facade (plural facades)", "(architecture) The face of a building, especially the front view or elevation.", "(by extension) The face or front (most visible side) of any other thing, such as an organ.", "(figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance; a front."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(face of a building): face, front, frontage", "(deceptive outward appearance): appearance, cover, front, guise, pretence, show"]}, {"relationshipType": "coordinate terms", "words": ["(front of a building): frontage", "(deceptive appearance): See Thesaurus:fake"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["facade pattern"]}], "examples": ["In Egypt the fa\u00e7ades of their rock-cut tombs were [\u2026] ornamented so simply and unobtrusively as rather to belie than to announce their internal magnificence.", "Like so many of the finest churches, [the cathedral of Siena] was furnished with a plain substantial front wall, intended to serve as the backing and support of an ornamental fa\u00e7ade.", "The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth\u2009;\u00a0[\u2026]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate fa\u00e7ade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as \u201cnear-aissance.\u201d", "Eight or so gunmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the gray-white trail before the barn, firing into the saloon's burning, bullet-pocked facade."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General Australian) IPA: /f\u0259\u02c8sa\u02d0d/", "(UK, US) IPA: /f\u0259\u02c8s\u0251\u02d0d/", "Rhymes: -\u0251\u02d0d"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/En-us-facade.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From French fa\u00e7ade, from Italian facciata, a derivation of faccia (\u201cfront\u201d), from Latin facies (\u201cface\u201d); compare face.\n"}}, {"ogle": {"definitions": [{"text": ["ogle (third-person singular simple present ogles, present participle ogling, simple past and past participle ogled)", "(transitive, intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["And ogling all their audience, ere they speak."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}, {"text": ["ogle (plural ogles)", "An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.", "(Polari, usually in the plural) An eye."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Will you take a varder at the cartz on the feely-omi in the naf strides: the one with the bona blue ogles polarying the omi-palone with a vogue on and a cod sheitel.", "Slick, she bamboozles the ogles / of old Lilly Law."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK): enPR: \u014d\u02b9g\u0259l, IPA: /\u02c8\u0259\u028a\u0261\u0259l/ or (nonstandard, perhaps by analogy with goggle) enPR: \u014fg\u02b9\u0259l, IPA: /\u02c8\u0252\u0261\u0259l/", "(US): enPR: \u014d\u02b9g\u0259l, IPA: /\u02c8o\u028a\u0261\u0259l/, /\u02c8\u0251\u0261\u0259l/", "Rhymes: -\u0252\u0261\u0259l, -\u0259\u028a\u0261\u0259l"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle Dutch *ooghelen, oeghelen (\u201cto ogle\u201d), frequentative form of oogen (\u201cto eye\u201d); or from Middle Low German ogelen (\u201cto look at, ogle\u201d), frequentative of ogen, ougen (\u201cto eye, see\u201d), equivalent to og- +\u200e -le. Compare German \u00e4ugeln (\u201cto ogle\u201d). More at eye, -le.\n"}}, {"floccinaucinihilipilification": {"definitions": [{"text": ["floccinaucinihilipilification (uncountable)", "(often humorous) The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["floccinaucinihilipilificate", "floccinaucinihilipilificatory", "floccinaucinihilipilificatious", "floccinaucinihilipilificatiousness"]}], "examples": ["I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money.", "There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.", "Floccinaucinihilipilification in accounting - does it matter?", "They must be taken with an air of contempt, a floccinaucinihilipilification of all that can gratify the outward man.", "Some people with low self-esteem are prone to floccinaucinihilipilification, the habit of deeming everything worthless.", "The quasi statistician would doubtlessly not know how to check this supposition, thus rendering the interpretation of the mean profit as floccinaucinihilipilification.", "Let me indulge in the floccinaucinihilipilification of EU judges and quote from the book of Amos about them."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02ccfl\u0252ks\u026a\u02ccn\u0254\u02d0s\u026a\u02ccna\u026ah\u026al\u026a\u02ccp\u026al\u026af\u026a\u02c8ke\u026a\u0283\u0259n/, /\u02ccfl\u0252ksi\u02ccn\u0252si\u02ccn\u026ah\u026al\u026a\u02ccp\u026al\u026af\u026a\u02c8ke\u026a\u0283\u0259n/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/En-us-floccinaucinihilipilification.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/En-uk-floccinaucinihilipilification.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Latin floccus (\u201ca wisp\u201d) +\u200e naucum (\u201ca trifle\u201d) +\u200e nihilum (\u201cnothing\u201d) +\u200e pilus (\u201ca hair\u201d) + -ficationA jocular coinage, apparently by pupils at Eton College, combining a number of roughly synonymous Latin stems. The word was inspired by a line in the Eton Latin Grammar that gave a rule for certain verbs that take some words irregularly in the genitive case: \u201cFlocci, nauci, nihili, pili, assis, huius, teruncii, his verbis, aestimo, pendo, facio, peculiariter adduntur\u201d. This translates loosely to: \u201cThe words floccus, naucus, nihilum, pilus, assis (\u201cpenny\u201d), hic (\u201cthis\u201d) and teruncius (\u201cfarthing\u201d) are irregularly used with the genitive case with these verbs: aestimo (\u201cto appraise value\u201d), pendo (\u201cto weigh, to pay\u201d), facio (\u201cto make\u201d)\u201d.\n"}}, {"exaggerate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["exaggerate (third-person singular simple present exaggerates, present participle exaggerating, simple past and past participle exaggerated)", "To overstate, to describe more than is fact."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["big up", "overexaggerate", "overstate"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(overstate): belittle, downplay, understate, trivialize"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["exaggeration"]}], "examples": ["I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!", "He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating. The real number is about ten."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u025b\u0261\u02c8z\u00e6.d\u0292\u0259.\u0279e\u026at/, /\u026a\u0261\u02c8z\u00e6.d\u0292\u0259.\u0279e\u026at/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/En-us-exaggerate.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare (\u201cto heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate\u201d), from ex (\u201cout, up\u201d) + aggerare (\u201cto heap up\u201d), from agger (\u201ca pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.\u201d), from aggerere, adgerere (\u201cto bring together\u201d), from ad (\u201cto, toward\u201d) +\u200e gerere (\u201cto carry\u201d).\n"}}, {"optometrist": {"definitions": [{"text": ["optometrist (plural optometrists)", "A person trained and skilled in examining and testing the eyes for defects, in order to prescribe corrective lenses or treatment."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(General American) IPA: /\u0251p\u02c8t\u0251m\u0259t\u0279\u026ast/", "(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u0252p\u02c8t\u0252m\u0259t\u0279\u026ast/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "opto- +\u200e -metry +\u200e -ist"}}, {"nuance": {"definitions": [{"text": ["nuance (countable and uncountable, plural nuances)", "A minor distinction.", "Subtlety or fine detail."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Understanding the basics is easy, but appreciating the nuances takes years.", "...the richer our collections become, the more numerous are the proofs that all is more or less shaded , that the remarkable differences become obliterated...", "It\u2019s a miracle Lindsey Graham has met the concept of nuance. And this is the man who once warned \u201cthe world is literally about to blow up.\u201d So you\u2019re not dealing with someone who likes to dabble with grey areas."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["nuance (third-person singular simple present nuances, present participle nuancing, simple past and past participle nuanced)", "(transitive) To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8nju\u02d0.\u0251\u02d0ns/", "(General American) IPA: /\u02c8nu\u02d0.\u0251\u02d0ns/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/En-us-nuance.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/En-au-nuance.ogg"]}, "etymology": "Borrowed from French nuance (\u201cnuance, shade, hue\u201d).\n"}}, {"adage": {"definitions": [{"text": ["adage (plural adages)", "An old saying which has obtained credit by long use", "An old saying which has been overused or considered a clich\u00e9; a trite maxim"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["proverb, colloquialism, apophthegm", "See also Thesaurus:saying"]}], "examples": ["Like the poor cat i\u2019 th\u2019 adage."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6.d\u026ad\u0292/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Borrowed from French adage, from Latin adagium"}}, {"algedonic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["algedonic (comparative more algedonic, superlative most algedonic)", "Pertaining to both pleasure and pain."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u00e6ld\u0361\u0292\u026a\u02c8d\u0252n\u026ak/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Ancient Greek \u1f04\u03bb\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 (\u00e1lgos, \u201cpain\u201d) + \u1f21\u03b4\u03bf\u03bd\u03ae (h\u0113don\u1e17) \u2018pleasure\u2019.\n"}}, {"clout": {"definitions": [{"text": ["clout (countable and uncountable, plural clouts)", "Influence or effectiveness, especially political.", "(regional, informal) A blow with the hand.", "(baseball, informal) A home run.", "(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.", "(regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.", "(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.", "(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.", "(obsolete) A piece; a fragment."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Having relinquished his clout in City Council to run for a place on the county board, and having lost stature by reason of his failure to win the presidency, Duffy was in no position to seek the party chairmanship for himself", "The chopped mushrooms add depth to both the Waitrose and the Go-Go Vegan recipe, but what gives the latter some real clout on the flavour front is a teaspoon of Marmite.", "It's funny how they judge you when they see you made a change\u00a0/ I poured another four just to take away the pain\u00a0/ My friends weren't my friends, they was lookin' for some clout\u00a0/ I had what they wanted so they always came around", "\u2018Such a clout on the ear as you gave me\u2026 But I soon taught you.\u2019", "'... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'", "A\u2019 must shoot nearer or he\u2019ll ne\u2019er hit the clout.", "When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg\u2019s ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.", "His garment nought but many ragged clouts,\u00a0/ With thornes together pind and patched was,\u00a0/ The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;", "[\u2026]  a clout upon that head", "Where late the diadem stood  [\u2026]", "We condol\u2019d with each other, and observ\u2019d how wretchedly we look\u2019d, all naked, except a small Clout about our Middles  [\u2026]", "The Byzantines, wrote Robert of Clari, hooted and jeered from the battlements, \"and let down their clouts and showed them their backsides.\"", "Clouts were thin and flat pieces of iron, used it appears to strengthen the box of the wheel; perhaps also for nailing on such other parts of the cart as were particularly exposed to wear.", "And whan sche of this bille hath taken heede,\u00a0/ Sche rente it al to cloutes atte laste\u00a0/ And into the privy softely it caste."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)", "To hit, especially with the fist.", "To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.", "To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.", "To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.", "To join or patch clumsily."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in  [\u2026]  clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.", "if fond Bavius vent his clouted song"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /kla\u028at/", "(Canada) IPA: /kl\u028c\u028at/", "Rhymes: -a\u028at"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English clout, from Old English cl\u016bt, from Proto-Germanic *kl\u016btaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (\u201cto ball up, amass\u201d). Cognate with Old Norse kl\u00fatr (\u201ckerchief\u201d) (Swedish klut, Danish klud), Middle High German kl\u014dz (\u201clump\u201d) (German Klo\u00df), dialect Russian \u0433\u043b\u0443\u0434\u0430 (gluda). See also cleat. The sense \"influence, especially political\" originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.\n"}}, {"rad": {"definitions": [{"text": ["rad (comparative radder, superlative raddest)", "(slang) Clipping of radical; excellent"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["rad (plural rads)", "(metrology) A non-SI unit of absorbed dose of radiation, equal to 0.01 gray.", "Abbreviation of radian.", "(automotive, plumbing, slang) Abbreviation of radiator.", "(firearms, slang) Abbreviation of sight radius."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(metrology): rd (abbreviation)"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK, US) IPA: /\u0279\u00e6d/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6d"], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"grotesque": {"definitions": [{"text": ["grotesque (comparative grotesquer, superlative grotesquest)", "distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous", "disgusting or otherwise viscerally reviling.", "(typography) sans serif."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["grotesque (countable and uncountable, plural grotesques)", "A style of ornamentation characterized by fanciful combinations of intertwined forms.", "Anything grotesque.", "(typography) A sans serif typeface."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["He\u2019s also the new character from Sacha Baron Cohen, the man behind Ali G, Borat and Br\u00fcno: that unholy trinity of comic grotesques that told us a lot more about ourselves than we\u2019d like to admit."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u0261\u0279\u0259\u028a\u02c8t\u025bsk/", "(US) IPA: /\u0261\u0279o\u028a\u02c8t\u025bsk/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/En-us-grotesque.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/En-au-grotesque.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle French grotesque (French grotesque), from Italian grottesco (\u201cof a cave\u201d), from grotta. Compare English grotto.\n"}}, {"ominous": {"definitions": [{"text": ["ominous (comparative more ominous, superlative most ominous)", "Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant.", "Specifically, giving indication of a coming ill; being an evil omen"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["portentous", "threatening"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["omen"]}], "examples": ["Synonyms: threatening, portentous, inauspicious", "The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt  is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it\u2019s really the Shopkeeper\u2019s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u0252m\u026an\u0259s/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Latin ominosus (\u201cfull of foreboding\u201d), from omen (\u201cforbidden fruit, omen\u201d), from os (\u201cthe mouth\u201d) + -men.\n"}}, {"foreboding": {"definitions": [{"text": ["foreboding (plural forebodings)", "A sense of evil to come.", "An evil omen."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["augury"]}], "examples": ["A sense of foreboding, the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["foreboding (comparative more foreboding, superlative most foreboding)", "Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["foreboding", "present participle of forebode"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- +\u200e boding.\n"}}, {"offing": {"definitions": [{"text": ["offing (plural offings)", "(nautical) The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground.", "(nautical) The distance that a ship at sea keeps away from land, often because of navigational dangers, fog and other hazards; a position at a distance from shore.", "(figuratively) The foreseeable future. Chiefly in the phrase in the offing."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "coordinate terms", "words": ["(nautical range of sight): ken"]}], "examples": ["I came to an Anchor in seven fathomes water in the offing to Sea.", "I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called The Island of Despair; all the rest of the ship's company being drowned, and myself almost dead.", "That's the Grampus's crew. I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship.", "In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint  [\u2026]", "[\u2026]  I saw the land run out a great length into the sea, at about the distance of four or five leagues before me; and the sea being very calm, I kept a large offing to make this point.", "However, what with the help of this Ebb, and our Boats, we by Noon had got an Offing of 1 1/2 or 2 Miles, yet we could hardly flatter ourselves with hopes of getting Clear  [\u2026]", "We beat off shore during the whole of the night, when the weather moderated, and at daybreak we found out that we had not gained much offing, in consequence of the current  [\u2026]"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["offing", "present participle of off"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u02c8\u0252f\u026a\u014b/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8\u0254f\u026a\u014b/, /\u02c8\u0251f\u026a\u014b/(This entry needs audio files. If you have a microphone, please record some and upload them. (For audio required quickly, visit WT:APR.))Rhymes: -\u0254f\u026a\u014b, -\u0251f\u026a\u014b"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/En-uk-offing.ogg"]}, "etymology": "off +\u200e ing. Attested since the 1620s. Early texts also spell the term offin and offen.\n"}}, {"spazzing": {"definitions": [{"text": ["spazzing", "present participle of spaz"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"spaz": {"definitions": [{"text": ["spaz (plural spazzes)", "(slang, derogatory, offensive  in  Britain) A stupid or incompetent person.", "(slang, derogatory, offensive  in  Britain) A hyperactive person.", "(slang, derogatory, offensive  in  Britain) A tantrum, a fit."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["spack", "spastic"]}], "examples": ["\u201cI was so in control from tee to green, the best I\u2019ve played for years\u2026 But as soon as I got on the green I was a spaz.\u201d"], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["spaz (third-person singular simple present spazzes, present participle spazzing, simple past and past participle spazzed)", "(slang, derogatory, offensive) To have a tantrum or fit.", "(slang) To malfunction, go on the fritz."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(have a tantrum): freak out"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /sp\u00e6z/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From spastic.\n"}}, {"immaculate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["immaculate (comparative more immaculate, superlative most immaculate)", "Having no stain or blemish; spotless, undefiled, clear, pure."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["perfect", "spotless", "undefiled", "unsullied"]}], "examples": ["Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. \u2014 Sir John Denham", "Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. \u2014 Shakespeare, Richard II, V-iii."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u026a\u02c8m\u00e6kj\u0259l\u026at/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English immaculat, from Latin immacul\u0101tus; prefix im- (\u201cnot\u201d) + macul\u0101tus, perfect passive participle of macul\u014d (\u201cI spot, stain\u201d), from macula (\u201cspot\u201d). See mail (armor).\nDisplaced native unwemmed (\u201cpure, untainted\u201d).\n"}}, {"metastisizing": {"definitions": [{"text": ["metastisizing", "present participle of metastisize"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"metastisize": {"definitions": [{"text": ["metastisize (third-person singular simple present metastisizes, present participle metastisizing, simple past and past participle metastisized)", "Misspelling of metastasize."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"metastasize": {"definitions": [{"text": ["metastasize (third-person singular simple present metastasizes, present participle metastasizing, simple past and past participle metastasized)", "(medicine, of a disease or tumour) To spread to other sites in the body; to undergo metastasis."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["On other screens are closeups of skin pores, before and after, details of regimes for everything, your hands, your neck, your thighs. Your elbows, especially your elbows: aging begins at the elbows and metastasizes.", "\u2018Your lump could be a secondary cancer metastasized from the bowel. I had a patient like that not long ago.\u2019"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /m\u026a\u02c8t\u00e6st\u0259s\u028c\u026az/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From metastasis +\u200e -ize.\n"}}, {"rejuvenate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["rejuvenate (third-person singular simple present rejuvenates, present participle rejuvenating, simple past and past participle rejuvenated)", "To render young again."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["rejuvenation"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "re- (\u201cagain\u201d) +\u200e Latin iuvenis (\u201cyoung\u201d)  +\u200e -ate"}}, {"espionage": {"definitions": [{"text": ["espionage (countable and uncountable, plural espionages)", "The act or process of learning secret information through clandestine means."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["spying"]}, {"relationshipType": "coordinate terms", "words": ["reconnaissance", "undercover"]}], "examples": ["What a freak show! I mean, how often do you meet a wrestling librarian?Yeah, about as often as you meet a high schoolgirl involved in international espionage\u2026 Okay, bad example."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8\u025bs.pi.\u0259.n\u0251\u02d0\u0292/", "enPR: '\u0115s-p\u0113-\u016d-n\u00e4zh", "(Canada) enPR: -n\u0103zh, -nizh"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Recorded since 1793, borrowed from French espionnage, from Middle French espionner (\u201cto spy\u201d), from Old French espion (\u201cspy\u201d), itself probably from a Germanic source (akin to Old High German spehon (\u201cspy\u201d)), possibly via Italian spione (from spia). More at spy.\n"}}, {"catharsis": {"definitions": [{"text": ["catharsis (countable and uncountable, plural catharses)", "(drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).", "Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.", "A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.", "(psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by re-establishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).", "(medicine) Purging of the digestive system."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["cathartic"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /k\u0259\u02c8\u03b8\u0251\u02d0s\u026as/", "(US) IPA: /k\u0259\u02c8\u03b8\u0251\u02d0\u0279\u02ccs\u026as/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-us-catharsis.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Ancient Greek \u03ba\u03ac\u03b8\u03b1\u03c1\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 (k\u00e1tharsis, \u201ccleansing, purging\u201d), from \u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u03b1\u03af\u03c1\u03c9 (katha\u00edr\u014d, \u201cI cleanse\u201d). Coined in the dramatic-emotional sense by Aristotle.\n"}}, {"reconciliation": {"definitions": [{"text": ["reconciliation (countable and uncountable, plural reconciliations)", "The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement.", "(theology) The end of estrangement between a human and God as a result of the process of atonement.", "A Roman Catholic sacrament involving contrition, confession, punishment and absolution; penance.", "(accounting) Process of matching, comparing and  agreeing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement, including list of explainable differences."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["saught"]}], "examples": ["He longed for reconciliation with his estranged father, but too many painful memories kept him from making contact again."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02cc\u0279\u025bk\u0259n\u02ccs\u026al\u026a\u02c8e\u026a\u0283\u0259n/, /\u02cc\u0279\u025bk\u0259n\u02ccs\u026ali\u02c8e\u026a\u0283\u0259n/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Old French, from Latin reconciliatio (\u201ca re-establishing, reinstatement, restoration, renewal, a reconciling, reconciliation\u201d), from reconciliare"}}, {"yearn": {"definitions": [{"text": ["yearn (third-person singular simple present yearns, present participle yearning, simple past and past participle yearned)", "(intransitive) To long, have a strong desire (for something).", "(intransitive) To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically.", "(intransitive, dated) To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone).", "(intransitive, obsolete) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.", "(transitive, obsolete) To pain; to grieve; to vex."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["All I yearn for is a simple life.", "What his soul yearned after was control of his father\u2019s newly purchased sailing-ships.", "And Jim supported his twitching body by holding on to the sink, the while he yearned toward the yellowish concoction that stood for life.", "\u201c [\u2026]  Anne, please tell me over again that you like me a little bit. I yearn to hear it.\u201d", "[\u2026]  all that night his body yearned for Alec\u2019s, despite him.", "If I don\u2019t go now, thought Charlotte, I shall have lost a chance which I shall eternally regret and yearn after.", "Having shaken the dust of the ugly new South Africa from his feet, is he yearning for the South Africa of the old days, when Eden was still possible?", "And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.", "Oh, it was a pretty sight to see this modest young creature, little more than a child herself, anticipating maternity, but blushing every now and then, and looking askant at her lord and master. How his very bowels yearned over her!", "[\u2026]  Mr. Ratcliffe\u2019s heart yearned toward the charming girl quite with the sensations of a father, or even of an elder brother.", "But supper had cheered Tant Sannie, who found it impossible longer to maintain that decorous silence, and whose heart yearned over the youth.", "[\u2026]  Falstaff he is dead,", "And we must yearn therefore.", "My father\u2019s and my uncle Toby\u2019s hearts yearn\u2019d with sympathy for the poor fellow\u2019s distress  [\u2026]", "It yearns me not if men my garments wear;", "Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.", "When the badger finds that the terriers yearn him in his burrow, he will stop the hole between him and the terriers  [\u2026]", "Wants to sneeze and cannot do it!", "Now it yearns me, thrills me, stings me,", "Now with rapturous torment wrings me,", "Now says \u201cSneeze, you fool; get through it.\u201d"], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /j\u025c\u02d0n/", "(General American) IPA: /j\u025dn/", "enPR: y\u00fbrn", "Rhymes: -\u025c\u02d0(r)n"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/En-us-yearn.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Old English giernan, from Proto-Germanic *girnijan\u0105.\n"}}, {"animosity": {"definitions": [{"text": ["animosity (countable and uncountable, plural animosities)", "Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["enmity", "hatred", "opposition", "acrimony"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["peace"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["animose", "unanimosity"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(US) IPA: /\u00e6n.\u0259\u02c8m\u0251s.\u026a.ti/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From French animosit\u00e9, from Latin animositas (\u201ccourage, spirit, vehemence\u201d), from animosus, from animus (\u201ccourage, spirit, mind\u201d); see animose, animate, transitive verb\n"}}, {"adjacency": {"definitions": [{"text": ["adjacency (countable and uncountable, plural adjacencies)", "The quality of being adjacent, or near enough so as to touch."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["at that point the Needle conforms unto the true Meridian, and is not distracted by the vicinity of Adjacencies.", "\u201cWith the adjacencies for victims whose families wish them to be listed together, [\u2026] , this is an approach that I hope will be acceptable to the great majority of the families affected,\u201d he said afterward."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"incestuous": {"definitions": [{"text": ["incestuous (comparative more incestuous, superlative most incestuous)", "Pertaining to or engaging in incest.", "Characterized by mutual relationships that are intimate and exclusive to the detriment of outsiders."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["incestual"]}], "examples": ["If you engaged in an incestuous relationship with a family member, that would make you an inbreeder."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "incest +\u200e -ous"}}, {"cognizant": {"definitions": [{"text": ["cognizant (comparative more cognizant, superlative most cognizant)", "Aware; fully informed; having understanding of a fact"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["unwitting"]}], "examples": ["The defendant is cognizant that this is a serious charge.", "And now the memory has so far regained its dominion, that, in some measure, I am cognizant of my state."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["enPR: 'k\u014fgn\u01d0z\u0259nt, 'k\u014fn\u012d\u0259z\u0259nt, IPA: /\u02c8k\u0252\u0261n\u026az\u0259nt/, /\u02c8k\u0252n\u026az\u0259nt/", "Hyphenation: cog\u2027ni\u2027zant"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "cognizance +\u200e -ant, or from Old French conoissant, present participle of conoistre (\u201cknow\u201d), under the influence of its Latin etymon cogn\u014dscentem, accusative singular present participle of c\u014dgn\u014dsc\u014d (\u201clearn, be acquainted with\u201d).\n"}}, {"legitimate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["legitimate (comparative more legitimate, superlative most legitimate)", "In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.", "Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.", "Authentic, real, genuine.", "Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple. [from mid-14th century]", "Relating to hereditary rights."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["lawful, legal, rightful"]}, {"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["illegitimate, false"]}], "examples": ["Rodwell was sent off by referee Martin Atkinson - who has shown 15 red cards since the start of last season - after 23 minutes for what appeared to be a legitimate challenge on Suarez.", "legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method", "Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic.", "legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["legitimate (plural legitimates)", "A person born to a legally married couple."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["bastard", "illegitimate"]}], "examples": ["But should a \u201choly alliance of legitimates\u201d extinguish it, it will be but for a season.", "This extraordinarily mixed family of legitimates and illegitimates seems to have maintained a certain kind of harmony.", "His overweening pride received another shock through his new friends the legitimates."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["legitimate (third-person singular simple present legitimates, present participle legitimating, simple past and past participle legitimated)", "(transitive) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means. [from 1590]"], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["legitimize"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(adjective, noun) IPA: /l\u026a\u02c8d\u0292\u026at\u026am\u0259t/, /l\u0259\u02c8d\u0292\u026at\u026am\u0259t/", "(verb) IPA: /l\u0259\u02c8d\u0292\u026at\u026ame\u026at/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "From Middle English legitimat, legytymat, from Medieval Latin l\u0113gitimatus, perfect passive participle of Latin l\u0113gitim\u014d (\u201cmake legal\u201d), from Latin l\u0113gitimus (\u201clawful\u201d), originally \"fixed by law, in line with the law,\" from Latin l\u0113x (\u201claw\u201d). Originally \"lawfully begotten\".\nThe verb was derived from the adjective by conversion.\n"}}, {"stalemate": {"definitions": [{"text": ["stalemate (plural stalemates)", "(chess) The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw.", "Any situation that has no obvious possible movement, but does not involve any personal loss."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["checkmate", "mate", "stale"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["stalemate (third-person singular simple present stalemates, present participle stalemating, simple past and past participle stalemated)", "(chess, transitive) To bring about a state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves.", "(transitive, figuratively) To bring about a stalemate, in which no advance in an argument is achieved."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["The North Korean nuclear issue, stalemated for the past three years, is now back in play again - not before time."], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "stale +\u200e mate"}}, {"sinister": {"definitions": [{"text": ["sinister (comparative more sinister, superlative most sinister)", "Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).", "Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.", "Of the left side.", "(heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.", "(obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "antonyms", "words": ["(of the right side): dexter", "(heraldry): dexter"]}], "examples": ["All the several ills that visit earth, / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.", "And in the meanwhile, Society shivered a little feverishly, filled now with the scions of those who had come over with the Jewish and American Conquests. Escutcheons were becoming valueless, how sinister soever the blots and clots upon them.", "sinister influences", "the sinister atmosphere of the crypt", "Here on his sinister cheek.", "My mother's blood / Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister / Bounds in my father's.", "Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, \u2018J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.\u2019", "Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.", "He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.", "He read in their looks  [\u2026]  sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8s\u026an\u026ast\u0259/", "(US) IPA: /\u02c8s\u026an\u026ast\u025a/", "Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden."], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/En-us-sinister.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/En-au-sinister.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Middle English sinistre (\u201cunlucky\u201d), from Old French sinistra (\u201cleft\u201d), from Latin sinestra (\u201cleft hand\u201d).\n"}}, {"castration": {"definitions": [{"text": ["castration (countable and uncountable, plural castrations)", "The act of removing the testicles.", "(figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["castrate", "castrati"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /k\u00e6\u02c8st\u0279e\u026a\u0283\u0259n/", "Rhymes: -e\u026a\u0283\u0259n"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "castrate +\u200e -ion"}}, {"jammies": {"definitions": [{"text": ["jammies", "plural of jammy"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["jammies\u00a0pl (plural only)", "(slang) pajamas/pyjamas"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["I was just in my pajamas and slippers, and I blushed because she was looking at me. Then she whispered, \"Take off your jammies, and love me up good, Arlene. Please, I want you to.\"", "GUY: I've always worn jammies. Don't think I'd feel right without 'em.  SAM [Tosses pajamas to Guy L.]: Then you wear them."], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": ""}}, {"jaunty": {"definitions": [{"text": ["jaunty (comparative jauntier, superlative jauntiest)", "Airy; showy; finical.", "(by extension) Characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.", "Dapper or stylish.", "Ostentatiously self-confident."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.", "He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["jaunty (plural jaunties)", "(nautical) A master-at-arms onboard a Royal Navy ship"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u02c8d\u0292\u0254\u02d0n.ti/", "(some accents) IPA: /\u02c8d\u0292\u0251\u02d0n.ti/"], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Formerly spelt janty, from French gentil. See gentle, and compare genty.\n"}}, {"condescending": {"definitions": [{"text": ["condescending (comparative more condescending, superlative most condescending)", "Assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(assuming a tone of superiority): patronizing"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["condescendence", "condescension"]}], "examples": ["Quit talking to me in that condescending tone! You always treat me like a child!"], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}, {"text": ["condescending", "present participle of condescend"], "relatedWords": [], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(UK) IPA: /\u02c8k\u0254n.d\u026a.s\u025bnd.\u026a\u014b/, /\u02c8k\u0254n\u02ccdi.s\u025bnd.\u026a\u014b/", "(US) IPA: /\u02cck\u0251nd\u0259\u02c8s\u025bnd\u026a\u014b/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/En-us-condescending.ogg"]}, "etymology": ""}}, {"pedantic": {"definitions": [{"text": ["pedantic (comparative more pedantic, superlative most pedantic)", "Like a pedant, overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.", "Being showy of one\u2019s knowledge, often in a boring manner.", "Being finicky or fastidious, especially with language."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(like a pedant): (informal, derogatory) anal-retentive, fussy, nit-picky", "(knowledge-peacock): (sometimes applicable) nit-picky, ostentatious, pedagogical, pretentious", "(linguistically affected): fussy, nit-picky, inkhorn", "See also Thesaurus:fastidious"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["pedant", "pedantry"]}], "examples": [], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["enPR: pa-d\u0103n't\u012dk, IPA: /p\u0259\u02c8d\u00e6n.t\u026ak/", "Rhymes: -\u00e6nt\u026ak"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/En-us-pedantic.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/En-au-pedantic.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From pedant +\u200e -ic.\n"}}, {"promiscuous": {"definitions": [{"text": ["promiscuous (comparative more promiscuous, superlative most promiscuous)", "Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.", "Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.", "(derogatory) Indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners, or having many sexual partners.", "(networking) The mode in which a NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["See also Thesaurus:promiscuous man", "See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman", "(made up of various disparate elements): motley"]}], "examples": ["Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.", "they had both been educated  [\u2026]  on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition."], "partOfSpeech": "adjective"}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /p\u0279\u0259\u02c8m\u026askju\u02d0\u0259s/"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/En-au-promiscuous.ogg"]}, "etymology": "From Latin pr\u014dmiscuus (\u201cmixed, not separated\u201d), from pr\u014d (\u201cforth\u201d) + misce\u014d (\u201cmix\u201d).\n"}}, {"nympho": {"definitions": [{"text": ["nympho (plural nymphos)", "(informal) Clipping of nymphomaniac."], "examples": [], "relatedWords": [], "partOfSpeech": "noun"}, {"text": ["nympho (third-person singular simple present nymphoes, present participle nymphoing, simple past and past participle nymphoed)", "To become obsessed about sex."], "examples": [], "relatedWords": [], "partOfSpeech": "verb"}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}, "etymology": "Shortening.\n"}}, {"obstrusive": {"etymology": "", "definitions": [{"partOfSpeech": "adjective", "text": ["obstrusive", "Misspelling of obtrusive."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": []}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}}}, {"obtrusive": {"etymology": "Latin obtr\u016bsus + -ive. See obtrude", "definitions": [{"partOfSpeech": "adjective", "text": ["obtrusive (comparative more obtrusive, superlative most obtrusive)", "Sticking out; protruding.", "Noticeable; prominent, especially in a displeasing way.", "Pushy."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["(sticking out): bulging, jutting", "(pushy): impertinent, intrusive"]}, {"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["Russian: \u0432\u044b\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u0430\u044e\u0449\u0438\u0439\u00a0(ru) (vystupaju\u0161\u010dij), \u0432\u044b\u0434\u0430\u044e\u0301\u0449\u0438\u0439\u0441\u044f\u00a0(ru) (vydaj\u00fa\u0161\u010dijsja)", "Spanish: protuberante, sobresaliente\u00a0(es)"]}], "examples": ["The facade of the building was ornamented with obtrusive sculpted designs.", "He has an obtrusive forehead.", "The office manager is an unpleasantly obtrusive individual."]}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /\u0259b\u02c8t\u0279u\u02d0s\u026av/", "Hyphenation: ob\u2027tru\u2027sive"], "audio": []}}}, {"unobtrusive": {"etymology": "un- +\u200e obtrusive", "definitions": [{"partOfSpeech": "adjective", "text": ["unobtrusive (comparative more unobtrusive, superlative most unobtrusive)", "Not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire."]}], "pronunciations": {"text": [], "audio": []}}}, {"define": {"etymology": "From Middle English definen, from Old French definer, variant of definir, from Latin d\u0113f\u012bni\u014d (\u201climit, settle, define\u201d), from d\u0113 + f\u012bni\u014d (\u201cset a limit, bound, end\u201d)", "definitions": [{"partOfSpeech": "verb", "text": ["define (third-person singular simple present defines, present participle defining, simple past and past participle defined)", "To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.", "(obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.) [16th-17th c.]", "To express the essential nature of something.", "To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.", "To describe, explain, or make definite and clear.", "To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.", "(mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "related terms", "words": ["definiendum", "definiens", "definition", "definitory"]}], "examples": ["Rings [\u2026] very distinct and well defined.", "Turbines have been around for a long time\u2014windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.", "the defining power of an optical instrument", "These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define.", "Cantor defined a one-to-one correspondence between the points of the square and the points of the line segment. Every point in the square was associated with a single point in the segment; every point in the segment was matched with a unique point in the square.", "I define myself as a techno-anarchist.", "The textbook defined speed as velocity divided by time.", "Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations\u2014culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?", "to define the legal boundaries of a property"]}, {"partOfSpeech": "noun", "text": ["define (plural defines)", "(programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs."], "relatedWords": [], "examples": ["From the computer programming perspective, Java looks like C and C++ while discarding the overwhelming complexities of those languages, such as typedefs, defines, preprocessor, unions, pointers, and multiple inheritance.", "Anyone who has attempted to do OO programming in a conventional language using defines will find out that it is impossible to realize the benefits easily, if at all, without compiler support."]}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["IPA: /d\u026a\u02c8fa\u026an/", "Rhymes: -a\u026an"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/En-us-define.ogg"]}}}, {"atom": {"etymology": "From Middle French athome, from Latin atomus (\u201csmallest particle\u201d), from Ancient Greek \u1f04\u03c4\u03bf\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 (\u00e1tomos, \u201cindivisible\u201d), from \u1f00- (a-, \u201cnot\u201d) +\u200e \u03c4\u03ad\u03bc\u03bd\u03c9 (t\u00e9mn\u014d, \u201cI cut\u201d).\n", "definitions": [{"partOfSpeech": "noun", "text": ["atom (plural atoms)", "(chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. [from 16th c.]", "(history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter. [from 15th c.]", "(now generally regarded  figuratively) The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something. [from 17th c.]", "(now  historical) The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second. [from 10th c.]", "A mote of dust in a sunbeam. [from 16th c.]", "A very small amount; a whit. [from 17th c.]", "(computing, programming, Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value. [from 20th c.]", "(mathematics, algebra) A non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements. Or, a non-zero member of a Boolean lattice that has only zero below it. [from 20th c.]", "(mathematics, set theory) An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement. [from 20th c.]", "(usually capitalised as \"Atom\") A member of an age group division in hockey for ten- to 11-year-olds."], "relatedWords": [{"relationshipType": "synonyms", "words": ["See also Thesaurus:atom", "(small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum."]}], "examples": ["Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the water-oxidizing complex, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.", "Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5\u00b0; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.", "\"Doctor, tell me one word more,\" said Theodore, quivering with suppressed emotion. \"How do you think it will end?\" / \"I have hardly the faintest atom of hope,\" answered this honest, earnest man.", "Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.", "In a Venn diagram, an atom is depicted as an area circumscribed by lines but not cut by any line."]}], "pronunciations": {"text": ["(Received Pronunciation) IPA: /\u02c8at\u0259m/", "(General American) enPR: \u0103t'\u0259m, IPA: /\u02c8\u00e6t\u0259m/, [\u02c8\u00e6\u027e\u0259m]", "Homophone: Adam (in dialects with flapping)", "Hyphenation: a\u2027tom"], "audio": ["//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/En-us-atom.ogg", "//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/En-au-atom.ogg"]}}}]