cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
plodge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒdʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: plodges
form: plodging
form: plodgin
form: plodged
form: plodged
Etymology: Compare dialectal English plud (“puddle”), from Middle English pludde (“small pool, puddle”).
Senses: glosses: To wade or splash around especially in the sea, or in puddles or mud.
plodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒdʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: plodges
Etymology: Blend of porter's + lodge
Senses: examples: text: The college system protects you, but it is very unfair to say that people at Oxbridge are not living in the real world. They do have some odd slang. ‘I'll p-hole you in the plodge’ meaning ‘I will leave a note for you in the porter’s lodge’ is just one example.
ref: 1991 January 14, Alice Thomson, “Knuckling down to the new realism”, in The Times, page 26:
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: Contraction of porter's lodge.
leathery jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leathery jackets
Senses: glosses: The grub of the mayfly and similar insects.
stagey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stagy.
stagy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stagier
form: more stagy
form: stagiest
form: most stagy
Etymology: From stage + -y.
Senses: synonyms: dramatic
histrionic
scenic
theatric
thespian
glosses: theatrical
synonyms: word: affected
word: affected
word: effete
word: fey
word: recherché
word: hoity-toity
word: overrefined
word: pansified
word: precious
word: pretentious
word: smug
word: stagy
word: stilted
word: theatrical
word: Woosterian
glosses: unnaturally showy
synonyms: ballyhooed
histrionic
overdramatic
glosses: melodramatic; sensationalized
Derived terms: staginess
stamping ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stamping grounds
Senses: examples: text: Em and Mat keep the corridor without their room beautifully clean, and so it has become an especial favourite stamping ground for these vagrants.
ref: 1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out:
text: Had I been out on the adventure-path, I should as a matter of course have been drinking. For that is the pity of the adventure-path, which is one of John Barleycorn's favourite stamping grounds.
ref: 1913 August, Jack London, chapter XXIII, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC:
text: In their stamping grounds in the jungle the three were familiar figures. The little monkeys knew them well, often coming close to chatter and frolic about them.
ref: 1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter X, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917, →OCLC:
glosses: A habitually frequented place; a haunt or hangout.
Synonyms: stomping ground
Coordinate terms: hunting ground
stanchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stanchless
form: most stanchless
Etymology: From stanch + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A stanchlesse hart, dead-wounded, euer bleeding,
On whom that nere-fild vulture Loue sits feeding.
ref: 1594, Michael Drayton, Matilda, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busby:
text: 1819, Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen, “Aspley Wood” Canto 2, stanza 26, in Aonian Hours and Other Poems, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 2nd edition, 1820, p. 82,
We see, but cannot heal the stanchless wound,
We share its gushing sorrow, still it bleeds;
text: And while I listed long,
Day rose, and still he sang,
And all his stanchless song,
As something falling unaware,
Fell out of the tall trees he sang among,
ref: 1856, Sydney Dobell, “Home, Wounded”, in England in Time of War, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 105:
text: In his little red notebook the following random thoughts formed and were jotted down, like the slow interior overflow of a stanchless music.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, “Sutcliffe, the Venetian Documents”, in Monsieur, New York: Viking, published 1975, page 209:
glosses: Incapable of being stanched or stopped.
examples: text: With this there grows
In my most ill-composed affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I king,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: This loosness to their spoyle the Troians did allure,
Who fiercely them assail’d: where stanchlesse furie rap’t
The Grecians in so fast, that scarcely one escap’t:
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “Song 1”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: Incapable of being satisfied.
Synonyms: sense: incapable of being stanched
word: unstaunchable
sense: incapable of being satisfied
word: unquenchable
sense: incapable of being satisfied
word: insatiable
standover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standovers
Etymology: Deverbal from stand over.
Senses: examples: text: The standover should be less than the height above ground of the rider's groin.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The height above ground of the top horizontal tube of the frame of a bicycle.
examples: standover tactics
a standover man
glosses: The use of intimidation or threats of force to coerce others into submission or compliance.
standardized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more standardized
form: most standardized
Senses: glosses: Designed or constructed in a standard manner or according to an official standard.
standardized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of standardize
Derived terms: age standardized rate
standardized variable
Stark effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Johannes Stark, German physicist and chemist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The splitting and shift of a spectral line into several components in the presence of an electric field.
wikipedia: Johannes Stark
Related terms: Zeeman effect
steadiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stĕdʹinəs
ipa: /ˈstɛdinəs/
Forms: form: steadinesses
Etymology: From steady + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He brimmed with deep feeling as he replied in a steady voice, the steadiness of which was spoilt by the palpableness of his great effort to keep it so:— […]
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXIX, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being steady.
glosses: The degree of stability.
step up to the plate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steps up to the plate
form: stepping up to the plate
form: stepped up to the plate
form: stepped up to the plate
Etymology: An allusion to taking one's turn at bat in baseball.
Senses: examples: text: Surround yourself with good people who can reliably step up to the plate and solve problems when they occur.
ref: 2008 June 12, Beth Stackpole, “The IT pro's vacation planner”, in Computerworld, retrieved 17 Jun 2020:
text: When you introduce a new and very important issue, you are likely to inspire some of those who have been sitting back to step up to the plate and take on the new role of promoting ethical practice.
ref: 2013, Janice Gow Pettey, Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 207:
text: However, every time you fail to do something, you make it harder to step up to the plate for the next challenge. Think of this ability and willingness to step up as a competency or skill that you can develop over time.
ref: 2014, Henry Evans, Colm Foster, Step Up, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 78:
text: "There is something in railway people that has encouraged them to step up to the plate," says Starr.
ref: 2021 January 27, Paul Clifton, “What is the future of the RDG?”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 44:
synonyms: volunteer
offer
glosses: To initiate action; to assume or take a responsibility.
Derived terms: step up
stick it to the man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks it to the man
form: sticking it to the man
form: stuck it to the man
form: stuck it to the man
Senses: examples: text: Paula not only told her boss that she quit but also told him to shut up. Way to stick it to the man!
text: What could be more delightful than a trip to Greece to meet Yanis Varoufakis, the charismatic leftwing firebrand who tried to stick it to the man, AKA the IMF, EU and entire global financial order?
ref: 2023 September 24, Carole Cadwalladr, “‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: To take some action intended to defy a source of oppression such as globalization, commercialization, big business or government (on the large scale) or individual leaders and authorities like teachers, bosses, police, or politicians.
yarndie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nyandi
form: yarndi
Etymology: From Wiradjuri nyaandi (“thingamajig, what's-its-name”).
Senses: examples: 1984, L. Fogarty, Ngutji
Yarndi = grass.
1990, Davis et al., Paperbark
He made enough to ... keep himself in Nyandi (herb).
1992, Today, Sept.
It’s just as well it doesn’t depend on our feelings. Good feelings just fade like Yarndi smoke.
1992, R. L. Ginibi, Real Deadly
Ya can’t work hard, drink, and some yarndie too!
1993, Koori Mail, 10 Mar.
I drank and smoked yarndie for fourteen years.
qualifier: Australian Aboriginal
glosses: Marijuana.
buglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buglets
Etymology: From bugle + -let.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small bugle.
buglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buglets
Etymology: From bug + -let.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A minor bug in a program.
stomatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomatologists
Etymology: From stomatology + -ist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A practitioner of stomatology.
Related terms: dentist
stomatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stomato- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of the mouth and its disorders and diseases; increasingly called oral medicine in current usage.
Related terms: stomatologist
dentistry
stonewalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stonewall
stonewalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stonewallings
Senses: glosses: A refusal to answer or to cooperate.
stop-gap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop-gaps
Senses: examples: text: [A] bit of ink and paper which has long been an innocent wrapping or stop-gap may at last be laid open under the one pair of eyes which have knowledge enough to turn it into the opening of a catastrophe.
ref: 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XLI, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 347:
glosses: Alternative form of stopgap.
stop-gap
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stopgap.
stop-gap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stop-gaps
form: stop-gapping
form: stop-gapped
form: stop-gapped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stopgap.
Straussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Straussian
form: most Straussian
Etymology: From Strauss + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to Leo Strauss or his philosophy.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Richard Strauss and Johann Strauss
Straussian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Straussians
Etymology: From Strauss + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A follower of this philosophy.
striate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪ.ət/
ipa: /ˈstɹaɪ.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɹaɪ.eɪt/
rhymes: -aɪət
rhymes: -aɪeɪt
Forms: form: striates
form: striating
form: striated
form: striated
Etymology: From Latin striatum, past participle of strio (“to groove”).
Senses: glosses: To mark something with striations.
striate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪ.ət/
ipa: /ˈstɹaɪ.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈstɹaɪ.eɪt/
rhymes: -aɪət
rhymes: -aɪeɪt
Forms: form: more striate
form: most striate
Etymology: From Latin striatum, past participle of strio (“to groove”).
Senses: glosses: striated
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the striate cortex of the brain
Derived terms: appressed-fibrillose-striate
bistriate
circumstriate
corticostriate
estriate
extrastriate
geniculostriate
lenticulostriate
metastriate
microstriate
multistriate
nonstriate
parastriate
peristriate
prestriate
prostriate
punctate-striate
semistriate
striatal
striately
striate-punctate
substriate
thalamostriate
stuporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stuporous
form: most stuporous
Etymology: From stupor + -ous.
Senses: glosses: having slow or confused reactions, as if in a stupor; groggy
St. Vitus' dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saint Vitus' dance
Etymology: Because people traditionally prayed to Saint Vitus for heavenly intercession to relieve the burden of the disease.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:St. Vitus' dance.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any chorea; usually, more specifically
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any chorea; usually, more specifically:
Sydenham's chorea.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any chorea; usually, more specifically:
Huntington's chorea.
Sydenham's chorea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪdənəmz kəˈɹiə/
Etymology: Named after English physician Thomas Sydenham.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A disease characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements affecting primarily the face, feet and hands.
Hypernyms: word: St. Vitus' dance
Suba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of Kenya.
Suba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Bantu language of this people.
Suba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Subas
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from either Hungarian Suba or Czech Šuba.
* Borrowed from Cebuano Suba, from suba (“river”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Suba Poblacion
subchapter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subchapters
Etymology: From sub- + chapter.
Senses: glosses: A subsection of a chapter.
Derived terms: subsubchapter
subjectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjectivities
Etymology: From French subjectivité, equivalent to subjective + -ity.
Senses: coordinate_terms: objectivity
glosses: The state of being subjective.
examples: text: Beyond bringing women back into analyses of the workplace and the labor process, we now have to analyze how work is gendered and gendering: gender as a means of control and an organizing principle for class relations at the point of production, and workplace as a site for gender construction, formation, and reproduction. In the latest development, seeing gender as a power process also directs our attention toward the politics of identity, or the formation and claiming of collective subjectivities.
ref: 1998, Ching Kwan Lee, Gender and the South China Miracle, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 23:
glosses: A subjective thought or idea.
Synonyms: word: subjectiveness
word: subjectivity
Related terms: word: opinion
word: feeling
word: taste
word: like
word: dislike
word: preference
word: dispreference
word: pet peeve
word: chance
word: randomness
word: unpredictability
word: nonreproducibility
word: whim
word: caprice
word: in my opinion
word: I like it
word: it's great
word: fact
word: truth
word: reality
word: standard
word: rule
word: criterion
word: reproducibility
word: independence
word: subjective
word: personal
word: opinionated
word: capricious
word: whimsical
word: random
word: nondeterministic
word: nonreproducible
word: unverifiable
word: untraceable
word: opine
word: think
word: deem
word: love
word: hate
word: prefer
word: disprefer
word: one man's loss is another man's gain
word: one man's meat is another man's poison
word: one man's trash is another man's treasure
word: there's no accounting for taste
word: your mileage may vary
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class III § 317. Immateriality
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 608. Caprice
subrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subrogations
Etymology: From Late Latin subrogātiō, from sub- + rogātiō (“inquiry, request”); equivalent to sub- + rogation.
Senses: examples: text: Subrogation is a staple element of the casualty insurance business.
text: He became my creditor as the result of a subrogation by a vendor.
topics: law
glosses: Substitution of a different person in place of a creditor or claimant with respect to certain rights and duties.
Derived terms: equitable subrogation
Related terms: interrogation
rogation
rogatory
subterraneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin subterrāneus + -ous. Doublet of subterrane.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he recollected a ſubterraneous paſſage which led from the vaults of the caſtle to the church of St. Nicholas.
ref: 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter I, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: The Indians of the Orellanna, also, tell of horrible noises heard occasionally in the Paraguaxo, […] Others have endeavored to account for these discharges of "mountain artillery" on humbler principles; attributing them […] to the disengagement of hydrogen, produced by subterraneous beds of coal in a state of ignition.
ref: 1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XXVI, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 254:
text: A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: The 3-mile underground railway—or "subterraneous wagonway"—was begun about 1770 by Christopher Bedlington, and was therefore commonly known as Kitty's Drift.
ref: 1944 September and October, Charles E. Lee, “An Ancient Underground Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 275:
glosses: Subterranean.
Derived terms: subterraneousness
success story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: success stories
Senses: examples: text: You can read about our success stories on our official website.
glosses: Anecdotal evidence for the benefits of some product or policy.
examples: text: Challenge yourself and become a success story!
text: This program has become a success story.
glosses: A successful person or thing, serving as a model for others.
Related terms: cover story
short story
storybook
story editor
successlessness
success message
success metric
Sukuma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sukumas
form: Sukuma
Etymology: From Sukuma Jìsùgǔmà.
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of Tanzania.
Sukuma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sukuma Jìsùgǔmà.
Senses: glosses: The Bantu language of this people.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Sukuma terms
Sumbwa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
superintended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superintend
superintend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˌsuːpəɹɪnˈtɛnd/
Forms: form: superintends
form: superintending
form: superintended
form: superintended
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendō.
Senses: examples: text: Lady Marchmont had superintended her toilette, and it was the very triumph of exquisite taste; every thing about it seemed as fragile and delicate as herself.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XVIII. The Fête.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 137:
text: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:
text: Herb Abbott, the foreman, who superintended the whole operation and filled in wherever he was needed.
ref: 1982, Alice Munro, “The Turkey Season”, in The Moons of Jupiter:
glosses: To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
examples: text: A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York Street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 294:
glosses: To administer the affairs of something or someone.
Related terms: superintendence
surf-rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surf-riders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of surfrider.
surfrider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surfriders
form: surf rider
Etymology: From surf + rider.
Senses: glosses: A person who takes part in surfriding.
surfriding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From surf + riding.
Senses: glosses: The sport of riding a surfboard using the power of the waves.
surjective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/
ipa: /sɚˈd͡ʒɛktɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Senses: examples: text: 1974, Thomas W. Hungerford, Algebra, Springer, page 5,
A function f is surjective (or onto) provided f(A)=B; in other words,
for each b∈B,b=f(a) for some a∈A.
A function f is said to be bijective (or a bijection or a one-to-one correspondence) if it is both injective and surjective.
text: The Garden of Eden Theorem (Theorem 5.3.1) implies that every surjective cellular automaton with finite alphabet over an amenable group is necessarily pre-injective. In this section, we give an example of a surjective but not pre-injective cellular automaton with finite alphabet over the free group #92;textstyleF#95;2.
ref: 2010, Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein, Michel Coornaert, Cellular Automata and Groups, Springer, page 133:
text: This function is surjective and injective, and hence bijective.
ref: 2011, Ethan D. Bloch, Proofs and Fundamentals: A First Course in Abstract Mathematics, 2nd edition, Springer, page 156:
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: onto
glosses: Of, relating to, or being a surjection.
Derived terms: surjective function
surjective map
Related terms: surjection
surjectivity
bijective
injective
susurration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsu.səˈreɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: susurrations
Etymology: From Latin susurratio.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the Hummers are honey-lovers, and they extract the sweetest juices of the flowers. The "soft susurrations" of their wings, as they poise above the flowers, inserting their long beaks into tubes of nectar, announce their presence.
ref: 1898, Birds and All Nature, volume 4:
text: The rain was now falling more steadily, with a low, monotonous susurration, interrupted at long intervals by the sudden slashing of the boughs of the trees as the wind rose and failed.
ref: 1907, Ambrose Bierce, Beyond the Wall:
text: "If only that last part is a translation…." said Dalton hopefully. Then the alien susurration ceased coming from the reproducer and he closed his mouth abruptly and leaned forward.
ref: 1954, Robert Abernathy, The Record of Currupira:
text: Halleck nodded, heard the faint susurration and felt the air shift as a lockport swung open beside him.
ref: 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune:
glosses: A low and indistinct whispering sound; a murmur.
chintz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪnts/
rhymes: -ɪnts
Forms: form: chintzes
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi छींट (chī̃ṭ).
Senses: examples: text: The morning air waved to and fro the chintz curtains of a large and, for a London one, a very cheerful-looking room, whose windows opened to the Thames.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Chamber of Death”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 263:
text: He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, […] a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam. He found some glasses which didn't look very clean and polished them on a chintz window curtain.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: A painted or stained calico fabric, originally produced in India, and known for its brightly colored designs.
Derived terms: chintzified
chintzware
chintzy
swamplife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swamp + life.
Senses: glosses: The animals and birds that inhabit swamps.
swedged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swedge
swedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swedges
Etymology: Variant of English swage (“a groove, moulding; moulding tool”).
Senses: glosses: A tool (originally a bevelled chisel) for making grooves in horseshoes.
glosses: The drug MDMA.
swedge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swedges
form: swedging
form: swedged
form: swedged
Etymology: Variant of English swage (“a groove, moulding; moulding tool”).
Senses: glosses: To shape metal using a hammer or other force.
glosses: To leave (a restaurant etc.) without paying.
examples: text: He bound them into a neat packet, swedging down the stiff, sticky oilcloth at the corners..
ref: 1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 14, in Kim:
glosses: To fold under or round an object.
symport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symports
Senses: glosses: The transportation, through a membrane, of molecules of more than one substance at the same time.
Related terms: antiport
symport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: symports
form: symporting
form: symported
form: symported
Senses: glosses: To simultaneously transport molecules of different substances through a membrane.
symptomatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more symptomatically
form: most symptomatically
Etymology: From symptomatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a symptomatic manner; diagnostically.
glosses: Directed at symptoms, rather than a cause.
glosses: Based upon symptoms, rather than a causative agent.
syngas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syngases
Etymology: Short for synthesis gas.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Synthesis gas or coal gas.
synthesis gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synthesis gases
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: The gas obtained by heating coal and steam; coal gas.
Synonyms: syngas
coal gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: The poisonous gas, used domestically for cooking etc and formerly for lighting, prepared by heating coal with steam (gasification); it is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide; sometimes synonymous with synthesis gas or town gas.
Coordinate terms: sense: types of gas
word: illuminating gas
word: natural gas
word: synthesis gas
word: town gas
word: water gas
Related terms: word: gaslight
word: gasworks
takeaways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of takeaway
Related terms: findings
learnings
lessons learned
talk back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks back
form: talking back
form: talked back
form: talked back
Senses: examples: text: Jane talked back a little too often.
text: Jane talked back to most of her teachers.
text: And all over Hollywood, suits are licking their chops at the prospect of more malleable actors. “She’s not going to talk back,” one top talent wrangler told me dryly.
ref: 2025 October 4, Maureen Dowd, “When A.I. Came for Hollywood”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2025:
glosses: To reply impertinently or rudely; to answer in a cheeky or rude manner.
raw_tags: with to + d.o.
glosses: To return disrespect.
Synonyms: sense: reply impertinently
word: backtalk
sense: both senses
word: answer back
Derived terms: word: talkback
tapered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.pə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈteɪ.pɚd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of taper
tapered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.pə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈteɪ.pɚd/
Forms: form: more tapered
form: most tapered
Senses: glosses: Narrowing gradually towards a point.
glosses: Lit with a taper.
Tarawan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the Gilbertese language
teamsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teamsheets
form: team sheet
Etymology: From team + sheet.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hypernyms: roster
glosses: A document that lists the current or proposed members of a team.
tellingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tellingly
form: most tellingly
Etymology: From telling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It demanded taxes, which in a cashless society meant grain, cattle and, most tellingly, labor.
ref: 2005, Jane R. Hogan, M. W. Daly, Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan:
text: Most tellingly, the recipe from Causes and Cures prescribes a vinegared wine but the recipe from Physica prescribes vinegar or wine, yet when the explanation of how the medicine works is given, in both passages it has been assumed that the ingredient of the Causes and Cures’ version (vinegared wine) not that of Physica (vinegar or wine) was used.
ref: 2006, Victoria Sweet, Rooted in the Earth, Rooted in the Sky: Hildegard of Bingen and Premodern Medicine, Routledge:
glosses: In a telling manner.
tennis club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennis clubs
Senses: glosses: An organization whose members play tennis together.
tennis dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tennis dresses
Senses: glosses: The short dress worn by a female tennis player.
textbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textbases
Etymology: Blend of text + database
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A database containing a corpus of text for use by lexicographers etc.
texting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛkstɪŋ/
Etymology: Blend of text + messaging, derived from text messaging
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of text
texting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛkstɪŋ/
Forms: form: textings
Etymology: Blend of text + messaging, derived from text messaging
Senses: glosses: The use of a mobile phone to send text messages.
examples: text: More typical (but still not numerous) are the textings supplied for Alleluias, or just as frequently for melismas occurring at the end of the second or third verse of Offertories.
ref: 1915, Oscar George Sonneck, The Musical Quarterly, volume 52, page 198:
glosses: The words set to a piece of music.
Derived terms: double texting
flexting
predictive texting
sexting
sex-texting
smexting
Tharaka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a Bantu language of Kenya
theatergoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of theatregoing.
theatergoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatergoings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of theatregoing.
theatregoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theatre + going.
Senses: examples: text: The theatregoing public are up in arms over the new public performance tax.
glosses: Who regularly visits the theatre to see performances
theatregoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatregoings
Etymology: From theatre + going.
Senses: glosses: regular attendance at a theatre to see plays
thermalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermalised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thermalize
thermalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermalized
form: most thermalized
form: thermalised
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Brought to a lower velocity and kinetic energy by use of a moderator.
raw_tags: of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor
thermalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thermalise
thermalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thermalized.
thermalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermalizes
form: thermalizing
form: thermalized
form: thermalized
form: thermalise
Etymology: From thermal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To lower the speed and kinetic energy of fast neutrons in a nuclear reactor by use of a moderator, and thus increase the efficiency of fission
Derived terms: thermalization
thermalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thermalises
form: thermalising
form: thermalised
form: thermalised
Etymology: From thermal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thermalize.
Derived terms: thermalisation
thread count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thread counts
Senses: glosses: A measure of the fineness of fabric; the total number of vertical and horizontal threads per unit of surface, such as a square inch.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The total number of threads that a single processor core can run simultaneously.
Related terms: english: for mosaics
translation: for mosaics
word: resolution
tidal river
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidal rivers
Senses: glosses: A river that enters a sea or estuary and is this affected by tides; at times, water will flow upstream.
tiger prawn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger prawns
Etymology: It has stripes reminiscent of those of a tiger.
Senses: glosses: A large marine crustacean (Penaeus monodon), widely reared for food
glosses: A brown tiger prawn or common tiger prawn (Penaeus esculentus)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Penaeus esculentus
word: brown tiger prawn
taxonomic: Penaeus esculentus
word: common tiger prawn
taxonomic: Penaeus monodon
word: giant tiger prawn
taxonomic: Penaeus semisulcatus
word: green tiger prawn
taxonomic: Penaeus semisulcatus
word: grooved tiger prawn
to be sure
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I don't hate him. To be sure, we're not best buddies, but hate is a strong word.
text: They call themselves gentlemen, I warrant you; but, as my first husband used to say, they should remember it is we that pay them. And to be sure it is very hard upon us to be obliged to pay them, and to keep 'um too, as we publicans are.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: “Good-night, Captain, many thanks. You did it uncommonly well; how kindly the old un swallowed the spice-nut, to be sure; and it is only one of many others he has swallowed within these two days. I am afraid in about another four-and-twenty hours they will begin to disagree with him unless his stomach is a very strong one.”
ref: 1862, Wyndham Smith, Once a Week:
text: But to be sure baby was as good as gold, a perfect little dote in his new fancy bib.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Certainly, undoubtedly, admittedly, surely.
Synonyms: absolutely
by all means
unquestionably
Derived terms: well, to be sure
Related terms: to be honest
to be fair
to be frank
tailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tail
tailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailings
Senses: glosses: The act of following someone.
examples: text: […]iron Bar forming a Tailing for the stones which lie in the doorways
ref: 1813, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Observations on the Design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane:
topics: architecture
glosses: The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
glosses: The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
glosses: A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.
Related terms: tailings
e-tailing
paling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Etymology: From pale + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pale
Derived terms: unpaling
paling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: palings
form: pailing
Etymology: From Middle English palyng, palynge, equivalent to pale + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The boys continued hitting the tennis ball with pailings snatched from a fence […]
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 20, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 117:
text: The smell of the damp eucalypt palings that clad the walls exhaling their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle burning in the fireplace.
ref: 1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 6, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press, published 2014:
glosses: A pointed stick used to make a fence.
examples: text: 1789, Alderman Le Mesurier), addressing the House of Commons, in The Parliamentary Register,ᴴᵃⁿˢᵃʳᵈ London: John Debrett, Volume 26, p. 172,
Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen’s plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their palings and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair, as to afford a very insufficient security against the inroads of robbers and spoilers.
text: The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 12, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: The wide doors and windows of the restaurant stood open, beneath large awnings, to a wide pavement, where there were other plants in tubs, and rows of spreading trees, and beyond which there was a large shady square, without any palings, and with marble-paved walks.
ref: 1878, Henry James, An International Episode:
glosses: A fence made of palings.
examples: text: He worked badly. He had to paint a large sign on a corrugated iron paling. Doing letters on a corrugated surface was bad enough; to paint a cow and a gate, as he had to, was maddening.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, London: André Deutsch, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 118:
glosses: A fence made of galvanized sheeting.
Derived terms: paling board
unveiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unveilings
Senses: glosses: The act of unveiling or uncovering.
examples: text: Davis cites his "pride" several times during his discussion with RAIL, but his "career highlight" was the unveiling of the National Windrush monument on June 22 2022. […] "The fact we got the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to do the unveiling, with a significant speech by Prince William acknowledging Windruch, was quite a moment in history.
ref: 2023 January 25, Cem Davis tells Nick Brodrick, “A warm 'Waterloo family' welcome”, in RAIL, number 975, page 42:
glosses: A ceremony for the first public showing of something.
unveiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unveil
unveils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unveil
unveiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English unveiled, vnueylyd, equivalent to un- + veil + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unveil
unveiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unveiled, vnueylyd, equivalent to un- + veil + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Irrespective of the legitimacy of their reasons, given that Westerners feel more comfortable around unveiled Muslims, if some women decide not to veil, then they can more subtly further the case of liberal Islam.
ref: 2008, Chris Hallinan, Steven J. Jackson, Social and Cultural Diversity in a Sporting World, page 62:
glosses: Not wearing, or not covered by, a veil.
arming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English armyng.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arm
hellfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellfire
Heathenry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From heathenry.
Senses: glosses: The old Germanic (Norse, Anglo-Saxon, etc.) religion(s).
examples: text: In Britain, Heathenry is the most common name used for an emergent religion based on the old gods, goddesses, and spirits (wights) that were part of everyday life in Northern Europe before the coming of the Christian era. Thus, Heathenry is, in some sense, a reconstructed religion. People often discover Heathenry through finding the mythology of Northern Europe and attempting to learn more about the culture and spirituality of this part of the world.
ref: 2005, Jenny Blain, “Chapter Five: Heathenry, the Past, and Sacred Sites in Today's Britain”, in Michael Strmiska, editor, Modern Paganism in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, page 181:
text: Comparatively, they are understanding, if not accepting, of Neo-Pagan influence; many Universalists even consider Heathenry to fall under the Neo-Pagan umbrella—a position most Folkish Heathens and Tribalists reject.
ref: 2005, Galina Krasskova, Exploring the Northern Tradition, page 23:
text: Thus Paganism has come to be an umbrella term for a diverse spiritual network, which also includes modern Shamanism and Heathenry.
ref: 2007, Melissa Harrington, “Paganism and the New Age”, in Daren Kemp, James R. Lewis, editors, Handbook of New Age, page 436:
text: I've seen several Heathenry 101 booklets and articles that made a lot of comparisons between Heathenry and Christianity. And this brings to mind the question, "Isn't Heathenry rich enough and complete enough that we can describe it without having to compare and contrast it with Christianity?"
ref: 2009, Mark Ludwig Stinson, Heathen Gods - Version 1.0, page 28:
text: Heathenry is a reconstructionist religious movement whose practitioners align themselves with ancient Germanic and Norse cosmology using literary, archaeological, and historical research to reconstruct a premodern worldview as they honor gods such as Thor, Odin, and Freya. In the United States, several distinct groups emerged including Ásatrú (Norse Heathenism), Odinism (focusing on worship of Odin), Irminism (German Heathenism), Fyrnsidu (Anglo-Saxon and English Heathenism), and Theodism (Neotribal Heathenism).
ref: 2013, Jennifer Snook, “Reconsidering Heathenry: The Construction of an Ethnic Folkway as Religio-ethnic Identity”, in Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, volume 16, number 3, pages 52–53:
glosses: Any modern reconstruction of one of these religions; Germanic neopaganism.
Related terms: word: Heathen
word: Ásatrú
english: the Norse or Scandinavian variant
translation: the Norse or Scandinavian variant
word: Asatru
word: Germanic neopaganism
word: neopaganism
word: paganism
english: an Anglo-Saxon or Old English variant
translation: an Anglo-Saxon or Old English variant
word: Theodism
handpicked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hand-picked
form: hand picked
Etymology: From hand + picked.
Senses: examples: text: The farm sells handpicked apples and pears.
glosses: Picked by hand rather than by machinery.
examples: text: A number of handpicked employees will run the project.
glosses: Selected with great care or by insiders or an individual.
handpicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hand-picked
form: hand picked
Etymology: From hand + picked.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handpick
Vafþrúðnismál
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a book of the Poetic Edda.
Grímnismál
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A book of the Poetic Edda.
Skírnismál
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a book of the Poetic Edda.
Hárbarðsljóð
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A book of the Poetic Edda.
Hymiskviða
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A book of the Poetic Edda.
Lokasenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A book of the Poetic Edda.
Þrymskviða
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse Þrymskviða.
Senses: examples: text: Do you dispute that there are plenty of Asatruar out there who can spout List at the drop of a rune, who couldn’t tell Þrymskviða from Vafþrúðnismál?
ref: 1998 June 11, “rorik”, alt.religion.asatru (Google group): Discarding The Eddas (was:Re: Asatru/Norse Paganism)
text: Myth as therapy: the usefulness of Þrymskviða.
ref: 2000, John McKinnell, Myth as therapy: the usefulness of Þrymskviða., main title (self-published)
text: The Eyrarland image: Þrymskviða, stanzas 30–31.
ref: 2001, Revere D. Perkins, The Eyrarland image: Þrymskviða, stanzas 30–31., main title (self-published)
text: Reading Þrymskviða
ref: 2002, Margaret Clunies Ross, “Reading Þrymskviða”, main title (self-published)
text: “Þegi þú, Þórr!”: Gender, Class, and Discourse in Þrymskviða
ref: 2002, Jón Karl Helgason, “Þegi þú, Þórr!”: Gender, Class, and Discourse in Þrymskviða, main title (self-published)
text: Now, William, notice the word “gifta”. A marriage was planned but you know what happened. Freyja was still in Ásgarð. Þrymskviða tells another story, much funnier, but there too the marriage was never consumed.
ref: 2006 May 4, “Ceddie”, alt.religion.asatru (Google group): On Polyonomy
text: Þrymskviða tells the myth of how the god Þórr had his hammer stolen by the giant Þrymr and how the gods managed to get it back by having Þórr dress up as the giant’s bride, while Völundarkviða narrates the master smith Völundr’s imprisonment by a tyrannous king, Niðuðr, and tells how he took his revenge on the king and his family.
ref: 2006 August 16, “Asvinr”, soc.religion.asatru (Google group): A Book Meili Recommended
glosses: The Lay of Thrym; a poem of the Poetic Edda.
Völundarkviða
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a book of the Poetic Edda.
Rígsþula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a book of the Poetic Edda.