cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bourne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
ipa: [bo̞ɹn]
other: /bʊɹn/
homophone: borne stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
note: rhotic
ipa: /boːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /boən/
Forms: form: bournes
Etymology: From Middle French borne, from Old French bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, a word of unknown ultimate origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also Proto-Celtic *bundos.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he dread of ſomething after death, / The vndiſcouer'd country, from whoſe borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signatures G2, recto – G2, verso:
text: [T]hough I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.
ref: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “[Our Lady of the Snows.] Father Apollinaris.”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC, page 91:
text: For though from out our bourne of Time and Place,
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
ref: 1889, Alfred Tennyson, Crossing the Bar:
glosses: A boundary; a limit.
examples: text: I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving. I could only think of the bourne of my travels, and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 12:
glosses: A goal or destination.
bourne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔːn/
ipa: /boɹn/
ipa: [bo̞ɹn]
other: /bʊɹn/
homophone: borne stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
note: rhotic
ipa: /boːɹn/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /boən/
Forms: form: bournes
Etymology: From Middle English bourne, from Old English burna. Doublet of burn.
Senses: glosses: A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
Derived terms: sense: seasonal stream
word: nailbourne
sense: seasonal stream
word: winterbourne
word: Middlebourne
Related terms: english: small stream
translation: small stream
word: bourn
english: stream
translation: stream
word: burn
completo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: completos
Senses: glosses: A hot dog with the works.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A complete game.
cat food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat foods
form: catfood
form: cat-food
Senses: examples: text: The cat ate the cat food.
coordinate_terms: dog food
glosses: A type of food specially formulated for the feeding of cats, typically composed of processed grain and meat byproducts as dry food or canned fish or meat as wet food.
Related terms: kibble
rubric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːbɹɪk/
Forms: form: rubrics
form: rubrick
Etymology: From Middle English rubriche, rubrike, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rūbrīca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
Senses: glosses: A heading in a book highlighted in red.
examples: text: That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.
text: And in one swoop, the Attorney General conceded to the president nearly unlimited power, just as long as he finds a lawyer willing to stuff his actions into the boundless rubric of “defending the country.”
ref: 2008, Chris Dodd, Senator Dodd Speaks in Opposition to FISA Bill on Floor of U.S. Senate:
glosses: A title of a category or a class.
examples: text: All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics.
ref: 1842, Walter Hook, Church Dictionary:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
examples: text: Whilst this rubric is not written into law, it should always be followed.
text: 1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.
text: Let Comus rise Archbishop of the land;
Let him your rubric and your feasts prescribe
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “Progress of Error”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An established rule or custom; a guideline.
examples: text: The Government's rubric of "caring for communities" is ridiculous.
text: “It is diabolical for banks and asset managers to invest billions in major fossil fuel companies under the rubric of ‘green investing’ when we need to accelerate investments in non- and low-carbon energy, in carbon efficiency, and in carbon removal technologies,” said Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute.
ref: 2025 May 18, Damian Carrington, Giorgio Michalopoulos, Stefano Valentino, “Revealed: European ‘green’ investments hold billions in fossil fuel majors”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A statement of intent.
examples: text: Do not award marks to candidates who have made rubric errors.
text: In the first prospectus the rubric on this paper began 'Historical sources and materials and how the historian uses them[…]'
ref: 1985, Asa Briggs, Serious Pursuits: Communications and Education (The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs), volume 3, Harvester Press, page 364:
topics: education
glosses: A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.
examples: text: We refer to the rubric when marking oral examinations.
topics: education
glosses: A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
glosses: A flourish after a signature.
glosses: Red ochre.
Synonyms: sense: flourish after signature
word: paraph
Derived terms: rubricism
Related terms: rubricate
rubicund
rubric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːbɹɪk/
Forms: form: more rubric
form: most rubric
form: rubrick
Etymology: From Middle English rubriche, rubrike, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rūbrīca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
Senses: examples: text: VVhat tho' my Name ſtood rubric on the vvalls? / Or plaiſter'd poſts, vvith Claps in capitals?
ref: 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 11, lines 210–211:
glosses: Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
glosses: Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.
rubric
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːbɹɪk/
Forms: form: rubrics
form: rubricking
form: rubricked
form: rubricked
form: rubrick
Etymology: From Middle English rubriche, rubrike, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rūbrīca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
Senses: examples: text: That Cavalier who Rubricks his Executions with the Bloud he hath drawn by the instrument of Extortion from the Poor.
ref: 1681, Paul Rycaut, The Critick, translation of original by Lorenzo Gracián:
glosses: To adorn with red; to redden.
glosses: To organize or classify into rubrics.
Strategic Defense Initiative
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Strategic Defense Initiative
Senses: glosses: A system proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.
Synonyms: SDI
Star Wars
trash out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trashes out
form: trashing out
form: trashed out
form: trashed out
Senses: examples: text: Friday night I crashed your party. / Saturday I said I'm sorry. / Sunday came 'n' [you] trashed me out again.
ref: 1980, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses, Columbia Records:
glosses: To criticize a person in a ranting way or manner.
examples: text: My computer trashed out again.
glosses: To stop working; to crap out.
examples: text: The bank hired me to trash this house out.
glosses: To remove trash and other items from an abandoned house.
examples: The rock band trashed out the hotel room.
glosses: To ruin (a place) with vandalism, garbage, etc.
examples: text: They're going to trash out the neighborhood.
glosses: To make (a place or thing) trashy or low-class.
examples: text: You shouldn't trash people out like that.
glosses: To insult, demean and criticize (someone).
glosses: Misspelling of thrash out.
seki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese セキ (seki).
Senses: qualifier: go
glosses: In the game of Go, a state of impasse where neither player can benefit from playing in a location
Related terms: masu-seki
tachi-seki
Dora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoɹ.ə/
ipa: /ˈdɔː.ɹə/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Etymology: A diminutive of Dorothy used since early 19th century. Sometimes also short for Theodora or Isidora.
Senses: examples: text: "I think," said Robert, after waiting in vain for his cousin to speak, "that I shall call you Dorothy. It is a much prettier name than Dora."
"No, thank you," said Dorothy, quickly; "Dora is good enough for the common purposes of life."
ref: 1856, Margaret Agnes Paull, Dorothy: A Tale, B. Tauchnitz, published 1857, page 63:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: dismal Dora
dumb Dora
Related terms: Konda-Dora
straight A
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: straight-A
Senses: examples: text: Should I try to be a straight A student? "If you are, then you think too much."
ref: 1980, “It's Still Rock & Roll to Me”, Billy Joel (music):
topics: education
glosses: Pertaining to one who makes straight As.
Related terms: straight As
bullet ant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullet ants
Etymology: From bullet + ant.
From being an ant having a poisonous stinging bite, whose pain is described to be comparable to being hit by a bullet.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A stinging ant (Paraponera clavata) the toxin of which causes intense pain for about a day, native to Central and South America.
Synonyms: sense: Paraponera clavata
word: Paraponera clavata
sense: Paraponera clavata
word: P. clavata
sense: Paraponera clavata
word: lesser giant hunting ant
sense: Paraponera clavata
word: conga ant
sense: Paraponera clavata
word: tucandera
sense: Paraponera clavata
word: tucandeira
Related terms: poneratoxin
electronica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By mid-decade, electronica began to chart, in the music of acts such as Bjork, Chemical Brothers, and Moby, and the resources of electronica were integrated into other non-pop styles, such as the industrial music of Trent Reznor […]
ref: 2012, Michael Campbell, Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On:
text: New Age music […] like all musics, has its margins, and these are blurred with ambient, techno, and other electronica.
ref: 2014, Timothy D. Taylor, Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of a wide range of electronic music genres.
glosses: Electronic items in general.
glosses: The data trail of an individual on the public internet.
Derived terms: dubtronica
emotronica
folktronica
indietronica
laptronica
rocktronica
echoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of echo
echoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echoings
Senses: examples: text: The opposition of Popery there, is like the last echoings of the thunder dying upon the ear.
ref: 1819, The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral, & Philosophical Knowledge, volume 1, page 481:
glosses: The act of something that echoes.
-ard
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Middle English -ard, from Old French -ard (suffix), from Frankish *-hard (“hardy, bold”), from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard”). Cognate with Middle High German -hart. More at hard.
Senses: examples: text: drunk + -ard → drunkard
text: dull + -ard → dullard
text: wise + -ard → wizard
glosses: Someone who is in a specified condition (“pejorative agent suffix”).
-arium
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -ariums
form: -aria
Etymology: From Latin -ārium.
Senses: glosses: A place associated with a specified thing.
glosses: A device associated with a specified function.
backlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backlists
Etymology: From back + list.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
synonyms: back catalog
back catalogue
antonyms: frontlist
hypernyms: booklist
glosses: A list of older books available from a publisher, as opposed to the frontlist of more recent titles.
examples: text: The celebrity tell-all has been proposed as a frontlist title, whereas the cookbook has been proposed as a backlist title and the food history book as a midlist title.
topics: media
publishing
antonyms: frontlist
coordinate_terms: midlist
glosses: Expected to achieve years of adequate sales while on a backlist, and to be profitable on that basis, even if predicted not to sell in huge numbers when new.
raw_tags: of books being planned
backlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backlists
form: backlisting
form: backlisted
form: backlisted
Etymology: From back + list.
Senses: examples: text: I have not heard back from the college yet: I must have been backlisted.
glosses: To hold back a student's application (to a college etc.) based on whether a preferred candidate declines their offer.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: To place (a book) on a backlist.
Kathleen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkæθˌlin/
Forms: form: Cathleen
form: Kathlyn
Etymology: Anglicization of Caitlín, an Irish equivalent of the English Catherine.
Senses: examples: text: Kathleen mavourneen! the gray dawn is breaking,
The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill,
The lark from her light wing the bright dew is shaking,
Kathleen mavourneen, what slumbering still?
ref: 1837, Marion Crawford - Frederick Nicholls Crouch, Kathleen Mavourneen (a song)
glosses: A female given name from Irish.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Georgia, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Florida, United States; named for early settler Catherine Prine.
glosses: A ghost town in Western Australia, Australia.
Derived terms: Kathleen Mavourneen
Katharine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant spelling of Catherine, based on the folk etymology that it would derive from Greek καθαρός (katharos "pure").
Senses: examples: text: Petruchio.Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear.
Katharina.Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
They call me Katharine that do talk of me.
ref: , Act II, Scene I
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Cathy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæθi/
Forms: form: Cathys
form: Cathies
form: Cathi
form: Cathie
form: Kathi
form: Kathie
form: Kathy
Senses: examples: text: It was named Catherine, but he never called it the name in full, as he had never called the first Catherine short, probably because Heathcliff had a habit of doing so. The little one was always Cathy, it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet, a connection with her; ( - - - )
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: 'Cathy sounds like the name of a truck-stop waitress,' she overheard her father-in-law tell Adam after they returned from their honeymoon. 'Tell her to call herself Cat and, for Christ's sake, get her to stop biting her lip all the time.'
ref: 2007, Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 124:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Catherine and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.
Alexa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alexas
Etymology: * Alex + -a. A feminine form of Alex.
* A female given name, clipping of Alexandra.
Senses: examples: text: Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe.
ref: 2009 July 19, Lizette Alvarez, “Whee! Also, There’s a Net”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Female equivalent of Alex.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Diminutive of Alexandra.
examples: text: Create an upbeat mix for your life’s soundtrack. Easier yet, tell Alexa to play songs from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s or whatever musical genre that is your motivational call-to-arms.
ref: 2023 November 14, Beth Romero, “Be a Weeble”, in Happy AF: Simple Strategies to Get Unstuck, Bounce Back, and Live Your Best Life, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN, chapter 1 (The Art of Letting Go, Bouncing Back, and Being):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
A speech recognition and intelligent personal assistant application developed by Amazon.com, Inc.
coordinate_terms: Siri
unexceptional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/
Forms: form: more unexceptional
form: most unexceptional
Etymology: From un- + exceptional.
Senses: examples: text: Uncle Shemp was alarmingly unexceptional. He had no detectable lifestyle, and his only accomplishment was the fact that he was a lifelong member of the general public.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 286:
synonyms: mundane
plain
antonyms: exceptional
glosses: Not exceptional.
Derived terms: unexceptionally
Related terms: no great shakes
band-aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændeɪd/
Forms: form: band-aids
form: bandaid
Etymology: Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as band(age) + aid.
Senses: glosses: An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.
examples: text: It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.
ref: 1968, United Church Observer, n 15 (March), p 36
glosses: A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.
Synonyms: sense: small adhesive bandage
word: adhesive bandage
sense: small adhesive bandage
word: plaster
sense: small adhesive bandage
word: sticking plaster
sense: small adhesive bandage
word: Elastoplast
sense: makeshift solution
word: hack
Derived terms: band-aid solution
put a band-aid on a bullet wound
rip off the band-aid
band-aid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændeɪd/
Forms: form: band-aids
form: band-aiding
form: band-aided
form: band-aided
form: bandaid
Etymology: Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as band(age) + aid.
Senses: examples: text: As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.
glosses: To apply an adhesive bandage.
examples: text: Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.
text: This is where the addictions theorists and therapists fail (perhaps for lack of nerve): they never strongly suggest that their critique should become the basis for concerted, collective therapy as well as individual therapy. They can't. To do so would mean risking their own dependency upon the system and upon the rewards they receive for band-aiding it.
ref: 1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 19:
glosses: To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.
up-and-comer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: up-and-comers
Senses: glosses: Someone who is up-and-coming, who has begun to be successful in some field and is likely to be even more successful in the future.
Related terms: up-and-coming
rising star
highflier
venerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of venerate
suffer fools gladly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: suffers fools gladly
form: suffering fools gladly
form: suffered fools gladly
form: suffered fools gladly
form: gladly suffer fools
Senses: examples: text: For ye suffer fooles gladly, seeing ye your selues are wise.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 11:19:
text: He [Henry Sweet] was, I believe, not in the least an illnatured man: very much the opposite, I should say; but he would not suffer fools gladly.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion. Preface.”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, page 100:
glosses: To be tolerant of stupidity or incompetence in other people.
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: nobody's fool
soft g
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft gs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The "g" sound pronounced /dʒ/ as in "gem", "giraffe" and "generation" (or sometimes or /ʒ/ as in "genre"), as distinct from the hard g of "get" and "give".
Related terms: word: soft
word: hard
word: hard g
hard g
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard gs
form: hard-g
form: hard G
form: hard-G
Senses: examples: text: Hard g at last found his cap and again became Hard G, after which the fight was renewed.
ref: 1882, H.M. Dickson, The Elocutionist..., p. 41
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The plosive /g/ sound in "get", "log" and "give" as distinct from the soft g in "gem", "giraffe", "lodge" and "generation".
Related terms: word: hard
word: soft
conciliatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪl.i.əˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more conciliatory
form: most conciliatory
Senses: examples: text: Lady Anne checked herself, for she heard a carriage stop at the door, and her daughters enter the house; and she had not made up her mind as to the turn she should give to their conciliatory visit.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 218:
text: Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
antonyms: unconciliatory
glosses: Willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.
Derived terms: conciliatorily
conciliatoriness
nonconciliatory
nervous breakdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nervous breakdowns
Senses: examples: 1887, George Gissing, Thyrza
There was organic disease, and there was what is vaguely called nervous breakdown; it was too clear that Mr. Newthorpe must count upon very moderate activity either of mind or body henceforth.
1915, P. G. Wodehouse, Something New
...will you kindly think up at your earliest convenience some plan for politely ejecting this Mr Chalmers of yours from our humble home?--because if you don't, I'm going to have a nervous breakdown.
glosses: An attack of a psychological disorder such as depression or anxiety so severe that it prevents a person from continuing to function normally
glosses: A psychological disorder usually characterized by panic attacks and aggressiveness, related to the Hispanic ataque de nervios.
Synonyms: sense: disabling attack of a psychological disorder
word: mental breakdown
gips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gip
Elliott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕlēət
ipa: /ˈɛliːət/
ipa: /ˈɛlɪjət/
Forms: form: Elliotts
form: Eliot
form: Elliot
form: Eliott
Etymology: English surname derived from a Middle English diminutive of Elie, Old French form of Elias or Elijah, meaning "my God is Yahweh". As a Scottish surname it may also represent Gaelic Elloch from a word meaning a dam or bank.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A male given name.
A male given name transferred from the surname (today representing transferred use of the surname)
glosses: A surname.
A surname transferred from the given name. from Hebrew given name
glosses: A surname.
A surname. from Scottish
glosses: A placename
A village in Illinois, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city in Iowa, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city in North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A placename
Ellipsis of Elliott County.
Derived terms: Elliott County
Elliott eye
Elliott-Halberstam conjecture
Elliott wave
flip burgers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flips burgers
form: flipping burgers
form: flipped burgers
form: flipped burgers
Senses: examples: text: My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers […]
ref: 2001, Glenda Howard, Cita's World:
glosses: To be employed in a low-paid menial job, especially one in a fast-food restaurant.
Related terms: burger flipper
bug spray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bug sprays
Senses: glosses: An insecticide for killing household pests.
glosses: Insect repellent.
gas pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas pumps
Senses: synonyms: petrol pump
hypernyms: pump
<
device
glosses: A device at a gas station that dispenses gasoline.
turgor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turgors
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin turgor, from turgēre (“to be swollen”) + -or (forms a third-declension masculine abstract noun from a verb root).
Senses: glosses: Turgidity.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The pressure produced by a solution in a space that is enclosed by a differentially permeable membrane.
examples: text: Cuttings in a vase lost their turgor, incapable of drawing up the water and nutrients that once kept them supple.
ref: 2024 May 10, Lily Stewart, “A love letter to lilacs and the joys of fleeting pleasure”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Turgor pressure is the force or pressure within the cell exerted by fluid that presses the cell membrane against the cell wall.
Synonyms: tumescence
tumidity
turgescence
turgidity
Derived terms: turgor pressure
pocket door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket doors
Senses: glosses: A door that slides into the wall.
quadrillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒdˈrɪl.i.ənθ/
Etymology: From quadrillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number one quadrillion.
quadrillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒdˈrɪl.i.ənθ/
Forms: form: quadrillionths
Etymology: From quadrillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the quadrillionth position.
glosses: One of a quadrillion equal parts of a whole.
double-decker bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-decker buses
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: top deck
text: And if a double-decker bus / Crashes into us
ref: 1986, Johnny Marr, Morrissey, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”, in The Queen Is Dead, performed by The Smiths:
glosses: A bus that has two levels (decks) of seating.
Synonyms: word: double-decker
bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of bike
bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bike
microwaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microwave
microwaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microwave
bicycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicycle
bicycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bicycle
syndoche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syndoches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of synecdoche.
toponomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: toponomies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of toponymy.
univocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːnɪˈvəʊkəl/
ipa: /juːˈnɪvək(ə)l/
ipa: /juːnɪˈvoʊkəl/
ipa: /juːˈnɪvək(ə)l/
Etymology: From Late Latin ūnivocus + -al. By surface analysis, uni- + vocal.
Senses: examples: text: There were, he argued, some words, such as ‘fat’ or ‘exhausted’, that could not apply to God, but if such terms as ‘being’, ‘goodness’ or ‘wisdom’ were not univocal of God and creatures, ‘one could not naturally have any concept of God – which is false.’
ref: 1999, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 146:
glosses: Having only one possible meaning.
examples: text: Eunoia is a univocal lipogram — an anomalous narrative, in which each vowel appears by itself in its own chapter, telling a story in its own voice.
ref: 2000, Gail Scott, Robert Glück, Camille Roy, Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative:
text: I read through the dictionary five times to extract an extensive lexicon of univocal words containing only one of the five vowels.
ref: 2002, Brick, numbers 69-70, page 118:
text: The book's main conceit is to make poetry from univocal words (words containing just one vowel) […]
ref: 2012, Lauren Elkin, Scott Esposito, The End of Oulipo?: An attempt to exhaust a movement:
glosses: Containing instances of only one vowel; univocalic.
glosses: Having unison of sound, as the octave has in music.
examples: text: But I am much pleased at the repetition of the divine favour to you in the like instances; that God hath given you another testimony of his love to your person, and care of your family ; it is an engagement to you of new degrees of duty, which you cannot but superadde to the former, because the principle is genuine and prolific, and all the emanations of grace are univocal and alike.
ref: 1657, Jeremy Taylor, Evelyn Memoirs, volume II, page 119:
text: It is not indeed impossible, that from the sperm of a cock, hen, or other animal, being once in putrescence, either from incubation or otherwise, some generation may ensue; not univocal and of the same species, but some imperfect or monstrous production […]
ref: 1890, Sir Thomas Browne, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volume I, London: George Bell and Sons, page 258:
glosses: Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.
examples: text: There is no blessed soul goes to heaven but he makes a general joy in all the mansions where the saints do dwell, and in all the chapels where the angels sing ; and the joys of religion are not univocal, but productive of rare and accidental and preternatural pleasures ; for the music of holy hymns delights the ear and refreshes the spirit, and makes the very bones of the saints to rejoice.
ref: 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
glosses: Unequivocal; indubitable.
Synonyms: sense: having only one possible meaning
word: definite
word: monosemous
word: unambiguous
word: unequivocal
word: explicit
sense: indubitable
word: undoubtable
sense: indubitable
word: self-evident
univocal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːnɪˈvəʊkəl/
ipa: /juːˈnɪvək(ə)l/
ipa: /juːnɪˈvoʊkəl/
ipa: /juːˈnɪvək(ə)l/
Forms: form: univocals
Etymology: From Late Latin ūnivocus + -al. By surface analysis, uni- + vocal.
Senses: glosses: A word having only one meaning.
examples: text: The univocal is by no means the preserve of the nineteenth century. Georges Perec's 1972 novella Les revenentes complemented his earlier lipogrammatic work by being a univocalic piece in which the letter e is the only vowel used.
ref: 2015, Gyles Brandreth, Word Play:
glosses: A document containing instances of only one vowel.
if push comes to shove
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of when push comes to shove
come around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/
ipa: [kʰɐ.məˈɹaʊnd]
ipa: /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/
ipa: [kʰʌ.məˈɹaʊnd]
ipa: /kʌ.məˈɹaʊnd/
ipa: [ka.məˈɹæʊnd]
Forms: form: comes around
form: coming around
form: came around
form: come around
Senses: examples: text: Give her time, and she may come around and see things your way.
glosses: To change one's mind, especially to begin to agree or appreciate what one was reluctant to accept at first.
glosses: To regain consciousness after a faint etc.
glosses: To visit or arrive for a visit.
Synonyms: sense: regain consciousness
word: come to
sense: regain consciousness
word: come to one's senses
sense: regain consciousness
word: wake up
Derived terms: what goes around comes around
Related terms: come-around
what goes around comes around
Bible Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bible Belt
form: Bible belt
Etymology: First used by American journalist H. L. Mencken, who wrote in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1924 that "the old game, I suspect, is beginning to play out in the Bible Belt."
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Bible Belt.
topics: Christianity
glosses: An area where socially conservative Protestant Christianity is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture.
glosses: An area in the southeastern United States where Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive and dominant part of the culture.
raw_tags: in particular
Coordinate terms: word: Borscht Belt
word: Corn Belt
english: Hindu
translation: Hindu
word: cow belt
word: Quran Belt
word: Rust Belt
Derived terms: Bible Belter
intracellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + cellular.
Senses: examples: text: an intracellular process
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Inside or within a cell.
Derived terms: intracellularization
intracellularly
turgidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turgidities
Etymology: From turgid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being turgid.
Synonyms: tumescence
tumidity
turgescence
turgor
Thebes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /θiːbz/
rhymes: -iːbz
Forms: form: Thêbes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θῆβαι (Thêbai), from two different sources. The name of the Greek city is further derived from Ionic-Attic Θήβη (Thḗbē), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀳𐀣 (te-qa /⁠Tʰēgʷā⁠/), from Proto-Hellenic *Tʰēgʷā, while the name of the Egyptian city is from Egyptian Demotic tꜣ-jpy (“Thebes”, literally “the temple”), from earlier Egyptian tꜣ (“the”) + i-p:t-O45 (jpt, “Luxor”, literally “inner sanctum”).
Senses: glosses: A city in central Greece, the capital city of Boeotia and an important political centre in antiquity.
glosses: An ancient city and archaeological site in Upper Egypt, having functioned as capital city at times during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.
Related terms: Theban
Thebaic
respirocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respirocyte
Zaporozhye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zaporozhe
form: Zaporozhie
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje), the Russian form of Ukrainian Запорі́жжя (Zaporížžja).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zaporizhzhia:
An industrial city and urban hromada, the administrative center of Zaporizhzhia Raion and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in south-central Ukraine, on the Dnipro River.
glosses: Alternative form of Zaporizhzhia:
A raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: Alternative form of Zaporizhzhia:
An oblast in southeast Ukraine, also illicitly claimed by Russia.
glosses: Alternative form of Zaporizhzhia:
A geographic region south-central Ukraine, “beyond the rapids” in the lower reaches of the Dnipro River, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
respirocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respirocytes
Etymology: From respire + -o- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An artificial red blood cell manufactured using nanotechnology.
febrifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛbɹɪfjuːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: febrifuges
Etymology: From French fébrifuge, from Latin febrifugus. Doublet of feverfew. Source of -fuge.
Senses: examples: text: ...therein it differs not from the mode of operation, which we observe in the famous peruvian febrifuge.
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 19:
text: Ah, my boy, you forget the card index! Librarians invented that soothing device for the febrifuge of their souls...
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 20:
text: And, by goodness, the door was ajar into the hall, for Constance had slipped out to the nearest pharmacy in search of a febrifuge for her fever-bound lover.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1131:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: alexipyretic
word: antifebrile
word: antipyretic
extra: a fever-reducing medication
glosses: Synonym of antipyretic (“a fever-reducing medication”).
antipyretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntɪpaɪˈɹɛtɪk/
Etymology: From anti- + pyretic.
Senses: examples: text: The antipyretic action of AVP is limited mainly to its action in a precise location in the ventral septum, though there is some evidence for a similar action in the medial amygdala.
ref: 1999, Otto Appenzeller, The Autonomic Nervous System, →ISBN, page 486:
text: Hailed as a general remedy against fevers, it spurred hot debate among seventeenth-century medical professionals, especially in England. The bark, which includes among other active ingredients quinine, has a mild antipyretic effect and a far stronger impact in cases of malaria.
ref: 2001, Margaret Humphreys, Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: alexipyretic
word: antifebrile
word: antifever
word: febrifugal
glosses: That reduces fever.
antipyretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntɪpaɪˈɹɛtɪk/
Forms: form: antipyretics
Etymology: From anti- + pyretic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: alexipyretic
word: antifebrile
glosses: A medicine that reduces fever; a febrifuge.
Pesach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛsɑːx/
/ˈpeɪsɑːx/
Forms: form: Pesah
form: Pesakh
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésakh, “Passover”). Doublet of Pasch, Pascha, paska, and paskha.
Senses: glosses: The Jewish festival of Passover.
protecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈtɛktɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of protect
launched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: lôncht
ipa: /lɔːnt͡ʃt/
ipa: /lɑnt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɔːntʃt
rhymes: -ɑntʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of launch
bookshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookshops
form: book shop
Etymology: From book + shop.
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells books.
Synonyms: english: in the US, a bookshop mainly refers to a smaller type of shop
translation: in the US, a bookshop mainly refers to a smaller type of shop
word: bookstore
Derived terms: bookshopkeeper
bookshoppy
Related terms: bookery
bookhouse
messengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛs.n̩.d͡ʒɚz/
ipa: /ˈmɛs.n̩.d͡ʒəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of messenger
roared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rôd
ipa: /ɹɔːd/
enpr: rôrd
ipa: /ɹɔɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: rōrd
ipa: /ɹo(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹoəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roar
lemongrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemongrasses
Etymology: From lemon + grass.
Senses: examples: text: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
ref: 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: One of various species of grass of the genus Cymbopogon, especially Cymbopogon citratus, which have a lemon-like taste and aroma, and are used in cooking, for tea, and for fragrance.
glosses: Sourgrass, Oxalis pes-caprae.
Related terms: sourgrass
citronella grass
citronella
failsafe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fail-safe.
failsafe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: failsafes
Senses: examples: text: Each of the proposed failsafes may, in specific cases, be effective in slowing or preventing the introgression of alleles of concern from domesticated plants into natural populations.
ref: 2005, Norman C. Ellstrand, Dangerous Liaisons?: When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives:
glosses: Alternative form of fail-safe.
failsafe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: failsafes
form: failsafing
form: failsafed
form: failsafed
Senses: examples: 2013, Madeline Ashby, iD
He was failsafing, too.
glosses: Alternative form of fail-safe.
choreography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ˌkɒɹiˈɒɡɹəfi/
rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: choreographies
Etymology: Borrowed from French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”) + -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā, “written form (of a word, etc.), spelling”); By surface analysis, choreo- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: She has staged many successful ballets, so her choreography skills must be excellent.
glosses: The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
glosses: The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
examples: text: the delicate choreography of a marathon transplant operation involving several surgical suites
glosses: The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
The art of creating and arranging any activities that involve social coordination or orchestration.
examples: text: The show's singing and acting was excellent, but the choreography was dull and poorly-done.
glosses: The dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution.
examples: text: I've written down the choreography for y'all to take a look at.
glosses: The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
examples: text: Take a look at this, it's the choreography for our next show.
glosses: The notation used to construct this record.
Derived terms: antichoreography
choralography
choreograph
choreographer
choreographic
fight choreography
swordography
chihuahua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪ.waʊ(w).ə/
enpr: chĭwäʹwä
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈwɑːwɑː/
Forms: form: chihuahuas
Etymology: See Chihuahua.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Chihuahua.
Derived terms: ay, chihuahua
choodle
chug
carotid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɒt.ɪd/
ipa: /kəˈɹɑt.ɪd/
rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Forms: form: carotids
Etymology: Borrowed from French carotide or New Latin carōtides, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτῐ́δες (kărōtĭ́des, “carotid arteries”), from κᾰρόω (kăróō, “to plunge into deep sleep or torpor”) + -τῐ́δες (-tĭ́des, plural nominal suffix), from the fact that the carotid artery supplies blood to the brain, and interruption of this flow causes loss of consciousness.
Senses: examples: text: I shoot Mr. Marlow twice, severing jugulars and cartoids with near surgical precision. He will die watching me take what is his away from him. This is my design.
ref: 2013 April 4, Hannibal, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Will Graham (Hugh Dancy):
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: carotid artery
glosses: Either of the two main arteries that supply blood to the head of which the left in humans arises from the arch of the aorta and the right by bifurcation of the brachiocephalic artery with each passing up the side of the neck and dividing opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into an external branch supplying the face, tongue, and external parts of the head and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts of the head.
Derived terms: carotidal
carotidean
carotidial
carotid sinus
carotidynia
entocarotid
carotid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɒt.ɪd/
ipa: /kəˈɹɑt.ɪd/
rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Etymology: Borrowed from French carotide or New Latin carōtides, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτῐ́δες (kărōtĭ́des, “carotid arteries”), from κᾰρόω (kăróō, “to plunge into deep sleep or torpor”) + -τῐ́δες (-tĭ́des, plural nominal suffix), from the fact that the carotid artery supplies blood to the brain, and interruption of this flow causes loss of consciousness.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: carotidal
carotidean
glosses: Of or pertaining to the carotid artery.
Derived terms: bicarotid
carotico-
carotid artery
carotid plexus
carotid triangle
intercarotid
internal carotid plexus
intracarotid
noncarotid
subcarotid
transcarotid
bullcrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊlkɹæp/
Etymology: From bull + crap.
Senses: examples: text: R&B rap is bullcrap is what I'm dumpin'
ref: 1992, “Jump”, performed by Kris Kross:
synonyms: word: bullpoop
english: more euphemistic
translation: more euphemistic
glosses: bullshit
Derived terms: bullcrapper
budding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌdiŋ/
rhymes: -ʌdɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: He's a budding deejay.
text: The most surprising thing was to discover that each job had its little tricks, peculiarities that had been learned in the experience of years, and one of the really pleasing features was the unlimited patience and kindliness of the chargehands and fitters, who would go to great lengths to teach the budding engineer all they themselves knew.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
text: Council's tip shops in Acacia Ridge and Geebung are treasure troves for everyone from budding home stylists to outdoor enthusiasts.
ref: 2021 February 1, Living in Brisbane, Brisbane, page 7:
glosses: Beginning to develop.
Derived terms: nonbudding
budding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌdiŋ/
rhymes: -ʌdɪŋ
Forms: form: buddings
Senses: glosses: The development of buds on a plant.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
synonyms: bud grafting
glosses: The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark.
examples: text: Whatever the mode of origin, buddings from a particular bud-parent have been found to agree in habit and general characteristics, while all buddings develop similar features which distinguish them from seedling trees.
ref: 1956, Rubber Journal, volume 131, page 232:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: The result of this practice.
Derived terms: disbudding