cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
OAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: HD HBO is generally not as good as Showtime HD. Showtime is leaving movies in the OAR (16X9), while HBO insists on butchering the movies to pan and scan. In addition, Showtime is broadcasting in 5.1 Dolby Digital surround...sounds amazing.
ref: 2000 April 19, I Want My DTV!, “Re: Lastest^([sic]) info on HDD200 availabilty?”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of original aspect ratio.
MAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: related: word: JAN
word: FEB
word: APR
word: MAY
word: JUN
word: JUL
word: AUG
word: SEP
word: OCT
word: NOV
word: DEC
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Mar (“March”).
MAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of modified aspect ratio.
MAR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of maroon (eye color).
modified aspect ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: An aspect ratio in which a motion picture is formatted to fit a specific type of screen (historically 1.33:1), as opposed to original aspect ratio.
Synonyms: MAR
bluescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bluescreens
form: bluescreening
form: bluescreened
form: bluescreened
Etymology: From blue + screen; derived from "blue screen of death".
Senses: examples: text: His computer bluescreened because of the prerelease software.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: To emotionally shut down, such as in response to a traumatic personal crisis.
bluescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluescreens
Etymology: From blue + screen; derived from "blue screen of death".
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blue screen.
CEA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CEAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of carcinoembryonic antigen.
glosses: Initialism of collie eye anomaly.
glosses: Initialism of cumulative effects assessment.
CEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Centre for Effective Altruism.
glosses: Initialism of Cinema Exhibition Association.
examples: text: The CEA estimates the behavioral response to a tax increase by combining the labor supply elasticity with the change in the after-tax wage for individuals in each income bracket.
ref: 2025 June 24, “The One Big Beautiful Bill: Legislation for Historic Prosperity and Deficit Reduction”, in whitehouse.gov, page 18:
glosses: Initialism of Council of Economic Advisors.
non-Witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-Witnesses
Etymology: From non- + Witness.
Senses: coordinate_terms: anti-Witness
pro-Witness
glosses: A person who is not a Jehovah's Witness.
non-Witness
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + Witness.
Senses: glosses: Not pertaining to or reserved for Jehovah's Witnesses.
anti-Witness
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-Witness
form: most anti-Witness
Etymology: From anti- + Witness.
Senses: examples: text: The most spectacular manifestation of anti-Witness hostility was a sharp outbreak of violence. In June, 1940, several hundred incidents occurred in which force was directed against Jehovah's Witnesses […]
ref: 1963, Charles Herman Pritchett, Alan F. Westin, The Third Branch of Government: 8 Cases in Constitutional Politics:
text: But it wasn't till he was at Bethel that he began reading them in connection with all the old magazines they had there, and even a few of the anti-Witness books that managed to find their way into little obscure boxes and corners in the library.
ref: 2014, Steve McRoberts, Falling in Truth: The Education of a Jehovah's Witness, page 329:
antonyms: pro-Witness
coordinate_terms: non-Witness
glosses: Opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
anti-Witness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-Witnesses
Etymology: From anti- + Witness.
Senses: glosses: A person who is opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
swanherds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swanherd
swans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swan
swans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swan
exopolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Constructed from Ancient Greek: exo- (“outside; extrasolar”) + politics.
Senses: examples: text: McGill University -- Kirk's Alma Mater and home of the "Shatner" building, now offers, through its Political Science program, a graduate Exopolitics program.
ref: 1996 May 31, “Coyote” from lair.net, “McGill University offers: Exopolitics Program!!!”, in alt.startrek.tos.trekmuse (Usenet):
text: 1999 April, Paris Arnopoulos, Exopolitics: Polis - Ethnos - Cosmos, Classical Theories and Praxis of Foreign Affairs, Nova Science
text: 2003 January, Michael E. Salla, Ph.D., “The Need for Exopolitics: Implications for Policy Makers and Global Peace”, as quoted by John H. Brand, America Speaks Out: Collected Essays from Dissident Writers (2004 March), page 275, Dandelion Books
Exopolitics provides an opportunity for understanding how humanity can better share and manage the resources of this planet with other species, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial
text: In the Exopolitics model, life-bearing planets such as Earth are members of a collective Universe whole that operates under universal law.
ref: 2005 April, Alfred Lambremont Webre, Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe, Universbooks, page 5:
glosses: The art or science of government as concerned with creating or influencing policy toward extraterrestrial phenomena and extraterrestrial beings.
glosses: The art or science of government as concerned with creating or influencing policy towards beings and phenomena from other universes and dimensions.
glosses: The relationship of terrestrial politicians to any future human colonies off the Earth, e.g. on the Moon, other planets, deep space and other star systems.
Related terms: exobiology
exoplanet
exopolitical
exopolitician
astrolinguistics
astronomy
astropolitics
extraterrestrialization
geopolitics
outer space
xenolinguistics
xenopolitics
thio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /θʌɪ.ə(ʊ)/
ipa: /θaɪ.oʊ/
ipa: /θaɪ.ə/
Forms: form: thi-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θεῖον (theîon, “sulfur”).
Senses: examples: text: Chalcogen analogues of monocarboxylic acids with retained names may also be named by placing the prefix ‘thio’, ‘seleno’, or ‘telluro’ in front of the name of the acid.
ref: 2013, Henri A. Favre and Warren H. Powell, eds., Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, 765
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: containing sulfur, especially a compound in which oxygen has been replaced by this element
-ol
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒl/
ipa: /ɔl/
ipa: /ɑl/
Etymology: Shortened from alcohol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alcohol or phenol.
Derived terms: aldol
amidol
butanol
calciferol
carbinol
catechol
citronellol
cortisol
creosol
cresol
diol
enol
estradiol
estriol
ethambutol
ethanol
geraniol
glycerol
glycol
gossypol
guaiacol
inositol
linalool
mannitol
menthol
methanol
nerol
phenol
phytol
propanol
pyrogallol
retinol
sorbitol
sterol
terpineol
thiol
toluol
triol
xylitol
-ol
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒl/
ipa: /ɔl/
ipa: /ɑl/
Etymology: From Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”).
Senses: glosses: Indicating an oily substance
Derived terms: benzol
eugenol
urushiol
xylol
menthol
finder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈfaɪndə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: finders
Etymology: From Middle English findere, equivalent to find + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Finders keepers, losers weepers.
text: The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.
ref: 2012, Alan R. Romero, Property Law For Dummies, page 229:
glosses: One who finds or discovers something.
examples: text: Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.
ref: 1945, John Steinbeck, Cannery Row:
glosses: A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
examples: text: Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
Synonyms: sense: discoverer
word: inventor
sense: discoverer
word: discoverer
Derived terms: Albada finder
comet-finder
ditchfinder
fact-finder
factfinder
faultfinder
finderlist
finder of fact
finderscope
fire finder
fishfinder
gold-finder
key finder
object finder
pathfinder
pure finder
radio direction finder
rangefinder
range finder
rootfinder
statefinder
stud finder
ugly finder
ugly-finder
viewfinder
wayfinder
witchfinder
witch-finder
snappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæpi/
rhymes: -æpi
Forms: form: snappier
form: snappiest
Etymology: From snap + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a snappy response
text: Make it snappy!
translation: Hurry up!
english: Hurry up!
synonyms: fast
immediate
quick
glosses: Rapid and without delay.
examples: text: You're snappy this morning; did you not sleep well?
synonyms: peevish
testy
tetchy
glosses: Irritable.
examples: text: Here he is, looking snappy in his brand-new suit.
text: The niftiest, snappiest slacks you ever saw!
ref: 1933, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 56:
glosses: Tidy; well-dressed; sharp.
examples: text: snappy weather; snappy pace; snappy rejoinder
text: The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: nippy
parky
glosses: Chilly, brisk, sharp.
examples: text: a snappy dog
text: These spring-loaded seats are a bit harder and very snappy when you get off them.
ref: 2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 56:
glosses: Tending to snap or bite.
examples: text: a snappy motto
glosses: Clever, catchy.
Derived terms: look snappy
make it snappy
snappily
snappiness
snappy gum
careworn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛːwɔːn/
ipa: /ˈkɛəɹˌwɔɹn/
Forms: form: more careworn
form: most careworn
form: care-worn
Etymology: From care (“sorrow, worry”) + worn.
Senses: examples: text: The weeks of working hard to look after his sick family left him looking careworn.
text: At length the long-expected knock was heard. She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was care-worn and depressed, though he was young. There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 139:
text: The effect upon his personal appearance of this wear and tear of his intellect was striking and manifest. The hue of youth and health entirely departed from his cheeks, and he looked so sad and careworn, that it was quite a terrible thing to look upon a young lad so, as it were, upon the threshold of existence, and in whom anxious thoughts were making such war upon the physical energies.
ref: 1846–1847, attributed to James Malcolm Rymer and/or Thomas Peckett Prest, “The String of Pearls: A Romance”, in Edward Lloyd, editor, The People’s Periodical and Family Library, London: E. Lloyd, →OCLC, chapter 14 (“Tobias’s Threat, and Its Consequences”); republished as Sweeney Todd: The String of Pearls: The Original Victorian Classic, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2015, →ISBN, page 121:
text: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 10:
text: I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 35:
text: Played acoustically, glacially paced and sung in Kristofferson's parched, age-weathered voice, even his more lighthearted songs – Jesus Was a Capricorn, Best Of All Possible Worlds – were leant^([sic – meaning lent]) an eerie gravitas, while Me and Bobby McGee and Sunday Morning Coming Down sounded heartbreakingly careworn and poignant.
ref: 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 Verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and More”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2017:
glosses: Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.
wikipedia: Lockheed Corporation
National Archives and Records Administration
Derived terms: carewornness
make it snappy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes it snappy
form: making it snappy
form: made it snappy
form: made it snappy
Senses: examples: text: Bring me a coffee, and make it snappy!
text: "Here's your shirt," said Slippery. "Make it snappy, we're late."
ref: 1927 April, Boys' Life, page 16:
glosses: To do something quickly; to be quick about something.
Synonyms: snap it up
pheromones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pheromone
tsatlee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tsætˈliː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: tsatlees
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 七里 (cat¹ lei⁵, literally “seven li”), a placename.
Senses: glosses: A high-quality white raw silk from Zhejiang, China, produced mostly for export.
tschermakite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tschermakites
Etymology: For Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg, + -ite.
Senses: glosses: a complex silicate mineral (a kind of hornblende) containing calcium, magnesium, aluminium and ferric iron found in metamorphic rocks
tsotsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtsɒtsi/
Forms: form: tsotsis
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare Shona tsotsi (“criminal”)
Senses: examples: text: A gang of tsotsis – hooligans – attacked a group of older men, and when the owner tried to throw them out they ran amok in the place, smashing everything in their way.
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 39:
text: Gangsters – known as tsotsis – carrying flick-knives or switchblades were plentiful and prominent [...].
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 88:
text: Mandela, standing up for all the tsotsis out there, said: "Don't dismiss any youngsters who are not behaving according to your wishes."
ref: 2006 March 17, Cape Times:
glosses: A hoodlum or street thug, especially one from the townships; a township skollie.
Derived terms: tsotsitaal
tsuica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Romanian țuică (“tsuica”).
Senses: glosses: A Romanian plum brandy.
plum brandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plum brandies
Senses: glosses: A distilled alcoholic drink made with plums.
Related terms: slivovitz
tsuica
tsumebite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tsumeb, a town in Namibia, + -ite.
Senses: glosses: a mixed basic phosphate and sulphate of lead and copper that is found as green crystals
modifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of modify
tsutsumu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese つつむ.
Senses: glosses: The Japanese art of wrapping items in an attractive and appropriate manner.
hubby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌbi/
ipa: /ˈhʊbi/
rhymes: -ʌbi
Forms: form: hubbies
Etymology: Diminutive of husband + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Laura thought Jack was the most wonderful hubby in the world.
text: “But they have done more than talk — they have written — written to my hubby — I'm sure of it,” said the Man's Wife, and she pulled a letter from her husband out of her saddle-pocket and gave it to the Tertium Quid.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 50:
glosses: Husband.
Synonyms: word: hubbyman
Derived terms: househubby
hubster
hubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌbi/
ipa: /ˈhʊbi/
rhymes: -ʌbi
Forms: form: hubbier
form: hubbiest
Etymology: From hub + -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: A road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.
glosses: Full of hubs or protuberances.
chicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkliː/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chicle, from a Nahuan language; compare Classical Nahuatl tzictli.
Senses: glosses: The milky latex of the sapodilla tree, used after coagulation as the principal ingredient of chewing gum.
Derived terms: chiclet
hubbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌbiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of hubby
arachnodactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arachno- + dactyly.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: a condition in which the fingers and hands are abnormally long and slender
Coordinate terms: polydactyly
syndactyly
Derived terms: congenital contractural arachnodactyly
cleanliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛn.li.nɪs/
ipa: /ˈklɛn.li.nəs/
Forms: form: cleanlinesses
Etymology: From cleanly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Both engines and carriages were maintained in admirable cleanliness, and a very high standard of neatness characterised the permanent way and lineside buildings.
ref: 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:
glosses: The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.
glosses: Ritual purity.
Derived terms: cleanliness is next to godliness
Related terms: cleanness
cleanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛnli/
rhymes: -ɛnli
Forms: form: cleanlier
form: more cleanly
form: cleanliest
form: most cleanly
form: clenly
Etymology: From Middle English clenly, clenliche, clanly, from Old English clǣnlīċ (“cleanly, pure, excellent”), equivalent to clean + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I'l now lead you to an honeſt Ale-houſe, where we ſhall find a cleanly room, Lavender in the windowes, and twenty Ballads ſtuck about the wall; […]
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], chapter II, in The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN, page 49:
text: [H]is lov'd partner boaſtful of her hoard,
Diſplays the cleanly platter on the board; […]
ref: 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 11:
text: There were some flat slabs of rock in the centre, with an excellent well close by, and there we sat in cleanly comfort while we made our first plans for the invasion of this new country.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘The most Wonderful Things have Happened’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 165:
glosses: Being habitually clean, practising good hygiene.
examples: text: In our Fantaſtic Climes the Fair / With cleanly Powder dry their Hair: […]
ref: 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC, canto II, page 354:
glosses: Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.
examples: text: Yet at the laſt (ſo well he him applyde,) / Through his fine handling, and cleanly play, / He all thoſe royall ſignes had ſtolne away, / And with the Foxes helpe them borne aſide, / Into a ſecret corner vneſpide.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC, signature P2, verso:
glosses: Adroit; dexterous; artful.
Derived terms: cleanlily
cleanliness
overcleanly
uncleanly
cleanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛnli/
rhymes: -ɛnli
ipa: /ˈkliːnli/
rhymes: -iːnli
ipa: /ˈklɛnli/
rhymes: -ɛnli
Forms: form: cleanlier
form: more cleanly
form: cleanliest
form: most cleanly
Etymology: From Middle English clenly, clenli, clenliche, from Old English clǣnlīċe (“cleanly”), equivalent to clean + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was very cleanly dressed, in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, and nankeen trowsers; […]
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “I Make another Beginning”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 157:
glosses: In a clean way, neatly.
examples: text: We agreed to break off our relationship cleanly.
text: Fortunately, the bullet passed cleanly through your shoulder.
glosses: Not causing a mess or unnecessary damage.
examples: text: If I do growe great, ile growe leſſe, for ile purge and leaue Sacke, and liue cleanlie as a noble man ſhould do.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], signature [K4], recto:
glosses: Innocently; without stain.
examples: text: The boy will do well certain : give him grace To have a quick hand and convey things cleanly
ref: c. 1616, Thomas Middleton, The Witch:
glosses: Adroitly; dexterously
unstinting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)ʌnˈstɪntɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌʌnˈstɪntɪŋ/
ipa: [-ɾɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪntɪŋ
Forms: form: more unstinting
form: most unstinting
Etymology: From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + stint (“to be mean or sparing”) + -ing (suffix forming present participles of verbs), or un- + stinting (“mean, sparing”). Stint is derived from Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to assuage; to make dull; to stint”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan (“to make dull; to shorten”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną (“to make dull; to shorten”) and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to hit; to push”), probably influenced by Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
Senses: examples: text: We thank her for her unstinting support of our new hospital.
text: Tactically smart, Leeds' work-rate was also admirable, their players often doubling up on Everton's main threats like Marouane Fellaini, while Victor Anichibe[sic] found he had unwelcome, unstinting company throughout.
ref: 2012, Ben Smith, “Leeds United 2 – 1 Everton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2023:
glosses: Generous and tireless with one's contributions of money, time, etc.
Derived terms: unstintingly
unstintingness
Related terms: stint
stinting
stintingly
commentator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɒmənˌteɪtə/
Forms: form: commentators
form: commentatour
Etymology: In form, from Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor (“author, inventor, interpreter, jailer”), from commentātus + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from commentāri (“to ponder, to study, to write upon”), from comminīscor (“to think over, to invent”) + -tārī (“to frequently be ~ed”). In meaning, influenced by comment and commentary.
Senses: examples: text: He was a commentator for football two years before retiring.
text: Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators.
ref: 2025 February 19, Christian Wolmar, “Reeves talks of 'growth' but pays lip service to the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 35:
glosses: A person who makes a commentary, particularly
glosses: A person who makes a commentary, particularly
Synonym of historian or chronicler, a person who compiles an annotated history.
synonyms: word: historian or chronicler
extra: a person who compiles an annotated history
glosses: A person who makes a commentary, particularly
A person who compiles explanations and critical notes on a text.
examples: text: It would be well into the fourteenth century before the commentators came into their own.
ref: 2009, Randall Lesaffer, European Legal History: A Cultural and Political Perspective, →ISBN, page 257:
topics: law
glosses: A person who makes a commentary, particularly
A person who compiles explanations of the law, particularly (historical) comparatively innovative European jurists in the 14th century, as opposed to earlier glossators.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A person who makes a commentary, particularly
A person who compiles explanations of biblical passages.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
media
sports
glosses: A person who makes a commentary, particularly
A person who provides an instantaneous description of a public event, particularly a sporting event, for a mass media audience.
topics: media
glosses: A person who makes a commentary, particularly
A person who provides analysis or opinion on current events, especially for a mass media audience.
Synonyms: sense: expositor on law or scripture
word: interpreter
Derived terms: cocommentator
color commentator
commentate
commentatorship
commentatress
subcommentator
supercommentator
Related terms: commentary
doggedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔɡədli/
ipa: /ˈdɒɡɪdli/
Forms: form: more doggedly
form: most doggedly
Etymology: From Middle English doggedlich, doggetly, doggidly, doggydly; equivalent to dogged + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly.
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, “The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood”, in The Crayon Papers:
text: I continued to pound along doggedly. I was grimly resolute.
ref: 1906, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 6, in Love Among the Chickens:
text: She was married to someone.
He was doggedly determined he would get her.
ref: 1983, Paul Simon, Train in the Distance:
text: Unemployment hovered doggedly near 10%.
ref: 2010 December 9, Ishaan Tharoor, “Obama's Quagmire II: The Economy”, in Time, retrieved 28 Apr 2014:
text: The announcement was made in Leeds - the largest city in Europe without a mass transit system. It's also a city which has been doggedly pressing (to little avail) for an integrated transport system for two decades.
ref: 2024 December 11, Richard Wilcock, “Strategy offers a chance to reset local transport planning”, in RAIL, number 1024, page 10:
glosses: In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
examples: text: 'Nay,' said Dr Johnson, 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself DOGGEDLY to it.' [Footnote: This word is commonly used to signify sullenly, gloomily and in that sense alone it appears in Dr Johnson's Dictionary. I suppose he meant by it 'with an OBSTINATE RESOLUTION, similar to that of a sullen man'.]
ref: 1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.:
glosses: sullenly, gloomily
misconception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪs.kənˈsɛp.ʃən/
Forms: form: misconceptions
Etymology: From mis- + conception.
Senses: examples: text: There are several common misconceptions about the theory of relativity.
text: You're obviously under the misconception that I care about your problems.
text: He had the misconception that the word "misconception" meant becoming pregnant with a girl.
text: From November 28 to December 8, 1958, the CCP Central Committee held its sixth plenum in Wuhan, Hopei^([sic – meaning Hupei]), and at the end of the session it issued a revealing resolution that declared there had been some misconception about the system and that party committees throughout the countryside should make full use of the five months from December 1958 to April 1959 to tidy up the communes.
ref: 1968, Lucian W. Pye, “The Political Process in Action: The Communes”, in The Spirit of Chinese Politics: A Psychocultural Study of the Authority Crisis in Political Development, M.I.T. Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 203:
text: It is a common misconception that anal intercourse is an exclusively homosexual male practice. […] As elsewhere in Africa, little data exist on the role of anal sex in HIV acquisition in women in the general population […]
ref: 2010, S. S. Abdool Karim, Q. Abdool Karim, HIV/AIDS in South Africa, page 299:
text: We also found that because of the prevalence of cannabis in serious and fatal crashes, the changes in state laws regarding its legal use, and the public’s misconceptions about its impairing effects on driving, educating drivers on the impairing effects of cannabis use and the illegality of driving under its influence is critical to highway safety.
ref: 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
glosses: A mistaken belief, a wrong idea.
Derived terms: mythconception
Carter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹtɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːtə/
homophone: carter
homophone: carder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Carters
Etymology: As an English name, from the occupation carter. As an Irish name, from Irish Mac Artúir (literally “son of Arthur”).
Senses: examples: text: In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.
ref: 2024 December 14, Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and fame’”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a carter.
examples: text: In September 2019, Carter warned Americans against reelecting Trump. […] In April 2021, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visited the Carters at their home in Plains, after the former presidential couple was unable to travel to Washington for the 46th president’s inauguration.
ref: 2024 December 29, Stephen Collinson, “Jimmy Carter, a one-term president who became a globe-trotting elder statesman, dies at 100”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for someone who was a carter.
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States of America
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A former unincorporated community in Washington County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Spencer County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Chouteau County, Montana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Beckham County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tripp County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Parker County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wabeno, Forest County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mercer, Iron County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Uinta County, Wyoming.
Derived terms: Carter Bar
Carter catastrophe
Carter County
Carter Springs
Cartersville
Carterton
carter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹtɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑːtə/
homophone: Carter
homophone: carder stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: carters
Etymology: From Middle English carter, cartere, cartare, equivalent to cart + -er. Merged with Middle English careter, caretier (“coachman, charioteer”, a surname), from Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).
Senses: examples: text: They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 95:
glosses: A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
glosses: A fish, the whiff or Marysole.
Coordinate terms: horse-drawn
oxcart
Derived terms: cane carter
carterly
shit-carter
under-carter
undercarter
Related terms: cartman
cartwright
Richardson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃɚdsən/
Forms: form: Richardsons
Etymology: From Richard + -son.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Kentucky.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
A township in Morrison County, Minnesota.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
A township in Butler County, Nebraska.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
A city in Dallas County and Collin County, Texas; an affluent inner suburb of Dallas.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia.
glosses: A placename:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Clayton, Polk County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Richardson County.
Derived terms: Richardson County
Richardson Highway
Richardson's owl
Richardson's theorem
Related terms: Richards
Richard
Collins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑlɪnz/
ipa: /ˈkɒlɪnz/
Forms: form: Collinses
form: Collin
form: Colin
form: Collings
form: Colling
form: Collis
form: Colins
form: Collen
form: Cullan
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Colin.
* As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Coileáin, see Cullen, McQuillan, and McCallion.
* As a French surname, Americanized from Collin and Colette.
* As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Kolenc, from koleno (“knee”) and the obsolete kolenc (“nipplewort”).
Senses: examples: text: "But your own name too sounds funny," Tampio said. "Your names are repeated. Only you have spelt one wrongly. How could you call yourself Colin Collins? Here in Cameroon, we only know about Collins."
ref: 2011, Colin Diyen, Ring Road Safari, African Books Collective, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Collins and the Trump campaign on Wednesday celebrated the recount decision from the Georgia secretary of state as a victory for “integrity” and “transparency.”
ref: 2020 November 11, Veronica Stracqualursi, “Georgia to conduct full by-hand count of presidential race ballots, secretary of state says”, in CNN:
text: The Collinses — parents of four children — present themselves as rationalists, techies trying to solve the looming depopulation crisis by any means necessary. (Simone was pregnant with the fourth child during the conference. That baby, Industry Americus Collins, was born in April.)
ref: 2024 April 28, Gaby Del Valle, “The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population”, in POLITICO:
glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic from the given name Colin.
glosses: A surname from Irish, anglicized from Irish Ó Coileáin.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A town in New York; named for a local dairy farming family.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Covington County, Mississippi; named for Mississippi statesman Fred W. Collins.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city in Georgia; named for early settler Perry Collins.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A city in Iowa.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A village in Missouri; named for the local judge William Collins.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A former settlement in Fresno County, California.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Napa County, California.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Indiana; named for railroad official James Collins.
glosses: A locale in the United States.
A census-designated place in Wisconsin; named for railroad official Sumner J. Collins.
Derived terms: Collins Green
Collinsian
collinsite
Collinsville
Fort Collins
Collins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑlɪnz/
ipa: /ˈkɒlɪnz/
Forms: form: Collinses
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Colin.
* As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Coileáin, see Cullen, McQuillan, and McCallion.
* As a French surname, Americanized from Collin and Colette.
* As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Kolenc, from koleno (“knee”) and the obsolete kolenc (“nipplewort”).
Senses: examples: text: He ordered a schpritzer for himself (it was a hot summer day) and after she'd finished her Collins, he asked if she wanted to order.
ref: 1966, Nicholas Samstag, Come and see my shining palace, page 268:
glosses: Any of various alcoholic drinks made with lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water.
Synonyms: collins
John Collins
Tom Collins
Collins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑlɪnz/
ipa: /ˈkɒlɪnz/
Etymology: From Collin + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Collin
Related terms: Colins
Coll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
homophone: coll
homophone: col
homophone: call (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: Uncertain. The island name, from Latin Colosus (704 AD), is often associated with an Old Irish *koll or Proto-Brythonic *koll, themselves both from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”). Derivation from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós, “giant figure”) has been called "naïve" by Coates (2006).
Senses: glosses: A medieval English short form of the male given name Nicholas; very rare today.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
Derived terms: pet form Colin
retract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɹækt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɹækt/
ipa: /ɹiˈtɹækt/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɹækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: retracts
form: retracting
form: retracted
form: retracted
Etymology: From Late Middle English retracten, retract (“to absorb, draw in”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), the perfect passive participle of Latin retrahō (“to draw or pull back, withdraw; to bring back; to compel to turn back; to recall; to get back, recover; to hold back, restrain, withhold; to remove, take away; to bring to light again; (Late Latin) to delay”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + trahō (“to drag, pull; to extract, withdraw”). Doublet of retreat.
Senses: examples: text: An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.
text: The collector shoes are automatically retracted when the electric handle is moved from "service off" to "lock off".
ref: 1962 June, “The Design of the S.R. Electro-diesels”, in Modern Railways, Shepperton, Surrey: Ian Allen Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 393:
synonyms: pull back
glosses: To pull (something) back or back inside.
examples: text: A cat can retract its claws.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: pull back
glosses: To pull (something) back or back inside.
To draw (an extended body part) back into the body.
antonyms: extend
protrude
glosses: To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
glosses: To hold back (something); to restrain.
examples: text: The bus was stuck at the stop as its wheelchair ramp wouldn’t retract after use.
text: Muscles retract after amputation.
glosses: To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
Derived terms: word: nonretractable
word: nonretractile
word: nonretracting
word: retractability
word: retractibility
word: retractable
word: retractible
word: retracted
word: retractile
word: retractility
word: retracting
word: retractor
word: unretractable
word: unretracted
word: unretractile
Related terms: nonretraction
retraction
retractive
retreat
retract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɹækt/
ipa: /ɹɪˈtɹækt/
ipa: /ɹiˈtɹækt/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɹækt/
rhymes: -ækt
Forms: form: retracts
Etymology: Partly:
* from retract (verb) (see etymology 1); and
* from Late Latin retractus (“a pulling back, retreat; refuge”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), the perfect passive participle of Latin retrahō (“to draw or pull back, withdraw; to bring back; to compel to turn back; to recall; to get back, recover; to hold back, restrain, withhold; to remove, take away; to bring to light again; (Late Latin) to delay”) (see etymology 1) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs). Doublet of retrait, retreat, and ritratto.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey began to finde fault with Poeſie, […] ſaying, that metaphors æmigmaticall, and covert words, yea and the ambiguities which Poetry uſeth, were but ſhifts, retracts, and evaſions to hide and cover all, whenſoever the events fell not out accordingly.
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “Why the Prophetesse Pythia Giveth No Answers Now from the Oracle in Verse or Meeter”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1199A:
glosses: An act of retracting or withdrawing (a mistake, a statement, etc.); a retraction.
examples: text: Theſe Græcians alſo that made the retract, aduiſed Darius [III] to retire his Armie into the plaine of Meſopotamia, to the end that Alexander being entred into thoſe large fields and great Champions, he might haue inuironed the Macedonians on all ſides with his multitude; […]
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “Of Alexander the Great”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, 4th book, §. IIII (Of the Vnwarlike Armie Leauied by Darivs against Alexander. […]), page 179:
glosses: A pulling back, especially (military) of an army or military troops; a pull-back, a retreat; also, a signal for this to be done.
topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subgroup of a given group such that there is a surjective endomorphism from the ambient group to the subgroup which is constant on the subgroup; in this case the subgroup is a retract of the ambient group. In symbols: H in G is a retract of G if there exists a surjective homomorphism σ from G to H with σ|_H= operatorname id.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The target of a retraction.
glosses: Synonym of retreat (“an act of accidentally injuring a horse's foot by incorrectly nailing it during shoeing”).
synonyms: word: retreat
extra: an act of accidentally injuring a horse's foot by incorrectly nailing it during shoeing
Derived terms: deformation retract
Hussain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Husayn.
examples: text: Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
ref: 2002 July 14, “Did Hussain go too far?”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2019:
glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Husain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Husayn.
opposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opposable
form: most opposable
Etymology: From oppose + -able.
Senses: antonyms: unopposable
glosses: Susceptible to being opposed or resisted.
examples: text: The thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
antonyms: nonopposable
glosses: Capable of being placed opposite something else.
Derived terms: opposable thumb
opposably
unopposable
Richards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English and Welsh patronymic surname from the given name Richard.
glosses: A village in Vernon County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Grimes County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A suburb of Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Related terms: Richardson
Richards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Richard
uncleanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈklɛnli/
Forms: form: more uncleanly
form: most uncleanly
Etymology: From Middle English unclenlī, onclenlich, from Old English unclǣnlīc, equivalent to un- + cleanly.
Senses: examples: text: Prosodemic typhoid from its nature may be disseminated in innumerable ways, but is more frequently found in slum districts, where the habits of the people are uncleanly, or in districts where there is no adequate sewerage.
ref: 1907, Annual Report, Ohio. State Board of Health:
glosses: Dirty, unhygienic, not clean.
glosses: Not pure in a moral or religious sense.
Synonyms: unclean
uncleanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈklɛnli/
ipa: /ʌnˈkliːnli/
ipa: /ʌnˈklɛnli/
Forms: form: more uncleanly
form: most uncleanly
Etymology: From Middle English unclenly, onclenly, unclenely; compare Old English unclǣnlīce; equivalent to unclean + -ly.
Senses: glosses: not in a clean way; in an unclean way
chapeau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæˈpəʊ/
ipa: /ʃæˈpoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: chapeaus
form: chapeaux
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French chappeau. The interjection is after Modern French chapeau in similar use, originally short for chapeau bas.
Senses: glosses: A hat.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A cap of maintenance.
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: The mass of grape solids that floats on the surface during the fermentation of wine.
topics: law
glosses: The text at the start of a numbered section of a legal document that appears directly beside the section number, ahead of any numbered subsections.
qualifier: international law
glosses: A passage of introductory text appearing in a treaty that broadly defines its principles, objectives, and background.
Derived terms: chapeaued
Related terms: chapeau-bras
chapeaugraphy