cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
patronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpætɹəʊnɪm/
ipa: /ˈpætɹoʊnɪm/
Forms: form: patronyms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πατήρ (patḗr, “father”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”). Equivalent to patri- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: The name of someone's father.
glosses: A patronymic surname.
Coordinate terms: matronym
metronym
Derived terms: patronomatology
Related terms: eponym
matronymic
metronymic
patronymic
patri-
-onym
patronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patronym
matronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætɹəʊnɪm/
ipa: /ˈmætɹoʊnɪm/
Forms: form: matronyms
form: metronym
Etymology: From matr- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: The name of someone's mother.
glosses: A matronymic surname.
Coordinate terms: patronym
Related terms: matronymic
patronym
eponym
matronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matronym
metronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtɹəʊnɪm/
ipa: /ˈmɛtɹoʊnɪm/
Forms: form: metronyms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + -onym.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of matronym.
Related terms: metronymic
metronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metronym
viola da gamba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viola da gambas
form: viole da gamba
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian viola da gamba (“viol for the leg”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of viol.
synonyms: word: viol
Derived terms: english: one who performs on a viola da gamba
translation: one who performs on a viola da gamba
word: gambist
yolks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəʊks/
ipa: /joʊks/
ipa: /joʊlks/
rhymes: -əʊks
rhymes: -oʊks
rhymes: -oʊlks
homophone: yokes
Senses: glosses: plural of yolk
discreditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discreditors
Etymology: From discredit + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who discredits.
Rhesus system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So named because the first identified antigen (RhD) was originally believed to be the same as one discovered in rhesus macaques.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A blood group system, the second most important after the ABO system, and important in human blood transfusion, whereby blood types are classified according to the presence ("positive") or absence ("negative") of potentially over 50 antigens, of which the most commonly referenced is RhD.
Related terms: Rh
RhD
Rhesus factor
rhesus monkey
Rhesus negative
Rhesus positive
blood type
cardinal numeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːdɪnəl ˈnjuːməɹəl/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹdɪnəl ˈnumɜɹəl/
Forms: form: cardinal numerals
Senses: examples: text: Cardinal Numerals, are thoſe which expreſs the Number of things, as One, Two, Three, Four; [...]
ref: 1706, Edward Phillips, compiler, J[ohn] K[ersey the younger], “Numerals”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. […], 6th edition, London: […] J. Phillips, […]; N. Rhodes, […]; and J. Taylor, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: Numbers may be considered under their divisions — Cardinal, Ordinal, and Indefinite Numerals.
ref: 1872, Richard Morris, Historical outlines of English accidence, page 110:
text: The cardinal numeral ‘one’ occurs in the singular and is declined like bogàt.
ref: 1993, William W. Derbyshire, A Basic Reference Grammar of Slovene, Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, Inc., page 56:
text: Numerals cut across the division between syntax and morphology: cardinal numerals expressing numbers below 100 are single words, while those expressing higher numbers are syntactically composite.
ref: 2002, Laurie Bauer, Rodney Huddleston, “Lexical word-formation”, in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 1716:
text: In Latin most cardinal numerals through 100 are indeclinable adjectives.
ref: 2005 — F. M. Wheelock, Wheelock’s Latin, 6th ed. revised (New York: Harper Resources, 2005), p.97
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word used to represent a cardinal number.
Related terms: ordinal numeral
cardinal
cardinal number
cardinal numerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardinal numeral
Nevaeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈveɪə/
rhymes: -eɪə
Etymology: From heaven, spelled backwards. Popular since 2000 when the rock singer Sonny Sandoval gave the name to his baby daughter.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
wikipedia: Sonny Sandoval
for loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: for loops
Etymology: From the keyword FOR, used in many programming languages for this purpose.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A section of code in which an instruction or group of instructions is executed a specific number of times depending on the value of a loop counter.
Related terms: do loop
foreach loop
while loop
lap record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap records
Senses: glosses: The fastest time ever set for one lap around a particular racetrack or in a particular race.
polyptoton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɑ.ləpˈtoʊ.tɑn/
Forms: form: polyptota
form: polyptotons
Etymology: Via Latin, from Ancient Greek πολύπτωτον (polúptōton), neuter of πολύπτωτος (polúptōtos, “having many cases”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + πίπτω (píptō, “I fall”).
Senses: examples: text: A Polyptoton still the same word places,
If sense require it, in two different cases.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Turns.] Polyptoton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 84:
hypernyms: ploce
glosses: A stylistic scheme in which words from the same root are used together, or a word is repeated in a different inflection or case.
wikipedia: William Shakespeare
Derived terms: polyptotonic
Related terms: word: antanaclasis
english: compare the Wikipedia article
translation: compare the Wikipedia article
word: figura etymologica
word: cognate accusative
loggerhead turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loggerhead turtles
Senses: glosses: A large, carnivorous marine turtle, Caretta caretta, found in warm seas
Synonyms: loggerhead sea turtle
trip tic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trip tics
Senses: examples: text: Their guide will also consult an index card file in the map room, known as the "trip tics" file.
ref: 1974, Scouting, page 44:
text: When they read two books and turned in a written report they were given a trip tic for the next town (including information about the town with Scripture references) and a dot was placed on the map to indicate that they had visited there.
ref: 1979, Church and Synagogue Libraries - Volumes 13-15:
text: He says Your Word, God I have laid before me--- kind of like the treasure map or the trip tic of my life.
ref: 2004, John Barnett, Discipline Yourself for Godliness: The Power of A Word Filled Life, →ISBN:
text: Every team needs a mission. This mission may or may not come with a handy "plan" or highlighted "trip-tic" attached. they're going.
ref: 2010, Leonard Sweet, AquaChurch 2.0: Piloting Your Church in Today's Fluid Culture, →ISBN:
glosses: A map, with the route to follow highlighted.
atriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atrium
decoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decokes
Etymology: From de- + coke.
Senses: glosses: decarbonization.
decoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decokes
form: decoking
form: decoked
form: decoked
Etymology: From de- + coke.
Senses: glosses: To decarbonize, especially to remove the build-up of carbon in the cylinder of an engine or the bowl or a pipe.
active volcano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active volcanoes
form: active volcanos
Senses: examples: text: Such a series if it can be still obtained, would be of the greatest interest, for we have there an active volcano in the centre of an Island, upheavements going on on the Coast within the memory of man, and coal found; all within the space of a few miles!
ref: 1841, “Report on the Soils brought from Chedooba”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 10, page 447:
text: Mr. Johnston gives the total number of active volcanos as 270, which is probably the best approximation.
ref: 1851, The British Quarterly Review, volume 13, page 372:
text: It may come as a surprise that the most active volcano of the Caribbean is a submarine one which bears the unusual name Kick-'em-Jenny.
ref: 2005, Rosaly M. C. Lopes, The Volcano Adventure Guide, page 11:
text: The temperatures in active volcanoes are much too high to support life (e.g., about 1000 ◦C or more in molten lava), but fumaroles and hot springs associated with volcanic activity provide much lower, more suitable temperatures.
ref: 2008, Joan Marti, Volcanoes and the Environment, page 175:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
glosses: A volcano that has erupted in the last 10,000 years, although not necessarily venting lava or gases now.
Coordinate terms: word: dormant volcano
word: extinct volcano
felicitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: felicitates
form: felicitating
form: felicitated
form: felicitated
Etymology: From Latin fēlicitātus, perfect passive participle of fēlīcitō (“to felicitate”) (from fēlīx (“happy”)), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French féliciter.
Senses: examples: text: […]we contemplate death under quite a different aspect;—creating in us such sweet influences of joy, that our beloved brethren, under one common Father, have attained what we ought all to be in search of, the heavenly goal, that rather than repine at this their advancement, we sincerely felicitate them.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 196:
text: […] he waddled to the platform, bowed as low as his belly would permit, and was duly decorated and felicitated […]
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 25”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: Still, he tucked in handsomely to bacon and tomato on fried bread, felicitating himself on the considered wisdom of his arrival in the character of guest to Bradly.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 74:
glosses: To congratulate.
Derived terms: felicitator
unfelicitated
unfelicitating
Related terms: felicitation
felicity
felicitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more felicitate
form: most felicitate
Etymology: From Latin fēlicitātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: examples: text: I am alone felicitate / In your dear highness' love.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Made very happy.
felicitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of felicitation
felicitations
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Congratulations! Well done!
number games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This sounds like we are playing number games, and I wonder if 20000 megawatts is a realistic guess.
ref: 1980, United States House of Representatives, Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production, (transcript of the proceedings about the) Omnibus Geothermal Energy Legislation, page 159
text: To many of their compatriots, politicians seem an innately frivolous breed. […] When they have to retire backstage, they spend their time playing number games, plotting new combinations, making and unmaking coalitions.
ref: 2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples, page 389:
text: "In other words, they were playing number games with an author so they didn't look bad to their investors. They do it a lot."
ref: 2006, Liam Miller, Memento Mori:
glosses: A numbers game: the use of inappropriate statistics (numbers) to reflect a desired result (usually misleading).
examples: text: Like several other northeastern states, New York has also legalized various forms of lottery and number games.
ref: 1990, John Dombrink, William Norman Thompson, The Last Resort: Success And Failure In Campaigns For Casinos, page 99:
text: The functional argument also encompasses the "victimless crime" issue: prostitution, narcotics, and number games are illegal, yet they flourish and are indeed eagerly sought out by everyday citizens.
ref: 1993, Peter DeLeon, Thinking About Political Corruption, page 36:
glosses: plural of number game: lotteries, numbers games.
Related terms: numbers game
incondign
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incondign
form: most incondign
Etymology: From in- + condign.
Senses: examples: text: The hawk was ill, incondign, a thing created by wrong for purposes of wrong — bent away from its birth by a power that dared to warp nature.
ref: 1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul’s Bane, page 306
glosses: Inappropriate or disproportionate; whether excessively harsh or lenient.
raw_tags: of punishment
Double Jeopardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after an element of the quiz show Jeopardy!, in turn named for the legal concept double jeopardy.
Senses: examples: text: John McClane: Sorry Hans, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?
ref: 1988 July, Steven E. de Souza, Die Hard, 20th Century Fox:
text: Specifically, if after all this travel the application is inefficiently designed, the process gets into double jeopardy, where the scores can really change.
ref: 1999, “Optimizing Network Traffic”, in Notes from the Field, volume 3, Microsoft Press:
text: We may now be ready for the Double Jeopardy round. Now for the next question
ref: 2000 April, Edward Bear, The Seven Deadly Needs, Health Communications, pages 87–88:
glosses: A round of questioning or other situation where the possible gains and/or losses from choices are magnified.
soft spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒft spɒt/
ipa: /sɔːft spɒt/
enpr: sôft
ipa: /sɔft spɑt/
ipa: /sɑft spɑt/
ipa: /sɔft spɔt/
Forms: form: soft spots
Etymology: Late 18th c.
Senses: examples: text: I'm embarrassed to admit it hit the soft spot in my heart / When I found out you wrote the book I read
ref: 1977, David Byrne, “The Book I Read”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
text: But although I happen to have a soft spot for nut roast – an option often preferable to the meat that emerged from the school kitchen – it seems I'm in a cranky minority.
ref: 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Guardian:
synonyms: soft corner
glosses: A sentimental fondness or affection.
synonyms: weak spot
glosses: A point of vulnerability in a defence.
glosses: A fontanelle.
calligram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæl.ɪˌɡɹæm/
Forms: form: calligrams
Etymology: From French calligramme.
Senses: examples: text: The next calligram, which depicts a horse, presents several interesting problems. Among other things, the figure is juxtaposed with seven lines of poetry arranged in traditional fashion.
ref: 1993, Willard Bohn, Apollinaire, Visual Poetry, and Art Criticism, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 99:
text: A calligram has ambitions beyond those of an ideogram: an ideogram is a picture of meaning, but a calligram intends to provide a picture of experience as it impinges on the whole sensorium. An ideogram is centripetal, convergent, a focusing […]
ref: 2000, Daniel Albright, Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 263:
synonyms: carmen figuratum
figure poem
glosses: A word, phrase or longer text in which the typeface or the layout has some special significance.
glosses: A signature made from interwoven Arabic words.
Related terms: logogram
ideogram
boned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊnd/
ipa: /boʊnd/
rhymes: -əʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bone
boned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊnd/
ipa: /boʊnd/
rhymes: -əʊnd
Senses: examples: text: hollow-boned;   thick-boned
text: Most of the words came straight through the girls’ neat little well-powdered noses, which didn’t flinch at all. Noses are boned, you know, at least half-way down, so they don’t show the results of ill-treatment very soon.
ref: 1925 January 20, Nettie Palmer, “Buttahflays and Frogs”, in The Australian Woman’s Mirror, volume 1, number 9, Sydney, N.S.W.: […] Henry Kenneth Prior, […] for The Bulletin Newspaper Co., Ltd., […], page 16, column 3:
glosses: Having a (specific type of) bone.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Of computer-generated animations: based on models with simulated bones or joints.
examples: text: O cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones; it bones for thee.
ref: 2002, Ken Keeler, “Godfellas”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 20, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
synonyms: screwed
fucked
up shit's creek
glosses: Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
glosses: Broken.
synonyms: deboned
;
boneless
antonyms: unboned
coordinate_terms: skinned#Adjective
skinless
glosses: Having had the bones removed before cooking.
raw_tags: of meat or fish
glosses: Fitted with bones.
raw_tags: of a garment such as a corset or basque
examples: text: Bro, for sure you were all boned out, but I wasn't rolling.
ref: 2021 February 16, Charlie Berens and DudeDad, The 5 People on the Ski Slopes:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: Having the legs straightened during a trick.
Derived terms: bare-boned
big-boned
preboned
rawboned
raw-boned
twitter-boned
Related terms: boner
ferryboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹiˌboʊt/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹiˌbəʊt/
Forms: form: ferryboats
form: ferry-boat
form: ferry boat
Etymology: From ferry + boat.
Senses: examples: text: He insists that it is practically undisputed that, when the ferryboat crossed the bow of the tug to make her slip, she crossed at a distance of at least 300 feet away
ref: 1893, James Wells Goodwin, Peyton Boyle, Robert Desty, The Federal reporter, volume 54, page 206:
text: The ferryboat "Argentina" rides toward Golden Gate, her ocean-going prow slicing the waves.
ref: 1940, LIFE, Sep 2, 1940, page 59:
text: It was on this vessel that the founder of the second largest ferryboat company on Puget Sound...
ref: 1983, Mary Stiles Kline, George Albert Bayless, Ferryboats: a legend on Puget Sound, link:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule
wikipedia: Hampton Ferry (River Thames)
Derived terms: ferryboater
ferryboating
ferryboatman
ferryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrymen
Etymology: From ferry + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who operates a ferry.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: usually preceded by the
glosses: Charon.
fetcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetchers
Etymology: From Middle English fecchere, equivalent to fetch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.
ref: 2001, William Hairston, Passion and Politics:
glosses: A person or thing that fetches something
fibber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fibbers
Etymology: From fib (“to lie”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A liar.
fiberfill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiberfills
Etymology: From fiber + fill.
Senses: glosses: A lightweight synthetic fiber used as insulation in clothing
firedamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firedamps
form: fire damp
form: fire-damp
Etymology: From fire + damp with 'damp' not in the usual sense of 'moist' but old German, modern Dutch, Danish 'damp' as steam or vapour, hence a gas liable to catch fire.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A flammable gas (mostly methane) found in coal mines; forms an explosive mixture with air.
Derived terms: firedamp alarm
firedamp detector
firedamp drainage
firedamp explosion
firedamp fringe
firedamp layer
firedamp migration
Related terms: afterdamp
fishcake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃˌkeɪk/
Forms: form: fishcakes
form: fish cake
form: fish-cake
Etymology: From fish + cake.
Senses: examples: text: There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: A mixture of flaked fish, mashed potato or another starch, and seasoning, made into a patty and shallow fried.
Related terms: crab cake
fishball
fish cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fish cakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fishcake.
fishnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃ.nɛt/
Forms: form: fishnets
Etymology: From Middle English fishnet; equivalent to fish + net.
Senses: examples: text: The fishnets were hung over bushes to dry.
synonyms: fishing net
glosses: A net used to catch fish.
examples: text: All the little minnows which were not caught for bait this spring may well give thanks to the women of the U. S. who have adopted fishnet turbans, scarfs, belts and skirts as items in their sports outfits.
ref: 1939 May 1, “Fishermen Grumble At New Fashion Which Depletes Their Net Supply”, in Life, volume 6, number 18:
glosses: A fabric mesh with an open diamond-shaped structure.
examples: text: Fishnets are for catching men.
text: I don't see people walking around in the fishnets, heels and make-up, but I do see alot^([sic]) of guys with the short bleached blonde hair, the baggy sweats, and other Eminemesque fashions...
ref: 2000 December 14, Namaste Rainbow Roll [username], “Re: eminem Vs. frank n furter”, in alt.cult-movies.rocky-horror (Usenet):
glosses: Stockings made of fishnet fabric.
Derived terms: fishnet stockings
fishnetted
fishpond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishponds
form: fish pond
form: fish-pond
Etymology: From Middle English fishpond; equivalent to fish + pond.
Senses: examples: text: Constructed of hard flint stone, which came as ballast from England and is now painted coral white, the house has a fishpond, or catchment, roof, dating from 1788, to collect rainwater.
ref: 1987 January 18, Paula Deitz, “ISLAND LIVING, ENGLISH STYLE”, in The New York Times:
text: Incarcerated in earth-filled boxes, the hapless annelids face execution in the morning. Death by immersion in fishponds, death by cruel hooks.
ref: 1990 January 4, Pete Dunne, “IN THE NATURAL STATE”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A freshwater pond stocked with fish; especially one formerly attached to a monastery etc as a source of food.
fistful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭst′fo͝ol′
ipa: /ˈfɪstˌfʊl/
ipa: /ˈfəstˌfʊl/
ipa: /ˈfɪstˌfʉl/
ipa: /ˈfɪsʈˌfʊl/
rhymes: -ɪstfʊl
Forms: form: fistfuls
form: fistsful
Etymology: From fist (noun) + -ful.
Senses: synonyms: handful
glosses: The amount that can be held in a closed fist.
examples: text: At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, he survived to pilot Navy reconnaissance planes again and pick up a fistful of medals, from the Purple Heart to the Distinguished Flying Cross.
ref: 1967 June 9, “Nation: A Comer Arrives”, in Time:
synonyms: handful
glosses: A small number of something.
synonyms: punch
glosses: A blow with the fist.
five-and-dime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five-and-dimes
form: five and dime
form: 5 & dime
Senses: examples: text: I got my first real six-string / Bought it at the five-and-dime / Played it 'til my fingers bled / Was the summer of '69
ref: 1985, Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance, “Summer of '69”, in Reckless, performed by Bryan Adams:
text: I was working part time in a five-and-dime / My boss was Mr. McGee / He told me several times that he didn't like my kind
ref: 1985, Prince, “Raspberry Beret”, in Around the World in a Day, performed by Prince and the Revolution:
synonyms: word: variety store
word: dollar store
word: dime store
word: ten-cent store
word: pound shop
glosses: A store selling inexpensive items.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A two pair, composed of fives and tens.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A five and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
examples: text: Admiral Fitzwallace: A three hour patrol of the no-fly with the five-and-dime.
ref: 2000, Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing, season 1, episode 22 “What Kind of Day Has It Been”
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The 5th Battalion 10th Marines, a US artillery battalion.
Related terms: nickel and dime
five-and-ten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: five-and-tens
form: five and ten
Senses: examples: text: Christmas toys—windup robots and air guns and painted trains—filled the front window of the five-and-ten.
ref: 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 121:
glosses: A five-and-dime.
skee ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeeball
form: skee-ball
Etymology: For the ball's trajectory resembling the sport of ski jump.
Senses: examples: text: Amy: Wow! I could swear I was really playing virtual skeeball!
ref: 1999 April, Matt Groening, “Episode Two: The Series Has Landed”, in Futurama, season 1, episode 2:
glosses: An early arcade redemption game in which balls are rolled up an inclined lane, aimed at holes of various point values.
flannelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flannelets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flannelette.
flannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flannel
glosses: clothing made of flannel; especially trousers and underwear.
sparrow hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparrow hawk
stowaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəʊəˌweɪ/
Forms: form: stowaways
form: stow-away
Etymology: From stow away, from stow and away.
Senses: examples: text: “Oh, I don't mind 'em, sir,” said Archy; “I knew it all before now. Didn't I hear 'em in the hold? And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it? What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask.”
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The First Lowering”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 242:
text: In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.
ref: 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XIX, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 213:
text: One explanation came to me, and I leaped at it—the possibility of a stowaway hidden in the hold, some maniacal fugitive who had found in the little cargo boat’s empty hull ample room to hide.
ref: 1914, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter VII, in The After House:
text: My client is an infant, a poor foreign immigrant who started scratch as a stowaway and is now trying to turn an honest penny.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A person who hides on board a ship, train, etc. so as to get a free passage.
sum of its parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sums of their parts
form: sum of parts
Senses: examples: text: Together, the ant colony was greater than the sum of its parts.
text: The whole is different from the sum of its parts.
ref: 4th century BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics:
synonyms: word: SOP//SoP
glosses: A group which can be seen as a mere juxtaposition of the elements that compose it; a collection of things where there is no new property or added value that emerges from the interactions between its parts.
Related terms: compositional
compositionality
emergence
emergent
synergistic
synergy
maneater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maneaters
Senses: examples: text: Maneaters up to 12 to 15 feet long are slaty brown or leaden gray above […]
ref: 1953, Henry Bryant Bigelow, William Charles Schroeder, Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, page 25:
glosses: Alternative spelling of man-eater.
court poor box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: court poor boxes
Senses: glosses: A system used informally in lower Irish courts, where a defendant can be directed to make a donation to charity in lieu of conviction.
present system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In Latin, the three simple tenses: present, future, and imperfect, as contrasted with the perfect system, the three perfect tenses: perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect. Verbs in the present system tend to indicate an action that has not completed.
Related terms: present tense
perfect tense
perfect system
perfect system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In Latin, the three perfect tenses: perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect or past perfect, as contrasted with the present system: present, future, and imperfect. A verb in the perfect system indicates an action that has completed.
Related terms: perfect tense
present tense
present system
parthenogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parthenogens
Etymology: From partheno- + -gen.
Senses: glosses: An organism that reproduces by parthenogenesis.
No-Mates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Jeff No-Mates spends his evenings on the computer instead of going down to the pub.
glosses: A supposed surname for a friendless person.
Related terms: Billy no mates
Johnny no mates
Oflot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: OFLOT
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Office of the National Lottery.
overclocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overclockers
Etymology: From overclock + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who overclocks a computer.
pepper-spray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepper-sprays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pepper spray.
pepper-spray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pepper-sprays
form: pepper-spraying
form: pepper-sprayed
form: pepper-sprayed
Senses: examples: text: On November 18, 2011, the officer dispassionately pepper-sprayed a line of several nonviolent protesters sitting on the ground at the university, who flinched and covered their faces but remained passive with their arms interlocked, as onlookers shrieked and screamed out for the officer to stop.
ref: 2013 October 24, Crimesider Staff, “John Pike, Calif. officer who pepper-sprayed student protesters, awarded $38,000”, in CBS News:
glosses: Alternative form of pepper spray.
convenience store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convenience stores
Etymology: From convenience + store.
Senses: examples: text: Ah, that's nice. They have many convenience stores there for you to stand in front of.
ref: 1996, Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Nazeer Choudhury (Ajay Naidu):
synonyms: word: bodega
word: corner shop
word: corner store
word: dépanneur
word: konbini
word: minimarket
word: pony keg
word: sari-sari store
word: superette
glosses: A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.
Related terms: convenience food
milk bar
convenience stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of convenience store
screeching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈskɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of screech
Derived terms: screeching frog
screeching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: screechings
Senses: examples: text: hysterical screechings
text: Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 58:
glosses: The act of producing a screech.
screeched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of screech
dépanneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dépanneur
line ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line up
defo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: defamation
defo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more defo
form: most defo
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deffo.
defo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more defo
form: most defo
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deffo.
ookpiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ookpik
for certain
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We'll never be able to know for certain what happened.
text: I would go to that concert for certain.
text: - Would you buy one of those?
- For certain.
glosses: definitely, positively, without doubt
Synonyms: certainly
for a fact
for sure
hornbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornbooks
Etymology: From horn + book.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, yes, he teaches boyes the Horne-Booke: […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 136:
text: HO′RNBOOK. n.ʃ. [horn and book] The firſt book of children, covered vvith horn to keep it unſoiled.
ref: [1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “HO′RNBOOK”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: By way of the hornbook Shakespeare would have learned to read, […]
ref: 1913, Katharine Lee Bates, Lilla Weed, Shakespeare: Selective Bibliography and Biographical Notes, page 41:
text: Infants learned their letters from a hornbook, a square of wood shaped like a table-tennis bat on which were pasted the alphabet, syllables and the Lord's Prayer […]
ref: 1999, Nigel Wheale, Writing and Society: Literacy, Print, and Politics in Britain, 1590-1660, page 43:
text: The hornbook is the first piece of instructional material specifically mentioned in American records.
ref: 2002, Nila Banton Smith, American Reading Instruction, page 14:
text: Not only is it difficult to extract just the right doozy of an adjective out of the hornbook, but the maneuver can be performed at most twice in the course of an article or chapter.
ref: 2008, Ben Yagoda, When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It, Crown, →ISBN, page 30:
synonyms: battledore
coordinate_terms: primer
ABC book
ABC
glosses: A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.
topics: law
glosses: A legal textbook that provides a basic overview of a particular area of law.
FIBUA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of fighting in built-up areas.
Catalina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌkætəˈliːnə/
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Santa Catalina Island: an island of Los Angeles County, California, off the coast, one of the Channel Islands.
Derived terms: Catalina coupon
Catalina dressing
Catalina ironwood
Santa Catalina
Catalina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkætəˈliːnə/
Forms: form: Catalinas
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A twin-engined amphibious aircraft used during the Second World War.
topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: A Catalina coupon.
Catalina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌkætəˈliːnə/
Forms: form: Catalinas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Catalina.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
hexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛksɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛksɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hex
hexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛksɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛksɪŋ
Forms: form: hexings
Senses: glosses: The act of casting a hex or curse.
cheer on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheers on
form: cheering on
form: cheered on
form: cheered on
Senses: glosses: To cheer and support (a team or individual); to barrack; to root for.
brewster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brewsters
Etymology: After David Brewster.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of stress optical coefficient which is equal to 10⁻¹² m²/N or 10⁻¹² Pa⁻¹. Symbol: B.
brewster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brewsters
Etymology: Circa 1300, from Middle English brewestere; equivalent to brew + -ster.
Senses: glosses: A female brewer.
glosses: A brewer (of either sex).
Nunatsiavut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᕗᑦ (nonatsiafot, “Our beautiful land”).
Senses: glosses: An autonomous area in northeastern Labrador in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, claimed by the Inuit.
Nunavik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᓄᓇᕕᒃ (nonafik, “place to live”).
Senses: glosses: The northern third of the province of Quebec, Canada.
kokis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koki
offseason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offseasons
Senses: examples: text: Last offseason, he began to eat more frugally.
ref: 2007 January 11, Jeré Longman, “Eagles' Andrews Loses Weight and Gains Finesse”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of off-season.
siciliana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sicilianas
form: siciliano
form: sicilienne
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian siciliana.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The music to this dance.
Related terms: cassata siciliana
siciliane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siciliano
siciliano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sicilianos
form: siciliane
Senses: glosses: Synonym of siciliana.
synonyms: word: siciliana
Nunavimmiut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nunavimmiut
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut Nunavimmiut.
Senses: glosses: A person from Nunavik.
Nunavummiuq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nunavummiut
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᐅᖅ (nonafommioq).
Senses: glosses: A person from Nunavut.
Nunavummiut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᐅᑦ (nonafommiot).
Senses: glosses: plural of Nunavummiuq
Brewster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹustɚ/
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation. An English and Scottish occupational surname for a brewer of ale.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Polk County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A tiny city in Thomas County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place in Barnstable County, Massachusetts; named after Mayflower passenger William Brewster.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A tiny city in Nobles County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small village, the county seat of Blaine County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Putnam County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Stark County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Okanogan County, Washington.
Derived terms: Brewster County
Brewster's angle
clam shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clam shrimps
form: clam shrimp
Senses: glosses: Any branchiopod crustacean of the suborders Cyclestherida, Laevicaudata, or Spinicaudata (of the disused superorder Conchostraca), covered by a bivalve shell and well adopted to live in temporary, shallow ponds, with many identified extinct and extant species used to date strata.
even-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more even-tempered
form: most even-tempered
Senses: examples: text: Who has not known some even-tempered old man or woman who seemed to have drunk of the fountain of youth?
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
text: If you just want to hear beautiful music, this album is delightful. It is in the same general style of the Paul Winter Consort and the albums from Windham Hill, being lovely, even-tempered but not dispassionate music which stimulates relaxation and thoughtfulness.
ref: 1984 December 15, Maida Tilchen, “Women's Music Goes Global”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 8:
synonyms: word: even-keeled
word: cool-headed
english: in the sense of calm or relaxed
translation: in the sense of calm or relaxed
word: unexcitable
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
antonyms: hot-tempered
quick-tempered
short-tempered
glosses: Remaining calm even in situations that would cause many others to become angry, frustrated, panicky, etc.
phase contrast microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of light microscopy in which small differences in refractive index of a transparent specimen are converted into amplitude (contrast) differences in the final image.
Related terms: phase contrast microscope
Sina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicization of Irish Síne and Scottish Gaelic Sìne. Doublet of Jane.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Related terms: Sheena
Sinah
Sina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew.
Senses: examples: text: And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:30:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: (in some versions) Sinai
Sina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian سینا (sinâ).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name سینا (sinâ).
Related terms: Avicenna
Sina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shina: a Kashmiri people and language.
Sina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sinam surname of Meitei origin.
0-4-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-4-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, the simplest form of steam locomotive, with two axles and four driving wheels, and no leading wheels or trailing wheels.
4-14-4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-14-4s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive with four leading wheels in a leading truck, fourteen driving wheels (seven axles) in a rigid frame, and four trailing wheels in a trailing truck.
0-4-0+0-4-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-4-0+0-4-0s
Senses: glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a Garratt-type locomotive that is articulated in three parts, with a boiler mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines mounted on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler, and each having an 0-4-0 wheel configuration.
Hypernyms: Garratt
Garratt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Garratts
Etymology: Developed by Herbert William Garratt, a British locomotive engineer.
Senses: examples: text: The 13th class were the first Garratts on the line and on arrival were set to work on the Villa [sic: Vila] Machado-Umtali section, increasing the train load from the 350 tons hauled by the 9th class to 450 tons.
ref: 1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:
glosses: A steam locomotive that is articulated in three parts, with a boiler mounted on the centre frame, and two steam engines mounted on separate frames, one on each end of the boiler.
Synonyms: Beyer-Garratt
Hyponyms: english: the most basic wheel arrangement possible
translation: the most basic wheel arrangement possible
word: 0-4-0+0-4-0
Garratt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Developed by Herbert William Garratt, a British locomotive engineer.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Garrett
sugoi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: more sugoi
form: most sugoi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese すごい (sugoi, “amazing, splendid, fantastic, great”). This word originally meant "dreadful, ghastly", but underwent an ameliorative semantic shift, similar to English terrific.
Senses: examples: text: Now ... I got one, and for some reason was able to see a very sugoi card was next in the machine […]
ref: 1997 August 16, username NeoMercury, “ARRGH! 955 Posts! and now while we’re on the topic, SM Dreams.”, in Usenet group alt.fan.sailor-moon:
text: The Miko outfits are totally sugoi, and the human forms of the gods are really cool as well.
ref: 1998 June 23, username Shiva the perpetually busy, “[POLL] What anime scenes would look best in real life movie?”, in Usenet group alt.fan.sailor-moon:
text: I’m wearing my latest Harajuku find: a gauzy, green sleeveless blouse, a pair of slimming pants—black, with some kind of shiny fabric—and a pair of totally sugoi sandals, with thick heels, black straps, and gleaming silver buckles.
ref: 2012, Diana Renn, Tokyo Heist, page 189:
topics: lifestyle
qualifier: otaku culture
glosses: amazing, awesome
Related terms: daebak
BeV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BeVs
form: BeV
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of billion electron volt, 10⁹ eV. A unit used for measuring the energy of subatomic particles.
Synonyms: english: giga electron volt
translation: giga electron volt
word: GeV
Related terms: sense: US units
word: eV
sense: US units
word: MeV
sense: US units
word: TeV
mezzotint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezzotints
form: mezzotinto
Etymology: Borrowed Italian mezzatinta (literally “half dye”).
Senses: hypernyms: etching
intaglio
coordinate_terms: aquatint
glosses: A form of intaglio etching in which a metal plate is roughened evenly and then smoothed to bring out an image.
glosses: An etching or print made using this method.
Derived terms: mezzograph
mezzotinter
mezzotintist
mezzotint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mezzotints
form: mezzotinting
form: mezzotinted
form: mezzotinted
form: mezzotinto
Etymology: Borrowed Italian mezzatinta (literally “half dye”).
Senses: glosses: To make such etchings
sheerwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheerwaters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shearwater.