cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
negritude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈnɛɡɹɪˌt͡ʃuːd/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈnɛɡɹɪˌtjuːd/
Forms: form: negritudes
Etymology: From French négritude (coined by Aimé Césaire), from nègre (“Negro”) + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: Negritude is not wearing turbans and fezzes, though these may be quite alluring.
ref: 1969 May, Richard A. Long, “Perspective: Negritude”, in Black World/Negro Digest, Johnson Publishing, page 11:
text: Long before Negritude had become a war-cry among the Black intellectuals of the Left Bank, Caribbean writers had been composing verses in French that were purely derivative, evoking the Parnassian and neo-Romantic influences of the end of the last century.
ref: 1976, Dorothy S. Blair, African literature in French: a history of creative writing in French from west and equatorial Africa, CUP Archive, →ISBN, page 144:
text: In order to explain this morality in action of negritude, I must go back a little.
ref: 2005, Gaurav Gajanan Desai, Supriya Nair, Postcolonialisms: an anthology of cultural theory and criticism, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 185:
text: Another important thing about “CLR,” as he was known in our little movement, was his disdainful opposition to any Third World fetishism or half-baked negritude.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 91:
glosses: The fact of being of black African descent, especially a conscious pride in the values, cultural identity etc. of African heritage; blackness.
wikipedia: Aimé Césaire
Related terms: coolitude
halfway decent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: No more than adequate.
glosses: Mediocre.
glosses: Good - better than expected.
personalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin persōnālia.
Senses: examples: text: Evidently doing this job would be as much a matter of probing his memory for links and identifications, as of reading his personalia and getting up the history of Sudan.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: All the personal belongings, writings and information of an individual.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Announcements or requests issued in an association's periodical by or about individual members of that association.
yuri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͝orē
ipa: /ˈjʊɹi/
rhymes: -ʊɹi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 百合(ゆり) (yuri, “lily”), by analogy to 薔薇(バラ) (bara, “rose”), indicating love. See Yuri (genre) § “Terminology and etymology” at Wikipedia.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more women.
wikipedia: Yuri (genre)#Terminology and etymology
Related terms: lesbian
yaoi
shounen ai
shoujo ai
himejoshi
political vacuum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political vacuums
Senses: examples: January 26 2005, The Washington Times
Both directly and through their terrorist intermediaries in Lebanon, Iran's ayatollahs have been meddling in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for years. But the death of Yasser Arafat, and the political vacuum that has emerged in the wake of the Palestinian strongman's passing, have laid the groundwork for even greater Iranian infiltration of Palestinian politics.
glosses: A state of relative anarchy compared to neighboring states, often caused by death of the head of state before a successor could be designated.
Tobiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hebrew name טוֹבִיָּה (Toviyyah, “Yahweh is good”).
Senses: examples: But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
glosses: An Ammonite mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah. (biblical character)
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: Tobias
Toby
suppliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌpliənt/
Forms: form: more suppliant
form: most suppliant
Etymology: From French suppliant, present participle of supplier. Doublet of supplicant.
Senses: examples: text: to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Some plaques formed part of a mosaic that covered human life with its varied scenes of peace and war. Here we have warriors, the Cretan erect, and his darker-skinned enemy prostrate and suppliant.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 20:
text: Oedipus, King of my country, you can see our ages who are before your door; some it may be too young for such a journey, and some too old, Priests of Zeus such as I, and these chosen young men; while the rest of the people crowd the market-places with their suppliant branches, for the city stumbles towards death, hardly able to raise up its head
ref: 1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, Sophocles’ King Oedipus: A Version of the Modern Stage, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Entreating with humility; supplicant.
examples: text: your levy Must be suppliant
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
glosses: Supplying; auxiliary.
suppliant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌpliənt/
Forms: form: suppliants
Etymology: From French suppliant, present participle of supplier. Doublet of supplicant.
Senses: examples: text: In reuerence therefore of the hopes vvhich the Grecians haue repoſed in you, and of the preſence of Iupiter Olympius, in vvhoſe Temple here, vve are in a manner ſuppliants to you, receiue the Mitylenians into league, and ayde vs.
ref: 1629, Thucydides, “The First Booke”, in Thomas Hobbes, transl., Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre […], London: […] Hen[ry] Seile, […], →OCLC, page 52:
text: I touch your beard as a suppliant, embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness.
ref: 1963, Philip Vellacott, transl., Medea, Penguin Classics, translation of original by Euripides, page 39:
synonyms: beseecher
petitioner
supplicant
glosses: One who pleads or requests earnestly.
Related terms: suppliance
suppliantly
supplicant
supplicate
supplicatingly
supplication
supplicator
supplicatory
hanging participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging participles
Senses: glosses: A dangling participle.
dangling participle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dangling participles
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: dangler
hypernyms: dangling modifier
dangler
glosses: Any participle used as a dangling modifier.
prairies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prairie
ion exchange resins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ion exchange resin
chromatographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from German chromatographisch; see there for more.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Of or pertaining to chromatography.
Derived terms: chromatographically
immunochromatographic
nanochromatographic
nonchromatographic
oligochromatographic
colorimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colorimeter
spectrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectrometer
gravimetric analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gravimetric analysis
antipatico
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipatico
form: most antipatico
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian antipatico.
Senses: examples: text: I must say, even for my own part, that however much I respected German superiority, I thought it a cruel dispensation for the gay-hearted Italian to be made subject to a power so antipatico to him, and it is only the bad use which the Italian made of his transient gleam of liberty, that reconciles me now to the presence of a foreign force.
ref: 1852, Michael Burke Honan, The Personal Adventures of "Our Own Correspondent" in Italy, page 56:
text: They are all business and brusqueness, and they bore us, and are antipatico.
ref: 1909, Ruth Little Mason, The Trailers: a Novel, Fleming H. Revell Company, page 221:
text: I can hardly turn on the telly without being confronted by your antipatico manner.
ref: 1994 July 27, Maggie Brown, The Independent:
antonyms: simpatico
glosses: Unpleasant, odious, unsympathetic, harsh, (of person) crabby.
raw_tags: of people or situations
pentoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentose
simpatico
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪmˈpa.tɪ.kəʊ/
ipa: /sɪmˈpæ.tə.koʊ/
ipa: /sɪmˈpɑ.tə.koʊ/
Forms: form: more simpatico
form: most simpatico
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian simpatico or Spanish simpático (“nice, likeable”), ultimately from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “sympathy”, literally “suffering together”).
Senses: examples: text: Colombia is a red herring, however. The songs that became Madame X actually came together during Madonna’s two years in Portugal, where she decamped in 2017 when her son David enrolled in Benfica’s football academy. Madonna absorbed the local sounds with more of a mature, simpatico rather than asset-stripping eye.
ref: 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:
text: At first, I figured he was pretending to like things that women like to seem simpatico, a feminist hustle. But no, this guy really wanted to read “Northanger Abbey.”
ref: 2025 August 2, Maureen Dowd, “Attention, Men: Books Are Sexy!”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Having a compatible temperament or pleasing qualities.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: This meant that one morning Hildon would wake up and realize that he and Lucy were not simpatico. She was afraid because this happened so often—she dreaded it—but the truth was that she did not fear men individually.
ref: 2011 April 6, Ann Beattie, Love Always, Vintage, →ISBN:
text: 'You're my boss, and perhaps it's a good thing we're not simpático. In fact, I think it's probably for the best if we keep a certain distance between us.' To her surprise, he nodded. 'At work, yes—you are quite right.'
ref: 2015, Joanna Neil, Temptation in Paradise, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 97:
text: "Basically, right now, you and math are just not...simpatico."
ref: 2017 May 8, Cindi Madsen, Confessions of a Former Puck Bunny, Entangled: Embrace, →ISBN:
glosses: Compatible (with a person, thing, etc).
decine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: decenylene
shadow minister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow ministers
Etymology: See Shadow Cabinet.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: shadow cabinet
text: The phrase 'shortly', when used by government rail ministers, means at least four years... and counting, Shadow Transport Minister Tan Dhesi has stated.
ref: 2023 June 28, “Network News: Shadow Minister in despair over Government's RNEP stalling”, in RAIL, number 986, page 16:
glosses: In British and some Commonwealth parliaments, a member of an opposition party, with responsibility for a particular portfolio.
shadow cabinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow cabinets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Shadow Cabinet.
renascence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈneɪs(ə)ns/
ipa: /ɹɪˈnas(ə)ns/
Forms: form: renascences
Etymology: From renascent + -ence.
Senses: examples: text: Although at first I was puzzles, I did not have to ponder long the mystery of this man's renascence.
ref: 1967, William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Vintage, published 2004, page 334:
glosses: A new beginning or rebirth; regeneration.
examples: text: Ignored by her own time, Dickinson was sentimentalized in her renascence.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: Renewal, revival.
glosses: The Renaissance.
niggardliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niggardlinesses
Etymology: From niggardly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being niggardly; parsimony.
Synonyms: word: niggardness
word: niggardship
word: niggardy
word: niggardry
word: niggardise
odori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 踊り (odori).
Senses: glosses: An energetic Japanese style of folk dance.
burbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burbot
culvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culver
isolates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isolate
isolates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of isolate
interceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interceptors
Etymology: From intercept + -or.
Senses: glosses: Anyone or anything that intercepts something else.
glosses: A combat aircraft designed to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft before they can attack.
glosses: A guided missile designed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles.
topics: architecture
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device to trap, remove, or separate hazardous or undesirable matter (such as oil or sand) from normal waste conveyed through it, permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A hook routine that intercepts normal program flow to carry out a task.
glosses: A sewer that intercepts sewerage destined for an outfall (e.g. into a river) and redirects it to a treatment plant.
Related terms: interception
uninterceptable
unintercepted
insole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsəʊl/
ipa: /ˈɪnsoʊl/
rhymes: -ɪnsəʊl
Forms: form: insoles
Etymology: From in + sole.
Senses: glosses: The inside sole of a shoe or other footwear.
insole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnsəʊl/
ipa: /ˈɪnsoʊl/
rhymes: -ɪnsəʊl
Forms: form: insoles
form: insoling
form: insoled
form: insoled
Etymology: From in + sole.
Senses: glosses: To fit (footwear) with an insole.
mailbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪl.bɑks/
Forms: form: mailboxes
form: mail-box
form: mail box
Etymology: From mail + box.
Senses: examples: text: She waved back, placed a stack of envelopes in her mailbox, and lifted the red flag.
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 264:
glosses: A box into which mail is placed.
A collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose.
synonyms: letterbox
coordinate_terms: outbox
glosses: A box into which mail is placed.
A delivery point for mail, a box, compartment or slot for this purpose.
synonyms: letterbox
coordinate_terms: inbox
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A folder or account for the storage of email; an electronic inbox or mailstore.
Synonyms: post box
post-box
postbox
Derived terms: e-mailbox
mailbox company
mailbox rule
voice mailbox
Related terms: voicemailbox
flaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flaw
mugshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mugshots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mug shot.
NSAIDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of NSAID
betters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I left the entry for my betters to edit.
glosses: plural of better
betters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of better
bettering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English beterynge; equivalent to better + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of better
bettering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: betterings
Etymology: From Middle English beterynge; equivalent to better + -ing.
Senses: glosses: improvement
Derived terms: time-bettering
bettered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of better
ASAMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Sport Art Museum and Archives.
milch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪlt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪltʃ
Etymology: From Middle English milche, melche, from Old English *melċe, *milċe (attested in þrimilċe, þrimelċes mōnaþ), from Proto-Germanic *milkijaz, *melkijaz from Proto-Germanic *melkaz (“milky, milk-giving”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“to wipe, wipe off, milk”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian meelk (“milch”), Low German melke (“milch”), German melk (“milk-giving, milch”), Alemannic German mëlch (“milch, milkable”), Icelandic milkur, mjólkur (“milk-giving”). More at milk.
Senses: examples: text: so many cattle […] old cows and young cows; meek-eyed milch cows and fierce […] Texas steers.
ref: 1906, Upton Sinclair, The Jungle:
glosses: Used to produce milk; dairy.
raw_tags: of a cow or other livestock
examples: text: She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace / Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache / Hasting to feed her fawn, hid in some break.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
text: you must house your Milch-cows
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Currently producing milk for its offspring.
raw_tags: of a mammal
glosses: Tender; pitiful; weeping.
Derived terms: milch camel
milch cow
milch goat
milch-maid
milch-wench
milch-woman
milchy
non-milch
milch cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milch cows
Etymology: From Middle English melche cow, mylche cowe.
Senses: glosses: A cow kept for milking; a dairy cow.
glosses: A cow that produces milk (having had at least one calf).
glosses: A cash cow.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A German WWII submarine designed to carry large cargoes of supplies and transfer them to other submarines.
salicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salicins
Etymology: From Latin salix, salicis (“a willow”) + -in.
Senses: glosses: A glucoside derivative of salicylic acid; the active principle of willow bark, once used medicinally.
Related terms: aspirin
virgin timber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virgin timbers
Senses: glosses: Timber (lumber) taken from an uncultivated forest.
jetset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jetsets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jet set.
jetset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jet set.
jetset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jetsets
form: jetsetting
form: jetsetted
form: jetsetted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jet set.
quarterhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterhorses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quarter horse.
quarter horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter horses
form: quarterhorse
form: quarter-horse
Etymology: Named for its ability to outdistance other horse breeds in races of a quarter mile or less.
Senses: examples: text: I'm getting ready to go out and play the quarter horses.
ref: 1980, Charles Bukowski, letter, 4 November, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 158
text: When the last tune of music floated from the fleet, he unstabled his quarter horse and headed for the coastal road leading west and north on his circuit.
ref: 1992, Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler, Sir John Dodderidge, Celebrated Barrister of Britain, 1555-1628:
glosses: An American breed of horse originally bred for short-distance racing.
shmoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shmoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of schmo.
kibbitz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kibbitzes
form: kibbitzing
form: kibbitzed
form: kibbitzed
Senses: examples: text: So how it’s gonna go is we’re gonna talk for about 45 minutes. We’re just gonna kibbitz here; that’s Yiddish for just kinda like […]
ref: 2018 December 10, Eric Johnson, “Full Q&A: Y Combinator’s Sam Altman and Recode’s Kara Swisher discuss tech ethics, addiction and Facebook”, in recode:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kibitz.
Derived terms: kibbitzer
semiconducting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + conducting.
Senses: examples: text: Recently a stable monolayer of antimony in buckled honeycomb structure called antimonene was successfully grown on 3D topological insulator Bi#95;2Te#95;3 and Sb#95;2Te#95;3, which displays semiconducting properties.
ref: 2016, Yuanfeng Xu, Bo Peng, Hao Zhang, Hezhu Shao, Rongjun Zhang, Hongliang Lu, David Wei Zhang, Heyuan Zhu, “First-principle calculations of phononic, electronic and optical properties of monolayer arsenene and antimonene allotropes”, in arXiv:
glosses: That has the characteristics of a semiconductor
Derived terms: semiconducting compound
semiconducting crystal
senna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnə/
rhymes: -ɛnə
Forms: form: sennas
Etymology: From Arabic سَنَا (sanā, “senna”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative.
glosses: The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: senna glycoside, a laxative.
Derived terms: American senna
bladder senna
coffee senna
scorpion senna
wild senna
sequencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sequence
sequencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequencings
Senses: glosses: Arrangement in a sequence.
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: The procedure of determining the order of amino acids in the polypeptide chain of a protein (protein sequencing) or of nucleotides in a DNA section comprising a gene (gene sequencing).
Derived terms: DNA sequencing
genetic sequencing
Sanger sequencing
shotgun sequencing
stirringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stirringly
form: most stirringly
Etymology: From stirring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stirring manner.
stockiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stocky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being stocky.
stockroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockrooms
Etymology: From stock + room.
Senses: glosses: A room where a store keeps its stock of merchandise.
stockrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stockroom
premiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premisses
form: præmise
form: præmiss
Senses: examples: text: […] that he might have no excuse for evading the test, the Franciscan declared himself willing to be a victim to this high logic, and to be burned for the sake of securing the necessary minor premiss.
ref: 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume III, Book III, Chapter XVII, page 173:
glosses: Alternative spelling of premise.
premiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: premisses
form: premissing
form: premissed
form: premissed
form: præmise
form: præmiss
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of premise.
falderal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falderals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of folderol.
metric pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metric pounds
Etymology: This is the closest metric unit to the imperial pound (of approximately 454 grams).
Senses: glosses: Half a kilogram, or 500 grams.
Related terms: english: mass
translation: mass
word: w:Pound
red-letter day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-letter days
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red letter day.
graduate engineer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graduate engineers
Senses: glosses: A person who holds an engineering degree from a technical university or equivalent.
red-letter days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-letter day
plane angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plane angles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angle formed by two intersecting straight lines.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angle formed by two intersecting planes, measured by the angle between two intersecting straight lines that are in respective planes and perpendicular to the intersection of the planes.
sooky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sookier
form: more sooky
form: sookiest
form: most sooky
form: sookey
form: sukey
Etymology: From sook + -y (“characteristic of”) and -y (“diminutive”).
Senses: examples: text: Kangaroos on the other hand become even more sooky (needy for attention), when denied time outside.
ref: 2006, Lynda Staker, The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods, page 189:
glosses: Complaining, whingeing, sad; jealous.
examples: text: Sentimentalists and political quacks have devoted much time to convincing the sookier twentieth century that nineteenth century New World penitentiaries were choked with near-blameless stealers of one teaspoon, one handkerchief, one loaf of bread.
ref: 1978, J. Ferguson, Seven Cities of Australia, page 48:
text: Judging by the subject matter, Turkish soldiers are the sookiest, purse-carryingest, most sentimental nancy boys ever to put on military uniforms.
ref: 1999, Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home, page 138:
text: Our trepidation at being savaged by a vicious pig dog was soon allayed, however. He turned out to be the sookiest dog on earth. All he wanted in life was a pet or a cuddle, preferably both.
ref: 2009, Evan McHugh, Birdsville, ReadHowYouWant, published 2011, page 139:
glosses: Sentimental, sissy; timid.
Derived terms: sooky baby
sooky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sookies
form: sookey
form: sukey
Etymology: From sook + -y (“characteristic of”) and -y (“diminutive”).
Senses: glosses: A sook, a crybaby.
Senna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sennas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Senna; this surname is predominantly attested in Brazil, however it is not of Portuguese origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
shantung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shantungs
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 山東／山东 (Shāndōng), Shantung.
Senses: examples: text: As she walked, the soft silk of her dress – she wore a blue shantung, full-skirted – blew away from the sea and flapped and clung to her legs.
ref: 1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 442:
text: The yellow beer, the light shantung suit and the gleaming white teeth were all alight with the trembling silver reflections that sprang from the sunlight on the water.
ref: 1963, H. E. Bates, “Major of Hussars”, in Seven by Five:
glosses: A type of Chinese silk, originally undyed.
glosses: A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.
shiatsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃiːˈɑːt.suː/
/ʃiːˈæt.suː/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 指(し)圧(あつ) (shiatsu), from Middle Chinese 指 (MC tsyijX, “finger”) + 壓 (MC 'aep, “downward force”).
Senses: glosses: A form of massage, using the thumbs and palms, employed as therapy.
shipboard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English schip bord; equivalent to ship + board.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Occurring or existing on board a ship.
glosses: casual or ephemeral (e.g. a shipboard romance)
shipboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipboards
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English schip bord; equivalent to ship + board.
Senses: glosses: The side of a ship.
Related terms: ashipboard
on shipboard
shipload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpˌloʊd/
Forms: form: shiploads
Etymology: From ship + load.
Senses: examples: text: It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.
ref: 1853, John Ruskin, “IV, St. Mark's”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXVII, page 77:
text: The Penrhyn slate quarry possibly dates back to the sixteenth century, as it appears that in 1580 Sion Tudor asked the Bishop of Bangor for a shipload of slate.
ref: 1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
text: Alas, our shipload of Pelts, upon which we had borrow'd heavily, approaching the Channel, was surpriz'd by one of Monseer's Privateers and like that, ta'en.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 66, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 641:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.
eGovernment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eGovernments
form: e-government
form: e-Government
Etymology: From e- + Government.
Senses: examples: text: A decade after some of the first government Web sites went live, the quality of eGoverment^([sic]) in Europe varies greatly, experts say, with some countries, like Sweden and Denmark, already providing many services to citizens and businesses online, while others, especially in southeastern Europe, are still creating Internet portals.
ref: 2008 January 18, “EU tries to get its members together online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The use of information technologies in order to enhance the access to and the delivery of government information and services to the public and to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and/or the quality of government operations.
Related terms: e-governance
shipmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪpˌmeɪt/
ipa: /ˈʃɪpmɪt/
Forms: form: shipmates
Etymology: From ship + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: "And who else?" returned the other, getting more at his ease. "Black Dog as ever was, come for to see his old shipmate Billy, at the 'Admiral Benbow' inn. Ah, Bill, Bill, we have seen a sight of times, us two, since I lost them two talons," holding up his mutilated hand.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A fellow sailor serving on the same ship as another.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any sailor (when used as a form of address by a sailor).
shipowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipowners
Etymology: From ship + owner.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Someone who owns a ship.
stud book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stud books
form: studbook
form: stud-book
Etymology: From stud + book.
Senses: synonyms: animal registry
glosses: In livestock breeding, a written record of the genealogy of animals.
studbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of studbook
sidelong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪd.lɑŋ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪd.lɒŋ/
Etymology: 1520s, from Middle English sidlyng (early 14th century), from side + -lyng (“(frequentative)”) (modern English -le (“(frequentative)”)). Reanalyzed as side + long.
Senses: examples: text: He cast me a sidelong glance.
glosses: Directed to the side; sideways.
glosses: Slanting or sloping; oblique.
examples: text: She made some sidelong remarks about his manhood.
glosses: Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
examples: text: The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong collision with it.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Newcastle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76:
glosses: Along the side of something.
Synonyms: word: inside-out
sidelong
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪd.lɑŋ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪd.lɒŋ/
Forms: form: more sidelong
form: most sidelong
Etymology: 1520s, from Middle English sidlyng (early 14th century), from side + -lyng (“(frequentative)”) (modern English -le (“(frequentative)”)). Reanalyzed as side + long.
Senses: glosses: Towards the side; sideways.
glosses: obliquely
Related terms: sidle
sideling
sidling
sidesaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidesaddles
form: side-saddle
Etymology: From side + saddle.
Senses: glosses: A saddle, usually for a woman, in which the rider sits with both legs on the same side of the horse.
glosses: The technique of riding a horse with both legs on the same side of the horse.
sidesaddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: side-saddle
Etymology: From side + saddle.
Senses: examples: text: He rode sidesaddle to avoid worsening his injured leg.
text: He had his daughter riding sidesaddle on the bicycle frame while he pedaled.
glosses: On, or as if on, such a saddle.
Synonyms: woman-fashion
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sarracenia purpurea
word: side-saddle flower
single-breasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: coordinate_terms: double-breasted
glosses: Closing with a single row of buttons that form a narrow overlap.
raw_tags: of a jacket or coat
wikipedia: single-breasted
double-breasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The train staff were at least smartly dressed. They had better be, or they were sacked. They had to keep their double-breasted uniform coats buttoned right up at all times,[…]
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 147:
text: The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette.
ref: 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian:
coordinate_terms: single-breasted
glosses: Closing with a double row of buttons that form a wide overlap.
raw_tags: of a jacket or coat
wikipedia: double-breasted
stock-still
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stock still
Etymology: Inversion of earlier still as a stock, from stock (“tree-trunk”).
Senses: examples: text: The team was stock-still in front of the stable.
synonyms: word: at rest
word: unmoving
word: at rest
word: dull
word: impassive
word: inanimate
word: lifeless
word: motionless
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: stationary
word: still
word: stock-still
word: torpid
word: unmoved
word: unmoving
glosses: Very still; motionless.
stock-still
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: stock still
Etymology: Inversion of earlier still as a stock, from stock (“tree-trunk”).
Senses: examples: text: He lay stock-still among the bodies and blasted equipment.
text: Paul stood stock still; then came a strong impulse to turn and run back.
ref: 1897, Sam T. Clover, Paul Travers' Adventures:
text: Now his fingertips were tapping in addition to his toe-bouncing, until soon his entire body was wibbling in jumping-bean fashion. “Old Mag, you say?” He peered around Nitty at Mag, and Mag took the opportunity to inspect his mask and goggles with her trunk. The boy quit wibbling, stood stock-still, and gulped.
ref: 2019 June, Suzanne Nelson, A Tale Magnolious, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: Without motion.
stodgily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stodgily
form: most stodgily
Etymology: From stodgy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stodgy manner.
breasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From breast + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.
ref: 2000, Thomas A. Easton, Stones of Memory, page 11:
glosses: Having a breast, or breasts.
examples: text: The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the Black-breasted Red, with fawn-breasted partridge hens; the Brown-breasted Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the Red-breasted Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.
ref: 1884, Charles Louis Flint, The American Farmer, page 480:
glosses: Having a specified kind of breast or covering.
Derived terms: bar-breasted honeyeater
bare-breasted
big-breasted
black-breasted leaf turtle
black-breasted quail
blue-breasted fairywren
buff-breasted sandpiper
chestnut-breasted mannikin
chicken-breasted
cinnamon-breasted tit
double-breasted
golden-breasted fulvetta
green-breasted pitta
open-breasted
pigeon-breasted
plain-breasted hawk
red-breasted flycatcher
red-breasted goose
red-breasted merganser
red-breasted sapsucker
rose-breasted cockatoo
rose-breasted grosbeak
rufous-breasted sparrowhawk
scaly-breasted lorikeet
single-breasted
slaty-breasted tinamou
spot-breasted lapwing
stripe-breasted tit
tawny-breasted tinamou
white-breasted hawk
white-breasted nuthatch
white-breasted sea eagle
white-breasted waterhen
yellow-breasted bunting
yellow-breasted chat
yellow-breasted greenfinch
breasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From breast + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of breast
double spaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-spaced.
double spaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double space
shmoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shmo
glosses: plural of shmoe
sixth sense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixth senses
Etymology: Adding to the traditional five senses of touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing.
Senses: examples: text: Among themselves they communicate by means of what Perry says must be a sixth sense which is cognizant of a fourth dimension.
ref: 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter V, in At the Earth's Core:
text: Luckily, on evidence which I could never understand, Dominic detected something suspicious. Perhaps it was by virtue of some sixth sense that men born for unlawful occupations may be gifted with.
ref: 1919, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], →OCLC:
text: What Ghaznavi had considered animal intuition or some sixth sense was merely the razor-edged faculties and savage wit of the barbarian.
ref: 1934 August, Robert E. Howard, The Devil in Iron, Chapter IV, published in Weird Tales
synonyms: second sight
glosses: Extrasensory perception; the ability to sense things by means other than the known bodily senses.
Related terms: five senses
sixth senses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sixth sense
Mogadishu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒɡəˈdiːʃuː/
ipa: /-ˈdɪʃ-/
ipa: /ˌmoʊ.ɡəˈdi.ʃu/
Etymology: From Arabic مَقَدِيشُو (maqadīšū).
Senses: synonyms: Xamar
glosses: The capital city of Somalia.
Derived terms: Mogadishu line
pratfalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pratfall
old hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old hands
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: insider, initiate; habitué
text: My tax advisor is an old hand at dealing with auditors.
text: The media, needless to say, are very pro-Bloomberg. He’s an old hand at stroking reporters and television executives, and few of them have raised the fact that it was Rudy who inherited a lawless city with crime out of control and over eight years, via his ‘broken windows’ theory, turned Gotham into the safest big city on the planet.
ref: 2020 March 2, Taki Theodoracopulos, “What makes Bloomie run?”, in The Spectator (US edition):
synonyms: veteran
warhorse
hypernyms: person#Noun
glosses: A person who is experienced at a certain activity.
Related terms: ingroup
old hat
shell shock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell shocks
form: shellshock
form: shell-shock
Etymology: Well attested during World War I. Attempts to find attestations that predate that war seem fruitless. The ambiguity of reference to a range of phenomena, from physical concussion due to the explosively loud noise of artillery fire (on both the sending and receiving ends) to psychological reactions to violence and maiming, was present in the term's use from the start. In 21st-century wars there is continued evidence that long, close exposure to the noise of artillery can cause traumatic brain injury even in soldiers who did not take incoming artillery fire. But most discussions of shell shock in World War I concerned combat stress as well.
Senses: examples: text: "[…]Think of me / With all these psychic shell shocks — first the war, / Its great emotions, then this Elenor."
ref: 2004, Edgar Lee Masters, Barrett Bays: Domesday Book, page 322:
text: But while malls killed much of downtown America, they only partially injured New York City. The density of this city guaranteed a less dramatic impact than the shell shocks that crippled so many other cities.
ref: 2010, Roberta Brandes Gratz, The Battle for Gotham, page 21:
glosses: A stunning shock.
examples: text: There's a condition in combat—most people know it by now. It occurs when a soldier's nervous system has reached the breaking point. In World War I, it was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables. Shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. Shell shock!!
ref: 2004, George Carlin, “EUPHEMISMS: Shell Shock to PTSD”, in When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 40:
synonyms: battle fatigue
combat fatigue
glosses: A psychiatric condition characterized by fatigue caused by battle; it is not a current diagnosis in medicine, but it corresponds largely with the current diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder.
examples: text: I passed through the shell-shock wards and a yard where the "shell-shocks" sat about, dumb, or making queer, foolish noises, or staring with a look of animal fear in their eyes.
ref: 1920, Phillip Gibbs, Now It Can Be Told, published 2009, page 350:
text: Of the 79 officer casualties 10 were "shell-shocks", or about 12 per cent, of the whole. Of the 10 shell-shocks 4 were sent to C.C.S. and 6 to Corps Rest Station.
ref: 1943, Arthur Graham Butler, The Australian Army Medical Services in the War of 1914-1918, volume 3, page 107:
text: Most nurses found the helplessness of "the shell shocks" painful and "pitiful."
ref: 2004, Susan Zeiger, In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917—1919, page 131:
glosses: A person with the condition.
examples: text: The other was to go on, to the next drink or the bed or the grass outside, where the party-noises ebbed and flowed like shell-shocks and the Southern Cross burnt crookedly above.
ref: 1967, Bernard Share, Inish, page 99:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shell, shock.
Related terms: word: shell shocked
word: soldier's heart
shell shock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shell shocks
form: shell shocking
form: shell shocked
form: shell shocked
form: shellshock
form: shell-shock
Etymology: Well attested during World War I. Attempts to find attestations that predate that war seem fruitless. The ambiguity of reference to a range of phenomena, from physical concussion due to the explosively loud noise of artillery fire (on both the sending and receiving ends) to psychological reactions to violence and maiming, was present in the term's use from the start. In 21st-century wars there is continued evidence that long, close exposure to the noise of artillery can cause traumatic brain injury even in soldiers who did not take incoming artillery fire. But most discussions of shell shock in World War I concerned combat stress as well.
Senses: examples: text: It was General du Pont's 'forty-five' which bellowed and thundered and echoed through Fifth avenue, scaring horses and shell shocking pedestrians.
ref: 1919, Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, numbers 148-152, page xx:
text: 1999, Brother Gilbert (Phillip F. Cairnes), Harry Rothgerber (editor), Young Babe Ruth, page 146,
The crack of the home run that the batsman cherishes shell-shocks the nerves of the pitcher who threw it.
text: 2008, Linda Mi-Suk Enos, The Korean Palace of Honolulu, Condensed (6 x 9) Version, page 462,
Silently Melissa listened to her mother as she softly convincingly spoke the raw naked truth the best way she knew how without shell shocking the girl.
text: Barry sounded lighter, his spirits lifting slightly from the shell shocking humiliation and helplessness he'd been feeling.
ref: 2010, John E. Shephard, Jr, Cottage Lake Soliloquy, page 10:
glosses: To stun or debilitate as by a shock.
Related terms: post-traumatic stress disorder
PTSD
shell shocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shell shocked
form: most shell shocked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shell-shocked.
shell shocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shell shock
thirdly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɜːdli/
ipa: /ˈθɜːdlɪ/
ipa: /ˈθɚdli/
Forms: form: 3rdly
form: thyrdly
form: 3dly
form: 3ᵈˡʸ
Etymology: From third + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And God hath ſet ſome in the Church, firſt Apoſtles, ſecondarily Pꝛophets, thirdly Teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpes in gouernmẽts, diuerſities of tongues.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 12:28:
text: Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: In the third place; third in a row.
fourthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fourth + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Fourthly, I have made an effort to call the attention of the reader to the pertinent literature.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
text: Fourthly, when all equilibria are unstable and complex endogenous fluctuations arise, the LAW policy reduces the amplitude of fluctuations but at the expense of larger average deviations from the targets.
ref: 2024, Anufriev, Lamantia, Radi, Tichy, “Leaning against the wind in the New Keynesian model with heterogeneous expectations”, in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, →DOI:
glosses: In the fourth place; fourth in a row.
fifthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fifth + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the fifth place; fifth in a row.
sixthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sixth + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the sixth place; sixth in a row.
seventhly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From seventh + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the seventh place; seventh in a row.
eighthly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From eighth + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the eighth place; eighth in a row.
ninethly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ninthly.