cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
similitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmɪlɪtjuːd/
ipa: /sɪˈmɪlɪtuːd/
Forms: form: similitudes
Etymology: From Old French similitude. By surface analysis, similar + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: So am I tossed on the ebbing tide of life—now in sunshine, now in shade—seemingly free, yet, in reality, fettered by the strong, though slight chain of circumstance. For a small sum, any passenger may enter that boat and direct its course; and here again is similitude. I am at the beck of others.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 150:
text: Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
ref: 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Renaissance man thought in terms of similitudes: the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
glosses: Similarity or resemblance to something else.
examples: text: Aemulation was similitude within distance: the sky resembled a face because it had “eyes” — the sun and moon.
ref: 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN Renaissance man thought in terms of 'similitudes': the theatre of life, the mirror of nature. […]
glosses: A way in which two people or things share similitude.
examples: text: If I was certain of anything in the world, I was certain that I had seen my brother in the study — nay, more, had touched him, — and equally certain that I had seen his double — his exact similitude, in the garden.
ref: 1852, Wilkie Collins, Nine O'Clock!:
glosses: Someone or something that closely resembles another; a duplicate or twin.
examples: text: And he spake many thynges to them in similitudes, sayinge: Beholde, the sower wentt forth to sowe, And as he sowed, some fell by the wayes side [...].
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
glosses: A parable or allegory.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A similarity: a transformation of Euclidean space that preserves angles and the ratios of distances.
Derived terms: antisimilitude
similitudinal
Related terms: dissimilitude
cabby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabbies
Etymology: From cab + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cabbie (“taxi driver”).
cabbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæ.bi/
rhymes: -æbi
Forms: form: cabbies
form: cabby
Etymology: From cab + -ie.
Senses: hypernyms: driver
glosses: A cabdriver; someone who drives a taxi.
artisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzən/
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzæn/
ipa: /ˈɑɹtɪzən/
ipa: /ˈɑɹtɪsən/
Forms: form: artisans
form: artizan
Etymology: From Middle French artisan, from Vulgar Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).
Senses: glosses: A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.
glosses: A person who displays great dexterity.
Derived terms: artisanal
artisanality
artisanally
artisanate
artisanry
artisanship
artisan's palsy
Related terms: art
artist
artistic
craftsman
craftsperson
craftswoman
artisan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzən/
ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)tɪzæn/
ipa: /ˈɑɹtɪzən/
ipa: /ˈɑɹtɪsən/
Forms: form: artizan
Etymology: From Middle French artisan, from Vulgar Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“I instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).
Senses: examples: text: Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).
ref: 2015, Andrea Chesman, The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How:
text: Cartier and Tiffany have some unlikely new neighbours near Sloane Square — a butcher, a greengrocer and a cheesemonger. […] The row of artisan food and drink shops also includes a wine merchant. A bakery is due to open in time for Christmas and a tenant is being sought for a sixth unit.
ref: 2016 December 2, Jonathan Prynn, “Pavilion Road: artisan food and drink street opens near Sloane Square”, in The Standard:
glosses: Artisanal.
Derived terms: artisan bread
geographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒiəˈɡɹæfɪk/
Forms: form: more geographic
form: most geographic
form: geographick
Etymology: From Latin geōgraphicus; see French géographique. By surface analysis, geography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In his book, Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government, Zach Weinersmith speculates about what governments would look like if they didn’t rule over geographic locations, but instead ruled over minds.
ref: 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo:
text: The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
ref: 2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:
glosses: Pertaining to geography (or to geographics).
glosses: Determined by geography, as opposed to magnetic (i.e. North)
Derived terms: anthropogeographic
biogeographic
chronogeographic
cytogeographic
ecogeographic
ethnogeographic
genographic
geographic atrophy
geographic bachelor
geographic information science
geographic information system
geographic latitude
geographic mile
geographic north
geographic North Pole
geographic tongue
hydrogeographic
ichthyogeographic
macrogeographic
microgeographic
morphogeographic
multigeographic
mythogeographic
neurogeographic
nongeographic
ornithogeographic
palaeogeographic
paleogeographic
pathogeographic
phylogeographic
physiogeographic
phytogeographic
postgeographic
psychogeographic
pyrogeographic
temporogeographic
ungeographic
zoogeographic
Related terms: geographer
geographical
geographically
geography
jerran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from an aboriginal Australian language, used briefly in Australian English. A mention is made in Robbery Under Arms, by Rolf Boldrewood; another is made in Alexander Harris's Settlers and Convicts (1847).
Senses: examples: text: As soon as things had got thus far, I began to feel rather jerran, as the blacks say, (i.e. timorous).
ref: 1847, Alexander Harris, Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods, London:
glosses: afraid
taking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Forms: form: more taking
form: most taking
Etymology: By surface analysis, take + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] a Proteus-Devil appeared unto him, changing into Shapes, but fixing himself at last into the form of a Fair Woman. Strange, that Satan (so subtil in making his Temptations most taking) should preferre this form […]
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, “The Tenth Century”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), page 128:
text: His speech from the hustings was very original, and therefore very taking.
ref: 1793, Charles Dibdin, chapter 9, in The Younger Brother, volume 2, London: for the author, page 263:
text: “Yes, Paris must be a taking place,” said Humphrey. “Grand shop-winders, trumpets, and drums; and here be we out of doors in all winds and weathers—”
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 3, Chapter 1:
text: The gentleman had left for London after lunch. Yes, alone; but he had lunched in the hotel with a lady. A young lady. A very taking young lady. She called him uncle. But walked away in another direction as his cab started. The porter's eye was beginning to twinkle; […]
ref: 1909, Frank Sidgwick, Love and battles, page 291:
glosses: Alluring; attractive.
examples: text: All the stor’d vengeances of heaven fall
On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,
You taking airs, with lameness!
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: Come not near me,
For I am yet too taking for your company.
ref: 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The False One, act IV, scene 3:
glosses: Infectious; contagious.
Derived terms: takingly
takingness
taking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪkɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, take + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: present participle and gerund of take
démarche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪˈmɑːʃ/
ipa: /deɪˈmɑɹʃ/
rhymes: -ɑːʃ
Forms: form: démarches
form: demarche
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French démarche, from Middle French, from 12th century demarcher (“to march”), from Old French demarchier, from de- + marchier.
Attested 1658, in sense “walk, step”; meaning “a diplomatic move” attested from 1670s.
Senses: glosses: A diplomatic maneuver; one handled with finesse.
examples: text: A less formal way of making diplomatic representations or protests is called a démarche. The following from the US Department of State handbook sets out the typical procedures and purposes of a démarche.
ref: 2009, Ivor Roberts, Satow's Diplomatic Practice, 6th edition, page 54:
text: He did not question the Communist Party's conformity to Moscow, but he thought that the impact of a démarche would be limited since the Portuguese Communists could not afford to tone down their policies lest they be outflanked from the left.
ref: 2012, Sotiris Rizas, The Rise of the Left in Southern Europe: Anglo-American Responses, unnumbered page:
text: The EU made a démarche on 16 April 2003 calling for the continuation of discussions regarding this so-called “follow-up mechanism”, but beyond the one-off meeting, the mechanism never took off and was soon forgotten due to staff changes within the EU bureaucracy.
ref: 2014, Katrin Kinzelbach, The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and Its Limits, page 99:
glosses: A diplomatic note without a personal attribution conveying an official protest or request for support, less formal than a bout de papier or a note verbale but of similar status to an aide-mémoire.
Bačka Topola
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Bačka Topola.
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of Vojvodina, Serbia.
soot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʊt/
ipa: /suːt/
ipa: /sʉt/
ipa: /sʌt/
rhymes: -ʊt
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: suit stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: soots
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *saďa (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).
Senses: synonyms: lampblack
glosses: Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
Derived terms: sootball
soot blower
soot devil
sooted
sootless
sootlike
soot-oh
sootproof
soot wart
sooty
soot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʊt/
ipa: /suːt/
ipa: /sʉt/
ipa: /sʌt/
rhymes: -ʊt
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: suit stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: soots
form: sooting
form: sooted
form: sooted
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *saďa (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).
Senses: examples: text: soot land
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To cover or dress with soot.
Related terms: carbon black
carbon black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: A fine black powder of amorphous carbon manufactured by the incomplete combustion of natural gas or oil, and used as a pigment in the manufacture of ink and paint. Used as a filler in rubber and rubber-like polymers, it helps prevent deterioration by ultraviolet rays.
Synonyms: E153 when used as a food coloring
Related terms: soot
vegetable carbon
bone black
spazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spazzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spaz.
spazz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spazzes
form: spazzing
form: spazzed
form: spazzed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spaz.
San Franciscan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more San Franciscan
form: most San Franciscan
Etymology: From San Francisco + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to San Francisco.
San Franciscan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: San Franciscans
Etymology: From San Francisco + -an.
Senses: examples: text: San Francisco's Board of Supervisors last month approved a new zoning law designed to limit the height and size of office towers and to reduce by half the projected employment growth downtown over the next 15 years. ¶ Adoption of the plan came after more than a decade of complaints from San Franciscans that their city was being "Manhattanized."
ref: 1985 August 4, Robert Lindsey, “The Struggle to Keep Skylines in Line”, in The New York Times:
text: Her fellow San Franciscan Fraser is a long-haired, 24-year-old ex-baseball player with rugged, modelish looks.
ref: 1988 July 15, Albert Williams, “Prison Drama”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2015:
glosses: A native of San Francisco.
Derived terms: San Fagciscan
dot ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot balls
Etymology: Such a ball is recorded in the scorebook using a dot.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball off which no runs are scored.
draw stumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: draws stumps
form: drawing stumps
form: drew stumps
form: drawn stumps
Etymology: From the game of cricket, where a day's play is terminated by the umpire drawing the stumps out of the ground.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To declare an end to the day's play, and remove the bails and sometimes the stumps.
raw_tags: of the umpires
glosses: To cease doing something, at least for the day.
Related terms: pull up stumps
drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Senses: glosses: plural of drink
drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A short break in play to allow the players to have a drink, and for quick repairs to be made to equipment or the pitch.
drinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drink
Duckworth-Lewis method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Devised by two English statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis.
Senses: examples: text: The Duckworth-Lewis method of resolving rain-affected games has divided the cricketing fraternity into those who do not understand it and those who pretend they do. Rumour has it that it involves calculus, astrology, quantum mechanics and the use of dice. Either way teams get screwed.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 195:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A mathematical algorithm for generating revised target scores for the side batting second in a rain-affected one-day match.
crumple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌmpəl/
rhymes: -ʌmpəl
Forms: form: crumples
Etymology: From Middle English crumplen, cromplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen (“to curl up, crump”), from Old English crump (“bent, crooked”). Equivalent to crump + -le.
Senses: glosses: A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
crumple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹʌmpəl/
rhymes: -ʌmpəl
Forms: form: crumples
form: crumpling
form: crumpled
form: crumpled
Etymology: From Middle English crumplen, cromplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen (“to curl up, crump”), from Old English crump (“bent, crooked”). Equivalent to crump + -le.
Senses: examples: text: He crumpled the note and threw it away.
glosses: To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
examples: text: He crumpled the car's body panels when he backed into a post.
glosses: To cause to collapse.
examples: text: The car's body panels crumpled when they hit the post.
glosses: To become wrinkled.
examples: text: The team's defensive strategy crumpled.
text: The defenders crumpled owing to exhaustion and dehydration.
text: Yes, Juve were unfortunate, in the extreme, with the deflected goal from Casemiro that gave Madrid a 2-1 lead just after the hour. From that point onwards, however, it was staggering to see a team renowned for defensive structure crumple this way.
ref: 2017 June 3, Daniel Taylor, “Real Madrid win Champions League as Cristiano Ronaldo double defeats Juv”, in The Guardian (London):
synonyms: buckle#English:_give way, give up, surrender
cave#Verb
cave in#Verb
fold#English:_give way or give up
coordinate_terms: crumble#English:_fall apart, literally or figuratively
glosses: To collapse; to surrender.
Derived terms: crumpler
crumple up
crumply
recrumple
uncrumple
crumple zone
Related terms: crumpet
crumple zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crumple zones
Senses: examples: text: When Uff investigated Southall, the concept of crumple zones in rolling stock was slowly becoming established. He wrote: "A particular design feature which has proved controversial is the introduction of 'crumple zones', as energy-absorbing measures at the end of coaches. This was opposed by some who considered that it represented a new hazard in view of the possibility of passengers being located within these zones." British Rail designed and built its HSTs before crumple zones became common.
ref: 2020 October 7, Philip Haigh, “From Southall to Carmont... how to keep passengers safe”, in Rail, page 46:
glosses: A structural feature of a vehicle designed to compress during an accident and absorb impact energy.
motor car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor cars
Senses: examples: text: The 20 sets of B.W. [British Westinghouse] equipment, including motor bogies and traction motors, were refitted to 20 new motor cars, similar in design to the 1913 stock, again at the railway company's Neasden Works.
ref: 1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59:
text: A motor car is provided with two self-ventilated series-wound G.E.C. traction motors, each having a continuous rating of 80 h.p. at 575 V. 116 A. at a field strength of 66 per cent.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Alternative form of motorcar (“self-propelled railway vehicle”).
examples: text: Today the motor car is not taken seriously as a solution to the problems of mass transport, and the transport planners of south-east England - and the mayor of London himself, judging by his Transport Plan - think in terms of trains and underground trains in particular […]
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 273–274:
glosses: Alternative form of motorcar (“automobile”).
fierce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪəs/
ipa: /fɪɹs/
ipa: /fiɹs/
ipa: /fiəs/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fɛːs/
ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)s
Forms: form: fiercer
form: more fierce
form: fiercest
form: most fierce
Etymology: From Middle English fers, fiers, borrowed from Old French fers (“wild", "ferocious”), nominative of fer, from Latin ferus (“wild", "untamed”).
Senses: examples: text: A fierce storm battered the coast.
text: Their fights with other members of their own kind were always preceded by loud and fierce waulings or savage snarling and snapping of teeth […]
ref: 2006, Kenneth Conibear, Northland Footprints:
text: One constituent spent an hour educating me on the history of pit bulls: the Molossians, the Mastiffs; the Greeks, Romans, Brits, Tibetans, and Germans; the crossbreeds. A common theme ran throughout their history: they were the fiercest of fighters, and eventually bred to fight—in wars during antiquity, in dog fights for centuries. Regardless, they were again and again attacking other dogs and people.
ref: 2012, Michael Bryant, 28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope, Viking:
glosses: Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.
examples: text: We made a fierce attempt to escape.
text: I feel a fierce loyalty to my kin.
text: Yet his passion for her had grown fiercer than ever, and he swore to himself that he would win her back from her phantasies. She, one may believe, was ready enough to listen.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: Resolute or strenuously active.
examples: text: The lion gave a fierce roar.
glosses: Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
examples: text: Q: "How was the party last night?" A: "Fierce!"
qualifier: rustic
glosses: Excellent, very good.
examples: text: Tyra said to strike a pose and make it fierce.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
Synonyms: sense: exceedingly violent
word: incessive
sense: threatening in appearance or demeanor
word: incessive
Derived terms: fiercely
fiercen
fierceness
fierce snake
fiercesome
fiercity
overfierce
something fierce
unfierce
Related terms: feral
ferity
ferocious
fierce
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪəs/
ipa: /fɪɹs/
ipa: /fiɹs/
ipa: /fiəs/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /fɛːs/
ipa: /fɜː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)s
Etymology: From Middle English fers, fiers, borrowed from Old French fers (“wild", "ferocious”), nominative of fer, from Latin ferus (“wild", "untamed”).
Senses: examples: text: It was fierce cold last night.
qualifier: rustic
glosses: Extremely; very.
demeanor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmiːnə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪˈminɚ/
rhymes: -iːnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: demeanors
form: demeanour
Etymology: From Middle English demenure, from the verb Middle English demenen, demeinen (“to handle, manage”), from Old French demener (“to guide, conduct”), from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin *mināre (“to drive”) and minor (“to project or jut forth”).
Senses: examples: text: The man's demeanor made others suspicious of his intentions.
text: A confident demeanor is crucial for persuading others.
text: At this present (saith he) certeine princes of Britaine, procuring by ambassadors and dutifull demeanors the amitie of the emperour Augustus, haue offered in the capitoll vnto the gods presents or gifts, and haue ordeined the whole Ile in a manner to be appertinent, proper, and familiar to the Romans.
ref: a. 1587, Raphael Holinshed, quoting Strabo, Historie of England, Book III:
text: Demeanors that are apologetic and overly polite are inherently contradictory to demeanors that exhibit fear and anger.
ref: 1993, “Interrogation: The Kinesics Technique”, in John J. Fay, editor, Encyclopedia of Security Management, →ISBN, page 418:
text: He kept up his cheerful demeanor. It wouldn't do for any of the holocams to see him looking irritable, for any recordings of such a response would appear on the news broadcasts.
ref: 2009 April 12, Aaron Allston, Outcast, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: The social, non-verbal behaviours (such as body language and facial expressions) that are characteristic of a person.
Synonyms: behavior
comportment
Related terms: demean
misdemeanor
others
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌðəz/
ipa: /ˈʌðɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of other
others
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌðəz/
ipa: /ˈʌðɚz/
Senses: examples: text: I treat others like I treat myself.
text: Javik: Do not care what others think. Do what you must.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2, Post Priority: Tuchanka:
glosses: Other people.
examples: text: Two decided to hide, the others surrendered. I kept two special jars and threw away all the others.
text: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:
glosses: Those remaining after one or more people or items have left, or done something else, or been excluded.
Derived terms: do unto others
do unto others as you would have them do unto you
he who digs a pit for others falls in himself
play well with others
others
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌðəz/
ipa: /ˈʌðɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of other
bathing machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathing machines
Senses: examples: text: Bathing-machines of the usual number and variety are in constant attendance, and on the South-parade is an establishment of hot salt-water baths, furnished with dressing-rooms and every requisite accommodation.
ref: 1847, “The Watering Places of England. No. VII.—Weymouth.”, in The Traveller’s Miscellany, and Magazine of Entertainment, page 8:
glosses: Around the 19th century, a portable changing room that was rolled down a beach to the edge of the sea to allow people to paddle in the sea modestly.
portable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təbəl/
ipa: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)təbl̩/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹtəbəl/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹtəbl̩/
ipa: [ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təbəl
Forms: form: portables
Etymology: From Middle English portable, from Middle French portable and Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -able.
Senses: glosses: A portable building used for temporary purposes
Clipping of portable toilet.
glosses: A portable building used for temporary purposes
A trailer or other movable structure used for classes at a school.
examples: text: A few portables, particularly the small laphelds, go one step further and come with software built into the computer.
ref: 1985, New Accountant, volumes 1-3, page lxvii:
text: Compaq portables have grown lighter and more powerful since then. Their newest luggable, the Compaq Portable III, is six times more powerful and 10 pounds lighter than the original model.
ref: 1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, number 20, page 71:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of portable computer.
topics: video-games
glosses: A hand-held video gaming device.
Synonyms: sense: facility for urination and defecation
word: bathroom
bosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒʃ/
ipa: /bɑʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: Boche
homophone: Bosch
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, unoccupied”). Entered popular usage in English from the novels of James Justinian Morier.
Senses: examples: text: Tho' hundreds cheer his blatant bosh,
He's but a goose for a' that.
ref: 1868, Shirley Brooks, For A' That And A' That:
text: But you know very well you're talking bosh," exclaimed Abraham, somewhat discomfited. "There must be government, and there must be order, say what you like.
ref: 1884, George Gissing, chapter 17, in The Unclassed:
text: Oliver saw Kit Carson wink at the lieutenant and Lucien Maxwell, as the speech reached them, and it was evident that these three leaders did not believe the Indian tales. Consequently he himself decided that the reports of "evil spirits" awaiting were all bosh.
ref: 1912, Edwin L[egrand] Sabin, chapter VIII, in With Carson and Frémont:
text: "Why, it's absolute bosh from beginning to end."
ref: 1955, C[live] S[taples] Lewis, chapter 5, in The Magician's Nephew, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: Nonsense.
Synonyms: blatherskite
hogwash
malarkey
nonsense
bosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒʃ/
ipa: /bɑʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: Boche
homophone: Bosch
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, unoccupied”). Entered popular usage in English from the novels of James Justinian Morier.
Senses: examples: text: "Bosh!" said the Vicar, rejecting the hint altogether.
ref: 1904, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 1, in The Food of the Gods:
text: “The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads,” answered the priest, “knew more about fairies than you do. It isn’t only nice things that happen in fairyland.”
“Oh, bosh!” said Flambeau. “Only nice things could happen under such an innocent moon. I am for pushing on now and seeing what does really come. We may die and rot before we ever see again such a moon or such a mood.”
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, “The Sins of Prince Saradine”, in The Innocence of Father Brown:
glosses: An expression of disbelief or annoyance.
Synonyms: fiddlesticks
horsefeathers
pull the other one
bullshit
bosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒʃ/
ipa: /bɑʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: Boche
homophone: Bosch
Forms: form: boshes
Etymology: Probably from German, compare Böschung, böschen
Senses: glosses: The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
bosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒʃ/
ipa: /bɑʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: Boche
homophone: Bosch
Forms: form: boshes
Etymology: Compare German Posse (“farce, burlesque”), Italian bozzo (“a rough stone”), bozzetto (“a rough sketch”).
Senses: examples: to cut a bosh — "to make a figure"
glosses: A figure.
bosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒʃ/
ipa: /bɑʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: Boche
homophone: Bosch
Etymology: An onomatopoeic formation, imitating a sudden blow.
Senses: examples: text: It's a ~3 foot double lead with two 5-pin DIN plugs on one end and a big gameport-sized-n-shaped plug on the other. One end into the gameport, t'other plugs into the back of your keyboard. Bosh, job done.
ref: 2001, rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):
text: My father registered with these people a few months ago, and all his calls dried up. He was also of the opinion that he shouldn't need to register not to be disturbed, and he's pretty ruthless on the 'phone when he wants to be . . . but eventually he grew tired of it . . . bosh. Job done.
ref: 2001, uk.local.lincolnshire (Usenet):
text: Wrong, get a^([sic]) LPG diesel. More power than either, better economy than either, bosh, job's done.
ref: 2003, uk.rec.cars.misc (Usenet):
synonyms: boom#Interjection
bam#Interjection
bang#Interjection
bammo#Interjection
bingo#Interjection
bish bash bosh#Interjection
bada bing bada boom#Interjection
bingo bango
;
there#Interjection
that does it#Interjection
coordinate_terms: Bob's your uncle
there you go#Phrase
there you are#Phrase
glosses: An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.
bosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒʃ/
ipa: /bɑʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: Boche
homophone: Bosch
Forms: form: boshes
form: boshing
form: boshed
form: boshed
Senses: examples: text: We boshed two grams each of the beast 10, and then we went downstairs.
ref: 1996, Aidan Macfarlane, Magnus Macfarlane, Philip Robson, The user: the truth about drugs, what they do, how they feel, and why people take them:
text: People want to make sure they are loaded up well before midnight. It's not like any other party where they might not turn up until eleven. They commence boshing pills straight away […]
ref: 2015, Oliver Merlin, Clapham High Way, page 188:
text: I wasn’t on three (e) pills, I was on 1. So, I remember it. It’s only when you bosh that third pill you start losing it, that’s not really how you take ecstasy. Kids do that, but it’s a bit foolish. Not that I’m saying I haven’t done that!
ref: 2017, Jon Boon, James Desborough, The Shamen rapper who sang "Es are good" has revealed he was high on drugs every time he did TOTP (in The Mirror newspaper)
glosses: To consume (illicit drugs).
bosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒʃ/
ipa: /bɑʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: Boche
homophone: Bosch
Forms: form: boshes
Etymology: Of Romani usage.
Senses: examples: text: My father broke his bosh one night when he was in Waterford.
ref: Patrick "Pecker" Dunne quoted in 2009, Mícheál Ó hAodha, Migrants and Memory: The Forgotten “Postcolonials” (page 53)
glosses: A fiddle (musical instrument).
Akela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani اَکیلَا (akelā) / अकेला (akelā, “alone”).
Senses: glosses: A fictional wolf character in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
Akela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Akelas
form: akela
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani اَکیلَا (akelā) / अकेला (akelā, “alone”).
Senses: examples: text: Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.
ref: 1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book:
text: The incident that cost him his licence, flying his plane too close to a Scout hut, followed the discovery that his wife was having an affair with a local Akela.
ref: 2023 October 12, Alan Partridge, Alan Partridge: Big Beacon, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: The leader of a pack of Cub Scouts.
Related terms: Bagheera
discontent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: discontents
Etymology: From dis- + content.
Senses: examples: text: Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...].
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Phase II units in service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 69:
text: Analysts and opinion polls had forecast losses for the ANC but a pivotal factor in the party’s staggering decline was former President Jacob Zuma and his newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, which capitalized on widespread discontent within the ANC’s traditional voter base.
ref: 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN:
glosses: Dissatisfaction.
examples: text: Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
ref: 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 1:
glosses: A longing for better times or circumstances.
glosses: A discontented person; a malcontent.
Derived terms: discontentful
discontentive
Winter of Discontent
Related terms: discontented
discontent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: discontents
form: discontenting
form: discontented
form: discontented
Etymology: From dis- + content.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
discontent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈtɛnt/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: more discontent
form: most discontent
Etymology: From dis- + content.
Senses: examples: text: [...] Paſſion seemed to be much diſcontent, but Patience was very quiet. Then Chriſtian aſked, What is the reaſon of the diſcontent of Paſſion.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
excision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsɪʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: excisions
Etymology: From Middle French excision, from Latin excīsiō(n).
Senses: synonyms: deletion
coordinate_terms: redaction
abridgment
glosses: The removal of some text during editing.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: resection
-ectomy
glosses: The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point.
Derived terms: autoexcision
electroexcision
excisional
excisionase
nonexcision
postexcision
reexcision
ornamentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: ornamentations
Etymology: From ornament + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: word: adornment
word: decoration
word: embellishment
word: ornament
word: ornamentation
glosses: Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
glosses: The act or process of decorating etc.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Short notes added to a composition to emphasize certain notes and to add style.
Derived terms: ornamentational
Related terms: word: microornamentation
word: ornament
word: ornamental
clearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈklɪə.ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Etymology: From clear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clear
clearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈklɪə.ɹɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: clearings
Etymology: From clear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making or becoming clear.
examples: text: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[…]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
glosses: An open space in the fog etc.
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
topics: education
glosses: The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
synonyms: clearance
glosses: The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
Synonyms: sense: area devoid of trees
word: glade
Derived terms: burn-clearing
clearing bank
clearing house
immunoclearing
inclearing
market clearing
mine-clearing
nonclearing
outclearing
borough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌ.ɹə/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈbʌɹ.oʊ/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈbɝ.oʊ/
homophone: burgh (Received Pronunciation, Scotland)
rhymes: -ʌɹə
rhymes: -ʌɹəʊ
Forms: form: boroughs
form: boro
form: bourg
form: burough
form: burrow
Etymology: From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”).
Cognate with Dutch burcht, German Burg, Swedish borg, French bourg, Turkish burç. Doublet of Brough, burgh, and Bury.
Senses: glosses: A fortified town.
glosses: A town or city.
glosses: A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
examples: text: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 7, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
glosses: An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
glosses: Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
glosses: A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
topics: law
glosses: An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
Derived terms: -boro
-borough
Boroughbridge
borough council
borough English
Borough Green
borough hall
boroughholder
boroughhood
boroughitis
boroughmaster
boroughmonger
borough seat
boroughwide
Brookeborough
close borough
Conwy County Borough
county borough
Denali Borough
Foxborough
Guysborough
interborough
Ketchikan Gateway Borough
Marlborough
Martinborough
metropolitan borough
multiborough
municipal borough
nomination borough
Northwest Arctic Borough
outer borough
parliamentary borough
Peterborough
Petersburg Borough
pocket borough
rotten borough
royal borough
The Borough
triborough
Woodborough
Related terms: Brough
burg
burgh
-bury
Southwark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭth'ək
ipa: /ˈsʌðək/
Senses: glosses: A London borough of Greater London, extending as far as Crystal Palace south of the River Thames, including the historic borough plus the Pool of London and Bankside.
glosses: An area of this borough just south of the Thames in central London (OS grid ref TQ3280).
Casey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪsi/
rhymes: -eɪsi
Forms: form: Caseys
Etymology: Anglicisation of an Irish surname Ó Cathasaigh (“descendant of (a person named) Watchful”).
Senses: examples: text: “His research shows you can change aging to make lives younger for longer. Now he wants to change the world and make aging a disease,” said Whitney Casey, an investor who is partnering with Sinclair to create a do-it-yourself biological age test.
ref: 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
examples: text: Casey Anthony was sentenced on Thursday to a four-year jail term, the maximum possible, for lying to the police, but will be freed this month because she has spent nearly three years behind bars in Orlando, Fla., awaiting trial.
ref: 2011 July 7, New York Times:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A placename:
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Richard Casey, Baron Casey.
glosses: A placename:
A local government area in eastern Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, also named after Baron Casey; in full, the City of Casey.
glosses: A placename:
An electoral division in Victoria.
glosses: A placename:
A city in Clark County and Cumberland County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A minor city in Adair County and Guthrie County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A town in Washburn County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A township in Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada, named after George Elliott Casey.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Casey County.
topics: government
law
politics
coordinate_terms: Roe
Dobbs
glosses: Ellipsis of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reaffirmed the right to having an abortion; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.
Derived terms: Casey County
County of Casey
Division of Casey
mamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæmə/
rhymes: -æmə
Forms: form: mammae
form: mammas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.
Senses: examples: text: Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved.
ref: 1880, Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology, page 434:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
qualifier: plural mammae
glosses: The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
Derived terms: mammal
mammalgia
mammaplasty
mammary
mammate
mammatroph
mammectomy
mammiferous
mammiform
mammilla
mammiplasia
mammitis
mammogen
mammogenesis
mammogram
mammography
mammoplasia
mammose
mammosomatotrope
mammosomatotroph
mammotomy
mammotroph
mammotrophic
mammotropic
mammotropin
pseudomamma
mamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæmə/
rhymes: -æmə
Forms: form: mammas
Etymology: Alternative spelling of mama; see further etymology there.
Senses: examples: 1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
The next day Charles had the child brought back. She asked for her mamma. They told her she was away; that she would bring her back some playthings.
glosses: Alternative spelling of mama: mother.
Derived terms: grandmamma
stepmamma