cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Palladian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈleɪdɪən/
ipa: /pəˈleɪdiən/
rhymes: -eɪdiən
Forms: form: Palladians
Etymology: From Italian Palladio, the surname of Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) + -an (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).
Senses: examples: text: What is quite certain that Georgian Palladianism without him [Colen Campbell] would have developed later and would have been quite different, and the legacy of the English Palladians, accepted but rarely acknowledged by their most adventurous but no more dedicated successors, would have been less rich.
ref: 1967, Howard E. Stutchbury, “Conclusion”, in The Architecture of Colen Campbell, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →OCLC, page 144:
text: [Peter Paul] Rubens' credo could be a rubric for [Joseph] Furttenbach's work. He is not a Palladian like [Heinrich von] Schickhardt, but takes up Italian Renaissance architecture in a both geographically and temporally broad span, attempting to make it a model for Central European requirements.
ref: 1994, Hanno-Walter Kruft, “The German-speaking Regions in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”, in Ronald Taylor, Elsie Callander, Antony Wood, transl., A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present, New York, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press; London: Zwemmer, Philip Wilson Publishers, →ISBN, page 172:
text: To compound the problem, when the collaborations were over and [Nicholas] Hawksmoor came into his own, as it were, designing six churches by himself, the neo-Palladians were coming into fashion, displacing, and even dismissing, their baroque contemporaries.
ref: 2015, Cedric D. Reverand II, “Nicholas Hawksmoor: The Other English Baroque Architect”, in Cedric D. Reverand II, editor, Queen Anne and the Arts (Transits; Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850), Lewisburg, Pa.; Lanham, Md.: Bucknell University Press; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 227:
topics: architecture
glosses: An architect who designs buildings in the Palladian style.
examples: text: Anything [i.e., any type of window] with a rounded top became known as a Palladian and was seen as an instant evocation of history, status, class, and tradition. In some cases, an oversized Palladian filled an entire facade of a house.
ref: 2001, Alastair Gordon, “Epilogue: Past Perfect”, in Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons, New York, N.Y.: Princeton Architectural Press, →ISBN, page 166, column 1:
text: From the outside, Strokestown House is a most attractive building. [...] And unlike some of the monster Palladians in this country, places like Castletown or Powerscourt, both near Dublin, Strokestown, being in the uncivilized west, is a far more modest proposition and thereby more appealing and approachable.
ref: 2002, James Charles Roy, “The Work of Angels”, in The Back of Beyond: A Search for the Soul of Ireland, Boulder, Colo.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Westview Press, →ISBN:
topics: architecture
glosses: A building or an architectural element (for example, a window) designed in the Palladian style.
Barnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː(ɹ)nz/
ipa: /bɑɹnz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nz
homophone: barns
Forms: form: Barneses
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the place on the bank of the Thames, derived from the root of the noun barn.
* Also as an English surname, variant of Barne, from both a Middle English personal name from Old Norse Bjǫrn and Old English Beorn, and from the noun barn (“child”). Semantically compare Child.
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), a byname from bior (“spear”).
* As a French surname, variant of Bernes, from a short form of a Germanic name derived from Frankish *berō (“bear”), similar to Bernhard.
* As a Jewish surname, variant of Parnes, from Yiddish פּרנס (prns), from Hebrew פַּרְנָס (“leader of a Jewish community, provider”).
Senses: examples: text: Riley Barnes, nominated to serve as assistant secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labor, revealed his dangerous proclivities to Kaine in his opening statement when he said that “all men are created equal because our rights come from God, our creator; not from our laws, not from our governments.”
ref: 2025 September 6, Jonathan Turley, “Tim Kaine’s Constitutional blasphemy”, in The Hill:
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A surname.
An English toponymic surname transferred from the common noun for someone who owned, lived in, or worked in a barn.
glosses: A surname.
A habitational surname from Middle English for someone from the place of the same name in Surrey.
glosses: A placename
A suburb of London in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England, originally a town in Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2276).
glosses: A placename
An inner suburb and ward in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (approx OS grid ref NZ3856).
glosses: A placename
A minor city in Washington County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A placename
A small town in the far south of the Riverina, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Barnes County
Barnes Opening
Barnesville
Davis-Barnes effect
West Barnes
tompion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tompions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tampion.
autistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈtɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ɑˈtɪs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: more autistic
form: most autistic
Etymology: From autism + -istic or -tic. First attested in 1913. The modern clinical sense is first used in 1943 by Leo Kanner.
Senses: examples: text: Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.
ref: 2003 July 2, Peter Bradshaw, “Punch-Drunk Love”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 07 Aug 2014:
text: Yet because of the history and proliferation of the supercrip in films in television shows – not only with autism but supercrips with other disabilities as well – viewers are primed for the supercrip autistic and are therefore not expecting (in some ways) a view of autism that comes across to many in the autism community as more realistic or honest.
ref: 2016, Katherine Lashley, “Displaying Autism: The Thinking Images of Temple Grandin (2010)”, in Benjamin Fraser, editor, Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts, page 130:
synonyms: on the spectrum
glosses: Having autism, or pertaining to autism.
qualifier: slang and medically obsolete
glosses: Socially inept, self-absorbed, or stupid.
examples: text: imagine being this autistic over a fictional character
qualifier: 4chan slang; offensive or self-deprecatory; 4chan slang; offensive or self-deprecatory
glosses: Characterized by abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism. Obsessive.
glosses: Lame, uncool, stupid.
Derived terms: antiautistic
autard
autie
autigender
autistically
autistic disorder
autistic psychopathy
autistics and cousins
autistic savant
nonautistic
postautistic
preautistic
tism
'tism
unautistic
autistic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈtɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ɑˈtɪs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Forms: form: autistics
Etymology: From autism + -istic or -tic. First attested in 1913. The modern clinical sense is first used in 1943 by Leo Kanner.
Senses: examples: text: If our definition of empathy were to require we take the human cognitive norm (overwhelmingly influenced by neurotypical cognition) as the absolute standard by which to measure empathy, then indeed we would have to conclude autistics do not instinctively possess a good sense of empathy.
ref: 2006, Alan Griswold, Autistic Symphony:
text: After reading this book, medical professionals should be able to develop an understanding of some of the challenges that autistics are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
ref: 2022, Matthew Bennett, Emma Goodall, Autism and COVID-19:
glosses: A person who has autism.
Synonyms: autist
Hyponyms: english: potentially offensive
translation: potentially offensive
word: idiot savant
Related terms: word: autistic spectrum
alt: ASD
word: autistic spectrum disorder
scholia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skōʹlĭə
ipa: /ˈskəʊlɪə/
homophone: scolia
Senses: glosses: plural of scholium
glosses: plural of scholion
umbrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌmbɹəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbɹəl
homophone: umbral
Forms: form: umbrel .
form: umbrels
form: umbrell
form: umbril
Etymology: From Middle English umbrell, from Old French ombrel (“shade”); compare French ombrelle.
Senses: glosses: An umbrere; the visor of a helmet
I don't understand
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: I don’t understand
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker is not understanding the current subject or situation.
scholium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skōʹlĭəm
ipa: /ˈskəʊlɪəm/
homophone: scolium
Forms: form: scholia
form: scholiums
form: scholion
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek σχόλιον (skhólion, “comment”), from σχολή (skholḗ, “discussion”).
Senses: examples: text: And when I shulde make scholias, notis, and gloses in the margent as himself and his master doith.
ref: 1535, Joye, Apol. Tindale (Arb.), page 23:
text: Mr. Fox was fain to make soom Scholia’s on it, to reconcile a gloss like that of Orleance, which corrupts the Text.
ref: 1660, Heylin, Hist. Quinquart., book ii, page 42:
text: Almost every word admits a scholium, and a long one too.
ref: 1760–2, Goldsm., Cit. W., chapter cxiii:
text: Short Scholia are added to almost every chapter, containing various readings, or various translations, selected with much judgment and critical acumen.
ref: 1799, Monthly Rev., volume XXX, page 136:
text: Judy, however, did not choose to receive the laugh as a scholium explanatory of the remark.
ref: 1866, G. Macdonald, Ann. Q. Neighb., chapter ix:
text: From a scholium on the Iliad (24. 496) we know that Bacchylides spoke of Theano as having borne fifty sons to Antenor.
ref: 1904, R. C. Jebb, Bacchylides (Proc. Brit. Acad.), page 9:
text: Sluiter examines a tension inherent in such scholarly works as lexica, scholia, epitomai, and commentaries: although the very titles of these works claim no more than secondary status, their authors engage nonetheless in a rhetoric of self-legitimation.
ref: 2000, Mary Depew, Dirk Obbink, Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 10, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A note added to a text as an explanation, criticism or commentary.
examples: text: Scholium, is a remark made leisurely, and as it were by the by, on that Proposition, Subject or Discourse before advanced, treated of, or delivered.
ref: 1704, J. Harris, Lex. Techn., volume I:
text: Which is evident likewise concerning the Orbits of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, from the Scholium to Prop. 9.
ref: 1715, anonymous translator, Gregory’s Astron., volume I, published 1726, page 23:
text: Some…cast all their…metaphysical and…moral learning into the method of mathematicians, and bring every thing relating to those abstracted or those practical sciences under theorems, problems, postulates, scholiums, corollaries, &c.
ref: 1741, Watts, Improv. Mind, book i, chapter xiv:
text: A scholium is a remark applied to some preceding propositions, in order to point out their relative connection, or general utility and application.
ref: 1824–5, Barlow, in Encycl. Metrop., volume I, page 314/2:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A note added to a proof as amplification.
examples: text: The old scholium, that ‘too much familiarity breeds contempt’.
ref: 1830, Marryat, King’s Own, chapter xix:
glosses: A “copy-book maxim”, trite saying.
undinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʌndiːnɪzəm/
Etymology: From undine + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: urolagnia
urophilia
glosses: Sexual arousal from urine or urination.
undine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndiːn/
Forms: form: undines
form: ondine
Etymology: From German Undine, from New Latin undīna, from Latin unda (“wave”).
Senses: glosses: A female water-sprite or nymph.
glosses: The elemental being of water.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a small flask used to apply lotions to the eye.
anorexic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænəˈɹɛksɪk/
Forms: form: more anorexic
form: most anorexic
Etymology: From anorexia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: I thought of anorexic girls whose puberty has stalled, leaving them crossed between elderly ladies and overburdened children with false smiles, apparently perfect, teeth unstained, until their organs began to fail.
ref: 2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 158:
glosses: Pertaining to, or suffering from, anorexia nervosa.
examples: text: He was also a poet on 'L' plates having published one very slim (to the point of anorexic) collection of verse.
ref: 2005, Kathy Lette, A Stitch in Time, page 17:
glosses: Thin, skinny, insubstantial.
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: hyporexic
glosses: Having very little to no appetite (a symptom that occurs in various diseases).
Synonyms: anorectic
Derived terms: anorexically
antianorexic
manorexic
nonanorexic
preanorexic
sexually anorexic
tanorexic
wannarexic
anorexic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænəˈɹɛksɪk/
Forms: form: anorexics
Etymology: From anorexia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The hospital strictly monitored the advertising materials the bulimics and anorexics were allowed to see.
glosses: Somebody suffering from anorexia nervosa.
glosses: A medicine which suppresses appetite.
Synonyms: anorectic
Derived terms: sexual anorexic
appearances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appearance
techniques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technique
uraeus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈɹiː.əs/
ipa: /juˈɹi.əs/
ipa: /juˈɹeɪ.əs/
Forms: form: uraei
form: uraeuses
form: uræus
form: ouræus
Etymology: From Latin uraeus, from Ancient Greek οὐραῖος (ouraîos). This is traditionally assumed to be from Egyptian jꜥrt (“cobra in threat posture”), i-a:r:*t-I12, from jꜥr (“to rise, climb”); however, on phonetic grounds, Gundacker, following Fecht, argues for an origin in Egyptian wrrt (“White Crown, uraeus”, literally “the great one”) instead.
Senses: examples: text: In front is an inlaid cobra, the Royal uræus, and around the band are attached 15 rosettes, each composed of four flowers and four leaves of openwork inlaid.
ref: 20 May 1914, The Times, col. A, page 7:
text: even a fair amount of the gold His caravans returned from the Granite Mountains near the Red Sea, were now being fashioned by royal artisans into amulets, breast pieces, gold collars, bracelets, scarabs, uraei, even gold and silver shabti […].
ref: 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
text: In the small chamber opposite are Isis and Selket, and Nefertari's cartouche between two uraeuses.
ref: 2004, Michael Haag, Egypt, page 305:
glosses: A representation of the sacred asp, symbolising supreme power in ancient Egypt.
billowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪ.ləʊ.(w)i/
rhymes: -ɪləʊ(w)i
Forms: form: billowier
form: billowiest
Etymology: From billow + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He was shabby and careless, with inkstains on the sleeves of his jacket, and his cravat was large and billowy, under a chin shaped like the toe of an old boot.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
text: […] Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LVIII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: Swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Derived terms: billowiness
back street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back streets
Senses: examples: text: So much to do, so much to see
So what's wrong with taking the back streets?
You'll never know if you don't go
You'll never shine if you don't glow
ref: 1999 May 4, Greg Camp, “All Star”, in Astro Lounge, performed by Smash Mouth:
glosses: A usually small and narrow street or alley, especially one in inferior or poorer parts of a city, away from the centre.
glosses: A secret, clandestine, or illegal scene.
Derived terms: back-street abortion
neurode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurodes
Etymology: Probably a blend of neuron and node.
Senses: examples: text: Each of these neurodes connected to several others, perhaps even to all other neurodes in the net.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 19:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An artificial neuron, a simple processing element of a neural network having several input signals and one output signal.
curatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkjʊəɹəˈtɔːɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌkjʊɹəˈtɔɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌkjə-/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more curatorial
form: most curatorial
Etymology: From curator + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a curator.
Derived terms: curatorially
noncuratorial
cultic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cult + -ic.
Senses: glosses: ritual, relating to cult (religious ritual)
glosses: cultish, cultlike, relating to (the methods of) cults (type of sect)
Derived terms: cultically
do you speak English
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Asks the interlocutor whether or not they are able to speak in the English language.
Related terms: I don't speak English
crouched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊt͡ʃt/
ipa: /kɹʌʊt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -aʊtʃt
rhymes: -ʌʊtʃt
Senses: synonyms: crutched
glosses: Marked with, bearing, or wearing the sign of the cross.
examples: text: Like a crouched tiger, he waited for the moment to spring, and hunt his victim down.
ref: 1854, John Mills (Novelist.), The Old English Gentleman; Or, The Fields and the Woods, page 198:
glosses: In a crouching position.
crouched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹaʊt͡ʃt/
ipa: /kɹʌʊt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -aʊtʃt
rhymes: -ʌʊtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crouch
cottonade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Forms: form: cottonades
Senses: glosses: A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton, generally inferior, coarser, and less durable.
cosmoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or concerned with the formation of the universe or world; cosmogonic.
glosses: Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.
cosmogonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cosmogony + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cosmogony.
Derived terms: cosmogonical
cosmogonically
precosmogonic
cosmogonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cosmogony + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cosmogony.
Derived terms: cosmogonic
cosmogonically
cosmogonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From cosmogonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a cosmogonic manner.
Related terms: cosmogonic
cosmogonical
correspondingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔ.ɹəˈspɑn.dɪŋ.li/
Etymology: From corresponding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He lived in a huge mansion, with a correspondingly large set of gates to keep out unwanted guests.
glosses: In a corresponding manner; conformably.
conformably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conformably
form: most conformably
Etymology: From conformable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: One, who in our climate, should expect better weather in any week of June than in one of December, would reason justly, and conformably to experience; but it is certain, that he may happen, in the event, to find himself mistaken.
ref: 1748, David Hume, “Of Miracles”, in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding:
text: […]the said Rajah, intimidated by these threats, "having consented to acquiesce in any terms which might be proposed"—That an arrangement was accordingly made, and a settlement agreed to; and the said Rajah was about to give up his guns and ammunition, and evacuate his fort of Cutchoura, conformably to the humiliating and oppressive terms which he had been compelled to accept[…]
ref: 1806 July 12, “Article of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors Committed by Richard Colley Marquis Wellesley, in His Transactions with Respect to the Rajahs and Zemindars in the Doab; and Particularly in His Transactions with Respect to the Rajah Bugwunt Sing, Zemindar of Sasnee and Bigjeghur, and the Rajah Kakoor Addkeerin, Zemindar of Cutchoura”, in Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, volume 10, number 2, page 62:
text: Globaltech also urged PCSO to abide by the CA order to “forthwith submit themselves to arbitration conformably with the terms of their written agreement.”
ref: 2019 February 14, Edu Punay, “Globaltech: PCSO defied CA on Peryahan games”, in The Philippine Star:
glosses: With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
Synonyms: word: accordantly
word: accordingly
word: agreeably
word: compliantly
word: conformably
word: consistently
word: pursuantly
word: suitably
Hyponyms: word: obediently
word: submissively
Derived terms: nonconformably
pseudoconformably
Related terms: word: conformity
word: conform
word: conformant
suitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suitably
form: most suitably
Etymology: From suitable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Campion appeared suitably impressed and she warmed to him. He was very easy to talk to with those long clown lines in his pale face, a natural goon, born rather too early she suspected.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: In a suitable manner; with propriety.
Synonyms: sense: in a suitable manner
word: properly
sense: in a suitable manner
word: duly
sense: in a suitable manner
word: fitly
sense: in a suitable manner
word: agreeably
nymphaeum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nymphaeums
form: nymphaea
Etymology: The root word is Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē), which anciently, from prehistory, could mean “bride” or a special type of “goddess”: of mountains, trees, springs or meadows. Its appearance in Latin nymph- is a Hellenization, although Latin had its own derivatives from the Indo-European: nūpta (“bride”), nurus (“daughter-in-law”). In Classical Greek, an -ai- form referred to the goddess, becoming Latin -ae-, while an -ei- form referred to the bride, becoming Latin -ē-, but the Greek-speaking Romans, such as Pliny the Elder, confused the two. Thus Latin nymphaeum is from Greek nymphaion but Latin nymphēum is from νυμφεῖον (numpheîon), although they could be understood to have the same meaning.
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: An ancient Greek or Roman shrine consecrated to water nymphs, often with a fountain.
agreeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹiːəbli/
Forms: form: more agreeably
form: most agreeably
Etymology: From Middle English agreablely, agreably; equivalent to agreeable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What a game this was in those early minutes. Germany were also agreeably fluid, with a fine natural width. But they also looked like a champion team short-handed heading back towards their own goal.
ref: 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
synonyms: pleasingly
glosses: In an agreeable or pleasing manner
examples: text: Walter was not a little surprised when he came back in the course of the forenoon, agreeably to his promise, to find Mr Brogley sitting in the back parlour with his hands in his pockets, and his hat hanging up behind the door.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
synonyms: suitably
consistently
conformably
glosses: In accordance.
glosses: Alike; similarly.
taxidermist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxidermists
Senses: glosses: One who practices taxidermy, the stuffing of animals.
fitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪtli/
rhymes: -ɪtli
Forms: form: more fitly
form: fitlier
form: most fitly
form: fitliest
Etymology: From fit + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Meane-while it is a great comfort unto a Christian man, to see our mortall implements, and fading tooles, so fitly sorted to our holy and divine faith[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful […]
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 25:11:
text: Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, — to all knowledge, ‘self-knowledge’ and much else, so soon as Work fitly begins.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XI, Labour”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
text: This Court has a solemn duty to protect society against the murderous attacks of dangerous men, whether they be old or young, and to show clearly that it will punish fitly such offenders.
ref: 1948, Alan Paton, chapter 28, in Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, published 1987:
synonyms: suitably
properly
commodiously
conveniently
glosses: In a fit manner
supercollider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsupɚkəlaɪdɚ/
Forms: form: supercolliders
Etymology: From super- + collider.
Senses: glosses: A high-energy particle accelerator.
commodiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more commodiously
form: most commodiously
Etymology: From commodious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My other work having now stood still, because of my making these tools, when they were finished I went on, and working every day, as my strength and time allowed, I spent eighteen days entirely in widening and deepening my cave, that it might hold my goods commodiously.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a commodious manner.
subtitle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/
Forms: form: subtitles
Etymology: From sub- + title.
Senses: topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: A heading below or after a title.
examples: text: Careful viewers have long observed that in the movies, one can not only watch but read cigarettes like subtitles — translating the action on the screen into another language which the camera registers but rarely foregrounds, a part of the thickness of the medium which is almost never brought into focus. […] The cigarette in the scene serves as a subtext, a mute caption or subtitle, sometimes accompanying, sometimes contradicting or diverting the explicit premise of the action or the open meaning of signs.
ref: 1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
coordinate_terms: intertitle
glosses: Textual versions of the dialogue in films (and similar media such as television or video games), usually displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Derived terms: subtitled
subtitling
Related terms: surtitle
surtitles
surtitled
surtitling
subtitle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/
Forms: form: subtitles
form: subtitling
form: subtitled
form: subtitled
Etymology: From sub- + title.
Senses: glosses: To create subtitles for the dialogue in a film.
storyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storylines
form: story line
Etymology: From story + line. The climate science usage is defined in the IPCC WG III AR5 report (2014).
Senses: examples: text: That film had a wonderful storyline, but the poor acting let it down.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The plot of a story.
topics: climate
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A narrative description of a given modeling scenario, highlighting its main characteristics and underlying technical and socioeconomic drivers.
coquetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒkɪtɹi/
ipa: /ˈkəʊkətɹi/
ipa: /ˈkoʊkətɹi/
Forms: form: coquetries
form: coquettery
Etymology: From French coquetterie.
Senses: examples: text: With a lover […] her sensibility will naturally lead her to endeavour to excite emotion, not to gratify her vanity, but her heart. This I do not allow to be coquetry, it is the artless impulse of nature […]
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
glosses: Coquettish behaviour; actions designed to excite erotic attention, without intending to reciprocate such feelings (chiefly of women towards men); flirtatious teasing.
examples: text: The little coquetries, which are as natural to a gay young girl as her laughter, were all in full play, and had she gone no further no harm would have been done.
ref: 1882, Louisa M. Alcott, Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories:
text: The mischievous pleasure of her coquetries was forgotten, and in a rush of glad confidence she felt a woman's pride in him.
ref: 1910, Geraldine Bonner, The Emigrant Trail:
text: "Her pretty little coquetries are like the gambols of a kitten.
ref: 1913, Carolyn Wells, Patty's Social Season:
glosses: An act constituting such behaviour; an affectation of amorous interest or enticement, especially of a woman directed towards a man.
Synonyms: flirtation
cork-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cork-boards
Senses: glosses: A kind of strawboard or cardboard in which ground cork is mixed with the paper pulp.
corkboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corkboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cork-board.
skiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
homophone: SCIF
Forms: form: skiffs
Etymology: From Middle English skif, from Middle French esquif, from Old Italian schifo (“small boat”), from Lombardic skif (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“boat, ship”). Doublet of ship.
Senses: examples: text: Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: As Hiro is entering their neighborhood, he sees men running down the undulating pontoon bridge that serves as the main street, carrying guns and knives. The local constabulary. More men of the same description emerge from the byways and skiffs and sampans, joining them.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 385:
glosses: A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
examples: text: I went alone into a Shepherd's boat,
A skiff that to a willow-tree was tied
Within a rocky cave, its usual home […]
ref: 1799, William Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude, Book I:
text: Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 223, about Hemingford Grey:
glosses: Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
Derived terms: mackinaw skiff
Orkney skiff
skanoe
skiff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
homophone: SCIF
Forms: form: skiffs
form: skiffing
form: skiffed
form: skiffed
Etymology: From Middle English skif, from Middle French esquif, from Old Italian schifo (“small boat”), from Lombardic skif (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“boat, ship”). Doublet of ship.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To navigate in a skiff.
skiff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
homophone: SCIF
Forms: form: skiffs
form: skiffing
form: skiffed
form: skiffed
Etymology: From Scots skiff (“light shower of rain or snow”), from skiff (“move lightly”); compare the derivative skiffle (whence English skiffle) and (English skift (“light dusting of snow”) from) Scots skift (“light shower of snow”), from skift (“move lightly”), perhaps related to shift/Old Norse skipta, or perhaps an onomatopoeic formation.
Senses: examples: text: We must be constantly alert to increased accident potentials in taxiing, takeoff, and landings on ice-glazed and snow-skiffed runways.
ref: 1957, Combat Crew: Magazine of the Strategic Air Command, page 3:
text: The sharp wind divides the dense fur of their winter coats while they survey the snow-skiffed ground of their silent town.
ref: 1981, United States Government Printing Office, Devils Tower, Government Printing Office, published 1985, →ISBN, page 50:
text: 1983, Roy McFadden, The Selected Roy McFadden, Dundonald, N. Ireland : Blackstaff Press
With glimpses through the skiffing rain / Of Donegal across the bay, / And Scotland when the early mist is blown, […]
text: The first year I stayed on 'til snow skiffed the highways & we had to burn the frost out of the ditchline with coal.
ref: 1986, Waves:
text: […] two hours probing burnished lamps into rain-skiffed darkness, a digger burred, clanked […]
ref: 1998, David Anderson, A Tract of Time, editorips@usp.ac.fj, →ISBN, page 88:
text: He crossed a bridge to the other side, the road snaking in the green of fir and spruce, turning into a hill, a bit of snow skiffed in some places, then more, then everything coated, the evidence of a recent plow, the oil-and-gravel surface still ...
ref: 2000, Roy Parvin, In the Snow Forest, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 30:
text: “I don't mind waiting with you.” “No, it's all right.” “Really?” “Really.” Reluctantly, Paul said goodbye. Walking in the face of skiffing rain he was almost past the kebab shop before he realised it. “Donner kebab,” Paul said as if it was a refrain.
ref: 2009, John Morgan, Giddyblue, Chipmunkapublishing ltd, →ISBN, page 143:
text: In others, you could see all the way through to the basement stairway below. All the doors on the second floor had been torn from their hinges. The wind blew in through the empty windows, skiffing snow In one room a rotting mattress had been ...
ref: 2009, Kent Nerburn, The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey Through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows, New World Library, →ISBN, page 267:
text: Rain skiffed against the windows as she told Maeve about the possible link between Paddy Wallace, Mark O'Hanlon and Prontias Ryan. Maeve listened, nodding along.
ref: 2018, Claire McGowan, The Killing House (Paula Maguire 6): An explosive Irish crime thriller that will give you chills, Headline, →ISBN:
glosses: To fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground (etc).
raw_tags: of rain or snow
skiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
homophone: SCIF
Forms: form: skiffs
Senses: examples: text: In the fourth year, "light skiff" pruning removes just the uppermost growth.
ref: 2001, Piya Chatterjee, A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation, page 173:
text: The sequence of the 3-year pruning cycle is light pruning; light skiff; and deep skiff[…]
ref: 2019, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Agronomic Crops: Volume 1: Production Technologies, Springer, page 463:
glosses: An act of slightly pruning tea bushes, placing new leaves at a convenient height without removing much woody growth.
skiff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪf/
rhymes: -ɪf
homophone: SCIF
Forms: form: skiffs
form: skiffing
form: skiffed
form: skiffed
Senses: examples: text: Skiffing is the lightest form of pruning involving as it does removal of a certain amount of growth above the previous pruning level.
ref: 2016, H. Panda, The Complete Book on Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea (2nd Revised Edition), page 202:
glosses: To cut (a tea bush) to maintain the plucking table.
Related terms: SCIF
skag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skags
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of skeg.
examples: text: You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip out for beer during commercials, because / The revolution will not be televised
ref: 1971, Gil Scott-Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”:
synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
glosses: Alternative spelling of scag (“heroin”).
examples: text: Ewww! Do you think that's her boyfriend!? Nice Forehead, dude! …Check out the obvious implants on that skag!
ref: 1997, Daniel Clowes, “The Norman Square”, in Ghost World, Jonathan Cape, published 2000, →ISBN, page 49:
synonyms: word: skank
word: battle-ax
word: beldame
word: boot
word: brown-bagger
word: cunt
word: dog
word: gorgon
word: hag
word: harridan
word: moose
word: munter
word: skag
word: skank
word: Sybil
word: two-bagger
word: whore
glosses: An unattractive woman.
corrade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Forms: form: corrades
form: corrading
form: corraded
form: corraded
Etymology: From Latin corrādō (“to scrape off, abrade”).
Senses: synonyms: fret
consume
glosses: To gnaw into; to wear away
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To erode through physical or mechanical (rather than chemical) means, as the bed of a stream.
glosses: To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously.
Related terms: corrasion
scag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: scags
form: skag
Etymology: Unknown. Compare scat (“heroin; whiskey”), slag (“waste; a prostitute”), skank (“a disreputable woman”).
Senses: examples: text: And I was snorting scag while other kids played tag
ref: 1973, “Sport”, in Hustler's Convention, performed by Lightnin' Rod:
text: So goodbye Cocaine Carolina, you and I are through / I'm going back to Sandy Scag, she knows just what to do
ref: 1975, David Allan Coe, “Cocaine Carolina”, performed by Johnny Cash:
text: Mark: No. I'm off the scag. Ten days without the scag. And I'm going away.
ref: 1996, Mark Ravenhill, Shopping and Fucking, Scene One:
text: “"The detectives wiped the mobsters' blood off their boots and found the scag." Scag is heroin. And the book says it's so good, you can never stop doing it!” “See me after class, Jacob.”
ref: 2013 November 12, Gabe Liedman, “Old School” (1:48 from the start), in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Young Jake (Miles Platt):
synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
glosses: Heroin.
glosses: A woman of loose morals.
examples: text: “Then have a skag,” said I. / “’Twill make it seem like happier times, / You liked this brand, I understand.”
ref: 1915, “The Doomsday Butt”, in The Cornhusker, page 458:
text: Awoke when our florescent lights came on and went outside to smoke a few scags before breakfast.
ref: 1996, Paul Bunker, Keith Barlow, Bunker's War: The World War II Diary of Paul D. Bunker, page 134:
synonyms: word: bine
word: blem
word: bogie
word: boagie
word: butt
word: cancerette
word: cancer stick
word: cig
word: cigaret
word: cigarette
word: ciggy
word: coffin nail
word: cowboy killer
word: darb
word: dart
word: death stick
word: durben
word: durrie
word: durry
word: fag
word: gaf
word: gasper
word: gwaai
word: lung dart
word: neen
word: oily rag
word: paper cigar
word: rig
word: rolly
word: quirly
word: scag
word: skyf
word: snout
word: smoke
word: square
word: stick
word: stinky stick
word: stoge
word: stoag
word: stogie
word: stoagie
word: straight
word: straighter
word: tab
word: toby rib
word: twiff
word: vogue
word: zig-zag
glosses: A cigarette.
scag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: scags
form: scagging
form: scagged
form: scagged
form: skag
Etymology: Unknown. Compare scat (“heroin; whiskey”), slag (“waste; a prostitute”), skank (“a disreputable woman”).
Senses: examples: text: That last power hit scagged the system disk.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage.
sirloin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝlɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
Forms: form: sirloins
Etymology: From Middle English surloine, from Old French surlonge, from sur la longe (literally “above the loin”).
Senses: glosses: A cut of beef from the lower part of the back, where the last ribs are (called rump in UK English).
glosses: A cut of beef from the middle of the back (corresponding to short loin and partly rib in US English).
Derived terms: sirloin cap
conveyer belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conveyer belts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of conveyor belt.
conversive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more conversive
form: most conversive
Senses: glosses: Capable of being converted or changed.
glosses: Ready to converse; social.
conspicuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conspicuities
Etymology: From conspicuous + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being clearly discernible
glosses: The state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuousness.
Synonyms: conspicuosity
conspicuousness
Related terms: inconspicuity
seaplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiˌpleɪn/
Forms: form: seaplanes
Etymology: From sea + plane. Supposedly coined by Winston Churchill.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: hydroplane
qualifier: aircraft
glosses: Any aircraft capable of taking off from, and alighting on the surface of water.
Hyponyms: floatplane
float plane
flying boat
Derived terms: seaplane carrier
seaplane tender
scorcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɔː.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈskɔɹ.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scorchers
Etymology: From scorch + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (descriptive suffix).
Senses: synonyms: sizzler
glosses: One who, or that which, scorches.
examples: text: Tomorrow will be a scorcher, so carry water and use sunscreen if you're going out.
synonyms: sizzler
stinker
glosses: A very hot day.
examples: text: What a scorcher! See the net reverberate!
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A very good goal, notably made with a very hard shot.
glosses: A caustic rebuke or criticism.
examples: text: `Yes, sir - of course, sir, that's just what he said they was - 'cautions, downright scorchers' - sir, and I'm sure I don't doubt it, seeing what I know of them, and their hot-potting ways,' went on Job sadly.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A bad person.
glosses: One who rides a bicycle furiously on a public highway.
Related terms: back of the net
wondergoal
schizo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪtsoʊ/
Forms: form: schizos
Etymology: Clipping of schizophrenic.
Senses: examples: text: "Lucky for you you aren't in one of our great public hospitals; they put the loonies next to the heroin addicts, and there's so much drug traffic in the wards that the poor schizos end up with bad habits."
ref: 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter IX, in The Satanic Verses, page 558:
glosses: Schizophrenic.
synonyms: word: basket case
word: basket weaver
word: crack
word: crackpot
word: crazy
word: crazyhead
word: dingbat
word: eccentric
word: fruit and nut case
word: fruit cake
word: fruit loop
word: fruitloop
word: head case
word: kook
word: loony
word: loony tune
word: lunatic
word: madcap
word: madhead
word: mental case
word: nut
word: nut ball
word: nutbar
word: nutburger
word: nutcase
word: nutjob
word: nutter
word: psycho
word: psychoceramic
word: schizo
word: screwball
word: space cadet
word: space pilot
word: unconventional
word: wackadoo
word: wackadoodle
word: wacko
word: whackjob
word: whacko
word: weirdo
word: wingnut
word: space case
glosses: A mad or crazy person.
Derived terms: Schizogram
schizo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪtsoʊ/
Forms: form: more schizo
form: most schizo
Etymology: Clipping of schizophrenic.
Senses: glosses: crazy, not of sound mind
conspicuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conspicuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Openness or exposure to the view; a state of being clearly visible.
glosses: The property of being clearly discernible by the mind; obviousness.
glosses: Eminence; celebrity; renown.
Synonyms: conspicuity
conspicuosity
book value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: book values
Senses: glosses: The value of an asset as reflected on an entity's accounting books, without accounting for appreciation or depreciation.
synonyms: book price
glosses: The price for which an item or service should be bought or sold, usually as related in a printed collection of prices for similar items or services.
Related terms: market value