cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
downhill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌhɪl/
ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: downhills
Etymology: From down- + hill.
Senses: glosses: The fastest of the disciplines of alpine skiing.
glosses: A rapid descent of a hill in related sports, especially in alpine skiing.
Derived terms: icecross downhill
downhill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌhɪl/
ipa: /ˌdaʊnˈhɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: downhills
form: downhilling
form: downhilled
form: downhilled
Etymology: From down- + hill.
Senses: glosses: To take part in downhill skiing.
municycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of mountain + unicycling
Senses: synonyms: muni
glosses: Off-road unicycling.
bobsleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobsleigh ] ]
form: bobsleighs
Etymology: From bobs, the short runners on which the bobsleigh is based (as opposed to a usual sleigh on long runners continuing all the way along the vehicle); further etymology unclear. Attested since 1839 as bob-sled, long before the invention of the sport.
Senses: glosses: A sleigh for saw logs or heavy timber resting on two pairs of two short runners.
glosses: A winter sport in which teams make timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked purpose-built iced tracks in a gravity-powered sled.
glosses: The sled used in the sport of bobsleigh.
Synonyms: word: bob
english: USA/Canada
translation: USA/Canada
word: bobsled
Derived terms: bobsleigher
bobsleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bobsleighs
form: bobsleighing
form: bobsleighed
form: bobsleighed
Etymology: From bobs, the short runners on which the bobsleigh is based (as opposed to a usual sleigh on long runners continuing all the way along the vehicle); further etymology unclear. Attested since 1839 as bob-sled, long before the invention of the sport.
Senses: glosses: To ride a bobsleigh.
blurt out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blurts out
form: blurting out
form: blurted out
form: blurted out
Senses: examples: text: When in court, it is inadvisable to blurt out the first thing you think of. Instead, take time to construct coherent sentences.
glosses: To say suddenly, without thinking
scrawny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɔːni/
ipa: /ˈskɹɔni/
ipa: /ˈskɹɑni/
rhymes: -ɔːni
Forms: form: scrawnier
form: scrawniest
form: scranny
Etymology: A variant of dialectal scranny (“thin; lean; scraggy; poor; scanty; of inferior quality”), perhaps from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; junk”) + -y. Compare Norwegian skran (“lean, thin, skinny”), English scrannel (“lean; meager; poor; worthless”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skrælna (“to be shrivelled”).
Senses: examples: text: “Tell him, in these words, that I will have his scrawny bones before me now. Tell him, Byar, and bring him if you must arrest him and those filthy wretches who disgrace the Children. Go.”
ref: 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 31: Assurances”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 498:
glosses: Thin, malnourished, and weak.
Synonyms: word: angular
word: anorexic
word: carrion
word: emaciated
word: gangling
word: gangly
word: gaunt
word: haggard
word: macilent
word: lank
word: lanky
word: leptosome
word: pencil-necked
word: puny
word: rangy
word: rawboned
word: reedy
word: scraggy
word: scrawny
word: skin and bones
word: skinny
word: starved
word: thin as a rake
word: undernourished
word: underweight
word: wasted
word: weedy
Hypernyms: word: cadaverous
word: physique
word: thin
word: weak
Hyponyms: word: flat-chested
Derived terms: scrawnily
scrawniness
scrawny drink of water
Related terms: word: scran
word: slender
word: thin person
biathlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈæθlən/
ipa: /-lɒn/
ipa: /baɪˈæθˌlɑn/
Forms: form: biathlons
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From bi- (prefix meaning ‘two; both’) + -athlon (suffix meaning ‘contest’), modelled after pentathlon.
Senses: qualifier: winter sports
glosses: Racing combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting; (countable) a particular instance of such a race.
Hypernyms: Nordic skiing
Coordinate terms: duathlon · triathlon · quadrathlon · tetrathlon · pentathlon · hexathlon · heptathlon · octathlon · decathlon · pentadecathlon
aquathlon · skiathlon
Derived terms: biathlete
biathloner
para biathlon
para-biathlon
Related terms: cross training
ice dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of figure skating, performed by a man and a woman to the beat of music.
Related terms: ballroom dancing
ice dance
skidance
ski jumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A winter sport in which skiers ski down a take-off ramp and attempt to jump as far as possible.
Related terms: ski jump
ski jumper
communication mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communication mixes
Senses: examples: text: You must know how to use the elements of the communication mix to communicate the product's existence, value and benefits to the target customers.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The range of approaches and expressions of a marketing idea developed with the hope that it be effective in conveying the ideas to the diverse population of people who receive it.
Balmoral
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bælˈmɒɹəl/
ipa: [baɫˈmɔɹɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Etymology: Castle name first appears in writing as Bouchmorale in 1451. Formed from a combination of Old Irish both (“hut, bothy, cot; cabin”) and an uncertain second element. The second element may be Pictish, equivalent to Welsh mawr (“large”) + Welsh iâl (“pastureland”).
Senses: examples: text: As we climbed the Marykirk Bank Ogilvie spoke of the passes leading over to Deeside, and of the Royal deer forests around Balmoral; then, with mingled pride and modesty, he added, "I've driven the King seven times."
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
glosses: A castle and associated estate in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, that is a private residence of the British sovereign (OS grid ref NO2595).
glosses: A suburb of Galashiels, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT4836).
Derived terms: Balmorality
balmoral
Balmoral
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bælˈmɒɹəl/
ipa: [baɫˈmɔɹɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Etymology: From Irish Baile Mhóireil, baile + mór, from Old Irish mór (“big, great”)).
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Balmoral
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bælˈmɒɹəl/
ipa: [baɫˈmɔɹɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Senses: glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Canada:
A settlement in the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Canada:
A community in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood, Manitoba.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Canada:
A community in Bois-Joli village, Restigouche County, New Brunswick.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Canada:
A parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Canada:
A community in Haldimand County, Ontario.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tensas Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Eagle, Richland County, Wisconsin.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Australia:
A locality in Mosman council area, Sydney, New South Wales.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Australia:
A suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Australia:
A village in Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Australia:
A suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A place in Australia:
A settlement in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria.
glosses: Other places elsewhere in the world:
A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
tyrannous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪɹənəs/
Forms: form: more tyrannous
form: most tyrannous
Etymology: From Latin tyrannus (“tyrant”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: […] that Elfe,
That man and beast with powre imperious
Subdeweth to his kingdome tyrannous:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 582:
text: Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
To tyrannous hate!
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: It is extraordinary that as the wicked arts of this regicide and tyrannous faction increase in number, variety, and atrocity, the desire of punishing them becomes more and more faint […]
ref: 1797, Edmund Burke, “Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with Respect to France”, in Three Memorials on French Affairs, London: F. & C. Rivington, page 193:
text: As life wears on and finds no rest,
The individual in each breast
Is tyrannous to sunder them.
ref: 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Soothsay” in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis & White, pp. 269-270, The affinities have strongest part In youth, and draw men heart to heart
glosses: Tyrannical, despotic or oppressive.
tyrant flycatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrant flycatchers
Etymology: The English name corresponds to translingual Tyrannidae, the taxonomic name. Tyrant flycatchers are so named because of the aggressive behavior of kingbirds (of genus Tyrannus, the type genus of the Tyrannidae) when defending their breeding territory.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of passerine birds, of family Tyrannidae, that inhabit the Americas.
Americas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɛɹɪkəz/
ipa: /əˈmɛɹəkəz/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪkəz
Forms: form: the Americas
Senses: examples: text: In tracing the relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the curators took a universalist approach.
ref: 2007 January 19, Grace Glueck, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: America
New World
hypernyms: Western Hemisphere
glosses: A supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole.
Derived terms: americate
americium
tyrocidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrocidines
Senses: glosses: A polypeptide antibiotic produced by bacteria in the soil.
Related terms: tyrothricin
fairweather friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairweather friends
Senses: examples: text: She did not even attempt to make a reply, or to ask her fairweather friend to remain; but suffered her to leave the room and the house without a word.
ref: 1844, T[imothy] S[hay] Arthur, chapter VI, in Cecilia Howard: Or, The Young Lady who had Finished Her Education, New York, N.Y.: John Allen, 139 Nassau Street, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: Alternative form of fair-weather friend.
tyrothricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrothricins
Senses: glosses: A mixture of the antibiotics tyrocidine and gramicidin, used topically to treat gram-positive bacterial infections.
falsework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falseworks
Etymology: From false + work.
Senses: examples: text: Both steel and timber forms were used, supported on a falsework of steel beams erected on the new abutments at each end and on temporary piles which were driven into the river bed at mid-span.
ref: 1955 February, “Notes and News: Construction of River Leen Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 140:
text: Each [girder] measuring 38 metres long, they will sit below four steel tripods which will support the falsework and formwork.
ref: 2024 May 17, “Network News: Viaduct carrying HS2 into Curzon Street takes shape”, in RAIL, number 1009, page 11:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself.
examples: text: ... the woefully incomplete Ferris Wheel ... was a half-moon of steel encased in a skyscraper of wooden falsework.
ref: 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, page 236:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Scaffolding, a temporary frame serving to support and brace a building under construction until it can stand alone.
tyrosinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrosinases
Etymology: From tyrosine + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme, similar to catechol oxidase, that catalyzes the production of phenolic pigments such as melanin.
Synonyms: monophenol monooxygenase
Related terms: catechol oxidase
fascicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæs.ɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: fascicles
Etymology: From Latin fasciculus, a diminutive of fascis (“bundle”); see also fasces. Doublet of fasciculus.
Senses: glosses: A bundle or cluster.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A cluster of flowers or leaves, such as the bundles of the thin leaves (or needles) of pines.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.
examples: text: The OED [Oxford English Dictionary] was initially published in a series of 125 slim fascicles between the years 1884 and 1928. The first complete edition in ten volumes was published in 1928.
ref: 1993, Donna Lee Berg, A Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: I was inspired to prepare fascicles like this by the example of Charles Dickens, who issued his novels in serial form; he published a dozen installments of Oliver Twist before having any idea what would become of Bill Sikes!
ref: 2005, Donald E. Knuth, MMIX–A RISC Computer for the New Millennium (The Art of Computer Programming), volume 1, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page iii:
text: The printed book appeared in a variety of forms during the course of its history in China. These included, among others, the “whirlwind” binding (xuanfeng zhuang), […] the “thread” binding (xianzhuang), a technical designation that refers to the silken or cotton filaments used to stitch together folded sheets of paper into fascicles.
ref: 2005, Anne Burkus-Chasson, “Visual Hermeneutics and the Act of Turning the Leaf”, in Cynthia Joanne Brokaw, Kai-wing Chow, editors, Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 371:
topics: media
publishing
synonyms: serial
glosses: A discrete section of a book issued or published separately, generally as a temporary measure while the work is in progress.
Derived terms: fascicled
interfascicle
minifascicle
nanofascicle
Related terms: word: fascicular
word: fasciculation
word: fascine
word: fascism
tyrothricine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tyrothricin.
fatsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatsuits
form: fat suit
Etymology: From fat + suit.
Senses: glosses: A bodysuit-like undergarment designed to make the wearer look fatter.
tyyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyyn
Senses: glosses: A unit of currency in Kyrgyzstan, one hundredth of the som.
glosses: A unit of currency in Uzbekistan.
fauld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɔld/
Forms: form: faulds
Etymology: From Middle English fold (“enclosure”). Doublet of fold.
Senses: glosses: A piece of armor worn below a breastplate to protect the waist and hips.
glosses: The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.
tzedaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzedakas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tzedakah.
fimbriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪm.bɹi.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɪm.bɹiət/
ipa: /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ɪt/
Forms: form: fimbriates
form: fimbriating
form: fimbriated
form: fimbriated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), participial adjective formed on fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix). See -ate (verb-forming suffix), -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To fringe; to hem.
examples: text: Beſides the divers tricking or dreſſing, as piercing, voiding, fimbriating, ingrailing, couping: And in fanſie and devices there is ſtill a plus ultrá; inſomuch that Croſſes alone as they are variouſly diſguiſed, are enough to diſtinguiſh all the ſeverall families of Gentlemen in England.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, “Of the Honourable Arms in Scutcheons of Nobilitie Occasioned by Their Service in the Holy Warre”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book V (A Supplement of the Historie of the Holy Warre), page 271:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: To apply a thin border (a fimbriation) to some element, often to satisfy the rule of tincture.
Derived terms: word: fimbriated
word: fimbriation
fimbriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪm.bɹi.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɪm.bɹiət/
ipa: /ˈfɪm.bɹi.ɪt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fimbriātus (“fibrous, fringed”), participial adjective formed on fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix). See -ate (verb-forming suffix), -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: fimbriated
glosses: Fringed, e.g. where the ends of a petal are split into two or more divisions.
Derived terms: afimbriate
nonfimbriate
tzedakah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡səˈdakə/
Forms: form: tzedakahs
form: tsedakah
form: tzedaka
form: zedakah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew צְדָקָה (ts'daká, “charity”).
Senses: examples: text: Wherever Jews have lived in relative freedom and free markets—the United States, Britain and its commonwealth, the Ottoman Near East, post-Enlightenment Western Europe—we've done pretty well. We've built great communities. We've devoted ourselves to Torah. We've pursued tzedakah, charity, with abandon.
ref: 2012 August 29, Jeffrey Goldberg, quoting Noam Neusner, “Mitt Romney, the Tikkun Olam President?”, in The Atlantic:
text: I began to fill this little wooden tzedakah box with tiny slips of paper, each containing a single word or phrase as a “prompt” for remembering some gifted moment or intense experience of my life.
ref: 2020, Michele Maxwell, The Tzedakah Box, Balboa Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The Jewish tradition of charity.
Related terms: chesed
sadaqa
tzimmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡sɪmɪs/
Forms: form: tzimmes
form: tsimmes
form: tzimmus
form: tsimmus
form: tsimmis
form: tsimes
Etymology: From Yiddish צימעס (tsimes).
Senses: glosses: A stew of fruit or vegetables traditionally served on Rosh Hashanah.
qualifier: Yiddish
glosses: Fuss; confusion.
community owned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For over seventy years, community owned rural telephony networks have flourished in the USA and about 1,000 exist today.
topics: law
glosses: of assets or organisations: owned and controlled through some representative mechanism that allows a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising.
tzolkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzolkins
form: tzolk'in
Etymology: A neoterm created by Western scholars from Yucatec Maya elements; not a native term.
Senses: glosses: The Mayan calendar of 260 days.
bomb site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bomb sites
Senses: glosses: An area that an active bomb is contained in, normally sealed off by the authorities.
glosses: A building or other site destroyed by enemy aerial bombardment.
sweepback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈswiːpbæk/
Forms: form: sweepbacks
Etymology: From sweep + back.
Senses: glosses: The rearward angle of the leading edge of a wing, or airfoil.
episodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛp.ɪˈsɒd.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɛp.ɪˈsɑ.dɪk/
ipa: [ˌɛp.ɪˈsɑ.ɾɪk]
ipa: /ˌep.ɪˈsɔd.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌep.ɪˈsɔɾ.ɪk]
rhymes: -ɒdɪk
Forms: form: more episodic
form: most episodic
form: episodick
Etymology: From episode + -ic. Compare French épisodique.
Senses: examples: text: When I'm not honing my craft in episodic television, I do double-duty as a voice coach.
ref: 1999, The Limey (movie)
glosses: Relating to an episode.
examples: text: Fortunately, my episodic bouts of dizziness didn't prevent me from climbing Chichen Itzá.
glosses: Sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly.
examples: text: I just read five attempts at episodic novels — has nobody heard of a plot anymore?
topics: broadcasting
literature
media
publishing
television
glosses: Consisting of a sequence of seemingly unconnected episodes.
Synonyms: episodical
Derived terms: episodically
episodic dyscontrol syndrome
episodicity
episodic memory
episodic wave
multiepisodic
nonepisodic
webisodic
rearward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪəwɜːd/
ipa: /ˈɹiɹwɝd/
Forms: form: rearwards
form: rereward
Etymology: From rear + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Do not liue Hero, do not ope thine eies: / For did I thinke thou vvouldſt not quickly die / Thought I thy ſpirites vvere ſtronger than thy ſhames / My ſelfe would on the rerevvard of reproches / Strike at thy life.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: For, though it were a knowen corruption, and therefore ſhould haue beene auoyded; yet [Robert] Bellarmine in muſtering vp the Fathers authorities, for proofe of the reading, ipſa (the beſt ground of their Mariolatrie) brings in [John] Chryſoſtom in the rereward.
ref: 1611, Thomas Iames [i.e., Thomas James], “The 32. Place Corrupted, in the 17. Homily of Chrys[ostom] vpon Gen[esis] To[me] 1. Pg. 97.”, in A Treatise of the Corrvption of Scripture, Councels, and Fathers, by the Prelats, Pastors, and Pillars of the Church of Rome, for Maintenance of Popery and Irreligion. […], London: […] H. L. for Mathew Lownes, →OCLC; republished London: […] H. L. for Mathew Lownes; […], 1612, →OCLC, part II (Corruption of the True Fathers), page 85:
text: Ever he gazed earnestly on the main battle of the Romans, and what they were doing, and presently it became clear to him that they would outgo him and come to the ford, and then he wotted well that they would set on him just when their light-armed were on his flank and his rearward, and then it would go hard but they would break their array and all would be lost: […]
ref: 1889, William Morris, “Otter and His Folk Come into Mid-mark”, in A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark […], London: Reeves and Turner […], →OCLC, page 126:
glosses: The part that comes last or is situated in the rear; conclusion, wind-up.
examples: text: Come in the rearward of a conquered woe
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 90”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard.
rearward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪəwɜːd/
ipa: /ˈɹiɹwɝd/
Forms: form: more rearward
form: most rearward
Etymology: From rear + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The rearward seats of the bus were unpleasantly close to the toilet facilities.
text: Unlike the earlier standard designs, in which the whole of the footplate was on the engine, fall plates are re-introduced and these are hinged from the front of the tender to rest on the rearward extension of the cab floor.
ref: 1954 March, “New Class "9" 2-10-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 166:
glosses: Toward the back or rear of something.
rearward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪəwɜːd/
ipa: /ˈɹiɹwɝd/
Etymology: From rear + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The ensuing struggle was bitter but brief, as for a third time the Alabamians stumbled rearward through the cedars. If Manigault were to take the guns, he would need help.
ref: 1991, Peter Cozzens, Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River, page 124:
synonyms: rearwards
glosses: Toward the back or rear of something.
formulaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔɹmjəˈleɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Forms: form: more formulaic
form: most formulaic
Etymology: From formula + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a formulaic greeting
glosses: Closely following a formula or predictable pattern, as:
Conventionalized.
examples: text: That TV series has become awfully formulaic in the last couple of seasons.
text: Neoimpressionism quickly divided viewers: did it herald an abstract future or was it a dry, formulaic dead end?
ref: 2025 September 13, Jackie Wullschläger, “Portal to an abstract future or dry dead end?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 15:
glosses: Closely following a formula or predictable pattern, as:
Imitative; unoriginal; trite.
Derived terms: formulaically
formulaicity
formulaicness
nonformulaic
unformulaic
Related terms: formula
authorised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of authorized.
authorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of authorise
connecting tubule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connecting tubules
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tubule in the nephron in the kidney that goes to the pelvis. Its primary function is to bring urine to the pelvis of the kidney.
copywritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of copywrite
examples: text: First and foremost in many photographers' minds is the possibility of digital theft of copywritten images.
ref: 2006, Joe Farace, Getting Started with Digital Imaging:
glosses: Misconstruction of copyrighted.
spuckie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spuckies
form: spucky
Etymology: From spuccadella, the bread roll used.
Senses: glosses: A submarine sandwich.
wikipedia: spuccadella
Synonyms: sense: sandwich
word: sub
pleating to the stripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system of pleating a kilt in which a particular vertical stripe of the tartan pattern is selected and the pleats are arranged so that this chosen stripe runs down the center of each pleat.
Synonyms: military pleating
Coordinate terms: pleating to the sett
threequel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threequels
form: 3quel
form: 3-quel
form: three-quel
Etymology: Blend of three + sequel
Senses: examples: text: When last seen, the “Poseidon” had been blown into small pieces. With any luck, this means Mr. Allen can’t possibly make a threequel.
ref: 1979 May 25, Janet Maslin, “Inside a Floating Hulk”, in The New York Times:
text: On the contrary, last summer saw two jocular parodies of 1970’s blaxploitation films: the minor hit Undercover Brother and Beyonce Knowles’s portrayal of Foxxy Cleopatra, a character in the Austin Powers “threequel.”
ref: 1999 June 30, Katherine Anne Ackley, Perspectives on Contemporary Issues, Readings Across the Disciplines, Harcourt, fourth edition, Thomson Wadsworth (2006), page 267
text: This may be the year of the threequel, but not all the franchises will be successful, predicts Mr. Gray.
ref: 2007 January 5, Stephen Humphries, “At theaters in 2007, the year of the 'threequel'”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: THE biggest threequels to date have included some great films.
The third part of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi (1983), then Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) were huge hits.
ref: 2007 April 16, Brian Mciver, “Return of the Threequel”, in The Daily Record:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
synonyms: trequel
glosses: The chronologically third part of any series of works, especially a movie trilogy.
Related terms: fourquel
interquel
midquel
postquel
prequel
-quel
sequel
threemake
threepeat
talking point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talking points
form: talking-point
Senses: examples: text: Such an expression ["natural rights"] is, of course, an excellent talking point as a basis for argument to convince people, and perhaps through them to change the opinion of the government.
ref: 1908, J. W. Jenks, "The Principles of Government Control of Business," American Economic Association Quarterly, 3rd series, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 3
text: “Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. You have the satisfaction of having sacrificed yourself in the interests of [your uncle].” He had found a talking point. He had reminded me of those postal orders, sometimes for as much as ten bob, which Uncle Tom had sent me in the Malvern House days. I softened. Whether or not a tear rose to my eye, I cannot say, but it may be taken as official that I softened. “How right you are, Jeeves!” I said.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XXI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: First, it will be demonstrated that marital violence continued to be a talking point within polite society.
ref: 2002, Elizabeth Foyster, "Creating a Veil of Silence? Politeness and Marital Violence in the English Household," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, vol. 12, p. 399
text: The biggest talking point until the goal was how City's Mateo Kovacic somehow stayed on the pitch after late tackles on both Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice.
ref: 2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
text: Had he embraced the responsibility that comes with a film like that, he would not have resorted to talking points disseminated by propaganda meant to eradicate, at the end, all Jewish presence from the Earth.
ref: 2024 March 15, Catherine Shoard, quoting László Nemes, “Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech condemned by Son of Saul director: ‘He should have stayed silent’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The Bakerloo Line, the poor relation of the London Underground, has become a huge talking point in terms of both its immediate and medium-term future.
ref: 2024 April 3, Howard Johnston, “TfL is overflowing with ideas... but is short of the capital”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 31:
text: By contrast, a part of the Republican Party, including its presidential candidate, does sympathize with the Russian dictatorship, does repeat its talking points, and does seek to appease Russia when it invades and occupies other countries.
ref: 2024 April 15, Anne Applebaum, “Why Did U.S. Planes Defend Israel but Not Ukraine?”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: talker
glosses: A specific topic raised in a conversation or argument which is intended as a basis for further discussion, especially one which represents a point of view.
make one's bed and lie in it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes one's bed and lies in it
form: making one's bed and lying in it
form: made one's bed and lay in it
form: made one's bed and lain in it
form: make one's own bed and lie in it
form: make one's bed
form: make one's own bed
form: make one's bed and sleep in it
form: make the bed one lies in
Senses: examples: text: It was true that he had made his own bed, and he understood the justice which required him to lie upon it.
ref: 1861, Anthony Trollope, chapter 27, in Framley Parsonage:
text: [...] one of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 33”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: Harry said, "It's too bad, but of course we couldn't attempt to smuggle him. The old man has made his bed and he must lie in it."
ref: 1949, Upton Sinclair, O Shepherd, Speak! Part I, reprinted, published 2001, →ISBN, page 120:
text: What has happened is that all the horrible moves he made during his first term . . . are perfectly evident to all. Bush made his bed during his first four years, and now he has to lie in it.
ref: 2005 November 26, Bob Kropfli, “Letters: Second-Term Blues”, in Time:
text: “Saakashvili made his own bed,” said Nick Witney, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Affairs and the former chief executive of the European Defense Agency. “It was a pretty catastrophic miscalculation.”
ref: 2008 August 21, Steven Erlanger, “Europe Grows Impatient as Delays Pile Up in Georgia”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Jun 2011:
text: He had made his own bed, chosen his own course in life, taking the path of easy money over hard work and initiative.
ref: 2010, Arlynn Leiber Presser, Blue-Jeaned Prince, →ISBN, page 149:
glosses: To create a difficult situation whose unpleasant consequences one must now endure.
Related terms: as you make your bed, so you must lie in it
you make the bed you lie in
bring one's own hide to market
reap what one sows
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
stew in one's juices
trickery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪ.kə.ɹi/
Forms: form: trickeries
Etymology: From trick + -ery, first recorded in 1719.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, chapter 47, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:
text: In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.
ref: 1852, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House:
text: The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.
ref: 1898, Bret Harte, “See UP”, in Stories in Light and Shadow:
glosses: Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
glosses: The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
examples: text: French winger Hatem Ben Arfa has also taken plenty of plaudits recently and he was the architect of the opening goal with some superb trickery on the left touchline.
ref: 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
Synonyms: deception
Derived terms: politrickery
Related terms: treachery
enamor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnamə/
ipa: /ɪˈnæmɚ/
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: enamors
form: enamoring
form: enamored
form: enamored
form: enamour
form: inamor
form: inamour
Etymology: From Middle English enamouren, a late back-formation from enamoured, itself a partial calque of Old French enamore, past participle of enamorer, enamourer, equivalent to prefix en- + amor + -er. See amour, and compare inamorato.
Senses: examples: text: Me-thought I was enamoured of an Asse.
ref: 1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act IV, Scene I:
text: By Phœbus, here's a moſt neate fine ſtreete; is't not? I proteſt to thee, I am enamord of this ſtreete now, more then of halfe the ſtreetes of Rome, againe; tis ſo polite, and terſe; [...]
ref: 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:
text: He was offered a chair in the university and a course abroad. But he hesitated. There was a girl of whom he became enamored, so he contemplated marriage and political activity.
ref: 1900, Leo Tolstoy, chapter 86, in William E. Smith, transl., The Awakening: The Resurrection:
glosses: To cause to be in love.
raw_tags: followed by "of" or "with"
in the passive
examples: text: Passionately enamoured of this shadow of a dream.
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To captivate.
raw_tags: in the passive
Derived terms: enamorate
enamoration
enamorment
Related terms: fall in love
fall out of love
love
unlove
Gertrude
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɝtɹud/
ipa: /ˈɡɜːtɹuːd/
Etymology: From Old French [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz (“spear”) + *þrūþiz (“strength”) or *trut- (“maiden, dear”) ; name of a Belgian seventh century saint.
Senses: examples: text: O Gertrude, Gertrude! / When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: "We two," she said, "will seek the groves / Where the lady Mary is, / With her five handmaidens, whose names / Are five sweet symphonies, / Cecily, Gertrude, Magdalen, / Margaret and Rosalys.
ref: 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 103–108:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Derived terms: Gertie
Trudi
Trudie
Trudy
salvage grocery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvage groceries
Senses: glosses: A store that sells food that has passed its coded sell-by date, has damaged packaging, or is otherwise unfit for the general retail market.
Sabianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sabian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: the worship of the sun, moon and stars
Synonyms: Sabaeanism
Sabaism
Sabaeism
Sabeism
Zabianism
Zabiism
saddle grafting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a method of grafting in which a scion with a deep cleft is grafted to a wedge-shaped stock
saddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsadlə/
ipa: /ˈsædlɚ/
Forms: form: saddlers
Etymology: From Middle English sadeler, sadelere, equivalent to saddle + -er. Cognate with Old Norse sǫðlari (“saddler”).
Senses: examples: text: In making saddles to run and try in, the trees of them are occasionally leaded by the tree-maker or saddler, agreeably to the directions either may receive from his employer; and a four-pound saddle in this way is made to weigh seven pounds.
ref: 1828, Richard Darvill (V.S. 7th Hussars.), A Treatise on the Care, Treatment and Training of the English Racehorse, page 219:
text: saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by hundreds.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who makes, repairs and sells saddles, harnesses etc.
glosses: The harp seal.
Synonyms: sense: maker of saddles
word: saddlemaker
Derived terms: saddler-corporal
saddler sergeant
saddlery
carbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bz
Senses: glosses: plural of carb
Derived terms: carb-free
high-carb
low-carb
no-carb
infommercial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infommercials
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of infomercial.
Hilbert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hibbard
Etymology: From a Middle English given name of Proto-Germanic origin, from Old English hild (“battle”) + beorht (“bright”) (Proto-Germanic *Hildiberhtaz).
Senses: examples: text: 'An old family name,' he told his wife, though this was not true at all, his uncle's being thus christened having been an isolated instance of the use of Hilbert. There had been a fashion in the late nineteenth century for Germanic names and his uncle, born in 1902, had caught the tail end of it.
'I don't like that at all,' his wife had said. 'People will think it's really Gilbert or Albert. I don't want him teased, poor baby.'
ref: 1987, Barbara Vine, A Fatal Inversion, →ISBN, pages 48–49:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: Hilbert calculus
Hilbert cube
Hilbert curve
Hilbertian
Hilbert R-tree
Hilbert space
Hilbert system
Related terms: word: Hibbard
word: Hibberd
word: Hibberson
word: Hibbert
word: Hibbett
word: Hibbit
word: Hibbitt
word: Hibbott
word: Hibbs
word: Hipperson
word: Ibberson
word: Ibbeson
word: Ibbetson
word: Ibbett
word: Ibbison
word: Ibbitson
word: Ibbitt
word: Ibbotson
word: Ibbott
word: Ibbs
word: Ibeson
word: Ibison
word: Ibitson
word: Ibotson
word: Ibson
word: Ilbert
histocompatibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histocompatibilities
Etymology: From histo- + compatibility.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being histocompatible
glosses: The toleration of grafts between genetically similar individuals
Derived terms: histocompatibility antigen
histocompatibility gene
immunohistocompatibility
carbohydrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbohydrate
histocompatibility gene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histocompatibility genes
Senses: glosses: any of the genes, responsible for histocompatibility, that encode polymorphic cell-surface proteins
Related terms: histocompatibility antigen
histocompatibility antigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histocompatibility antigens
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) which are the determinants of histocompatibility
Synonyms: histoantigen
Related terms: histocompatibility gene
historadiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From histo- + radiography.
Senses: glosses: the radiography of soft tissue using long wavelength X-rays of low penetrating power
Derived terms: autohistoradiography
soft tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft tissues
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: All the tissues of the body except the calcified ones such as bones and teeth. (Cartilage of joints is often excluded from the definition as well).
Hodgkin's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: Former name of Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hodgkin's lymphomas
Etymology: From Thomas Hodgkin, English physician.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
synonyms: Hodgkin lymphoma
lymphogranulomatosis
Hodgkin's disease
coordinate_terms: non-Hodgkin lymphoma
glosses: A malignant lymphoid neoplasm characterized by the formation of large tumour cells (Reed-Sternberg cells) in the lymph nodes.
wikipedia: Thomas Hodgkin
Related terms: non-Hodgkin
Hodgkin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒd͡ʒ.kɪn/
ipa: /ˈhɑd͡ʒ.kɪn/
rhymes: -ɒdʒkɪn
Forms: form: Hodgkins
Etymology: From Hodge, a Middle English diminutive of the given name Roger + -kin.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Derived terms: Hodgkin's lymphoma
Rapp-Hodgkin syndrome
Related terms: Hodge
Hodges
Hodgkins
Hodgkinson
Roger
Rogers
Hodge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒd͡ʒ/
ipa: /hɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: Hodges
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of the given name Roger. The substitution of H for R is common in English words derived from Norman French.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert, San Bernardino County, California.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
A village in Jackson Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A place name in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Missouri.
Derived terms: Hodge dual
Hodges
Hodgkin
Hodgkins
Hodgkinson
Related terms: Roger
Rogers
Reed-Sternberg cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Reed-Sternberg cells
Etymology: Named after Dorothy Reed Mendenhall and Carl Sternberg, who provided the first definitive microscopic descriptions of Hodgkin's disease.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: A giant lymphocyte characteristic of Hodgkin's lymphoma.
ketogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkiːtəʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪs/
Etymology: From keto- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physiology
sciences
glosses: The metabolic breakdown of fatty acids to produce ketone bodies.
Derived terms: antiketogenesis
ketogenic
Related terms: ketoacidosis
ketosis
car-jack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: car-jacks
form: car-jacking
form: car-jacked
form: car-jacked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carjack.
ketogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkiːtəʊˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more ketogenic
form: most ketogenic
form: keto
Etymology: From keto- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to ketogenesis.
Derived terms: antiketogenic
ketogenic diet
nonketogenic
embolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: more embolic
form: most embolic
Etymology: From embol- + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to an embolus or an embolism.
Derived terms: antiembolic
atheroembolic
cardioembolic
microembolic
radioembolic
thermoembolic
carjack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ).dʒæk/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.d͡ʒæk/
Forms: form: carjacks
form: carjacking
form: carjacked
form: carjacked
form: car-jack
Etymology: * Blend of car + hijack
Senses: examples: text: Someone should carjack that pompous jerk and teach him a lesson!
glosses: To steal an automobile forcibly from (someone).
examples: text: These twerps have carjacked their last Mercedes.
glosses: To forcibly steal (a vehicle).
Synonyms: hijack
Derived terms: carjacker
carjacking
car-jacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carjacking.
car-jacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car-jackings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carjacking.
eutonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From eu- + tonic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to normal muscle tone.
Synonyms: normotensive
normotonic
Related terms: hypertonic
hypotonic
hijacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hijack + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hijack
hijacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hijackings
Etymology: From hijack + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of one who hijacks (in any sense).
examples: text: The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
ref: 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The instance of such an act; the seizure of a vehicle.
Derived terms: antihijacking
bluejacking
brandjacking
busjacking
clickjacking
cursorjacking
likejacking
newsjacking
pagejacking
scrolljacking
simjacking
spermjacking
threadjacking
Related terms: browser hijacking
carjacking
session hijacking
skyjacking