cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌfəl/
rhymes: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: shuffles
Etymology: Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
Senses: examples: text: He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
glosses: The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
glosses: The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
examples: text: The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
glosses: An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
examples: text: The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Derived terms: auto-shuffle
Brixton shuffle
double shuffle
double-shuffle
Fisher-Yates shuffle
five-knuckle shuffle
Kansas City shuffle
Largactil shuffle
lost in the shuffle
mana shuffle
Melbourne shuffle
riffle shuffle
shuffle algebra
shuffle product
shuffle steer
Thorazine shuffle
three-card shuffle
truffle shuffle
Zarrow shuffle
lector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛktə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: lectors
form: lectour
Etymology: From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
topics: education
glosses: A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
examples: text: Its lyrical, poetic flights seem much more at home in the romantic musings of two sisters competing for the attention of the new, handsome lector, a man hired to read stories to workers in a Florida cigar factory, who might otherwise be mesmerized by the repetitive boredom of their jobs.
ref: 2004 October 27, D. J. R. Bruckner, “New Inflections and Nuance in a Florida Cigar Factory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: cigar industry
glosses: A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.
examples: text: The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing.
ref: 2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.
Derived terms: archlector
caveat lector
lectorship
lectress
Related terms: lectern
lection
lectionary
lecture
lector
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛktə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: lectors
form: lectoring
form: lectored
form: lectored
form: lectour
Etymology: From Middle English lector, lectoure, lectour, from Late Latin lēctor, from legō (“I read”). “Voice-over” sense probably adapted from Polish lektor.
Senses: glosses: To perform service as a lector in a religious context.
examples: text: How much of Colbert's political satire can be truly grasped by a Hungarian viewer of a lectored episode is slightly beside the point: something gets through.
ref: 2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
glosses: To do a voice-over translation of a film.
packed lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packed lunches
form: pack lunch
Senses: examples: text: I forgot my packed lunch when I left for work this morning.
hypernyms: lunch#Noun
<
meal#Noun
;
food#Noun
glosses: A meal, sandwiches or anything packed and intended to be eaten away from home; especially, one packed at home as opposed to a portable packaged lunch from a vendor.
Related terms: lunchbox
lunchmeat
pack a lunch
plate lunch
bento
bento box
mixed plate
picnic
square meal
picnic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭkʹ-nĭk
ipa: /ˈpɪknɪk/
rhymes: -ɪknɪk
homophone: pyknic
Forms: form: picnics
form: pic-a-nic
form: picknick
Etymology: Borrowed from French pique-nique.
Senses: examples: text: We went out for a picnic in the forest.
glosses: An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
glosses: The meal eaten at such a gathering.
examples: text: We remind the guests that dealing with this problem is no picnic, and to be patient.
text: "Don't put your hand on me," said Uncle Henry irritably. "I'm crawling with lice. War would be a picnic if it wasn't for lice and dysentery. […]
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
synonyms: piece of cake
glosses: An easy or pleasant task.
glosses: An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.
examples: text: Smoked picnics of medium weights - from 6 to 8 pounds - are selling at wholesale at present for about half the price of fancy hams. Standard bacon of medium weights is another smoked product that is selling […]
ref: 1923, The National Provisioner, page 50:
text: Smoked picnics (calas) are pork shoulders with the butt portion removed just beyond the knuckle bone. Shoulder butts are boneless […]
ref: 1940, War Department Technical Manual, page 53:
text: Smoked picnics are sold whole and usually fully cooked. When sold boneless they are called pork shoulder roll.
COOKING HAMS AND PICNICS
Roasting : Roast a fully cooked ham or picnic according to […]
ref: 2001, Good Housekeeping, The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook, Hearst Books, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: A cut of pork from the shoulder area (above the front leg) of a pig.
Derived terms: few sandwiches short of a picnic
no picnic
picnic basket
picnic beetle
picnic blanket
picnic box
picnic bug
picnic egg
picnic ham
picnicker
picnickery
picnickian
picnickish
picnicky
picniclike
picnic pie
picnic sheet
picnic shoulder
picnic site
picnic table
picnicware
steel beach picnic
teddy bears' picnic
Wiknic
Related terms: packed lunch
picnic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭkʹ-nĭk
ipa: /ˈpɪknɪk/
rhymes: -ɪknɪk
homophone: pyknic
Forms: form: picnics
form: picnicking
form: picnicked
form: picnicked
form: pic-a-nic
form: picknick
Etymology: Borrowed from French pique-nique.
Senses: examples: text: And I'll never forget the chillingly instinctive racism. "Sure is pretty countryside. Pity it's spoiled by the niggers picknickin."
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 71:
glosses: To take part in a picnic.
ubiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ubieties
Etymology: From Latin ubi (“where”) + -iety.
Senses: examples: text: Ubiety is a Term used with reſpect to ſpiritual Beings, as Locality is with regard to corporeal ones, and is the very ſame Thing, viz. that Part of Space which circumſcribes the Exiſtence of Things at any given Moment of Time, and is commonly call'd their Place.
ref: 1737, Benjamin Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: or, a philological library of literary arts and sciences:
text: The place of a ſpirit has been often called ubiety, which may moſt properly refer to ſo much of the material world, of which it has a more evident conſciouſneſs, and on which it can act : In God the infinite Spirit, his ubiety is whereſoever there are objects for his conſiouſneſs and activity : And you may extend this to all poſſible, as well as real and actual worlds, if you pleaſe; for he knows and can do whatever can be known or can be done, and therefore he is ſaid to be every where.
ref: 1753, Isaac Watts, The Works of the Late Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D.D., volume 5:
text: Physical existence, thus, is essentially spatiotemporal ubiety; and that which has or lacks ubiety, that is, is or is not present at some place in space at some time, is always some what or kind—which may be a kind of substance, or of property, or of relation, or of activity, or of change, or of state, and so on.
ref: 1956, Sidney Hook, editor, American Philosophers At Work: The Philosophic Scene in the United States:
text: Swain refers to this "history of Australian Aboriginal being" as a "hermeneutics of ubiety," that is, a hermeneutics of whereness or of being in a definite place.
ref: 2001, Denis Edwards, Earth revealing—earth healing: ecology and Christian theology:
glosses: The state of existing in a specific point in space, thereness.
glosses: Omnipresence; ubiquity.
prang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prăng
ipa: /pɹæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: prangs
Etymology: Originally World War II Royal Air Force slang; probably imitative.
Senses: examples: 2011, Bill Marsh, Great South Australia Stories, HarperCollins Publishers, Australia, unnumbered page,
I remember when a call came through that a crop sprayer had had a plane prang down at Naracoorte, in the south-east of South Australia.
glosses: An aeroplane crash.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A bombing raid.
examples: text: The typical prang cost a few hundred dollars in panelbeating charges.
ref: 1984, Ian Manning, Beyond walking distance: The Gains from Speed in Australian Urban Travel, page 105:
text: If people drove like that in Australia there would be constant prangs.
ref: 1999, Lydia Laube, Bound for Vietnam, page 209:
text: The drive host, Mark Day, recalls the sinking feeling as he covered an accident on the Tullamarine expressway and wondered what commuters in Sydney would think about hearing all the details of the prang.
ref: 2009, Bridget Griffen-Foley, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio, page 90:
synonyms: word: bingle
word: collision
word: crash
word: fender-bender
glosses: An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
glosses: Crack cocaine.
prang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prăng
ipa: /pɹæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: prangs
form: pranging
form: pranged
form: pranged
Etymology: Originally World War II Royal Air Force slang; probably imitative.
Senses: examples: text: “We have to wear good socks and boots,” said one pilot with a grin, “—as we often prang in the jungle, and have to walk home.”
ref: 1946, Frank Clune, Song of India, page 332:
glosses: To crash an aeroplane.
examples: text: “Didn′t bump nobody,” I sneer.
“That′s because you were careful,” says the wife. “Your forecast doesn′t say you will prang. It merely says ‘exercise care today,’ which you did.”
ref: 1958, Nation, numbers 1-33, page 56:
glosses: To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
examples: text: Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.
ref: 2004, John Pym, editor, Time Out Film Guide, page 70:
text: On Friday, I picked up our camper van, upgraded to a four sleeper so Elysee and I could each find a neutral corner, which I managed to “prang,” navigating the parking lot, within one hour of signing away my house as security.
ref: 2005, Thomas Marshall, Our Summer in Australia And New Zealand, page 93:
glosses: To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
Derived terms: pranged
prang out
prang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prăng
ipa: /pɹæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
rhymes: -æŋ
enpr: prăng
ipa: /pɹæŋ/
rhymes: -æŋ
Forms: form: prangs
Etymology: Borrowed from Khmer ប្រាង្គ (praang).
Senses: examples: text: The prang is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.
ref: 1995, Joshua Eliot, Thailand and Burma Handbook 1996, page 216:
text: The second platform surrounds the base of the prang proper, whose closed entranceways are guarded by four statues of the Hindu god Indra on his three-headed elephant Erawan.
ref: 2001, Paul Gray, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide to Bangkok, page 119:
topics: architecture
glosses: A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Cambodia and Thailand.
ubiquity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈbɪkwɪti/
ipa: /juˈbɪkwɪti/
ipa: /juˈbɪkwəti/
ipa: /jʉːˈbɪkwɪti/
ipa: /jʉːˈbəkwəti/
rhymes: -ɪkwɪti
Forms: form: ubiquities
Etymology: From Medieval Latin ubīquitās, from Latin ubīque.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
text: It would be hard to exaggerate the ubiquity of the diminutive (-ito, -ita) in Latin American Spanish, which originates from the extreme reverence and indulgence accorded to the young.
ref: 2004, Martin Amis, The Guardian, reprinted in The Rub of Time (NY: Knopf, 2018), p. 228
text: The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.
ref: 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
glosses: The state or quality of being, or appearing to be, everywhere at once; actual or perceived omnipresence.
topics: sciences
glosses: Anything that is ubiquitous within a specified area.
Synonyms: omnipresence
Derived terms: ubiquitous
unalterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unalterable
form: most unalterable
Etymology: From un- + alterable.
Senses: examples: text: People of unalterable ideas still insisted upon calling him "Sergeant" when they met him, which was in some degree owing to his having still retained the well-shaped moustache of his military days, and the soldierly bearing inseparable from his form.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, “Coming Home—A Cry”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 99–100:
text: ... every statute in the Bible and in the law books is an attempt to defeaat a law of God—in other words an unalterable and indestructible law of nature.
ref: c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter VIII:
text: For instance, we’d need to make one of the following assumptions: (1) that the system will be programmed with an unalterable goal preservation meta-goal, (2) that the training process would select for such a meta-goal, or (3) that the adoption of the meta-goal itself is instrumentally convergent.
ref: 2025 June 13, Rhys Southan, Helena Ward, Jen Semler, “A timing problem for instrumental convergence”, in Philosophical Studies, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Incapable of being altered, or of changing.
glosses: Irreversible, irrevocable.
Synonyms: inalterable
Derived terms: unalterably
severely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more severely
form: most severely
Etymology: From severe + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After the first day they left her severely alone, their plea to their husbands, her uncompromising independence.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 15:
text: Meanwhile the Christian Church from these speculations has kept itself severely apart - as of course representing a unique and divine revelation little concerned or interested in such heathenisms[.]
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 11:
text: Regular freight trains between Abergavenny and Merthyr were withdrawn on November 24, 1954, because it was found both practicable and more economical to send this traffic by less severely-graded routes.
ref: 1958 February 24, “Notes and News: Merthyr-Abergavenny Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
glosses: In a severe manner.
unblock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈblɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: unblocks
form: unblocking
form: unblocked
form: unblocked
Etymology: From un- + block.
Senses: examples: text: We need a plumber to unblock the sink.
text: During this period, Network Rail was able to unblock a culvert and stabilise a high-risk landslip at Beattock, and to stabilise a high-risk landslip site at Ravenstruther (near Carstairs).
ref: 2021 March 10, “Network News: Flooding closes Highland and West Coast main lines in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 926, page 17:
synonyms: deobstruct
glosses: To remove or clear a block or obstruction from.
examples: text: It is not just bad news about Dubai that gets blocked from the Internet; […] a whole range of other social networking sites have been blocked, unblocked and reblocked.
ref: 2010, Syed Ali, Dubai: gilded cage, page 58:
glosses: To free or make available.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In whist, to throw away a high card so as not to interrupt one's partner's long suit.
glosses: To enable communication again, via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with (somebody previously blocked).
unblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈblɒk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: unblocks
Etymology: From un- + block.
Senses: examples: text: Look for every opportunity to create an entry to the weak hand. Spectacular unblocks are often needed.
ref: 1997, Danny Roth, Focus on Declarer Play, page 68:
text: Control messages, such as requests/forwards/unblocks, are often shorter as they need to carry the address and some header information, while data messages, such as responses, are cache-line sized with some extra header information.
ref: 2017, Natalie Enright Jerger, Tushar Krishna, Li-Shiuan Peh, On-Chip Networks: Second Edition, page 110:
glosses: The removal of a block or blockage.
unchanging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchanging
form: most unchanging
Etymology: From un- + changing.
Senses: examples: text: "Tut! tut! The unchanging woman. They gossiped in my time and they gossip still."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
synonyms: word: nonchanging
word: static
word: constant
word: changeless
word: equal
word: nonchanging
word: static
word: stationary
word: unaltering
word: unchanging
word: unvarying
glosses: remaining constantly unchanged
unchanging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + changing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unchange
uncowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aʊd
Etymology: From un- + cowed.
Senses: glosses: Not browbeaten or frightened into submission or compliance.
underage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭn-dər-ājʹ
ipa: /ˌʌndəɹˈeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: under age
Etymology: From under- + age.
Senses: examples: text: underage drinking
text: underage marriage
text: The bar was fined for serving alcohol to an underage customer.
text: He was arrested for driving while underage.
glosses: Below the legal age (usually age 18) for some activity, such as consuming alcohol or engaging in sexual intercourse.
examples: text: underage offender
glosses: Not yet a legal adult; still a minor.
examples: text: The Football Association of Ireland has today confirmed that the Under 14 National League for boys born in 2009 will commence in February 2023 in line with all other underage National League competitions.
ref: 2022 July 1, “2023 Underage National League Formats confirmed”, in Official website, Football Association of Ireland:
text: Even if an underage team is stacked with talent, there is still only one senior team they can graduate to and there are a finite amount of places.
ref: 2025 August 21, Karol Dillon, “Why a new team manager can be key to U20 footballers turning senior”, in Brainstorm, Ireland: RTÉ:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Limited to players below a certain age; junior.
raw_tags: of a team or competition
Synonyms: sense: not legal
word: minor
Hyponyms: sense: limited to players below a certain age
word: age grade
sense: limited to players below a certain age
word: youth
Coordinate terms: word: of age
word: overage
sense: limited to players below a certain age
word: senior
underage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭn-dər-ājʹ
ipa: /ˌʌndəɹˈeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
enpr: ŭnʹ-dər-ĭj
ipa: /ˈʌndəɹɪd͡ʒ/
enpr: ŭn-dər-ājʹ
ipa: /ˌʌndəɹˈeɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -eɪdʒ
Forms: form: underages
Etymology: From under + -age.
Senses: glosses: A deficit or shortfall in funds, inventory, or capacity.
Related terms: overage
underway
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈweɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: more underway
form: most underway
form: under way
Etymology: Calque of Dutch onderweg (“underway”), equivalent to under- + way. Compare also German unterwegs.
Senses: examples: text: The next wave, well underway, is shipping back-office business tasks overseas, ...
ref: 2008 February 14, Steve Lohr, “Offshore Outsourcing’s Next Wave: How High?”, in NY Times, retrieved 22 Jan 2012:
text: The political world might still be recovering from the 2016 presidential election and focusing now on the midterm fights for Congress, but here in the nation's first primary state the battle for 2020 is already well underway.
ref: 2018 April 7, Andrew Dickinson, “In New Hampshire, the 2020 presidential race is already well underway”, in NBC News, retrieved 20 Sep 2018:
glosses: In motion, in progress; being done or carried out; on a journey.
underway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈweɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)weɪ/
ipa: /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈweɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: underways
form: under way
Etymology: From under + way.
Senses: examples: text: As Minneapolis grew, the city demanded that M&StL construct "underways" beneath city roadways.
ref: 2005, Donovan L. Hofsommer, “Adrift”, in Minneapolis and the Age of Railways, Univ. of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: A road, track, path, or street for going under another way or obstacle; an underpass.
examples: text: There are in fact many such subterranean underways in Germany, speeding traffic beneath bergs, burgs and villages and into and around and under big city downtowns ...
ref: 2004, Alan Goldfein, “A Wonderful Drive”, in Europe's Macadam, America's Tar: How America Really Compares to "Old Europe", American Editions, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: An underground passage, subway, tunnel.
examples: text: I had been the diving officer on three previous submarines, …, and was an experienced officer of the deck with many underways and landings under my belt on all three.
ref: 2008, Alfred Scott McLaren, William R. Anderson, “To Severnaya Zemlya and the Beginning of the Shelf Survey”, in Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651), Univ. of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 179:
glosses: A voyage, especially underwater.
knifing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪfɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪfɪŋ
Forms: form: knifings
Senses: examples: text: There was a knifing outside that club last night.
hypernyms: stabbing
glosses: An instance of stabbing with a knife.
Derived terms: storyknifing
knifing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪfɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪfɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of knife
coerce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊˈɝs/
ipa: /kəʊˈɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: coerces
form: coercing
form: coerced
form: coerced
Etymology: From Latin coërceō (“to surround, encompass, restrain, control, curb”), from co- (“together”) + arceō (“to inclose, confine, keep off”).
Senses: glosses: To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
examples: text: They coerced their children into going to the country park.
text: A woman who freely engages in any of these activities, or who rejects anti-porn dogma, is thought to be coerced, brainwashed, an apologist of the patriarchy or a "social man." A woman who agrees that she has been coerced into one of these activities will be honored by anti-porners. The opinions of the rest of us are routinely discounted.
ref: 1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8:
synonyms: hustle
glosses: To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
Synonyms: compel
bully
dragoon
bludgeon
Derived terms: coercee
coercement
coercer
coercible
coercion
coercive
Lady Bountiful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lady Bountifuls
form: Ladies Bountiful
form: lady bountiful
Etymology: * From a character in the 18th century play The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar
Senses: glosses: A rich and generous woman.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Our Lady
glosses: A woman who patronisingly shows off her wealth by acts of generosity.
Coordinate terms: Lord Bountiful
Ægypt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: We will not revive the mysterious crosses of Ægypt, with circles on their heads, in the breast of Serapis, and the hands of their Geniall spirits, not unlike the characters of Venus, and looked on by ancient Christians, with relation unto Christ. Since however they first began, the Ægyptians thereby expressed the processe and motion of the spirit of the world, and the diffusion thereof upon the Celestiall and Elementall nature; implyed by a circle and right‐lined intersection
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, chapter 1, in The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Egypt.
Derived terms: Ægyptian
Æthiopia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Finding, however, that this was not likely soon to take place, he determined to pass the intermediate time in exploring Egypt and the country above the Cataracts, and was thus enabled to perform two very arduous and interesting journies into the ancient Æthiopia; one of them along the banks of the Nile, from Assouan to Dar El Mahass on the frontiers of Dongola, in the months of February and March 1813, during which he discovered many remains of ancient Egyptian and Nubian architecture, with Greek inscriptions, such as are found in the temples of Philæ; — the other, between March and July, in the following year, through Nubia to Souakim and Djedda.
ref: 1818, The Analectic Magazine, volume 12 (July–December 1818), page 252
glosses: Archaic spelling of Ethiopia.
polyzoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒliˈzəʊ.ə/
Senses: glosses: plural of polyzoon
toodle-oo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: In one of the country gardens two gaily-dressed young coster girls are sitting and chatting with the cottager and his wife. They sit among the flowers and look for all the world like young London lasses who have come to the village to astonish the country folks with their town finery. When they rise and bid the old folks good-bye, and coming through the little wicket stand for a moment at the wooden palings to say “Toodle-oo” in the cheeriest of Cockney accents, we are at first astonished. For a moment my colleague and I had imagined we were in a rural hamlet and in the heart of green England.
ref: 1904 September, George R. Sims, “Off The Track in London V.--Round Hackney Wick”, in The Strand Magazine, London: George Newnes, Ltd., archived from the original on 22 Aug 2016, page 329:
text: "In that case," said Archie, relieved, "cheerio, good luck, pip-pip, toodle-oo, and good-bye-ee! I'll be shifting!"
ref: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, ch. XIII. Rallying Round Percy:
glosses: Alternative spelling of toodeloo.
polyzoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɒliˈzəʊˌɒn/
Forms: form: polyzoa
Etymology: From poly- + -zoon.
Senses: glosses: A bryozoan.
Synonyms: bryozoon
Related terms: polyzoan
polyzoarium
polyzoary
polyzoic
nameplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nameplates
form: name plate
Etymology: From name + plate.
Senses: examples: text: the nameplate on a locomotive
text: the brass nameplate on the doctor's front door
text: No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
ref: 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
text: Now the chintzy nameplate is all that distinguishes his work space from those of the photocopier repairperson, diet food company, and kitchen designer down the hall.
ref: 1998 December 18, Peter Margasak, “Punk Planet's New Atmosphere”, in Chicago Reader:
text: By March 1994, it had moved to Cardiff Canton, and was still allocated there when its nameplates were taken off in March 1997.
ref: 2024 January 10, Chris Gilson, “RAIL's famous five...”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 27:
glosses: A plate or plaque inscribed with a name.
glosses: The masthead of a newspaper.
Derived terms: nameplated
nameplating
Maurice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹis/
ipa: /mɔˈɹis/
ipa: /məˈɹiːs/
ipa: /ˈmɒɹɪs/
rhymes: -iːs
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒɹɪs
Etymology: From Middle English Maurice, from Late Latin Mauritius, derived from Maurus (“Moor; dark, swarthy”). Popularized by a 3rd-century Roman soldier martyr.
Senses: examples: text: For some reason I am a man known by his surname; I might never have been christened for all the use my friends make of the rather affected Maurice my literary parents gave me.
ref: 1951, Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, Viking Press, page 5:
glosses: A male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Morris.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic, equivalent to English Morris.
Derived terms: Maurice River
Moe
Plympton St Maurice
Saint-Maurice
Related terms: Morris
polyzoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɒliˈzəʊ.ən/
Forms: form: more polyzoan
form: most polyzoan
Etymology: From translingual Polyzoa + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: bryozoan
polyzoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɒliˈzəʊ.ən/
Forms: form: polyzoans
Etymology: From translingual Polyzoa + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A bryozoan.
Related terms: polyzoarium
polyzoary
polyzoon
polyzoary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɒliˈzəʊ.əɹi/
/pɒliˈzəʊ.əˌɹiːz/
/pɒliˈzəʊˌeəɹi.ə/
Forms: form: polyzoaries
form: polyzoaria
form: polyzoarium
Etymology: From New Latin polyzoārium (“polyzoary”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A colony of polyzoa.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The polypary of such a colony.
Related terms: polyzoa
polyzoan
polyzoic
polyzoon
polyzoarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɒliˈzəʊˌeəɹi.ʊm/
/pɒliˈzəʊˌeəɹi.ə/
Forms: form: polyzoaria
Etymology: From Latin polyzoārium (“polyzoary”), from polyzoa + -arium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A polyzoary
polyzoaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyzoarium
glosses: plural of polyzoary
bangtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bangtails
form: bang tail
form: bang-tail
Etymology: From bang + tail. The primary meaning refers to the sense bang (“fringe of hair cut across the forehead”).
Senses: examples: text: 1851, Turning Out a Bagman: A Legend of Brighton Downs, in Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith Bentley's Miscellany, Volume XXIX, page 259,
Two lean, ewe-necked, clipt chestnuts, tucked up in the ribs, with hard work and bad feeding, but with such flowing bang-tails as at once stamped them in the eyes of our friends as “ out-and-out ” thorough-breds—were led up and down by John. […] The bang-tails, no doubt, supposing themselves out for their usual “airing,” put themselves in the regular side-long position, and struck at once into a sort of hectic canter ; a particular movement, peculiar to Brighton bang-tails, and adapted to the most innocent equestrian.
text: 1903, Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy), Such Is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins, 2004, page 68,
"And did you see a dark chestnut horse; bang tail; star and snip; white hind feet; saddle and bridle on?" I asked.
text: Lennan held the black horse — a bizarre little beast, all fire and whipcord, with a skin like satin, liquid eyes, very straight hocks, and a thin bangtail reaching down to them.
ref: 1913, John Galsworthy, The Dark Flower, page 244:
text: Once we get the herd we can set up relays to keep the bangtails movin' as we go.
ref: 2005, Cynthia Queen, The Major's Renegade, page 127:
glosses: The tail of a horse or cow, allowed to grow out and then trimmed horizontally so as to form a tassel; a horse or cow having such a tail.
examples: text: “Eddie!” whinnied Daley, the distraught worshipper of the bang-tails. “Eddie! Phar Lap is dead!”
ref: 1934, Stanley Walker, City Editor, published 1999, page 99:
text: Americans bet $5,000,000,000 a year on the galloping bangtails.
ref: 1937, The American Magazine, volume 124, page 52:
text: If you happen to be out on the far east side between April 23 and September 5, with $10 burning a hole in your pocket, hie yourself out to River Downs Race Track, 6301 Kellogg Avenue, and bet on the bangtails.
ref: 1983 March, Cincinnati Magazine, page 43:
text: I was ridin' the horses then, you understand, and maybe known to take a flutter or two on the bangtails while I was about it.
ref: 2018, Kasey Michaels, The Promise:
glosses: A racehorse.
glosses: A prostitute.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: An envelope with a perforated flap on which promotional material is printed; the flap on such an envelope.
bangtail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bangtails
form: bangtailing
form: bangtailed
form: bangtailed
form: bang tail
form: bang-tail
Etymology: From bang + tail. The primary meaning refers to the sense bang (“fringe of hair cut across the forehead”).
Senses: glosses: To shear off the hair horizontally at the end of a cow or horse's tail.
Derived terms: bangtail muster
polyzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɒliˈzəʊ.ɪk/
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
antonyms: monozoic
glosses: Of a tapeworm, having multiple proglottids.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Bryozoan.
glosses: Relating to a primitive stage of human religion in which natural phenomena are interpreted as animals or monsters.
polyzoic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɒliˈzəʊ.ɪk/
Forms: form: polyzoics
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A spore that produces many sporozoites.
Related terms: polyzoarium
polyzoary
polyzoon
bangtail muster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bangtail musters
Etymology: From bangtail (“to dock the tail brush”) + muster (“a roundup”).
Senses: examples: text: There has since been a bangtail muster and already 1,400 cattle are in hand.
ref: 1926, Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Debates, volume 113, page 2099:
text: Investigation shows that during the period studied, five properties made no accurate count of breeders (bangtail muster), while two made one count.
ref: 1965, Australian Veterinary Association, Australian Veterinary Journal, volume 41, page 352:
text: A bangtail muster was a count of every beast on a property, and every one of them had to be yarded and have its tail cropped to show it had been counted.
ref: 1973, Hector Holthouse, S'pose I Die: The story of Evelyn Maunsell, page 123:
text: There was, for example, a rapid build-up of Ord River station cattle numbers depastured on the river flats, from 400 in 1885 to 30,000 in 1896 and 47,000 at the bangtail muster in 1901-02.
ref: 2010, Michael Pearson, Jane Lennon, Pastoral Australia: Fortunes, Failures & Hard Yakka: A Historical Overview 1788-1967, page 169:
glosses: A muster of cattle, for counting and any of various other purposes, during which any animals not previously counted are bangtailed, treated and released.
underwent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.dəˈwɛnt/
ipa: /ˌʌn.dɚˈwɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Senses: examples: text: The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: simple past of undergo
undergo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndɚˈɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˌʌndəˈɡəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: undergoes
form: undergoing
form: underwent
form: undergone
Etymology: From Middle English undergon, from Old English undergān (“to undergo, undermine, ruin”), equivalent to under- + go. Cognate with Dutch ondergaan (“to undergo, perish, sink”), German untergehen (“to perish, sink, undergo”), Swedish undergå (“to undergo, go through”).
Senses: examples: text: The project is undergoing great changes.
text: Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
ref: 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, pages 47–48:
text: The women underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow that happen with brain activity, while being shown images of their grandchild, another child they didn’t know, an adult they didn’t know, and the same-sex parent of their grandchild.
ref: 2021 November 19, Madeline Holcombe, “Is your mom warmer with her grandkids than with you? A new study says blame biology”, in CNN:
synonyms: go through
take
undercome
run
see
stand
glosses: To experience; to pass through a phase.
examples: text: The victim underwent great trauma.
text: She had to undergo surgery because of her broken leg.
synonyms: word: brook
word: put up with
word: abear
word: abide
word: aby
word: accept
word: allow
word: bear
word: bide
word: brook
word: dree
word: endure
word: forbear
word: go along with
word: live with
word: pass
word: pocket
word: pouch
word: put up with
word: stand
word: stick
word: stomach
word: suffer
word: swallow
word: take
word: take sitting down
word: thole
word: tolerate
word: undergang
word: undergo
glosses: To suffer or endure; bear with.
glosses: To go or move under or beneath.
Related terms: undergang
undyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Etymology: From un- + dyed.
Senses: synonyms: nondyed
glosses: Not dyed; in its natural colour.
Related terms: uncolored
noncolored
unpigmented
nonpigmented
undyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Etymology: From un- + dyed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undye
unencumbered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪnˈkʌmbəd/
ipa: /ˌʌnɪnˈkʌmbɚd/
Forms: form: more unencumbered
form: most unencumbered
Etymology: From un- + encumbered.
Senses: examples: text: This difference operates in favor of socialism, not only because speculation about general principles provides an opportunity for the play of the imagination of those who are unencumbered by much knowledge of the facts of present-day life […]
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 428:
glosses: Not burdened with worries, cares or responsibilities.
examples: text: Now he knew that something more than revenge had prompted Rokoff to pitch him overboard—the Russian had managed to obtain possession of the papers Tarzan had wrested from him at Bou Saada. The ape-man swore softly, and let his coat and shirt sink into the Atlantic. Before many hours he had divested himself of his remaining garments, and was swimming easily and unencumbered toward the east.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 117:
text: That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/3”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: The commuters from the suburbs come unencumbered with luggage, children and prams, and can almost be relied upon to find their way blindfold to their trains.
ref: 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
text: "For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences."
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41:
glosses: Free of encumbrance.
examples: text: "You are wrong," replied Mrs. Courtenaye: "luxury is but a trifle—not so power and position. With an unencumbered estate, you take the first place in the county; you obtain the finest field for the exertion of your talents; and England has no distinction to which you may not reasonably aspire."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Confession”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: Not subject to any claims.
raw_tags: of property
Related terms: unbothered
carefree
unfettered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɛtəd/
ipa: /ˈʌnˈfɛtɚd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfetter
unfettered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɛtəd/
ipa: /ˈʌnˈfɛtɚd/
Etymology: From un- + fettered.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: unmanacled, unhandcuffed
text: In a corner of the market among the pens for cattle, Barnaby knelt down, and pausing every now and then to pass his hand over his father’s face, or look up to him with a smile, knocked off his irons. When he had seen him spring, a free man, to his feet, and had given vent to the transport of delight which the sight awakened, he went to work upon his own, which soon fell rattling down upon the ground, and left his limbs unfettered.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 68, in Barnaby Rudge:
synonyms: fetterless#Adjective
unshackled#Adjective
shackleless#Adjective
unchained#Adjective
antonyms: fettered#Adjective
hypernyms: unbound#Adjective
free#Adjective
glosses: Not bound by chains or shackles.
examples: text: I envy not the beast that takes
⁠His license in the field of time,
⁠Unfetter’d by the sense of crime,
To whom a conscience never wakes; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 44:
text: We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible.
ref: 1916, Thomas Clarke, Proclamation of the Irish Republic:
text: This Act contained no provisions relating to the gauge of the line, and at this early date there was no legislation governing the gauge of railways generally, so that the Eastern Counties directors had an unfettered choice in the matter.
ref: 1956 February, B. D. J. Walsh, “"Broad Gauge" in East Anglia”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:
text: Alexander says she has been accused of censorship "worse than a Syrian dictator" over her quest to have gang-related videos taken down. But her campaign shows the debate over a completely unfettered internet is not clear-cut.
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
text: The EU was established to oppose the unfettered power of nation states and defuse the rivalries between them.
ref: 2018, Michael Cottakis – LSE, “Colliding worlds: Donald Trump and the European Union”, in LSE's blog:
text: The underlying problem with transport policy is that there no coherent strategy. Ministers have tended to encourage greater use of motor vehicles through both transport and (particularly) planning policies, while simultaneously warning of the terrible consequences of unfettered growth of road use.
ref: 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:
synonyms: fetterless#Adjective
untrammeled#Adjective
unconstrained#Adjective
unrestrained#Adjective
unrestricted#Adjective
unbridled#Adjective
unbound#Adjective
free#Adjective
antonyms: fettered#Adjective
glosses: Not restricted.
gloaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡləʊ.mɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡloʊ.mɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ
Forms: form: gloamings
Etymology: From a dialectal variant of glooming, from Middle English *gloming, from Old English glōmung, from Old English glōm (“twilight”). By surface analysis, gloom + -ing. Related to glow.
The OED notes: "The vowel of the modern gloaming is anomalous, as Old English glōmung should normally become glooming. The explanation is probably that the ō was shortened in the compound ǣfen-glommung (as the spelling seems to show was actually the case), and that from this compound there was evolved a new subject glŏmung, which by normal phonetic development became Middle English glǭming, modern English gloaming."
Senses: examples: text: Where in purple hue, the hieland hills we view / And the moon coming out in the gloaming.
ref: c. 1841, anonymous author, “The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond”, in Vocal Melodies of Scotland, verse 2:
text: You may imagine the young people brushed up after the labours of the day, and making this novelty, as they would make any novelty, the excuse for walking together and enjoying a trivial flirtation. You may figure to yourself the hum of voices along the road in the gloaming[…]
ref: 1898, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 6, in The War of the Worlds, book 1:
text: I clung to her nipples as she soared and swooped through the gloaming, scooping up insects, and I remember the shapes of things that she flew between, above, beneath.
ref: 2001, David Lodge, Thinks ...:
text: Your alarm bells, your alarm / They should be ringing, they should be ringing / This is the gloaming
ref: 2003, “The Gloaming”, in Hail to the Thief, performed by Radiohead:
synonyms: word: crepuscule
word: glooming
word: vespers
word: blue hour
word: crepuscule
word: crepusculum
word: dimmet
word: evenglome
word: gloaming
word: glooming
word: tweenlight
word: twilight
antonyms: daytime
daylight
nighttime
darkness
glosses: Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.
synonyms: crepuscule
glooming
misery
sadness
sorrow
woe
glosses: Sullenness; melancholy.