cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
grubstake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grubstakes
form: grub-stake
Etymology: From grub + stake.
Senses: examples: text: I've been through hell. The other three are all at work and healthy, getting grub-stake to prospect up White River this winter.
ref: 1918, Jack London, Like Argus of the Ancient Times:
topics: business
mining
glosses: Money, materials, tools, food etc. provided to a prospector in return for a share in future profits.
topics: business
glosses: An amount of money advanced to someone starting a business in return for a share of the future profits.
examples: text: No one however should go to this country intending to mine without taking with him a year's supplies commonly known as a grub stake or its money equivalent about $1,000.
ref: 1903, U.S. Geological Survey professional paper, page 35:
text: However, each of these words might, on occasion, be used in a different sense, [...], "grub-stake" to denote one's food supply, regardless of how obtained.
ref: 1936, Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cow Boy: An Unconventional History of Civilization on the Old-time, page 34:
text: The resulting income, the firm hopes, will provide it with the grubstake it needs to move on to the big prize: titanium.
ref: 2013, The Economist, Manufacturing metals: a tantalizing prospect:
glosses: Money, necessities stockpiled to sustain an effort for a period of time.
grubstake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grubstakes
form: grubstaking
form: grubstaked
form: grubstaked
form: grub-stake
Etymology: From grub + stake.
Senses: examples: text: "Nobody grub-stakes me," was the answer. "I stake myself, and when I make a killing it's sure all mine. [...] "
ref: 1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 3:
glosses: To supply such funds to.
simple future
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: future simple
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Describing the tense which describes a future action. In English this uses forms of will, shall or be going to.
simple future
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple futures
form: future simple
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The future tense.
swiftness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪftnɪs/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: swiftnesses
Etymology: From Middle English swiftnesse, swyftnesse, from Old English swiftnes (“swiftness”), equivalent to swift + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: with remarkable swiftness
text: demonstrate swiftness
text: act with swiftness
text: The swiftness of his reaction saved the child.
text: They admired the swiftness of the river’s current.
text: He completed the task with unexpected swiftness.
glosses: The state of being swift.
Synonyms: celerity
haste
rapidity
closeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊs.nəs/
ipa: /ˈkloʊs.nəs/
ipa: /ˈkləʉs.nəs/
rhymes: -əʊsnəs
Forms: form: closenesses
Etymology: From close + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being close (all senses)
glosses: The state of being friends
glosses: The state of being mean or stingy
glosses: The state of being secretive
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The shortest path between two vertices in a graph
examples: text: I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated / To closeness and the bettering of my mind [...]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Solitude, seclusion
Synonyms: word: proximity
word: nearness
sense: friends
word: intimacy
Derived terms: supercloseness
Poetic Edda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Poetic Edda
Senses: glosses: A collection of Old Norse poems, songs, and some prose, containing stories about the Norse gods and legendary heroes.
Related terms: Edda
Elder Edda
Prose Edda
Snorri's Edda
Younger Edda
tides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: examples: text: Yet the tides of war do not wait, and General Lee had come to the capital to try and shape their future course. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0618485384&id=nSnw3YPGN-0C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%2522tides+of+war%2522&sig=hL4OXMUcIxma5nAXSP7YuJaEQsQ
ref: 2004, Stephen W. Sears, Gettysburg:
glosses: plural of tide
tides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tide
color commentator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color commentators
form: colour commentator
Etymology: From color (“detail or flavour”) + commentator.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: color analyst
color announcer
colorcaster
hyponyms: color man
glosses: At a sporting event, a member of the radio or television announcing team who assists a play-by-play announcer. Provides insight into strategy, player performance, background information, etc., and often light humor.
maternal grandfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maternal grandfathers
Senses: coordinate_terms: maternal grandmother
paternal grandfather
paternal grandmother
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal, grandfather. (This entry is a translation hub.)
whitebark raspberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitebark raspberries
Senses: synonyms: blackcap raspberry
blackcap
black raspberry
blue raspberry
glosses: Rubus leucodermis, a species of deciduous, viny shrub with pale, whitish bark.
glosses: The dark purple composite fruit of this plant, similar to a true raspberry.
blackcap raspberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackcap raspberries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of whitebark raspberry.
synonyms: word: whitebark raspberry
perpetrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ).pəˌtɹeɪt/
Forms: form: perpetrates
form: perpetrating
form: perpetrated
form: perpetrated
Etymology: From Middle English perpetrat (“committed, perpetrated”), from Latin perpetrātus, past participle of perpetrare (“to carry through”), from per (“through”) + patrare (“to perform”), akin to potis (“able”), potens (“powerful”); see potent.
Senses: examples: text: perpetrate a murder
text: What Polina is good for is to fall head over ears in love. That is MY opinion. Look at her—especially when she is sitting alone, and plunged in thought. All this was pre-ordained and foretold, and is accursed. Polina could perpetrate any mad act. She—she—But who called me by name?" I broke off.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VIII, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VIII):
glosses: To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.
Derived terms: reperpetrate
unperpetrated
Related terms: perpetration
perpetrator
chicken cordon bleu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chicken + cordon bleu.
Senses: coordinate_terms: chicken Kyiv
glosses: Thin slices of chicken pressed together and breaded, with a filling of cheese and a ham slice inside, and baked or sautéed.
Nashville sound
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Nashville sound
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of country music that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s, containing elements of popular music and characterized by electronic string sections, background vocals, and orchestras.
throw money away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws money away
form: throwing money away
form: threw money away
form: thrown money away
form: throw money around
Senses: examples: text: The young boy liked to throw money away at the video arcade and candy store.
glosses: To spend money foolishly or indiscriminately; to waste money without regard of the consequences.
Related terms: throw good money after bad
video arcade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video arcades
Senses: examples: text: The boys played Space Invaders at the local video arcade.
text: The Towne Hall is a big inflatable building in the middle of the Snooze ’n’ Crusie. It is Derelict Las Vegas: convenience store, video arcade, laundromat, bar, liquor store, flea market, whorehouse.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 276:
glosses: A business or establishment containing a selection of arcade games, pinball machines and other amusement devices.
Derived terms: video arcade game
beer tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer tents
Senses: examples: text: “Sideshows, dancing.” “And two beer-tents,” said Nabby Adams.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 101:
glosses: At a fair or festival, a tent set up for the purpose of selling and consuming beer and other alcoholic beverages.
huckleberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: huckleberries
Etymology: Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.
Senses: examples: text: 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. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
glosses: A shrub growing this fruit.
examples: text: Porter preferred prose to poetry. Prose seemed to him to be a concrete, practical form of expression. But poetry, as he informed a poet who signed his name “Evergreen,” was “a huckleberry beyond us.”
ref: 1967, Richard Boyd Hauck, The Literary Content of the New York Spirit of the Times, 1831-1856, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, page 88:
glosses: A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
glosses: A person of little consequence.
examples: text: I'm your huckleberry.
glosses: The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
Derived terms: word: above one's huckleberry
taxonomic: Gaylussacia ursina
word: bear huckleberry
taxonomic: Vaccinium membranaceum
word: black huckleberry
taxonomic: Gaylussacia frondosa
word: blue huckleberry
taxonomic: Gaylussacia brachycera
word: box huckleberry
taxonomic: Gaylussacia dumosa
word: bush huckleberry
taxonomic: Vaccinium ovatum
word: California huckleberry
taxonomic: Gaylussacia dumosa
word: dwarf huckleberry
taxonomic: Vaccinium ovatum
word: evergreen huckleberry
alt: Menziesia ferruginea
word: fool's huckleberry
taxonomic: Solanum nigrum
word: garden huckleberry
taxonomic: Gaylussacia tomentosa
word: hairy-twig huckleberry
taxonomic: Cyrilla racemiflora
word: he-huckleberry
taxonomic: Vaccinium stamineum
word: highbush huckleberry
word: huckleberry above a persimmon
word: huckleberry above one's persimmon
taxonomic: Quercus vaccinifolia
word: huckleberry oak
word: I'm your huckleberry
taxonomic: Vaccinium parvifolium
word: red huckleberry
taxonomic: Vaccinium caesium
word: squaw huckleberry
taxonomic: Vaccinium arboreum
word: tree huckleberry
taxonomic: Vaccinium ovatum
word: winter huckleberry
taxonomic: Gaylussacia mosieri
word: woolly huckleberry
huckleberry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/
Forms: form: huckleberries
form: huckleberrying
form: huckleberried
form: huckleberried
Etymology: Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.
Senses: glosses: To pick huckleberries.
Related terms: huckle
get real
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: You want me to stay here with you in this dump? Get real!
coordinate_terms: get bent#Interjection
get fucked#Interjection
glosses: Expresses disbelief, or urges someone to face reality.
Related terms: get right
get real
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets real
form: getting real
form: got real
form: gotten real
form: got real
Senses: examples: text: let's get real
text: Some fans are asking what this plot twist might mean for the next sequel, but let's get real: there's probably not going to be another sequel in this movie franchise, if the viewership stays so low.
text: He finally got real and stopped going on about how his side gig was going to make him rich.
coordinate_terms: get right#Etymology_2
sober up
glosses: To stop pretending or dreaming; to start facing up to some aspect of reality (usually, an unpleasant one).
meddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛdlə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈmɛdlɚ/
ipa: /ˈmɛdl̩ɚ/
homophone: medlar
Forms: form: meddlers
Etymology: From Middle English medlere, medelere, equivalent to meddle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The prudent man is not willing to ſubject himſelf to any responſibility which his duty does not impoſe upon him. He is not a buſtler in buſineſs where he has no concern; is not a meddler in other people’s affairs; is not a profeſſed counſellor or adviſer, who obtrudes his advice where nobody is aſking it.
ref: 1790, Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments; […] In Two Volumes, 6th edition, volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell […]; Edinburgh: W[illiam] Creech, and J. Bell & Co., →OCLC, part VI, section I (Of the Character of the Individual, so far as It Affects His Own Happiness; or of Prudence), page 59:
text: “Yes, Mr. Coleman, I have,” answered Luke steadily. “I thought it my duty to inform this man of your character. I have advised him to put his money into a savings-bank.”
“Curse you for an impertinent meddler!” said Coleman wrathfully. “I’ll get even with you for this!”
“You can do as you please,” said Luke calmly.
ref: 1868, Horatio Alger, Struggling Upward:
text: “Stop!” The hoarse, oddly alien voice of the Swami held a tone beyond all mere earthly fright “I told you there was another form of proof which I could give if necessary, and I warned you not to provoke me to it. This red-faced old meddler is right; I’m not really an East Indian. This face is a mask, and what it covers is not human.”
ref: 1934, H. P. Lovecraft, Through the Gates of the Silver Key, chapter 8:
glosses: One who meddles or interferes in something not of their concern.
Synonyms: busybody
kibitzer
marplot
nosey parker
Related terms: gatecrasher
interloper
peeping tom
persona non grata
encroacher
backseat driver
intruder
buttinsky
ultracrepidarianism
meddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meddler
ornamented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ornament
Derived terms: unornamented
Andrews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.dɹuz/
Forms: form: Andrewses
form: Andrus
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Andrew.
Andrews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.dɹuz/
Forms: form: Andrus
Senses: glosses: A former suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, since amalgamated into the new suburb of Varsity Lakes and the West Burleigh part of the suburb of Burleigh Heads.
glosses: A rural locality in the Northern Areas Council, South Australia, Australia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Fresno County, California, within the modern city limits of the city of Fresno.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Levy County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Nassau County, Florida, north of the town of Hilliard.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Dallas Township, Huntington County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Harney County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Georgetown County and Williamsburg County, South Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Andrews County, Texas.
Derived terms: Andrews County
Andrews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.dɹuz/
Forms: form: Andrus
Senses: glosses: plural of Andrew
Related terms: Anderson
Stevenson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈstiː.vən.sən/
Forms: form: Stevensons
Etymology: From Stephen + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Jackson County, Alabama.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Warrick County, Indiana.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Skamania County, Washington.
Derived terms: Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome
Stevensonian
Stevenson screen
Related terms: Stephenson
Dawson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːsən/
ipa: /ˈdɑsən/
rhymes: -ɔːsən
Forms: form: Dawsons
Etymology: From Daw, a Middle English pet form of David + -son.
Senses: glosses: A patrilineal surname.
glosses: A placename
A rural locality in South Australia, Australia.
glosses: A placename
A township in the Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A small unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Terrell County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A city in Dallas County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Wright County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A small city in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A village in Richardson County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A ghost town in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A tiny city in Kidder County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Benton County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A borough of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A town in Navarro County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
A neighborhood of Austin, Texas, United States.
glosses: A placename
A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Dawson City.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Dawson County.
Derived terms: Castledawson
City of Dawson
County of Dawson
Dawson City
Dawson County
Dawson Creek
dawsonite
Dawsonville
Nancy Dawson
Dunglison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Newman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːmən/
ipa: /ˈnumən/
homophone: numen
rhymes: -uːmən
Etymology: From new + man: a "newcomer".
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Newman.
glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Stanislaus County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Douglas County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Daviess County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Otero County, New Mexico.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stark County, Ohio, named after Newman Creek.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of El Paso, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Newman Township.
glosses: A town in the Shire of East Pilbara, Pilbara region, in the north of Western Australia, originally named Mount Newman after a local mountain.
Coordinate terms: Oldman
Derived terms: Girvan-Newman algorithm
Newman-Goldfarb protocol
Newmanism
Newmanite
Newmanize
Newman-Kwart rearrangement
disadvantageous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˌædvənˈteɪdʒəs/
Forms: form: more disadvantageous
form: most disadvantageous
Etymology: From disadvantage + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Another disadvantageous feature of the Perth yard, again dictated by the considerations of the site, is that the six double-ended reception roads are alongside the sorting sidings and not laid end-to-end with them.
ref: 1962 October, G. Freeman Allen, “The New Look in Scotland's Northern Division—II”, in Modern Railways, page 271:
glosses: Not advantageous.
Synonyms: expensive
Derived terms: disadvantageously
disadvantageousness
undisadvantageous
consciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more consciously
form: most consciously
Etymology: From conscious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: History is almost always distorted by those who write it. It may be consciously changed as in the censorship of certain items, or it may be a reflection of the writer's lack of perception.
ref: 1975 December 20, Satya, “Uncensoring Shakespeare's Sonnets”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 25, page 16:
glosses: In a conscious manner; knowingly, volitionally.
Related terms: self-consciously
hele
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: heel
homophone: he'll (one pronunciation)
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of heal.
Supreme Soviet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Macaronic translation of Верхо́вный Сове́т (Verxóvnyj Sovét, “Supreme Council”)
Senses: glosses: The bicameral parliament of the former Soviet Union
habilitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more habilitative
form: most habilitative
Etymology: From habilitate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: that serves to habilitate
Derived terms: prehabilitative
half-breed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-breeds
form: halfbreed
Etymology: From half- + breed.
Senses: examples: text: It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: The half-breeds or Metis along the Saskatchewan River asked that they be given a legal title to the land which they occupied. […] The half-breeds found that constitutional agitation was hopeless and began open hostilities.
ref: 1921, Watson Kirkconnell, “Military Annals of Victoria”, in Victoria County Centennial History, Lindsay, Ontario: Watchman-Warder Press, →OCLC, page 186:
text: Some oppose A.I.M. leaders as outsiders; some resent the leadership of Mr. Wilson; full‐blooded Indians resent halfbreeds; the have‐nots resent those with relative wealth.
ref: 1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).
glosses: A hybrid animal or plant.
Synonyms: word: breed
raw_tags: for half-breed
half-breed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: halfbreed
Etymology: From half- + breed.
Senses: glosses: having dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits
raw_tags: of an animal or plant
Related terms: half-caste
mestizo
Métis
métis
Metis
metis
Mischling
mixed-race
mulatto
lachrymatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlækɹɪmətəɹi/
Forms: form: more lachrymatory
form: most lachrymatory
form: lacrimatory
Etymology: From Latin lachrymātōrius. By surface analysis, lachrymate + -ory.
Senses: examples: 1919: It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. — Winston Churchill, "1919 War Office Memorandum"
glosses: Pertaining to or causing tears.
lachrymatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlækɹɪmətəɹi/
Forms: form: lachrymatories
form: lacrimatory
Etymology: From Latin lachrymātōrium. By surface analysis, lachrymate + -ory.
Senses: examples: 1658: For beside these Lachrymatories, notable Lamps with Vessels of Oyles and Aromaticall Liquors attended noble Ossuaries. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A vase supposedly intended to hold tears; formerly used by archaeologists to designate certain urns found in Roman burials.
Synonyms: lachrymal
lacrimal
hiding place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdɪŋ ˌpleɪs/
Forms: form: hiding places
form: hiding-place
form: hidingplace
Etymology: From hiding + place.
Senses: glosses: A place where someone or something may be hidden.
Hyponyms: latibulum
high waters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: high tides
high tides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high tide
hindleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hindlegs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hind leg.
hitching post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitching posts
Senses: examples: text: Joe tied his horse to the hitching post before going into the bank.
glosses: A post to which a horse (or other animal) may be tethered to prevent it from straying.
examples: text: The two girls who were camping went to the hitching post to buy some hot dogs and buns for the wiener roast.
glosses: A main shelter at a recreation place (e.g. a campground) where people go to socialize, eat, and purchase small items.
Related terms: word: hitch
topics: equestrian
horses
pets
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hitching rail
topics: equestrian
horses
pets
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: hitching-bar
hoick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hoik.
hoick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hoicks
form: hoicking
form: hoicked
form: hoicked
Senses: examples: text: As he tried to pass between a man in red and a man in blue, two pole-ends were pushed under his belly in an attempt to hoick him back. But Tarka slipped off the shillet-burnished iron and broke the stickle.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
text: I smashed my way to 70-odd in about half a dozen overs and when I got served a short one I hoicked it away high over mid wicket.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 69:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hoik.
hot cockles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotcockles
Etymology: From French hautes-coquilles. Compare French main chaude (“hot hand”), referring to the same game. By surface analysis, hot + cockle.
Senses: glosses: a children's game in which a blindfolded person had to guess who was hitting them.
household income
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: household incomes
Senses: glosses: The total income of all members of a household.
unconditionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unconditionally
form: most unconditionally
Etymology: From unconditional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: German armed forces surrendered unconditionally on May 7. Hostilities in Europe ended officially at midnight, May 8. 1945.
ref: 1945 Winston Churchill, Broadcast from the House of Commons, May 8, 1945
text: I love you unconditionally
ref: 2013, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Before Midnight (motion picture), spoken by Jesse (Ethan Hawke):
glosses: Without condition, absolutely.
Synonyms: in any case
Ikizu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Ikizu terms
immolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: 'Unfortunately, and without any fault or negligence on the part of the management of either company, when Mrs Voss got home, she discovered that the tin, in addition to something more than 150 peas, contained a green caterpillar, the larva of one of the species of hawk moth. This innocent insect, thus deprived of its natural destiny, was in fact entirely harmless, since prior to its entry into the tin, it had been subjected to a cooking process of 20 minutes duration at 250 degrees F, and, had she cared to do so, Mrs Voss could have consumed the caterpillar without injury to herself, and even, perhaps, with benefit. She was not, however, to know this, and with commendable civic zeal, she felt it her duty to report the matter to the local authority, and in consequence, grinding slow, but exceeding small, the machinery of the law was set in inexorable motion. 'Thereafter, the caterpillar achieved a sort of posthumous apotheosis. From local authority to the Dorchester magistrates, from the Dorchester magistrates to a Divisional Court presided over by the Lord Chief Justice of England, from the Lord Chief Justice to the House of Lords, the immolated insect has at length plodded its methodical way to the highest tribunal in the land. It now falls to me to deliver my opinion on its case.' (Per Lord Hailsham in Smedleys Ltd v Breed [1974]2 All ER 21(HL) at 24.)
glosses: simple past and past participle of immolate
Derived terms: unimmolated
immolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of immolate
impassable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impassable
form: most impassable
Etymology: From im- + pass + -able.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.
ref: 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 408:
text: [...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The railway and the Devon floods”, in Trains Illustrated, page 709:
qualifier: terrain
glosses: Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.
raw_tags: of a route
glosses: Incapable of being overcome or surmounted.
raw_tags: of an obstacle
glosses: Not usable as legal tender.
raw_tags: of currency
Synonyms: unpassable
Derived terms: impassability
impassableness
impassably
Related terms: impassible
incase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incases
form: incasing
form: incased
form: incased
Etymology: From in- + case.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of encase.
incase
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of in case.
sal ammoniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salammoniac
form: sal-ammoniac
Etymology: From Middle English sal armenak, sal armoniac, salarmoniac, sal armoniacum, sal armoniak, sal armonyak, salarmonyak, salle armonyacke, salt armoniake, salt armonyac, from Latin sal ammōniacus, sal armōniacus (“salt of Amun, ammonium chloride”), named so because it was found near the temple of (Jupiter) Ammon in Egypt. Ammon derives from Ancient Greek Ἄμμων (Ámmōn), from Egyptian jmn. Doublet of salmiac.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a rare mineral composed of ammonium chloride found around volcanic fumaroles and guano deposits.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: ammonium chloride.
in case
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn ˈkeɪs/
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: I'll take an umbrella, in case it rains.
text: I’ve bought a chicken in case grandpa should stay to dine.
text: Many's the day I've spent by the phone in case you called.
glosses: To allow for the possibility that.
examples: text: In case you need me, I'll be home all day.
text: Whenever tempted to resume my sex, I was invariably met with the thought — what then? […] The chances were but few in case I resumed my other character, that I would be able to command the amount necessary for their [her children's] support.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 17:
glosses: If.
Synonyms: sense: to allow for the possibility that
word: in the event
Related terms: english: preposition
translation: preposition
word: in case of
word: in the event that
word: just in case
word: lest
ammonium chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: naushadar
word: sal ammoniac
glosses: A water-soluble salt of ammonia and hydrochloric acid, having the formula NH₄Cl.
innutritious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + nutritious.
Senses: examples: text: The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]
ref: 1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence:
glosses: Not providing nourishment.
A.R.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: Initialism of aqua regia.
Ishmaelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪʃ.meɪ.əˌlaɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪʃ.meɪˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: Ishmaelites
Etymology: From Ishmael + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Any descendant of Ishmael.
glosses: An outcast.
examples: text: The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Shenute is not the oldest surviving work to allege that the Muslim “Ishmaelites” were interested in restoring the biblical Temple. That distinction belongs to the History of Sebeos, which, as we observed in chapter 2, portrays Jews as the driving force behind the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem. This mid-seventh-century chronicle asserts that these Jews “decided to rebuild the Temple of Solomon. . . . But the Ishmaelites, being envious of them, expelled them from that place and called the same house of prayer their own.”
ref: 2023 October 1, David M. Freidenreich, chapter 4, in Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy, Oakland, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 70:
glosses: An Arab Muslim.
Synonyms: child of Ishmael
Related terms: Hagarene
Ismaili
Jita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Jita terms
journeyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: journeyers
Etymology: From Late Middle English journeier; equivalent to journey + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ring sees both the NDE and UFOE as modern day shamanic initiations in which the journeyer (NDEer or UFOer) enters an "imaginal" reality, an alternative reality that coexists with physical reality and that is equally real.
ref: 1992, Spirited Women Book Company (publisher), At the Crossroads, page 48:
text: The latest in this long line of winter journeyers is a British tenor, Mark Padmore, who sang Schubert’s song cycle at Weill Recital Hall on Tuesday night with the pianist Ethan Iverson.
ref: 2008 January 17, Bernard Holland, “For Schubert, a Sad Tale Was the Best for Winter”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A traveller.
kidnapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kidnap
kidnapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: subjected to kidnapping
Derived terms: unkidnapped
kidnaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kidnapers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kidnapper.
Kiha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
Kimochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
Synonyms: Mochi
Mochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
Mochi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mochis
form: Mochi
Senses: glosses: A member of a Hindu caste known traditionally as shoemakers.
Related terms: moochy
Kutu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
kung po
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably from Cantonese 宮保 /宫保 (gung¹ bou²).
Senses: examples: text: A recent menu began with fried dumplings (some of the dumplings had split, which shouldn't happen, but they were of good texture) and continued with subgum fried noodles (that are tender but crisp and a bit smokey‐flavored from frying) and crowned with a mélange of chicken, shrimp and pork; kung po chicken, cubed chicken with fiery‐hot red peppers; and shredded pork in hoi‐sin sauce.
ref: 1971 January 22, Craig Claiborne, “Authentic Chinese Dishes and Questionable New Orleans”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023, page 45:
text: While much of the nation was eating turkey and trimmings today, many of those who sell mo shu pork and kung po chicken for a living ventured to this resort city for a day of rest and relaxation.
ref: 1988 November 25, Patricia Davis, “ASIAN RESTAURANT WORKERS GIVE THANKS FOR A LITTLE RR”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023:
text: It’s the kind of unremarkable if serviceable place you might stumble into after a few too many drinks next door at the dive bar Nice N Sleazy, craving the restorative power of fried noodles and kung po chicken.
ref: 2022 November 10, Malcolm Jack, “Loon Fung, Glasgow, restaurant review: ‘Did I just dine at a secret police station?’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2022, FOOD:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kung pao.
kung pao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gong bao
form: kung po
Etymology: From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 宮保 /宫保 (kung¹-pao³, “palatial guardian”), the title of Ding Baozhen, a late Qing Dynasty official born in Guizhou.
Senses: examples: text: kung pao chicken
text: kung pao pork
text: Speaking of those peppercorns, they feature prominently, as they should, in Shiue’s take on kung pao.
ref: 2021 March 28, Joe Yonan, “Kung pao tofu is a spicy, tingly celebration of Sichuan cooking”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2021:
text: A steaming plate of kung pao anything feels like the part of a fireworks show when small, bright bursts pop without deafening booms.
ref: 2022 July 22, Genevieve Ko, “The Irresistible Thrill of Kung Pao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2022, Food:
text: At members’ mixers, those involved in hospitality, film, art, fashion and tech discuss the latest Mumbai gossip over drinks — typically the club’s signature picante cocktail (tequila based with a fiery chilli and coriander bite) — and canapés such as kung pao chicken and vegetable momos.
ref: 2023 March 17, Rose Astor, “The Indian city that’s everyone’s talking about”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2023, Travel:
glosses: A Sichuan dish of chicken, pork, etc. with peanuts, chilis etc.
lovey-dovey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lovey-dovey
form: most lovey-dovey
Etymology: From love + -y + dove + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And then when she'd put me right off, and I didn't want her, she'd come all lovey-dovey, and get me. And I always went.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
text: This ain't no fooling around / No time for dancing, or lovey dovey / I ain't got time for that now
ref: 1979, “Life During Wartime”, in Fear of Music, performed by Talking Heads:
synonyms: kissy-kissy
glosses: Affectionate in a rather mushy or oversentimental fashion.
Related terms: lovey-doveyness
bill and coo
Mabia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a group of languages spoken in Niger and Congo
Synonyms: Oti-Volta
make good on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes good on
form: making good on
form: made good on
form: made good on
Senses: examples: text: By now South Koreans understand Pyongyang’s logic and know North Korea is highly unlikely to make good on its gothic threats.
ref: 2013 April 9, Andrei Lankov, “Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff.”, in New York Times:
text: The result ensured that manager Sam Allardyce made good on his promise to take the Hammers back into the top flight after his team narrowly missed out on automatic promotion at the end of the regular season.
ref: 2012 May 19, Paul Fletcher, “Blackpool 1-2 West Ham”, in BBC Sport:
text: He made good on his promise to promote more women to leading roles in the Vatican, but still they remain shut out of priesthood.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To fulfill or honor (a promise, prediction etc).
Related terms: word: make good
word: live on
english: to
translation: to
word: live up
Malila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Tanzania
Manila rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: rope made from fibres of Manila hemp
maternity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɜː(ɹ)nɪti/
Forms: form: maternities
Etymology: From French maternité, from Latin māternitās.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a mother; motherhood.
glosses: The state of being pregnant; pregnancy.
examples: text: She's working in maternity this month.
glosses: A ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born.
Synonyms: sense: ward
word: maternity ward
Derived terms: co-maternity
grandmaternity
maternity bra
maternity dress
maternity hospital
maternity jeans
maternity leave
maternity pillow
maternity test
maternitywear
maternity wear
nonmaternity
prematernity
S.V.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of SV.
multichine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + chine.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: (of a hull) having multiple chines
multichine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multichines
Etymology: From multi- + chine.
Senses: glosses: a hull, or vessel having this construction
moue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: moo
Forms: form: moues
Etymology: Borrowed from French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Doublet of mow ("grimace").
Senses: examples: text: [S]he looked at her face and made a moue in the glass; and never stopped for Laura’s answer to the questions which she had put.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 221:
text: She glanced aside to the rim of the looking-glass where his photograph was wedged, shuddered, and made a moue of distaste.
ref: 1913 October, Jack London, chapter VI, in The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
text: She made what I believe, though I wouldn't swear to it, is called a moue. Putting the lips together and shoving them out, if you know what I mean. The impression I got was that she was disappointed in Bertram, having expected better things […].
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Why do you wear European clothes?" fumed Oscar de la Renta with a moue of disapproval and stamp of his bejewelled foot (probably).
ref: 2011 February 2, Hadley Freeman, “Should Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton be patriotic about designers?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.
spirit of wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English spirit of wyn, calque of Latin spiritus vini.
Senses: topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: Aqua vitae prepared by distilling wine.
glosses: Brandy that has been repeatedly distilled.
reshape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reshapes
form: reshaping
form: reshaped
form: reshaped
Etymology: From re- + shape.
Senses: examples: text: Intentional skull reshaping is found in burials across Asia, Europe and Mesoamerica.
ref: 2023 August 18, Mindy Weisberger, “Long-standing mystery of modified human skulls in ancient Japan solved by new analysis”, in CNN:
glosses: To make into a different shape.
examples: text: It’s been nearly one week since the NFL’s legal tampering period began, and GM Joe Douglas has reshaped the New York Jets’ starting offensive line.
ref: 2024 March 17, Paul Bretl, “Jets' OL is reshaped but should still be a priority in draft”, in USA Today:
text: 2024, Paul Salopek, New Map: Ancient Roads of China, National Geographichttps://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-07-new-map-ancient-roads-china
It’s not hard to find antique roads in China. The place has been shaped and reshaped by engineers for thousands of years. As any Chinese schoolchild will tell you, grand civilizations dating to the Bronze Age blazed intricate communications networks that expanded trade and maintained military control.
text: President Donald Trump on Monday announced he had signed four executive orders that will reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces; gutting the military’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs; and reinstating with back pay service members who were discharged for refusing to get vaccinated from Covid-19.
ref: 2025 January 27, Alayna Treene, Pamela Brown, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, “Trump signs executive orders to reshape the military, including banning transgender troops”, in CNN:
text: Courts and Congress are struggling to keep up with the breakneck pace as the Trump administration dramatically reshapes the American government, national politics and international order.
ref: 2025 February 7, Lisa Desjardins, Kyle Midura, “Courts and Congress struggle to keep up with Trump as he reshapes American government”, in PBS:
glosses: To reorganize.
MLLP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Minimal Lower Layer Protocol is any protocol residing in OSI layers one to four, as defined by Health Level 7 (HL7).