cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
esoterica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːsəˈtɛɹɪkə/
ipa: /ɛsɵˈtɛɹəkə/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪkə
Senses: examples: text: Helder was also a visionary given to muddled, passionate harangues on immortality, astral projection and other esoterica.
ref: 2002 May 20, “Luke Helder's Bad Trip”, in Time:
text: However, if you really want to try to communicate sophisticated things from your field to a general audience, really the best thing may be for you to simply do it yourself — to augment your skillset with the ability to take esoterica and translate it into an article or a video that lots of normal people will want to watch.
ref: 2020 December 21, Adam Ragusea, 28:15 from the start, in How I became the Mariah Carey Christmas chord guy (and why I hate it), archived from the original on 31 Jul 2024:
synonyms: arcanity
glosses: Things that are esoteric; things that are impractical or specialised.
Related terms: esoteric
exoteric
exoterica
specialised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more specialised
form: most specialised
Senses: examples: text: Second, a railway research department represents a qualified and specialised consultancy service, to provide the basis for well-informed high-level decisions regarding new designs or possible lines of development. [...] Finally, a research department is desirable to carry out the more specialised trials and testing of manufacturers' equipment prior to its acceptance by the operating personnel.
ref: 1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 92:
text: "Railways have to bear the very high fixed costs associated with the provision and maintenance of a specialised route system for their own exclusive use. [...]"
ref: 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376:
text: Specialised long-reach excavators with a clamshell grab then reach though the openings to lift the spoil to the surface, which is then deposited in articulated dump trucks (ADTs).
ref: 2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of specialized.
specialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of specialise
supercritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercritical
form: most supercritical
Etymology: From super- + critical.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a substance or system above a critical threshold or range.
Above its critical temperature and critical pressure.
raw_tags: of a fluid
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a substance or system above a critical threshold or range.
Having a mass sufficient to sustain an accelerating fission chain reaction.
raw_tags: of a fissile material
topics: aerodynamics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a substance or system above a critical threshold or range.
Above the speed of sound.
Derived terms: supercritical airfoil
supercritical drying
supercritical field
supercritical flow
supercritical fluid
supercriticality
supercritically
supercritical mass
supercritical reactor
supercritical wing
Related terms: hypercritical
noncritical
overcritical
ultracritical
uncritical
esotericism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esotericisms
Etymology: From esoteric + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.
ref: 2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257:
glosses: The tendency to promote or desire the esoteric.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge.
Related terms: esoterism
esotericist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esotericists
Etymology: From esoteric + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who appreciates, promotes or desires the esoteric.
appreciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appreciate
promotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of promote
superfluidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfluidities
Etymology: From super- + fluidity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The frictionless flow that is characteristic of a fluid with zero viscosity, especially liquid helium at temperatures near absolute zero.
Related terms: superfluid
Bose-Einstein condensate
frictionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From friction + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It would last many years because of its frictionless bearings.
text: A hard border is a real possibility, and a frictionless border is almost an oxymoron.
text: In the decade ahead, the story must be one of increasingly frictionless travel.
ref: 2021 May 19, Paul Stephen, “Our railway in RAIL's next 40 years: Jacqueline Starr”, in RAIL, number 931, page 40:
text: To her, adding AI into relationships “presupposes inadequacy” in them, and offers a sterile alternative: always saying the right thing, back and forth, frictionless forever.
ref: 2025 June 30, Adrienne Matei, “‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to lack of friction.
examples: text: "There can be no frictionless trade outside of the customs union and the single market," said Donald Tusk, president of the council of all 28 EU member states.
ref: 2018 March 1, Charles Riley, “Brexit dream of 'frictionless' trade with EU is dying”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Of a transaction or trade, without tariffs and non-tariff barriers.
Derived terms: frictionlessly
frictionlessness
superfluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superfluids
Etymology: From super- + fluid.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A substance, such as liquid helium, that exhibits superfluidity.
superfluid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + fluid.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting superfluidity.
supergranulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supergranulations
Etymology: From super- + granulation.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A large-scale system of convection cells covering the surface of the sun
Derived terms: supergranulation cell
remonstrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remonstrate
twitched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twitch
superheater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superheaters
Etymology: From superheat + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to all this, the fluidity of the steam itself was much increased by high superheat, usually achieved by means of the Houlet superheater. […] When the engine is working hard, the temperature of the steam is usually raised by the superheater to about 750° F.
ref: 1944 November and December, Lord Monkswell, “The French Four-Cylinder Compound Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 326:
glosses: A component of a boiler system that heats the steam above its saturation temperature to prevent it condensing, and in the case of a steam engine to improve its efficiency.
smoothing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smooth
smoothing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoothings
Senses: examples: text: For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
glosses: The act by which something is made smooth.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Monophthongization.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: creation of an approximating function that attempts to capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise or other fine-scale structures/rapid phenomena.
Derived terms: data smoothing
exponential smoothing
smoothing iron
trampling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trample
trampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tramplings
Senses: examples: text: The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up.
ref: 1895 October, Louis de Conte, translated by [Jean François Alden] [pseudonyms; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)], “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. […]”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XCI, number DXLV, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →ISSN, [book I], part II, chapter XVI, page 746, column 1:
glosses: The act of trampling someone or something, an instance of trampling.
Synonyms: word: calcation
safest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of safe: most safe
saturation temperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saturation temperatures
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The boiling point of a liquid.
performs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perform
peopled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: populated
glosses: manned
Derived terms: underpeopled
unpeopled
peopled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of people
peopling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Derived terms: underpeopling
peopling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of people
superluminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + luminal.
Senses: examples: text: The first thing to understand about superluminal expansion is that it isn't visible to the unaided eye. The objects that appear to be moving faster than light are emitting radio waves, not visible light.
ref: 1984, Edward Edelson, “Faster than light?”, in Popular Science, retrieved 20 Nov 2013, page 70:
topics: astronomy
fantasy
fiction
literature
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
glosses: Faster than light; having a speed greater than light.
Synonyms: word: FTL
word: superlumic
word: hyperlight
english: faster than the speed of causality
translation: faster than the speed of causality
word: supercausal
Derived terms: superluminal communication
superluminality
superluminally
superluminal motion
superluminal particle
superluminal radio source
Related terms: luminal
subluminal
superluminous
supersonic
supermassive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supermassive
form: most supermassive
Etymology: From super- + massive.
Senses: examples: text: supermassive SVBIED
text: supermassive black hole
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
glosses: Extremely massive; of extraordinary mass.
Derived terms: supermassive black hole
supermassive star
conclusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conclusively
form: most conclusively
Etymology: From conclusive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Once the final experiment had been performed, the theory was conclusively proved.
text: I need not extend the subject any farther; enough has been said , and much more might be, if necessary, to prove clearly and conclusively that the odontotechny of the Greeks and Romans was advanced to a considerable degree of perfection: […]
ref: 1829, Samuel Sheldon Fitch, A System of Dental Surgery, page 14:
text: […] which conclusively prove the enormous superiority of the Sumerian over the Egyptian weaponsmithy.
ref: 1928, H. R. Hall, The Civilization of Greece in the Bronze Age:
glosses: In a conclusive manner; with finality.
Derived terms: conclusively presumed
mightier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪtiə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mighty: more mighty
meditative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meditative
form: most meditative
Etymology: From Middle French méditatif.
Senses: examples: text: Yoga is a meditative practice.
glosses: Of or pertaining to meditation.
examples: text: After hearing the news he became meditative.
glosses: Thoughtful; pensive.
Derived terms: meditatively
meditativeness
premeditative
unmeditative
Related terms: meditate
meditation
meditator
supermultiplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermultiplets
Etymology: From super- + multiplet.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A set of quantum mechanical states, each of which has the same value for a certain quantum number (or numbers) but different values for another related one
sporangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spəˈɹænd͡ʒɪəm/
Forms: form: sporangia
Etymology: From Late Latin sporangium, from Ancient Greek σπορά (sporá, “seed”) + ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: Scientific explanations include that exposure to light, lack of moisture or absence of food can cause sporangia to form from the plasmodium. At least one of these three conditions has been present every time I've seen sporangia form.
ref: 1993, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method: Over 100 Hands-on Science Experiments for Children, page 81:
text: Asexual reproduction by the production of a bud in place of a sporangium is not uncommon.
ref: 2000, Peter R. Bell, Alan R. Hemsley, Green Plants: Their Origin and Diversity, page 161:
text: The sporangia, however, are much larger: 3–4 mm long 0.7–1.1 mm in diameter versus only 1–1.5 mm long 0.5–0.8 mm in Corynepteris, and are characteristically banana shaped with a pair of elongate annuli.
ref: 2009, Edith L. Taylor, Thomas N. Taylor, Michael Krings, Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, page 416:
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
synonyms: sporange
spore case
theca
capsule
glosses: A case, capsule, or container in which spores are produced by an organism.
Derived terms: ascosporangium
basidiosporangium
clinosporangium
endosporangium
eusporangium
leptosporangium
macrosporangium
megasporangium
microsporangium
oosporangium
sporangiogenesis
sporangiophore
teliosporangium
tetrasporangium
zygosporangium
Related terms: spore
sporange
sporangin
synangium
lashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lash
lashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /læʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Forms: form: more lashed
form: most lashed
Senses: examples: 2007, Stephen Drake, A Cry For Ever
"Well," continued Edward, "they were carrying tins and, from what I could tell, were already totally lashed."
"Right," said Charlie.
"I wouldn't have it," said Edward, "if my daughter was there, I wouldn't want that lot drinking all night."
glosses: Drunk.
microsporangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsporangia
Etymology: From micro- + sporangium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A case, capsule or container that holds microspores.
Related terms: sporangium
macrosporangium
megasporangium
microspore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microspores
Etymology: From micro- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: megaspore
glosses: The smaller spore of a heterosporous plant, typically producing a male gametophyte.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the numerous tiny spore-like elements produced through the encystment and subdivision of many monads.
Derived terms: microsporic
microsporogenesis
Related terms: megaspore
mesospore
awesome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.səm/
ipa: /ˈɔ.səm/
ipa: /ˈɑ.səm/
Forms: form: orsum
Etymology: From awe + -some; compare earlier awful and Middle English eiful (“inducing fright or terror, terrible”), from Old English eġeful (“fearful; inspiring awe”).
The oldest meaning of awesome is of “something which inspires awe”, but the word is now also a common colloquial expression. It was originally so used in the United States, where it had featured strikingly in the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, as used by Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to describe the "awesome" industrial potential of the United States. Consequently, as the word popularly became an expression for anything superb, in its original meaning it has tended to be replaced by the related word, awe-inspiring.
Senses: examples: text: pure awesome
text: made of awesome
text: Plus, her patent leather boots were made of awesome. They made her legs look longer and leaner.
ref: 2011, Gwen Hayes, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Samhain Publishing, Ltd., published 2011, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Swayze, of course, is the being of pure awesome who has by now conquered all of Heaven.
ref: 2011, Kevin Seccia, Punching Tom Hanks: Dropkicking Gorillas and Pummeling Zombified Ex-Presidents—A Guide to Beating Up Anything, St. Martin's Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 189:
text: “Your grandmother,” he mumbles into my hair as we cuddle on the couch, “is made of awesome.”
ref: 2013, Carrie Jones, Captivate, Bloomsbury, published 2010, →ISBN, page 150:
synonyms: word: awesome sauce
antonyms: word: fail
word: shit
word: weaksauce
glosses: Clipping of awesomeness (“the quality, state, or essence of being awesome”).
examples: text: When an awesome is dreadful and making even the living of a common person miserable then someone from the community must stand up to resist the dreadful and check the excesses.
ref: 2012, Qamrul Khanson, Psychological Healing: An Islamic Thought of Intellectual Fitness, page 123:
text: “Or as I like to think of it, the wusses versus the awesomes.”
ref: 2019, Yvonne Lindsay, Jessica Lemmon, Katherine Garbera, Harlequin Desire October 2019:
glosses: A person who is awesome.
insinuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insinuate
negotiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of negotiate
humbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmblɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: humblers
Etymology: From humble + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] the unravellers of cunning, the investigators of artifice, the humblers of pride, and the scourgers of oppression […]
ref: August 1, 1824, Sydney Smith, The Lawyer that Tempted Christ (sermon)
glosses: One who humbles.
examples: text: Mistress Desiree removed the ball crusher and then selected the humbler. Telling him to bend over so she could apply this sweet looking device.
ref: 2023, Sandra Wild, Lustful Whispers: Forbidden Passions Ignite:
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A physical restraint that clamps around the base of the scrotum and prevents straightening of the legs.
humbler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmblɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmblə(ɹ)
Etymology: From humble + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of humble: more humble
cacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈkɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: cacologies
Etymology: From caco- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: My lord's sayings and doings are most amusing. As I mentioned his cacology, I will give you a sample. His second wife took great pains to improve him, but in vain. When he came here under her tutelage, she watched his words, and always corrected him, even before company. One day, being asked to take some lunch, he declined, saying ‘I have been eating selvedges all day.’ My Lady, correcting, said, ‘Sandwiches, my Lord.’ He replied, ‘Ah, my Lady, I wish you'd be quiet, you're always rebuting me.’
ref: 1867 May 25, "Social Siftings", Charles Dickens (editor), All the Year Round, No. 422, p. 526 (Google preview)
glosses: Poor diction or choice of words.
Related terms: caconym
superposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uː.pə(ɹ).pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /ˌsu.pɚ.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
ipa: /ˌsʉː.pə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
ipa: [ˌsïɯ.pə.pəˈzɪʃ.ən]
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: superpositions
Etymology: From French superposition.
Senses: synonyms: supraposition#Noun
superimposition#Noun
glosses: The placing of one thing on top of another.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The deposition of one stratum over another; the principle that in a series of sedimentary strata, the lower strata are the older.
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: The situation in quantum mechanics where two or more quantum states are added together (superposed) to yield another valid quantum state.
Derived terms: superposition calculus
superposition eye
superposition integral
superposition in time
superposition principle
superposition property
superposition theorem
Related terms: word: superpose
supersaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersaturations
Etymology: From super- + saturation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The condition of a solution being more highly concentrated than is normally possible.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the condition of a vapour having a higher saturation vapour pressure than is normally possible.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The condition of a solution of gases in a tissue having a higher concentration in terms of sum of partial pressures than the ambient pressure.
Derived terms: desupersaturation
Related terms: supersaturated
saturation vapour pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saturation vapour pressures
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of saturation vapor pressure.
susceptance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: susceptances
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the imaginary component of the admittance of an alternating current circuit
Related terms: conductance
Fifth Amendment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The fifth amendment to the United States Constitution, which covers several rights, but is used most often quoted regarding the right against self-incrimination.
Synonyms: sense: Fifth amendment to US Constitution
word: Fifth
Related terms: take the fifth
plead the fifth
swim bladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swim bladders
form: swim-bladder
form: swimbladder
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: air bladder
gas bladder
glosses: A gas-filled sac within the bodies of most fish that variously acts as a float, lung, sound-producing organ or an aid to hearing.
raw_tags: of fish
asthmatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asthmatic
striding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English strydyng, stridende, strydand, from Old English strīdende, from Proto-Germanic *strīdandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *strīdaną (“to endeavour; stand tall; withstand; take long steps”), equivalent to stride + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stride
striding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: stridings
Etymology: From Middle English strydynge, equivalent to stride + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: How broad, amid those pines, the torch-flame red / Flings its dark flashes; and those steps, that fall, / Heavy, and slow, no voice amid their call, / Sound, like the giant-stridings of the dead!
ref: 1804, Thomas Brown, Poems, page 191:
glosses: The act of one who strides; a long step.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A technique for propelling forward that appears similar to walking, where a foot slides forward on the opposite side of a pole being planted to provide a location to apply force.
Synonyms: classic striding
striding technique
Coordinate terms: skating
double poling
asthma attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asthma attack
rippling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ripple
rippling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Moving in a chaotic, undulating fashion, as in a flow of water or a flag blowing in the wind.
rippling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripplings
Senses: examples: text: And if there is a serious connection between the fragmented Close close-up portraits that are among the backdrops and the sometimes Chopin-like, thinly pretty ripplings of Mr. Glass's music, Mr. Elo's choreography does not point them out on a first viewing.
ref: 2007 October 29, Alastair Macaulay, “An Ephemeral Portrait of an Artist in a Hall of Mirrors”, in New York Times:
glosses: A motion or sound that ripples.
comprehending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more comprehending
form: most comprehending
Senses: glosses: Understanding.
Derived terms: comprehendingly
incomprehending
noncomprehending
uncomprehending
comprehending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comprehend
meditating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of meditate
inflicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inflict
surging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ
Forms: form: surgings
Senses: glosses: The action or an instance of a surge.
surging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of surge
exhausting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exhausting
form: most exhausting
Etymology: From exhaust + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This task is exhausting!
synonyms: word: draining
word: tiresome
word: draining
word: exhausting
word: exhaustive
word: fatiguing
word: tiresome
word: tiring
word: weariful
word: wearing
word: wearisome
word: weary
glosses: Very tiring.
Derived terms: exhaustingly
exhaustingness
exhausting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From exhaust + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exhaust
despising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despise
despising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: despisings
Senses: glosses: An act of despising.
conceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kənˈsiːvɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conceive
conceiving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈsiːvɪŋ/
Forms: form: conceivings
Senses: examples: text: mere names that are put into our mouths, without any true conceivings of the things which they signify
ref: 1650, Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest:
glosses: Conception.
fumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fumble
fumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumblings
Senses: examples: text: From the beginning her mini-campaign, with its many missteps and fumblings, seem mired in confusion.
ref: 2009 January 25, Sam Tanenhaus, “A Fumbled Handoff of the Torch”, in New York Times:
glosses: An instance of clumsiness, especially of the hands or fingers.
awaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of awake
awaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: awakings
Senses: glosses: Synonym of awakening.
synonyms: word: awakening
Derived terms: unawaking
saluting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of salute
saluting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salutings
Senses: glosses: The act of giving a salute.
regaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of regain
regaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regainings
Senses: examples: text: We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.
ref: 1842, The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, page 339:
text: The left knee is placed as far back and as near the median line as possible; the spine is strongly bent to the right. The creeping consists of forward locomotion by a series of reversals and regainings of the position described.
ref: 1926, Samuel Kleinberg, Scoliosis: Rotary Lateral Curvature of the Spine, page 194:
glosses: The act by which something is regained.
recommending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recommend
witching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more witching
form: most witching
Etymology: From Middle English wicching, wicchand, equivalent to witch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis the witching time of night, / Orbed is the moon and bright, / And the Stars they glisten, glisten, / Seeming with bright eyes to listen.
ref: a. 1822 (date written), John Keats, “[Supplementary Verses.] A Prophecy: To George Keats in America.”, in [Horace Elisha Scudder], editor, The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats, Cambridge edition, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], published 1899, →OCLC, page 249, column 1:
glosses: Of or pertaining to witchcraft or sorcery, or to witches or sorcerers.
glosses: Of a person: having the power to bewitch someone or something.
examples: text: But who is this witching beauty by his side, who would fain impress you with a belief that that mischief which will not remain concealed for the briefest period, is not her entire composition?
ref: 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
glosses: Bewitching, enchanting.
Derived terms: triple witching hour
witching hour
witching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English wicching, wicchand, equivalent to witch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of witch
witching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witchings
Etymology: From Middle English wicchinge, from Old English wiċċung (“witching, witchcraft”), equivalent to witch + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: There was a lot of information to draw upon because his occupation exposed him to more witchings every month than most individuals experienced in a life time.
ref: 2002, Christine Gentry, When Spirits Walk, page 28:
glosses: gerund of witch: an act of witchcraft.
Derived terms: quadruple witching
triple witching
water witching
professing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of profess
pissing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of piss
pissing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: pissings
Senses: examples: text: […] the house reeked of her mother's territorial pissings; I couldn't even take a piss in my own fucking bathroom without smelling the offensive stench of this possible mother-in-law […]
ref: 2007, McDago Kraut, Betwixt the Shit & Bliss, There Lies Pabusa Within, page 176:
glosses: An act of urination.
Derived terms: pissing contest
pissing match
pissing post
pissing war
territorial pissing
pissing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪsɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: I can't get this pissing computer to work.
glosses: An intensifier used to express dislike of or annoyance towards the thing mentioned.
booming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Forms: form: more booming
form: most booming
Senses: examples: text: The power of China's booming economy continues to stun the world.
glosses: Experiencing a period of prosperity, or rapid economic growth.
examples: text: He was asked to be MC at the function on account of his booming voice.
glosses: Loud and resonant.
examples: text: The truth panic had the unwelcome side-effect of emboldening those it sought to oppose. “Fake” was one of Trump’s favourite slap-downs, especially to news outlets that reported unwelcome facts about him and his associates. A booming Maga media further amplified the president’s lies and denials.
ref: 2025 October 2, William Davies, “A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Delivered with aggressive loudness; blaring; vociferous.
Synonyms: sense: loud, resonant
word: remugient
word: resounding
word: sonorous
Derived terms: boomingly
booming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boom
booming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Forms: form: boomings
Senses: examples: text: Heavy boomings of a dull deep bell.
ref: 1825, Felicia Hemans, The Forest Sanctuary:
text: The fleet of several dozen cars pulled into East Austin’s Fiesta Gardens, or “Chicano Park” as locals call it, on a recent weekend with the booming of powerful stereo systems announcing their arrival.
ref: 2021 March 23, Peter Holley, “They Just Moved Into an Austin Neighborhood. Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions.”, in Texas Monthly:
glosses: A deep hollow or roaring sound.
obstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obstructing
form: most obstructing
Derived terms: nonobstructing
obstructingly
obstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obstruct
intruding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intrude
intruding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrudings
Senses: examples: text: […] he rose and adjusted his alarm-clock, so that it would emphatically repeat the hour of five. Then to bed again, and driving off all intrudings of thoughtfulness, and resolutely bending himself to slumber, he by-and-by fell into its […] arms.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
glosses: intrusion
inhaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inhale
inhaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inhalings
Senses: examples: text: Smoking was difficult, I had to have perfect timing, sticking my head as far out the tiny porthole as I could, and timing my puffs to the inhalings and exhalings of the ship.
ref: 2001, Frederick Alan Casemore, Skylarks: For Myself, Lest I Forget, Or Die Unsung, page 171:
glosses: inhalation
authorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of authorize
ripening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripenings
Senses: glosses: The process of becoming ripe.
Derived terms: Ostwald ripening
ripening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ripen
pitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: As the pilot fought the hijackers for control the aeroplane was pitching wildly.
glosses: present participle and gerund of pitch
Related terms: pitching a tent
pitching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: pitchings
Senses: examples: text: wild pitching in baseball
glosses: The act of throwing or casting.
examples: text: All this testifies to that yearning for green fields and rural sports which a life amidst bricks, pavements and pitching-stones
ref: c. 1874, Henry Mayhew, London Characters:
glosses: The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
Derived terms: defense-independent pitching statistics
pitching piece
pitching wedge
draining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drain
draining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: more draining
form: most draining
Senses: examples: text: The author of this experiment has constructed, and uses a draining wheel of cast iron, that weighs about 4 cwt .
ref: 1834, John Johnstone, A Systematic Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Draining Land, page 136:
text: The mole-plough as a draining machine can never be of much utility in a country like Scotland, where alluvial deposits, though not deficient in extent, are characterized more by the abundance of stony matter than of clay in the subsoil; it is only in the few carses that such clays occur as would suit the mole plough.
ref: 1847, Henry Stephens, A Manual of practical Draining, page 128:
text: We made a draining rack in a few odd minutes which saved considerable time over the common method of tying in sacks.
ref: 1917, R. W. Smith, “Making Pimento Cheese”, in The Agricultural Student, volume 24, page 89:
text: A brush support and wiping device comprising a vertical-walled skirt adapted to surround the upper periphery of a container, a draining ledge connected to the upper area of said skirt near the edge thereof and extending inwardly and downwardly therefrom at an angle of from approximately two to approximately six degrees from the horizontal , . . .
ref: 1960, Edwin L. Kappel, “2941692: Brush Rest and Wiper for Paint Can”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 769:
glosses: Designed and/or used for drainage.
examples: text: I was very tired; working everyday and then staying at the hospital was very draining.
ref: 2010, Lori Wharton, Tranquility and Silence, page 46:
text: He was in the luxurious position of not having to hunt for girls—a process he finds very draining.
ref: 2017, Karin Bodewits, You Must Be Very Intelligent: The PhD Delusion, page 153:
text: Not every space is going to energise you, but if you work on looking after yourself more, the tolerance levels for spaces which you found more draining will increase.
ref: 2024, Josh Smith, Great Chat:
synonyms: word: tiresome
word: wearing
word: draining
word: exhausting
word: exhaustive
word: fatiguing
word: tiresome
word: tiring
word: weariful
word: wearing
word: wearisome
word: weary
glosses: Causing a depletion of energy or resources; exhausting.
Derived terms: drainingly
draining-well
lifedraining
nondraining
draining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹeɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: drainings
Senses: glosses: The practice of exploring drains, tunnels, or sewers.
glosses: The process by which something is drained or emptied.
glosses: The liquid drained from something.
Derived terms: draining board
excusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excuse
excusing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excusings
Senses: examples: text: "I was fond of her," he insisted dully. "She suffered a lot on account of me." The words dropped to me through immeasurable cold space. I believe there were more explanations, excusings.
ref: 1985, Mary Hunter Austin, A Woman of Genius, page 138:
glosses: The act of making an excuse.
enforcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enforce
divining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divinings
Senses: examples: text: We took a long stroll through the lamp-lit streets, talking of the blessed hopes that struggled in our bosoms; of the faint divinings of the future; told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion.
ref: 1857, Martha Griffith Browne, Autobiography of a Female Slave, page 347:
glosses: The action of the verb to divine in any sense.
Derived terms: divining rod
water divining
divining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That or who divines (in any sense of the verb).
Derived terms: all-divining
ill-divining
diviningly
undivining
divining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of divine
skipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skip
skipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skippings
Senses: examples: text: Suppose we permit irregular skippings and connect, for example, 1 with 3 with 6 with 2 with 4 – but now we cannot skip any more because the only missing point is the adjacent point 5.
ref: 2008, Manfred Schroeder, Number Theory in Science and Communication, page 143:
glosses: The act by which something is skipped or omitted.
glosses: The game, activity, or exercise of jump rope.
Derived terms: French skipping
stone skipping
consoling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consoling
form: most consoling
Senses: glosses: Reducing grief, sorrow, or disappointment; comforting.
Derived terms: consolingly
nonconsoling
unconsoling
consoling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of console
consoling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consolings
Senses: glosses: The act by which somebody is consoled.
brimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brim
brimming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪmɪŋ
Senses: examples: a brimming cup of coffee
glosses: Full to the brim.
Derived terms: brimmingly
overbrimming
unbrimming
balancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of balance
balancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balancings
Senses: examples: text: In other places of the holy writings the Almighty is described as weighing the mountains in scales, making the weight for the winds, knowing the balancings of the clouds; and, in others, as weighing the actions of men, and laying their calamities together in a balance.
ref: 1886, Ministry of Education, The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886:
text: And he locked her up all day in her room doing her balancings, the boomerang on the front wheel, the standstill on the back-wheel, or the bike upside down, with Lily standing on the pedals, like a convict on the tread-mill.
ref: 1909, Andre Castaigne, The Bill-Toppers:
text: But she had been reading deeply of the Alps, and in all the histories of mountain exploits which she had read, of climbs up vertical cracks in sheer walls of rocks, balancings upon ridges sharp as a knife edge, crawlings over smooth slabs with nowhere to rest the feet or hands, it was the ice-slope which had most kindled her imagination.
ref: 1907, A. E. W. Mason, Running Water:
glosses: An action wherein someone balances or something is balanced
Hyponyms: self-balancing
Derived terms: autobalancing
balancing act
osmobalancing
zero balancing
tilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tilt
tilting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiltings
Senses: glosses: The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
glosses: The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
examples: text: […] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.
ref: 1841, Joseph Hewlett, Theodore Edward Hook, The Parish Clerk (volume 1, page 59)
glosses: A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.
tilting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the property that it is the quotient of a projective module by a projective submodule, having an ext functor with itself of 0, and there being a right module as the kernel of a surjective morphism between finite direct sums of its direct summands.
Derived terms: non-tilting
choux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chou
inspected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inspect
bequeathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bequeath
bawdy-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bawdy-houses
form: bawdy house
form: bawdyhouse
Senses: examples: text: 1980, Stew Newton, "Think About I!!", pamphlet reproduced in 1981, Feb 14, Alexander Wilson, "The New Right Attacks Childhood Sexuality: A Canadian Perspective", in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 7.
Yet Sewell can publicly embrace a homosexual like George Hislop who helps to run a bawdy house for men and is a candidate for alderman in Ward 6.
text: The spread of venereal disease slaughtered innocent wives and families by the thousands; the plague of bawdy houses destroyed the peace and livelihood of honest citizens.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 57:
glosses: A brothel; a house of prostitution.
Derived terms: bawdy-house bottle
modelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: modeled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of modeled.
modelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: modeled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of model
bawdyhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bawdyhouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bawdy-house.
classed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of class
Derived terms: multiclassed
unclassed
censured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more censured
form: most censured
Senses: glosses: Having been blamed or criticized for wrongdoing.
Derived terms: uncensured
censured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of censure
bribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹaɪbd/
rhymes: -aɪbd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bribe
affixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪkst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affix
affixed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkst
Forms: form: more affixed
form: most affixed
Senses: glosses: Enduringly stuck to, or attached to, something.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: With an affix.
Derived terms: affixedness
unaffixed
fostered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foster
sketched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɛtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sketch
outlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: containing an outline
Derived terms: unoutlined
outlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outline
stiffened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stiffen
equalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of equal
equalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Matched; found comparable.
Derived terms: unequalled
grumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grumble
tripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trip
prospered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prosper
propped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prop
overflowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overflow