cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
swither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪðə/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swithers
form: swether
form: swidder
Etymology: From Middle English *swithren, from Old Norse sviðra (“to burn, singe”). Related to Middle English swithen (“to burn, scorch, singe”), from Old Norse svíða (“to burn”).
Senses: glosses: A great heat; a scorching, singeing
glosses: Sweating.
swither
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪðə/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swithers
form: swithering
form: swithered
form: swithered
Etymology: First attested in 1501; of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: To be indecisive or in a state of confusion; to dither.
examples: text: He was filling his pipe, staring at his picture, not her, and this tacit dismissal allowed her to sidle over to the bank higher up, and there swither her legs about in the water before coming out of it.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 51:
glosses: To move or swing about.
swither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪðə/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: swithers
Etymology: First attested in 1501; of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: Bradly came bristling to the lagoon the following afternoon, in a swither of alarm and expectation.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: A state of indecision or confusion; a panicked state; a flap, fluster, or dither.
iridescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more iridescently
form: most iridescently
Etymology: From iridescent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an iridescent manner.
Related terms: iridescent
iridescence
iridesce
luminescently
fluorescently
iridescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈdɛs.əns/
rhymes: -ɛsəns
Forms: form: iridescences
Senses: glosses: The condition or state of being iridescent; exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; a prismatic play of color.
glosses: Any shimmer of glittering and changeable colors.
Related terms: iridescent
iridescently
iridesce
luminescence
fluorescence
poesy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊɪzi/
ipa: /ˈpoʊɪzi/
Forms: form: poesies
form: poesie
form: poësy
Etymology: From Middle English poesie, from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poesia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis). Doublet of poiesis.
Senses: glosses: A poem.
glosses: The art or composition of poetry.
examples: text: I know not well how to excuse him, in that hee deemed his Poesie worthy to be published.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: We know a poetical young gentleman—a very poetical young gentleman. We do not mean to say that he is troubled with the gift of poesy in any remarkable degree, but his countenance is of a plaintive and melancholy cast, his manner is abstracted and bespeaks affliction of soul:[…]
ref: 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: poetry
verse
glosses: The class of literature comprising poems.
Derived terms: poesiless
posy
poesy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊɪzi/
ipa: /ˈpoʊɪzi/
Forms: form: poesies
form: poesying
form: poesied
form: poesied
form: poesie
form: poësy
Etymology: From Middle English poesie, from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poesia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis). Doublet of poiesis.
Senses: glosses: To write or perform poetry.
shimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shimmers
form: shimmering
form: shimmered
form: shimmered
Etymology: From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern.
Senses: examples: text: 1581, John Studley (translator), Medea, Act 4, in Seneca his Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, p. 135,
With dusky shimmering wanny globe, her lampe doth pale appeare
text: The shimmering glimpses of a stream
ref: 1850, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, 3rd edition, London: Edward Moxon, Conclusion, p. 173:
text: I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered.
ref: 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1973, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 339:
text: Pale tourists, tired but excited, emerge like apparitions from the heat haze that shimmers over the tarmac.
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 22, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press:
synonyms: twinkle
sparkle
glisten
glimmer
glosses: To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly.
glosses: Of a mass of bees: to move their abdomens in a coordinated manner so as to produce a shimmering wave effect, thought to deter predators.
Derived terms: ashimmer
shimmerer
shimmer stick
shimmery
shimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shimmers
Etymology: From Middle English schimeren, from Old English sċymrian, sċimrian, sċimerian, from Proto-Germanic *skimarōną. Cognate with Dutch schemeren, German schimmern.
Senses: examples: text: I shut the closet, to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter X, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 254:
text: The hives […] were scattered towards the back of the clearing, like small mounds of clean vegetable refuse. Over each mound there hung a dusty golden shimmer of bees.
ref: 1922, Katherine Anne Porter, “María Concepción”, in Flowering Judas and Other Stories, New York: The Modern Library, published 1940, page 6:
text: He’d aimed film lamps at the rectangular pools, which sent reflections up the gallery wall in veined and fractured shimmers.
ref: 2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 16, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Vintage, published 2014, page 294:
synonyms: glimmer
glosses: A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
examples: text: As such, perturbation measures can only be derived from vowels, most accurately, sustained vowels or steady-state portions of vowels extracted from connected speech. Two commonly obtained perturbation measures are jitter and shimmer.
ref: 2010, Daniel R. Boone, The Voice and Voice Therapy, Pearson College Division, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
coordinate_terms: jitter
glosses: A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.
shimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪm.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʃɪm.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: shimmers
Etymology: From shim + -er.
Senses: qualifier: crime
glosses: A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip.
Coordinate terms: shimming
skimmer
skimming
iridesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪɹ.ɪˈdɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: iridesces
form: iridescing
form: iridesced
form: iridesced
Etymology: Back-formation from iridescent.
Senses: glosses: To be iridescent; to exhibit iridescence.
Related terms: iridescence
iridescently
luminesce
fluoresce
prismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪzˈmætɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more prismatic
form: most prismatic
form: prismatick
Etymology: From French prismatique.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms.
glosses: Separated or distributed by, or as if by, a transparent prism; formed by a prism; varied or brilliant in color.
Synonyms: sense: varied in color
word: motley
word: multicolored
word: polychromatic
Derived terms: antiprismatic
aprismatic
diprismatic
gigantoprismatic
interprismatic
microprismatic
nacroprismatic
nonprismatic
prismatical
prismatically
prismatic coefficient
prismatic colors
prismatic colours
prismatic compass
prismatic powder
subprismatic
ireful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ireful
form: most ireful
Etymology: From Middle English ireful; equivalent to ire + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Deeply angered but not outwardly displaying it; full of ire; angry; wroth.
examples: text: ... ireful clouds collect in stern array, / And bursting thunders speak the mighty fray;
ref: 1845, Charles Hood, Gonzalvo, Or, The Fall of Grenada, page 30:
text: ... ireful crimson sky, as he gropes his broken way home after the trial.
ref: 1921, Paul Green, The Drama Magazine ..., page 91:
text: ... ireful clouds, as foreboding a day for starting a mission as Bennie and Sadie Mays could recall—and the weather became a nagging portent that lingered in their minds during a warm reception filled with hope and promises.
ref: 2012 August 15, John Herbert Roper, Sr., The Magnificent Mays: A Biography of Benjamin Elijah Mays, Univ of South Carolina Press, →ISBN:
text: ... ireful clouds seemed to sink heavily toward the town. It wasn't supposed to rain here, and yet the sand beneath his feet was as soaked as any shoreline.
ref: 2013 February 20, H.O. Charles, Blazed Union (Volume 4 of The Fireblade Array), H. O. Charles:
qualifier: the sky; etc; the sky; etc
glosses: Threatening to storm, or storming; louring or stormy.
raw_tags: of clouds
Derived terms: irefully
irefulness
Related terms: ire
irous
irefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ireful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being ireful; anger; fury.
irefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irefully
form: most irefully
Etymology: From ireful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ireful manner; angrily; wrathfully.
drafter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːftə(ɹ)
-æftə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drafters
Etymology: From draft + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who prepares technical drawings and plans.
examples: text: It is highly improbable that the drafter of the notice ever visualised the form that heavy vehicles of the future would take, but the comprehensive wording still covers modern types.
ref: 1955 December, “Notes and News: An Old Midland Railway Bridge Notice”, in Railway Magazine, page 877:
text: Departmental drafters have done their best to explain in the June report what's happened, but obviously can't write about the politics that led to Golborne being dropped. Instead, they refer to the Government's Union Connectivity Review [...].
ref: 2022 August 10, Jim Steer, “We're riding the wrong horse”, in RAIL, number 963, page 46:
glosses: A person who prepares drafts.
glosses: A person who writes a legislative bill.
Synonyms: draughtsman
wrathfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wrathfully
form: most wrathfully
Etymology: From wrathful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, a minute or so later I would realise wrathfully that it was all a lie, a revolting lie, an affected lie, that is, all this penitence, this emotion, these vows of reform.
ref: 1992, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground, Courier Dover Publications, page 11:
glosses: In a wrathful manner; with anger; angrily.
irateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being irate.
crampon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæmpɑn/
ipa: /ˈkɹæmpən/
rhymes: -æmpɑn
Forms: form: crampons
Etymology: Borrowed from French crampon.
Senses: synonyms: climbing iron
climber
glosses: An attachment to a shoe or boot that provides traction by means of spikes for climbing or walking on slippery surfaces, especially ice.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An aerial rootlet for support in climbing, as of ivy.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A heraldic figure in the form of a bar bent at the ends into the form of a hook.
Related terms: overboot
overshoe
crampon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæmpɑn/
ipa: /ˈkɹæmpən/
rhymes: -æmpɑn
Forms: form: crampons
form: cramponing
form: cramponning
form: cramponed
form: cramponed
form: cramponned
form: cramponned
Etymology: Borrowed from French crampon.
Senses: glosses: To walk or climb using crampons.
MAC address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MAC addresses
Senses: examples: text: The MAC address substitution module then substitutes the source MAC address and the destination MAC address of the packet before it is forwarded into the interface port. The source MAC address is replaced by that of the output interface, and the destination MAC address is replaced by that of the immediate next hop (a router or the destination host).
ref: 1999, Nen-Fu Huang, Shi-Ming Zhao, Jen-Yi Pan, Chi-An Su, “A Fast IP Routing Lookup Scheme for Gigabit Switching Routers”, in IEEE INFOCOM '99. Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings. Eighteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. The Future is Now (Cat. No.99CH36320), volume 3, →DOI, page 1430:
text: Our analysis illustrates that MAC address randomization policies are neither universally implemented nor effective at eliminating privacy concerns.
ref: 2017, Jeremy Martin et al., “A Study of MAC Address Randomization in Mobile Devices and When it Fails”, in Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, volume 2017, number 4, →DOI, page 379:
text: MAC addresses are learned by the source MAC address on incoming frames to the switch, not the destination frames.
ref: 2020, Jon Buhagiar, CCNA Certification Practice Tests: Exam 200-301, Wiley, →ISBN, page 258:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Media Access Control address; a unique identifying number assigned to most network devices.
Related terms: ARP
LAN
MAC-48
EUI
EUI-48
EUI-64
irately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irately
form: most irately
Etymology: From irate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irate manner; angrily.
irenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irenic + -s.
Senses: antonyms: polemics
glosses: Synonym of irenicism (“behaviour or belief that tends to resolve disputes between denominations or religions”).
synonyms: word: irenicism
extra: behaviour or belief that tends to resolve disputes between denominations or religions
stair-step
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stair-steps
form: stair-stepping
form: stair-stepped
form: stair-stepped
Senses: glosses: To walk up a set of stairs as exercise.
examples: text: I'm going to stair-step from East 3rd and 50th down to West 44th and Seventh Avenue.
glosses: A strategy for big city walking to avoid staying on the same street; it involves turning at a corner, walking to the end of the block, crossing the street, then repeating
irenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irenical
form: most irenical
Etymology: From irenic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).
Senses: examples: text: [Andrew Marvell's] irenical moral is the interdependence, if insurmountable quarrelsomeness, of both elements in man's divided nature, rather as in a stormy marriage.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin Books, published 2004, page 40:
glosses: Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”).
synonyms: word: irenic
extra: promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful
Derived terms: irenically
ARP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ARPs
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
coordinate_terms: ERP
RRP
glosses: Initialism of absolute refractory period.
examples: text: The small white squares painted above the footboard at the ends of S.R. passenger coaches were a wartime addition to show that the lighting arrangements of vehicles so marked had been altered to conform to A.R.P. regulations.
ref: 1946 September and October, “The Why and The Wherefore: A.R.P. Coach Lighting Regulations”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
glosses: Initialism of Air Raid Precautions.
ARP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Address Resolution Protocol.
irenicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irenicons
Senses: glosses: A proposition, scheme, or treatise designed to promote peace, especially in the church.
glosses: The deacon's litany or great synapte at the beginning of the liturgy of the Orthodox Church.
Related terms: irenic
Address Resolution Protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The protocol used to translate IP addresses into MAC addresses to support communication on a LAN.
irascibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irascibly
form: most irascibly
Etymology: From irascible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irascible manner.
Related terms: irascibility
irascible
irascibleness
irascibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irascible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being irascible; irascibility.
Related terms: irascibility
irascible
irascibly
irascibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irascibilities
Etymology: From irascible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: One valid response to all this “you kids off my lawn” irascibility is that the questions in economics are hard – really, really hard.
ref: 2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, page 232:
glosses: The quality of being irascible; irritability of temper.
Related terms: irascible
irascibleness
irascibly
iracund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more iracund
form: most iracund
Etymology: From Latin iracundus.
Senses: examples: text: Dryasdust knows only that these Preussen were a strong-boned, iracund herdsman-and-fisher people; highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially.
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, published 1870, page 80:
text: And the 'steal Injun hoss!' iterated and reiterated by a dozen voices, and always with the most iracund emphasis, enabled Roland to form a proper conception of the sense in which his enemies held that offence, as well as of the great merits and wide-spread fame of his new ally, whose voice gad thrown the red-men into such a ferment.
ref: 1863, Robert Montgomery Bird, edited by W. H. Ainsworth, Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky, volume 1, page 93:
text: She thought the man in the ticket booth looked charmingly rotund and friendly (in reality he was a lazy, iracund man), the light rain flowed down drainpipes and dripped off the roof like the water of a baptism, where all, and not just the baby, were blessed by God.
ref: 2011, Vivien Kelly, Two Red Shoes, unnumbered page:
synonyms: irascible
choleric
glosses: Angry; irritable
Derived terms: iracundity
invulnerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French invulnérable, from Latin invulnerābilis, from vulnerābilis, from vulnerō (“I wound”), from vulnus (“wound”), equivalent to in- + vulnerable.
Senses: examples: text: His gaze went to Hirken, who stood gloating behind invulnerable transparisteel.
ref: 1979, Brian Daley, Han Solo at Stars' End:
glosses: Incapable of being injured; not vulnerable.
examples: text: an invulnerable argument
glosses: Unanswerable; irrefutable.
Derived terms: invulnerableness
Related terms: invulnerability
invulnerably
invulnerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invulnerabilities
Etymology: From French invulnérabilité.
Senses: glosses: The state of being invulnerable.
invulnerably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more invulnerably
form: most invulnerably
Etymology: From invulnerable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an invulnerable manner.
unanswerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more unanswerable
form: most unanswerable
form: unaunswerable
Etymology: From un- + answerable.
Senses: synonyms: answerless
antonyms: answerable
glosses: Not answerable; impossible to answer.
examples: text: If I have not said much about it before, it was, of course, that the Professor's earnest desire was that no possible rumor of the unanswerable argument which we carried should be allowed to leak out until the moment came when his enemies were to be confuted.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: The map is never an unanswerable argument in transportation.
ref: 1926, Great Britain Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Economic Series, Issues 1-6, H.M. Stationery Office, page 75:
synonyms: indisputable
antonyms: disputable
inconclusive
refutable
glosses: Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
Related terms: answerless
unanswerability
unanswerableness
unanswerably
unanswerable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɑːnsəɹəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: unanswerables
form: unaunswerable
Etymology: From un- + answerable.
Senses: examples: text: These unanswerables are left open to the viewer's own construction by the sculptor.
ref: 2005, Anupam Nagar, Recritiquing John Keats, page 55:
glosses: Something that cannot be answered.
unanswerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unanswerabilities
Etymology: From un- + answerability.
Senses: synonyms: unanswerableness
antonyms: answerability
answerableness
glosses: The quality of being unanswerable.
unanswerableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + answerableness or unanswerable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: unanswerability
antonyms: answerability
answerableness
glosses: The state of being unanswerable.
unanswerably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unanswerable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unanswerable manner; beyond refutation.
inwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnwɚdz/
ipa: /ˈɪnwədz/
Forms: form: more inwards
form: most inwards
Etymology: From in + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: As well as their obvious novelty value, the Class 313s offered fast acceleration, those power-operated sliding doors, non-opening passenger windows, closed ventilators to prevent any body part, head or limbs reaching out, drivers' and guards' doors opening inwards, and end doors for emergency exit.
ref: 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 42:
glosses: Towards the inside.
Synonyms: inward
inwards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnwɚdz/
ipa: /ˈɪnwədz/
Etymology: From in + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: So I went up and down, and through the street, and down to the harbour-side, like a dog that has lost its master, with a strange gnawing in my inwards, and every now and then a movement of despair.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
text: [A]nd the post mortem performed handily and swiftly right at the edge of the grave, so that the inwards which had caused the pig's death preceded him into the ground and he lay at last resting squarely on the cause of his own undoing.
ref: 1948 January, E. B. White, Death of a Pig, The Atlantic Monthly:
glosses: Archaic form of innards.
Related terms: inwardly
involuntariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From involuntary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.
invitingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more invitingly
form: most invitingly
Etymology: From inviting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inviting manner; so as to attract; attractively.
invitingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inviting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being inviting; attractiveness.
attractively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more attractively
form: most attractively
Etymology: From attractive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For the typophiles reading this, the book is attractively designed. It is set in Classic Aldine, a handsome face akin to the more popular Palatino. The designer's work is unfortunately marred by indifferent printing.
ref: 1982 August 28, Mark McHarry, “A Minor Delight”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 12:
glosses: In an attractive manner; with the power of attracting or drawing to.
attractivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attractivities
Etymology: From attractive + -ity.
Senses: examples: 1841, Zoé de Gatti de Gamond [authoress of French original; English translator unknown], The Phalanstery; or, Attractive Industry and Moral Harmony, introduction, page xxiii
This voice, this unity, is the true attractivity which is to redeem man.
glosses: The quality or degree of attractive power or influence.
Synonyms: attraction
attractiveness
enticing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈtaɪsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋ/
Forms: form: more enticing
form: most enticing
Senses: examples: text: The opportunity to extinguish MAGAdom is so enticing that it has purged one of the most self-sabotaging inclinations in the American liberal’s coalition: the fractious adjudication of identity that can too often become a priority over winning elections.
ref: 2024 July 31, Luke Winkie, “My Rousing Night at “White Dudes for Harris””, in Slate:
synonyms: word: enticive
word: alluring
word: appealing
word: appetizing
word: attracting
word: attractive
word: captivating
word: charming
word: coying
word: desirable
word: engaging
word: enticing
word: enticive
word: exciting
word: fascinating
word: fetching
word: heart-robbing
word: hot
word: illecebrous
word: inviting
word: prepossessing
word: seducing
word: seductive
word: smoking hot
word: taking
word: tempting
word: winning
word: winsome
antonyms: repulsive
unalluring
unattractive
unenticing
glosses: That entices; alluring; attractive; charming
Derived terms: enticingly
enticingness
enticing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈtaɪsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of entice
enticing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈtaɪsɪŋ/
ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪsɪŋ/
Forms: form: enticings
Senses: examples: text: On each soft side [of the White Whale]—coincident with the parted swell, that but once leaving him, then flowed so wide away—on each bright side, the whale shed off enticings.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Chase—First Day”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 604:
glosses: enticement; temptation
enticement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtaɪsmənt/
Forms: form: enticements
Etymology: From Old French enticement.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly on the far side of the street Rozsi and her sister passed, with little baskets on their arms. He started up, and at that moment Rozsi looked round--her face was the incarnation of enticement, the chin tilted, the lower lip thrust a little forward, her round neck curving back over her shoulder. Swithin muttered, "Make your own arrangements--leave me out!" and hurried from the room, leaving James beside himself with interest and alarm.
ref: 1900, John Galsworthy, chapter 5, in Salvation of a Forsyte:
glosses: The act or practice of enticing, of alluring or tempting.
examples: text: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 4, in Frankenstein, archived from the original on 30 Oct 2011:
text: In Persia, newly married couples were presented with sheep's trotters steeped in vinegar as a love enticement.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 220:
glosses: That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; an alluring object.
inviolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪ.ə.lət/
ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪ.əʊˌleɪt/
Forms: form: more inviolate
form: most inviolate
Etymology: From Latin inviolātus.
Senses: examples: text: His fortune of arms was still inviolate.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
text: A partner can also, hopefully, be trusted more fully than any other person in our lives. Our courts recognize this by refusing to allow a person to testify against his or her spouse. The sanctity of the home, by which they mean the couple, is inviolate.
ref: 1987 February 8, Robert Storen, “On Being Cozy with Mister Right”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 29, page 12:
glosses: Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
examples: text: inviolate truth
ref: 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem)
text: There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgils Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Incorruptible.
Related terms: inviolacy
inviolately
inviolateness
inviolately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From inviolate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inviolate manner.
inviolateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inviolate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being inviolate.
volubility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volubilities
Etymology: From Latin volūbilitās. By surface analysis, voluble + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa. I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 36”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: But there is no help for him — or for us, his readers — no way for him to stop the chattering by which he means to make his meaning clear […] Freddie Greenfield is doomed, then, and we are doomed along with him, victims of his volubility.
ref: 1976 December 18, Rudy Kikel, “The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 14:
glosses: the state of being voluble
glosses: the degree to which someone is voluble
groupe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groupes
Senses: examples: text: He approached several groupes of gentlemen who seemed, by their voice and gesture, to be discoursing upon some important subject; […]
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book. IX. [The popular Festival, and Music.]] Chap[ter] III.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of group.
wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometers
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hygrometer consisting of two thermometers, the bulb of one of which is kept wet and shows a lower temperature; the relative humidity is obtained from the two temperatures using tables.
Norwich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒɹɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈnɒɹɪtʃ/
ipa: /ˈnɔːwɪtʃ/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪdʒ
rhymes: -ɒɹɪtʃ
ipa: /ˈnɔːɹɪdʒ/
ipa: /ˈnɔːɹɪtʃ/
ipa: /ˈnɔːɹwɪtʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪdʒ
Etymology: From Old English norþ (“north”) + wīċ (“hamlet”).
Senses: glosses: A city and local government district with borough status in and county town of Norfolk, England.
glosses: A municipality in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in New London County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Kingman County, Kansas, named after Norwich, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in the town of Huntington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Chenango County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in New York which surrounds the city of Norwich.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McHenry County, North Dakota, named after Norwich, England.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Some townships in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, listed under Norwich Township.
Derived terms: Norwicher
Norwich Terrier
jeté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetés
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jete.
MK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: MKs
Senses: examples: text: Marland added: "We will look at bidding for the HQ, but the language being used indicates that already-successful places like MK need not apply.
ref: 2021 October 20, Tony Streeter, “Location of GBR's new HQ to be decided by competition”, in RAIL, number 942, page 16:
glosses: Initialism of Milton Keynes: a borough in Buckinghamshire, England; also the first part of the postcode for the area.
glosses: Initialism of Mong Kok.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Mortal Kombat.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Mario Kart.
examples: text: Another ANC splinter party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), led by former President Jacob Zuma appears to be on course to do well in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern coastal province where Durban is located.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
text: His MK party, named after the ANC’s former armed wing, appears to have achieved just that – formed just five months ago, it is now the third-largest party in South Africa, receiving almost 15% of the vote.
ref: 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of uMkhonto weSizwe.
MK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MKs
form: MK's
Senses: examples: text: A simple majority of 61 MKs will be able to do whatever it wants without any checks and balances.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “The Proposed "Judicial Revolution" In Israel: What Can We Learn From Our Sources?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 256:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Member of Knesset.
glosses: Initialism of mooseknuckle.
examples: text: A significant sector of the Global Nomad population is represented by the 'missionary kids' or 'MK's'.
ref: 2001, Mary Haden, Jeff Thompson, International education: principles and practice, page 31:
glosses: Initialism of missionary's kid.
asymmetric warfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asymmetrical warfare
Senses: glosses: Warfare between belligerents who have different strengths and weaknesses.
Related terms: guerrilla warfare
hybrid warfare
irregular warfare
unconventional warfare
shorthanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shorthanded
form: most shorthanded
Etymology: From short + handed.
Senses: examples: text: The tiny restaurant usually got by with three workers on that shift, but found itself shorthanded when the tour bus pulled in.
text: "What are you doing out here?" I asked Iris. “We shorthanded?” She smiled. “We're always shorthanded, Miss Lois.
ref: 2009, Judy Christie, Gone to Green, →ISBN:
glosses: Lacking sufficient staff or people, as for normal or efficient operations.
examples: text: Neither the code nor the case law discuss whether or how the power of a shorthanded school board should be curtailed
ref: 1994, Alabama Court of Appeals, Louisiana. Courts of Appeal, Florida. District Court of Appeals, West's southern reporter, page 1120:
glosses: Having less than a quorum.
examples: text: “Scoring a shorthanded goal gives the team a lift,” Lefley said. “We've been picking our spots and making the most of them.
ref: 2014, Jeremy Rutherford, 100 Things Blues Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, →ISBN, page 246:
qualifier: team sports
glosses: Having, or occurring during an interval with, fewer than a full complement of players, often as the result of a penalty.
examples: text: Some of the ideas discussed in the Omaha eight-or-better section include general concepts, position, low hands, high hands, your starting hand, play on the flop, multi-way versus shorthanded play, scare cards, getting counterfeited, and your playing style.
ref: 1992, Ray Zee, High-Low-Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-Or-Better for Advanced Players:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Having fewer than the standard number of players.
raw_tags: of a table
shorthanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shorthanded
form: most shorthanded
Etymology: From short + handed.
Senses: examples: text: "They were working shorthanded," said one PMA official, "this company's got a policy of releasing gangs working shorthanded."
ref: 1997, David Wellman, The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront, →ISBN, page 274:
text: A player may receive a red card any time without the player first receiving a yellow card. When a player gets a red card, they must leave the game and their team must play shorthanded.
ref: 2013, Dr. Harry Barker, KICK-IT: A Fun Soccer Primer For Kids, →ISBN:
text: Because most pots are played shorthanded, medium pocket pairs, as well as AK, AQ, and AJ, go up in value.
ref: 2011, Vines & McEvoy, How to Win No-Limit Hold'em Tournaments, →ISBN:
glosses: In a shorthanded manner.
Synonyms: short-staffed
understaffed
undermanned
shorthanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From short + handed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shorthand
Related terms: shorthand
walkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔː(ɹ)k.iːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of walkie
Derived terms: go walkies
Singlish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Singaporean + English
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A highly colloquial or basilectal variety of Singapore English incorporating much Hokkien and Malay lexis.
Hypernyms: English
Coordinate terms: Singaporean
Related terms: Singaporean English
Singapore English
Singlish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Sinhala + English, or, Sri Lanka + English
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any of various varieties of English spoken in Sri Lanka.
Hypernyms: South Asian English
English
Coordinate terms: Ceylonese
Sinhalese
Sri Lankan
Related terms: Ceylon English
Ceylonese English
Sinhala English
Sinhalese English
Sri Lanka English
Sri Lankan English
ravelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravelins
Etymology: From French ravelin, from Italian rivellino, of unclear origin: perhaps from Latin re- + vallum.
Senses: examples: text: It is about 2,500 yards in circuit, is built of red stone, and, according to Von Orlich, is now " a bastioned quinquangle ; the ancient walls with semicircular bastions face the two streams ; the land side is quite regular, and consists of two bastions, and a half-bastion with three ravelins," and stands higher than any ground in face of it.
ref: 1858, Edward Thornton, A Gazetteer of the Territories Under the Government of the East India Company and of the Native States on the Continent of India, W. H. Allen & Co., page 22:
glosses: An outwork. A fortification outside a castle used to split an attacking force; composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon
low hanging fruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low hanging fruits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of low-hanging fruit.
brownout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brownouts
form: brown out
form: brown-out
Etymology: A deverbal from brown out, by analogy with blackout.
Senses: examples: text: When demand for electricity exceeds the available supply, a brownout occurs.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: dimout
glosses: A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination.
examples: text: On rising suddenly from her chair she experienced a brownout and had to sit down again quickly.
synonyms: grayout
greyout
glosses: A temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision.
examples: text: Fire departments across the country have been forced to rely on rolling brownouts because of the recession.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions.
glosses: A power outage during the day; distinguished from a blackout, which occurs at night.
glosses: A moment or period where something is weakened, diminished or less effective.
examples: text: Remember that you can't send or receive a fax if there is a brownout. ... Due to blackouts (the Philippine term is brownout), especially during the dry season, be prepared with a flashlight and don't forget to save your data in your PC.
ref: 1991, Philippine Smile:
glosses: A blackout, regardless of time of day.
Coordinate terms: sense: all senses
word: blackout
Derived terms: rolling brownout
Related terms: whiteout
self-righteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-righteous
form: most self-righteous
Etymology: From self- + righteous.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: smug, complacent; sanctimonious
text: And is it not possible, Mr. Hier, that people are reacting (in a contemptible way, certainly) against your self-righteous bawling?
ref: 2003 August 16, vjmorton, “Not-so-brave heart”, in Rightwing Film Geek:
text: “God's blood, Thomas, self-righteous prickery is not the preserve of the English!”
ref: 2017, Jules Radcliffe, Penitent Pirate:
coordinate_terms: self-assured
;
self-satisfied
;
sententious
glosses: Piously self-assured and smugly moralistic.
glosses: Patronizingly moralizing and rebuking.
Derived terms: self-righteously
self-righteousness
Related terms: virtue signalling
sightseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sightseeings
form: sight-seeing
Etymology: From sight + seeing.
Senses: examples: text: Sightseeing is a frequent reason to visit San Francisco.
glosses: The activity of going out looking at things; tourism.
sightseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sight-seeing
Etymology: From sight + seeing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sightsee
Related terms: sightseer
in't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Senses: examples: text: O braue new world / That has ſuch people in't.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], pages 17–18:
glosses: Contraction of in it.
examples: text: But all of that's what the point is not / The point's that there in't no romance around there
ref: 2006, Alex Turner, “A Certain Romance”, in Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
glosses: Contraction of isn't.
Bau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baus
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from German Bau, perhaps a short form of compounds with this element, such as Bauhofer or Baumann.
* Borrowed from French Bau, perhaps a variant of Beau.
* Variant of Bao, a surname of Chinese origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
glosses: A Mesopotamian goddess, initially a life-giving deity sometimes associated with the creation of mankind, later a goddess of healing and medicine.
crip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: crips
Etymology: Clipping of cripple.
Senses: examples: text: Alan nodded. "Buster. He's parked in the crip space again. I told him last time I was through warning him about it."
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: A cripple.
qualifier: rehabilitation; generally self-referential; rehabilitation; generally self-referential
glosses: A person with a disability.
Derived terms: cripqueer
queercrip
supercrip
crip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
Forms: form: crips
form: cripping
form: cripped
form: cripped
Etymology: Clipping of cripple.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To do a Crip Walk.
examples: text: In performance, the artists under discussion sometimes use queering and cripping against one another; they “queer the crip” and “crip the queer.” That is, queering critiques and expands notions of what it means to be crippled, and cripping critiques and expands notions of what it means to be queer.
ref: 2003, Carrie Sandahl, “Queering the Crip of Cripping the Queer? Intersections of Queer and Crip Identities in Solo Autobiographical Performance”, in QLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 9, numbers 1–2, →DOI, page 37:
text: In approaching the ISA negatively, we can begin to crip the ways in which it conceptualizes disability, gesturing towards the nonidentical that is concealed through identity and opening up space for the recognition of differences that this putatively universal symbol obfuscates.
ref: 2013, Kelly Fritsch, “On the Negative Possibility of Suffering: Adorno, Feminist Philosophy, and the Transfigured Crip To Come”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 33, number 4:
qualifier: disability studies
glosses: To apply a disability justice perspective to something.
Related terms: english: to imitate a disabled person as a role while acting
translation: to imitate a disabled person as a role while acting
word: crip up
Ahn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Korean 안(安) (An).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Korean.
Crip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crips
Etymology: Originally from crib, reflecting the young age of most gang members; later influenced by cripple, referring to the canes they used to carry.
Senses: examples: text: My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining c's in the word.
ref: 2009, DaShaun "Jiwe" Morris, War of the Bloods in My Veins
glosses: A member of The Crips, a violent Los Angeles criminal gang who typically wear blue and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Bloods.
Coordinate terms: Blood
Derived terms: Crip out
Crip walk
MOCVD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
chemistry
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of metalorganic chemical vapour deposition.
Related terms: MOVPE
joint-stock bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint-stock banks
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Any bank that is a joint-stock company.