cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Dayi method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Dayi system of text input for Chinese characters.
stabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stabilize
unadorned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌˌnəˈdɔːnd/
ipa: /əˌnʌˈdɔːɹnd/
Forms: form: more unadorned
form: most unadorned
Etymology: From un- + adorned.
Senses: examples: text: This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 307:
text: Though I wore only a plain somber gray Brunswick gown unadorned by ribbon or lace, and my uncle was dressed in black, the people knew aristocrats on sight.
ref: 2019 October 1, Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, E. Knight, Sophie Perinot, Heather Webb, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women, HarperCollins, →ISBN:
synonyms: austere
unembellished
glosses: Having no additional decoration or embellishment; plain and simple
Synonyms: word: austere
word: bare
word: chaste
word: inornate
word: modest
word: plain
word: quiet
word: severe
word: simple
word: spartan
word: unadorned
word: unembellished
word: unextravagant
word: unornamented
word: undecked
word: ungarnished
word: untrimmed
word: unvarnished
Hypernyms: word: boring
word: lacking
word: moderate
word: sartorial
Coordinate terms: word: dim
Derived terms: unadornedness
Related terms: word: drab
word: dull
word: plain-looking
word: decoration
word: cheerless
word: serious
word: stern
unadorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌˌnəˈdɔːnd/
ipa: /əˌnʌˈdɔːɹnd/
Etymology: From un- + adorned.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unadorn
baggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baggses
form: baggsing
form: baggsed
form: baggsed
Senses: examples: text: In Simon’s house he and Rebecca were having a fight about who should put the angel on the tree.
“It’s not fair Simon, I baggsed it before ya. D’ya remember last year, you put it up. Now it’s definitely my turn.” Rebecca felt defiant.
ref: 2005, Celine Spengeman, The Four Faced Liar: The Mystery of The Shandon Clock, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 147:
text: I had baggsed, on a whim, Ada’s swatches and books of cloth and they seemed such useless objects by the light of day that I pushed them into a bin on the street.
ref: 2007, Anne Enright, The Gathering, Black Cat, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bags (“lay dibs”).
stalkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stalker
susurrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of susurration
hitting the pavement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit the pavement
denarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈnɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /dɪˈnɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Latin dēnārius (“of the number ten”), from dēnī (“ten each”), from decem (“ten”) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: He excused himself to his brother, the Argonaut, who reproached him for appearing before breakfast in a well-worn coat, 'it is my ante-jentacular coat, Jack ' ; and answered his apologies for troubling him with a letter to London, by saying, ' I shall put it into the denarian post, and there my trouble will end;.
ref: 1967, Robert Theodore Gunther, Robert Hooke, Early science in Oxford - Volume 3, page 189:
text: play loose when it's only time to choose brother stop playing the goose trapped in a denarian noose
ref: 1982, Mafika Pascal Gwala, No More Lullabies, page 50:
glosses: Pertaining to the number 10.
examples: text: He thus explains the scope of the “Denarian Tract,” which forms the third portion of the work: “The Denary or number Ten, is the highest number according to the largest extent of Nature; or the number Five being the Spirit or Quintessence, joined with its body, the number Four, or the four Elements made pure, out of this number Nine, or by the conjunction of Four and Five, the sum of perfection is brought forth, which is the number Ten.
ref: 1870, Year-book of Pharmacy, page 505:
text: the third and last book, is a denarian tract, shewing how to cure all diseases with ten medicaments, and the mystery of the quaaternary and quinary number opened, with a table shewing the suns rising, setting, hours of the day, hours of the night, and how many minutes are contained in planetary hour both day and night, with a table of the signs continuance on the ascendant, fitted for magical uses, as gathering of herbs, roots, and the like, with their uses;
ref: 1885, Samuel Halkett, Catherine Laing, A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain:
text: The alchemical relevance of these seemingly extraneous and logically defective speculations is indicated by Dee's somewhat baffling conclusion that Sun and Moon contained in the monad desire their elements, in which there is a strong denarian proportion, to be separated by means of fire.
ref: 1993, Dennis Poupard, James E. Person, Mark Scott, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, page 12:
qualifier: more specifically
glosses: Pertaining to a form a numerology that views the number 10 as the most perfect or powerful number.
cadges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cadge
cadges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cadge
cadging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cadge
cadged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cadge
cadgin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle of cadge
great grandparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great grandparents
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of great-grandparent.
Derived terms: great great grandparent
ufologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ufologist.
great great grandparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great great grandparents
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of great-great-grandparent.
bottomry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottomries
Etymology: From bottom + -ry; see bottom (“hull”).
Senses: examples: text: Section 10 states that, ‘The lender of money on bottomry and respondentia has an insurable interest in respect of the loan’. A lender on ‘bottomry’ is, as its name suggests, a person who advances money to a shipowner on the security of (the bottom [of]) the ship.
ref: 1996, Susan Hodges, Law Of Marine Insurance, page 19:
text: 1999 [1880], John Bouvier, Daniel A. Gleason, Institutes of American Law, Volume 1, New Edition, page 309,
There is much resemblance between bottomry and insurance. In one, the lender takes the risks, and in the other, the insurer. […] If these contracts resemble each other, there are also many differences between them. In bottomry, the lender actually furnishes a certain sum of money; in insurance, the insurer furnishes nothing; on the contrary, he receives a premium, which is frequently paid to him at the time of the agreement, but which when it is not paid in cash is a claim which he may assign, or for which he may procure a guaranty.
text: 25. The supercargo Colin Campbell, for example, mentioned in 1732 that the first Dutch supercargo Schultz was secretly investing in the bottomry market.
ref: 2005, Paul Arthur Van Dyke, The Canton Trade: Life And Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700-1845, footnote, page 225:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An early form of maritime contract in which the owner of a ship could borrow money using the ship as collateral.
Related terms: respondentia
codgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of codger
puritanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puritanisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French puritanisme, equivalent to puritan + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Strict and austere religious conduct.
examples: 2016 October 17, Vicky Spratt, "Work Hard, Work Hard:Meet The Neo-Puritans", Graziadaily.cohttp://graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/work-hard-work-hard-meet-neo-puritans
Some have argued that the closure of Fabric is symptomatic of a wider shift towards a new puritanism in Britain: a culture in which fun, hedonism and cultural experimentation are no longer valued.
glosses: Extreme strictness regarding moral scruples.
cadgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ædʒəz
Senses: glosses: plural of cadger
Puritanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Puritan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The beliefs and practices of the Puritans.
cadger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: cadgers
Etymology: From the archaic verb cadge (“to carry”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
glosses: A hawker or peddler.
examples: text: A woman mysteriously sitting up all night in the dark by the smouldering ashes of the kitchen fire, says it's only tramps and cadgers here
ref: 1851, Charles Dickens, On Duty with Inspector Field:
glosses: A beggar.
Related terms: cadge
codger
legal tender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal tenders
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Any form of currency that, by law, cannot be refused as payment to extinguish a debt equal to the amount offered.
legal tenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal tender
philistinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philistinisms
Etymology: From philistine + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.
ref: 2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters.
precariously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more precariously
form: most precariously
Etymology: From precarious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A Greater Anglia Class 755 stands precariously close to where ballast has been washed away at Haddiscoe on January 30.
ref: 2022 February 9, “Network News”, in RAIL, page 27, photo caption:
glosses: In a precarious manner; dangerously.
Related terms: sense: see
word: precarious
dissolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissolution
destabilising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destabilizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destabilise
destabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destabilising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destabilize
destabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsteɪbɪlaɪz/
Forms: form: destabilizes
form: destabilizing
form: destabilized
form: destabilized
form: destabilise
Etymology: From de- + stabilize.
Senses: examples: text: As part of its application, Macy's submitted "balloon control plans" describing how handlers, under the direction of a "pilot," were to navigate through intersections, where crosswinds can destabilize the balloons.
ref: 2005 November 27, Sewell Chan, “Site of Balloon Accident Is Known for Its Crosswinds”, in The New York Times:
text: Fragments of laminin chains can act as biologically active peptides to perturb the blood–testis barrier (BTB) permeability function by accelerating protein endocytosis (e.g., occludin) at the site, thereby destabilizing the BTB integrity to facilitate the transit of preleptotene spermatocytes.
ref: 2015 August 26, “A Catalog of Proteins Expressed in the AG Secreted Fluid during the Mature Phase of the Chinese Mitten Crabs ( Eriocheir sinensis )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: When the buoyancy destabilizes the flow, it alters the electroconvective patterns by introducing upward and downward fingers of respectively light and heavy fluid.
ref: 2016, Elif Karatay, Matthias Wessling, Ali Mani, “On the coupling between buoyancy forces and electroconvective instability near ion-selective surfaces”, in arXiv:
text: When the price of Luna plummeted in May, TerraUSD fell in tandem — a “death spiral” that destabilized the broader market and plunged some investors into financial ruin.
ref: 2022 June 14, David Yaffe-Bellany, Erin Griffith, “‘The Music Has Stopped’: Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To make something unstable.
glosses: To become unstable.
Derived terms: destabilizer
thermodestabilize
manoeuvres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manoeuvre
manoeuvres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manoeuvre
dualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duality
metafictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + fictional.
Senses: examples: text: Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”).
ref: 2024 May 1, Lisa Allardice, “Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of, relating to, or being metafiction.
Derived terms: metafictionality
metafictionally
emotionalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From emotional + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of an emotionalist
obsidional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɪdɪənəl/
Etymology: From Middle English obsidional, from Latin obsidiōnālis, from obsidiō (“siege, blockade”), from obsidēre (“beset, besiege, hem in”).
Senses: examples: text: Nor was this strong geographical position her [Florence's] only bulwark; the capital itself in those unskilful days of obsidional tactics was deemed impregnable except through famine.
ref: 1846–1847, Henry Edward Napier, “Miscellaneous Chapter for the Fifteenth Century”, in Florentine History, from the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany. … In Six Volumes, volume IV, London: Edward Moxon, →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: Pertaining to a siege.
Derived terms: obsidional coin
obsidional crown
emotionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emotionalists
Etymology: From emotional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone whose thoughts and actions are governed by their emotions rather than by logic.
glosses: Someone who is abnormally emotional.
infraspecific epithet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infraspecific epithets
Senses: examples: text: In the name "Cannabis sativa subsp. indica", the word indica is the infraspecific epithet.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: subspecific epithet
hypernyms: ternary name
coordinate_terms: subspecific name
glosses: The third word in the scientific name of an infraspecific taxon, following the name of the species. This applies only to formal names of plants and fungi, and not to the formal names of bacteria or animals.
B-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-boys
form: Bboy
form: B-Boy
form: BBoy
form: b-boy
form: bboy
Etymology: Shortened from break + boy.
Senses: glosses: A male who performs b-boying or breaking, commonly called breakdance; a breaker.
glosses: A male member of the hip-hop subculture.
Coordinate terms: B-girl
B-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: B-boys
form: B-boying
form: B-boyed
form: B-boyed
form: Bboy
form: B-Boy
form: BBoy
form: b-boy
form: bboy
Etymology: Shortened from break + boy.
Senses: examples: text: By dancing to “Apache” or “It's Just Begun,” any contemporary breaker is arguing that communal values are shared by anyone who has b-boyed over the last three decades.
ref: 2017, Tom Perchard, editor, From Soul to Hip Hop, Routledge, →ISBN, page 517:
glosses: To breakdance.
weans
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wean
weans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wean
weaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wean
Synonyms: ablactated
infrasubspecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + subspecific.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: infraspecific, subspecific < specific < generic < familial
topics: bacteriology
biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: pertaining to a taxon at a rank lower than subspecies. The names of such taxa are not regulated by a nomenclatural code; they are not available names.
Related terms: subsubspecies
infraspecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + specific.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: specific < generic < familial
Meronym: infrasubspecific
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: subspecific
glosses: Pertaining to a taxon at a rank lower than species, such as subspecies (in certain kingdoms only), strains, and varieties.
Related terms: infraspecific epithet
subspecific epithet
subspecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + specific.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: pertaining to a subspecies. (See Usage notes.)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: infraspecific. (See Usage notes.)
Related terms: subspecific epithet
subspecific name
face powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face powders
Senses: examples: text: A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
 ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A cosmetic made from coloured talc, applied to the face.
cisti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cistus
propudious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propudious
form: most propudious
Etymology: From Latin prōpudiōsus (“shameful, disgraceful, infamous”), from propudium (“scandal, shameful act; shameful person, wretch”) + -ōsus (“-ose: full of, prone to”), from prō- (“for, to, towards”) + pudēre (“to be ashamed, to cause shame”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Senses: examples: text: Nothing more usual amongst them, (as he there observes,)
than to hang their rooms with the pictures of their gods
drawn in the most lascivious and propudious postures,
engaged in the most filthy and dishonest actions,
enough to shame intemperance itself.
ref: 1676, William Cave, Primitive Christianity: or, The religion of the ancient Christians in the first ages of the Gospel:
glosses: shameful, infamous, disgraceful
neocolonialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌniːəʊkəˈləʊnjəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: neocolonialisms
Etymology: From neo- + colonialism, or neocolonial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The control or domination by a powerful country over weaker ones (especially former colonies) by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
curtailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of curtail
wholemeal bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wholemeal breads
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: whole-wheat bread
glosses: Bread made from wholemeal flour, having had none of the bran or germ removed.
clarino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clarinos
Etymology: From Italian clarino (“straight trumpet”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A reed stop in an organ.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A clarion.
lowest common denominator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowest common denominators
Senses: examples: text: The lowest common denominator of ¹⁄₆ and ³⁄₁₀ is 30.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The smallest positive integer which is a multiple of every denominator of several fractions.
examples: text: Reality TV really is appealing to the lowest common denominator in audiences.
glosses: The simplest or base shared interest or characteristic among a group or collection of people etc.
Synonyms: least common denominator
Related terms: lowest common multiple
least common multiple
greatest common divisor
play to the gallery
tittytainment
low water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low waters
Senses: examples: text: The railway then follows the widening estuary of the river, which at high tide has the appearance of a lake, but at low water presents a rather cheerless expanse of dark mud.
ref: 1953 February, H. A. Vallance, “To Brighton through the Shoreham Gap”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
glosses: The location of low tide in a coastal area.
glosses: The lowest stage of a river.
glosses: The temporary situation of having little money.
Synonyms: LW
Derived terms: low-water mark
Related terms: at a low ebb
pessimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛsɪmɪzəm/
Forms: form: pessimisms
Etymology: From French pessimisme, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ism, superlative of malus (“bad”).
As a doctrine, from German Pessimismus as used by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819.
Senses: examples: text: T2 isn’t as good as T1: it is a little too long and unwinds a bit into caper sentimentality, broad comedy and self-mythologising. But it has the same punchy energy, the same defiant pessimism, and there’s nothing around like it. This sequel was a high-wire act, but Boyle has made it to the other side.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A general belief that bad things will happen.
glosses: The doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of being pessimal.
Derived terms: Afro-pessimism
cultural pessimism
cyberpessimism
ecopessimism
Europessimism
heteropessimism
Judeopessimism
overpessimism
technopessimism
Related terms: pessimist
pessimistic
point out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: points out
form: pointing out
form: pointed out
form: pointed out
Etymology: From point and out. Instead of pointing to a particular thing, the term implies pointing to one particular thing out of several similar things, or to a thing in a scene where it might not be readily seen.
Senses: examples: text: He pointed out the little brown bird in the tree.
text: She pointed out the two drummers in the class.
text: I have often been amused by travellers pointing out, first the Eden, just north of the station, and then the Esk, which young Lochinvar swam, as the Border; the real boundary is, of course, the little river Sark, just south of the Caledonian station at Gretna; […].
ref: 1953 August, Basil M. Bazley, “Carlisle in 1905”, in Railway Magazine, page 507:
text: I was in the Woodley Park–Zoo in D.C. and mom and sister were waiting to see the pandas, so me and my pops broke away to check out the monkey house. Well, there was a beautiful teacher, I mean we're talking a ten, she was blond, had a low-cut dress on, just gorgeous. And she has about eight or nine students and she's pointing out all the different monkeys. And me and my dad noticed this huge orangutan kind of fiddling with himself.
ref: 2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Chris, 22:22 from the start, in Penn Radio:
text: "...The storage room is about, oh, three doors down, on the left. I'll point it out as we go by. Pay attention so you know where you have to come back to. Only then it'll be — let me see — about five doors down on your right."
ref: 2015 February 2, Laurel Deedrick-Mayne, A Wake For The Dreamland, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body.
examples: text: I would just like to point out that we need to finish our meeting by 9 o'clock.
text: On November 15 our Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Soviet ambassador Petrov of this decision. At the same time I sent a message to President Harry S. Truman, pointing out that Soviet Russia's treaty violations and bad faith in Manchuria not only were detrimental to China's territorial integrity and unification, but also constituted a serious threat to peace and order in East Asia, and that the only way to prevent any further deterioration of the situation would be for China and the United States to take positive and coordinated actions.
ref: 1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 146:
text: As a Hitchin signalman once pointed out to me, when a regulating quandary arises concerning a fast-moving Class A train there is no time to consult Control and get their answer before the express is on one's doorstep.
ref: 1962 May, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 343:
glosses: To tell, remind, indicate.
Related terms: pick out
single out
blue-tongue lizard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-tongue lizards
form: blue-tongued lizard
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of Australian skinks in the genus Tiliqua.
Synonyms: blue-tongue
blue-tongued skink
Masai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Maasai.
Masai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Maasai.
police station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police stations
Senses: examples: text: When the ballots were opened on 19 November, Hsu Hsin-liang’s supporters at a polling station in Chungli City suspected fraud. As the crowd swelled to approximately a thousand, rioting erupted. One protester was killed and the Chungli police station was burned.
ref: 1999, Shelley Rigger, “Political reform under Chiang Ching-kuo (1972-1988)”, in Politics in Taiwan: Voting for democracy, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:
text: In trying to stop him from exploiting more children, I was ensuring my parents and my siblings would be ostracised. She begged me not to go to the police station.
ref: 2014 August 29, Ruzwana Bashir, “The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: cophouse
word: cop shop
word: kotwali
word: Irish clubhouse
glosses: A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force, and sometimes as a temporary place of confinement for offenders.
Western Samoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwestən səˈmoʊə/
ipa: /ˈwɛstɚn səˈmoʊə/
Senses: glosses: Former name of Samoa: an island country in Polynesia, from 1914 to 1997.
Related terms: German Samoa
whereafter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɛəɹˈæftə(ɹ)/
ipa: /wɛəɹˈɑːftə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ʍɛəɹˈæftə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ʍɛəɹˈɑːftə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From where- + after.
Senses: examples: text: It is a matter for it to determine whether to make such application, whereafter the Trial Chamber will determine whether the material is so admissible
glosses: After which time or event.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
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whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
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whereabout
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wheresoever
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whyever
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whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
West Berlin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The American, British and French sectors of Berlin between 1949 and 1990.
Related terms: East Berlin
West Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the West Bank
Etymology: Calque of Arabic الضِّفَّة الْغَرْبِيَّة (aḍ-ḍiffa(t) al-ḡarbiyya, literally “the west bank”), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River.
Senses: examples: text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
Smaller than Delaware, packed with 2.7 million people, the core of a proposed future Palestinian state, the occupied West Bank is partitioned by the Oslo Accords into zones of Palestinian and Israeli control.
text: Mr Shapiro also criticised the way Israel governs in the occupied lands, saying “too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes unchecked,” he said.
ref: 2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National, archived from the original on 22 May 2021, retrieved 08 Feb 2016:
glosses: A Palestinian territory on the west bank of the Jordan river, claimed by and under the partial administration of State of Palestine, and illegally occupied by Israel.
Meronyms: Hebron
Wessex
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛs.ɪks/
rhymes: -ɛsɪks
Etymology: From Middle English Westsex, from Old English Westseaxan (literally “West Saxons”), which stood for both Wessex and its people. The use of Wessex in a modern context for the West Country was popularised by Thomas Hardy, who used the term for his semi-fictional setting based on the region.
Senses: examples: text: Grey-stoned and dun-roofed, it stood within hail of the Wessex border, and almost with the tip of one small toe within it, at the northernmost point of the crinkled line along which the leisurely Thames strokes the fields of that ancient kingdom.
ref: 1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC:
glosses: One of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, existing between the 6th and 9th centuries, and comprising most of England south of the Thames.
examples: text: And I said I’d couch-surfed around Wessex and Wales and had a good time, and the train ride from Devon to Scotland was long and smoky […]
ref: 2001, James R. Babb, River Music: A Fly Fisher’s Four Seasons, →ISBN, page 154:
text: Crop circles are found in other parts of the globe, but not many. The 55 that have been spotted so far this year in Britain – mostly in Wessex – are more than half the total number observed throughout the world.
ref: 2010 August 19, Clive Aslet, “Crop circles: The mystery that keeps us going round in circles”, in The Daily Telegraph:
text: The Wessex area – which includes Bristol, Somerset, Dorset, south Gloucestershire and parts of Wiltshire – has been declared in drought status.
ref: 2022 August 30, “All of south-west of England in drought, says Environment Agency”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The West Country, a geographic area in the south west of England.
Derived terms: Wessex Saddleback
Related terms: Essex
Middlesex
Sussex
West Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Bloch told CNN on Friday that the discovery is significant in part because of the “dramatic events involved with (the ships’) journey from Copenhagen to West Africa, and from there to the shores of Cahuita in Costa Rica.”
ref: 2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN:
glosses: A geographic region comprising the western portion of Africa, spanning 16 countries.
Synonyms: Western Africa
Coordinate terms: Southern Africa
East Africa
Central Africa
North Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Saharan Africa
Sahara
Sahel
Derived terms: French West Africa
West Africa Time
Related terms: East Africa
South Africa
North Africa
Central Africa
West Frisian Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A chain of islands in the North Sea, belonging to the Netherlands, part of the Frisian Islands.
West Germany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From informal use describing the British-, French-, and American-occupied zones of Germany following World War II, under influence from existing German Westdeutschland and Westdeutscher used to describe those areas of German-speaking Europe since the 17th and 18th centuries.
Senses: examples: text: The ECSC, which was made up of six nations (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) later evolved into the European Economic Community (EEC) – under which the member states established a common market, and worked to harmonize their policies on everything from agriculture and fisheries to monetary policy.
ref: 2012 September 6, Bryony Jones, “Why is unity so important to Europe?”, in CNN:
glosses: A former country in Central Europe, distinguished from the German Democratic Republic, commonly known as East Germany. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany.
glosses: A geographic region of Germany, consisting of the states formerly part of the Cold War-era West Germany, also known as Western Germany.
raw_tags: since 1990
glosses: Collectively, the British-, French-, and American-occupied zones of Germany, distinguished from the Soviet-occupied zone.
Synonyms: alt: FRG, BRD
word: Federal Republic of Germany
alt: laudatory
word: Free Germany
word: West German State
Related terms: West German
Wessi
East Germany
East German
Ossi
West Pakistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The western part of Pakistan before it split from Bangladesh
Related terms: East Pakistan
Western Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sociopolitical region in the west of Europe.
Derived terms: Western European
Related terms: Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Southern Europe
Maasai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːsaɪ/
Forms: form: Maasai
form: Masai
form: Massai
Senses: examples: text: Another way tourists move beyond the pretour narrative during the tour stems from the sheer materiality of being there, engaging in the practice of the tour, enacting the itinerary, and moving through the site, be it a Maasai compound, a Balinese dance performance, a five-hundred-year-old castle in Ghana, or an 1830s Abraham Lincoln heritage site. To perform the site is to inscribe the pretour narrative within the body of the tourist.
ref: 2005, Edward M. Bruner, Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel, page 24:
text: According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide.
ref: 2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92:
glosses: A member of an indigenous people in Kenya and Tanzania.
Maasai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːsaɪ/
Forms: form: Masai
form: Massai
Senses: glosses: An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people.
Easter Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Dutch Paaseiland. Named by the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722. Roggeveen named it Paasch-Eyland (an 18th century Dutch spelling). The island's official Spanish name, isla de Pascua, also means “Easter Island”.
Senses: examples: text: The commodore, after he had quitted this iſland, ſailed 12 degrees to the weſtward, having ſight of a number of birds, which attended them till they arrived at a ſmall iſland about 16 leagues in extent, which they called Paſch, or Eaſter Iſland, from the day on which it was diſcovered.
ref: 1755, A New Universal Collection of Voyages and Travels, page 320:
synonyms: Rapa Nui
glosses: An island in the South Pacific, belonging to Chile and famous for its moai monuments.
wikipedia: Jacob Roggeveen
Wollongong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊlənɡɒŋ/
Senses: glosses: A coastal city in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales; in full, the City of Wollongong.
grands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand
Rhode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rhodes
head_nr: 1
form: A habitational surname
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From Middle English Rode, from Old English rod, rodu and/or Old English hrēod.
The Rh- form—a 16th century spelling modification— was created by analogy with the unrelated Rhodes, Greece.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place so named.
head_nr: 2
glosses: for a person who lived near a reed bed.
Related terms: Rhodes
Rhode
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ῥόδη (Rhódē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In Greek mythology, the oldest Oceanid, a daughter of Tethys and Oceanus
Related terms: Rhode Island
Rhodes
Boers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boerses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Boers.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Boers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Boer
Moors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Moors (“Moorish”), or directly from Moor + -s (after e.g. Scots).
Senses: examples: text: [I]t was decided that we should stop to let them refresh themselves at a small village called Woolburreah, where we all landed, Colonel Watson undertaking to procure curry and rice for us, for which purpose he began to speak Moors to the natives, which excited our mirth.
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206
glosses: Hindustani; Urdu.
Moors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Inflected forms.
Senses: glosses: plural of Moor
Moors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moorses
form: Moors
Senses: glosses: A surname.
A surname from Irish.
glosses: A surname.
An English surname transferred from the given name.
Capt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Capts
form: Capt.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of captain.
painters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is work to ride head up and holy here. It is painters with slack in their brush, painters all jacked up on stampede dust just tryin' to get it right. I've been trying to get it right. I've been learning here how to grow larger […]
ref: 2010 August 13, Anis Mojgani, Derrick Brown, Buddy Wakefield, Junkyard Ghost Revival, SCB Distributors, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: plural of painter
ounces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊnsɪz/
note: Rosa's roses merger
ipa: /ˈaʊnsəz/
rhymes: -aʊnsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of ounce
mists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsts/
rhymes: -ɪsts
Senses: glosses: plural of mist
mists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsts/
rhymes: -ɪsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mist
reproached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She never reproached me with her mouth, not once, but she reproached me with her eyes.
ref: 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 791:
glosses: simple past and past participle of reproach
deepened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deepen
comprehended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛndɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comprehend
comprehended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛndɪd
Senses: glosses: Understood.
glosses: Included; comprised; contained.
Derived terms: uncomprehended
straightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of straighten
Related terms: straitened
relied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relyed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rely
fluttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flutter
fluttered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fluttered
form: most fluttered
Senses: examples: text: At this moment Lord Meersbrook stopped at Lady Anne's stand, and took out his pocket-book, on which, though much fluttered, she smiled most graciously, saying, "Thank you, my lord, I am most happy to see you, you are going to bring me good fortune. Here are purses, my lord, card-cases, pincushions———"
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 196:
glosses: Confused, befuddled, flustered.
Derived terms: unfluttered
differed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of differ
fared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: faired
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fare
faltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of falter
resented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resent
shrieked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shriek
sister city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sister cities
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: twin town
text: Placetown and Machinville are sister cities in England and France.
synonyms: twin city
glosses: A foreign city with which a city has a declared relationship of cordiality.
Related terms: to twin
Haakon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Håkon
form: Hakon
form: Haco
Etymology: From Old Norse Hákon.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old Norse; that of many kings of Norway.
Derived terms: Haakon County
Hezekiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛzəˈkaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Etymology: From Hebrew חִזְקִיָּה (Ḥizqiyáhu, “Hezekiah”).
Senses: examples: text: Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 29:1-2:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A king of Judah.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
glosses: A fictitious book of the Bible, often cited as a source of made-up quotations.
Related terms: Ezekias
snipe hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnaɪpˌhʌnt/
Forms: form: snipe hunts
Etymology: * snipe + hunt
* Although snipe are an actual family of birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for an imaginary creature whose description varies.
Senses: examples: text: And you asked Charles Briggs for the name of the man who bought the secret, and he gives you a legend. A man who might not even exist. You know what, this is a snipe hunt.
ref: 2012 December 13, “The Leviathan”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 10, spoken by Watson (Lucy Liu):
synonyms: snark hunt
fool's errand
wild goose chase
glosses: A prank in which a gullible victim is sent off on a fruitless search for a nonexistent item.
snipe hunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnaɪpˌhʌnt/
Forms: form: snipe hunts
form: snipe hunting
form: snipe hunted
form: snipe hunted
Etymology: * snipe + hunt
* Although snipe are an actual family of birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for an imaginary creature whose description varies.
Senses: glosses: To participate, as the gullible victim, in a snipe hunt.
logic gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logic gates
Senses: examples: text: There are six non-trivial, symmetric, two-input, Boolean logic gates: AND, OR, XOR, NAND, NOR and XNOR.
text: There are basically seven main types of logic gates that are used to perform various logical operations in digital systems. […] In digital electronics, there is a specially designed logic gate named, XOR gate, which is used in digital circuits to perform modulo sum.
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A physical device, typically electronic, which computes a Boolean logical output (0 or 1) from Boolean input or inputs according to the rules of some logical operator.
Derived terms: universal logic gate
Related terms: quantum gate
kurdaitcha man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurdaitcha men
form: kadaitja man
form: kooditcha man
Etymology: From Eastern Arrernte gadaidja.
Senses: glosses: A kind of shaman among Aboriginal Australians whose task it was to avenge a death, and who was supposed to have worn slippers made from the feathers of emus.