cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ethyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
qualifier: official IUPAC name
glosses: The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula HC≡CH or C₂H₂.
Synonyms: acetylene
Derived terms: dipropylethyne
ethynium
pull a fast one
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls a fast one
form: pulling a fast one
form: pulled a fast one
form: pulled a fast one
Senses: examples: text: This isn't worth anything like what you paid them. I think they pulled a fast one on you.
text: I haven't forgotten the way you tried to pull a fast one over me when you first came here—over the Jaintiapur plantation that I had wanted for some time.
ref: 1907, Maurice Dekobra, The Widows Might:
text: President Bush today made his most aggressive assault yet on Gov. Bill Clinton, asserting that the Democratic nominee would "pull a fast one on the American people" and raise taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars.
ref: 1992 August 7, Andrew Rosenthal, “The 1992 Campaign: Bush Says Rival Would ‘Pull a Fast One’ Over Taxes”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Nov 2017:
text: The man known as Chainsaw Al pulled a fast one last week, buying three companies when everyone assumed he would be selling his own.
ref: 1998 March 16, Daniel Kadlec, “Is That You, Al Dunlap?”, in Time, retrieved 03 Nov 2017:
text: 7. Claimants are pulling a fast one. No. Less than 1% of the welfare budget is lost to fraud.
ref: 2013 April 2, Ricky Tomlinson, “10 lies we're told about welfare”, in The Guardian, retrieved 03 Nov 2017:
text: But then came Jan. 6, when I watched my Ivy League-educated senator, Ted Cruz, try to pull yet another fast one on the American people as he fought — not long before the certification process was disrupted by a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol and forcing their way into the Senate chamber — to challenge the election results.
ref: 2021 January 11, Mimi Swartz, “Never Forget What Ted Cruz Did”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The chap opposite seems to be trying to pull a fast one, and having seen the guard is trying to buy a ticket online... but doesn't succeed. The guard helpfully sells him one, but not quite at the price of one purchased in advance. In fairness he doesn't kick off, nor does the guard treat him like some common criminal. It's a fair cop - or should that be a fare cop?
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 57:
glosses: To carry out a trick or act of deception; to behave contrary to expectations.
raw_tags: followed by on
Related terms: fast one
pull the wool over someone's eyes
pull someone's leg
polyethene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + ethene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
qualifier: official IUPAC name
glosses: Synonym of polyethylene.
synonyms: word: polyethylene
a into g
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ ɪntə ˈd͡ʒiː/
Senses: examples: text: C'mon Geoffrey, we're already five minutes late, so get your a into g!
glosses: Abbreviation of ass into gear.
on the horn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Let me get on the horn with him and ask.
glosses: On the telephone.
'fraid so
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Contraction.
Senses: glosses: I am afraid so
blow over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows over
form: blowing over
form: blew over
form: blown over
Senses: examples: text: The wind blew over the pole.
glosses: To blow on something causing it to topple.
examples: text: The tree blew over in the storm.
glosses: To be knocked down by wind.
examples: text: They huddled, waiting for the storm to blow over.
text: You cannot simply wait for a problem like that to blow over.
glosses: To pass naturally; to go away; to calm down or subside.
examples: text: I'm still mending from all that time ago, that was your purpose, so this could happen for me and so I can change the world and make it a better place, but I can't without fans, that blow me over with their wishes and dreams that couldn't exist without them.
ref: 2011, Sandra Leigh Savage, Love Letters, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: To overwhelm.
irreverent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irreverent
form: most irreverent
Etymology: From Latin irreverēns. By surface analysis, ir- + reverent.
Senses: examples: text: an irreverent new work
text: an irreverent examination of reviewing
text: Beyond the hut a clump of myalls loomed spectral and wraith-like, and round them a gang of crows cawed noisily, irreverent of the great silence.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28:
glosses: Lacking respect; not having or not showing respect for or seriousness towards something that is usually treated with respect; going against conventional precepts.
Synonyms: flippant
impertinent
insolent
pert
Derived terms: irreverently
Related terms: irreverence
sarcastic
one brick short of a full load
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I feel fine today, but that gentleman conversing with the house plant there may be one brick short of a full load.
glosses: Not mentally sound; insane.
examples: text: You have to be one brick short of a full load to think that '7' is a letter in the alphabet.
glosses: Stupid.
age of majority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ages of majority
Senses: examples: text: In Indiana the age of majority is 18 years.
topics: law
synonyms: legal age
glosses: The age at which the rights and privileges of an adult are legally granted or recognized; i.e.; the age where a person ceases to be a minor legally and becomes a legal adult.
Related terms: adulthood
age of consent
major
maturity
minor
Saint George
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnt ˈdʒɔː(ɹ)dʒ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒ
Etymology: The parishes are named after Saint George (d. 303).
Senses: topics: Christianity
related: word: St George
word: St. George
glosses: Patron saint of England and several other places; legendary killer of a dragon.
glosses: A parish of Antigua and Barbuda.
glosses: A parish of Barbados.
glosses: A civil parish of Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A parish in Saint Vincent, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Derived terms: Saint George Gingerland
Saint George's Day
Related terms: Saint Georges
Saint-Georges-sur-Loire
St. George's Cross
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
all ears
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The students were all ears when they found out the topic of the film was "reproduction." They were disappointed to discover that it was also about fish.
glosses: Listening intently; fully focused.
examples: text: I am all ears to find out how my car, which used to have a perfectly functional engine, will no longer start.
glosses: Awaiting an explanation.
Related terms: all eyes
all smiles
buy-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buy-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from buy in.
Senses: examples: text: To win, I need to get buy-in from the team to have alignment with our mission.
text: Let's show the idea around and get buy-in from marketing.
text: China’s newly minted national parks don’t just safeguard famous keystone species such as Siberian tigers, giant pandas and Hainan gibbons. They are also designed to preserve the shrinking ecosystems that support such iconic wildlife, ranging from sweltering (tropical jungles in the southern province of Hainan to the chilly maple forests of northern Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces bordering Siberia. As in any country, getting human buy-in for such protected spaces is essential. Visitors and local populations need to comprehend—and support—the importance of setting aside lands for biodiversity.
ref: 2022 November 17, Paul Salopek, “A ‘Slow Storytelling’ Writing and Photography Workshop Boosts Conservation in China”, in National Geographic:
synonyms: alignment
approval
glosses: Support; agreement; blessing (in a secular sense).
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A tournament where a player must purchase all of his or her chips before the tournament starts.
examples: text: When tournament players are eliminated but remain eager to win back their buy-in, side games often develop and upstage tournament play with limits exceeding those in the tournament.
ref: 1983, David M. Hayano, Poker faces: the life and work of professional card players:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The amount that a player buys in for
Coordinate terms: sense: poker tournament
word: rebuy
sense: poker tournament
word: cash game
sense: poker tournament
word: sit-and-go
picky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: pickier
form: pickiest
Etymology: From pick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I am very picky about the way my kitchen is laid out.
text: Most of the pickiest children were actually in the middle weight group, though a few were underweight and a few were overweight.
ref: 2018 June 4, Perri Klass, M.D., “When New Means No: Picky Eating as a Normal Toddler Phase”, in The New York Times:
text: Singletons have become 'pickier' about their potential partners following the pandemic, one dating expert has claimed - insisting they are now even more concerned about the 'pink flags' that could lead to 'red flag scenarios'.
ref: 2021 December 12, Jessica Green, “The subtle signs YOUR relationship is set to fail: Relationship expert reveals the 'less-obvious' warning signals - including watching TOO much TV and not taking photos together”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2021:
glosses: Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
examples: text: picky bits
text: picky tea
text: […] a picky meal of bean-sprouts and humous […]
ref: 1988, Jan Webster, One Little Room, page 240:
glosses: Of food or a meal: consisting of various small items from which the diner can pick and choose.
Synonyms: anal-retentive
choosy
finicky
fussy
particular
pedantic
Derived terms: overpicky
pickily
pickiness
picky bit
picky tea
spicky plate
picky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: pickies
form: piccy
Etymology: From pick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: And who knows, I might do a few pickies of you - fully clothed, needless to say.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 44:
glosses: A picture.
Synonyms: pic
Related terms: nitpicky
picky eater
picky head
get on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: get on !
Senses: glosses: Expresses surprise or disbelief.
Related terms: get
get in
get into
get off
get on board
get on to
get onto
get on with
searching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɜɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of search
searching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɜɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more searching
form: most searching
Senses: examples: text: Einstein's photoelectric equation has been subjected to very searching tests and it appears in every case to predict exactly the observed results.
ref: 1916 March 24, R. A. Millikan, “A Direct Photoelectric Determination of Planck's "h"”, in Physical Review, volume 7, number 3, →DOI, page 388:
glosses: Thorough.
raw_tags: of an investigation
examples: text: a searching gaze; searching criticism
text: ‘So you are going out there. Famous. Interesting too.’ He gave me a searching glance, and made another note.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
text: ... a searching rain began to fall. In half an hour he was wet to the skin, and he fancied that Carteret, who sat amidships with the rain dripping from the light overcoat he had carried with him, could not be much drier.
ref: 1910, Harold Bindloss, Sydney Carteret, Rancher, New York : A.L. Burt Company, page 117:
glosses: Looking over closely; penetrating; severe.
searching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːtʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɜɹt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃɪŋ
Forms: form: searchings
Senses: examples: text: Her songs take us through many mood changes from lighthearted lovesongs and social commentary to a serious searching for answers and understanding.
ref: 1978 April 8, Barb Nesto, “Woman from the West”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
text: Depending on whom you ask, Antony Flew is either a true convert whose lifelong intellectual searchings finally brought him to God or a senescent scholar possibly being exploited by his associates.
ref: 2007 November 4, Mark Oppenheimer, “The Turning of an Atheist”, in New York Times:
glosses: Search; hunt.
Derived terms: heartsearching
job searching
mind-searching
soul searching
get on with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets on with
form: getting on with
form: got on with
form: got on with
form: gotten on with
Senses: examples: text: Turn off the television and get on with your homework.
text: Now that the technical difficulties have been taken care of, let's get on with the show!
text: I have to get on with my spring cleaning.
text: My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing. I wished they would go away, but they didn't, so I had to get on with the job to the accompaniment of a background of giggles!
ref: 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 77:
text: TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 48–49:
text: “Never better,” the Raabster spat back. “Just get on with it. What’s the score?”
ref: 2023 April 21, John Crace, “Psycho goes down raging: the liberal wokerati finally get to Raab”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To proceed with; to begin or continue, especially after an interruption.
examples: text: Peter is not easy to get on with.
synonyms: get along with
glosses: To have a good relationship with.
examples: text: I just can't get on with these new glasses.
glosses: To successfully use or adapt to.
Synonyms: sense: proceed with
word: begin
sense: proceed with
word: continue
sense: proceed with
word: keep on
sense: proceed with
word: get on
sense: proceed with
word: proceed
sense: proceed with
word: start
sense: proceed with
word: commence
Related terms: get on with you
cancerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænsəɹəs/
Forms: form: more cancerous
form: most cancerous
Etymology: From Middle English cancerous, from Latin cancerōsus, from cancer (“crab; tumor, cancer”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, cancer + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: On Sunday at five they operated to remove the cancerous kidney.
ref: 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 368:
topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
glosses: Relating to or affected with cancer.
glosses: Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm.
examples: text: I love this show, but the fanbase is so toxic and cancerous.
synonyms: word: AIDS
word: cancer
glosses: Extremely unpleasant; detestable.
Derived terms: anticancerous
cancerously
cancerousness
noncancerous
paracancerous
pericancerous
precancerous
procancerous
uncancerous
Related terms: cancer
I'm afraid so
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: I am afraid so
form: 'fraid so
Senses: examples: text: Do we really have to do every one by hand? Yes, I'm afraid so.
antonyms: I'm afraid not
glosses: Unfortunately, yes; I regret that that is so.
I'm afraid not
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: I am afraid not
form: 'fraid not
Senses: examples: text: Do you have any beer? No, I'm afraid not.
glosses: Unfortunately, no; I regret that that is not so.
'fraid not
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: I'm + 'fraid (“afraid”) + not
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of I'm afraid not.
suspicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
rhymes: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: more suspicious
form: most suspicious
Etymology: From Old French sospecious, from Latin suspiciosus, suspitiosus.
Senses: examples: text: His suspicious behaviour brought him to the attention of the police.
text: If their views were entrancing their sanitation was primeval; if they possessed stables they were also next to the gas-works; if their gardens were delightful there were odours suspicious of mice in the bedrooms.
ref: 1957, H. E. Bates, Death of a Huntsman:
synonyms: questionable
glosses: Arousing suspicion.
examples: text: We know he has a suspicious attitude to get-rich-quick schemes.
text: Betraide by fortune and ſuſpitious loue,
Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
I ſtand agaſt: […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
synonyms: doubtful
leery
antonyms: unsuspecting
glosses: Distrustful or tending to suspect.
examples: text: She gave me a suspicious look.
glosses: Expressing suspicion
Derived terms: non-suspicious
nonsuspicious
suspiciously
suspiciousness
sus
Related terms: suspect
suspicion
unsuspecting
odd
strange
underling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚlɪŋ/
Forms: form: underlings
Etymology: From Middle English underling, from Old English underling, equivalent to under + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], lines 140-141:
text: "I love not that underlings should perceive my wisdom."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: His decision to stay at the compound in the face of possible assassination set an example, making it more difficult for his underlings to cut and run. “Anyone who left is a traitor,” Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, told its members a few hours after the invasion started.
ref: 2022 December 7, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:
text: So read the email from Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, and a billionaire many times over. It would be read by more than 1,000 of his underlings at the company.
ref: 2023 November 7, Rob Copeland, “‘Ray, This Is a Religion’”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: A subordinate, or person of lesser rank or authority.
glosses: A low, wretched person.
Related terms: groundling
hireling
undermentioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + mentioned.
Senses: glosses: about to be specified or mentioned, especially in a document; following
Synonyms: following
scoreboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoreboards
Etymology: From score + board.
Senses: glosses: A large board that displays the score in a game or contest.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A similar board that also displays each batsman's score, and many statistics and pieces of information.
examples: text: As a result of the Santiago Principles and other parallel efforts at education such as the SWF scoreboard that I have featured in my research, a substantial amount of distrust surrounding SWFs has been defused.
ref: 2010, Edwin M. Truman, Sovereign Wealth Funds: Threat Or Salvation?, →ISBN, page 8:
text: If you are curious about what each of those processes were doing last, just scroll down the page to the table and find the process of the correct number in the scoreboard.
ref: 2012, Kyle Rankin, DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices, →ISBN:
glosses: A listing of various similar entities along with their properties, such as status or rank.
Derived terms: conversational scoreboard
scoreboard
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From score + board.
Senses: examples: text: Glenn Quagmire: And there's the Vietnam War memorial.
Peter Griffin: Hey, check out that Vietnamese guy giving the business to those Vietnam vets.
Vietnamese Civilian: [to a pair of Vietnam veterans] Scoreboard! Scoreboard! Aw, what happened to your friend? Hey, I know that guy. I kill him. He cry like a bitch! Vietnam! Undefeated!
ref: 2010 May 16, Mark Hentemann, “The Splendid Source”, in Family Guy, season 8, episode 19:
text: ."Scoreboard, baby! Scoreboard!" Bella taunted, pocketing her winnings as a red X went over K. C. Mack's mug shot.
ref: 2010 June 15, Rob Hedden, The Condemned, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 225:
text: When Neuheisel learned of Bellotti's comments, he offered a simple rebuttal: "Scoreboard, baby." Two words to end all arguments, two words to silence any complaint. Scoreboard, baby.
ref: 2010 September 1, Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry, Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 146:
text: For the rest of the game, all I would say to him when he taunted me was "scoreboard." Every single word that came out of his mouth was met with my response of "scoreboard."
ref: 2021 October 19, Noe Garcia, Repurposed: How God Turns Your Mess into His Message, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN:
glosses: A taunt which reminds someone that they are losing or have lost.
underneath
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndəˈniːθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈniθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈniθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈnið/
rhymes: -iːθ
rhymes: -iːð
Etymology: From Middle English undernethe, undernethen, from Old English underneoþan (“underneath”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *underniþer.
Senses: examples: text: I can't take my sweater off: I amn't wearing anything else on underneath.
text: connected with it underneath, you see a very fine hair-spring.
ref: 1825, Isaac Taylor, Scenes of British Wealth: In Produce, Manufactures, and Commerce, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry At-home Travellers:
glosses: Below; in a place beneath.
examples: text: No insects exhibit, like them, what may be termed four net-work eyes. It is very easy to perceive them in looking at the animal from above, and then examining it underneath
ref: 1832, Georges Cuvier, translated by Edward Griffith, edited by Georges Cuvier, Edward Pidgeon, and Edward Griffith, The Animal Kingdom: Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization, volume 14, published 2012, →ISBN:
glosses: On the underside or lower face.
underneath
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndəˈniːθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈniθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈniθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈnið/
rhymes: -iːθ
rhymes: -iːð
Etymology: From Middle English undernethe, undernethen, from Old English underneoþan (“underneath”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *underniþer.
Senses: examples: text: Underneath the water, all was calm.
text: We flew underneath the bridge.
text: We looked underneath the table.
glosses: Under, below, beneath.
examples: text: There was little freedom underneath the Nazi jackboot.
glosses: Under the control or power of.
Derived terms: get underneath someone's skin
underneath one's breath
underneath
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndəˈniːθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈniθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈniθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈnið/
rhymes: -iːθ
rhymes: -iːð
Etymology: From Middle English undernethe, undernethen, from Old English underneoþan (“underneath”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *underniþer.
Senses: examples: text: You can have the underneath bunk.
text: The mess in the kitchen was one thing. The way the place smelled was another—some sort of chemistry-lab stink on top, some other smell underneath it. He was afraid the underneath smell might be blood.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
glosses: Under, lower.
underneath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndəˈniːθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈniθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈniθ/
ipa: /ʌndɚˈnið/
rhymes: -iːθ
rhymes: -iːð
Forms: form: underneaths
Etymology: From Middle English undernethe, undernethen, from Old English underneoþan (“underneath”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *underniþer.
Senses: examples: text: The underneath of the aircraft was painted blue.
text: Nawnim yelped, heaved away, struck his head on the underneath of the bed, and rolled into view bawling.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 64:
text: It was a monolith of a golden color, opening at its base on to a cavern: its underneath was hollowed out by water.
ref: 2002, Mary Ann Caws, Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, page 229:
text: I have been looking for an underneath I couldn't see.
ref: 2010, Molly Brodak, A Little Middle of the Night, page 13:
text: they harden up a little as they cool, and they should be damp within; that's what makes them chewy, so don't worry that the underneaths of the macaroons look sticky.
ref: 2011, Nigella Lawson, Nigella Express: Good Food Fast:
glosses: The bottom of something.
examples: text: The underneath is music from the latest album by ….
ref: 2009, Jay Trachtenberg (radio host), KUT-FM Radio, Austin, Texas, 17 Dec.
glosses: A background radio sound track played during a specific announcement or program.
undernourished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undernourished
form: most undernourished
Etymology: From under- + nourished.
Senses: glosses: Provided with insufficient nourishment to sustain proper health and growth.
underpass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpasses
Etymology: From under- + pass.
Senses: examples: text: Underpass / Underpass / Over all the bridges / Echoes in rows / Talking at the same time / Click click drone
ref: 1980, “Underpass”, in Metamatic, performed by John Foxx:
text: And in the darkened underpass / I thought oh God, my chance has come at last / But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask
ref: 1986, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out”, in The Queen Is Dead, performed by The Smiths:
synonyms: word: subway
word: flyunder
glosses: A passage that crosses a road, railroad or similar obstacle in a tunnel underneath it.
Derived terms: pedestrian underpass
Related terms: flyover
overpass
dive-under
goes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊz/
ipa: /ɡoʊz/
ipa: /ɡʊz/
ipa: /ɡænz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: gans
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go
goes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊz/
ipa: /ɡoʊz/
ipa: /ɡʊz/
ipa: /ɡænz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: gans
Senses: glosses: plural of go
underpin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.dəˈpɪn/
ipa: /ˌʌn.dɚˈpɪn/
ipa: /ˈʌn.dɚˌpɪn/
ipa: /ˌan.dəˈpɪn/
Forms: form: underpins
form: underpinning
form: underpinned
form: underpinned
Etymology: From under- + pin.
Senses: examples: text: You should underpin the mine roof to prevent further collapse.
glosses: To support from below with props or masonry.
examples: text: Public confidence in politicians must underpin our democracy.
text: Since Rupert Murdoch famously bet the farm on Premier League football to rescue Sky TV in 1991, it has been the catnip that has underpinned subscriber loyalty and, even in a far more complicated media landscape, is seen as so vital as to be worth almost any price.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London:
text: The operator said the results were underpinned by a 16% increase in Q3 sales from North America.
ref: 2019 November 6, “Eurostar reports another increase in passengers”, in Rail, page 25:
synonyms: underlie
glosses: To give support to; to form a basis of; to corroborate.
underprivileged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underprivileged
form: most underprivileged
Etymology: From under- + privileged.
Senses: examples: text: Underprivileged, grew up in a Stapleton house village / Where blood flood the water in streets like oil spillage
ref: 1996, “After the Smoke is Clear”, in Ironman, performed by Ghostface Killah:
glosses: Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others, usually through no fault of one's own.
Related terms: disenfranchised
underprivileged
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underprivileged
Etymology: From under- + privileged.
Senses: examples: text: Since that time, both Catholicism and the Protestant denominations have seen an enormous outpouring of caritative agencies. Nuns and monks made teaching and care for the underprivileged a central part of their vocation; devout men and women have founded and devoted their lives to institutions as far removed as Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity and the Salvation Army.
ref: 2004, Phyllis G. Jestice, Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).
side chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side chains
form: sidechain
form: side-chain
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: That part of a molecule attached to some core structure; a radical.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the variable parts of amino acids that extend from the peptide backbone in proteins; they are referred to as R-groups, which branch off the backbone at the alpha carbon (Cα).
topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Auxiliary audio input fed to a synthesizer etc. and used to selectively trigger an effect.
examples: text: The Blockstream developers, meanwhile, were accused of working for the interests of their company, Blockstream, rather than the good of Bitcoin as a whole. Their company, after all, proposed breaking many smaller transactions off onto so called sidechains that would occasionally link back up with the main Bitcoin blockchain, […]
ref: 2015, Nathaniel Popper, “Epilogue”, in Digital Gold, 1st edition, New York: Harper, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: A sidechain does not have a native token but rather creates a two-way peg or a 1:1 peg between bitcoin (tokens) and the “pegged bitcoin” on the sidechain.
ref: 2021, H. Kent Baker, Ehsan Nikbakht, Sean Stein Smith, The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 179:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
finance
synonyms: childchain
glosses: A separate blockchain attached to a parent blockchain (mainchain) to extend its functionalities.
examples: text: When the screw coupling replaced the old chain couplings on passenger stock, the latter were retained and still coupled up to prevent severance of a train in the event of a screw coupling breaking. The contingency is so remote, however, that the side chains have been abolished.
ref: 1946 May and June, “The Why and The Wherefore: Miscellanea”, in Railway Magazine, pages 197–198:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: On some railways, a chain fitted on both sides of a centre coupler or buffer at each end of a rail vehicle, which has a hook for connection to a corresponding chain on the next vehicle in a train.
side chain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: side chains
form: side chaining
form: side chained
form: side chained
form: sidechain
form: side-chain
Senses: topics: audio
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To use auxiliary audio input in that manner.
underrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underrates
form: underrating
form: underrated
form: underrated
Etymology: From under- + rate.
Senses: glosses: To underestimate; to make too low a rate or estimate.
underrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underrates
Etymology: From under- + rate.
Senses: examples: to sell a thing at an underrate
glosses: A price that is less than the value.
undersell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: undersells
form: underselling
form: undersold
form: undersold
Etymology: From under- + sell.
Senses: examples: text: Our price-match guarantee: we will not be undersold!
synonyms: undercut
glosses: To sell goods for a lower price than a competitor.
glosses: To sell something for less than its value.
examples: text: Near-synonym: sell short
text: don't undersell it
text: don't undersell yourself
text: But by inferring sleep, the etymology also undersells Siberia's scope, both real and imagined.
ref: 2020, Sophy Roberts, The Lost Pianos of Siberia, page 12:
antonyms: oversell
glosses: To put forward an idea, or to market a new product (or oneself), with insufficient enthusiasm or excessive understatement.
undershirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undershirts
Etymology: From under- + shirt.
Senses: examples: text: An undershirt absorbs moisture from your body and equalizes your body temperature.
ref: 2009, Peter Jungk, Crossing the Hudson, page 10:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: An undergarment worn beneath a shirt, often collarless and sleeveless.
Synonyms: word: singlet
english: men
translation: men
word: wifebeater
word: vest
english: female equivalents
translation: female equivalents
word: underbodice
undersigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪnd
Etymology: From under- + signed.
Senses: glosses: Having signatures at the end or bottom.
raw_tags: of a document
glosses: Having signed at the end of a document.
raw_tags: of a person
undersigned
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: undersigneds
form: undersigned
Etymology: From under- + signed.
Senses: examples: text: We, the undersigned wagon-masters, assistants, teamsters and all other employees of the firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell, do hereby sign that we will not swear, drink whisky, play cards or be cruel to dumb beasts in any way, shape or form.
ref: 1920, Buffalo Bill, An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, page 17:
glosses: A person, mentioned in a document, whose name and signature appears at the end.
underskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndəˌskɜːt/
Forms: form: underskirts
Etymology: From under- + skirt.
Senses: glosses: A skirt worn underneath another skirt; a petticoat.
glosses: An under layer of a multi-layer gown over which outer skirts are draped.
understaffed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more understaffed
form: most understaffed
Etymology: From under- + staffed.
Senses: examples: text: At Southall, we believe, it has been difficult to spare men from an understaffed motive power establishment to undergo non revenue-earning training on the diesel multiple-units, because crews are scarce for trip freight working.
ref: 1960 April, “Talking of Trains: The present difficulties”, in Trains Illustrated, page 193:
glosses: having an inadequate number of workers or assistants
Synonyms: shorthanded
short-staffed
undermanned
upskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpskəːt/
Etymology: From up + skirt.
Senses: examples: text: Under this general principle, victims of upskirt voyeurism that takes place in a public location such as a park or shopping mall would be left remediless under the privacy theory called intrusion into seclusion.
ref: 2004, Clay Calvert, Voyeur Nation, page 202:
text: Yet while orthodox voyeurism exists online, most commercial ‘upskirt’ cam sites primarily draw on footage from paid sex workers.
ref: 2008, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networks, page 45:
glosses: Designating a voyeuristic image of the view up a woman's skirt.
upskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpskəːt/
Forms: form: upskirts
Etymology: From up + skirt.
Senses: examples: text: For more serious problems caused by the cellphone, we may need new laws — as in the case of upskirts.
ref: 2006, Anandam P Kavoori, Noah Arceneaux, The Cell Phone Reader, page 16:
text: The Internet is replete with photos of Britney with a flabby belly and shorn head, Britney making out drunk in clubs, “upskirts“ of Britney's shaved genitalia.
ref: 2008, Carmine Sarracino, Kevin M Scott, The Porning of America, page 212:
synonyms: panty shot
glosses: An image of this kind.
examples: text: Her upskirt is very frilly.
glosses: The area inside a skirt, most commonly from below and while being worn.
upskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpskəːt/
Forms: form: upskirts
form: upskirting
form: upskirted
form: upskirted
Etymology: From up + skirt.
Senses: examples: text: Following an incident where a man used a gym bag to upskirt several dozen women in crowded stores, the California legislature amended existing laws to focus on the individual violations acts rather than the location.
ref: 2007, William G Staples, The Encyclopedia of Privacy, page 525:
glosses: To take a voyeuristic photograph up the skirt of (a woman), especially surreptitiously.
Related terms: upshorts
anasyrma
downblouse
understate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndəˈsteɪt/
Forms: form: understates
form: understating
form: understated
form: understated
Etymology: From under- + state.
Senses: examples: text: To call it a calculated bet understates the risk; it is a Hail Mary pass.
glosses: To state (something) with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay.
glosses: To state (something) with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony.
examples: text: The company had been understating its liabilities for years.
coordinate_terms: underestimate
glosses: To state a quantity that is too low.
Synonyms: sense: state with lack of emphasis
word: trivialize
Related terms: english: restrained, unpretentious
translation: restrained, unpretentious
word: understated
word: understatement
downblouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From down- + blouse.
Senses: glosses: Describing a voyeuristic image of the view down a woman's blouse, showing her cleavage.
downblouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downblouses
form: downblousing
form: downbloused
form: downbloused
Etymology: From down- + blouse.
Senses: glosses: To take a photograph of this kind.
Derived terms: downblouser
Related terms: upskirt
understatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndəˈsteɪtmənt/
ipa: /ˌʌndɚˈsteɪtmənt/
rhymes: -eɪtmənt
Forms: form: understatements
Etymology: From under- + statement or understate + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: A master of understatement
text: And that mode of expression is very demurring and self-deprecating. Victorian English was all about understatement.
ref: 2004, Rowan Manahan, Where's My Oasis?:, page 158:
synonyms: meiosis
antonyms: auxesis
hyperbole
glosses: A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect.
examples: text: Now that's an understatement.
synonyms: trivialization
antonyms: exaggeration
overstatement
glosses: An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis; an incomplete statement.
glosses: An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.
Coordinate terms: do a lot of work
litote
to say the least
Derived terms: misunderstatement
understudy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚstʌdi/
ipa: /ˈʌndəstʌdi/
Forms: form: understudies
form: understudying
form: understudied
form: understudied
Etymology: From under- + study.
Senses: glosses: To study or know a role to such an extent as to be able to replace the normal performer when required.
glosses: To act as an understudy (to someone).
examples: text: That lean gentleman had apparently understudied Pharaoh of old and hardened his heart.
ref: 1935, Owen Conquest, Morny's Master Stroke:
glosses: To act in a similar manner to some known person.
understudy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚstʌdi/
ipa: /ˈʌndəstʌdi/
Forms: form: understudies
Etymology: From under- + study.
Senses: examples: text: For Wynne-Edwards, the role of the outcasts in the welfare of the group is to wait in the wings as understudies, ready to step into the shoes of any territory holder who dies on the main stage of group reproduction.
ref: 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, pages 153–154:
synonyms: standby
coordinate_terms: body double
stunt double
glosses: A performer who understudies; a standby for a study (9).
undertaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌteɪkə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈteɪkə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: undertakers
Etymology: From undertake (verb) + -er.
Senses: synonyms: word: mortician
word: cold cook
glosses: A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.
examples: text: In 1588, Edmund Spenser became an undertaker in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.
glosses: A person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding marriage, to be loyal to the crown, and to use English as their spoken language.
glosses: A contractor for the royal revenue in England, one of those who undertook to manage the House of Commons for the king in the Addled Parliament of 1614.
examples: text: A company shall not be appointed to be a water undertaker unless it is a limited company or a statutory water company and shall not be appointed to be a sewerage undertaker unless it is a limited company.
ref: 1991, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part II, Chapter I, section 6(5)”, in Water Industry Act 1991, page 8:
text: The undertaker of the enterprise is usually known today by the French term entrepreneur because we have surrendered the English word to the undertakers of funerals.
ref: 2001, Technology, Humans, and Society: Toward a Sustainable World:
glosses: One who undertakes or commits to doing something.
Derived terms: undertakerish
undertakerly
undertaker's
Related terms: undertake
undertaking
undertone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)təʊn/
Forms: form: undertones
Etymology: From under- + tone.
Senses: examples: text: Did he and his master converse? Watt had never heard them do so, as he surely would have done, if they had done so. In an undertone perhaps. Yes, perhaps they conversed in undertones, the master and the servant, in two undertones, the master's undertone, the servant's undertone.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
glosses: An auditory tone of low pitch or volume.
antonyms: overtone
glosses: An implicit message perceived subtly alongside, but not detracting noticeably from, the explicit message conveyed in or by a book, film, speech or similar (contrast with overtone); an undercurrent.
glosses: A pale colour, or one seen underneath another colour.
examples: text: Sedentary occupations are likely to result in undertone, and this undertone not being relieved by physiological means, constipation is a probable outcome.
ref: 1905, Medical Review, volumes 51-52, page 171:
glosses: A low state of the physical faculties.
Synonyms: underhue
undertone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)təʊn/
Forms: form: undertones
form: undertoning
form: undertoned
form: undertoned
Etymology: From under- + tone.
Senses: examples: text: The Missionary's address rolled on in choppy Chinook, undertoned by a gentle voice from the back of the room which told Tanook in pure Indian words what he was to do.
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 1, in Klee Wyck:
text: Undertoning the howling siren I was aware of a distant swish, like that of a hurricane’s forerunning wind through palm fronds.
ref: 1951 January, Arthur Leo Zagat, chapter 7, in Fantastic Novels Magazine:
glosses: To accompany as an undertone.
examples: text: Evan paid no attention to him, and answered none of his hasty undertoned questions.
ref: 1861, George Meredith, Evan Harrington, Chapter 30, Part 1:
text: At first, when the net was being prepared, those children of the forest had merely stood by and looked on with curiosity. When Blondin and his men rowed out from the shore, letting the net drop off the stern of our boat as they went, they indulged in a few guesses and undertoned remarks.
ref: 1887, R. M. Ballantyne, chapter 13, in The Big Otter:
text: “He handles that pallet like it was a mule,” McCoy undertoned, passing Mason. Mason grinned and fell in behind.
ref: 1984, Greg Bear, chapter 11, in Corona, Simon and Schuster, published 2000:
text: “How come there’s never any birds in cemeteries?” Skelote undertoned. “Squirrels, rabbits, but no birds.”
ref: 1999, Thomas Sullivan, chapter 35, in The Martyring, Crossroad Press, published 2015:
glosses: To say or speak in an undertone.
examples: text: Men rarely make this mistake, their habitual blunder being to undertone everything, to make too light of Julia's new frock, and Johnnie's symptoms of measles, and the way they waste things down stairs.
ref: 1866, {unattributed}, Littell's Living Age - Volume 88 - Page 427
text: 2010, Maddy Myers, “Arisia 2010: the Sexiest of Sci-Fi Cons,” thephoenix.com, 26 January, 2010,
It’s hard enough to separate the geeks from the creeps at your average Anime con (it’s more of a Venn Diagram than an either/or, really). The task becomes even more difficult at Arisia, where the sexual undertones are … not particularly undertoned.
glosses: To present as less important, noticeable or prominent.
Synonyms: sense: present as less important
word: de-emphasize
sense: present as less important
word: downplay
undervalue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈvælju/
Forms: form: undervalues
form: undervaluing
form: undervalued
form: undervalued
Etymology: From under- + value.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: underrate, underappreciate, underween
text: I write not this with the leaſt intention to undervalue the other parts of Poetry: for Comedy is both excellently inſtructive, and extreamly pleaſant: […]
ref: 1674 (date written), John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1677, →OCLC, page 23:
text: […] I undervalu'd all the Enſigns of Authority which belong'd to me, all the Pomp and Splendor of Life which^([sic – meaning with]) which I was ſurrounded.
ref: 1706 September 19 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “A Sermon Preach’d in the Guild-Hall Chapel, London, Sept. 28. 1706. Being the Day of the Election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, →OCLC, page 403:
coordinate_terms: underprice#Verb
glosses: To underestimate, or assign too low a value to (something or someone); to have too little regard for.
Related terms: underpriced