cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kylix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪlɪks/
rhymes: -aɪlɪks
Forms: form: kylikes
form: kylixes
form: kylices
form: cylix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύλιξ (kúlix, “cup”).
Senses: examples: text: The dig team unearthed a kylix at the site in Bergama.
glosses: An Ancient Greek drinking cup with a stem, two handles, and a broad, shallow body.
cylix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪlɪks/
Forms: form: cylixes
form: cylices
form: cylikes
form: kylix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kylix.
place names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of place name
units of measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit of measure
moonbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmuːnbəʊ/
Forms: form: moonbows
Etymology: From moon + bow, by analogy with rainbow.
Senses: examples: text: Often rainbows by night or moonbows span the lake.
ref: 1896, James Wells, Travel-pictures from Palestine, page 94:
text: Among the rarer optical effects associated with the moon are also moonbows or lunar rainbows.
ref: 2010, Bernd Brunner, Moon: A Brief History, unnumbered page:
text: When the sun shines over Kentucky's Cumberland Falls, the mist creates a rainbow on most days. If the moon shines brightly enough, it can create a moonbow, too!
ref: 2011, Colleen Ryckert Cook, Kentucky: Past and Present, page 9:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rainbow formed by moonlight diffracted by water droplets in the air, usually fainter than a daytime rainbow and with fewer distinguishable colours.
Synonyms: sense: rainbow formed by diffracted moonlight
word: lunar rainbow
sense: rainbow formed by diffracted moonlight
word: white rainbow
successively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From successive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My last to you was of Oct. 8 by the Count de Moustier. Yours of July 18. Sep. 6. & Oct. 24. have been successively received, yesterday, the day before & three or four days before that.
ref: December 20, 1787, Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison.:
text: Allan was first William Buddicom's and then Trevithick's second-in-command, at Edge Hill and at Crewe successively, for the period of 13½ years from February, 1840, to September, 1853, when he left Crewe to become Superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway.
ref: 1951 June, Dr. W. H. Chaloner, “Alexander Allan's Own Claim”, in Railway Magazine, page 416:
glosses: In a serial or successive manner; one following another.
Synonyms: in order
together
step by step
one after another
sequentially
crippled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪpəld/
Senses: examples: text: A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?
ref: 1848, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 17, in Jane Eyre, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:
glosses: Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
examples: text: a crippled version of the software, lacking many features
glosses: Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
Derived terms: crippledness
crippled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪpəld/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cripple
symphysis pubis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symphyses pubis
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: The head was above the symphysis pubis, but she could not feel anything else definitive.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, page 88:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The midline cartilaginous joint uniting the superior rami of the left and right pubic bones (pubis), also known as the pubic symphysis. In men, it supports the suspensory ligament; in women, it loosens and flexes to aid childbirth.
Maastricht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːstrɪkt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Maastricht, ultimately from Latin Mosae Trāiectum.
Senses: examples: text: “A shift from jus soli to jus sanguinis has been witnessed in Asia in the course of the twentieth century,” wrote Olivier Vonk at the Maastricht Centre in a 2017 paper.
ref: 2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN:
glosses: A city and capital of Limburg province, Netherlands.
glosses: A municipality in Limburg, Netherlands.
Derived terms: Maastrichtian
malignity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malignities
Etymology: From Middle English malignete, malignitee, malignyte, malyngnite, from Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitās. By surface analysis, malign + -ity.
* (a group of goblins): Coined by David Malki in the 30 October 2009 Wondermark webcomic strip “Supernatural Collective Nouns”.
Senses: examples: text: He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 251–252:
text: His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter LIII, in Great Expectations […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:
text: On the door-threshold Mina turned, and her eyes fastened on Woona in concentrated malignity.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 265:
glosses: The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
examples: text: The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.
ref: 2005, R.L. Abada et al., “Multiple metastases of a mandibular ameloblastoma”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
examples: text: There was a whole malignity‡ of goblins up on the roof, but if you wanted your clacks to fly fast, you didn’t use the term out loud.
ref: 2013, Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam (Discworld; 40), London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 31:
text: A malignity of goblins chattered loudly, some of them standing on their table.
ref: 2022, JT Lawrence, The Haunted Portal (Cursebreaker; 2), Muonic Press Inc, →ISBN:
text: As a malignity of goblins giggled drunkenly in a corner booth, Fabian and I approached the table with Isaac and Hakim.
ref: 2023, Nova Nelson, All the Faire’s a Stage (Magical Renaissance Faire Mysteries; 7), The Faire Ladies LLC, →ISBN:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A group of goblins.
stream of consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streams of consciousness
Senses: glosses: The continuous flow of thoughts that makes up an individual's conscious experience.
synonyms: interior monologue
glosses: A literary device that seeks to describe this process by means of a long, unstructured soliloquy.
Related terms: internal monologue
train of thought
Zanaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Zaramo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: an indigenous people of Tanzania
Zaramo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the Bantu language of this people
Zigua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Bantu ethnic group inhabiting in southwestern Tanga Region in Tanzania.
Zigua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania and Somalia.
Zinza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
averred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aver
pucker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: puckers
form: puckering
form: puckered
form: puckered
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare purse (“to pucker”)).
Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). By surface analysis, poke + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Now the skin was puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.
glosses: To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
Derived terms: pucker up
pucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: puckers
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare purse (“to pucker”)).
Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). By surface analysis, poke + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids.
ref: 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 3, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:
glosses: A fold or wrinkle.
examples: text: What a pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!"
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd.:
glosses: A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
examples: text: […]she felt a pressure at her asshole, a cock pressing against her pucker, trying to slide in.
ref: 2018, Annathemonstereffer, A Ghost Story:
glosses: The anus.
Derived terms: pucker factor
all-up service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-up services
Senses: glosses: A postal service in which all mail is sent by airmail at the usual surface rate with no need of a special label.
splint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /splɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: splints
Etymology: From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Senses: glosses: A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
glosses: A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
A splinter caught in the skin.
qualifier: Cheshire
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
examples: text: [...] I saw in the white men's ward that little chap tossing on his back, with his arm in splints, and quite light-headed.
ref: 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter V, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, pages 50–51:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device to immobilize a body part.
examples: text: The fore-part of his thighs, where the folds of his mantle permitted them to be seen, were also covered with linked mail; the knees and feet were defended by splints, or thin plates of steel, ingeniously jointed upon each other; and mail hose, reaching from the ancle to the knee, effectually protected the legs, and completed the rider's defensive armour.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 25:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Synonym of splent coal.
synonyms: word: splent coal
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.
Derived terms: coaptation splint
Frejka splint
shin splint
splint bone
splint coal
splinter
splint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /splɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: splints
form: splinting
form: splinted
form: splinted
Etymology: From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).
Senses: glosses: To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
glosses: To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
glosses: To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.
backhaul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backhauls
form: backhauling
form: backhauled
form: backhauled
Etymology: From back + haul.
Senses: glosses: To transmit (data or footage) from a remote site to a central site from where it is re-transmitted.
backhaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backhauls
Etymology: From back + haul.
Senses: examples: text: Low rates for backhaul account for the huge volume of waste paper shipped to Asia from the US.
topics: transport
glosses: A return trip after delivery of cargo.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The shipment of material to or through an area from which the material had previously been shipped.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
qualifier: fare construction
glosses: Travel to a destination via a further point, or a higher fare point, than the destination (higher intermediate point).
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Uncut program content that is transmitted point-to-point to an individual television or radio station, network or other receiving entity where it will be integrated into a finished show.
bellying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, belly + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belly
bellying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, belly + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail?
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 9, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
text: And the light mounts over the faces of all the tall blind houses, slides through a chink and paints the lustrous bellying crimson curtains […]
ref: 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 12, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
text: He looked at the stout bellying occupant of the other chair, his mouth open, his snores reverberant.
ref: 1925, Hugh Walpole, Portrait of a Man with Red Hair, Part I, Chapter 6:
text: As he swept out of the room with a bellying sweep of his gown and a toss of his silver hair, his old heart was beating madly.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 17, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
glosses: Bulging or billowing.
bellying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellyings
Etymology: By surface analysis, belly + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: 1693, Simon de la Loubère, A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, translated by A.P., London: Tho. Horne, Part II, Chapter II. Of the Houses of the Siamese, and of their Architecture in Publick Buildings, page 32,
But the Principal Ornament of the Pagodes, is to be accompanied, as generally they are, with several Pyramids of Lime and Brick […] Some there are which diminish and grow thick again four or five times in their heighth, so that the Profile of them goes waving: But these Bellyings out are smaller as they are in a higher part of the Pyramid.
text: 1873, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Sunset,” Diary entry dated 3 November, 1873, in The Dublin Review, July, August, September, 1920, p. 64,
A few minutes later the brightness over; one great dull rope coiling overhead sidelong from the sunset, its dewlaps and bellyings painted with a maddery campion-colour that seemed to stoop and drop like sopped cake;
text: One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness […]
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter 15:
text: The room into which I was ushered, with its leering volutes and hideous bellyings of brown mahogany, intimately reminded me of a Beardsley drawing.
ref: 1926, Violet Hunt, “1910-11”, in The Flurried Years, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 161:
glosses: A bulging, swelling or billowing shape; the act or state of bulging, swelling or billowing.
Synonyms: bulge
convexity
gibbosity
protrusion
protuberance
besetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From beset + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beset
besetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besettings
Etymology: From beset + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I might also here tell you of the contests and battles that such are engaged in, wherein they find the besettings of Satan, above any other of the saints.
ref: 1689, John Bunyan, The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help for despairing souls, shewing that Jesus Christ would have mercy in the first place offered to the biggest sinners:
glosses: The act of one who besets or attacks.
besetting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more besetting
form: most besetting
Etymology: From beset + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The first thing to bear in mind (especially if we ourselves belong to the clerico-academic-scientific type, the officially and conventionally “correct” type, “the deadly respectable” type, for which to ignore others is a besetting temptation) is that nothing can be more stupid than to bar out phenomena from our notice, merely because we are incapable of taking part in anything like them ourselves.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures 4 & 5”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Rickie would not push himself. It was his besetting sin.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XIII [Uniform ed., p. 144]
text: I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.
ref: 1942, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 8, in The Moon and Sixpence:
glosses: Deeply rooted; persistent.
examples: text: Neither were they connected with fear: he was conscious of no fear. Rather, they originated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came; a desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which it referred; a wondering that was more like the wondering of some other spirit within his, than his own.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsessive
Black Angus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black Anguses
Senses: glosses: Any of a breed of black, hornless cattle from Scotland.
Synonyms: Aberdeen Angus
black bloc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black blocs
form: Black Bloc
Etymology: Calque of German schwarzer Block.
Senses: examples: text: It made perfect sense to Michael that the Berlin police would choose to infiltrate the Black Bloc, rather than the establishment leftist parties.
ref: 2008, Peter David Orr, The Dive, page 51:
text: The Black Bloc tactics emerged in Germany in the 1980s, and caught the attention of the North American public during the 1999 Battle of Seattle.
ref: 2012, Michael Truscello, “16: Social Media and the Representation of Summit Protests: YouTube, Riot Porn, and the Anarchist Tradition”, in Ted Gournelos, David J. Gunkel, editors, Transgression 2.0: Media, Culture, and the Politics of a Digital Age, unnumbered page:
text: At the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, activists formed black blocs, engaged in jail solidarity, built and marched with giant puppets, blockaded roads and buildings, danced at street parties, rode in Critical Mass bike rides, performed Radical Cheers, and used affinity groups and spokescouncils to make decisions.[…]In what follows, I consider the diffusion of black bloc, giant puppets, blockades, and jail solidarity to activists in six Toronto- and New York-based organizations.
ref: 2012, Lesley J. Wood, Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion: Collective Action after the WTO Protests in Seattle, page 34:
glosses: Any group of individuals who join a protest or demonstration, wearing black clothing including items to protect and/or conceal their faces and often engaging in violence and vandalism; the tactic of forming and participating in such a group.
blue eye cod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue eye cod
Senses: glosses: A fish, Hyperoglyphe antarctica, found in deep offshore waters off southern Australia.
blue swimmer crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue swimmer crabs
Senses: glosses: An edible crab (Portunus armatus, formerly included in Portunus pelagicus), found in inshore waters of southern Queensland, Australia.
inshore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Close to (especially in sight of) a shore.
glosses: Blowing from the sea to the land.
raw_tags: of a wind
inshore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The sunset's roses faint and fain decline.
Inshore the still sea shimmers scale on scale,
Like an enormous coat of magic mail —
Sheet silver shot with tremulous opaline.
ref: 1875, William Henley, Notes on the Firth:
glosses: Near the shore.
examples: text: It is now believed that many species of sharks come inshore at night to feed and, therefore, that attacks made during the day are not related to the feeding process.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Towards the shore.
Related terms: deep-sea
offshore
insure
ensure
deep-sea
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: deepsea
Senses: examples: text: The oarfish is a deep-sea fish.
text: At the time, international deep-sea shipping remained a loose cargo operation, although BR did seek to influence conversion to unit loads by providing a containerised short sea shipping service between Harwich and Rotterdam in 1968.
ref: 2020 May 20, Industry Insider, “An online boost for freight”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: Of, related to or located in the deeper part of the sea.
examples: text: deep-sea fishing
qualifier: sport fishing
glosses: Of or related to open sea.
examples: text: In addition to the long-standing relationship with Felixstowe (GBRf now carries a third of all containerised rail traffic arising from that port), operations have expanded at two other deep-sea ports - Southampton and Thames Gateway.
ref: 2019 November 6, Rail, page 60:
glosses: Able to accommodate the largest ships.
raw_tags: of a port
Derived terms: deepsea fangjaw
deepsea lightfish
deep-sea spiny eel
Related terms: deep sea
inshore
offshore
deep sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep seas
Etymology: From Middle English depe see, equivalent to deep + sea.
Senses: glosses: The deeper part of the sea or ocean in which no light penetrates
examples: deep sea fishing
qualifier: sport fishing
glosses: open sea (part of the sea out of sight of land)
Derived terms: deep space
Related terms: deep-sea
aphotic zone
pelagic zone
photic zone
suspenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈspɛndɚz/
ipa: /səˈspɛndəz/
Senses: synonyms: word: braces
glosses: A pair of straps crossing one's shoulders and extending down to one's trousers, where a clip or button arrangement allows them to affix to the trousers, ensuring that they will not fall off.
synonyms: word: garters
glosses: Small straps, attached to a suspender belt, that hold up a woman's stockings.
Derived terms: belt and suspenders
box-ticking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "It's not a box-ticking exercise and we now have a fantastic culture where people can talk about their mental health, get the support they need and colleagues support each other."
ref: 2020 July 1, Alyna Jones, “People power”, in Rail, page 55:
glosses: The completion of a form containing multiple-choice questions in which one or more boxes need to be ticked by way of an answer.
synonyms: box-checking
glosses: Completion of bureaucratic processes of little practical use.
worthlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worthlessnesses
Etymology: worthless + -ness
Senses: examples: text: Kids these days far too often attribute low academic grades to feelings of worthlessness.
text: We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them.
ref: 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 2:
text: This general teaching as to the worthlessness of alcohol as a food had been set forth by the leaders in medical profession, and accepted largely by the rank and file of practitioners for about twenty-five years.
ref: 1905, Carry Nation, chapter 28, in The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:
glosses: The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
breakout session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakout sessions
Senses: synonyms: workshop
glosses: A session of a conference, normally one of a choice of sessions following a plenary session, in which active participation of those attending is called for.
plenary session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plenary sessions
Etymology: From plenarius (“full, entire”).
Senses: examples: text: The conference consists of five regular sessions spread across multiple rooms and two plenary sessions in the main auditorium.
glosses: A session of a conference or other meeting at which all members are expected to be present.
breastband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastbands
Etymology: From breast + band.
Senses: glosses: A strophium: a band worn around the breasts.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A band of canvas, attached to a ship's rigging, that provides support for the man heaving the lead in heavy weather.
banknote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæŋknəʊt/
Forms: form: banknotes
Etymology: From bank + note.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: paper money
synonyms: note
bill
flimsy
long-tailed one
glosses: A piece of currency made of paper or polymer.
examples: text: Near-synonym: bank paper
text: Was Captain Macheath here this Morning, for the Bank-notes he left with you last Week?
ref: 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, I.4:
hypernyms: promissory note
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glosses: A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.
suspender belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suspender belts
Senses: synonyms: garter belt
glosses: An item of women's underwear consisting of a belt to which are attached suspenders for holding up stockings.
garter belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garter belts
Senses: synonyms: suspender belt
glosses: An item of women's underwear consisting of a belt to which are attached garters for holding up stockings.
viroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viroids
Etymology: From virus + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A short section of RNA but without the protein coat typical of viruses, that are plant pathogens
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Any of certain defective viruses, such as hepatitis D, a human pathogen.
Synonyms: Viroidales
chronologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chronologizes
form: chronologizing
form: chronologized
form: chronologized
form: chronologise
Etymology: From chronology + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To establish an order of events based on the time of their occurrence.
Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The original language, or rather, cluster of dialects, from which descended the Sino-Tibetan family of languages.
carven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English carven, a variant (with the vowel modified to match the present stem) of Middle English corven, y-corven (“carved”), from Old English corfen, ġecorfen (“cut, carved”), from Proto-West Germanic *korban, from Proto-Germanic *kurbanaz (“cut, carved”), past participle of *kerbaną (“to carve”). Equivalent to carve + -en (past participle ending).
Senses: examples: text: The beams that thro' the Oriel shine / Make prisms in every carven glass, / And beaker brimm'd with noble wine.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 151:
text: I can fancy myself there now, the sun and the sweetness of the orange blossom bewildering in their purity, the green parrotlings in a nest behind a carven god simmering away contentedly like half a dozen kettles until with an express train shriek a red and green parent whizzed past me bearing a dinner for one, […]
ref: 1903 April 11, F[lora] A[nnie] Steel, “The Beasts That Perish”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 95, number 2,476, London, page 449, column 1:
text: The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven […]
ref: 1920, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maiden of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
text: The architecture was bewildering in its multiform complexity: great, sleepy-lidded faces of stone gazed down from the eight-sided towers; fantastic dragon-hybrids writhed entangled coils above portal and arch; many-armed and beast-headed gods thronged the paven ways, lining entire avenues in rank on rank of carven stone idols so innumerable as to suggest pantheons as populous as dynasties.
ref: 1999, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji, page 118:
glosses: Made by carving, especially when intricately or artistically done.
carven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English carven, a variant (with the vowel modified to match the present stem) of Middle English corven, y-corven (“carved”), from Old English corfen, ġecorfen (“cut, carved”), from Proto-West Germanic *korban, from Proto-Germanic *kurbanaz (“cut, carved”), past participle of *kerbaną (“to carve”). Equivalent to carve + -en (past participle ending).
Senses: examples: text: We both loved her now and for all time, she was stamped and carven on our hearts, and no other woman or interest could ever raze that splendid die.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: past participle of carve.
cash strapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cash strapped
form: most cash strapped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cash-strapped.
cash-strapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cash-strapped
form: most cash-strapped
Etymology: From the expression strapped for cash.
Senses: examples: text: As the number of successful business cases increases, there will be a need for external funding with the Treasury cash-strapped in the post-COVID period.
ref: 2020 December 16, Industry Insider, “Rail's prospects turn full circle”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: Without funds; low on or out of money.
Synonyms: penniless
deliberated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deliberate
Derived terms: undeliberated
chequered flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chequered flags
form: checkered flag
Etymology: [Alt: Checkered flag]
*(flag): From the pattern found on the flag signalling the end of a race.
*(victory): In motor racing, an official waves a black and white chequered flag to signify the end of the race, starting with waving at the leading vehicle.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A black-and-white chequered flag which signifies the end of a race.
examples: text: As well as the livery Perkins had when claiming three chequered flags at Mount Panorama, Russel Ingall's 'Silver Bullet' and the #6 Castrol Edge Ford Performance Racing Falcon driven by Mark Winterbottom are also on the short list.
ref: 2019, Anya Whitelaw, “Rick Kelly's fans can vote on the livery he will use in the Bathurst 1000”, in Western Advocate:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A victory in a race.
Coordinate terms: sense: colours of flags
word: beige flag
sense: colours of flags
word: black flag
sense: colours of flags
word: blue flag
sense: colours of flags
word: green flag
sense: colours of flags
word: orange flag
sense: colours of flags
word: pink flag
sense: colours of flags
word: red flag
sense: colours of flags
word: white flag
sense: colours of flags
word: yellow flag
Related terms: 🏁
Formula One
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Formula 1
Senses: examples: text: There is a Formula One race this weekend.
hypernyms: formula racing
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racing#Noun
glosses: The highest class of motor racing sanctioned by the FIA.
Coordinate terms: Formula Two
Formula 2
Formula Three
Formula 3
Formula 1600
F1600
Formula 2000
Formula 3000
Formula Atlantic
Formula Ford
Formula Renault
GP1
GP2
GP3
Derived terms: F1
Related terms: Formula D
Formula Indy
F2
F3
F1600
F2000
F3000
political correctness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political correctnesses
Etymology: From politically correct + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones.
ref: 1991 May 4, George H. W. Bush, “President George H.W. Bush's commencement address at the University of Michigan”, in The Michigan Daily:
text: I mean, people who talk about political correctness as being a kind of thought police have no idea of what a thought police is. But political correctness does have the same mentality. It means that intellectual argument is doomed. Objective truth simply becomes a thing to jeer at, because obviously there's no such thing as objectivity—unless of course you're politically okay, in which case you can be objective. Any child can see through that, but many adults can't.
ref: 2002 October, Christopher Hitchens, “The Power of Facing”, in The Atlantic:
text: Political correctness cripples discourse, creates ugly language and is generally stupid.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 72:
glosses: Avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude, marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.
glosses: The result or product of being politically correct.
Coordinate terms: english: used by leftists to refer to conservative censorship
translation: used by leftists to refer to conservative censorship
word: conservative correctness
lumber yard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumber yards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lumberyard.
examples: text: Most lumber yards have evolved into full-service hardware stores.
glosses: A business that sells finished wood products used to build objects, such as some furniture and fixtures, as well as materials to construct and repair structures such as houses, buildings, etc.
Related terms: hardware store
hardware store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardware stores
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells tools, fasteners, and similar objects known collectively as hardware, as well as related sundries used in construction and repair.
Derived terms: busy as a dyke in a hardware store
Related terms: lumber yard
plumber
Gothenburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒθn̩bɜːɡ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑθn̩bɝɡ/
Etymology: Ultimately from Swedish Göteborg, probably via German Gothenburg (now archaic).
Senses: glosses: A city on the west coast of Sweden, in the province of Västergötland. It is the second-largest city in Sweden.
glosses: A city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States, originally settled by Swedish people.
Derived terms: Gothenburger
house number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house numbers
Senses: glosses: The number (street address) assigned to a particular house to distinguish it from other buildings on the same street.
glosses: The physical representation of this number (for example, affixed to the door or painted on a mailbox).
Related terms: address
street address
street number
monograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monographs
Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + -graph (“write”).
Senses: examples: text: It may still be years before we see, what we all look forward to, the great and final book on Knossos. Meanwhile learned monographs on different sections of the subject have been fast accumulating. They form the principal contents of six successive Annuals of the British School at Athens, and a not inconsiderable portion of the six corresponding volumes of The Journal of Hellenic Studies.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page vi:
text: The complex history of the Wirral Railway and the lines with which it was interlinked needs more lucid treatment than is given in this 39-page monograph - and clearer maps and an index.
ref: 1961 August, “New reading on railways:The Wirral Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page vii:
text: 1996 March, Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 277, No. 3, pp. 22-24.
I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT.
text: Crooke made a few references to two of his monographs (1896a and 1896b) but did not take quotations from his own works.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 494:
glosses: A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: psilograph
glosses: A single letter, especially one which represents a phoneme by itself when held in contrast to letters within polygraphs.
Derived terms: monographer
monographic
monographist
monograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monographs
form: monographing
form: monographed
form: monographed
Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + -graph (“write”).
Senses: examples: text: It is among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century.
ref: 2009 April 26, Charles Isherwood, “A Long Wait for Another Shot at Broadway”, in New York Times:
glosses: To write a monograph on (a subject).
glosses: Of the FDA: to publish a standard that authorizes the use of (a substance).
Malmö
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːlmɜː/
ipa: /ˈmɑːlməʊ/
ipa: /ˈmalməʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɑlmʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɑlmoʊ/
Etymology: From Swedish Malmö, from Middle Danish Malmoghe or Malmhauge (literally “Ore Hill”), a compound equivalent to present-day malm (“ore”) + høj (“hill”); both elements are of Old Norse, earlier Proto-Germanic, and ultimately Proto-Indo-European origin.
Senses: examples: text: Perched almost on the southern tip of the Swedish peninsula, Malmö is a bland, gray-blue industrial town set amid a featureless, gray-blue landscape.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 300:
glosses: A city in Scania, Sweden; the third-largest city in the country, located on the south-west coast.
street address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street addresses
Senses: glosses: The address of a building, typically comprising a house number, street name, city, and postcode.
cabinetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabinetries
Etymology: From cabinet + -ry.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cabinetmaking (“fine woodworking to produce cabinets”).
synonyms: word: cabinetmaking
extra: fine woodworking to produce cabinets
glosses: Synonym of cabinetwork (“the cabinets thus made”).
synonyms: word: cabinetwork
extra: the cabinets thus made
Hypernyms: woodworking > carpentry
caloyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈlɔɪə/
Forms: form: caloyers
Etymology: From French caloyer, from Italian caloiero, from Ancient Greek κᾰλόγηρος (kălógēros, “venerable”), from κᾰλός (kălós, “beautiful”) + γῆρας (gêras, “old age”).
Senses: synonyms: anchoret
cenobite
qualifier: Greek Orthodoxy
glosses: A reclusive monk of the Greek Orthodox Church.
ibn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bin
Etymology: From Arabic اِبْن (ibn, “son”).
Senses: examples: "Ali ibn Amr": "Ali son of Amr".
glosses: son of
raw_tags: in Arabic names
casework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From case + work.
Senses: examples: text: Most of her time is spent on casework, rather than research.
glosses: The work required to deal with cases in any profession where a "case" has a specific definition (e.g. legal, social work, planning, etc.).
Derived terms: caseworker
monstrance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnstɹəns/
ipa: /ˈmɑnztɹəns/
Forms: form: monstrances
Etymology: From Middle English mustraunce, from Old French mostrance, monstrance, from post-classical Latin mōnstrantia, from classical Latin mōnstrāns, present participle of mōnstrāre (“to show”).
Senses: examples: text: He loved to kneel down on the cold marble pavement and watch the priest, in his stiff flowered dalmatic, slowly and with white hands moving aside the veil of the tabernacle, or raising aloft the jewelled, lantern-shaped monstrance with that pallid wafer that at times, one would fain think, is indeed the "panis caelestis," the bread of angels, or, robed in the garments of the Passion of Christ, breaking the Host into the chalice and smiting his breast for his sins.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter 11”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
text: Sir Oswald had done pretty well during the war out of his timber, and there had been no death duties to pay for many years, not since the old man had died. But there was no doubt that the shoe was beginning to pinch. He had been obliged to sell that Spanish monstrance in '30, or was it '31?
ref: 1935, Francis Beeding, “7/2”, in The Norwich Victims:
topics: Christianity
glosses: An ornamental, often precious receptacle, either open or with a transparent cover, in which the sacramental bread (consecrated host) is placed for Eucharistic adoration.
Synonyms: ostensorium
ostensory
cast-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cast-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from cast off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of castoff.
cast-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from cast off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of castoff.
causticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: causticizations
Etymology: From causticize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something caustic.
Related terms: causticize
castoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castoffs
form: cast-off
Etymology: Deverbal from cast off.
Senses: examples: text: Found art is created when odd, disparate, unlikely, even long-abandoned castoffs are put together with other similarly unexpected remnants to create something new and, if all goes as planned, lovely.
ref: 2009, Leeana Tankersley, Found Art: Discovering Beauty in Foreign Places, page 13:
glosses: Something that has been rejected or discarded; a reject.
castoff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cast-off
Etymology: Deverbal from cast off.
Senses: glosses: Discarded, rejected.
cayuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cayuse
centrepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrepins
Etymology: From centre + pin.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: a fishing reel consisting of a revolving drum with attached handles
chaffering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chaffer
chaffering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chafferings
Senses: examples: text: September 9, 1819, Washington Irving, letter to Henry Breevort
You have put my writings into circulation, and arranged the pecuniary concerns in such a way as to save future trouble and petty chafferings about accounts, and to give the whole an independent and gentlemanlike air.
text: He had the practised face of a dealer also. But he was a Jew and chaffering was in his blood, and he said, "A bit stiff, isn't it? I mean without a guarantee that it's by the original maker?"
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 158:
text: The air was all smell – curry-stuff, durian, fish and flesh – and the noise was of hoicking and chaffering.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:
glosses: The act of one who chaffers.
chickenhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickenhouses
form: chicken house
form: chicken-house
Etymology: From chicken + house.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e might catch that dirty big black retriever in his chicken-house, red-legged, with blood in its teeth and henshit in its tail.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 119:
glosses: Synonym of chicken coop.
synonyms: word: chicken coop