cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cool-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cool-headed
form: most cool-headed
Senses: examples: text: The best headteachers are like submarine captains – cool-headed, astute decision-makers – who trust their colleagues and surroundings to indicate where their ship is headed.
ref: 2014 September 23, A teacher, “Choosing a primary school: a teacher's guide for parents”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: even-keeled
word: even-tempered
word: level-headed
word: calm
word: collected
word: composed
word: cool-headed
word: equable
word: equanimous
word: equanimitable
word: even-keeled
word: even-minded
word: even-tempered
word: imperturbable
word: laid-back
word: level-headed
word: mellow
word: pacate
word: pacific
word: peaceable
word: peaceful
word: phlegmatic
word: placid
word: quiescent
word: quiet
word: relaxed
word: roolie
word: sedate
word: serene
word: still
word: tranquil
word: unexcited
word: unfazed
word: unflappable
word: unflustered
word: unperturbable
word: unruffable
word: unruffled
word: untumultuous
glosses: Calm and imperturbable, especially under pressure.
Derived terms: cool-headedness
Related terms: cool head
cool heads will prevail
pop art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From op art and abbreviation of popular, attributed to English art critic Lawrence Alloway (1926–1990).
Senses: examples: text: Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp and porn.
ref: 1978, Don DeLillo, Running Dog, New York: Knopf, page 148:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A genre of art that uses elements of popular culture, often using techniques from commercial art and advertising.
wikipedia: Lawrence Alloway
Related terms: op art
popcrete
crow's foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crow's feet
form: crows' feet
form: crow's-foot
form: crowsfoot
Etymology: From Middle English crowes feet pl.
Senses: examples: text: You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 305–306:
text: The Food and Drug Administration says it's an effective temporary treatment for crow's feet, the wrinkles that form next to aging eyes.
ref: 2013 September 11, Kim Painter, “New wrinkle: Botox approved to treat crow's feet”, in USA Today:
glosses: A small wrinkle in the corner of an eye, emblematic of aging.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A triangular embroidery stitch.
examples: text: The crow's-foot notation similarly represents relationships.
ref: 1999, Robert J Muller, Database Design for Smarties:
text: Each crow's foot in your ER diagram indicates the need for a foreign key.
ref: 2007, Geoff Coffey, Susan Prosser, Filemaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
glosses: A number of lines rove through a long wooden block, supporting the backbone of an awning horizontally.
glosses: A caltrop.
examples: text: My foreman with his faked assistant had littered the place with all my apparatus, my bellbox, my crowsfoot, the V-drills, the rods, and the weight, but Malone insisted that we disregard all that and descend ourselves to the lowest level.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: A device for supporting a tripod to prevent the legs from slipping.
glosses: Certain flowering plants
glosses: Certain flowering plants
especially, in genus Ranunculus
op art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of optical art
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A genre of abstract art that uses geometric shapes and vivid colours to create optical illusions, such as an illusion of movement.
Synonyms: optical art
Related terms: pop art
laughter lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughter-lines
Etymology: Especially visible when smiling or laughing.
Senses: examples: text: She wanted to hear his man's voice and see the laughter-lines come and go round his eyes.
ref: 1919, Cosmo Hamilton, Who Cares?:
synonyms: crow's feet
glosses: Wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye.
examples: text: A fat, orbicular and jolly soul / With laughter-lines upon each rosy jowl
ref: 1903, Ambrose Bierce, “The Saint and the Monk”, in Shapes of Clay:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see laughter, lines.
cooperage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooperages
Etymology: From cooper + -age.
Senses: synonyms: coopering#Noun
glosses: The art, trade, or products of a cooper (barrelmaker).
glosses: The price paid to a cooper for work carried out.
glosses: A cooper's workshop.
copay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊˌpeɪ/
Forms: form: copays
form: copaying
form: copaid
form: copaid
form: co-pay
Etymology: From co- + pay.
Senses: glosses: To jointly pay with another or others.
copay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊˌpeɪ/
Forms: form: copays
form: co-pay
Etymology: From co- + pay.
Senses: examples: text: The White House announced that, starting next year, Medicare copays for insulin will be capped at $35. Recipients who select drug plans with the new benefit could save about $450 a year.
ref: 2020, 2:24 from the start, in News Wrap: Afghan government begins releasing Taliban prisoners, episodes 05-26, Judy Woodruff (actor), PBS NewsHour:
glosses: A copayment.
copayment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copayments
Etymology: From co- + payment.
Senses: glosses: A fixed fee paid by subscribers to a medical insurance scheme for each treatment or service in addition to a membership fee.
Synonyms: copay
Hypernyms: cost-sharing requirement
Coordinate terms: coinsurance
deductible
copulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpjʊlətɪv/
Etymology: From Latin copulativus.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to copulation.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That acts as a copula.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That connects the subject of a clause with its complement.
Derived terms: copulatively
noncopulative
copulative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpjʊlətɪv/
Forms: form: copulatives
Etymology: From Latin copulativus.
Senses: examples: text: They understand Polygamie to be a Conjunction of divers Copulatives in number, which is not understood till a person proceeds unto a fourth Wife, which makes more than one Copulative in the rule of Marriage.
ref: 1679, Paul Rycaut, The present state of the Greek and Armenian churches:
glosses: A connection.
examples: text: In Polysyndeton conjunctions flow,
And every word its copulative will shew.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Copulative.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 53:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A copulative conjunction.
Related terms: catenative
neo-natal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neonatal.
pump iron
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pumps iron
form: pumping iron
form: pumped iron
form: pumped iron
Senses: examples: text: Her upper body strength has been improving since she started pumping iron at the gym.
text: For years now, Arnold Schwarzenegger has made the talk-show rounds telling audiences that pumping iron is better than sex. No wonder it took him so long to find a bride.
ref: 1987 September, Robert McKay, “The National Standard”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 104:
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To lift weights; to engage in weight or strength training.
corer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːɹə/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹɚ/
homophone: Koror
Forms: form: corers
Etymology: From core + -er.
Senses: glosses: A utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or vegetables
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A device used to take core samples for analysis
Derived terms: apple-corer
hive mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hive minds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hivemind.
corespondent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corespondents
form: co-respondent
Etymology: From co- + respondent.
Senses: examples: text: It was simply a certified copy of the decree in the divorce case of a prominent society woman, Mrs. Percy Schermerman, who had named as corespondent a still more prominent woman, Mrs. Willoughby Worthington. The evidence had been sealed, and the yellower papers had toiled in vain to find out just who the prominent corespondent was.
ref: 1913 June 7, Rupert Hughes, “Memling Must Have an Alibi”, in The Popular Magazine, volume 28, number 6, page 160:
topics: law
glosses: One of two or more persons against whom a lawsuit is made; but especially a person charged with committing adultery with the defendant in a divorce proceeding.
Related terms: correspondent
cornball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornballs
Etymology: From corn + ball.
Senses: examples: text: How large and inviting were the cornballs that piled the platter, and how crisp and glossy the braids and twists of molasses candy that mother and cousin had made when the little ones were snug in bed.
ref: 1871, The Myrtle, volume 21, page 301:
glosses: A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.
glosses: An unsophisticated person.
examples: text: That movie was a real cornball.
text: [Paul] Rudd, especially, finds the perfect balance between synthetic cornball charm and actual emotional engagement. Like the movie itself, he’s best when playing the rom-com clichés straight.
ref: 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017:
glosses: Something or someone excessively corny.
examples: text: Who's this cornball, man?
glosses: A corny person; an uncool, stupid, or lame person.
Derived terms: cornballish
cornball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cornball
form: most cornball
Etymology: From corn + ball.
Senses: examples: text: I know this sounds cornball, but I'd like to somehow make a difference in people's lives.
ref: 1994, Helen Childress, Reality Bites, spoken by Lelaina (Winona Ryder):
text: The Brady Bunch Movie, released in February of 1995, was built on this ambivalence: It was both an affectionate appreciation of the 1970s family sitcom and a parody of everything that made it cornball and outdated.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Naive, corny.
Related terms: cornfed
cornrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cornrows
Etymology: Compound of corn + row, reflecting the figurative evocation of rows of corn in a cornfield.
Senses: examples: text: The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
ref: 2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:
text: Coolio, whose spindly and sprouting cornrows defined his look, went on to sell over 17 million records throughout his career.
ref: 2022 September 29, Eduardo Medina, McKenna Oxenden, “Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: dreadlock#Noun
dread#Noun
glosses: One of a set of rows of tightly braided hair close to the scalp, forming a hairstyle, of African origin.
Derived terms: row
cornrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cornrows
form: cornrowing
form: cornrowed
form: cornrowed
Etymology: Compound of corn + row, reflecting the figurative evocation of rows of corn in a cornfield.
Senses: examples: text: He [...] passed his hand over her hair, which was now neatly cornrowed.
ref: 2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 50:
text: She had been hoping Sisi would help her cornrow her hair.
ref: 2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), page 4:
coordinate_terms: dreadlock#Verb
dread#Verb
glosses: To braid the hair in this fashion.
single-elimination tournament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single-elimination tournaments
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A tournament where the loser of a game or match is eliminated from further competition.
coyly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɪli/
rhymes: -ɔɪli
Forms: form: more coyly
form: most coyly
form: coily
Etymology: From coy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a coy manner.
crinkly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: crinklier
form: more crinkly
form: crinkliest
form: most crinkly
Etymology: From crinkle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Again there was that eerie, indefinable something in Cousin Jimmy’s voice or look that gave Emily a sudden crinkly feeling in her spine.
ref: 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:
glosses: That crinkles.
examples: text: Himself, he was a little as if made from leather, with his yellow crinkly face, and crinkly reddish hair and beard; and neat folds slanting down his cheeks to the corners of his mouth, and his guttural and one-toned voice;[…]
ref: 1912, John Galsworthy, Quality:
text: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Having crinkles; wrinkly.
Synonyms: sense: having crinkles
word: bewrinkled
word: rugose
word: wrinklesome
word: wrinkled
Derived terms: crinkliness
scrunkly
crinkly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crinklies
Etymology: From crinkle + -y.
Senses: glosses: An old person.
Synonyms: antique
coffin dodger
wrinkly
old person
grand prize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand prizes
Senses: examples: text: The grand prize on the game show was a brand new Cadillac.
glosses: In a tournament, raffle or other contest, the most desirable prize, offered for the overall winner; first prize.
corporately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From corporate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Management teams must act locally with nimbility and corporately with strength, to greater effect than people working individually.
ref: 2004, Clive Reading, Strategic Business Planning:
glosses: Acting as a corporate body.
examples: text: There is a great tendency to keep property corporately controlled.
glosses: In a corporate way.
cutler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutlers
Etymology: From Middle English coteler (“knife-maker”), from Anglo-Norman cuteler, from Old French coutelier (“knife-maker”).
Senses: glosses: One whose business is making or dealing in cutlery.
Synonyms: knifesmith
Derived terms: cutleress
Cutlers Green
corporeality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporealities
Etymology: From corporeal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: And so these spirits are in constant search for vessels to occupy, and insatiable in their pursuit of corporeality.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 9:
text: See also: uncorporeal, spiritual, mystical, transcendence
synonyms: corporality
antonyms: ethereality
incorporeality
insubstantiality
intangibility
otherworldliness
glosses: The state of being or having a body (being corporal/corporeal); bodily existence.
glosses: Something having a corporeal existence.
bardic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.dɪk/
ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)d.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪk
Etymology: From bard + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In this questionary God is described as the life of ab Hywel Swrdwal, a poet who flourished about 1450, a good deal of insight is given into the Bardic philosophy of existence.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page viii. 180:
glosses: Of or pertaining to bards.
Derived terms: bardically
bardic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹ.dɪk/
ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)d.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dɪk
Forms: form: bardics
Etymology: From bard + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: [...] especially at Samhain, Yule, and Oimelc/Imbolg/Brigantia, we'd gather everyone into the living room around the fireplace and present our ritual enactments, hold our bardics, play music, dance, etc.—all before the great altar.
ref: 2006, Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, Creating Circles and Ceremonies: Rituals for All Seasons and Reasons, →ISBN:
text: [...] in the bucolic bardics of BJ, whose eclogues insisted on rhyme [...]
ref: 2012, Joshua Cohen, Four New Messages, →ISBN:
text: Laureans were as crazy for baths as they were for bardics.
ref: 2015, Deborah Ross, Northlight, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A bardic circle or competition: a gathering or contest at which stories, poems, and/or songs are recited.
Cutler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌtlɚ/
rhymes: -ʌtlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Cutlers
Etymology: Occupational surname from cutler.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation.
glosses: A placename in the United States, from the surname:
A census-designated place in Tulare County, California.
glosses: A placename in the United States, from the surname:
A neighbourhood in the village of Palmetto Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida.
glosses: A placename in the United States, from the surname:
A village in Perry County, Illinois.
glosses: A placename in the United States, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in Carroll County, Indiana.
glosses: A placename in the United States, from the surname:
A township in Franklin County, Kansas.
glosses: A placename in the United States, from the surname:
A town in Washington County, Maine.
glosses: A placename in the United States, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in Aitkin County, Minnesota.
glosses: A placename in the United States, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
glosses: A placename in the United States, from the surname:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Juneau County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Cutler Bay
bathyscaph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathyscaphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bathyscaphe.
bladed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪdɪd/
rhymes: -eɪdɪd
Senses: examples: a bladed weapon
a four-bladed propeller
a wide-bladed propeller
glosses: Having a blade; having the specified number or type of blades.
examples: text: Tremulous on the bladed graſs ſhone bright the pearly drops, like an aſſembly of ſparkling ſtars dancing on the plains of the zodiac; vocal was every bending ſpray, every reed was inſpired, each warbling throat ſeemed to emulate the melodious voice of the bird of a thouſand ſongs.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
glosses: Of plants, having long, tapering, flat leaves.
Derived terms: bladed stance
multibladed
razor-bladed
thin-bladed
bladed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbleɪdɪd/
rhymes: -eɪdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blade
bolero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boleros
Etymology: From Spanish bolero, from bola.
Senses: examples: text: Edward's attention was at first rivetted on two dancers engaged in their graceful national dance, the bolero. What a blessing to a people is a climate that encourages out-of-door amusement!
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 335:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A lively Spanish dance in 3/4 time; also an unrelated slower-tempo dance of Cuban origin, in 2/4 time.
examples: text: He took the bolero, which was made of soft angora, and rubbed it up and down his cheek.
ref: 2009, Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, page 175:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A type of short, buttonless jacket or blouse, open or tied in front and ending at the diaphragm.
bolero
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boleros
form: boleroing
form: boleroed
form: boleroed
Etymology: From Spanish bolero, from bola.
Senses: glosses: To dance the bolero.
brutalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brutalizes
form: brutalizing
form: brutalized
form: brutalized
form: brutalise
Etymology: From brutal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine; it was reserved for Christians to torture the material of bread by fire, to create a chemical and maddening poison, burning up the brain and brutalizing the soul, and producing evils to humanity, in comparison of which, war, pestilence, and famine, cease to be evils.
ref: 1831 July 15, “Of the Blood”, in Western Journal of Health, volume 4, number 1, L. B. Lincoln, page 38:
text: The subconscious activities are not rationalized and humanized, they are in fact more brutalized than ever, inasmuch as under the aegis of military law and under the tacit understanding that necessity knows no law, there is no pity and no mercy in war.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: Alternative spelling of brutalise.
Derived terms: brutalization
brutalizer
rebrutalize
unbrutalize
unbrutalized
overworld map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overworld maps
Senses: examples: text: The overworld map is kinda confusing to walk through, i had know idea where i was going.
ref: 1999 April 26, BuffGuy, “Shadow Madness Demo thoughts”, in rec.games.video.sony (Usenet):
text: By the way, the games FF2 and FF3 (both for NES, never released in the US) allowed you to save on the overworld map.
ref: 2001 July 5, Michael McIntyre, “Re: Game design theology... aka NEENER NEENER”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):
text: I remember before FFVII came out I had never seen any pics of an overworld map and I thought that it had been removed completely.
ref: 2001 July 27, Kevin Sullivan, “Re: Final Fantasy X - No Overworld Map?”, in rec.games.video.sony (Usenet):
text: 2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985–2002, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 155,
Featuring an enormous overworld map and expansive dungeons, this game was large to begin with, but the inclusion of the Dark World makes the game twice as big as originally perceived.
text: There is a certain quest that you take, that even if you don't walk the overworld map, you will get ambushed.
ref: 2002 May 9, Zach Levy, “Re: Insane instakill overworld ambush”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: The overworld.
redistrict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈdɪstɹɪkt/
Forms: form: redistricts
form: redistricting
form: redistricted
form: redistricted
Etymology: From re- + district.
Senses: glosses: To adjust the borders of districts of a state or other governmental or administrative entity.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To redraw the borders of the districts represented by legislators or other elected officeholders in accord with changes in population as shown in the decennial census.
isomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From isomorphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an isomorphic manner.
glens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɛnz/
rhymes: -ɛnz
Senses: glosses: plural of glen
monoglot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoglots
Etymology: From mono- + -glot.
Senses: glosses: A person capable of speaking only a single language.
Synonyms: monolinguist
uniglot
unilinguist
monoglot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monoglot
form: most monoglot
Etymology: From mono- + -glot.
Senses: examples: text: He thought Britain was more monoglot than ever.
glosses: Capable of speaking only a single language; monolingual.
Synonyms: monolingual
Coordinate terms: word: 2
word: diglot
word: 3
word: triglot
word: 4
word: tetraglot
word: 5
word: pentaglot
english: but not all
translation: but not all
word: many
word: polyglot
word: all
word: omniglot
Derived terms: monoglottism
Related terms: bilingual
trilingual
multilingual
polylingual
thrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹʌʃəz/
rhymes: -ʌʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of thrush
choux pastry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃuː ˈpeɪstɹi/
Forms: form: choux pastries
form: chou pastry
Etymology: Partial calque of French pâte à choux.
Senses: examples: text: If you don't get your choux pastry just right, the profiteroles will taste foul.
text: Similarly, choux pastry is a much beloved and ultraversatile pastry that is truly unlike any other. Where most pastries—such as a short pastry used in tarts—rely on minimal gluten activation to maximize crispiness and tenderness, choux pastry […]
ref: 2013, Holly Herrick, The French Cook - Cream Puffs & Eclairs, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:
synonyms: choux paste
cream puff pastry
glosses: A type of light pastry (made just from butter, water, flour and eggs) that is used to make profiteroles, éclairs, chouquettes, etc.
Derived terms: chouxnut
Related terms: chouquette
ass kicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ass kickings
Senses: examples: text: Meet me after school for your ass kicking!
glosses: A beating, sometimes prearranged.
examples: text: The top-ranked football team limited their opponents to just two first downs and 40 total yards, while rolling up 550 rushing yards and scoring the first eight times they had the ball in the ass kicking of the year.
text: When Wade first crosses paths with Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), the ass-kicking fellow “gunter” (or egg hunter) with whom he becomes infatuated, the pair’s meet cute is predicated on the swapping of favorite pop-culture quotes.
ref: 2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2018:
glosses: A brutal and decisive defeat of an individual or group of people by another who had thoroughly dominated them in doing so, such as in sports.
etyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛtɪmə/
Senses: glosses: plural of etymon
glosses: A genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae
say goodbye
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: says goodbye
form: saying goodbye
form: said goodbye
form: said goodbye
Senses: examples: text: Hello, hello / I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
ref: 1967, Lennon–McCartney, “Hello, Goodbye”, performed by The Beatles:
qualifier: literal sense
glosses: To wish someone farewell upon their leaving.
examples: text: If we can't agree on whether to have children, maybe it's time to say goodbye.
glosses: To separate from someone or something.
examples: text: Say goodbye to long waits at the airport with our new preboarding service.
text: You can say goodbye to your inheritance if you annoy your parents too much!
glosses: To cease to have, or have to do, something.
Synonyms: sense: separate from someone
word: take one's leave
Related terms: say hello
wave goodbye
farmgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmgirls
form: farm-girl
Etymology: From farm + girl.
Senses: hypernyms: farmhand
farmworker
coordinate_terms: farmboy
glosses: A girl or young woman who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.
examples: text: She likes to say that she's still just a farmgirl at heart.
coordinate_terms: countrywoman
glosses: A woman who grew up on a farm and prides herself on a farm-based identity.
Related terms: you can take the girl off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the girl
farmboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmboys
Etymology: From farm + boy.
Senses: hypernyms: farmhand
farmworker
<
person
coordinate_terms: farmgirl
glosses: A boy or young man who works on a farm, especially one who is growing up there as a child of the farmer.
examples: text: He likes to say that he's still just a farmboy at heart.
text: Even if I wear shit-kicker boots, faded Levi's and a flannel shirt, something about me betrays too many years around universities. In the same clothes, you exuded farmboy simplicity and innocence.
ref: 1988 April 16, Rex Wockner, “We Only Went Out Five Times”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
hypernyms: man
<
person
coordinate_terms: countryman
;
farmgirl
countrywoman
glosses: A man who grew up on a farm and prides himself on a farm-based identity.
Related terms: you can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy
IAPH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International Association of Ports and Harbors.
paywall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪ.wɔːl/
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.wɔl/
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.wɑl/
rhymes: -eɪwɔːl
Forms: form: paywalls
Etymology: From pay + wall, by analogy with firewall.
Senses: examples: text: The premium content on this website is behind a paywall.
text: Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward.
ref: 2009 May 29, ScuttleMonkey, “Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls”, in Slashdot:
text: Scores of other newspapers started selling digital subscriptions in 2011, either with a paywall on their sites or by charging for mobile access with an e-reader app. […] Time magazine also set up a paywall in 2011, its second attempt in two years, […]
ref: 2012, Dennis F. Herrick, Media Management in the Age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism. Second Edition., UNM Press, →ISBN, page 332:
text: As for the larger general-interest dailies, Long Island's Newsday was the first to erect its paywall, in October 2009. It allowed full access for subscribers to the print edition of the paper or the parent company Cablevision, or for people willing to pay $5 per week.
ref: 2015, Brian Gorman, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 140:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A system that restricts access to content with a purchase or a paid subscription.
Derived terms: hard paywall
paywalled
soft paywall
unpaywall
Related terms: login wall
registration wall
paywall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪ.wɔːl/
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.wɔl/
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.wɑl/
rhymes: -eɪwɔːl
Forms: form: paywalls
form: paywalling
form: paywalled
form: paywalled
Etymology: From pay + wall, by analogy with firewall.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To restrict access to (a website or other resource) by means of a paywall.
Derived terms: nonpaywalled
paywalled
unpaywalled
deglomeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌɡlɒməˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deglomerations
Senses: glosses: The act or process of breaking up a mass into fine particles.
quinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.nə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.nɛɹ.i/
rhymes: -aɪnɛɹi
rhymes: -aɪnəɹi
Etymology: From the Latin quīnārius (“containing five each”), from quīnī (“five each”, “five at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French quinaire, the Italian quinario, and the Portuguese quinário. Doublet of quinarius.
Senses: glosses: Of fifth rank or order.
glosses: Consisting of five things; arranged in fives.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: To the base of five; represented by the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Synonyms: word: quintary
sense: base five
word: quintal
sense: base five
word: pentimal
Derived terms: quinary sector
quintary
quinary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.nə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwaɪ.nɛɹ.i/
rhymes: -aɪnɛɹi
rhymes: -aɪnəɹi
Forms: form: quinaries
Etymology: From the Latin quīnārius (“containing five each”), from quīnī (“five each”, “five at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French quinaire, the Italian quinario, and the Portuguese quinário. Doublet of quinarius.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of 72 rays associated with the Sun, six for each of the 12 houses of the Zodiac.
corpuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːˈpʌskjʊlə/
ipa: /kɔɹˈpʌskjəlɚ/
ipa: /koːˈpɐskjələ/
ipa: /koːˈpaskjələ/
rhymes: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more corpuscular
form: most corpuscular
Etymology: From corpuscle + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of corpuscles; particulate.
Derived terms: corpuscularian
corpuscularism
corpuscular philosophy
corpuscular radiation
corpuscular theory
extracorpuscular
intercorpuscular
intracorpuscular
noncorpuscular
Related terms: corpuscle
correctable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more correctable
form: most correctable
form: correctible
Etymology: From Middle English correctable, equivalent to correct + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be corrected
Synonyms: corrigible
Related terms: corrigible
correctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more correctional
form: most correctional
Etymology: From correction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or intended for correction.
examples: correctional officer, correctional policy, correctional services.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the imprisonment or rehabilitation of convicted criminals.
Derived terms: correctional center
correctional centre
correctional facility
correctional institution
correctionally
correctional officer
correlate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒɹələt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹələt/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹələt/
Forms: form: correlates
form: correlating
form: correlated
form: correlated
Etymology: From cor- + relate.
Senses: glosses: To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.
examples: text: Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
ref: 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture:
text: As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4:
text: The starkness of the studies correlates with the rising number of people – especially Democrats – who see climate change as not just an issue but the issue of our times.
ref: 2020 January 15, Chris Cillizza, “Exhibit 9,172 that global warming is an urgent threat”, in CNN:
text: “We must stop conflating selectivity with excellence. We must stop correlating prestige with privilege,” he said.
ref: 2022 September 12, Deidre McPhillips, “Critiques mount around popular annual college rankings”, in CNN:
text: Two factors were heavily correlated with Gen Z happiness: how much time they got for weekend sleep and relaxation, and even more important was their sense of purpose, he said.
ref: 2024 April 9, Madeline Holcombe, “Gen Z is less happy than the rest of us. Here is what would make a difference”, in CNN:
glosses: To be related by a correlation; to be correlated.
correlate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹəleɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒɹələt/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹələt/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹələt/
Forms: form: correlates
Etymology: From cor- + relate.
Senses: examples: text: Several studies have demonstrated that neutralizing antibodies are a strong correlate for protection against symptomatic infection with Covid-19 and its variants, with boosters enhancing neutralization.
Peter Gilbert, professor of vaccine and infectious diseases at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and lead author of the Moderna study, says these correlates are useful to apply to large groups.
ref: 2022 March 22, Tasnim Ahmed, “How protected are we against Covid-19? Scientists search for a test to measure immunity”, in CNN:
glosses: Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.
Derived terms: anticorrelate
autocorrelate
autocorrelating
correlatability
correlatable
correlatingly
correlator
decorrelate
decorrelating
equicorrelate
immunocorrelate
intercorrelate
miscorrelate
noncorrelating
uncorrelate
corroborative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corroborative
form: most corroborative
Etymology: From corroborate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Carrie Junkin, who lived with Appleby from the summer of 1977 through April 1978, and who was involved in numerous trips to New York to pick up leather men, is not under indictment for his participation in any of these activities. Nor was he even called as a corroborative witness by the state.
ref: 1980 February 9, Mitzel, “Appleby is Back In Court Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 6:
glosses: Serving to corroborate
Derived terms: corroboratively
noncorroborative
uncorroborative
corroborative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corroboratives
Etymology: From corroborate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: a medical tonic; a corroborant
corroboratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corroboratory
form: most corroboratory
Senses: glosses: Serving to corroborate or strengthen
homeowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeowners
Etymology: From home + owner.
Senses: examples: text: He advised homeowners to get insurance before then so they can be grandfathered in as discretionary buyers of flood insurance in a nonflood zone.
ref: 2009 September 6, Joseph Berger, “Flood Zone Remapping Hits Hard on Long Island”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
text: The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.
ref: 2022 June 22, Selim Algar, “Incensed owner of $8M Florida mansion ransacked by teens wants them prosecuted”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2022:
glosses: Someone who owns a house.
examples: text: The taxability of forgiven debt is set to become a pressing issue as more homeowners fall behind on their mortgages and face foreclosure.
ref: 2007 August 24, “Foreclosure and Taxes”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
glosses: Someone who does not have title to a house, but has possession and is paying for it by instalments.
Derived terms: homeowner association
homeownership
nonhomeowner
corruptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being corruptible
charge density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charge densities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The amount of electric charge per unit volume of space, unit area of a surface, or unit length of a curve.
electron density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron densities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the probability of finding an electron at a specific location within an orbital.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the number of electrons per unit volume of space.
would like
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Would you like some tea?... I asked if you’d like to have some tea.
text: How would you like to go to the cinema?
text: What about going for a run? ~I'd like to.
glosses: To want; to desire (used to form polite requests, suggestions etc.)
examples: text: I would like to congratulate you on your results.
text: You wouldn't like to come along, by any chance?
text: If you'd like to come this way, I'll show you the house.
info_templates: expansion: [with infinitive]
glosses: Used to politely express a want or desire [with infinitive].
rhinoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinoplasty
cryptologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptologists
Senses: glosses: one who studies cryptology
unsurprising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + surprising.
Senses: examples: text: The relative popularity of the Kyle of Lochalsh service is unsurprising, given how the famous route jostles with the West Highland Line for the title of Scotland's (and indeed the world's) most scenic rail journey.
ref: 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 47:
glosses: Not surprising; expected.
Derived terms: unsurprisingly
alizarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪzəɹɪn/
Forms: form: alizarins
form: alizarine
Etymology: Borrowed from French alizarine, corresponding to alizari + -in.
Senses: examples: text: glass headed pins,
oil-golds and copper greens,
anthracite blues, alizarins,
ref: 1946, Elizabeth Bishop, “Roosters”, in North and South:
text: In 1883, the German output of alizarin, the brilliant red chemical that imitated natural carmine, reached twelve thousand tons, dwarfing the amount being produced by Perkin's factory in London.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 82:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A red substance, 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, extracted from madder root and used as a dye.
Derived terms: alizaric
alizarin crimson
alizarin red
diacetylalizarin
naphthazarin
nitroalizarin
quinizarin
stipple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪpəl/
Forms: form: stipples
Etymology: Probably from Dutch stippel (“small dot”), originally applied to the dots themselves and later to the technique.
Senses: examples: text: Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]
ref: 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 30, lines 1–3:
qualifier: painting
glosses: The use of small dots that give the appearance of shading; the dots thus used.
Derived terms: stipple ceiling
stipple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪpəl/
Forms: form: stipples
form: stippling
form: stippled
form: stippled
Etymology: Probably from Dutch stippel (“small dot”), originally applied to the dots themselves and later to the technique.
Senses: examples: text: Don’t you think, Major Vampyre, that eye-brow ſtippled very prettily?
ref: 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, “Letter XLVII. From Lien Chi Altangi, to ***** merchant in Amsterdam.”, in The Citizen of the World; or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or the author; and sold by J. Newbery and W. Bristow, […]; J. Leake and W. Frederick, […]; B. Collins, […]; and A. M. Smart and Co. […], published 1762, →OCLC, page 209:
text: The worst drawings that have ever come from [ Turner’s] hands are some of this second period, on which he has spent much time and laborious thought; drawings filled with incident from one side to the other, with skies stippled into morbid blue, and warm lights set against them in violent contrast […]
ref: 1851, John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, New York: John Wiley, page 50:
text: There were no footmarks on the ground, for each wind swept like a great brush over the sand surface, stippling the traces of the last travellers till the surface was again a pattern of innumerable tiny virgin waves.
ref: 1922, T. E. Lawrence, chapter 41, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
text: Outside the car window was a glaze of darkness stippled with the gold of infrequent mysterious lights.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 10, in Babbitt:
text: The biennial profusion of campaign billboards and posters stipples the land that Lady Bird wants to beautify and Lyndon yearns to own.
ref: 1966 October 14, “Charisma, Calluses and Cash”, in Time:
text: Although he was clean-shaven, black Benday dots traced the narrow pathway of his thin mustache and the stippled edge of his jaw.
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
glosses: To use small dots to give the appearance of shading to.
birthdate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthdates
Etymology: From birth + date.
Senses: glosses: The year, month, and day of someone's birth; a date of birth.
Hypernyms: date
Related terms: birthday
which may not imply a specific year
restate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: restates
form: restating
form: restated
form: restated
form: re-state
Etymology: From re- + state.
Senses: glosses: to state again (without changing)
glosses: to state differently; to rephrase
Synonyms: sense: to state again (without changing)
word: repeat
word: reiterate
word: rephrase
word: reword
resend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈsɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɛnd/
Forms: form: resends
form: resending
form: resent
form: resent
form: re-send
Etymology: From re- + send. Attested since the 1550s.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't get your email. You'll have to resend it.
glosses: To send again.
glosses: To send back.
glosses: To forward (something received), especially a message.
resend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈsɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɛnd/
Forms: form: resends
form: re-send
Etymology: From re- + send. Attested since the 1550s.
Senses: examples: text: If the BS reaches its maximum number of resends, it initiates another full authentication or drops the SS.
ref: 2007, Yang Xiao, WiMAX/MobileFi: Advanced Research and Technology, page 99:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of sending again.
reenact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹi.ɪnækt/
ipa: /ɹi.ənækt/
ipa: /ɹi.ɛnækt/
Forms: form: reenacts
form: reenacting
form: reenacted
form: reenacted
form: re-enact
form: reënact
Etymology: From re- + enact.
Senses: glosses: To enact again.
glosses: To recreate an event, especially a historical battle.
Derived terms: reenactor
reenactment
foyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foyer
demotion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demotions
Senses: examples: text: Unlike other previous Prelates, who were swiftly anointed bishops, Francis did not follow suit. Ocáriz remained a Monsignor. In the eyes of many observers, it was a demotion of Opus Dei.
ref: 2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 18:
glosses: An act of demoting; a lowering of rank or status.