cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sex change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex changes
Senses: glosses: A change in sex, either natural or artificial.
Synonyms: word: transexion
word: sex reassignment surgery
Derived terms: sex-change operation
clept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɛpt/
rhymes: -ɛpt
Forms: form: cleped
form: yclept
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clepe
ecclesiocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: ecclesiocracies
Etymology: From ecclesio- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: government by church leaders
Related terms: theocracy
hierocracy
engageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From engage + -able.
Senses: glosses: able to be engaged
eponymously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From eponymous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in an eponymous manner; as the title character of a book, etc.
complot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmˌplɒt/
ipa: /kəmˈplɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: complots
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).
Senses: examples: text: LOR. Now to confirme the complot thou hast cast
Of all these practices, Ile spread the watch,
Vpon precise commandement from the king
Strongly to guard the place where Pedringano
This night shall murder haples Serberine.
ref: c. 1582-1592, Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedie, Act 3, Scene 2:
text: AARON: […] / For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres,
Acts of black night, abominable deeds,
Complots of mischief, treason, villainies,
Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd: / […]
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: The young advertising agent stood against the fence in silent horror, his heart bumping heavily. His hands were clammy, his feet seemed to have grown larger and taken root. What damnable complot was this?
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 164:
glosses: A plot (involving more than one person), conspiracy
complot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmˌplɒt/
ipa: /kəmˈplɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: complots
form: complotting
form: complotted
form: complotted
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French complot (“crowd-, plot”).
Senses: examples: text: BOLINGBROKE. […] Besides, I say and will in battle prove,
Or here, or elsewhere to the furthest verge
That ever was survey'd by English eye,
That all the treasons for these eighteen years
Complotted and contrived in this land,
Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 1, scene 1]:
glosses: To plot together; conspire.
Derived terms: complotment
complotter
Related terms: plot
highwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highwaters
Etymology: From high + water.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of high water.
synonyms: word: high water
commonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A right to own land that is held in common between two or more people and under some servitudes.
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: Land.
Related terms: common
composture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɒst͡ʃə/
ipa: /kəmˈpɑst͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: compostures
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French composture (“compost”), from late Old French composture, possibly from Latin compositūra, compostūra (“composition”); equivalent to compost + -ure. Compare Portuguese compostura, Spanish compostura.
Senses: examples: text: The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement, each thing's a thief.
ref: 1607, Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act 4 Scene 3:
glosses: Compost, composted manure.
glosses: Composition, makeup, formation.
glosses: A kind of plaster.
kentledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kentledges
Etymology: From Old French quintelage (“ballast”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Weights (often scrap or pig iron) used as permanent ballast on ships.
examples: text: A kentledge of scrap chairs was placed in the bottom booms of the girders at the south end to counterbalance the weight of the rail rolling track fixed under the north half, and to increase stability.
ref: 1954 November, “Bridge Removal on the Alnwick to Coldstream Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 797:
glosses: A system of weights (usually concrete or cast-iron blocks) used for load-testing piled foundations.
fornicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fornicator
compunctious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compunctious
form: most compunctious
form: compunctuous
Etymology: From the stem of compunction + -ous; compare factious. Apparently taken up in modern use from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (see quotation).
Senses: examples: text: Come you Spirits,
That tend on mortall thoughts, vnſex me here,
And fill me from the Crowne to the Toe, top-full
Of direſt Crueltie: make thick my blood,
Stop vp th’acceſſe, and paſſage to Remorſe,
That no compunctious viſitings of Nature
Shake my fell purpoſe, nor keepe peace betweene
Th’effect, and hit.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 134, columns 1–2:
text: Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thoroughbred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle of evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil. It is no easy operation to eradicate humanity from the human breast. What Shakspeare calls “the compunctious visitings of nature” will sometimes knock at their hearts, and protest against their murderous speculations. But they have a means of compounding with their nature. Their humanity is not dissolved. They only give it a long prorogation.
ref: 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Noble Lord:
glosses: Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
wikipedia: Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Derived terms: compunctiously
compunctiousness
concupiscible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈkjuːpɪsɪbəl/
Forms: form: more concupiscible
form: most concupiscible
Etymology: From Middle English concupiscibill, concupiscibl, concupiscible, concupyscyble, concupyssible, from Middle French concupiscible and its etymon, Latin concupīscibilis.
Senses: examples: text: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.
ref: 1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXXVII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VI, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 146:
glosses: Greatly to be desired or lusted after; exciting concupiscence.
examples: text: He would not, but by gift of my chaste body / To his concupiscible intemperate lust, / Release my brother […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Perturbations and passions, which trouble the fantasy, though they dwell between the confines of sense and reason, yet they rather follow sense than reason because they are drowned in corporeal organs of sense. They are commonly reduced into two inclinations, irascible and concupiscible.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to concupiscence or lust; characterized by strong desire.
examples: text: The irascible and concupiscible appetites are distinguished by different aspects of their objects. The object of the concupiscible faculty "is sensible good or evil, simply apprehended as such" while good and evil considered as "arduous or difficult … is the object of the irascible faculty."
ref: 2015, Jeffrey Froula, “Aquinas on the Moral Neutrality of the Passion of Despair”, in New Blackfriars:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Relating to the concupiscible passions
Derived terms: concupiscibleness
abbaye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abbayes
Senses: examples: text: […] his coronation robes, &c. were deposited in the Abbaye; […]
ref: 1795, A History and Description of the Royal Abbaye of Saint Denis, page 71:
glosses: Archaic form of abbey.
morne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /moɹn/
ipa: [mo̞ɹn]
ipa: /mɔːn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: morn
homophone: mourn
homophone: mourne (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: mornes
Etymology: From Old French morne, morné, etc.
Senses: glosses: The blunt head of a jousting-lance.
glosses: A small, rounded hill.
morne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /moɹn/
ipa: [mo̞ɹn]
ipa: /mɔːn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: morn
homophone: mourn
homophone: mourne (horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: From Old French morne, morné, etc.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of morné.
morne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /moɹn/
ipa: [mo̞ɹn]
ipa: /mɔːn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: morn
homophone: mourn
homophone: mourne (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: mornes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of morn.
morne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /moɹn/
ipa: [mo̞ɹn]
ipa: /mɔːn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: morn
homophone: mourn
homophone: mourne (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: mornes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mourn.
morne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /moɹn/
ipa: [mo̞ɹn]
ipa: /mɔːn/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːɹn/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /mɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
homophone: morn
homophone: mourn
homophone: mourne (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: mornes
form: morning
form: morned
form: morned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mourn.
venger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vengers
Etymology: From Middle English venger, vengere, vengeour, vengeur, from Old French vengeor, vengeur. By surface analysis, venge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: His bleeding hart is in the vengers hand, / VVho ſtreight him rent in thouſand peeces ſmall, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 37:
text: And the hand of the venger shall never be stayed / Till his race, faith, and speech are a dream of the past
ref: 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Mutiny of the Mavericks:
glosses: Obsolete form of avenger.
Related terms: revenger
avenger
conjoined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conjoin + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: 1580s, Ovid, Elegia VI, Book I, translated by Christopher Marlowe, in Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems and Translations, Stephen Orgel (ed.), Penguin, 1971, p. 110,
And farewell cruel posts, rough threshold's block, / And doors conjoined with an hard iron lock!
text: Now envy and antipathy, passions irreconcilable in reason, nevertheless in fact may spring conjoined like Chang and Eng in one birth.
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XI.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 256:
text: Blood vessels are fused to increase circulation and these conjoined or grafted veins and arteries make great painful lumps which have to be soaked daily.
ref: 1982, Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, New York: Pocket Books, page 184:
text: These 'signatures' (in Arabic ‘alāmāt; singular, ‘alāma) typically consisted of a phrase of up to half a dozen conjoined words written as a monogram in which the reed pen usually maintained contact with the parchment throughout.
ref: 2009, Alex Metcalfe, chapter 10, in The Muslims of Medieval Italy, Edinburgh University Press, page 196:
glosses: Of persons (conjoined twins) or things: joined together physically.
examples: text: If either of you know any inward impediment why you ſhould not be conioyned, I charge you on your ſoules to vtter it.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signatures F3, recto – F3, verso:
text: O my lord / The glory of whose new state is hidden from us, / Pray for us of your charity; now in the sight of God / Conjoined with all the saints and martyrs gone before you, / Remember us.
ref: 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Part II, p. 83:
text: But as representatives of a loosely conjoined nation split in a hundred ways by personal, tribal, religious and economic rivalries and jealousies, no two of them went to the conference agreed on what independence should mean.
ref: 1957 June 3, “E Pluribus Nigeria”, in Time:
glosses: Joined or bound together; united (in a relationship).
examples: text: Their garb and stillness conjoined, present an uniformity, tranquil and herd-like—as in the pasture—"forty feeding like one."
ref: 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “A Quaker’s Meeting”, in Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 110:
text: I have seen another woman who, from taste and necessity conjoined, has gone into practical affairs, carries on a mechanical business, partly works at it herself, […]
ref: 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, Washington, D.C., page 45:
glosses: Combined.
Derived terms: conjoinedly
conjoined twin
nonconjoined
unconjoined
conjoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From conjoin + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conjoin
slaveholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slaveholders
Etymology: From slave + holder.
Senses: glosses: Someone who owns slaves.
Related terms: slaveholding
tombé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tombés
Etymology: From French tombé.
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A movement in which a dancer falls from one leg to the other while flexing the knee.
gouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaʊti/
ipa: [ˈɡaʊ̯ɾi]
Forms: form: goutier
form: goutiest
Etymology: From Middle English gowty; equivalent to gout + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When days and years proclaim you’re old —
 A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow,
Then for support you can lay hold
 O’ the upright of your umberella.
ref: 1893, David Herschell Edwards, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, volume 15, page 403:
text: He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576:
glosses: Suffering from gout.
Synonyms: gout-ridden
Derived terms: goutily
goutiness
gouty arthritis
gouty-handed
pseudogouty
ungouty
Dermot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛɹmət/
ipa: /ˈdɜːmət/
ipa: /ˈdɝmət/
Etymology: From Irish Diarmaid. Doublet of Jeremy.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
Related terms: Dermott
Diarmad
Diarmaid
Diarmid
Diarmuid
Kermit
steersman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪəz.mən/
ipa: /ˈstiɹz.mən/
ipa: /ˈstɪɹz.mən/
Forms: form: steersmen
Etymology: From steer + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat’s crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 53, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: The Indian canoe races were the most exciting of all the Regatta. Ten paddles dipped as one paddle, ten men bent as one man, while the steersman kept time for them with grunting bows.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Regatta”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One who steers a ship or other vessel; the helmsman.
Synonyms: sense: one who steers
word: helmsman
sense: one who steers
word: sternsman
Coordinate terms: sense: gender
word: steerswoman
Related terms: steer
Brennschlüsse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brennschluss
Aileen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Though her name was Aileen the minister drafted in continually referred to her as Eileen, but neither Louise nor the ramshackle bunch of people who regarded themselves as her mother's friends had bothered to correct him. Louise liked the way 'Eileen' made her mother seem like someone else altogether, a stranger and not her mother.
ref: 2006, Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn, Black Swan, published 2007, →ISBN, page age:
glosses: A female given name from Irish, variant of Eileen.
broadcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdˌklɒθ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔdˌklɔθ/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑdˌklɑθ/
Forms: form: broadcloths
Etymology: From broad + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
examples: text: The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
Derived terms: broadclothed
Related terms: kersey
poplin
selfsame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlfseɪm/
ipa: /ˌsɛlfˈseɪm/
ipa: /ˈsɛlfˌseɪm/
rhymes: (one RP pronunciation) -eɪm
Forms: form: selfsames
form: self same
form: self-same
Etymology: PIE word
 *swé
From Middle English self sam, self same, selve same (“the very same, selfsame”) [and other forms], from self (“that specific (person mentioned), herself, himself, itself, themselves”, pronoun) (from Old English self, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”)) + sam, same (“(adjective) equal, identical; unchanging; referred to earlier, abovenamed, aforementioned; (adverb) again, repeatedly”) (from Old Norse samr (“same; agreeing, of one mind”), ultimately probably from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”)). The English word is analysable as self + same.
Cognates
* Danish selvsamme (“identical, selfsame”)
* Old High German selbsama (“identical, selfsame”)
Senses: examples: text: I preſent vvhat here is to you, vvherein you ſhall receive but the ſelfeſame by Number and by Meaſure; vvhich, before, you had by VVeight.
ref: 1634, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Mildreiados. To the Blessed Memory of that Faire Manuscript of Vertue and Unblemisht Honour, Mildred, La[dy] Luckyn; […]. To My Honourable and Deare Friend, Sr William Luckyn, Baronet.”, in Divine Poems: […], revised edition, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for I[ohn] Marriot, […], →OCLC, page 518:
text: So ſtrictly is the Specific Nature preſerv'd in the Individuals of the ſame kind, vvho all equally partake of it, and are ſo very reſembling and uniform in it, that they ſeem but as ſo many Self-ſames, ſo many Reproductions of one thing, like the Image of the ſame Face repeated by a Multiplying Glaſs. Thus for Inſtance, in Men, there is the ſame common Human Nature in all of them vvithout Intenſion or Remiſſion, the ſame Intellectual Frame, the ſame thinking Principle, the ſame rational Faculties, the ſame Radical Deſires and Inclinations, the ſame Natural Affections, the ſame Springs of Paſſion, &c.
ref: 1701, John Norris, “The Reality of the Distinction Justifi’d, by Shewing that This is Not the Only State of Things, but that They Have an Ideal as Well as a Natural State”, in An Essay towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World. […], part I, London: […] [Samuel] Manship, […]; and W[illiam] Hawes, […], →OCLC, page 50:
glosses: Chiefly preceded by the: precisely the same person or thing.
ugliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She is the ugliest thing I've ever seen.
text: "Perry Barr was probably the ugliest station across the whole of the West Midlands, [...]" says West Midlands Mayor Andy Street.
ref: 2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 56:
glosses: superlative form of ugly: most ugly
indistinguishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌɪn.dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃə.bl̩]
Forms: form: more indistinguishable
form: most indistinguishable
Etymology: From in- + distinguishable.
Senses: examples: text: The banks of the old railway are now so thickly overgrown with trees as to be almost indistinguishable from the surrounding countryside, and the most obvious landmarks are the walls of a bridge over a lane, and stone bridge, still intact, where a cart road crosses the cutting, close to the site of the former Clifton South Junction.
ref: 1950 May, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “A Forgotten Junction in Westmorland”, in Railway Magazine, page 330:
text: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
ref: 1973, Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future (revised):
glosses: Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
glosses: Not capable of being perceived or known.
Derived terms: indistinguishableness
indistinguishably
Related terms: indistinguishability
indistinguishable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌɪn.dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃə.bl̩]
Forms: form: indistinguishables
Etymology: From in- + distinguishable.
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of things that cannot be distinguished.
naturalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naturalnesses
Etymology: From Middle English naturalnes, naturalnez, equivalent to natural + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being natural.
glosses: Of a picture or recording, likeness to the original.
Synonyms: naturality
grandsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandson
ylang ylang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ylang ylangs
form: ylang-ylang
form: ilang-ilang
Etymology: Via Early Modern Spanish, from Tagalog ilang-ilang, from either ilang (“wilderness”) or ilang-ilan (“rare”).
Senses: glosses: The fragrant flower of a tropical tree (Cananga odorata) native to southeast Asia.
examples: text: Essential oils such as jasmine, rose, vetiver, ilang-ilang, iris, vanilla, sandalwood or lavender cannot be synthesised in the laboratory.
ref: 2014 March 7, Nicole Vulser, “Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 190, number 13, page 30:
qualifier: perfumery
glosses: An essential oil derived from this flower used in aromatherapy and perfumes.
synonyms: cananga tree
glosses: The tree (Cananga odorata) on which ylang ylang flowers grow.
stateliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statelinesses
Etymology: From stately + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being stately
sourd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːrd/
Forms: form: sourds
form: sourding
form: sourded
form: sourded
form: sourde
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sourden, from Old French sourdre, from Latin surgō, contraction of earlier subrigō. Compare source. Doublet of surge.
Senses: examples: text: […]wherby at the last shuld have sourded discention amonge the people, they beinge seperately enclined towarde theyr naturall souerayne lorde[…]
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, “The Best Governance”, in Ernest Rhys, editor, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC, 1st book, page 11:
text: Foꝛ with the only be theſe welles of lyfe, / Of frayle men ſpring but podels of myꝛe, / From whom ſourdeth errour ⁊ croked ſtrife[…]
ref: 1560, “Pſalme. xxxvi”, in Matthew Parker, The whole Pſalter tranſlated into Engliſh metre […] , Iohn Daye, page 98:
text: Cornead. The ſpirit of foolery out of this Archibald Rupenrope he ſhall never be able to caſt, were the nectar of his eloquence a thouſand times more ſuperabundant, inceſſant ſourding.
ref: 1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 71:
glosses: To arise, issue or emerge; to give rise.
Barbadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: After having resided thirteen years in Barbadoes, he came to Philadelphia in 1731.
ref: 1815, [[w:Roberts Vaux|Vaux Roberts]], Memoirs of the Lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States: Solomon W. Conrad, page 20:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Barbados.
Cal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kæl/
Senses: glosses: A short form of the male given names Caleb, Calum or Calvin.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
glosses: University of California, Berkeley
glosses: California.
Derived terms: Cal king
Cal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kæl/
Forms: form: Cals
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Spanish Cal. This surname is mostly found in Guatemala.
* Borrowed from Polish Cal.
* Borrowed from Turkish Çal.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Cal-igang
Estelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈstɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: Borrowed from French Estelle, from Occitan estela (“star”), from Latin stēlla. Doublet of étoile, estoile, stella, and stelo. Name of a third century martyr.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French
prophetess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒfɪˈtɛs/
Forms: form: prophetesses
Etymology: From Middle English prophetesse, from Old French prophetesse, from Late Latin prophetissa. By surface analysis, prophet + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: What made matters worse was that Montanus was accompanied by female prophetesses who spoke in states of ecstasy.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 138:
glosses: A female prophet.
Tooting
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːtiŋ/
Etymology: Disputed. It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Totinges.
Senses: glosses: A suburban area in the borough of Wandsworth and borough of Merton, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2771).
Derived terms: Tooting Bec
Ariadne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.ɹiˌæd.ni/
ipa: /ˌæ.ɹiˈæd.ni/
Forms: form: Ariadnes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀριάδνη (Ariádnē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The daughter of King Minos of Crete and his queen, Pasiphae.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 43 Ariadne, a main belt asteroid.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: 43 Ariadne
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: ㊸
Related terms: Ariane
Ariarne
howsoever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaʊsoʊˈɛvəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: howsever
Etymology: From Middle English howsoevere, how-so-evere, how so evere. By surface analysis, how + so + ever.
Senses: examples: text: Howsoever they pleaded, their pleas went unheard.
glosses: Regardless of the way in which.
examples: text: The party to this agreement may use the property whensoever and howsoever he or she pleases.
glosses: In any manner whatsoever.
examples: text: Their evidence, howsoever true it may have been, was not believed.
glosses: To whatever degree or extent.
unpunished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + punished.
Senses: examples: text: Villa full-back Alan Hutton was perhaps fortunate to stay on the field when his two-footed challenge on Shane Long went unpunished by referee Phil Dowd.
ref: 2011 October 22, Sam Sheringham, “Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Not punished
Derived terms: no good deed ever goes unpunished
no good deed goes unpunished
unreserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reserved.
Senses: synonyms: nonreserved
coordinate_terms: undedicated
glosses: Not reserved.
raw_tags: of resources
examples: text: For the steam services, passengers with reserved seats are assembled behind the appropriate notice boards in the centre cab road, which is barred to motor traffic on summer Saturdays. Unreserved passengers line up behind other boards, which merely display destinations and not departure times.
ref: 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 263:
text: It cannot be right that someone who joins a train at 0800, having paid perhaps £200 for a single at the ticket office and who sits in an unreserved seat, can be removed from that seat at 1200 by someone who joins en route with a cheap Advance fare that he didn't even buy until 1100, and yet which came with a compulsory reservation. That turns our first passenger's seat from unreserved to reserved midway through the journey and is, to me, commercially immoral.
ref: 2020 July 15, Barry Doe, “Problems persist with Advance on the day”, in Rail, page 65:
synonyms: nonreserved
glosses: Not booked in advance: with no reservation.
raw_tags: of resources
Related terms: nonreservation
unreserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unreserve
cwt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cwt
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cwt. (“hundredweight”).
blades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪdz/
rhymes: -eɪdz
Senses: glosses: plural of blade
blades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪdz/
rhymes: -eɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blade
banners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banner
banners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of banner
calculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calculation
publications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of publication
soles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sole
glosses: plural of sol
soles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sole
misses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪsəz/
rhymes: -ɪsɪz
homophone: Misses
homophone: Mrs
Senses: glosses: plural of miss
coordinate_terms: junior
junior miss
women's
misses petite
junior petite
women's petite
petite
young junior
tall
half
glosses: A range of clothing sizes for women of average height and build.
Related terms: ladieswear
womenswear
misses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪsəz/
rhymes: -ɪsɪz
homophone: Misses
homophone: Mrs
Forms: form: misseses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of missus (Mrs).
misses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsɪz/
ipa: /ˈmɪsəz/
rhymes: -ɪsɪz
homophone: Misses
homophone: Mrs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miss
meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meter
meters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of meter
estimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estimate
decks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Senses: glosses: plural of deck
decks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛks/
rhymes: -ɛks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deck
mornings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning
mornings
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We are closed mornings.
glosses: Every morning.
mounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mound
mounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mound
marriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marriage
manuscripts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manuscript
Synonyms: mss
mss.
enterprises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛntɚˌpɹaɪzɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of enterprise
enterprises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛntɚˌpɹaɪzɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enterprise
elbows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.bəʊz/
ipa: /ˈɛl.boʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of elbow
elbows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛl.bəʊz/
ipa: /ˈɛl.boʊz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elbow
fortifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortification
miseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misery
journeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of journey
journeys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The team journeys to the Arctic Circle.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of journey
aspirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspiration
traitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traitor
traitors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of traitor
sheaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheave
glosses: plural of sheaf
realms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of realm
pioneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pioneer
pioneers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pioneer
pens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnz/
ipa: /pɪnz/
homophone: pins
rhymes: -ɛnz
rhymes: -ɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of pen
glosses: plural of penny
pens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnz/
ipa: /pɪnz/
homophone: pins
rhymes: -ɛnz
rhymes: -ɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pen
paws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːz/
ipa: /pɔːz/
ipa: /pɑːz/
homophone: pause
homophone: pores
homophone: pours (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔːz
rhymes: -ɑːz
Senses: glosses: plural of paw
Derived terms: Santa Paws
paws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɔːz/
ipa: /pɔːz/
ipa: /pɑːz/
homophone: pause
homophone: pores
homophone: pours (non-rhotic)
rhymes: -ɔːz
rhymes: -ɑːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paw
murders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murder
murders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of murder
investigations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of investigation
adventurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adventurer
prizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪzɪz/
rhymes: -aɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of prize
prizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪzɪz/
rhymes: -aɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prize
ambitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambition
alterations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alteration
ponies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pony
glosses: plural of poney
ponies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I wanted that car. Also, these things are crazy on the road. Front wheel suspension, tons of ponies, but best of all, it has a tape deck.
ref: 2016, Greg Universe, “Beach City Drift”, in Steven Universe:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Horsepower.
examples: text: My husband is forever throwing away money on the ponies.
text: Around here, back then, the mob ran both the ponies and the numbers. [two forms of gambling]
glosses: Horse racing or racehorses.
Protestants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Protestant
merging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of merge
merging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒɪŋ
Forms: form: mergings
Senses: glosses: The act, or the result, of being merged.
Derived terms: tail merging
multiplying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of multiply
multiplying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiplyings
Senses: glosses: An act of multiplication.
reciting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recite
reciting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recitings
Senses: examples: text: During these public recitings (and performances) of verse, an audience (sometimes a jury of experts and a lay audience) judges the performers.
ref: 2021, Hans-Peter Wagner, A History of British, Irish and American Literature, page 387:
glosses: A recitation.
repelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repel
repelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repellings
Senses: glosses: An act by which something is repelled; repulsion.
requesting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of request
restoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of restore
selecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of select
sharpening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sharpen
sharpening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharpenings
Senses: examples: text: There are flourishes and coloratura passages in this art, heightenings and sharpenings of the line that serve only to give the needy linear system a value of its own in confrontation with nature.
ref: 1970, Heinrich Wölfflin, Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, page 4:
glosses: The act by which something is sharpened.
glosses: The debris produced when a pencil is sharpened.
Derived terms: sharpening stone
slaughtering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slaughter
slaughtering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slaughterings
Senses: examples: text: Towards the end of each trial (approximately July), when the Hock had been markedly depleted by mortalities and the successive group slaughterings, the remaining animals were confined to one paddock.
ref: 1970, New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 13, number 1, page 129:
glosses: An act of slaughter; a killing.
squeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squeak
squeaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squeakings
Senses: examples: text: Then he paused a while, and Adrian seemed to hear certain strange squeakings proceeding from the walls.
ref: 1901, H. Rider Haggard, Lysbeth: A Tale of the Dutch:
glosses: A sound that squeaks.
homing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊmɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of home
Derived terms: homing pigeon
homing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊmɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ
Forms: form: more homing
form: most homing
Senses: examples: text: Watch out for the boss's last attack — the blue bullets are homing.
topics: video-games
glosses: That self-adjusts its trajectory to home in on a target; (of a weapon) shooting such projectiles.
raw_tags: of a projectile
homing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊmɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊmɪŋ
Derived terms: multihoming
retrohoming
Related terms: philopatry
outsourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌsɔː(ɹ).sɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outsource
outsourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌsɔː(ɹ).sɪŋ/
Forms: form: outsourcings
Senses: glosses: The transfer of a business function to an external service provider.
Coordinate terms: offshoring
Derived terms: homesourcing
open outsourcing
Related terms: botsourcing
crowdsourcing
witnessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of witness
witnessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witnessings
Senses: examples: false witnessings
glosses: The act of bearing witness.
lessening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lessen
lessening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lessenings
Senses: glosses: A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.
amounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmaʊntɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of amount
grappling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grăpʹ(ə-)lĭng
ipa: /ˈɡɹæp(ə)lɪŋ/
rhymes: -æplɪŋ
rhymes: -æpəlɪŋ
Forms: form: grapplings
Senses: examples: text: […] the Schoenberg is irresistible to young hearts in their initial grapplings with great questions of life, death, love and suffering.
ref: 2007 December 21, Bernard Holland, “Yielding to Youths Fierce Enthusiasms”, in New York Times:
glosses: An act in which something is grappled or grappled with.
raw_tags: of grapple
glosses: A grappling hook or grappling iron.
glosses: A small anchor; a grapnel.
Synonyms: word: handygripes
grappling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: grăpʹ(ə-)lĭng
ipa: /ˈɡɹæp(ə)lɪŋ/
rhymes: -æplɪŋ
rhymes: -æpəlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grapple
deviating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deviate
watering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterings
Senses: examples: text: The plants receive regular waterings.
glosses: An act of watering, i.e. pouring water on something, or diluting a liquid.
glosses: The art or process of giving a wavy, ornamental appearance to something.
watering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of water
Derived terms: eye-watering
mouth-watering
watering can
watering hole
intersecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intersect
conferring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confer
conferring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conferrings
Senses: examples: text: His critics ask him if he expects to prevent the conferees in the Conference from talking to one another in the Metropolitan Club and from then coming to the Conference's open sessions merely to register the results of their secret conferrings.
ref: 1921, Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association:
glosses: The act of one who confers.
heaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heap
heaping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Senses: examples: a heaping teaspoon of sugar
a heaping big bowl of ice cream; a heaping bowl of rice
glosses: Containing a heap (of something). (Compare heaped.)
heaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːpɪŋ
Derived terms: upheaping
aggravating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aggravate
aggravating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aggravating
form: most aggravating
Senses: examples: text: aggravating circumstances
antonyms: alleviating
extenuating
mitigating
glosses: That makes something worse.
glosses: Annoying.
Derived terms: aggravating factor
aggravatingly
unaggravating
virent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪɹənt/
Forms: form: more virent
form: most virent
Etymology: From Latin virens, present participle of virere (“to be green”).
Senses: examples: text: the roots of Canes, Bryony and other plants: for in these yet fresh and virent
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: green in color, or unwithered
Freddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛdi/
rhymes: -ɛdi
Forms: form: Freddie
Etymology: From Fred + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Frederick.
glosses: The city of Fredericton.
Derived terms: House That Freddy Built
ready as Freddy
ready like Freddy
Freddy Beach
singed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of singe
sacrificing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sacrifice
chasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chase
Derived terms: ambulance chasing
ballot chasing
bug-chasing
cloud chasing
diagram chasing
steeplechasing
chasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: chasings
Senses: examples: gold with chasings of silver
glosses: Engraved or embossed decoration.
enlarging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlarge
enlarging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enlargings
Senses: examples: text: They may think to improve the Scripture; but by their ennoblings they debase it, by their enrichings they impoverish it, by their enlargings they contract it.
ref: 1849, William Jay, Sermons:
glosses: The act of one who enlarges.