cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
frugality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹuːˈɡæləti/
Forms: form: frugalities
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French frugalité. By surface analysis, frugal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (usually admirable) economy, thrift, thriftiness, parsimony; (excessive degree) tightness, stinginess; (extreme degree) miserliness; see also Thesaurus:frugal, Thesaurus:stingy
text: Your sense of honour and honesty would have led you, I know, when aware of your situation, to attempt all the economy that would appear to you possible; and, perhaps, as long as your frugality retrenched only on your own comfort, you might have been suffered to practice it, but beyond that—
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 47:
text: With the frugality that hard graft begets, his mate limited both his and her own tobacco, so he must not smoke all afternoon.
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 14:
glosses: The quality of being frugal; prudent economy.
glosses: A sparing use; sparingness.
aide-de-camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪd dɪ ˈkæmp/
ipa: /ˌeɪd dɪ ˈkɒmp/
ipa: /ˌeɪd dɪ ˈkæmp/
Forms: form: aides-de-camp
form: ADC
form: aid-de-camp
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French aide de camp, from aide + de (“of”) + camp (“(military) camp”).
Senses: examples: text: Unlike the orderly or batman, a humble low-ranking servant, an aide-de-camp is often a general, who before the institution of the chief of staff could hold a similar position to his chief.
text: The police uncovered the plot after recovering information from the phone of Bolsonaro’s former personal secretary, Lt Col Mauro Cid, who served as Bolsonaro’s aide-de-camp during his 2019–2023 presidency.
ref: 2024 November 19, Tiago Rogero, “Brazilian police arrest five over plot to assassinate Lula after 2022 election win”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A military officer who serves as an adjutant to a higher-ranking officer, prince or other high political dignitary.
Derived terms: aide-de-campship
Related terms: equerry
icteritious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: icteritous
Senses: glosses: yellow; jaundiced
idioblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From idioblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to an idioblast
idiomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ăn'thrə-pə-môr′fĭk
ipa: /ɪdi.əˈmɔɹfɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk
Etymology: From idio- + -morphic.
Senses: glosses: idiomorphous; having a distinctive form
Derived terms: hypidiomorphic
panidiomorphic
idiomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From idio- + -morphous.
Senses: glosses: having a unique, characteristic form
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: occurring as distinct crystals
Ijekavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Iyekavian
form: Jekavian
form: Yekavian
Senses: glosses: A dialect, group of dialects or dialect continuum of Serbo-Croatian spoken through most of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro and parts of Serbia and distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as disyllabic (triphonemic) /ije/ or diphthongal /je/ sequence.
Related terms: Ikavian
Ekavian
Ikavian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect or group of dialects of Serbo-Croatian spoken primarily in coastal Croatia distinguished by reflecting the Common Slavic jat (Old Cyrillic: ѣ, Glagolitic: ⱑ, Latin transcription /ě/) sound as /i/.
Related terms: Ekavian
Ijekavian
immanence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immanences
Etymology: Borrowed from French immanence.
Senses: examples: text: Here the conflict between male bonding and the companionship of the transcendent quest versus sexual love and involvement in the immanence of bodily life comes right out into the open.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 197:
glosses: The state of being immanent; inherency.
glosses: The state of dwelling within and not extending beyond a given domain.
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The concept of the presence of deity in and throughout the real world; the idea that God is everywhere and in everything. Contrast transcendence.
Synonyms: immanency
Related terms: transcendence
hot water bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot water bottles
form: hot-water bottle
form: hotwater bottle
Senses: glosses: A flexible, saclike bottle, usually made of rubber, intended to be filled with hot water and placed on some part of the body for thermotherapy, or simple warming.
Synonyms: word: hottie
word: hot water bag
Related terms: hot water can
warming pan
hot bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot bottles
Senses: glosses: A hot water bottle.
LAMP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: LAMPP
LEMP
LNMP
WAMP
glosses: Acronym of Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Python/Perl: a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server.
LAMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LAMPs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of loop-mediated isothermal amplification.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein.
internationalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internationalisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of internationalization.
Derived terms: deinternationalisation
Kaurna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑːnə/
Senses: glosses: Aboriginal people of South Australia.
Kaurna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɑːnə/
Senses: glosses: The once extinct language spoken by the Kaurna people.
wail on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wails on
form: wailing on
form: wailed on
form: wailed on
Senses: examples: text: The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just wailing on it with a big old sledge hammer.
text: I've had two sessions with the fellow I talked to today; a few weeks ago he got me off balance when my tape recorder failed and he never let me up ... but today I wailed on him, no mercy at all, and he blew it completely.
ref: 1968 July 7, Hunter S. Thompson, “To Jim Silberman, Random House”, in Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, published 2000:
text: I go straight for his head, and start wailing on him, with the broom.
ref: 2016, Neoma Nayrah, The Light Under the Door:
text: He shoved Jessie off but Jessie came back and wailed on him something harsh. Russ curled up, taking the hits, remembering what Cal had said about how a guy could take a lot of hits, but he only had to give one to make his point.
ref: 2017, Tanya Reimer, Cursed on the Prairies: a Sacred Land Story:
glosses: Alternative form of whale on.
whale on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: whales on
form: whaling on
form: whaled on
form: whaled on
Etymology: See whale (“to beat vigorously or soundly”).
Senses: examples: text: If he had been able to break loose from his handlers and the referee, he would have jumped Paret to the floor and whaled on him there.
ref: 1962, Norman Mailer, The Death of Benny Paret:
text: Philip was whaling on O, who was whaling on Slater, who was whaling on Genesius, who was whaling on Philip. Blood, spittle, and curses were flying.
ref: 2000, Joseph Di Prisco, Confessions of Brother Eli, page 320:
text: “Big sumbitch,” Don Dykes said. “Took a fuckin' ax handle to me. Just whaled on my fuckin' ass.”
ref: 2014, Jack Hart, Skookum Summer: A Novel of the Pacific Northwest, page 278:
related: word: wale on
word: wail on
glosses: To strike an opponent heavily and repeatedly in a fight.
examples: text: The wrench wouldn’t budge, even though Tony was just whaling on it with a big old sledge hammer.
text: Standing at the front, wearing a guitar and whaling on it as she sang, was Sara Tidwell.
ref: 1999, Stephen King, Bag of Bones:
text: Jaw tight, Ryder picked up his hammer, set a framing nail, and whaled on it.
ref: 2012, Nora Roberts, The Last Boyfriend, page 71:
text: Now he couldn't get enough of playing his father's music on a CD and whaling on the drum set Jed had bought him at one of those warehouse club stores
ref: 2014, Chris Fabry, The Song:
glosses: To beat heavily on anything.
Related terms: whale away
mitred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.təd/
ipa: /ˈmaɪ.tɚd/
Forms: form: mitered
Etymology: From Middle English mytred; equivalent to mitre (“pointed hat”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Our Fathers must hide themselves rather like robbers who chuse a leader, than godly priests who elect a mitred Abbot. […] And mark me, brother! not in the proudest days of the mitred Abbey, was a Superior ever chosen, whom his office shall so much honour, as he shall be honoured, who now takes it upon him in these days of tribulation.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 275–276:
text: Mitred emissaries also passed from Gregory to the Emperor, summoning him to attend the diet within a time by which no one unwafted by wings or steam could have reached the place […]
ref: 1871, Elizabeth Missing Sewell, European History, page 193:
text: Their leaves were green when the Abbey rose in splendour, and mitred abbots walked in their shadow.
ref: 1904, George Hodges, Fountains Abbey, the story of a mediaeval monastery, page 2:
text: Again I bestride the mitred, leather-winged steed.
ref: 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: Wearing an abbot's or bishop's mitre.
glosses: Having a mitre joint.
Related terms: mitrate
mitre
mitriform
mitred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.təd/
ipa: /ˈmaɪ.tɚd/
Forms: form: mitered
Etymology: From Middle English mytred; equivalent to mitre (“pointed hat”) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mitre
miter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.təɹ/
ipa: /ˈmit.əɹ/
Forms: form: miters
form: mitering
form: mitered
form: mitered
form: mitre
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mitre (“to unite at an angle of 45°”).
miter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.təɹ/
ipa: /ˈmit.əɹ/
Forms: form: miters
form: mitre
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mitre.
Derived terms: miter square
miterwort
try-miter square
Mwera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city on Unguja Island in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
synonyms: Chimwera
Cimwera
Mwela
glosses: A Bantu language spoken in the Ruvuma region of Tanzania.
synonyms: Chimwera
Kinyasa
Nyanza
Nyasa
glosses: A Bantu language spoken in the Lindi region of Tanzania.
thunderbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθʌndəbɒks/
ipa: /ˈθʌndɚˌbɑks/
Forms: form: thunderboxes
form: thunder-box
Etymology: Probably a calque of German Donnerbüchse (“(archaic) blunderbuss; cannon”) (from Donner (“thunder”) + Büchse (“box; can; rifle”)), or its etymon Dutch donderbus (“blunderbuss”) (from donder (“thunder”) + bus (“box; container; (chiefly historical) type of early modern firearm”)).
Senses: examples: text: In the year 1346, at the battle of Crecy, the engliſh uſed a ſort of cannons, which were then called thunder-boxes.
ref: 1800, Gerhard Ulrich Anthony Vieth, “Gunpowder”, in [anonymous], transl., The Pleasing Preceptor; or Familiar Instructions in Natural History and Physics, […], volume I, London: […] [F]or G. G. and J. Robinson, […] by George Woodfall, […], →OCLC, page 58:
text: […] I saw Arnoldi at Dettelbach, standing unhurt amongst the lances and swords, which flashed and glittered around him like lightning; the thunder-boxes peppering away all the while as if it snowed lead; and when the pastime (for it was nothing else to him) was over, there he stood leaning on his halbert, coolly shaking out the bullets, which rattled like peas from his breeches and doublet.
ref: 1848, H. J. Whitling, “The Old Man and His Guests”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XXIII, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 203:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A blunderbuss; also, a cannon.
staple gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staple guns
Senses: glosses: A heavy-duty device for driving staples directly into wood or other material.
Related terms: stapler
short stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short stops
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative spelling of shortstop.
on deck
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: In every sense of the expression he is ‘on deck’; but my Jim, for the most part, skulked down below as though he had been a stowaway.
ref: 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XIX, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 213:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: On the deck of a ship, especially of a captain or officer; in charge.
examples: text: Jones is the on-deck batter.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Being the batter who will be up next, typically when that player is waiting on the field.
Related terms: on the deck
at-bat
on deck circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: on deck circles
Senses: examples: text: Jones warms up in the on deck circle.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The circle drawn or painted on the field where the next batter to hit waits.
satiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈtaɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: /səˈtaɪ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /səˈtaɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: [səˈtaɪ.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /səˈtaɪ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [səˈtaɪ.ɪ.ɾi]
ipa: /səˈtɑe.ə.ti/
ipa: [səˈtɑe.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /səˈtɑe.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [səˈtɑe.ɪ.ɾi]
ipa: /səˈtaɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: [səˈtɑe̯.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /səˈtaɪ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [səˈtɑe̯.ɪ.ɾi]
ipa: /səˈsaɪ.ɪ.ti/
rhymes: -aɪɪti
Forms: form: satieties
form: saciety
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French satieté, from Latin satietas.
Senses: examples: text: Eating half of that loaf of bread has left me in a state of utter satiety.
text: Satiety and mortification are the extremes of vanity, and both are equally attended by envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 277:
text: Surgical techniques have also been instrumental in understanding the pathways leading to satiety...
ref: 1995, Britt Marie Burton-Freeman, Satiety Induced by Fat, Carbohydrate and Protein: A Potential Role for Cholecystokinin (CCK) and Serotonin (5HT):
text: On the other hand, early satiety did not correlate with delayed gastric emptying...
ref: 2010, Egidio Del Fabbro, Wendy Demark-wahnefried, Vickie Baracos, Nutrition and the Cancer Patient, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 193:
glosses: The state of being satiated.
Synonyms: satiatedness
satiation
Related terms: satiate
satiated
insatiety
Ucalegon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞okălʹəgôn
ipa: /juːˈkælɨɡɒn/
Forms: form: Ucalegons
Etymology: From Latin Ūcalegōn, from Ancient Greek Οὐκαλέγων (Oukalégōn). He was one of the Elders of Troy, whose house was set on fire by the Achaeans when they sacked the city. He is one of Priam's friends in the Iliad (3.148) and the destruction of his house is referred to in the Aeneid (2.312).
Senses: glosses: A neighbor whose house is on fire or has burned down.
hit parade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hit parades
Senses: examples: text: That’s going to do it for Smith as Jones joins the hit parade off him.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A series of many hits in a row that are scored by one team.
examples: text: Elvis joins the hit parade this week with his song “Hound Dog”.
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
radio
glosses: A list of the most popular songs at the moment.
Derived terms: hit-parader
satiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪʃɪeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more satiated
form: most satiated
Senses: examples: text: But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Pleasantly satisfied or full, as with food; sated
Derived terms: satiatedness
Related terms: satiate
satiation
satiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪʃɪeɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of satiate
Melungeon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from French mélange (“mixture”) + English -ian; perhaps from malengine; perhaps from melongene; or perhaps none of these.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to any of several similar Mestee groups currently and historically found in the Southeastern United States, all of uncertain or disputed origin.
Melungeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Melungeons
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from French mélange (“mixture”) + English -ian; perhaps from malengine; perhaps from melongene; or perhaps none of these.
Senses: glosses: A Melungeon person.
papain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papains
Etymology: Attested since the late 1800s. From papaya + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proteolytic enzyme in papaya fruit which can be used to tenderize meat.
Derived terms: papainase
down low
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down lows
form: down-low
form: downlow
Senses: examples: text: I'll tell you, but keep it on the down low.
glosses: A state of secrecy.
examples: text: [Chorus]:And keep it on the down low Nobody has to know.
ref: 1995 December 11, “Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)”performed by R. Kelly:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: The state of being a man who secretly sleeps with people other than his partner.
examples: text: I sleep with men, but I am not bisexual, and I am certainly not gay. I am not going to your clinics, I am not going to read your brochures, I am not going to get tested. I assure you that none of the brothers on the down low like me are paying the least bit of attention to anything you have to say.
ref: 2001 April 3, Linda Villarosa, “AIDS Education Is Aimed 'Down Low'”, in The New York times, page 5:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: The state of being a man who secretly sleeps with other men.
examples: text: I think it must be hard for trans men who like guys. Most gay guys don't like vaginas. […] The guys I'm interested in are down-lows, DLs.
ref: 2014, Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, Humen: Candlewick Press, published 2015, →ISBN, →LCCN, Mariah: The Real Deal, page 90:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A man who secretly sleeps with other men.
down low
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more down low
form: most down low
form: down-low
form: downlow
Senses: glosses: Undercover or lying about one's identity.
raw_tags: of a person
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Purporting to be heterosexual while engaged in sex with men.
raw_tags: of a man
Derived terms: DL
vaginal fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaginal fluids
Senses: topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: vaginal discharge
glosses: Any liquid discharge from a vagina.
backside throw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Good backside throw leads to good hip speed which leads to good bat speed.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The rotation of the knee and lower body of the side of the batter away from the pitcher during a swing.
hip speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hip speeds
Senses: examples: text: Good hip speed leads to good bat speed.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The speed of rotation of the hips of a batter during a swing.
bat speed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bat speeds
Senses: examples: text: Good hip speed leads to good bat speed.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The speed of the bat during a swing.
know inside and out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows inside and out
form: knowing inside and out
form: knew inside and out
form: known inside and out
Senses: examples: text: He's still new to their system, but he knows databases inside and out and will understand the rest soon.
glosses: To know (something or someone) very thoroughly.
Synonyms: know backwards
know back to front
know like a book
know like the back of one's hand
Related terms: inside out
ins and outs
Pioneer Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Utah state holiday celebrating the arrival of Mormon pioneers in what became Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1847.
Teich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Teichs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Trost
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Trosts
Etymology: Borrowed from German Trost.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
triomphe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French triomphe (literally “triumph”).
Senses: topics: card-games
games
synonyms: word: French ruff
glosses: A card game dating from the late 15th century.
Related terms: trump
thorp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɔːp/
ipa: /θɔɹp/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: thorps
form: thorpe
Etymology: From Middle English thorp, throp, from Old English þorp, þrop (“farm, village”), from Proto-West Germanic *þorp, from Proto-Germanic *þurpą, *þrepą (“village, farmstead, troop”), from Proto-Indo-European *trab-, *treb- (“dwelling, room”). Doublet of dorf and dorp, and possibly also of troop and troupe.
Senses: examples: text: Within a little thorp I staid.
ref: 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
text: A plague upon the people fell, / A famine after laid them low, / Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, / For on them brake the sudden foe; […]
ref: 1870, Alfred Tennyson, “The Victim”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 193:
glosses: A group of houses standing together in the country; a hamlet; a village.
raw_tags: in placenames
Related terms: Thorpe
tusche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tusches
form: tushe
form: tousche
Etymology: Borrowed from German Tusche, from tuschen, from French toucher.
Senses: glosses: A black liquid used in lithography for drawing and painting and in etching and the silk-screen process as a resist.
fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck
fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuck
Vetter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vetters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Vetter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
steely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːli/
homophone: steelie
homophone: stele
rhymes: -iːli
Forms: form: steelier
form: steeliest
Etymology: From steel + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The bully backed down before his steely gaze.
text: steely grey hair
text: She would unarm her noble heart of that steely resistance against the sweet blows of love.
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: Freddie Woodman was ultimately the hero after making a superb 74th-minute penalty save to deny Adalberto Peñaranda. Woodman, the son of former Northampton Town goalkeeper Andy and godson of Southgate, made a steely left-handed save from the spot-kick after Dominic Calvert-Lewin had given England a first-half lead.
ref: 2017 June 11, Ben Fisher, “England seal Under-20 World Cup glory as Dominic Calvert-Lewin strikes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Having qualities resembling those of steel, especially hardness and resoluteness.
examples: text: Broach'd with the steely point of Clifford's lance.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: Around his shop the steely sparkles flew.
ref: [1716], [John] Gay, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London, London: […] Bernard Lintott, […], →OCLC:
text: And in the master's chambers / They gathered for the feast / They stab it with their steely knives / But they just can't kill the beast
ref: 1977, “Hotel California”, in Don Henley, Glenn Frey (lyrics), Don Felder and Joe Walsh (music), Hotel California:
synonyms: steelen
glosses: Made of steel.
Derived terms: steelily
steeliness
steely-eyed
steely hair disease
steely iron
steely-nerved
steely-spined
Related terms: steelie
Volk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
harvester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvesters
Etymology: From harvest + -er.
Senses: hypernyms: person
glosses: A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
coordinate_terms: harvestman
glosses: A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
topics: business
forestry
glosses: A type of heavy forestry vehicle employed in cut-to-length logging for felling, delimbing and bucking trees; an instance of this type.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
glosses: A North American butterfly species, Feniseca tarquinius, whose larvae eat aphids and are the only entirely carnivorous caterpillars in North America; an individual of this species.
glosses: Any butterfly of the lycaenid subfamily Miletinae to which this belongs, which are all carnivores.
glosses: A finnock (a young sea trout).
Derived terms: combine harvester
harvester ant
harvester butterfly
harvester-thresher
microharvester
Related terms: farmer
farmhand
farmworker
gatherer
gleaner
laborer
labourer
manual laborer
manual labourer
picker
reaper
worker
kavya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit काव्य (kāvyá).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A highly artificial Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets in the early centuries AD.
glosses: poetry (especially in a classical style) in the literatures of India's modern languages
Wachtel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wachtels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wachtel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Wahl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wahls
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: Waal
Wal
Wall
Walle
Whal
Wahn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Porz borough, in south-east Cologne, Germany.
wikipedia: Wahn
de:+ (Köln)
Wallach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wallachs
Senses: glosses: A Wallachian.
Wanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: A district of the city of Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
tremendously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tremendously
form: most tremendously
Etymology: From tremendous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I enjoyed the performance tremendously.
text: The noise was tremendously loud.
text: […] until the Wicked Witch dies you will not see your Uncle and Aunt again. Remember that the Witch is Wicked—tremendously Wicked—and ought to be killed.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Emerald City of OZ”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 129:
glosses: Greatly; enormously
Weise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Weises
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Weise's law
Wirt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Wirt County
Wiese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Wieses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wiese.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
intravenously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intravenous + -ly.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In an intravenous manner; by means of intravenous injection.
intratelluric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + telluric.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to or situated in the interior of the Earth.
intransitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intransitive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The verb 'die' is used intransitively.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In an intransitive manner; without an object following.
intransigently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intransigently
form: most intransigently
Etymology: From intransigent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intransigent manner.
intractably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intractably
form: most intractably
Etymology: From intractable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intractable manner; uncontrollably; unmanageably.
tortellini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tôrtəlē'nē
ipa: /ˌtɔɹtəˈlini/
Forms: form: tortellini
form: tortellini
form: tortellini
form: tortellino
Etymology: From Italian tortellini, plural of tortellino.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A kind of small, ring-shaped pasta, stuffed with meat, cheese, etc; and eaten with a sauce or in a soup.
intractableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intractable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being intractable; intractability.
intractability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intractabilities
Senses: glosses: The state of being intractable; intractableness.
uncontrollably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncontrollably
form: most uncontrollably
Etymology: From uncontrollable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncontrollable manner; without being subject to control.
graal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graals
Senses: examples: text: A great admirer of antiquities and graals.
ref: 1824, The New Monthly Magazine, page 486:
glosses: Obsolete form of grail.
tortellino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tortellini
Etymology: From Italian tortellino, singular of tortellini.
Senses: examples: text: Pick the tortellino up and twist it around your index finger until the edges meet.
ref: 1996, Leonardo Castellucci, Pastissima!: Pasta the Italian Way, published 1997, →ISBN, page 123:
text: At that time, the only machine available on the market was able to produce a ring-shaped tortellino and was fitted with a continuous threaded screw device to put the filling in the tortellino. As this was unsuitable for the home-made kind of tortellino Giovanni had in mind, he asked for specific modifications to the machine.
ref: 2013, Balmer, John M. T., Illia, Laura, González del Valle Brena, Almudena, editors, Contemporary Perspectives on Corporate Marketing: Contemplating Corporate Branding, Marketing and Communications in the Twenty-first Century, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: There is always that one tortellino that bursts in the boiling water.
ref: 2020, Camilla Pang, Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us about Life, Love and Relationships, Penguin Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A piece of tortellini.
uncontrollableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncontrollable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being uncontrollable.
controllably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more controllably
form: most controllably
Etymology: From controllable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a controllable manner.
tortelloni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian tortelloni.
Senses: glosses: A larger form of tortellini pasta.
controllableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From controllable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: controllability
glosses: The state of being controllable; the capability of being controlled.
controllability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: controllabilities
Etymology: From controllable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: These conditions are discussed under the subjects of controllability, stabilizability, reconstructability, and detectability in the literature on linear optimal control.
ref: 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 137:
glosses: The quality or extent of being controllable; controllableness.
Derived terms: photocontrollability
unmanageably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmanageably
form: most unmanageably
Etymology: From unmanageable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unmanageable manner; uncontrollably.
unmanageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmanageable
form: most unmanageable
form: unmanagable
Etymology: From un- + manageable.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.
ref: 1994, James Howard Kunstler, The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 10:
text: It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
ref: 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
text: It says the station's four ticket office windows were closed, with passengers directed to the five ticket machines, which "resulted in chaos". The TSSA reported: "Within four minutes the queues were unmanageable, and the ticket office was forced to reopen for customers, who were said to be unimpressed."
ref: 2023 November 1, “Network News: TSSA: Benfleet ticket office 'stress test' was a failure”, in RAIL, number 995, page 9:
synonyms: uncontrollable
ungovernable
unworkable
antonyms: manageable
glosses: Not manageable; not readily submitting to handling or management; not easily restrained, governed, or directed.
Related terms: unmanageability
unmanageableness
unmanageably
unmanageableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unmanageable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unmanageable.
manageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænɪd͡ʒəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈmænəd͡ʒəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more manageable
form: most manageable
Etymology: From manage + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Like any outdoor activity, geocaching involves some inherent risk, and many geocachers enjoy manageable risks.
ref: 2011, Terry Marsh, Geocaching in the UK, page 113:
synonyms: word: controllable
word: governable
word: maniable
word: tractable
word: subservient
word: intractable
word: uncontrollable
word: ungovernable
word: unmanageable
glosses: Capable of being managed or controlled.
examples: text: While some of these moves will be prompted by, for instance, releasing equity to help children get on the property ladder, David Fell, Hamptons' senior analyst, says many will probably be downsizing to reduce mortgage payments to a more manageable level.
ref: 2023 November 25, Alexandra Goss, “Downsizers' dilemma”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 1:
synonyms: accomplishable
doable
feasible
fulfillable
antonyms: unaccomplishable
unachievable
undoable
unfeasible
unfulfillable
unmanageable
glosses: Capable of being done or fulfilled; achievable.
Derived terms: manageableness
unmanageable
Related terms: word: manage
word: manageably
word: management
word: manager
word: manageress
word: managerial
word: managing
word: managing director
manageableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manageablenesses
Etymology: From manageable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being manageable; tractableness; docility.
manageably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more manageably
form: most manageably
Etymology: From manageable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manageable manner.
boot block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot blocks
form: bootblock
Etymology: From boot + block.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dedicated block usually at the beginning (first block on first track) of a storage medium that holds special data used to start a system. Some systems use a boot block of several physical sectors, while some use only one boot sector. Other manufacturers use the terms boot block and boot sector interchangeably.
Synonyms: boot sector
Related terms: block
MBR
sector
boot sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boot sectors
form: bootsector
Etymology: From boot + sector.
Senses: examples: text: Some systems use a boot block of several physical sectors, while some use only one boot sector. Other manufacturers use the terms "boot block" and "boot sector" interchangeably.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dedicated sector, usually at the beginning (first sector on first track) of a storage medium, that holds special data used to start a system.
Synonyms: boot block
bootblock
Related terms: block
MBR
sector
tractableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tractable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being tractable; tractability.
inlay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈleɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: inlays
form: inlaying
form: inlaid
form: inlaid
Etymology: From in- + lay.
Senses: examples: text: The body of the Scriptures hath in it limbs taken from other bodies; and in the vvord of God, are the vvords of other men, other authors, inlaid & inſerted. But, this vvork is onely vvhere the Holy Ghoſt is the VVorkman: It is not for man to inſert, to inlay other vvords into the vvord of God.
ref: 1617 March 2 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), John Donne, “A Lent-sermon Preached at Whitehall, February 20. 1617”, in XXVI. Sermons (Never before Publish’d) Preached by that Learned and Reverend Divine John Donne, […] The Third Volume, London: […] Thomas Newcomb, […], published 1661, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design.
examples: text: Porcelain inlaying is a grand thing in certain cases, and it is much to be regretted that the present existing circumstances do not warrant its being used more extensively.
ref: 1895, Benjamin Holliday Catching, Catching's Compendium of Practical Dentistry - Volume 5, page 159:
text: It is not strange that this principle of inlaying should occur to those men years ago, for it was one of the most ancient of arts and it had been brought well-nigh to perfection. The thought of restoring broken surface in teeth, as was being done in gold and wood was ever present with them.
ref: 1907, The Pacific Dental Gazette - Volume 15, page 759:
text: It is hard to tell whether it was the solid block inlay idea of itself, or else something to help cement to be retained in a cavity, that has brought about inlaying of cavities;
ref: 1913, The Practical Manual of Dental Casting, Being the Recorded Experiences of Many Able and Eminent Men in the Dental Profession:
text: They felt with a prophetic instinct that sometime and somewhere these obstacles would be removed, that difficulties apparently unsurmountable would be overcome, and that the principle of inlaying teeth would become recognized as good practice in restoring broken-down tooth tissues.
ref: 1926, “The Dental Craftsman”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume I, page 12:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: To place an inlay in a tooth.
Derived terms: inlayer
inlay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.leɪ/
Forms: form: inlays
Etymology: From in- + lay.
Senses: glosses: The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.
examples: text: Putting it all together: the cassette’s been run through a labelling machine, and now this Heath Robinsonesque device adds the inlay and the box in one swift operation, taking about three seconds for each cassette.
ref: 1987, Barnaby Page, How to copy half a million cassettes (in Crash magazine issue 47, December 1987)
glosses: The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.
Derived terms: inlay card
pinlay
keypad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiːpæd/
Forms: form: keypads
form: key pad
form: key-pad
Etymology: From key + pad.
Senses: examples: text: Many laptop computers have special function keys which turn part of the alphabetical keyboard into a numeric keypad.
text: He pulled a picture frame to one side, revealing a safe behind. Chang pressed four buttons on the keypad… …and the safe door whirred open.
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
hypernyms: pad
glosses: A small board with keys primarily used for tactile input into a machine.
Derived terms: numeric keypad
chambermaid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪm.bə(ɹ).meɪd/
Forms: form: chambermaids
form: chamber maid
form: chamber-maid
Etymology: From chamber + maid.
Senses: glosses: A maid who handles the chores in a bedroom.
Derived terms: chambermaiding
singing chambermaid
Related terms: chamber
symbolically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪmˈbɒlɪklɪ/
ipa: /ˌsɪmˈbɑːlɪklɪ/
Forms: form: more symbolically
form: most symbolically
Etymology: From symbolical + -ly or symbolic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Haha, memes are funny! Until they totally become racist. Pepe the Frog lived a very normal meme life right up until online trolls turned him into a green thing of hate in 2016. It got so bad his creator symbolically killed him off in 2017.
ref: 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN:
glosses: In a symbolic manner.
glosses: By means of symbols or a symbol.
examples: text: In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.
ref: 2003 Summer, Kristin Henrard, “Post-Apartheid South Africa: Transformation and Reconciliation”, in World Affairs, volume 166, number 1, page 37:
glosses: As symbols or a symbol.
Related terms: symbol
symbolic
symbolical
mone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mones
form: moning
form: moned
form: moned
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English monien, from Old English monian, manian (“to bring to mind what ought to be done, urge upon one what ought to be done, admonish, warn, exhort, instigate, bring to mind what should not be forgotten, remind, suggest, prompt, tell what ought to be done, teach, instruct, advise, claim, demand, ask of a person, remember”), from Proto-Germanic *manōną (“to admonish”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mania (“to admonish”), Dutch manen (“to admonish”), German mahnen (“to remind, admonish, urge”).
Senses: glosses: To admonish; advise; explain.
mone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mones
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mone, alteration (affected by monien (“to admonish”)) of *mine (“mind”), from Middle English minen, mynen, munen, from Old English ġemynan, ġemunan (“to remember”). More at mind.
Senses: examples: text: A cumber-world, yet in the world am left, / A fruitles plot, with brambles ouergrowne, / Miſliued man of my vvorlds ioy bereft, / Hart-breaking cares the ofspring of my mone.
ref: 1593, Michael Drayton, “The Second Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London]: [Privately printed], 1870, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Mind; preference.
mone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mones
Etymology: Alternative spellings.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of moan.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of moon.
mone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mones
form: moning
form: moned
form: moned
Etymology: Alternative spellings.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of moan.
matching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of match
matching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ
Forms: form: better matching
form: best matching
Senses: examples: text: We bought a new sofa and matching armchairs.
text: [...] the Class 142s and 143s have at times sported a number of advertising liveries [...]. The two cars of Arriva Trains Wales 142081 were certainly not a matching pair when photographed in 2005.
ref: 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 61, photo caption:
glosses: The same as another; sharing the same design.
examples: text: I greet you across the miles and hold out my hand to you and wish you many sunlit days and matching moonlit nights.
ref: 1980 August 9, James Moodie, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
glosses: That constitutes part of a pair with something else; complementary.
Derived terms: matchingness
matching numbers
nonmatching
matching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ætʃɪŋ
Forms: form: matchings
Senses: glosses: The process by which things are matched together or paired up.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of independent edges in a given graph, i.e. a set of edges which do not intersect, such that pairs of vertices are "matched" to each other one to one.
Derived terms: beatmatching
gift matching
matchingness
matching number
matching numbers
matching principle
matching theorem
maximum matching
nonmatching
pattern matching
perfect matching
phasematching
phono-semantic matching
stable matching problem
weird matching