cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dividend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪvɪdɛnd/
Forms: form: dividends
form: dividending
form: dividended
form: dividended
Etymology: From Middle French dividende, from Latin dīvidendum (“thing to be divided”), future passive participle of dīvidō (“to divide”), by surface analysis, divide + -end.
Senses: examples: text: He held instead that the words "sell or otherwise dispose of" in Clause 2 of the Shareholders' Agreement prevented the dividending of the shares in Hawker Holdings to the shareholders of Hawker Siddeley […]
ref: 1997, Shareholder Rights, Oppression and Good Faith, page 40:
text: Therefore, $125 million of 1983 Preferred Shares (Blue Jay) would be tendered for retirement with $135 million of the $370 million dividended up to Blue Jay.
ref: 2007, Kevin K. Boeh, Paul W. Beamish, Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases, page 324:
glosses: To pay out a dividend.
Related terms: word: successor
sense: addition, summation
english: addend; total
translation: addend; total
alt: augend
word: + =
sense: addition, summation
english: sum
translation: sum
alt: summand
word: + +... =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
translation: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication, factorization; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: product
translation: product
word: × =
sense: multiplication, factorization; factor
english: factor; factor; product
translation: factor; factor; product
word: × ×... =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient
english: with remaining
translation: with remaining
alt: quotient
word: Or sometimes
sense: exponentiation; base
english: power
translation: power
alt: exponent
word: =
sense: root extraction; degree
roman: radicand
word: √ =
sense: logarithmization
english: logarithm
translation: logarithm
alt: antilogarithm
word: log(base) =
feminist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛmənɪst/
Forms: form: more feminist
form: most feminist
Etymology: First recorded in English 1852. Ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). See also feminine, feminism.
Senses: examples: text: Feminist struggle takes place anytime anywhere any female or male resists sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
ref: 2000 May 1, bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, 2nd edition, page xi:
text: Whatever else, Irréversible is already a succès de scandale. [Gaspar] Noé's claims that it is a "feminist" movie sound far-fetched, but he certainly offers an extraordinarily pessimistic view of male sexuality.
ref: 2002 August 2, Geoffrey Macnab, “'The rape had to be disgusting to be useful'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
hypernyms: egalitarian
glosses: Relating to or in accordance with feminism.
feminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛmənɪst/
Forms: form: feminists
Etymology: First recorded in English 1852. Ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). See also feminine, feminism.
Senses: hypernyms: egalitarian
glosses: An advocate of feminism; a person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in all aspects of public and private life.
glosses: A member of a feminist political movement.
Derived terms: word: Afrofeminist
word: anarcha-feminist
word: anarchist feminist
word: anarcho-feminist
word: antifeminist
word: counterfeminist
word: cyberfeminist
word: ecofeminist
word: effeminist
word: extrafeminist
word: fauxminist
word: fembitch
word: femcunt
word: femicommie
english: blend
translation: blend
word: femifascism
english: blend
translation: blend
word: femifascist
word: feminar
word: feminasty
english: blend
translation: blend
word: feminazi
word: feminerd
word: feminist dance therapy
word: feministic
word: feministly
word: feminist studies
word: feministy
word: feminoid
english: blend
translation: blend
word: feminut
word: femmie
word: femmunist
word: femonationalist
word: femsplain
word: femtard
word: gender-critical feminist
word: hyperfeminist
word: meninist
word: neofeminist
word: neurofeminist
word: nonfeminist
word: postfeminist
word: prefeminist
word: profeminist
word: protofeminist
word: pseudofeminist
word: radical feminist
word: semifeminist
word: STEMinist
word: third wave feminist
word: third-wave feminist
word: transfeminist
word: unfeminist
Related terms: femicentric
femi-centric
feminacentric
feminine
feminism
feminocentric
feminocentrism
chrematistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρῆμα (khrêma, “money”).
Senses: glosses: The study of wealth.
racquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹækɪt/
rhymes: -ækɪt
homophone: racket
homophone: rackett
Forms: form: racquets
Etymology: Borrowed from French raquette.
Senses: examples: text: After yet another mid-court volley error, Serena got so upset that she smashed her racquet deep into the clay court. The racquet was unusable after that, and when she went to her bag to grab another, she found that all her other racquets had broken strings.
ref: 2003, Dave Rineberg, Venus & Serena: My Seven Years as Hitting Coach for the Williams Sisters, Frederick Fell Publishers, →ISBN, page 165:
synonyms: bat
paddle
glosses: Alternative form of racket (“implement with a handle connected to a round frame”).
Derived terms: badminton racquet
racquetball racquet
racquet-tail
squash racquet
tennis racquet
Related terms: badminton
racquets
squash
tennis
racquet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹækɪt/
rhymes: -ækɪt
homophone: racket
homophone: rackett
Forms: form: racquets
form: racqueting
form: racqueted
form: racqueted
Etymology: Borrowed from French raquette.
Senses: examples: text: You two might indeed have racqueted the ball betwixt you, as you say.
ref: 1820, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady:
text: Potter drove up along the wire fence of the yard, and there on the tennis court, a kid racqueted a ball against a brick wall behind the courts.
ref: 1975, Norman Keifetz, The Sensation, page 21:
text: One of the tennis center's satellite courts was lit to near daylight brightness by white floodlights; as I approached I could hear the steady, dry pock . . . pock of a tennis ball being racqueted back and forth.
ref: 1998, Mark Garvey, Searching for Mary: An Exploration of Marian Apparitions Across the U.S., →ISBN:
glosses: To hit with a racquet.
examples: text: When he isn't racqueting, Brad claims he puts in the time with Alfred Dunhill of London.
ref: 1948, Princeton Alumni Weekly - Volume 49, page 91:
text: ...played no games as a boy, but since he did me that good turn I have racqueted about happily.
ref: 1962, Leonard Rusell, Encore - Volumes 7-9, page 132:
text: I arrived to find a tennis foursome - architect & his wife, you & my mother, racquetting through a country english afternoon just as it's been bonged since Shakespeare penned his pages.
ref: 1992, Frances Charteris, First person multiple, third person femuline, page 89:
glosses: To play a game that involves using a racquet.
examples: text: Flashlights in hand, they made their way down the slope and racqueted out upon the lake.
ref: 1938, William Byron Mowery, Guns in the Valley, page 96:
text: Fancy his disgust when (having given up all hopes of watching the full moon, he had just fallen asleep) he was awakened by the noise of that rat once more racqueting about all over the room.
ref: 2015, A.D. Padgett, Mrs. Arthur H.D. Acland, Fantastically Queer Beasts and Magics, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: To dart about in a manner reminiscent of a ball hit by a racquet.
examples: text: Many of his choicest years of life were employ'd in wrangling, and receiving and racquetting back reproach, accusation and sarcasm.
ref: 2011, Robert Graves, Wife to Mr Milton, →ISBN:
text: More astounding still is the volume of trading, as a manic afternoon sees Netscape shares change hands 13.88 million times; an average of almost two and a half times each, with some racqueted back and forth like tennis balls . . . a curious pattern which will become familiar to dotcom stock-watchers.
ref: 2012, Andrew Smith, Totally Wired: The Wild Rise and Crazy Fall of the First Dotcom Dream, →ISBN:
glosses: To exchange back and forth, similar to the way a tennis ball volleys back and forth.
badminton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd.mɪn.tən/
ipa: /ˈbæd.mɪt.ən/
Forms: form: badmintons
Etymology: Named after Badminton House, an estate in Gloucestershire owned by the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played in England. For the house name, see Badminton.
Senses: glosses: A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.
glosses: A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar, and soda water.
Synonyms: sense: sport
word: badders
Derived terms: badminton ball
badminton court
badmintonist
badminton player
badminton racket
para-badminton
racquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racquet
racquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a game for two or four players, played in an enclosed court with a small hard fast-moving ball
Related terms: racquet
racket
squash racquets
squash
racquetball
tennis
racquets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of racquet
Badminton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The place name is from Old English Badimyncgtun (“estate of (a man called) Baduhelm”), from the personal name *Bad (possibly also found in Frankish Badon) + helm + -ing + -tun.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST8082).
glosses: A community in the Glyncoed area, Blaenau Gwent borough county borough, Wales.
Derived terms: Badminton House
Badminton horse trials
couchette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: couchettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French couchette.
Senses: examples: text: The doctor […] desired they would have the goodness to repose themselves without ceremony, each in his respective couchette, while he and his friend Mr. Pallet would place themselves upright at the ends, that they might have the pleasure of serving those that lay along.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A couch.
examples: text: But I was disturbed to find a blot on my conception of the ultra-modern S.N.C.F.—the couchette car offered neither hot water nor, unless I looked in the wrong places, an electric razor point.
ref: 1962 July, Marcus Newman, “By Car-Sleeper to Switzerland”, in Modern Railways, page 50:
glosses: A compartment on a passenger train having berths for sleeping.
glosses: A berth in such a compartment.
conception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛpʃən/
ipa: /kənˈsepʃən/
Forms: form: conceptions
Etymology: From Middle English concepcioun, borrowed from Old French conception, from Latin conceptiō (“a comprehending, a collection, composition, an expression, also a becoming pregnant”), from concipiō, past participle conceptus (“conceive”); see conceive. Equivalent to conceive + -tion.
Senses: glosses: The act of conceiving.
glosses: The state of being conceived; the beginning.
examples: text: Some powers diuine, or els infernall, mixt
Their angry ſeedes at his conception:
For he was neuer ſprong of humaine race,
Since with the ſpirit of his fearefull pride,
He dares so doubtleſly reſolue of rule.
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 II, scene vi:
glosses: The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
glosses: The start of pregnancy.
glosses: The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
examples: text: What the school books say about the united efforts of the two great Rossums is all a fairy tale. They used to have dreadful rows. The old atheist hadn't the slightest conception of industrial matters, and the end of it was that young Rossum shut him up in some laboratory or other and let him fritter the time away with his monstrosities, while he himself started on the business from an engineer's point of view.
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 1:
glosses: The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
examples: text: Elegant brick and stone buildings, with iron and glass canopies and decorative wooden scalloping and fencing—all evidencing care on the part of the architect to produce a pleasing, well-planned building—were submerged beneath a profusion of ill-conceived additions and camouflaged by vulgar paint schemes; and the original conception was lost.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, pages 250–251:
glosses: An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.
Coordinate terms: inception
Derived terms: anticonception
artist's conception
conceptional
Conception Bay
conceptionism
conceptionist
control of conception
false conception
non-conception
nonconception
periconception
post conception
postconception
post-conception
preconception
prevenception
products of conception
reconception
self-conception
superconception
Related terms: conceive
concept
contraception
shuttlecock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌtl̩ˌkɒk/
ipa: /ˈʃʌtl̩ˌkɑk/
ipa: [ˈʃʌɾɫ̩ˌkɑk]
ipa: /ˈʃɐtl̩ˌkɔk/
ipa: [ˈʃɐɾɫ̩ˌkɔk]
Forms: form: shuttlecocks
form: shuttlecocking
form: shuttlecocked
form: shuttlecocked
form: shittlecock
Etymology: From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).
Senses: glosses: To move rapidly back and forth.
examples: text: to shuttlecock words
text: if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!
ref: 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
glosses: To send or toss back and forth; to bandy.
prole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊl/
ipa: /pɹoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: proles
Etymology: From proletariat (“working class”) by shortening.
Senses: glosses: A member of the proletariat; a proletarian.
glosses: A pleb (ordinary person).
prole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊl/
ipa: /pɹoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: proles
form: proling
form: proled
form: proled
Etymology: From prowl obsolete pronunciation (/pɹoʊl/), from Middle English prollen.
Senses: examples: text: […] for he ordained, […] and that boyes and children ſhould have ſo little allowed them to eat, that they ſhould be forced to prole, and ſteal for their better proviſion, to make them thereby the more induſtrious, nimble, and quick of ſpirit, […]
ref: 1652, Thomas Fitzherbert, chapter VIII, in A Treatise Concerning Policy and Religion, page 57:
text: But I will not ſuch Journies take, / To dig and prole in vain: / For was I to dig twenty Weeks, / Without might come again.
ref: 1766, Thomas Sadler, “The Peddlar. A Tale.”, in Poems on various subjects. To which is added, The merry miller: or, The country-man's ramble to London, a farce, page 116:
text: […] and Joseph went proling about after dark with his gun—and took and shot him!
ref: 1873, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, “"Some Innocents 'Scape Not The Thunderbol."” (chapter XLIV), in To the Bitter End, John Maxwell and Co., page 351:
text: "This summer, by reason of continual employment abroad in service, not having leisure to prole for hawks, I cannot make that present unto you as I desired. […]”
ref: 1903, George Carew, edited by Ernest George Atkinson, Calendar of the State Papers relating to Ireland, of the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. 1600 March-October, section 108, page 391:
glosses: To prowl; to proll.
stirrup pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stirrup pumps
Senses: glosses: A small hand-operated pump with a stirrup-shaped base that was placed in a bucket of water, allowing a small hose to direct a stream onto minor fires.
Aas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * The place in France is from Occitan Aas, from Basque/Aquitanian aitz (“ridge, rocky point”).
* As a Norwegian and Swedish surname, from the noun ås (“ridge”).
Senses: glosses: A village in southwest France, in the Ossau valley of the Pyrenees.
glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
AEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of (United States) Atomic Energy Commission.
glosses: Initialism of Australian Electoral Commission.
glosses: Initialism of Associated Equipment Company.
glosses: Initialism of Angeles Electric Corporation.
glosses: Initialism of ASEAN Economic Community.
AEC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AECs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of associated equipment company.
glosses: Initialism of architecture, engineering and construction.
glosses: Initialism of automatic exposure control.
mot juste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊˈʒuːst/
rhymes: -uːst
Forms: form: mots justes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French mot juste.
Senses: examples: text: She legged it, and for a moment silence reigned. Then Bobbie said, “Phew!” and I agreed that “Phew!” was the mot juste.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:
text: Wattpad is not the sort of site where writers talk about suffering for their art or spend hours searching for the mot juste.
ref: 2014 March 23, David Streitfeld, “Web Fiction, Serialized and Social”, in New York Times:
synonyms: winged word
glosses: The perfectly appropriate word or phrase for the situation.
modish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊdɪʃ/
Forms: form: more modish
form: most modish
Etymology: From mode + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Conforming with fashion or style.
glosses: In the current mode.
Derived terms: modishly
modishness
unmodish
molt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: molts
form: molting
form: molted
form: molted
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of moult.
molt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molts
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of moult.
Derived terms: intermolt
moltable
molter
postmolt
premolt
unmolted
molt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of melt
momentous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊˈmɛn.təs/
ipa: /moʊˈmɛn.təs/
rhymes: -ɛntəs
Forms: form: more momentous
form: most momentous
Etymology: From moment (“weight, importance”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs.
ref: 1725, Daniel Defoe, Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business:
text: "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."
ref: 1831, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 31, in Homeward Bound:
text: What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.
ref: 1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 3, in The End of the Tether:
text: The last train ran on December 31, 1932, almost unnoticed, for it coincided with the running of the last steam passenger train down the main line from London to Brighton, a much more momentous event.
ref: 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 835:
text: Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.
ref: 2007 July 1, Richard Dawkins, “Inferior Design”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Nov 2013:
glosses: Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
Derived terms: immomentous
momentously
momentousness
unmomentous
smore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: smores
form: smoring
form: smored
form: smored
Etymology: See smoor.
Senses: examples: text: Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored.
ref: 1584, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, translated by Thomas Hudson, Judith:
text: 16th century, unknown writer, untitled ballad
Loud, loud cried out the bonnie son,
Stood at the nurse's knee,
"Gie our your house, my mother dear,"
The reek is smoring me!"
glosses: To smother.
smore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: smores
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of s'more.
preso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɛzəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɹiːzəʊ/
rhymes: -ɛzəʊ
Forms: form: presos
Etymology: presentation + -o
Senses: examples: text: We need to provide a pause of "down time" after each preso for the streaming team to save the captured video to disk before beginning the next presentation.
ref: 1999 August 30, Eric Krock, “CodeStock E1 speakers: coordinating Gecko/JS embedding presentations”, in netscape.public.mozilla.embedding (Usenet):
text: “Now that I've finished Russ's preso, neither do I!”
ref: 2003 August, J. D. Richard, Oh, Crapper!, Xlibris Corporation, page 245:
text: Sorry no formal preso for you, but the first point is a real killer in my book.
ref: 2005 March 11, Carey Matthew Black, “AR System Presentation”, in Remedy ARS (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: presentation.
xu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: xu
form: xus
form: su
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese xu, from French sou. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, solidus, and sou.
Senses: glosses: A former unit of currency in Vietnam, equivalent to a hundredth of a dong.
Teutonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtjuːˈtɒn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more Teutonic
form: most Teutonic
form: Teutonick
Etymology: PIE word
 *tewtéh₂
1580, from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutonēs, Teutonī (“the Teutons”, name of a Germanic tribe that inhabited coastal Germany and devastated Gaul between 113–101 B.C.), equivalent to Teuton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the ancient Germanic people, the Teutons.
examples: text: Teutonic exactitude
text: He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust.[…]
ref: 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, volume 3, London: Macmillan and Co., page 190:
text: Sure, the map says it’s Italy, but after walking through the centuries-old market at Piazza Erbe (Obstplatz) and seeing one too many suspiciously Teutonic-looking locals munching wurst, you might think you’ve crossed the Austrian border.
ref: 1994, Berkeley students in cooperation with the Associated Students of the University of California, “Bolzano”, in “The Dolomites and the Northeast”, in Italy on the Loose 1995 (The Berkeley Guides: The Budget Traveler’s Handbook), New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 85:
text: My disorderliness was anathema to his Teutonic soul. “Here, I will write it down. Oh, you are so chaotic. Hand me the telephone.”
ref: 1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Having qualities that are regarded as typical of German people.
glosses: Relating to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
Derived terms: Proto-Teutonic
Teutonicism
Teutonicize
Teutonic Knight
Teutonic Knights
Teutonic Order
Teutonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtjuːˈtɒn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: Teutonics
form: Teutonick
Etymology: PIE word
 *tewtéh₂
1580, from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutonēs, Teutonī (“the Teutons”, name of a Germanic tribe that inhabited coastal Germany and devastated Gaul between 113–101 B.C.), equivalent to Teuton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Germanic, or modern German, individual.
behind someone's back
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The employees talked about their boss behind his back.
text: You will lose good karma if you say bad things behind people's backs.
text: I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 25:
text: Giant machines, precision tools, monster missiles, and all such [they] did lack.
Indeed, the last industrial revolution happened behind their back.
ref: 1974, Tunji Oyelana, “Which Way Africa”:
text: You can all just kiss off into the air / Behind my back I can see them stare / They'll hurt me bad, but I won't mind / They'll hurt me bad, they do it all the time
ref: 1998, Violent Femmes, “Kiss Off”, in Violent Femmes:
glosses: Without somebody's knowledge; secretly.
all over the place
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They started firing all over the place.
text: In Genoa there are stray cats all over the place.
text: I've been looking for you all over the place.
text: The connections between boats are tangled and unpredictable. To get from point A to point B, you have to wander all over the place.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 322:
text: I couldn't believe it. “This is insane! You don't know what you're getting into, Dad. We can't have lots of people swarming all over the place. You're supposed to be getting rest.”
ref: 2004, Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation, Penguin, →ISBN, page 267:
synonyms: scattershot
glosses: In multiple directions or locations, often haphazardly; everywhere.
examples: text: I asked each person in turn, and their answers were all over the place.
text: England were all over the place for the majority of the opening 45 minutes as gaps broke in defence.
ref: 2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: at random
glosses: Inconsistent; lacking a clear pattern; with a large amount of variation.
Synonyms: sense: everywhere
word: all over hell's half acre
sense: everywhere
word: all over the show
sense: everywhere
word: all over the shop
sense: everywhere
word: all over the gaff
sense: everywhere
word: all over the map
sense: everywhere
word: all over the board
sense: everywhere
word: here, there and everywhere
sense: everywhere
word: up hill and down dale
pon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒn/
ipa: /pɑn/
ipa: /pɔn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: pons
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 碰 (pon).
Senses: topics: board-games
games
mahjong
synonyms: pung
glosses: A call for forming a set of three identical tiles using a discarded tile.
Coordinate terms: chii
kan
pon
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒn/
ipa: /pɑn/
ipa: /pɔn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 'pon.
courteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːti.əs/
ipa: /ˈkɝti.əs/
Forms: form: more courteous
form: most courteous
Etymology: From Middle English curteis, from Old French curteis (French courtois), from cort (“court”).
Senses: examples: text: a courteous gentleman   a courteous gesture
text: Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]
ref: 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:
synonyms: word: civil
word: civilized
word: courteous
word: cultivated
word: mannerly
word: polite
word: politic
word: reasonable
word: refined
word: urbane
word: well-mannered
word: well-bred
antonyms: word: discourteous
word: uncourteous
word: debonair
word: polite
word: suave
glosses: Showing regard or thought for others; especially, displaying good manners or etiquette.
Derived terms: courteously
courteousness
discourteous
overcourteous
uncourteous
Related terms: courtesy
long shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long shots
form: longshot
Etymology: The term arose from the accuracy of early naval guns, which were effective only at close range and unlikely to hit the mark at any great distance.
Senses: examples: text: "It is of course a most foolish thing twice to take a long shot in a capercailzie wood, as you know," said the captain, appealing to me; "but the last time I had no choice, because I heard that villainous Andreas stalking the bird at the same time."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 74:
glosses: A shot fired at a distant target.
examples: text: We can try your plan, but it's a long shot and it probably won't work.
text: His reign in Paris — full of flexed biceps, forehand winners and underrated court craft — is one of the great achievements in any sport, and though a 15th title is a long shot at this late stage, all we know for certain is that Nadal will not be winning it this year.
ref: 2023 May 18, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working; long odds
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene into which the closeups will be edited later.
Synonyms: topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: establishing shot
topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: wide shot
Related terms: by a long shot
black out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blacks out
form: blacking out
form: blacked out
form: blacked out
Senses: examples: text: Seigel was able to send two post cards home in 44 months via the Red Cross. The first one was completely blacked out by the Japanese censor's pen. The second one he sent, Seigel wrote that he weighed his "usual weight of 130". Seigel's usual weight was 230 so the family could see that he had been severely starved while in captivity. Seigel had at least triumphed over the Japanese censor and his black pen.
ref: 2006, Calton Lewis, Wake Island: The Story of a Civilian Pow at Niigata, Japan 1941-1945
glosses: To censor or cover up by writing over with black ink.
examples: text: I have blacked out your television, every station in the world is mine.
ref: 1979, Chris de Burgh, “The Devil's Eye”, in Crusader:
text: At times, README.txt is vague; some sections have been blacked out, presumably on legal advice.
ref: 2022 October 27, Simon Parkin, “README.txt by Chelsea Manning review – secrets and spies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To censor or cover up.
examples: text: I am blacking out—ease the stick forward slightly—the sky is clear again—I turn out over water—reverse turn—there are antiaircraft on the island below—I reverse again—and again.
ref: 1944 June 3, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 839:
text: And they were not surprised when Tang Ya reeled into the mess, his face livid and drawn with pain. Rip and Dane got him to his cabin before he blacked out. But all they could learn from him during the interval before he lost consciousness was that his head was bursting and he couldn't stand it. Over his limp body they stared at one another bleakly.
ref: 1956, Andre Norton, Plague Ship:
antonyms: black in#Verb
come to#Verb
glosses: To lose consciousness; to suffer a blackout.
glosses: To cause (someone) to lose consciousness.
examples: text: Bleak darkness was blacking out the sea and jungle when Rainsford sighted the lights. He came upon them as he turned a crook in the coast line; and his first thought was that be had come upon a village, for there were many lights.
ref: 1924, Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game:
text: Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: The Venetian blinds and the drapes, she thought, would completely black out the room from the ocean side.
ref: 1943 May 10, “Press Serial Story: Girl In A Blackout”, in Pittsburgh Press:
glosses: To obscure in darkness.
examples: text: The countryside blacked out to avoid helping enemy aircraft.
glosses: To be in a state of blackout, as a building, a city, a ship.
Synonyms: sense: lose consciousness
word: faint
sense: lose consciousness
word: pass out
sense: make dark
word: darken
Derived terms: word: black-out
word: blackout
Related terms: brown out
gray out
grey out
white out
hunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /hʌnʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: hunches
Etymology: Assibilated variant of hunk, of uncertain origin.
Alternatively, a derivative of hump, via an earlier Middle English *hunche, *humpchin, from *hump + -chin, -chen (diminutive suffix), equivalent to hump + -kin. In the sense of an intuitive impression, said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.
Senses: glosses: A hump; a protuberance.
examples: text: The old man walked with a hunch.
glosses: A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.
examples: text: I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem.
glosses: A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.
examples: text: a hunch of bread
text: "The greedy little bastards! They had a 'unch of bread each when I 'ad my dinner."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.
glosses: A push or thrust, as with the elbow.
Synonyms: sense: guess
word: hint
sense: guess
word: clue
sense: guess
word: inkling
Derived terms: hunchbacked
hunch cuddy hunch
hunchless
hunch over
unhunch
crunch numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crunches numbers
form: crunching numbers
form: crunched numbers
form: crunched numbers
Senses: examples: text: Before you buy a car, spend some time crunching numbers and make sure you can afford it.
glosses: To figure; to do the math.
Related terms: number cruncher
make believe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes believe
form: making believe
form: made believe
form: made believe
Senses: examples: text: Let's make believe that we are explorers.
text: Only make believe I love you, / Only make believe that you love me. / Others find peace of mind in pretending, / Couldn’t you? / Couldn’t I? / Couldn’t we? / Make believe our lips are blending / In a phantom kiss, or two, or three. / Might as well make believe I love you, / For to tell the truth I do.
ref: 1927, Oscar Hammerstein II, Show Boat:
glosses: To pretend or imagine.
make believe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: make believes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make-believe.
make believe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more make believe
form: most make believe
Senses: glosses: imaginary; conjured in someone's imagination, especially that of a child
prender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛndə(ɹ)/
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from French prendre (“to take”), from Latin prehendere (“to take”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered
hash out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hashes out
form: hashing out
form: hashed out
form: hashed out
Senses: examples: text: They stayed up late hashing out the details of the contract.
text: The Iraqi people have shown their impulse toward democracy; they need security in order to hash out the many remaining differences that still divide them.
ref: 2005, John McCain, Winning the War in Iraq:
text: As 25/7’s lawyers hashed out terms with APG throughout the early spring, […]
ref: 2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN:
glosses: To work through the details of something; especially to work through difficulties.
Coordinate terms: hammer out
vertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː.tɪ.bɹəl/
ipa: /vɚˈti.bɹəl/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.tə.bɹəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
rhymes: -iːbɹəl
Etymology: From vertebra + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a vertebra or the spine.
Having or made of vertebrae.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a vertebra or the spine.
Having a spinal column.
Derived terms: basivertebral
costovertebral
craniovertebral
discovertebral
extravertebral
facioauriculovertebral
hemivertebral
intervertebral
intravertebral
ischiovertebral
lumbovertebral
meningovertebral
nonvertebral
oculoauriculovertebral
paravertebral
perivertebral
postvertebral
prevertebral
protovertebral
retrovertebral
sacrovertebral
sinuvertebral
sternovertebral
subvertebral
supravertebral
trivertebral
vertebral arch
vertebral artery
vertebral canal
vertebral column
vertebrally
vertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː.tɪ.bɹəl/
ipa: /vɚˈti.bɹəl/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.tə.bɹəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
rhymes: -iːbɹəl
Forms: form: vertebrals
Etymology: From vertebra + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Any of the large dorsal scales along the top of a snake's back.
quartile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔː(ɹ)taɪl/
Forms: form: quartiles
Etymology: From Middle French quartil, from Medieval Latin quartilus.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
examples: text: This school is ranked in the first quartile.
text: The Department for Transport's National Travel Survey shows that workers in the lowest income quartile are twice as likely to use public transport.
ref: 2021 July 28, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Confusion and dissent over face mask requirements: Reaction to the Guidance: British Safety Council”, in RAIL, number 936, page 6:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any one of the four groups so divided.
Hypernyms: quantile
Coordinate terms: median (2-quantile)
tercile
tertile
quintile
sextile
septile
octile
decile
hexadecile
ventile
vigintile
centile
percentile (100)
millile (1000)
Derived terms: lower quartile
upper quartile
interquartile range
Norn Iron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔːn ˈaɪɹən/
Etymology: From an exaggerated pronunciation of Northern Ireland in a broad Belfast accent.
Senses: glosses: Northern Ireland.
farl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
Forms: form: farls
Etymology: Contraction of fardel, probably with some influence from the Irish fearann meaning a fourth, especially of land or oatcakes. In this specific sense, fearann itself may be a possible cognate from a Norse or Old English root.
Senses: glosses: A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
glosses: Any such cake or bread, now especially an Irish speciality such as a soda farl or potato farl.
Related terms: soda bread
potato bread
farl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
Forms: form: farls
form: farling
form: farled
form: farled
Senses: examples: text: 1647, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, The Sea Voyage, Act 1, Scene 1, First Beaumont and Fletcher folio, 1854, Alexander Dyce (editor), The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 2, page 416,
Down with the mainmast ! lay her at hull ! Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out !
glosses: Obsolete form of furl.
dead cat bounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛd kæt bəʊ̯ns/
ipa: [dɛd kæt bəʊ̯n(t)s]
ipa: [-baʊ̯n(t)s-]
ipa: /dɛd kæt baʊ̯ns/
Forms: form: dead cat bounces
form: dead-cat bounce
Etymology: From the idea that a cat dropped from a height might bounce without this indicating any actual life after hitting the ground.
Senses: examples: text: Now, if you look at the chart of a stock that has suffered a collapse, you will see that at the bottom of each drop there is a small uptick, a rise in the price. This uptick, representing the smart money getting out because it knows what is coming, and fools getting in because they don't, is known as the dead cat bounce, so-called because if you drop a dead cat off a skyscraper the cat will bounce, too, but the movement doesn't mean the cat is alive.
ref: 1988, Sarah Graves [pseudonym; Mary Squibb], The Dead Cat Bounce (Home Repair is Homicide Series; 1), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN:
text: There's this thing called the Dead Cat Bounce. It's a stock market term, I believe. What it's talking about is the fact that even a stock that is essentially worthless and really going nowhere but down for ever can register a slight upward movement, just for a bit, because there is generally a floor for almost everything. The comparison rests on the fact that even when a cat hits the pavement from forty stories high and dies instantly, it'll still bounce back up a little.
ref: 2002, Iain Banks, “Dead Cat Bounce”, in Dead Air, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
text: Avoid taking a position in stocks that show dead-cat bounces. Those stocks see their price drop at least 15 percent in one session. A stock showing a dead-cat bounce tends to bounce higher and then decline, sometimes suffering additional dead-cat bounces three and six months later (if earnings related[…]).
ref: 2013, Thomas N. Bulkowski, “Swinging Tools and Setups”, in Swing and Day Trading: Evolution of a Trader, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 163:
topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: A temporary recovery in the price of a financial instrument which has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run.
wikipedia: Library of Congress
New York Stock Exchange
U.S. News & World Report
Hypernyms: rally
Related terms: catch a falling knife
dead cat
myology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌɪˈɒlədʒi/
Etymology: From myo- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: Examination of the myology of the Comephoridae, an endemic fish family in Lake Baikal, has revealed their morphological peculiarities.
ref: 2000, M. Yabe, V. G. Sideleva, “Myological peculiarities of the comephoridae: an endeimc fish taxon in Lake Baikal (Pisces: Teleostei)”, in K. Minoura, editor, Lake Baikal: A Mirror in Time and Space for Understanding Global Change Processes, page 306:
text: Given this, there is an urgent need for detailed compared behavioural and anatomical studies of dasyurids, especially focused on osteology, myology and arthrology.
ref: 2003, Christian de Muizon, Christine Argot, “Chapter 4: Comparative anatomy of the Tiupampa didelphimorphs; an approach to locomotory habits of early marsupials”, in Menna Jones, Mike Archer, Chris Dickman, editors, Predators with Pouches: The Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials, page 61:
text: He greets me as if I'd been waiting all my life to learn the secrets of Bovine Myology and Muscle Profiling.
ref: 2008, Betty Harper Fussell, Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef, page 210:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The physiological study of muscles.
Derived terms: oral myology
Related terms: myodynamics
myologic
myological
myologist
myotomy
tower of Babel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towers of Babel
form: Tower of Babel
Etymology: From the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel.
Senses: glosses: A situation where the use of many different languages is a source of confusion.
NIRPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Northern Ireland Radiation Protection Service.
easeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more easeful
form: most easeful
form: easefull
Etymology: From ease + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: easeful death
text: His particular End in every Man is, by the infliction of pain, damage, and diſgrace, that the Senſes and common perceivance might carry this Meſſage to the Soul within, that it is neither eaſeful, profitable, nor praiſ-worthy in this Life to do evil.
ref: 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 229:
text: Ah, for repose down underneath the grass, where the firm feet of the trees grip hold upon the world, where never shall come the wind that now blows through my bones, and the rain shall come warm and trickling, not driven by storm, where is the easeful falling asunder of bone from bone in the dark.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 59:
glosses: full of ease, restful, comfortable
Derived terms: easefully
easefulness
uneaseful
telecommunications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telecommunication
telecommunications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of telecommunication.
Derived terms: telecommunications tower
billy club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billy clubs
form: billie club
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas.
ref: 2009 October 21, Dennis Hevesi, “Jack Nelson, Journalist, Dies at 80”, in The New York Times, retrieved 12 Jun 2014:
glosses: A short rounded truncheon used by policemen.
Synonyms: billy
billystick
truncheon
billygoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billygoats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of billy goat.
billy goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billy goats
form: billy-goat
form: billygoat
form: buck
Etymology: From the name Billy, early 19th c.
Senses: examples: text: There were once upon a time three Billy-goats, who were going up into the hills to get fat.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 141:
glosses: A male goat.
Synonyms: sense: male goat
word: billy
sense: male goat
word: buck
sense: male goat
word: he-goat
word: pocán
billypot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billypots
form: billy-pot
Etymology: Scottish, from 19th century. The Australian usage is sometimes claimed to be related to billabong.
Senses: examples: c. 1882-1898, Francis James Child, Child's Collected Ballads, 12: Lord Randall,
“What did she boil it in, Willie doo, Willie doo?”
“She boild it in the billy-pot; die shall I now!”
glosses: A cooking pot.
glosses: A billycan used to boil tea.
Synonyms: billy
billycan