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adj
- Bookish.
- Relating to literature.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- of or relating to or characteristic of literature
- knowledgeable about literature
- appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing
noun
- A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
- (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
- (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
- a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
- an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
adj
noun
- An element of fiction writing.
- (theater, film, television, radio) A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.
- (theater) The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
- (aesthetic) (by extension) An aesthetic characterized by vibrant, often neon colors, heavily teased and brightly dyed hair with long bangs, skinny jeans, band tees, and layered accessories like studded belts and plastic jewelry; heavily influenced by MySpace culture, emo, pop-punk, and electronic music, with a strong emphasis on digital self-expression and a playful, rebellious energy.
- A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
- (uncountable) (by extension) A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
- A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
- The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
- The location of an event that attracts attention.
- An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
- A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
- (BDSM) A fantasy that is acted out.
- the context and environment in which something is set
- an incident (real or imaginary)
- graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
- a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- the place where some action occurs
- a situation treated as an observable object
- a display of bad temper
- a subdivision of an act of a play or performance
- the visual percept of a region
- the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
intj
verb
adj
- (writing, ironic) Excessively complicated.
- (colloquial) Thorough; utter.
- (informal, derogatory) Blasted; damned.
- (derogatory) Contrived to be cute or charming.
- Regarded with love or tenderness.
- Of high value or worth.
- (informal, followed by about) Extremely protective or strict (about something).
- (derogatory, antiphrastic) Treated with too much reverence.
- held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature
- obviously contrived to charm
- of high worth or cost
- characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for
adv
noun
adj
- (literature) Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
- (motor racing) Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
- (Belgium, Netherlands) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
- Of a purple hue.
- Imperial; regal.
- (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
- Blood-red; bloody.
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed
- of a color intermediate between red and blue
- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
noun
- A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
- Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
- (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
- A cardinalate.
- The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
- Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
- (by extension) Imperial power.
- (UK, slang) Synonym of snakebite and black.
- Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
- Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
- (slang, US) Ellipsis of purple drank.
- (medicine) Purpura.
- (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status
- (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
- a color between red and blue
verb
- (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.
- (intransitive, US, Canada informal) To pursue the opposite gender in inappropriate circumstances, usually of adolescents. (From the metaphor of mixing blue [boys] and pink [girls].)
- (transitive) To dye purple.
- (transitive) To clothe in purple.
- become purple
- color purple
noun
- a brief literary description
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
- preliminary drawing for later elaboration
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- (informal) An amusing person.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- (category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
verb
adj
noun
- a brief literary description
- a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
- a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
- (photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, that produces an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.
- (printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.
- (architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
- (by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
- (automotive) A small sticker affixed to a vehicle windscreen to indicate that tolls have been paid.
- (philately) The central pictorial image on a postage stamp.
- (computer graphics) A hardware deficiency (even occurring in most expensive models) of a computer display wherein the picture slants towards a colour or brightness towards the edges especially if viewed from an angle.
- (by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
- (photography) Any effect in a photographic picture where qualities vanish towards the edges.
verb
noun
- Written fiction of a high standard.
- The body of all written works.
- The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
- (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- published writings in a particular style on a particular subject
- the humanistic study of a body of literature
- the profession or art of a writer
- creative writing of recognized artistic value
adj
- (of writing, etc.) overwrought.
- (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
- (mathematics) Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.
- Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
- out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
noun
- (uncountable) The literary genre of these stories.
- A story presented as true that is not believable.
- A folktale or literary story featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.
- A delightful and ideal situation of a kind attained by very few.
- an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
- a story about fairies; told to amuse children
noun
- A literary anthology.
- A person who reads.
- (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
- Any device that reads something.
- (chiefly British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
- A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
- A person who reads a publication.
- An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
- (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
- (in the plural) Reading glasses.
- A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
- A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
- A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
- A proofreader.
- someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
- someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
- someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
- one of a series of texts for students learning to read
- a person who enjoys reading
- someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
- a person who can read; a literate person
- a public lecturer at certain universities
conj
- (chiefly literary) As direct subject.
- Expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
- Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence, or effect.
- Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
- As delayed subject.
- Introducing a clause that complements an adjective or passive participle.
- Introducing a clause that is the object of a verb, especially a reporting verb or verb expressing belief, knowledge, perception, etc.
- Introducing a clause that describes the information content of a preceding reporting noun.
adv
det
noun
pron
- (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action, or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
- Used to refer to a noun phrase or statement just made.
- Used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
- (relative, plural that) In a relative clause, referring to a previously mentioned noun, as subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition; which, who.
- (relative, colloquial) Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
verb
- (ambitransitive) To write too much.
- (transitive) To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
- (ambitransitive) To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
- (transitive, computing) To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
- write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data
noun
adj
- Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
- (vision, of a perceived color) Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.
- Of or pertaining to a chimera.
- (genetics) Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
- Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
- being or relating to or like a chimera
- produced by a wildly fanciful imagination
noun
- A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
- (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
- (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
- a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
- an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
adj
noun
- An element of fiction writing.
- (theater, film, television, radio) A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.
- (theater) The decorations; furnishings, and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
- (aesthetic) (by extension) An aesthetic characterized by vibrant, often neon colors, heavily teased and brightly dyed hair with long bangs, skinny jeans, band tees, and layered accessories like studded belts and plastic jewelry; heavily influenced by MySpace culture, emo, pop-punk, and electronic music, with a strong emphasis on digital self-expression and a playful, rebellious energy.
- A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
- (uncountable) (by extension) A youth subculture popular in the Anglosphere in the 2000s and early 2010s.
- A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
- The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.
- The location of an event that attracts attention.
- An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
- A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
- (BDSM) A fantasy that is acted out.
- the context and environment in which something is set
- an incident (real or imaginary)
- graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
- a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- the place where some action occurs
- a situation treated as an observable object
- a display of bad temper
- a subdivision of an act of a play or performance
- the visual percept of a region
- the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
intj
verb
noun
- a brief literary description
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
- preliminary drawing for later elaboration
- A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
- A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
- (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
- (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
- (informal) An amusing person.
- A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
- A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
- A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
- (category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).
verb
adj
noun
- a brief literary description
- a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
- a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books)
- (photography) The characteristic of a camera lens, either by deficiency in design or by mismatch of the lens with the film format, that produces an image smaller than the film's frame with a crudely focused border. Photographers may deliberately choose this characteristic for a special effect.
- (printing) A decorative design, originally representing vine branches or tendrils, at the head of a chapter, of a manuscript or printed book, or in a similar position.
- (architecture) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
- (by extension) A short story or anecdote that presents a scene or tableau, or paints a picture.
- (automotive) A small sticker affixed to a vehicle windscreen to indicate that tolls have been paid.
- (philately) The central pictorial image on a postage stamp.
- (computer graphics) A hardware deficiency (even occurring in most expensive models) of a computer display wherein the picture slants towards a colour or brightness towards the edges especially if viewed from an angle.
- (by extension) Any small borderless picture in a book, especially an engraving, photograph, or the like, which vanishes gradually at the edge.
- (photography) Any effect in a photographic picture where qualities vanish towards the edges.
verb
noun
- Written fiction of a high standard.
- The body of all written works.
- The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
- (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- published writings in a particular style on a particular subject
- the humanistic study of a body of literature
- the profession or art of a writer
- creative writing of recognized artistic value
noun
- (uncountable) The literary genre of these stories.
- A story presented as true that is not believable.
- A folktale or literary story featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.
- A delightful and ideal situation of a kind attained by very few.
- an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse
- a story about fairies; told to amuse children
noun
- A literary anthology.
- A person who reads.
- (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
- Any device that reads something.
- (chiefly British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
- A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
- A person who reads a publication.
- An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
- (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
- (in the plural) Reading glasses.
- A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
- A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
- A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
- A proofreader.
- someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
- someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
- someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
- one of a series of texts for students learning to read
- a person who enjoys reading
- someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
- a person who can read; a literate person
- a public lecturer at certain universities
verb
- (ambitransitive) To write too much.
- (transitive) To cover in writing; to write over the top of.
- (ambitransitive) To write in an unnecessarily complicated or florid way; to produce purple prose.
- (transitive, computing) To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
- write new data on top of existing data and thus erase the previously existing data
noun
adj
- Bookish.
- Relating to literature.
- Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
- Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
- Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
- of or relating to or characteristic of literature
- knowledgeable about literature
- appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing
adj
- (writing, ironic) Excessively complicated.
- (colloquial) Thorough; utter.
- (informal, derogatory) Blasted; damned.
- (derogatory) Contrived to be cute or charming.
- Regarded with love or tenderness.
- Of high value or worth.
- (informal, followed by about) Extremely protective or strict (about something).
- (derogatory, antiphrastic) Treated with too much reverence.
- held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature
- obviously contrived to charm
- of high worth or cost
- characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for
adv
noun
adj
- (literature) Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
- (motor racing) Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
- (Belgium, Netherlands) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
- Of a purple hue.
- Imperial; regal.
- (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
- Blood-red; bloody.
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed
- of a color intermediate between red and blue
- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
noun
- A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
- Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
- (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
- A cardinalate.
- The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
- Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
- (by extension) Imperial power.
- (UK, slang) Synonym of snakebite and black.
- Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
- Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
- (slang, US) Ellipsis of purple drank.
- (medicine) Purpura.
- (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status
- (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes
- a color between red and blue
verb
- (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.
- (intransitive, US, Canada informal) To pursue the opposite gender in inappropriate circumstances, usually of adolescents. (From the metaphor of mixing blue [boys] and pink [girls].)
- (transitive) To dye purple.
- (transitive) To clothe in purple.
- become purple
- color purple
adj
- (of writing, etc.) overwrought.
- (of wine) Having a slight lack of acidity; having mild sweetness.
- (mathematics) Which forms a surjection from the domain to every open subset of the codomain.
- Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.
- out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
adj
- Inherently fantastic; wildly fanciful.
- (vision, of a perceived color) Impossible to physically produce due to having an impossibly-high saturation or luminosity, but viewable by overlaying an afterimage and a suitably-colored physical image.
- Of or pertaining to a chimera.
- (genetics) Resulting from the expression of two or more genes that originally coded for separate proteins.
- Being a figment of the imagination; fantastic (in the archaic sense).
- being or relating to or like a chimera
- produced by a wildly fanciful imagination