cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
romanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of romanize
modern pentathlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modern pentathlons
Senses: examples: text: Dwindling interest and a reputation for being outdated couldn’t change modern pentathlon. A brief video clip of a coach punching a horse at the Tokyo Olympics has altered it forever.
ref: 2021 March 11, Victor Mather, “Modern Pentathlon Drops Equestrian Competition After Abuse Claims”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An athletics event where athletes compete in épée fencing, shooting, freestyle swimming, show jumping and cross country.
Synonyms: pentathlon
hash browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hashbrowns
form: hash-browns
form: hashed browns
Senses: glosses: plural of hash brown
hash browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hashbrowns
form: hash-browns
form: hashed browns
Senses: glosses: Potatoes that have been finely chopped (i.e. hashed) and fried until browned.
Synonyms: sense: finely chopped and fried potatoes
word: home fries
Related terms: hash brownie
rösti
duathlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duathlons
Senses: glosses: An athletic contest consisting of running and cycling.
Related terms: duathlete
nagging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nagging
form: most nagging
Senses: examples: text: nagging doubt
text: nagging pain
text: nagging woman
glosses: Persistently annoying or painful.
Derived terms: naggingly
naggingness
unnagging
nagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nag
nagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naggings
Senses: examples: text: After breakfast it takes a stout heart and strong nerve to tackle the burden of dishwashing, separator, milk things, disorderly house, interspersed with quarrels, naggings, and interruptions of the children[…]
ref: 1998, Norah Lillian Lewis, Dear editor and friends, page 127:
glosses: The action of the verb nag.
nagging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nagging
form: most nagging
Senses: examples: text: Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
ref: 2012 January 24, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2013, page 86:
glosses: Causing persistent mild pain, or annoyance.
vindaloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭndəlo͞oʹ
ipa: /vɪndəˈluː/
enpr: vĭndəlo͞oʹ
ipa: /vɪn.dəˈlu/
Forms: form: vindaloos
form: bindaloo
form: vindalho
form: vindalu
Etymology: From Konkani विंदालू (vindālū), from Portuguese vin-d’alho (“wine and garlic sauce”), from vinho (“wine”) + alho (“garlic”). Not related to English aloo, from Hindi आलू (ālū), but by confusion with this term the dish is often based on potatoes.
Senses: glosses: A blend of chilis, tamarind, ginger, cumin, and mustard seeds, originally from Goa.
examples: text: Gerry ordered poppadoms and parathas and then he was interrupted by requests for vindaloos, chicken madrases and sag joshes, rice, raita and nan, from Priest, Morgan and Maria Grazia.
ref: 2002, Desmond Barry, A Bloody Good Friday, page 157:
glosses: A hot curry made with this spice.
Related terms: tindaloo
rogan josh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rogan joshes
form: roghan ghosht
form: roghan josh
Etymology: From Hindi रोग़न जोश (roġan joś).
Senses: glosses: A Kashmiri dish made with red meat, traditionally lamb or goat, traditionally flavoured with red chilli powder
ciabatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃəˈbɑː.ta/
Forms: form: ciabattas
form: ciabatte
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ciabatta (“slipper, bread”). Doublet of sabot.
Senses: examples: text: Don't waste day-old ciabatta; slice it and bake the slices to make crostini, which will keep for days and can be used for snacks, canapés, or croutons.
ref: 2011, Caroline Bretherton, Illustrated Step-by-Step Baking, page 426:
synonyms: ciabatta bread
glosses: A broad, flat, white Italian bread.
Coordinate terms: focaccia
rye
filone
Related terms: panino
cyclamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclamens
Etymology: Borrowing from New Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclamīnos.
Senses: examples: text: An expectant mother would avoid cyclamen, stepping over it being an ominous sign.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268:
text: The root of the cyclamen, sowbread, was used in ancient times as an ingredient in love potions.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72:
text: An interesting cyclamen was also found here with dark rounded unmarbled leaves, but unfortunately without flowers […]
ref: 1973, Patrick Millington Synge, In search of flowers:
synonyms: sowbread
glosses: Any of various primulaceous flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
examples: text: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A purplish-red colour.
ronde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French [Term?]
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A kind of script in which the tails of the letters are curly, giving the characters a rounded look.
Related terms: english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: chemin de ronde
profonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profondes
Etymology: From French profonde.
Senses: glosses: A secret pocket in a magician's coat, used in vanishing tricks etc.
publique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: publiques
Senses: examples: text: Come follovv vs, / VVe are to ſpeake in publique: for this buſineſſe / VVill raiſe vs all.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 283, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of public.
BEF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B.E.F.
form: B. E. F.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bovine ephemeral fever.
BEF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: B.E.F.
form: B. E. F.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of British Expeditionary Force.
Related terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
word: CEF
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: AEF
machetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machete
machetes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of machete
macheting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of machete
macheted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of machete
eyelashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyelash
citer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: citers
Etymology: From cite + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who cites.
money order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money orders
Senses: examples: text: 1965, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No. 51 - 1965, page 589,
The issue of money orders and postal notes is regulated by sections 74-79 of the Post and Telegraph Act 1901—1961. The maximum amount for which a single money order payable within Australia may be obtained is £40, but additional orders will be issued upon request when larger amounts are to be remitted. The maximum amount permitted to be sent by any one person to a person or persons outside Australia is £A.10 a week. A postal note is not available for a sum larger than twenty shillings.
text: 2007, Gary B. Magee, Andrew S. Thompson, ‘Migrapounds’: Remittance Flows Within the British World, c. 1875—1913, Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Stuart Macintyre (editors), Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, page 47,
In the UK, a Money Order Office was formed in 1838, a separate and specialised department of the Royal Mail that had its origins in an officially sanctioned private business carried on from the late eighteenth century.⁹ […] By 1873, a reliable international money order service was in full operation between the United Kingdom and the majority of its colonies,¹⁰ as well as with a number of other countries, not least the USA.¹¹
text: I begin my discussion of payments with money orders and cashier′s checks because I think they′re just the greatest way to receive payment. Money orders and cashier′s checks are fast, cheap, and negotiable (just like cash).
ref: 2009, Marsha Collier, EBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, page 390:
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: A directive to pay a prespecified amount of money from prepaid funds, making it a more trusted method of payment than a check.
Synonyms: sense: money orders handled by post offices
word: postal note
sense: money orders handled by post offices
word: postal order
sense: money orders handled by post offices
word: post office order
sense: money orders handled by post offices
word: postal money order
sense: postal
english: slip
translation: slip
word: remittance
sense: postal
english: slip
translation: slip
word: transfer
sense: postal
word: pay-in slip
Derived terms: postal money order
Related terms: word: banker's draft
word: banker's draught
word: cashier's check
Mercure
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mercures
Etymology: Borrowed from French Mercure.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
hash-browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hash browns.
hash-browns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hash-brown
a bad workman always blames his tools
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: a bad carpenter blames his tools
form: a poor workman blames his tools
Senses: examples: text: Never had ill workman good tools.
ref: 1881, John Wurtle Lovell, “Jacula Prudentum”, in The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse, New York, page 440
text: An ill labourer quarrels with his tools.
ref: 1881, John Wurtle Lovell, “Jacula Prudentum”, in The Works of George Herbert in Prose and Verse, New York, page 454
glosses: It is not the tools we use that make us good, but rather how we employ them.
glosses: Upon failure, it is easier to blame the tools used rather than how they were employed.
concretes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concrete
concretes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concrete
concreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Excavation and concreting between the piling and the wall was carried out in sections, involving considerable pumping, and this stage of the work was completed in August, 1952.
ref: 1954 June, “Strenghening of River Calder Retaining Wall, N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, pages 428-429:
glosses: present participle and gerund of concrete
concreted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concrete
concreted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concreted
form: most concreted
Senses: examples: text: In 2009, Ruby moved to a much bigger studio complex in Vernon, further south, across the concreted LA River. Last year, Ruby expanded into even bigger premises in the area — 110,000 sq feet of studio space on a four-acre plot.
ref: 2016 August 26, Jonathan Griffin, “Interview: on the road with the US artist Sterling Ruby”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2022:
text: For Gio Fitzpatrick, the project represents the culmination of an old dream. As a 15-year-old exploring St Kilda's Elster Creek – once central to a coastal marsh ecosystem but since reduced to a concreted canal – he stumbled upon a flock of eastern rosellas, a species of birds thought long vanished from the area.
ref: 2020 September 10, Jeff Sparrow, “Undraining the swamp: how rewilders have reclaimed golf courses and waterways”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023:
glosses: Covered in or surrounded by concrete.
examples: text: Hereof the common opinion hath been, and ſtill remaineth amongſt us, that Cryſtall is nothing elſe, but Ice or Snow concreted, and by duration of time, congealed beyond liquation.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 49:
glosses: Solidified.
Derived terms: unconcreted
Troyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /twɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: From French Troyes.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Aube department, in the region of Grand Est, France.
photo echo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo echoes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of resonance sometimes observed as a coherent pulse of light after two similar pulses have traversed a medium.
Related terms: optical nutation
pluriformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pluriform + -ity.
Senses: glosses: plurality
Vannes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Vannes.
Senses: glosses: A town and commune, a prefecture of Morbihan department, Brittany, France.
Tours
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Tours, from Latin Turonum, from Turones, the name of the area's Gaulish inhabitants in antiquity.
Senses: glosses: A city, the largest in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France and the capital of Indre-et-Loire department.
self-immolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-immolations
Etymology: From self- + immolation.
Senses: examples: text: The act of self-immolation
The sweeping wave of self-immolation began in 2009 in the aftermath of the 2008 nationwide uprisings against China. Since then, Tibet has witnessed at least 152 self-immolations. Of these self-immolators,¹ 126 were men and 26 women. The burning flame has consumed 130 lives. Nearly a third of the Tibetans who resorted to self-immolation protest were monks and nuns.² The rest were laypeople from different regions and from all walks of life: students, farmers, teachers, young parents, grandparents and mothers of several children.
ref: 2018, Central Tibetan Administration, Tibet was Never a Part of China: but the Middle Way Approach Remains a Viable Solution, New Delhi: Norbu Graphics, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2019, pages 6–7:
synonyms: autocremation
glosses: The act of setting oneself on fire, especially as a form of protest.
glosses: The act of self-sacrificing oneself, in any manner of ways.
Related terms: self-immolate
motor neuron disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor neurone disease
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
hypernyms: neuron disease
hyponyms: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
glosses: Any of several neurodegenerative disorders that selectively affect motor neurons.
Synonyms: MND
Hyponyms: ALS
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
hereditary spastic paraplegia
Lou Gehrig's disease
Madras motor neuron disease
primary lateral sclerosis
progressive bulbar palsy
progressive muscular atrophy
pseudobulbar palsy
Coordinate terms: lateral sclerosis
deriding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deride
deriding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: deridings
Senses: examples: text: The written word tells us our duty, and we ought to accomplish in solemn silence, but not with revilings and deridings of our pure, holy, and just intentions, the destruction of a race, cursed by divine judgment, […]
ref: 1825, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape: An Historical Tale, page 205:
glosses: An act of derision.
obfuscating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obfuscate
quacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The usual note emitted by this genus is a kind of tremulous querulous bark, not very unlike the quacking voice of a duck. Although all our larger squirrels […]
ref: 1839, Edward Charlesworth, Magazine of Natural History:
glosses: present participle and gerund of quack
quacking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quacking
form: most quacking
Senses: glosses: Making quacking sounds, or prone to doing so.
quacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quackings
Senses: glosses: The sound made by a group of ducks; quacks.
actualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of actualize
acquitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acquit
acquiescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acquiesce
acidifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acidify
clapperboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clapperboards
form: clapper board
Etymology: From clapper + board.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production to be able to synchronize picture and sound during editing.
Synonyms: topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: clapboard
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: clapstick
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: slate
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: slate board
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: sync slate
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: sticks
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: board
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: marker
clapperboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clapperboards
form: clapperboarding
form: clapperboarded
form: clapperboarded
form: clapper board
Etymology: From clapper + board.
Senses: glosses: To use a clapperboard, especially to clap it to start a film take.
jockeying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jockey
jockeying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jockeyings
Senses: examples: text: Selfishness and rapacity would give place to a spirit of justice, equity, and benevolence; contentions, jockeyings, and altercations would cease; peace and concord would prevail, and righteousness and truth would shed their benign influence […]
ref: 1833, Thomas Dick, The Philosophy of Religion, page 214:
text: Through the magazine and blanket distribution, the headset sales and overhead baggage jockeying, the seat next to mine remained empty. With any luck, I'd be able to flip up the armrest and stretch out a little, the better to sleep my way to Chicago.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.3, at p.67-68
glosses: The act of one who jockeys.
jobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of job
jobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jobbings
Senses: glosses: Buying and selling stocks or goods for profit; mercenary trading.
examples: text: It is through the power of Paris, now become the center and focus of jobbing, that the leaders of this faction direct, or rather command the whole legislative and the whole executive government.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 197:
glosses: The fact or practice of using a public office or other position of trust for personal gain.
examples: text: We have not lost sight of the various proceedings, appointments, jobbings, &c, at University College.
ref: 1849, The Lancet London:
glosses: Work carried out by the job; piecework, odd-job work.
Related terms: double jobbing
double-jobbing
jobbing house
land-jobbing
job production
jobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jobbing
form: most jobbing
Senses: examples: text: The jobbing foundryman has very little control over the nature of the jobs which come his way.
text: His performance in Dr No in 1962 set the jobbing actor and former milkman on a path that would lead to Hollywood stardom and all its trappings.
ref: 2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman:
glosses: That does odd jobs; that works on occasional jobs as available.
jingling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jinglings
Senses: examples: the jinglings of many bells
glosses: The sound made by something that jingles.
glosses: An old parlour game in which blindfolded players within a ring attempted to catch another player to whom a bell was tied.
jingling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jingle
jewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Forms: form: jewings
Etymology: In allusion to the curvation stereotypically associated with the noses of Jews.
Senses: glosses: The carunculation of the base of the beak of some varieties of the domestic pigeon; the lobes or wattles of the lower mandible, often in the form of three small fleshy processes, one at each side and a third beneath and before the others.
jewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jew
Machin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪt͡ʃɪn/
Etymology: From machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, from Frankish *makjo (“maker; builder; see make”). More at mason.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
Machin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪt͡ʃɪn/
Forms: form: Machins
Etymology: From machun, from Anglo-Norman machun, masson, from Frankish *makjo (“maker; builder; see make”). More at mason.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Any of a British series of definitive stamps designed by Arnold Machin, first issued in 1967 and featuring a side view portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
Related terms: Downey Heads
Wilding
jewelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jewel
jetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jet
jetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛtɪŋ
Forms: form: jettings
Senses: examples: text: In bad fly years more than five jettings may be needed. But whatever the conditions, except for rare waves of body-strike, while flies are active station labour can control them by working at jetting for about ten days per month.
ref: 1947, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, volume 57, page 589:
glosses: The application of a jet of liquid, especially to treat livestock against pests.
jeering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: more jeering
form: most jeering
Derived terms: jeeringly
jeering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jeer
jeering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: jeerings
Senses: glosses: A mocking utterance.
jazzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæzɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: In the old days, heaps of unmarried women were companions, and let me tell you, my dear girl, they had a much better time than they have now, with all this jazzing and short skirts and pretending to have careers. The modern girl hasn't a scrap of decent feeling or sentiment about her. Money--money and notoriety, that's all she's after. That's what we fought the war for--and that's what we've come back to!
ref: 1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club:
glosses: present participle and gerund of jazz
jangling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: janglings
Senses: glosses: A jangle, the sounds of a jangle.
jangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jangle
butt plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtplʌɡ/
Forms: form: butt plugs
form: buttplug
Etymology: From butt + plug.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, the vibrator was born – and women started going for check-ups a lot more often. But once men caught on to why certain doctors were in such high demand, however, the party was over – and now, in states like Alabama, you can openly carry a gun but not buy a butt plug.
ref: 2014 May 20, Jessica Valenti, “Buying Sex Toys Doesn't Make a Woman ‘Lady Crazy’. It Makes You Totally Normal”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 07 Feb 2022:
text: An inflatable sculpture by American artist Paul McCarthy has been vandalised – and the artist himself assaulted – after a flurry of outrage in Paris over a sculpture that is said to resemble a type of sex toy known, I am informed, as a butt plug.
ref: 2014 October 20, Jonathan Jones, “Shocked by Paul McCarthy's butt plug? You obviously haven't seen his phallic Pinocchio”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Sex toys, butt plugs, lube inside / Hundreds of Trojans, you're so fucking broken / How'd I get caught up in your double life?
ref: 2025, “Pussy Palace”, in West End Girl, performed by Lily Allen:
synonyms: anal plug
glosses: A sex toy designed for insertion into the anus and rectum.
examples: text: Remove the butt plug of the pole and have the athlete grip 8–12 inches (about 20–30.5 cm) in excess of his or her extended reach on a pole placed vertically.
ref: 2000, Joseph L. Rogers, USA Track & Field Coaching Manual, Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 208:
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rubber cap fitted to the end of the pole in pole vaulting; the pole tip.
get-up-and-go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An enthusiastic and energetic drive or ambition.
get-up-and-go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of an enthusiastic or energetic drive or ambition.
Synonyms: word: drive
word: get-there-ativeness
word: motivation
word: oomph
word: pep
cicuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈkjuːtə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cicūta. Apparently related to kex/kix.
Senses: examples: text: cicuta, or hemlock, is a strong poison in Greece, but with us it hath no such violent effects […].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii:
glosses: Hemlock.
tiptoeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tiptoe
farking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fark
peeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːlɪŋ/
homophone: pealing
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Forms: form: peelings
Senses: examples: text: In the culinary process, there are none of those peelings and washings as in the case of potatoes and turnips, […] none of those squeezings and mashings and choppings, before the worthless mess can be got upon the table.
ref: 1847, Food for the Million. Maize against potato:
glosses: The act of removing the outer surface in strips.
examples: text: She flavored the broth with vegetable peelings.
glosses: Strips of an outer rind or surface that has been removed.
Derived terms: barkpeeling
depth peeling
peeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːlɪŋ/
homophone: pealing
rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of peel
second joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second joints
Senses: glosses: The upper joint of the leg of a fowl, especially when used as food
Synonyms: thigh
paymaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪmɑːstə/
Forms: form: paymasters
Etymology: From pay + master.
Senses: glosses: An official in charge of payments to employees, troops, etc.
examples: text: "This would have been completely avoidable if the RDG and their paymasters at the DfT, and Transport Secretary Mark Harper, had invited us to talks sooner."
ref: 2022 November 16, Mel Holley, “Network News: Rail strikes halted to allow for "intensive negotiations"”, in RAIL, number 970, page 9:
glosses: A person or body which demands loyalty or services in return for payment (especially as paid in advance).
Derived terms: Paymaster-General
paymastership
vituperating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vituperate
Dayi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Dayi method, a text-input method for Chinese characters invented after the Cāngjié method and designed to be faster. Like Cāngjié, this system is based on the character shape rather than phonetics.
feminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛmənɪsts/
Senses: glosses: plural of feminist
co-dependent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more co-dependent
form: most co-dependent
form: codependent
Etymology: From co- + dependent.
Senses: glosses: mutually dependent (especially of an unhealthy psychological relationship in which one person perpetuates another's addiction or harmful behaviour)
co-dependent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-dependents
form: codependent
Etymology: From co- + dependent.
Senses: glosses: A person in such a relationship
Related terms: word: codependence
word: codependency
topics: psychiatry
medicine
psychology
human-sciences
sciences
word: dependent personality disorder
photo finishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: All commercial aspects of the processing of photographs apart from simple developing and printing.
photoabsorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + absorption.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A situation in which all of the energy of a photon is transferred to an atom or molecule
Related terms: photoabsorbent
photoabsorber
photoacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to photoacoustics
Synonyms: optoacoustic
Derived terms: photoacoustically
photoacoustic imaging
photoacoustic spectroscopy
photoacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + acoustics.
Senses: glosses: The emission of sound from a material illuminated by a modulated light source
photoactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photoactive
form: most photoactive
Etymology: From photo- + active.
Senses: glosses: Able to convert the energy of light into electricity via photoelectricity
glosses: Able to react chemically under the influence of light
Derived terms: nonphotoactive
photoaddition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoadditions
Etymology: From photo- + addition.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any bimolecular addition reaction that takes place under the influence of light
bantlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bantling
molehill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊlhɪl/
Forms: form: molehills
Etymology: From mole + hill.
Senses: glosses: A small mound of earth created by a mole's burrowing underneath the surface of the ground.
Derived terms: make a mountain out of a molehill
Molehill Green
molehill mountaineer
molehilly
Dalai Lama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdælaɪ ˈlɑːmə/
ipa: /ˈdɑːlaɪ ˈlɑːmə/
Forms: form: Dalai Lamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ (tā la'i bla ma), compound of Mongolian ᠳᠠᠯᠠᠢ (dalai, “ocean”) + Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma, “lama”).
Senses: examples: text: Of the Mongall Tartars.
The Mongalls are a numerous people, and occupy a large extent of country, from this place to the Kallgan, which ſignifies the everlaſting Wall, or the great wall of China. From this wall they ſtretch themſelves northward as far as the river Amoor; and from the Amoor, weſtward, to the Baykail ſea ; where they border with the territories of the Kontayſha, or prince of the black Kalmucks. On the ſouth, they are bounded by a nation called Tonguts, among whom the Delay Lama has his residence.
ref: [1767, Annual register, or a view of the history and politics and literature for the year, page 38, column 2:
text: Szechuen troops defending recognized Chinese territory against the raids of the Tibetans declare that by crossing the Kinsha River the forces of the Da Lai Lama have violated the recent truce. The truce established the stream as the boundary between Tibet and China Proper.
ref: [1933 December 2, “Tibetan Troops Renew Attack on Sikong”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 67, number 1, →OCLC, page 32, column 2:
text: I got a laugh from the Chinese audience when I said I thought that if Jiang and the Dalai Lama did meet, they would like each other very much.
ref: 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 435:
text: I was pleased that President George W. Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama at the Capitol in October 2007.
In March 2008, I led a Congressional delegation to India. Part of our mission was to meet with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, the headquarters of Tibetan exiles.
ref: 2008, Nancy Pelosi, “A Voice That Will Be Heard”, in Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters, Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:
text: At the 2007 APEC Summit in Sydney, I told President Hu I planned to attend a ceremony where the Dalai Lama would receive the Congressional Gold Medal. The Buddhist leader was a source of distress for the Chinese government, which accused him of stirring up separatists in Tibet. I met with the Dalai Lama five times during my presidency, and I found him to be a charming, peaceful man. I told China’s leaders they should not fear him. “This is not meant as a slap at China,” I said, “but as a measure of my respect for the Dalai Lama and for the U.S. Congress. You know my strong belief in religious freedom.”
ref: 2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 428:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism, believed to be an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, and considered the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.
wikipedia: 14th Dalai Lama
Synonyms: word: Grand Lama
word: Great Lama
Related terms: lama
Panchen Lama
British Central Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a former British protectorate in the area of present-day Malawi, between 1891 and 1907.
wikipedia: British Central Africa
ingraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ingrain
bandogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandog
machine tool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃiːn ˈtuːl/
Forms: form: machine tools
Senses: topics: business
engineering
machining
manufacturing
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: tool#Noun
;
machine#Noun
coordinate_terms: hand tool
power tool
glosses: A tool, typically a power-driven machine and typically stationary, used especially for machining (removing hard material via cutting, grinding, or other subtractive processes) and (more broadly) for any mix of subtractive, forming/stamping, or additive work.
B. M. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Military Administration, used in the late 1940s as an overprint on certain stamps of Great Britain used in British offices in Eritrea and Tripolitania.
BIOT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of B. I. O. T..
BIOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BIOTs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of biot
milling machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mĭlʹĭng-mə-shēn'
Forms: form: milling machines
Senses: topics: business
engineering
machining
manufacturing
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: mill
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hypernyms: machine tool
<
machine
coordinate_terms: word: machining center
word: horizontal machining center
word: vertical machining center
word: ;
word: for more, see machine tool § Hyponyms
alt: types of machine tool
glosses: A machine tool in which a rotating cutter is moved against the workpiece (or vice versa) in order to cut the latter to a desired shape.
Related terms: milling cutter
tendering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tender
tendering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderings
Senses: examples: text: As regards manufactured goods a list of contractors is maintained, and a yearly advertisement is issued stating that tenderings for certain articles will be called for during the year, and firms generally are invited to apply […]
ref: 1914, Report, volume 7, page 135:
glosses: The offering of a tender, or bid.
Derived terms: competitive tendering
chairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chair
tabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of table
tabling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tablings
Senses: synonyms: tabulation
glosses: A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
examples: text: On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches
ref: 1867, James Grange, Hints to young shipmasters in drafting and cutting ships' rigging and sails:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
examples: text: The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions.
ref: 1978 April 22, “Woodstock, NY Rights Ordinance Killed in Rules Stalemate”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
glosses: A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.
glosses: The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
glosses: Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
examples: text: My daughter hath there already now of me ten poundes, which I account to be given for her tabling : after this ten poundes will follow another, for her apparel
ref: 1614, Richard Bernard, Terence in English:
glosses: board; support
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same subproblem arises again.
pardoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pardon
pardoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pardonings
Senses: glosses: The act by which somebody is pardoned.
piling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪlɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰaɪ̯ɫlɪŋ]
rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: pilings
Senses: glosses: A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
glosses: The act of heaping up.
topics: arts
crafts
hobbies
ironworking
lifestyle
glosses: The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
Derived terms: piling on
piling rig
sheet piling
piling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪlɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈpʰaɪ̯ɫlɪŋ]
rhymes: -aɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pile
writhing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English writhyng; equivalent to writhe + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Bended in twisting struggle.
writhing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English writhyng; equivalent to writhe + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of writhe
writhing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: writhings
Etymology: From Middle English writhyng; equivalent to writhe + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: But a video, taken from above, projects these writhings as if she were flying at top speed in a tunnel above traffic that’s whooshing past in the opposite direction.
ref: 2007 July 27, Alastair Macaulay, “I May Be Writhing on the Floor, but on Screen I’m Soaring Like Superman”, in New York Times:
glosses: A twisting struggle.
consorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of consort
corallivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corallivores
Etymology: From coral + -vore.
Senses: examples: text: Acanthaster is potentially the most important corallivore in the eastern Pacific, due to its large size and high rate of consumption (about 0.5 m” of coral tissue per month). This corallivore is especially interesting ecologically because of its preferential feeding behavior; it tends to prey on massive, encrusting and nodular coral species, often avoiding branching corals such as Pocillopora spp.
ref: 2013, U. Seeliger, Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America, page 293:
glosses: Any animal that eats coral.
Derived terms: corallivorous
corallivory
calming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calming
form: most calming
Senses: glosses: That calms; soothing, relaxing
Derived terms: calmingly
calmingness
uncalming
calming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calmings
Senses: glosses: The act of making something calmer or an instance of something becoming calmer.
Derived terms: traffic calming
calming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calm
titer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.tɚ/
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: tighter
Forms: form: titers
form: titre
Etymology: From French titre. Doublet of tilde, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: The concentration of a substance as determined by titration.
Related terms: titrant
titratable
titrated
titration
titrator
titer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.tɚ/
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: tighter
Forms: form: titers
form: titering
form: titered
form: titered
form: titre
Etymology: From French titre. Doublet of tilde, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus.
Senses: glosses: To measure a concentration, especially by means of titration
Synonyms: titrate
jig borer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: jĭgʹ bôr'ər
Forms: form: jig borers
Senses: glosses: A type of machine tool invented during the World War I era to make possible the quick-yet-very-precise location of hole centers.
drill press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drĭlʹprĕs
Forms: form: drill presses
Senses: glosses: A machine tool in which a rotating cutter, usually a twist drill, is pushed into a workpiece to produce a hole.
Synonyms: pedestal drill
pillar drill
bench drill
Cabernet Sauvignon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæbə(ɹ)ˈneɪ səʊvɪˈnjɒn/
Forms: form: Cabernet Sauvignons
form: cabernet sauvignon
form: cab sauv
form: cab sav
Senses: glosses: A variety of red grape used principally in wine-making.
glosses: A wine made from such grapes.
Synonyms: cab sav
cabernet sauvignon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabernet sauvignons
Senses: examples: text: As we sat in the tasting room — a Japanese pagoda in the middle of a pond — sampling a pinot noir, a cabernet sauvignon and a white blend that he made, he explained that he tried to make wines accessible to the masses.
ref: 2023 February 15, John Eligon, “Exploring South Africa’s Black Wine Scene”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Cabernet Sauvignon.
twist drill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: twĭstʹdrĭl'
Forms: form: twist drills
Senses: hypernyms: drill bit
drill#Noun
<
cutter
<
tool#Noun
glosses: A rotating cutting tool, used for cutting holes in rigid materials, that consists of an essentially conical point, relieved and fluted to form cutting lips, and spiral flutes which direct the chips away from the lips and toward ejection from the hole.
B. C. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Central Africa, as overprinted on stamps of Rhodesia in 1891.
high speed steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: hīʹspēd stēl'
Forms: form: high speed steels
form: high-speed steel
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A kind of tool steel, invented in the early 20th century, which retains its hardness and temper at high temperatures (at which previous kinds of tool steel would soften), thus allowing cutters made from it to be employed at higher cutting speeds than were previously practical.
Synonyms: HSS
colour code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour codes
form: color code
form: colour-code
Senses: glosses: Any system where colours are used to categorize elements of sets.
Related terms: code blue • code brown • code red • code silver • code white • code yellow
false colour
colour code
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colour codes
form: colour coding
form: colour coded
form: colour coded
form: color code
form: colour-code
Senses: glosses: To mark items with a colour code as a means of sorting.
G. E. A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of German East Africa, found as an occupation overprint stamps of East Africa and Uganda in 1917 for the entire occupied territory, and Kenya and Uganda in 1921 for the part now in Tanzania.
N. F.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Nyassaland Force, used as an overprint in 1916 on the stamps of the Nyassaland Protectorate for use in occupied German East Africa.
parvenus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parvenu