cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
somnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒmnɪəl/
Etymology: From obsolete French somnial, from Latin somnialis, from somnium (“dream”).
Senses: examples: text: He had indeed been making a study of his dreams, to what purpose or effect is not apparent, but there remains a note-book filled with closely written observations upon them, for he seemed always to awaken with most vivid recollections of astounding, amusing, and bizarre somnial experiences.
ref: 1940, Harvey Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler, volume 2:
text: Often, it was Sara Hutchinson who was the focus of his somnial fantasy life: he once exclaimed that his dreams were "always connected in some way or another" with her (CN II 2055).
ref: 1998, Jennifer Ford, Coleridge on Dreaming, page 54:
glosses: Pertaining to dreams.
appeals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appeal
appeals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of appeal
perennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perennially
form: most perennially
Etymology: From perennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Year after year (literally: each year).
examples: text: Add to that a pair of black eyes with yellowish whites, a proud glance, gleaming teeth, and lips which were perennially pomaded and redolent of musk. As for her dress, it was invariably rich, effective, and chic, yet in good taste.
ref: 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter III, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/III):
text: The conversation taking place in a cramped corridor at the Stadium of Light had turned to the lack of English players on view on Saturday afternoon. Martin Jol barely paused for thought before answering a perennially vexed question. "It's a problem," said Fulham's manager. "You have to deal with it."
ref: 2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: Constantly; with frequent recurrence.
chip in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chips in
form: chipping in
form: chipped in
form: chipped in
Senses: examples: text: If we all chip in, we can afford to buy a pizza for lunch.
text: It was England up the right, with Jordan Henderson – back in the starting XI for Kalvin Phillips – chipping in, too, popping up in inside positions to flip over a couple of dangerous crosses.
ref: March 26 2023, David Hytner, “Kane and Bukayo Saka combine against Ukraine for England’s perfect Euros start”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make a contribution; help in a small way; especially, to pay for a part of something.
examples: text: She chipped in for the gift.
glosses: To make a contribution; help in a small way; especially, to pay for a part of something.
To contribute (for, to, or toward something).
examples: text: He chipped in twenty for the retirement gift.
glosses: To contribute (something).
examples: text: He seemed to hesitate when he chipped in.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To ante; to put into the pot the amount of chips or money required to continue.
examples: text: Will Godfrey, director of economics, finance and markets at ORR, chips in: "Reducing cancellations and maintaining punctuality as passengers return after the pandemic is a really vital objective.
ref: 2024 May 1, Paul Clifton, “Better forecasting of where the danger lies”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 46:
glosses: To interrupt a discussion for the purpose of making a comment.
examples: text: He chipped in from 20 yards for a birdie.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To put a chip shot in the hole.
examples: text: She chipped in that she had seen the whole situation play out.
glosses: To join in (something); to butt in or contribute (something) to a conversation; to say (something).
goof off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡuːf ˈɒf/
note: without the cot–caught merger
ipa: /ˌɡuf ˈɔf/
ipa: /ˌɡuf ˈɑf/
Forms: form: goofs off
form: goofing off
form: goofed off
form: goofed off
Senses: examples: text: He sat there goofing off all day instead of working.
text: I've been goofing off since the day I was born.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 173:
glosses: To dawdle, lollygag; to waste time aimlessly or engage in idle activity or inactivity.
examples: text: He goofed off this whole project.
glosses: To make a mistake.
glosses: To fall asleep or pass out on drugs.
Related terms: goofiness
goof on
hydron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrons
Etymology: From hydro- + -on.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any hydrogen cation, e.g. a proton (¹H⁺)
Related terms: proton
deuteron
triton
springtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: springtimes
form: spring-time
Etymology: From spring + time.
Senses: examples: text: Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham:
glosses: The season of spring, between winter and summer.
examples: text: For the moment, at least, there is a sense that a new springtime has arrived for the Church’s progressives.
ref: 2015 April 19, Ross Douthat, “Will Pope Francis Break the Church?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: A period of flourishing and renewal.
Derived terms: gay as springtime
latices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈleɪtɪsiːz/
/ˈlætɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of latex
Synonyms: latexes
spring break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring breaks
Senses: examples: text: “We are on the edge of an AI surge that will make the dotcom boom look like spring break,” says Boris Feldman, co-head of Freshfield's global tech practice, who advises multiple “magnificent seven” tech companies.
ref: 2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Boris Feldman, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
glosses: A time of vacation from school that occurs during the spring.
glosses: The week of vacation from school that occurs during the winter-spring semester, which does not necessarily fall within the official season of spring.
Synonyms: March break
Coordinate terms: summer vacation
harvest break
back-to-school
Derived terms: spring breaker
latexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of latex
Synonyms: latices
lattices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lattice
lattices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lattice
wintertime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wintertimes
form: winter-time
form: winter time
Etymology: From winter + time.
Senses: glosses: The season of winter, between autumn and spring.
Related terms: word: wintertide
Cinco de Mayo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cinco de mayo (“fifth of May”).
Senses: glosses: A national celebration in Mexico, commemorating the victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza over the French expeditionary forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, also celebrated widely by immigrants living in the United States.
Bastille Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The French national holiday celebrated on 14 July each year. It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the Fête de la Fédération was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern French "nation".
Yom Kippur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjɒm kɪˈpʊə/
ipa: /ˌjɒm ˈkɪpə/
ipa: /ˌjəʊm kɪˈpʊə/
ipa: /ˌjəʊm ˈkɪpə/
ipa: /ˌjɔm kɪˈpʊɹ/
ipa: /ˌjɔm ˈkɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˌjoʊm kɪˈpʊɹ/
ipa: /ˌjoʊm ˈkɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˌjɑm kɪˈpʊɹ/
ipa: /ˌjɑm ˈkɪpɚ/
ipa: /ˌjoʊm-/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew יוֹם כִּיפּוּר (yom kipúr, literally “Day of Atonement”).
Senses: examples: text: Waving chickens above their heads, ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel performed the ritual of "kaparot" ahead of Yom Kippur, the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar, which begins at sundown on Tuesday.
ref: 2018 September 18, “Ahead of Yom Kippur, ultra-Orthodox Jews cast out sins with chickens and water”, in Reuters:
text: Services during Yom Kippur are held continuously through the day and include readings from the Torah and the reciting of prayers expressing regret or asking for forgiveness.
ref: 2019 October 8, Christina Maxouris and Doug Criss, “Everything you wanted to know about Yom Kippur”, in CNN:
synonyms: Day of Atonement
glosses: A particular Jewish holiday, the day of atonement, falling on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei.
jauntier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of jaunty: more jaunty
removable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: removeable
Etymology: From remove + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Molded by Mattel in forest green, this action figure was garbed in a removable yellow, sleeveless shawl. He is worth substantially more money if this filigree drapery is still intact.
ref: 2005, John Kenneth Muir, An Analytical Guide to Television’s Battlestar Galactica, page 187:
text: The interior melamine panels were designed to be easily removable for repair or future refurbishment, and the linoleum floor was for easy cleaning.
ref: 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, pages 42–43:
glosses: Able to be removed.
removable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: removables
form: removeable
Etymology: From remove + -able.
Senses: glosses: Something that can be removed.
misty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsti/
rhymes: -ɪsti
Forms: form: mistier
form: mistiest
Etymology: From Middle English misty, mysty, misti, from Old English mistiġ (“misty, dark”), from Proto-West Germanic *mistig (“misty”), equivalent to mist + -y. Cognate with Scots misty, mistie (“misty”), West Frisian mistich (“misty, foggy”), Dutch mistig (“misty, foggy”), German Low German mistig (“foggy”).
Senses: examples: text: It's very misty this morning; I can't see a thing!
glosses: Covered in mist; foggy.
examples: text: a misty memory of his childhood
text: My remembrances of the place and its people are misty — all about it seem more like something I once saw in a dream, but whose characters time has effaced.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 10:
text: Mr. Motian's own tunes, folk-simple locomotions of straight melody, fast or slow, with acres of room for interpretation, have accounted for some of the mistier sets.
ref: 2005 February 7, Ben Ratliff, “New CD's”, in The New York Times:
text: But she soon found out how little equipped she was for college study. Not only was Ms. Segovia’s English rocky, but she had only the mistiest notions of what college was all about.
ref: 2010 July 23, Joseph Berger, “The Latino Lag”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Dim; vague; obscure.
examples: text: Her eyes grew misty the night her long-time friend passed away.
glosses: With tears in the eyes; dewy-eyed.
Derived terms: get misty
mistily
misty-eyed
misty flip
mistyish
misty rose
unmisty
Related terms: mistify
mistiness
timestream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timestreams
form: time stream
Etymology: From time + stream.
Senses: examples: text: By killing his great-grandfather, the time traveller disrupted the timestream.
text: The slightest excess of effort might upset the balance at any point of the time stream, sending them backward into the past or forward into the future independently of my will.
ref: [1931 December, Eric Temple Bell, “The Time Stream”, in Wonder Stories:
text: The timestream is littered with these blank areas.
ref: 1983, John Varley, Millennium:
text: Two different timestreams running parallel but at different speeds. Amy, you're in a faster timestream.
ref: 2011, Tom MacRae, “The Girl Who Waited”, in Nick Hurran, director, Doctor Who, season 6, episode 10, spoken by The Doctor (Matt Smith):
topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
glosses: A metaphorical conception of time as a stream, or flowing body of water.
wikipedia: timestream
Australasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒstɹ(ə)lˈeɪʒə/
ipa: /ˌɔstɹl̩ˈæɪʒɐ/
rhymes: -eɪʒə
Etymology: Borrowed from French Australasie, coined by French scholar and politician Charles de Brosses in 1756, from the Latin for “south of Asia”.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Oceania: a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
synonyms: word: Oceania
extra: a continent or continental region composed of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia
holonyms: Oceania
glosses: A continental region in Oceania, consisting of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and neighbouring islands.
Derived terms: word: Australasian
Aussieland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Aussie + -land.
Senses: glosses: Australia.
Aotearoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊ.ti.əˈɹoʊ.ən/
Forms: form: more Aotearoan
form: most Aotearoan
form: Aotearoaian
form: Aoteroan
Etymology: From Aotearoa + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Aotearoa (New Zealand) or its people.
Aotearoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaʊ.ti.əˈɹoʊ.ən/
Forms: form: Aotearoans
form: Aotearoaian
form: Aoteroan
Etymology: From Aotearoa + -n.
Senses: glosses: A New Zealander: a person from Aotearoa (New Zealand).
mickeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mickey
mickeys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mickey
paisley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪzli/
Forms: form: paisleys
Etymology: From Paisley, Renfrewshire, in Scotland, where shawls of this kind were woven in the 1800s.
Senses: glosses: A motif of a swirling droplet.
glosses: A soft woollen fabric having this motif.
Synonyms: boteh
Persian pickle
Welsh pear
Derived terms: paisleyed
paisleylike
paisley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪzli/
Etymology: From Paisley, Renfrewshire, in Scotland, where shawls of this kind were woven in the 1800s.
Senses: examples: text: I shall be wearing a Paisley shawl with a red centre, and thus may easily be found.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:
text: He would be in his paisley silk dressing gown.
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 173:
glosses: Made from this fabric, or marked with this design.
ruthenio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing ruthenium.
Derived terms: ruthenio-chloride
ruthenio-cyanide
tagliatelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtaljəˈtɛli/
enpr: tăl'yə-tĕlʹē
ipa: /ˌtæljəˈtɛli/
ipa: /ˌtɑljəˈtɛli/
enpr: tăl'yə-tĕlʹē
enpr: täl'yə-tĕlʹē
rhymes: -ɛli
Forms: form: tagliatelle
form: tagliatelle
form: tagliatelles
form: tagliatella
form: tagliatelli
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian tagliatelle, from tagliare (“to cut”).
Senses: examples: text: When the tagliatelle are al dente, drain thoroughly and transfer to a warm bowl.
ref: 1985, Fred Plotkin, “[Recipes] Emilia-Romagna”, in The Authentic Pasta Book: Regional Italian Recipes for Great Classic and Contemporary Dishes From Great Chefs and Fine Home Cooks, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 182:
text: And the tagliatelle are topped with shrimp and accompanied by a plate of good hot French bread made before your eyes in the restaurant’s small glass-walled bakery.
ref: 1992, Clint Hall, Tokyo Dining Out: A Budget Restaurant Guide, Tokyo: The Japan Times, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Stir the ham into the sauce; if the tagliatelle are not quite ready, remove the ham and the peas from the heat.
ref: 1993, Sarah Freeman, “Pasta with Sauces”, in The Student Pasta Cook Book: Eating Well Without Mixer, Microwave or Money, London: Collins & Brown, →ISBN, page 82:
text: Fry gently over a low heat, stirring from time to time, until the tagliatelle are ready (it’s fine if the beans go slightly fuzzy at the edges, just as long as they don’t burn!).
ref: 2001, Sophie Grigson, “[Pasta, Rice and Grains] Pasta”, in The Complete Sophie Grigson Cookbook: Over 440 Classic Recipes from Sophie Grigson, London: BBC Worldwide Limited, →ISBN, page 284:
text: “Hi, honey. If you have a sec, could you pick up a few things for dinner? Well, I was thinking some tagliatelle from that restaurant in Rome, and maybe that wine from Provence, the rosé. Yeah. Thanks, sweetie. Love you.”
ref: 2021 April 8, Christine Lavaf, “That Actually Hurt” (31:09 from the start), in Invincible, season 1, episode 5, spoken by Debbie Grayson (Sandra Oh):
glosses: Long, flat ribbons of egg pasta, originally from Emilia-Romagna, sliced from a rolled-out sheet.
Coordinate terms: fettuccine
linguine
Related terms: taglierini
tagliolini
revelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕvʹ-əl-ri
ipa: /ˈɹɛvəlɹi/
ipa: [ˈɹɛv.əɫ.ɹi]
rhymes: -ɛvəlɹi
Forms: form: revelries
Etymology: From Middle English revelrye; equivalent to revel + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.
text: [During a wedding] As evening drew in and moths began to swoop under the canopy, now lit with floating golden lanterns, the revelry became more and more uncontained.
ref: 2007, J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
glosses: Joyful or riotous merry-making.
Synonyms: celebration
festivity
revelment
Derived terms: revelrous
fettuccine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛtəˈtʃiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: fettuccines
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fettuccine, plural of fettuccina (literally “little ribbon”), diminutive of fettuccia, from fetta + -uccia.
Senses: glosses: Long, flat ribbons of pasta, cut from a rolled-out sheet; identical in form to tagliatelle.
Derived terms: fettuccine Alfredo
Related terms: fettucce
brain trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain trusts
form: braintrust
Etymology: Derives from a group of academics who advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Senses: glosses: Originally, a group of experts who advise a government, often informally.
qualifier: more recently
glosses: Any group of experts assembled to give advice.
Related terms: word: brains trust
word: kitchen cabinet
word: think tank
brains trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brains trusts
Senses: glosses: A group of experts who discuss events in public, especially on television or radio.
glosses: Any group of advisors, whether experts or just friends or acquaintances, who are willing to offer their knowledge or ideas on a topic or issue.
Derived terms: brains-truster
Related terms: brain trust
think tank
godsent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From God + sent.
Senses: examples: a godsent gift
a godsent rain
glosses: Sent by God or as if by God; unexpectedly beneficial.
godsend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒdsɛnd/
ipa: /ˈɡɑdˌsɛnd/
Forms: form: godsends
form: God-send
Etymology: A variant of God’s send, from God + -’s + send (“(obsolete) act of sending”), in the sense of someone or something sent by God.
Senses: examples: text: "You do, indeed, seem to take it to heart!" exclaimed the actress, an expression of jealous anger crossing her features; "why, it is quite a God-send for you! many a heart is caught in the rebound.[…]"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Discovery”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 207:
text: [O]nce again, as in 1803, we were on the brink of being sacrificed to the very lunacies of retrenchment. By a mere god-send, more troops happened to arrive from the Indian continent.
ref: 1843 November, Thomas De Quincey, “Ceylon”, in Speculations Literary and Philosophic: With German Tales and Other Narrative Papers (De Quincey’s Works; XII), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 27:
text: By this time my wife was in Barcelona and used to send me tea, chocolate, and even cigars when such things were procurable; but even in Barcelona everything was running short, especially tobacco. The tea was a godsend, though we had no milk and seldom any sugar.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 80:
text: To the onlooker, and particularly to those whose memories go back to pre-grouping days, the modern cavalcade of "V2s" and "B1s" is apt to become a little monotonous; but to any running man the general utility characteristics of these two classes are a perfect godsend at times of exceptional pressure, when it is often a case of "first in—first out" with locomotive allocations at sheds.
ref: 1949 November–December, O[swald] S[tevens] Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 357–358:
glosses: An instance of unexpected benefit or good fortune; a windfall.
examples: text: Its seldom sic [such] rich Godsends come on our coast—no since the Jenny and James came ashore in King Charlie's time.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in The Pirate. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 183:
glosses: An instance of unexpected benefit or good fortune; a windfall.
The wreck of a ship which has washed up on shore, from which cargo, timber, etc., may be obtained.
glosses: A person who provides greatly needed assistance.
Related terms: godsent
serendipity
manna
supply teacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supply teachers
Senses: synonyms: word: relief teacher
word: substitute teacher
word: supply
glosses: A teacher who fills a temporary position in a school on a short-term basis; often supplied by an agency.
garret window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garret windows
form: garret-window
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: roof window
glosses: A skylight that lies along the slope of the roof.
garrisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garrison
garrisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of garrison
garrisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of garrison
harken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːk(ə)n/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹkən/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kən
Forms: form: harkens
form: harkening
form: harkened
form: harkened
Etymology: See hearken
Senses: examples: text: Ev'n from the depths of Hell the Damn'd advance, / Th' Infernal Manſions nodding ſeem to dance; / The gaping three-mouth'd Dog forgets to ſnarl, / The Furies harken, and their Snakes uncurl.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 143, lines 690–693:
text: How, then, am I mad? Harken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
ref: 1843 January, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, in J[ames] Russell Lowell, R[obert] Carter, editors, The Pioneer. A Literary and Critical Magazine, volume I, number I, Boston, Mass.: Leland and Whiting, […], →OCLC, page 29, column 1:
text: [T]he mother who had shaped him if any had toward the man he almost was, [...] whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved: [...]
ref: 1942, William Faulkner, “The Bear”, in Go Down, Moses, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →OCLC, section 5, page 326:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.
examples: text: Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.
ref: 2005, Carol Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture, page 48:
glosses: To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
Derived terms: harken back
harkener
quinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪnəʊn/
ipa: /ˈkwɪnoʊn/
ipa: /ˈkwɪnəʉn/
Forms: form: quinones
form: chinone
Etymology: From quinic acid + -one, since it is one of the compounds obtained upon oxidation of quinic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two carbonyl functional groups in the same six-membered ring.
Derived terms: anthraquinone
benzoquinone
carbazolequinone
dioxyquinone
hydroquinone
hydroxyquinone
indolequinone
isochromanequinone
isoventiloquinone
lipoquinone
murrayaquinone
orthobenzoquinone
orthoquinone
parabenzoquinone
paraquinone
phenanthrenequinone
phlorone
plastoquinone
pyrayaquinone
pyrroloquinolinequinone
quinoid
quinone imine
quinone methide
quinonic
quinonimine
quinonization
quinonize
quinonoid
quinonoxime
quinonyl
quinoyl
rhodoquinone
semiquinone
thioquinone
trimethylhydroquinone
ventiloquinone
xyloquinone
benzoquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzoquinones
Etymology: From benzo- + quinone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of the two isomeric forms of the simplest quinone, C₆H₄O₂, or any of their derivatives.
Synonyms: cyclohexadienedione
Derived terms: hydroxybenzoquinone
pleiotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more pleiotropic
form: most pleiotropic
Etymology: From pleiotropy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pleiotropy.
Derived terms: nonpleiotropic
pleiotropically
brougham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːəm/
rhymes: -uːəm
Forms: form: broughams
Etymology: Named after British statesman Lord Brougham (1778–1868), who either invented or popularized the vehicle.
Senses: examples: text: “Yes,” he continued, glancing out of the window. “A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties.”
ref: 1891 June 25, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, →OCLC:
text: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:
text: The shooting motor cars, more like spiders in the moon than terrestrial objects, the thundering drays, the jingling hansoms, and little black broughams, made her think of the world she lived in.
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Mr. H. R. Pope writes that in 1879 his father bought a new brougham in London, and the vehicle was taken to Victoria Station for conveyance to Brighton by passenger train. It so happened that the carriage truck was attached to the train by which Mr. Pope and his father were returning to Sussex, and the stationmaster allowed them to make the journey in the brougham.
ref: 1951 November, “By Train in a Brougham”, in Railway Magazine, page 778:
glosses: A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with an open seat for the driver in front of a closed cabin for two or four passengers, designed in 1839.
glosses: An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.
Derived terms: Whitechapel brougham
trebly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: treblier
form: more trebly
form: trebliest
form: most trebly
Etymology: From treble + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With the room so bare, Ivret’s voice sounded different, trebly echoes ringing off her sibilants.
ref: 2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 162:
glosses: Having treble, or high-pitched, qualities.
trebly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From treble + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Three times, thrice
examples: text: For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, Cignet Classic, published 1998, page 13:
text: The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
glosses: To three times the extent or degree; triply.
Synonyms: sense: three times
word: thricely
word: threefold
word: thrice
Yahoo!
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːhuː/
ipa: /jɑːˈhuː/
Forms: form: Yahoo
Etymology: According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the name itself is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”, incorporated 1995. However, other sources claim the main inspiration by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo originates from Yahoo, the race of barbaric beings from the Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (perhaps with a semantic notion of strongly exploring the then-"wild" late 90s Internet), thence the acronym apparently being a backronym. Also compare Etymology 2 of yahoo; the exclamation point was supposedly added to "strengthen" the trademark.
Senses: qualifier: trademark
glosses: A web portal and search engine located at yahoo.com.
wikipedia: David Filo
Encyclopedia Britannica
Gulliver's Travels
Jerry Yang
Jonathan Swift
Derived terms: word: Microhoo
word: Yahoo
word: Yahoo boy
muso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːzəʊ
Forms: form: musos
Etymology: From musician + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: I don't expect you to understand the hours involved in becoming a talented muso, rehearsing for months, writing a hit, recording the song, marketing the band, pressing the CDs and trying to get airplay / make some record sales... but you should be able to find a similar problem in your work...
ref: 2000 May 5, Justin French, “Heads up, Yes me again Mr m3a Smart mouth”, in alt.music.journalism (Usenet):
text: Yeah...I probably wouldn't change have changed plans anyway. I'm sure my wife and children will get more out of a family day than if we headed into the big concrete jungle (aka city) to watch a few musos.
ref: 2001 March 5, Gary Meadows, “Darn it!”, in aus.culture.true-blue (Usenet):
text: Don't blame the musos. Blame the marketers, A&R men and record company execs. You don't imagine for a moment that musos sought to inflict Bardot, Britney and Christina on an unsuspecting public. Even the producers are only guilty of trying to feed themselves by attempting to write and execute popular songs that appeal to the LCD.
ref: 2001 March 27, Mr Q. Z. Diablo, “[long] will the real goth please stand up”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):
text: It is a badge of pride for musos to say that Spotify’s machine-learning algorithms – when you listen to a track and it recommends things you might also like – don’t cover their cosmopolitan taste.
ref: 2018 October 5, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Laura Snapes, “Has 10 years of Spotify ruined music?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Diminutive of musician.
warmup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warmups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of warm-up.
lipread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪpɹiːd/
ipa: /ˈlɪpɹɛd/
Forms: form: lipreads
form: lipreading
form: lipread
form: lipread
form: lip-read
form: lip read
Etymology: From lip + read.
Senses: glosses: To determine a person's speech by watching the movement of their lips.
Derived terms: lipreader
lipreading
lithographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithographers
Etymology: From lithography + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes lithographs, who does lithography.
Derived terms: chromolithographer
photolithographer
lithograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪθəɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈlɪθəɡɹɑːf/
Forms: form: lithographs
Etymology: Back-formation from lithography, litho- (“stone”) + -graph (“that writes”).
Senses: examples: text: To one side, by a tall window, a tiny Renoir lithograph of a bather.
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 1:
glosses: A printed image produced by lithography.
Derived terms: autolithograph
chromolithograph
lithographic
lithographical
photolithograph
stereolithograph
lithograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪθəɡɹæf/
ipa: /ˈlɪθəɡɹɑːf/
Forms: form: lithographs
form: lithographing
form: lithographed
form: lithographed
Etymology: Back-formation from lithography, litho- (“stone”) + -graph (“that writes”).
Senses: glosses: To create a copy of an image through lithography.
lithographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From lithographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of, or by means of, lithography.
Derived terms: stereolithographically
lithographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lithograph + -ic.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: litho
glosses: Related to the method of lithography.
Derived terms: autolithographic
chromolithographic
lithographical
lithographically
lithographic limestone
lithographic slate
lithographic stone
microlithographic
nanolithographic
photolithographic
stereolithographic
whitewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of white water.
Derived terms: Whitewater Region
littleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: littlenesses
Etymology: From Middle English litelnes, litelnesse, from Old English lytelnysse, lȳtelnes, equivalent to little + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The King and Queen Make a Progress to the Frontiers. The Author Attends Them. The Manner in which He Leaves the Country Very Particularly Related. He Returns to England.”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), pages 306–307:
text: His littleness didn't bother him, except when he needed to get something off the top shelf.
text: 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Part III, Sect. 21, pp. 161-162,
Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty. The humming bird both in shape and colouring yields to none of the winged species, of which it is the least; and perhaps his beauty is enhanced by his smallness.
glosses: The property of being little, smallness.
examples: text: Court, city, church are all shops of smallwares;
All having blown to sparks their noble fire,
And drawn their sound gold ingot into wire;
All trying by a love of littleness
To make abridgments, and to draw to less
Even that nothing which at first we were;
ref: 1614, John Donne, To the Countess of Salisbury, lines 16–21:
text: So unlike what a man should be!—None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that disdain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 10:
text: Tyler […] has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
ref: 1886, Theodore Roosevelt, chapter 11, in Thomas Hart Benton, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 239:
text: There is no doubt about what is not great, no race of men have such obvious littlenesses. They live in a narrow world so far as their human intercourse goes; their researches involve infinite attention and an almost monastic seclusion; and what is left over is not very much.
ref: 1904, H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, Chapter 1, section I:
glosses: Smallness of spirit; pettiness.
smallness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smallnesses
form: smallnesse
Etymology: From Middle English smalnesse; equivalent to small + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His smallness didn't bother him, except when he needed something off the top shelf.
text: The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 136:
text: My hand was lifted at her door to knock, when I recollected the smallness of the island. We could never hide ourselves upon it.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: Mr. Howden forcibly expressed his view that the U.T.A. [Ulster Transport Authority] rail system "had reached the limit of its smallness".
ref: 1963 January, “The Irish scene”, in Modern Railways, page 16:
glosses: The state or quality of being small.
glosses: The result or product of being small.
literariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From literary + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His literariness helped him understand the obscure references in the book.
text: Its literariness kept the book in print for decades.
glosses: The property of being literary, either being a work of literature or knowledgeable of literature.
litigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litigators
Etymology: From litigate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: “In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.”
ref: 2024 April 11, Fredreka Schouten and Tierney Sneed, “GOP leaders pursue new lawsuits over 2024 election rules – including attacking methods of voting they want supporters to use”, in CNN:
text: The Senate voted Tuesday night to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general, making the tenacious litigator the latest official to help fill out President Donald Trump’s administration.
ref: 2025 February 4, Shania Shelton and Morgan Rimmer, “Senate votes to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general”, in CNN:
glosses: A person employed to litigate, a lawyer skilled in arguing in court.
loan sharking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loan shark
loan sharking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of loansharking.
there and back
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Possibly a shortening of to there and back.
Senses: examples: text: It took me about 20 minutes there and back.
text: You don't need to tell me about depression. I've been there and back.
glosses: On or for a round trip journey, literal or figurative.
Related terms: out-and-back
conveyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conveyers
Etymology: From convey + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of conveyor.
conveyor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈveɪə/
enpr: kənvāʹər
ipa: /kənˈveɪɚ/
Forms: form: conveyors
form: conveyour
form: conveyer
Etymology: From convey + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person that conveys, transports or delivers.
examples: text: Words are a conveyor of meaning.
glosses: Anything that conveys, transports or delivers.
examples: text: The 1.7 mile-long conveyor system was commissioned in November 2022, and will remove one million lorry movements from the roads around West London.
ref: 2023 March 8, Chris Howe, “Building the platform for Old Oak Common's platforms”, in RAIL, number 978, page 60:
coordinate_terms: elevator
skip
chute
glosses: A mechanical arrangement for transporting material or objects, generally over short or moderate distances, as from one part of a building to another.
Derived terms: belt conveyor
chain conveyor
conveyor belt
conveyor-broiler
conveyorise
conveyorization
conveyorize
conveyorless
shuttle conveyor
conveyor belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conveyor belts
form: conveyer belt
Etymology: From conveyor + belt.
Senses: examples: text: Some stone was being loaded into standard gauge wagons by means of a portable conveyor belt.
ref: 1951 June, “Notes and News: The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 423:
text: BR success in establishing this new "Company" train service follows a year's operation of a conveyor-belt traffic in car parts between the Ford plant at Dagenham and the firm's recently-opened £30m Merseyside factory at Halewood, where Ford Corsairs, Capris and Anglias are manufactured.
ref: 1964 July, “Ford Traffic Won by BR”, in Modern Railways, page 20:
text: Buckinghamshire Council has received proposals from HS2 Ltd to install a conveyor belt near Small Dean, Wendover. [...] The conveyor belt would be in place for two years and is estimated to remove the need for some 200 lorries per day.
ref: 2022 February 23, “Network News: Conveyor belt to move HS2 earth”, in RAIL, number 951, page 20:
hypernyms: belt
endless belt
glosses: A continuous flexible band moved by a series of rollers to transport objects or material from one place to another, especially within a factory or mine.
Derived terms: conveyor belt sushi
skoramis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκωραμίς (skōramís).
Senses: examples: text: Quick march! for Xanthippe, my housemaid, / If once on your pates she a souse made / With what, pan or pot, bowl or skoramis / First comes to her hand — things were more amiss!
ref: 1876, Robert Browning, Of Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper, section XXVII:
text: I have never acknowledged printed praise though sometimes I longed to embrace the glowing image of this or that paragon of discernment; and I have never bothered to lean out of my window and empty my skoramis on some poor hack's pate.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
glosses: A chamber pot.
nictation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɪˈkteɪʃən/
Forms: form: nictations
Etymology: From nictate.
Senses: glosses: An act or instance of winking or blinking; a wink, a blink.
Related terms: nictitation
monoceros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈnɒsəɹəs/
Forms: form: monoceroses
Etymology: From Old French monoceros, from Latin monocerōs.
Senses: glosses: A unicorn
glosses: A narwhal
Related terms: monocerous
Monoceros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: First recorded by the astronomer Jakob Bartsch in 1624, but possibly created earlier by Petrus Plancius. From Latin monocerōs (“unicorn”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a unicorn. It lies amid the Milky Way, just east of the constellation Orion.
Derived terms: Monocerotis
Monocerotids
fackeltanz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfækəltɑːnts/
Forms: form: fackeltänze
Etymology: Borrowed from German Fackeltanz (“torch dance”).
Senses: examples: text: afterwards he drove her and her cousins (two guardsmen disguised as flowergirls) in his divine new convertible through the streets to see the tremendous birthday illumination, and the fackeltanz in the park, and the fireworks, and the pale upturned faces.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a kind of polonaise, associated with German royal wedding celebrations
apograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæpəɡɹɑːf/
Forms: form: apographs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπόγραφον (apógraphon), from ἀπογράφω (apográphō, “I copy”), from ἀπό (apó, “off, away from”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, this is not a holograph but an apograph, made by a scribe for the printers – you will note that both mayors write the same hand.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
text: For both C and R, as well as for all other corpora of Slavic manuscripts, including I and L, it has always been tacitly assumed that the scribe did not merely copy, but verified the text of his apograph via his own pronunciation (externally or internally), or even wrote upon dictation.
ref: 1989, William Veder, Texts of Closed Tradition – The Key to the Manuscript Heritage of Old Rus’:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
textual-criticism
glosses: A copy or transcript of a manuscript (called the antigraph).
Ichang lemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ichang lemons
Etymology: Named for the town of Yichang, China.
Senses: glosses: A slow-growing citrus plant hybrid (Citrus cavaleriei × Citrus maxima), noted for its unusual hardiness, native to East Asia.
mujik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuː(d)ʒɪk/
ipa: /muːˈʒiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: mujiks
form: mujiki
form: muzhik
form: muzhyk
form: muzjik
form: moujik
Etymology: From Russian мужи́к (mužík, “peasant”).
Senses: examples: text: Since she had last looked at a newspaper, it appeared that the Russians had become heroes and magnificent fighters. They were no longer a rabble of ill-equipped moujiks fleeing before the Nazi hordes.
ref: 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 361:
text: [A] few days later [I] had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
glosses: A Russian (male) peasant.
isba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isbas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of izba.
izba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪzˈbɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: izbas
form: isba
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian изба́ (izbá).
Senses: examples: text: From the doctor's I flitted over to a travel agency, obtained maps and booklets, studied them, learned that on the mountainside above Cedarn there were two or three clusters of cabins, rushed my order to the Cedarn Post Office, and a few days later had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
glosses: a Russian log hut
goetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊˈɛtɪk/
ipa: /ɡoʊˈɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more goetic
form: most goetic
Etymology: From goety + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Virility is sustained, preserved, even recaptured, by man's ingenuities, by exotic foods and drinks, by rare herbal compounds, by fantastical manipulations, goetic periapts.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
text: That is why goetic magic does not always work. The demons in their prismatic malice betray the agreement between us and them, and we are again in the chaos of chance.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
text: by this time, I say, the serious witches had gone very thoroughly underground and the only ones left on the surface were a few old crones practising a little Goëtic magic to help their friendly neighbours and to smarten up their petty persecutors.
ref: 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 420:
glosses: Pertaining to black magic or necromancy.